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Biographical Sketches

Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), December 1986; Wayne State University.
M. S. (Computer Engineering), May 1982; Wayne State University.
B.E. (Electronics), December 1979; National College of Engineering of Technology, Pakistan.

Motion-Based Recognition, Shape from shading, Structure from motion, Gesture Recognition, Sensor Fusion, Hardware Implementation of Vision Algorithms.

1. Workshop on Computer Vision in Pakistan, (NSF), $15,000, July 1994-June 1995.

2. Movement Analysis, (NSF), $229,245, May 1993-April 1996.

3. Equipment for Research in Special Purpose VLSI Architecture, with Amar Mukherjee and Mostafa Bassiouni, (NSF), $52,000, January 1993-December 1993.

4. Science in Developing Countries: Computer Vision Research Participation in Pakistan, (NSF), $7,600, December 1992-December 1993.

5. Equipment for Research in Image Understanding and Image Compression for Dynamic Scenes, with Mostafa Bassiouni and Takis Kasparis, (NSF), $53,000, June 1992-May 1993.

6. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, (NSF), $200,000, June 1992-May 1994.

7. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, Krishnan Ganapathi, (NSF), $104,930, June 1991-May 1992.

8. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, Krishnan Ganapathi, (NSF), $105,000, June 1990-May 1991.

9. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, with Kevin Bowyer, Krishnan Ganapathi, National Science Foundation (NSF), $76,000, June 1989-May 1990.

10. Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision, (NSF), $44,000, June 1987-May 1988.

For purposes of this proposal, ``most closely related'' has been interpreted simply as recent publications co-authored with past REU participants. The undergraduate co-authors' names appear in bold face.

1. James Davis and Mubarak Shah, ``Visual Gesture Recognition'', Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol 141, No. 2, April 1994. (Mr. James Davis participated in the REU program in the 1993/94. He has been admitted to MIT for graduate work with full support. )

2. James Cryer, Ping-Sing Tsai and Mubarak Shah, ``Integration of Shape From X Modules: Combining Stereo and Shading'', IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York City, June 15-17, 1993. (Mr. James Cryer was 1989/90 REU participant, he entered graduate school at UCF.)

3. Krishnan Rangarajan, Bill Allen, and Mubarak Shah, ``Matching Motion Trajectories'', Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp 595-610, April, 1993. (Mr. Bill Allen participated in the REU program in 1991/92; he entered the graduate program at UCF.)

4. Kristine Gould, Krishnan Rangarajan, and Mubarak Shah ``Detection and Representation of Events in Motion Trajectories'', chapter in Advances in Image Analysis, editors: Y. Mahdavieh, Y., and Gonzalez, R., SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 1992. (Ms. Kristine Gould was 1987/88 REU participant. She received a fellowship from the State of Florida for her M.S., which she completed in 1991.)

5. Hackett, J., Lavoie, M., and Shah, M., ``Three Dimensional Object recognition using multiple sensors'', Journal of Information Science and Technology, October, 1992. (Mr. Jay Hackett was 1987/88 REU participant; Mr. M. Lavoie was 1990/91 REU participant. Jay finished his M.S. in 1990, and is working full time, and is a part time doctoral student. Mr. Lavoie was admitted to graduate School at UNC. )

1. Donna Williams, and Mubarak Shah,``Normalized Edge Detection '', CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, Volume 55, pp 311-318, July 1993.

2. Mubarak Shah, Krishnan Rangarajan, and Ping-Sing Tsai, ``Motion Trajectories '', IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, August, 1993.

3. Krishnan Rangarajan, and Mubarak Shah, ``Interpretation of Motion Trajectories Using Focus of Expansion'', IEEE Transaction on PAMI, Volume 14, No. 12, pp 1205-1210, 1992.

4. Krishnan Rangarajan, and Mubarak Shah, ``Establishing Motion Correspondence '', Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, July 1992, pp 56-73.

5. Donna Williams, and Mubarak Shah, ``A Fast Algorithm for Active Contours and Curvature Estimation '', Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Vol 55, No.1, January 1992, pp 14-26.

• Professor Ramesh Jain

• Professor Arun Sood

• Professor George Lee

None.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Duke University, 1980.

• B.S. in Economics, George Mason University, 1976.
  

 
1989- 		 Associate Professor

      		 Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South 
				Florida [.05in] 1991 Visiting Associate Professor


      		 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington 
				[.05in] 1984-1989 Assistant Professor


      		 Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South 
				Florida [.05in] 1983-1984 Research Faculty


 		  Institute for Informatics, Swiss Federal Technical Institute 
			(ETH-Zurich) [.05in] 1980-1983 Research Assistant Professor


 		 Department of Computer Science, Duke University
			


 



	Honors and Awards 


Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF College of Engineering, 1994.

 
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, USF College of Engineering, 1991.




	Professional activities 



Associate Editor, IEEE 
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Editorial Board, CVGIP: 
Image Understanding.

North American Editor,
Image and Vision Computing.

Associate Editor, Machine 
Vision & Applications.

Associate Editor, 
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.



	Five Recent Publications Related to Proposed Project
	

	
The names of co-authors who 
	had participated in the REU program in previous years are shown in bold 
	type. 


Sutton, Melanie, Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Reasoning about function to 
achieve generic recognition of rigid 3-D shapes, accepted to appear in 
Pattern Recognition. Melanie Sutton participated in the 1991/92 REU program 
and is now in the Ph.D. program at USF.

Bowyer, K.W., Sallam, Maha, 
Eggert, D. and Stewman, J.H. Computing the generalized aspect graph for objects 
with moving parts,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
15 (6), 605-610, (June 1993). Maha Sallam participated in the 1990/91 REU 
program and will soon receive her Ph.D. from USF.

Woods, K.S., Doss, Chris, 
Bowyer, K.W., Solka, J.L., Priebe, C.E. and Kegelmeyer, W.P. Comparitive 
evaluation of pattern recognition techniques for detection of 
microcalcifications in mammography,
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
7 (6), 1417-1436, (December 1993). Christopher Doss participated in the 
1993/94 REU program and is now in the graduate program at North Carolina State 
University.


Hoover, Adam, Jean-Baptiste, Gillian, Goldgof, D. and Bowyer, K.W. 
A methodology for evaluationg range image segmentation techniques,
1994 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Sarasota, Florida 
(December 1994). Adam Hoover participated in the 1991/92 REU program and is now 
in the Ph.D. program at USF. Gillian Jean-Baptiste participated in the 1993/94 
REU program and is currently an undergraduate at USF.


Sallam, Maha, Hubiak, Gary, Bowyer, K. and Clarke, L. Screening 
mammogram images for abnormalities developing over time,
IEEE 1992 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 
Orlando, Florida (October 1992), 1270-1272. Maha Sallam participated in the 
1990/91 REU program and will soon receive her Ph.D. from USF. Gary Hubiak 
participated in the 1992/93 REU program and is now employed with Texas 
Instruments.



	Five Other Publications 


Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. 
Function-based recognition for multiple object categories,
Image Understanding
59 (1), 1-21, (January 1994).

 
Eggert, D.W., Bowyer, K.W., 
	Dyer, C.R., Christensen, H.I. and Goldgof, D.B. The scale space aspect 
	graph,
 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
 15 (11), 1114-1130, (November 1993).

 
Eggert, D. and Bowyer, K.W. 
	Computing the perspective projection aspect graph of solids of revolution,
 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
 15 (2), 109-128, (February 1993).
 
	
Bowyer, K.W. and Astley, S. 
	(editors).
State of the Art in Mammographic Image Analysis, World Scientific, 1994.
 
	
Christensen, H.I., Bowyer, 
	K.W. and Bunke, H. (editors).
Active Robot Vision, World Scientific, 1993. 




	Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
	

  
	
Professor C. Frank Starmer 
	(Duke University)
  
	
Professor Robert H. Jones 
	(Duke University)
  
	
Professor Merrell Patrick 
	(Duke University)
  
	
Professor Niklaus Wirth 
	(ETH Zurich)



	

	Louise Stark
  Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

 
	University of the Pacific

 
	Stockton, California 95211


	
	(209) 946-3071 stark@napa.eng.uop.edu





	Degrees


	


Ph.D. in Computer Science and 
Engineering, University of South Florida, 1990.
 
M.S. in Computer Engineering, 
University of South Florida, 1987.
 
B.S. in Computer Engineering, 
University of South Florida, 1986.





	Professional Experience


	

 

1992- 		 Assistant Professor

      		Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of the 
			Pacific [.05in] 1990-1992 Visiting Assistant Professor


      		 Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South 
				Florida [.05in] 1986-1989 Graduate Research Assistant


            		Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of 
					South Florida [.05in] 1988 Summer Research Participant
					

            		Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National 
					Laboratory


            		Oak Ridge, TN [.05in] 1987 Summer Graduate Research Fellow
					

            		Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY


 



	Honors and Awards 


Eberhardt Teacher/Scholar Award, University of the Pacific, 1994.



	Professional activities 



Associate Editor, Pattern 
Recognition, Pergamon Press (journal of the Pattern Recognition Society).

Special issue on Applications 
of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision and Robotics,
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 
1994. (Guest editor with Kim Boyer and Horst Bunke)
  
	
Conference chair (with Kim 
	Boyer),  SPIE Applications of AI XI: Machine Vision and Robotics, 
	1993 (Orlando, Florida).
 
	
Program committee,  IEEE 
	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1994 (Seattle, Washington).



	Five Recent Publications Related to Proposed Project
	

	
The names of co-authors who 
	had participated in the REU program in previous years are shown in bold 
	type. 


Sutton, Melanie, Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. Reasoning about function to 
achieve generic recognition of rigid 3-D shapes, accepted to appear in 
Pattern Recognition.

Green, K., Eggert, D. Stark, L. 
and Bowyer, K. Generic recognition of articulated objects by reasoning about 
functionality
1994 AAAI Workshop on Representing and Reasoning about Device Function, 
Seattle, Washington (July 1994), 56-64.
 
	
Stark, L. Recognizing 
	Object Function Through Reasoning About 3-D Shape and Dynamic Physical 
	Properties,
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, Washington, (June 
	1994), 546-553.


Sutton, Melanie, Stark, L. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based generic 
recognition for multiple object categories, in Three-dimensional Object 
Recognition Systems, A.K. Jain and P.J. Flynn, editors, Elsevier Science 
Publishers, (1993), 447-470.

Stark, L. Hoover, Adam, 
Goldgof, D.B. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based object recognition from incomplete 
knowledge of object shape,
AAAI Workshop on Reasoning About Function, Washington, D.C. (July 1993), 
141-148. 




	Five Other Publications 


Stark, L. and Bowyer, K. 
Function-based generic recognition for multiple object categories,
CVGIP: Image Understanding.
59 (1), 1-21, (January 1994).

Cook, D.J., Woods, K., Hall, 
L.O., Stark, L. and Bowyer, K.W. Learning and combining fuzzy values for object 
recognition,
AAAI Fall Symposium: Machine Learning in Computer Vision, Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina (October 1993), 139-143.

Stark, L. Hoover, Adam, 
Goldgof, D.B. and Bowyer, K.W. Function-based object recognition from incomplete 
knowledge of object shape,
AAAI Workshop on Reasoning About Function, Washington, D.C. (July 1993), 
141-148.

Stark, L., Hall, L.O. and 
Bowyer, K.W. An investigation of methods of combining functional evidence for 
3-D object recognition,
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
7 (3), 573-594, (June 1993).

Stark, L. and Bowyer, K.W. 
Function-based object recognition for multiple object categories, in Advances 
in Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, H. Bunke, editor, World 
Scientific Publishing, 441-450, 1992. 




	Graduate Advisor 

  
	
Professor Kevin Bowyer 
	(University of South Florida)

	



	Professor Niels J. da Vitoria Lobo
	



	Education 


- Ph.D., 
   
Computer Science Dept, 
University of Toronto, 1992.
 
Thesis: Computing egomotion, shape, and detecting independent motion from image 
motion.
 
- M.Sc., 
   
Computer Science Dept, 
University of Toronto, 1985.
- B.Sc. (Honours), 
  
Mathematics Dept, Dalhousie 
University, Canada, 1982.



	Students 



- 
  
Young H. Kwon, M.Sc. Thesis: 
``Classifying human age from facial images'', completed December 1993.
- 
  
Jinxiong Chen, Ph.D. topic: 
``Inexpensively animating fluids using physics'', expected graduation Sept 1995.
- 
  
Zarina Myles, Ph.D. topic: 
``Interpreting defocussed visual motion'', expected graduation January 1996.
- 
  
Keith Hunter, Ph.D. topic: 
``Correctly estimating noisy fractal dimensions'', expected graduation Jan 1997.
- 
   
Xiong Zhiguo, Ph.D. topic: 
``Animating and recognizing the modal behavior of cloth and garments'', expected 
graduation December 1996.
- 
  
Robert Uhl, M.Sc topic: 
``Recognizing police sketches of human faces", expected graduation December 
1994.
- 
  
Jim Duke, M.Sc topic: ``Using 
particle systems to implement visual attention and control level of detail'', 
expected graduation September 1994.
- 
  
Warren Macchi, B.S. thesis 
topic: ``Modeling rough interreflections", completed July 1994.


	Honors and Awards 

        



- 1997 
 
 
	

	NSF Research Initiation 
	Award

- 1990 
 
 
	

	Department of Computer 
	Science Scholarship

- 1986 
 
 
	

	Natural Sciences and 
	Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship  


 
	

	Digital Equipment 
	Corporation Award of Merit for Best Graduating Student in Computer Science


 
	

	Natural Sciences and 
	Engineering Research Council Undergraduate Research Award


 
	
  
	First Prize, ACM 
	Regional Undergraduate Computing Competition

- 1982 
 
 
	

	Dalhousie Undergraduate 
	Scholarship
	

 

	

	Research 
	Grants 


   1994 - 1997    NSF Research Initiation Award, $100,000.00



	Five Most Relevant Publications


	
Uhl R., da Vitoria Lobo N. 
	and Kwon Y., ``Recognizing police sketches of faces", IEEE Conference on 
	Applications of Computer Vision, Florida, (to appear, December 1994).

	
Kwon Y. and da Vitoria Lobo 
	N. (1994), ``Detecting faces in images using templates", International 
	Conference on Pattern Recognition, Israel, October 1994.

	
Kwon Y. and da Vitoria Lobo 
	N. (1994), ``Age classification from facial images", IEEE Conf on Computer 
	Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, June 1994, 762-767.

	
Kwon Y. and da Vitoria Lobo 
	N. , ``A theory for age classification from facial images", Computer Vision, 
	Graphics and Image Processing: Image Understanding (submitted).

	
da Vitoria Lobo N. and 
	Tsotsos J.K. (1991), ``Using collinear points to compute egomotion and 
	detect nonrigidity,"
Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 
	Maui, Hawaii, June 1991, pp. 344-350.



	Five Other Publications 


	
Chen J. and da Vitoria Lobo 
	N., ``Real-time fluid modeling using Navier-Stokes equations", Computer 
	Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image Synthesis (to appear).

	
Macchi W. and da 
	Vitoria Lobo N. (1994), ``Modeling rough interreflections", International 
	Conference on Pattern Recognition, Israel, October 1994 (to appear).

	
da Vitoria Lobo N. and 
	Tsotsos J.K. , ``Using collinear points to compute egomotion and detect 
	nonrigidity," Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image 
	Understanding (submitted).

	
da Vitoria Lobo N. and 
	Tsotsos, J.K. (1991), ``Computing egomotion and shape from image motion 
	using collinear points,''
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 
	May 1991.

	
da Vitoria Lobo N. and 
	Tsotsos J.K. (1990), ``Shape from binocular disparity and incomplete 
	knowledge of baseline parameters,''
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 
	Stockholm, August 1990, pp. 201-203.



	
Name of graduate advisor

	

 
	
John K. Tsotsos 




	
Research Collaborators 
	Other Than Cited in the Publication List

	

None.


	

Mubarak Shah 

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