The Computer Vision Group at Colorado State University focuses on semantic object recognition in complex domains. The challenge of object recognition has lead us to address computer vision in the broader context of Artificial Intelligence, and to integrate techniques from empirical evaluation and machine learning. Our goal is to use these techniques to develop computer vision systems whose behaviors are both reliable and understood.

We are actively studying human face recognition algorithms and how to model the human expert recognition pathway. Other areas of expertise and interest include embedded real-time computer vision, 3D model-based object recognition and adaptive object recognition under the control of Markov processes.

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Faculty

J. Ross Beveridge

Bruce A. Draper

Consulting Faculty

Wim Bohm - Computer Science Geof Givens - Statistics Michael Kirby - Mathematics

June Medford - Biology Chris Peterson - Mathematics Lucy J. Troup - Psychology

Current Students

David S. Bolme H. Thomson Comer Alexander Kazeka Yui Man Lui Douglas Moore

Mohammad Nayeem Steve O'Hara Nicholas Parrish Jason Remington Tim Renner

Ph.D. Graduates

Mark Richard Stevens - 1999 Jose Carlos Bins Filho - 2000 Lance Alan Forbes - 2001

Kyungim Baek - 2002 Jason A Denton - 2002

M.S. Graduates

Mark Richard Stevens - 1995 Christopher Robert Graves - 1997 Anthony Schwickerath - 1997 Karthik Balasubramaniam - 1998 Michael Leroy Croswell - 1999 Jason A Denton - 1999 Rachel Chittaranjan Patel - 1999 Eric Grant Priest - 1999 Xichen Yu - 1999 Timothy Andrew Probst - 2000 Wendy Sue Yambor - 2000 Noam Arbel - 2001 Jeffrey Scott Carpenter - 2001 David Michael McClure - 2001 Jean-Luc Romano - 2002 Kai She - 2002

Clint Austin Thatcher - 2002 David Scott Bolme - 2003 Marcio Luis Teixeira - 2003 Jeffrey Lewis Boody - 2004 Carol Lee Kaito - 2004 Dazhi Wu - 2004 Charumathi Chandrasekaran - 2005 Ashwinikumar Surendra Kurup - 2005 Albert Carmen Lionelle - 2005 Benjamin John Randall - 2005 Trent James Williams - 2006 Gabriel Leroy Salazar - 2007 Jilmil Saraf - 2007 Ward Ian Fisher - 2008 Dean Eric Wetherby - 2008

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Current Research

Biomimetic Vision

We are using computer vision techniques to study and model the human expert object recognition pathway. Focus of study includes the early vision system, focus of attention, ego-motion, hierarchical clustering, and appearance based matching.

Face Recognition

We have three active research areas in face recognition:

• Evaluation of Face Recognition Algorithms - We are collaborating with NIST to perform statistical analysis on the results from FRGC, FRVT, ICE, and currently MBGC.
• Face Detection Algorithms - We looking for the best features and strategies to use for face detection.
• Analytic Geometry of Face Data - In conjunction with the CSU Math Department, we are studying the topology of face data in high dimensional spaces.