VLM - The Vision-Learning-Mining Research Lab
The VLM lab is a research lab at the Computer Science and Engineering
Department of the University of
Texas at Arlington. The lab is directed by Professor Vassilis Athitsos. At the
VLM lab we are conducting research in the areas of computer vision,
machine learning, and (to a lesser extent) data mining. Current areas of focus include human motion analysis, gesture and sign language recognition, and hand pose estimation..
Members
Faculty:
Ph.D. students:
- Evan Cornish
- Kelly French
- Fadiah Qudah
- Roman Strukov
Undergraduate students:
- Rodrigo Hernandez-Pleite
- Preston Walker
Selected Projects
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Developing computer vision and data mining methods for assessing cognitive skills in children, based on the children's performance in structured physical and computer-based tasks.
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The goal of this project is to develop a system that lets users search dictionaries of American Sign Language (ASL), so as to look up the meaning of unknown signs.
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The goal of this project is to develop methods for efficient identification of subsequence matches in large databases of time series. Demo applications are being developed for sign language video, query by humming, and handwritten text search.
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Developing efficient indexing methods for similarity-based search in large image, video, and multimedia databases.
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Detection and registration of complicated shapes, such as branches and articulated objects, that cannot be characterized as a configuration of a fixed number of parts.
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Estimating 3D hand pose from a single, cluttered image, under arbitrary 3D orientations of the hand.
Ph.D. Alumni:
Supervised by Dr. Athitsos:
- Saif Sayed, October 2022.
- Next stop: Johnson & Johnson, Senior Computer Vision Scientist.
- Marnim Galib, August 2022.
- Next stop: UTA, Lecturer.
- Reza Ghoddoosian, May 2022.
- Next stop: Honda Research Institute, Computer Vision Scientist.
- Ashiq Imran, August 2021.
- Next stop: Intel AI, Deep Learning Software Engineer.
- Zahra Anvari, May 2021.
- Next stop: Iron Mountain, Senior Machine Learning Engineer.
- Alex Dillhoff, August 2020.
- Next stop: UTA, Senior Lecturer.
- Sakher Ghanem, August 2020.
- Next stop: University of Jeddah, Assistant Professor.
- Xin Miao, May 2020.
- Next stop: Kuaishou, Research Scientist.
- Srujana Gattupalli, August 2018.
- Next stop: Intel, Deep Learning Engineer.
- Amir Ghaderi, May 2018.
- Next stop: uSens, Deep Learning Researcher.
- Wei Xiang, May 2018.
- Next stop: JD.COM US R&D Center, Algorithm Engineer.
- Christopher Conly, August 2016.
- Next stop: UTA, Senior Lecturer.
- Pat Jangyodsuk, May 2016.
- Next stop: Capitalogix Trading, Senior Data Scientist.
- Zhong Zhang, May 2015.
- Next stop: Cardlytics, Big Data Engineer.
- Currently: LinkedIn, Machine Learning Software Engineer.
- Alexios Kotsifakos, May 2014.
- Next stop: Microsoft, Software Engineer.
- Currently: Amazon, Software Engineer.
- Paul Doliotis, December 2013.
- Next stop: Wynwright, Computer Vision Engineer.
Co-supervised by Dr. Athitsos:
- Farnaz Farahanipad, August 2022. Main advisor: Dr. Farhad Kamangar.
- Next stop: Alchera, Senior Applied Scientist.
- Mohammad Rezaei, August 2022. Main advisor: Dr. Ramez Elmasri.
Outside CSE department, informally co-supervised by Dr. Athitsos:
- Shiba Kuanar, UTA EE Department, December 2018.
- Next stop: University of Iowa, Postdoc.
M.S. Thesis Alumni:
- Mason Lary, May 2022.
- Next stop: SUNY Buffalo, Ph.D. Student.
- Preetham Ganesh, May 2021.
- Suryam Sharma, May 2021.
- Giffy Chris, December 2020.
- Next stop: Microsoft, Software Developer.
- Harish Verlekar, December 2020.
- Next stop: Bungee Tech, Machine Learning Engineer.
- Balasubramaniam Theetharappan, December 2020.
- Fadiah Qudah, August 2019.
- Jai Shah, December 2018.
- Bhaskar Trivedi, December 2018.
- Saif Sayed, December 2017.
- Siddhartha Swaminathan, May 2016.
- Srujana Gattupalli, August 2013.
- Danny Hanson, May 2013.
- Sanjay Vasudeva Iyer, May 2013.
- Ameya Kulkarni, December 2011.
- Rajesh Radhakrishnan, December 2011.
- Himanshu Pahwa, December 2010.
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