News @ Vision Lab

• Jeff Flora and his team took the second position in an annual student paper competition hosted by the Hampton Roads chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - November 19, 2012
• NASA donates advanced aerosol detection machine to ODU Vision Lab - October 8, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently co-authored a book titled Image Processing published by the SPIE press - October 1, 2012
• An expanded research focus for Vision Lab comes into view -News at ODU - April, 2013
• Michael Chatman presented his work on Tumor Detection in Mammography Image Analysis at 5th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium - February 9, 2013
• Prof. Iftekharuddin is a lead guest editor for special issue of Optical Engineering on Optical and Hybrid Imaging and Processing for Big Data Problems -
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently delivered a keynote talk on Advances in Brian Tumor Recognition at 15th ICCIT conference - December 22, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin delivered an invited talk on Multiclass Feature Selection and Segmentation of PF Tumors at 46th Asilomar conference - November, 2012
• Jeff Flora and his team took the second position in an annual student paper competition hosted by the Hampton Roads chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - November 19, 2012
• NASA donates advanced aerosol detection machine to ODU Vision Lab - October 8, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently co-authored a book titled Image Processing published by the SPIE press - October 1, 2012
• Welcome new vision lab members Dr. Amr Yousef, Mahbubul Alam, Linmin Pei, and Jeff Flora. - August 26, 2012
• Vision Lab members visit Canon industrial office at Gloucester - August 23, 2012
• Vision Lab purchases a new Eye Tracking System - August 6, 2012
• Vision engineers from Canon visit ODU Vision Lab - July 23, 2012
• Nhat Nguyen, a student at the Ocean Lakes High school, joins as a trainee in the Vision Lab to work with graduate students and faculty members on image enhancement techniques in summer - June 18, 2012
• Vision Lab hosts undergraduate student Michael Chatman and Ocean Lake High School student Nhat Nguyen for summer research experience - June 18, 2012
• Manar Samad presents at 2nd Hampton Roads Neuroscience Network Meeting at EVMS. - June 8, 2012
• Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin spends four weeks at L2TI, Institut Galilee, Universite Paris 13 as a visiting scholar working on collaborative research - June 7, 2012
• Vision Lab purchases a state-of-the-art EEG acquisition system - May 14, 2012
• Congratulations Shamim Reza and Musa Arslan for passing their PhD diagnostic exam - May 10, 2012
• Post Doctoral fellow Dr. Elbakary joins vision Lab - May 8, 2012
• Michael Chatman joins Vision Lab on an NCI funded brain tumor segmentation project. - May 8, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently co-authored a book titled Image Processing published by the SPIE press - May 2, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin receives grant from National Institutes of Health for $350,000 to study brain tumor modeling and detection - Feb 23, 2012
• Rear Admiral Kevin Cook from USCG visits the lab - Feb 9, 2012
• Welcome new vision lab members, Manar Din Samad, Wenjuan Jiang, and Lasitha Vidyaratne - Jan 9, 2012
• SPIE news article Prof. Iftekharuddin is enthusiastic about collaboration possibilities at ODU Vision Lab - Dec 19, 2011
• Representatives from the US Marshals Service visit the lab. - Nov 30, 2011
• Congratulations Qun Wang for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. - Nov 7, 2011
• Loc Tran presents at Memphis BioImaging Sysposium. - Nov 3, 2011
• Prof. Iftekharuddin is co-organizing a SPIE conference on Optics and Photonics for Information Processing VI in SPIE's annual meeting Optics + Photonics 2012. The deadline for paper submission is Jan 30, 2012. - Oct 20, 2011
• Vision Lab director Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin is acting as a guest co-editor of a special issue on BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED APPROACHES FOR VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS in Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing: Image Communication. The deadline for paper submission is Dec. 31. More details about the special issue can be found here. - Oct 19, 2011
• Vision Lab director Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin is organizing a special session on Computational Intelligence for Image, Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing in 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) in Brisbane, Australia. Paper submission deadline is Dec. 19. - Oct 19, 2011
• Vision Lab director Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin is serving as the scientific program committee chair for a symposium on Biomedical Imaging, MemBIS - Oct 19, 2011
• Dr. Khan M. Iftekharuddin appointed as new director - August 15, 2011
• Congratulations Loc Tran for completing his candidacy examination. - March 30, 2011
• Regent University Summer Government Campers visit Vision Lab - July 16, 2009
• MyThy Tran receives ECE MS Researcher of the Year award. - April 25, 2009
• Rupal Patel receives Outstanding Senior in Computer Engineering award. - April 25, 2009
• Congratulations Praveen Sankaran for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. - February 11, 2009
• Congratulations Cort Tompkins for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. - December 11, 2008
• Congratulations Praveen Sankaran for receiving the University Graduate Research Fellowship for Spring 2009. - December 2008
• Congratulations Ming Zhang for defending his dissertation. - November 2008
• Congratulations Adam Livingston for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. - November 2008
• ODU sets pace to better ID a face. (link) - November 2008
• Second Patent of the Year Awarded to Asari. (link) - October 2008
• ODU's Bioelectrics Center and Vision Lab Get $1.6 million in DOD Funding for Casualty Care. (link) - October 2008
• Dr. Asari presented a seminar titled "Nonlinear Techniques for Image Enhancement and Person Identification" at MITRE, McLean Virginia. - June 2008
• Asari awarded new patent. (link) - May 2008
• Jake Foytik and Loc Tran receive Marine Engineering Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. - May 2008
• Praveen Sankaran receives ECE Exceptional Service award. - May 2008
• Ming Zhang receives ECE Researcher of the Year award. - May 2008
• Loc Tran's ECE 486 team captures 3rd place in design contest featuring brain-signal analysis. - May 2008

Old News

Dr. Asari hosts 2nd Annual Vision Lab Barbeque., May 17, 2008

Visiting Scientist, Dr. Higa, Joins the Vision Lab, May 5, 2008

Cort Tompkins receives honorable mention at ODU Research Expo for his poster, "Capability Enhancement for Low-Cost Surveillance Robots", April 9, 2008

Congratulations to Ph.D. graduate Dr. Hau Ngo. December 15, 2007

Congratulations to Ph.D. graduate Dr. Satyanadh Gundimada. December 15, 2007

Congratulations to M.S. graduates: Saibabu Arigela, Neeharika Gudur, Ramya Maaram, Zaheer Shaik. December 15, 2007

Congratulations to new Ph.D. candidate Cort Tompkins. December 6, 2007

Congratulations to new Ph.D. candidate Ming Zhang. November 20, 2007

Congratulations to new Ph.D. candidate Praveen Sankaran. November 20, 2007

Incoming ODU electrical and computer engineering freshmen tour Vision Lab. August 23, 2007

Dr. Song's WiFi Camp tours Vision Lab. August 10, 2007

Hau presents research at MWSCAS 2007. August 6, 2007

Lockheed Martin visits Vision Lab. August 3, 2007

Congratulations to Vision Lab PhD researcher Praveen Sankaran on his recent marriage. June 29, 2007

Lockheed Martin visits Vision Lab. June 29, 2007

NASA Research Team tours Vision Lab. June 21, 2007

The ODU Board of Visitors tours Vision Lab. June 15, 2007

JFCOM's David Meyr and Bill Ciaston visit Vision Lab. June 14, 2007

VMASC tours Vision Lab. June 6, 2007

Col. Shoop visits Vision Lab. May 30, 2007

Demonstration for Venture Capital Company. May 21, 2007

Innovation Research Park @ ODU - Opening Ceremony (The Courier June 2007)

Vision Lab featured in Pilot, Inside Business (e-Interaction June 2007)

Innovation Research Park @ ODU - Inauguration, May 16, 2007 (The Virginian-Pilot)

Hau received the PhD Researcher of the Year Award from the ECE department, April 21, 2007.

Saibabu received the MS Researcher of the Year Award from the ECE department, April 21, 2007.

Jacob Foytik received the College of Engineering and Technology Faculty Award in Electrical Engineering, April 2007.

Theus Aspiras received the Outstanding Junior in Electrical Engineering Award, April 2007.

Jacob Foytik received Honorable Mention in the Poster Presentation at ODU-NSU-EVMS-VTC Research Day: Research Expo-2007, April 05, 2007 (News@ODU)

Poster: Pose and lighting invariant real-time face recognition system

Saibabu Arigela received Honorable Mention in the Poster Presentation at ODU-NSU-EVMS-VTC Research Day: Research Expo-2007, April 05, 2007

Poster: Nonlinear enhancement of extremely high contrast images

Richard Cortland Tompkins received Honorable Mention in the Poster Presentation at ODU-NSU-EVMS-VTC Research Day: Research Expo-2007, April 05, 2007

Poster: Multi-view face detection

Hau Ngo received the University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, May 02, 2006 (News@ODU)

Adam Livingston received the MS Researcher of the Year Award from the ECE department, April 20, 2006.

Dr. Asari presented at the World’s Best Technologies Showcase at Arlington, Texas, March 29, 2006 (WBT06)

Vision Lab research (Robotic Nose) in the Inside Business (The Hampton Roads Business Journal), February 20, 2006 (Inside-Business)

Ming-Jung Seow and Ming Zhang presented at the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 15-19, 2006. (IS&T/SPIE 2006)

Dr. Asari presented at the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering at St. Louis, MO, November 7 - 9, 2005 (ANNIE 2005)

Li and Ming Zhang presented at the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition at Washington DC, October 19-21, 2005 (AIPR 2005)

Dr. Asari presented at the Naval-Industry R&D Partnership Conference, July 26 - 29, 2005 (Enabling Naval Innovations to Win the Global War on Terrorism)

Dr. Asari presented at the IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2005) at San Diego, California, June 21, 2005 (FRGC 2005)

Dr. Asari presented at the 1st IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2005) at San Diego, California, June 20, 2005 (CVAVI 2005)

Dr. Asari presented at the 9th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston, Massachusetts, May 18 - 21, 2005 (ICCNS 2005)

Hau and Ming Zhang presented at the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI at Tampa, Florida, May 11 - 12, 2005 (ISVLSI 2005)

Ming-Jung received the PhD Researcher of the Year Award from the ECE department, April 21, 2005 (ECE)

Praveen received the MS Researcher of the Year Award from the ECE department, April 21, 2005 (ECE)

Driver’s Assistant for Visibility Improvement (DAVI) won the 2nd place in the ODU Research Day Poster Competition (News @ ODU)

Vision Lab research (Face Recognition) in the Virginian-Pilot, April 06, 2005 (Pilot)

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Dr. Asari presented the Automatic Learning Machine in the World’s Best Technologies Conference at Arlington, Texas on March 30, 2005 with Dr. Asim Roy of Arizona State University (WBT05)

Dr. Asari presented ECE Graduate Seminar on March 18, 2005 (News @ ODU)

Dr. Asari presented at the 3rd Face Recognition Grand Challenge Workshop at MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, February 16, 2005 (FRGC 2005)

Vision Lab member David won 3rd place in the IEEE Hampton Roads Student Paper Contest (IEEE Hampton Roads) 

ODU research to help fight terrorism (Mace & Crown)

Dr. Vijayan Asari in the Spotlight (eInteraction)

Spotting Terrorists: Computer-based Facial Recognition System Spots Terrorists Entering the U.S. (Spotlight)

Vision Lab researchers presented at the IEEE AIPR Workshop at Washington DC, October 14, 2004 (AIPR 2004)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researcher Visited VLSI, October 01, 2004 (eInteraction)

Dr. Asari presented at the Biometric Consortium Conference – BCC 2004, September 21 2004 (BCC 2004)

Dr. Asari presented at Second Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) Workshop, September 10, 2004 (eInteraction)

SensorsGov-2004: Dr. Asari chaired a session at the SensorsGov Expo and Conference at Virginia Beach, September 14 2004 (eInteraction)

VLSI Systems Laboratory and Image Science and Machine Vision (ISMV) group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) enter collaborative research agreement

Dr. Asari’s visit to ISMV July 14 2004 (eInteraction)

Candid Camera: Computer-based Facial Recognition System Spots Terrorists Entering the U.S.

ODU Research Magazine: Quest June 2004 (Quest)

Hau received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the ECE department, April, 2004.

ECE Graduate Seminar February 20 2004

ODU Newsletter (News @ ODU)

TSWG (DoD) Research Review Meeting at Washington DC January 13-14 2004

Presentation at the Research Review Meeting (pdf)

Governor’s Homeland Security Conference at Lexington VA October 28-30 2003

At Virginia Military Institute (vmi)

IDHS Research Summit at Washington DC June 25 2003

Dr. Asari’s Presentation at IDHS Research Summit (pdf) (idhs site)

Hau received the MS Researcher of the Year Award from the ECE department, April, 2003.

theCourier    January 17 2003

ECE Prof’s Fellowship Leads to DOD Grant and Selection to Prestigious Research Team (theCourier)