CCNY Lecture Series

Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction

Title: Computer Vision Research at UMass Amherst

Allen R. Hanson and Edward M. Riseman
Professors, Computer Science Department
Co-Directors, Computer Vision Laboratory
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Friday, May 13, 2005
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Steinman Hall, Room T-512

ABSTRACT

This talk will present recent work in computer vision in the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. The laboratory was established in 1974 with the goal of investigating the scientific principles underlying the construction of integrated vision systems and the application of vision to problems of real-world importance. The emphasis of our work is on vision systems that are capable of functioning flexibly and robustly in complex changing environments. This overview of recent work will include three dimensional reconstruction from aerial images, classification of phytoplankton from the flowcam sensor (joint work with Bigelow Laboratories in Maine), volume measurements of ischemic stroke lesions from MRI data, visual aids for the blind, undervehicle inspection, distributed sensor netoworks, and others.

The lecture series is supported by CCNY School of Engineering, and a planning grant from NSF Minority Institutional Infrastructure program.