Current Students

Chia-Chih Chen Chia-Chih is a first year Ph. D. student in CommNetS. He joined CVRC in Spring 2006. His research interests include video background modeling and shape-based object recognition. His current research focus is to recognize human-object interaction in a loading zone. Josh Harguess Josh is a Ph. D. student working in the areas of tracking and face recognition. He finished his Masters in the Computational and Applied Mathematics program in May 2007. He received his B. Elect. Eng. from Arizona State University in May of 2000. Before joining UT, he worked for National Instruments in Austin, TX for five years as an engineer on various software and hardware projects as well as many extracurricular activites (golf, basketball, volleyball, pub crawls, etc.). He enjoys traveling, eating, biking, music (sxsw.com) and nature. Jong Taek Lee Jong Taek is a second year graduate student pursuing his Masters degree in summer 2007. His main research interest is in the recognition of object activities and human-object interaction, especially related in vehicles. He has been also working on a problem of classification of vehicles. He is currently interested in general occlusion handling. Matthew Riley Matt is a second year graduate student working towards his Masters degree. His research is focused on content-based multimedia retrieval and analysis. Wei-Cheng Su Wei-Cheng is in his second year of Ph. D. study. He is doing research on using multiple cameras to track human activities. Elden Yu Elden is a Ph. D. student working on human activity recognition. Most recently he has developed the concept of stable contact points for use in activity recognition, which he currently applies to recognizing persons climbing fences in videos.

Alumni

PhD. Students

1969..... Donald Eller 1969..... Halbert Bybee 1969..... Ron Rhoten 1971..... Robert O'Donnell 1975..... James William McKee 1975..... Ming-Duenn Ni 1976..... Michael Manry 1977..... David Henry Williams 1979..... Hyokang Chang 1980..... John Roach 1981..... Jon Webb 1981..... Nian-Chyi Huang 1981..... Worthy Martin 1984..... Sudha Yalamanchili 1984..... Sunghan Park 1986..... Yeon Chul Kim 1987..... Baba Vemuri 1987..... Chiun-Hong Chien 1987..... Soo-Young Lee 1987..... Yuan-Fang Wang

1988..... N. Nandhakumar 1988..... Tzong-Yeu Leou 1989..... Dave Baker 1990..... Jeff Rodriguez 1990..... Myung Sunwoo 1991..... Chen Chau Chu 1991..... Vipin Chaudhary 1992..... Farshid Arman 1992..... Umesh Dhond 1993..... Bikash Sabata 1993..... Raj Talluri 1993..... Xavier Lebegue 1993..... Yuh-Lin Chang 1996..... Wen Liao 1996..... Dinesh Nair 1998..... Qin Cai 1998..... Shishir Shah 2002..... Qasim Iqbal 2004..... Sangho Park 2006..... Koichi Sato 2008..... Michael S. Ryoo

Masters' Theses

1967..... Donald Eller 1968..... John H. Davis 1968..... Ron Rhoten 1969..... Landon Kelsey III 1969..... Mirza Baig 1969..... Mushtaq Ahmed 1970..... Mohammed Moiduddin 1971..... Richard Richter 1973..... Michael Manry 1973..... Pierre Costa 1973..... Rajesh Kapadia 1975..... Baolian Liu 1975..... Hyokang Chang 1975..... Ken Shipp 1975..... Ross Petermann 1976..... Oscar Teoh 1976..... William Kwok-Fai Chow 1976..... Worthy Martin 1979..... Ali Sarabi 1979..... Ronald Yam

1979..... Wha-Joon Lee 1980..... Sudha Yalamanchili 1982..... Baba Vemuri 1982..... Chiun-Hong Chien 1982..... Yeon Chul Kim 1983..... Baldemar Gil 1983..... Yuan-Fang Wang 1984..... Shaio-Jau Roan 1985..... Beverly Baroody 1985..... Steven Seida 1986..... Ron Grisell 1986..... Dick-Wah Lo 1987..... Jim Brady 1987..... Sridhar Thayumanavan 1987..... S. M. Kiang 1988..... Harish Asar 1989..... Chanhee Oh 1989..... Sankaran Karthik 1990..... Yah Bin Sim 1990..... Kusuma Kumari

1990..... Chih-Liang Cheng 1991..... Matt Schneble 1992..... Jason Ng 1994..... Suneel Bhagat 1996..... Shishir Shah 1998..... Jaehun Choi 1998..... Alexander Strehl 1998..... Qasim Iqbal 1998..... Imtiaz Chowdhury 2001..... Koichi Sato 2002..... Ananat Madhubishi 2002..... Anjum Ali 2004..... Quming Zhou 2004..... Mohan Sridharan 2006..... Michael S. Ryoo 2007..... Medha Bhargava 2007..... Jong Taek Lee