Recent Students
Shaohua Wan
Shaohua was a PhD student in University of Texas at Austin. His research mostly focuses on computer vision, machine learning, including image categorization and human activity recognition. He also has experience in text document clustering/classification and data mining. He is, in general, interested in any optimization problem associated with machine learning.
Lu Xia
Lu was a PhD student in University of Texas at Austin. Her research involved human detection and tracking from 3D data, 3D surface reconstruction and 3D activity recognition. She received her bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. She enjoys music, painting and shopping in her spare time.
Sean Kirmani
Sean is an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics major at the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in machine learning, computer vision, and data mining research. Sean is also a computer programmer and software developer. He enjoys reading, music, movies, Rubik's Cubes, and playing tennis.
Chia-Chih Chen
Chia-Chih (George) was a PhD student in Computer Engineering. His research focus was computer vision and its applications to human activity recognition and human-vehicle interaction recognition. The projects he worked on included recognition of human actions in low resolution videos, detection of object abandonment, human cast shadow removal, recognition of box-like objects, and video background initialization. He enjoys music, traveling, and time with family.
Josh Harguess
Josh Harguess was a PhD student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). His main research interest was in face recognition from video from multiple video cameras and using the symmetry of the face for recognition. He obtained his Masters in Computational and Applied Mathematics from UT in 2007. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2000.
Jong Taek Lee
Jong Taek (JT) was a PhD student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). His main research interest was in the view-independent recognition of various human interactions with vehicles and tracking of humans in crowded environments. He finished his Masters in the same department in August 2007. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in July of 2005.
Suyog Jain
Suyog was a masters student in Computer Sciences. He worked on Facial Expression Recognition. His primary interest is in working with facial images and automatic description of objects using attributes. He also worked as a research assistant at Texas Advanced Computing Center where he focused on information visualization of Archival Data. He is an avid music follower and likes to play drums.
Birgi Tamersoy
Birgi was a PhD student who worked on highway monitoring and in-door tracking with pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University (Turkey) and his M.S.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, in May 2007 and August 2009, respectively. He enjoys many kinds of sports such as windsurfing, skiing, basketball, American football and martial arts. Programming is an extremely fun activity for him.
Saurajit Mukherjee
Saurajit was a Masters student in Computer Sciences and worked on human activity recognition. He received his B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai in May 2010 and has collaborated on work at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing in Mumbai. He enjoys music, reading and trekking.
Recent Post Doctoral Scholars
Ilari Gori
Ilaria was a Post-Doc working on action and activity recognition using 3D sensors. She earned her PhD in Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies from Italian Institute of Technology, iCub Facility, in 2014. During her PhD she worked on the realization of gesture, action and activity recognition systems with particular attention to real-time requirements. She also worked on robotics and robotic vision, focusing on object grasping and manipulation based on 3D data. She loves singing, dancing, watching movies and reading good books.
Jie Shao
Jie Shao was a visiting scholar working on facial expression recognition, pedestrian tracking and crowded group activity analysis. Jie Shao obtained her PhD from Broadband Wireless Communication and Multimedia Lab, Tongji University in 2012. Before joining CVRC, she was an associate professor working in Department of Electronics & Information Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, China.
Changbo Hu
Changbo Hu was a visiting researcher who worked on face and facial expression recognition, human body tracking, human activity analysis and video surveillance. Changbo Hu obtained his PhD from National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. Before joining CVRC, he was a project scientist at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and a post-doc researcher in FourEyes Lab, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Chunmei Liu
Chunmei Liu was a visiting scholar who worked on human activity recognition, object detection, optical character recognition and image processing. She has also interests in surveillance and semantic recognition. She obtained her PhD from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Before joining CVRC, she had been working in Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tongji University, China
Yun Koo Chung
Yun Koo Chung was a visiting researcher who worked on Human action recognition, vehicle tracking and optical character recognition of document imaging. He has also interests in surveillance and human-robot interaction. He obtained his PhD from Computer Science Department of Wayne State University, 1991. Before joining CVRC, he had worked as an executive director in the Robotics Research Division of ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Korea.