VRL an eye

People

Faculty

Graduate Students

Researchers

A very recent lab photo: everyone is here!!!

Visit "Visuals" page to see photos of various lab reunions.

Alumni

  Year Deg. Thesis Title Current location
         
James Kleban Kleban 2010 PhD Content-based Management of Image Databases in the Internet Age Microsoft
Mehmet Emre Sargin Emre 2010 PhD Probabilistic Graphical Models for Motion Analysis and Object Tracking Google
Anindya Sarkar Anindya Sarkar 2009 PhD Novel Image Data-Hiding Methodologies for Robust and Secure Steganography with Extensions to Image Forensics BioImagene
Emily Moxley Emily Moxley 2009 PhD Multimedia Annotation through Search and Mining Google
Luca Bertelli 2009 PhD Variational Image Segmentation Based on Pixel Pairwise Similarities

Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (2009); Like.Com and Google (2010- present)
Michael Quinn 2008 PhD Toward Persistent Tracking and Identification in Camera Sensor Networks Mathworks, Natick, MA
Nhat Vu 2008 PhD Image Segmentation with Semantic Priors: A Graph Cut Approach Fair Isaac, San Rafael, CA
Laura Boucheron 2008 PhD Object- and Spatial-Level Quantitative Analysis of Multispectral Histopathology Images for Detection and Characterization of Cancer New Mexico State University
Charles Kenney Kenney 2007 Faculty Dr. Kenney was a VRL faculty affiliate till he retired in 2007.  
Jiyun Byun 2007 PhD Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Confocal Retinal Images Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA.
Marco Zuliani 2006 PhD Computational Methods for Automatic Image Registration Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA.
Elisa Drelie Gelasca Elisa Gelasca 2006-09 Researcher Elisa joined the Center for Bio-Image Informatics after receiving her PhD from EPFL. She was with the center till 2009.  
Ibrahim El-Khalil 2006 MS   Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, CA
Motaz El-Saban 2005 PhD Automated Microtubule Tracking and Analysis Cairo University and Microsoft, Egypt
Ken Sullivan 2005 PhD Image Steganalysis: Hunting & Escaping Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA.
Kaushal Solanki 2005 PhD Multimedia Data Hiding: From Fundamental Issues to Practical Techniques Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA. (2005-10)
Sitaram Bhagavathy 2005 PhD Modeling and Detection of Geospatial Objects Using Texture Motifs Thomson Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ. (2005-10)
Baris Sumengen 2004 PhD Variational Image Segmentation and Curve Evolution on Natural Images Ojos Inc., Redwood City, CA. (was Like.com till 2010). Now at Google.
Jelena Tešić 2004 PhD Managing Large-Scale Multimedia Repositories

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
Hawthorne, NY (2004-09)

Mayachitra, 2009-
Xinding Sun 2004 PhD Motion Activity for Video Indexing Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Shawn Newsam 2003 PhD Texture Motifs in Remote Sensed Imagery Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California
University of California Merced
Zhiqiang Bi Bi Zhiqiang 2002-08 Researcher Zhiqiang completed his PhD in Physics and MS in Computer Science from CMU in 2002. He was a full time researcher at the Center for Bioimage Informatics till 2008. Yahoo!
Peng Wu 2001 PhD Search and Indexing in High-dimensional Feature Spaces Imaging Systems Laboratory, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Ching-Wei Chen 2001 MS ClassAid: An Automated Lecture Note-Taking System Dolby laboratories, San Francisco
Jong-Jin Chae 2000 PhD Robust Techniques for Hiding Data in Images and Video Last seen at MarcAny Inc., Seoul, S. Korea
Kapil Chhabra 2000 MS Image texture for content based retrieval CISCO, USA
Daryl Fortney 2000 MS Face Tracking Daryl spent a couple of years working in Santa Barbara for a local robotic company, Computer Motion, but decided to take up something more adventurous.
Naveen Reddy 2000 MS Image Processor System Architecture and PCi Bus Board Design to Perform Real Time Two Dimensional Image Convolutions. Hughes Communications Ltd, El Segando, California
Yining Deng 1999 PhD A Region Based Representation for Image and Video Retrieval Imaging Systems Laboratory, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
David Lane 1999 MS Video-in-Video Data Hiding David is now with the MIT Lincoln Lab as Member of the Technical Staff. dlane@mit.edu.
Jay (Albert) Winkeler 1999 MS Active Vision Boeing, St. Louis, Missouri
Norbert Strobel* 1998 PhD Quadratic Filters for Image Contrast Enhancement Siemens, Germany
Rolf Schyoen 1998 MS - Computer Motion, Goleta, California
Wei-Ying Ma 1997 PhD Netra: A Toolbox for Navigating Large Image Databases Microsoft Research China, Beijing
George Haley 1997 MS Image Texture Analysis ??
Hui Li* 1993 PhD Multisensor Image Registration and Fusion Google

Visiting Researchers

  Year Deg. Title Current location
Enrique Alegre Enrique 2009-10 PhD Professor of Computer Science, Universidad de León,24071,León

Dpto. Ingeniería Eléctrica, Sistemas y Automática
Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática
Universidad de León,24071,León
Spain
Minghui Tian 2009 Vis PhD Visual Saliency Modeling and Salient Objects Detection Computer Science Dept., University of Science and Technology of China
Till Quack 2004 Vis MS Cortina: A System for Large Scale, Content-based Web Image Retrieval and the Semantics within MS Thesis from ETH Zurich, currently a PhD student working with Professor Luc Van Gool at ETH Zurich.
Gosuke Ohashi 2004 Vis PhD - Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Japan
Daniela M. U. Sabino 2004 Vis PhD Lymphoid leukemia diagnostics assisted by computer. PhD form Instituto de Física de São Carlos - USP, Brazil
Currently at Ablevision, Brazil.
Takao Ito 2004 Vis
PhD		 - -