VLM - The Vision-Learning-Mining Research Lab

Members

• Vassilis Athitsos, Professor.
  
• Christopher Conly, Senior Lecturer.
• Alex Dillhoff, Senior Lecturer.

Ph.D. students:

• Zahra Anvari
• Farnaz Farahanipad (co-supervised with Dr. Kamangar)
• Marnim Galib
• Reza Ghoddoosian
• Ashiq Imran
• Fadiah Qudah
• Mohammad Rezaei (co-supervised with Dr. Elmasri)
• Saif Sayed

• Giffy Chris
• Preetham Ganesh
• Mayur Sonawane
• Suryam Sharma
• Balasubramaniam Theetharappan
• Harish Verlekar

Selected Projects

• Assessing cognitive skills in children through performance in physical and computer-based tasks

  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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• ASL dictionary search

  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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• Subsequence matching in large databases of time series.

  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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• Nearest-neighbor retrieval and classification

  Developing efficient indexing methods for similarity-based search in large image, video, and multimedia databases.
  
  
  
  
  

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• Detecting shape classes of variable structure in cluttered images

  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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• Hand pose estimation

  Estimating 3D hand pose from a single, cluttered image, under arbitrary 3D orientations of the hand.
  
  
  
  
  

Ph.D. Alumni:

1. Alex Dillhoff, August 2020.
   • Next stop: UTA, Senior Lecturer.
2. Sakher Ghanem, August 2020.
   • Next stop: University of Jeddah, Assistant Professor.
3. Xin Miao, May 2020.
   • Next stop: Kuaishou, Research Scientist.
4. Srujana Gattupalli, August 2018.
   • Next stop: Intel, Deep Learning Engineer.
5. Amir Ghaderi, May 2018.
   • Next stop: uSens, Deep Learning Researcher.
6. Wei Xiang, May 2018.
   • Next stop: JD.COM US R&D Center, Algorithm Engineer.
7. Christopher Conly, August 2016.
   • Next stop: UTA, Senior Lecturer.
8. Pat Jangyodsuk, May 2016.
   • Next stop: Capitalogix Trading, Senior Data Scientist.
9. Zhong Zhang, May 2015.
   • Next stop: Cardlytics, Big Data Engineer.
   • Currently: LinkedIn, Machine Learning Software Engineer.
10. Alexios Kotsifakos, May 2014.
    • Next stop: Microsoft, Software Engineer.
    • Currently: Amazon, Software Engineer.
11. Paul Doliotis, December 2013.
    • Next stop: Wynwright, Computer Vision Engineer.

• Shiba Kuanar, UTA EE Department, December 2018.
  • Next stop: University of Iowa, Postdoc.

M.S. Thesis Alumni:

1. Fadiah Qudah, August 2019.
2. Jai Shah, December 2018.
3. Bhaskar Trivedi, December 2018.
4. Saif Sayed, December 2017.
5. Siddhartha Swaminathan, May 2016.
6. Srujana Gattupalli, August 2013.
7. Danny Hanson, May 2013.
8. Sanjay Vasudeva Iyer, May 2013.
9. Ameya Kulkarni, December 2011.
10. Rajesh Radhakrishnan, December 2011.
11. Himanshu Pahwa, December 2010.

VLM Research in the News

• New York Times , February 4, 2011.
• Technology Review , January 12, 2009.
• MSNBC , May 25, 2008.
• Pegasus News , February 4, 2008.