People

Dr. Theus Aspiras

Abdulbasit Alhinqari (PhD)

Ranga Burada (PhD)

Wei Chih Chern (PhD)

Ming Gong (PhD)

Colin Leong (PhD)

Eric Smith (PhD) (Co-Advisor with Dr. Yakov Diskin)

Vivian Song (PhD)

Aqsa Sultana (PhD)

Wen Ping Zhu (PhD)

Nordin Abouzahra (MS)

Salman Alsiafy (MS)

Anurag Mallik (MS)

Trinia Gene Medrano (MS)

Adam Steiner (MS)

Alison Hardie (BS/MS)

Sainandan Dore (BS)

Austin Ebbing (BS)

Kassam Madmouj (BS)

Jordan Powell (BS)

Rayan Asfar (BS, UGA)

• 1. Zhiyuan Xie

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2022 (Dissertation Defense: April 12, 2022)

Dissertation: GlacierNet Variant for Large Scale Glacier Mapping

• 2. Nina Marie Singer

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2022 (Dissertation Defense: April 11, 2022)

Dissertation: View-Agnostic Point Cloud Generation

• 3. Raymond Wesley Baldwin

PhD Electrical Engineering

(Co-advisor:  Dr. Keigo Hirakawa )

Graduation: Summer 2021 (Dissertation Defense: June 11, 2021)

Dissertation: High Speed Imaging with Less Data

• 4. Garrett Craig Sargent

PhD Electrical Engineering

(Co-advisor: Dr. Bradley Ratliff)

Graduation: Fall 2020 (Dissertation Defense: October 30, 2020)

Dissertation: A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Demosaicing Strategy for Division of Focal Plane Polarimeters

• 5. Ruixu Liu

PhD Electrical Engineering

(Co-advisor: Dr. Ju Shen)

Graduation: Fall 2019 (Dissertation Defense: November 22, 2019)

Dissertation: Attention Based Temporal Convolutional Neural Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation and Reconstruction

• 6. Evan William Krieger

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2018 (Dissertation Defense: November 07, 2018)

Dissertation: Adaptive Fusion Approach for Multiple Feature Object Tracking

• 7. Hussin Ragb

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2018 (Dissertation Defense: October 30, 2017)

Dissertation: Multi-Hypothesis Approach for Efficient Human Detection in Complex Environment

• 8. Almabrok Essa

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2017 (Dissertation Defense: May 05, 2017)

Dissertation: High Order Volumetric Directional Pattern for Robust Face Recognition

• 9. Chen Cui

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2017 (Dissertation Defense: May 05, 2017)

Dissertation: Convolutional Polynomial Neural Network for Improved Face Recognition

• 10. Paheding Sidike

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2016 (Dissertation Defense: November 11, 2016)

Dissertation: Progressively Expanded Neural Network for Automatic Material Identification in Hyperspectral Imagery

• 11. Saibabu Arigela

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Dissertation Defense: November 20, 2015)

Dissertation: A Self-Tunable Transformation Function for Enhancement of Images Captured in Complex Lighting and Hazy Weather Conditions

• 12. Theus H. Aspiras

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Dissertation Defense: October 23, 2015)

Dissertation: Hierarchical Auto-associative Polynomial Network for Deep Learning of Complex Manifolds

• 13. Yakov Diskin

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2015 (Dissertation Defense: April 10, 2015)

Dissertation: Volumetric Change Detection using Uncalibrated 3D Reconstruction Models

• 14. Binu M. Nair

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2015 (Dissertation Defense: April 02, 2015)

Dissertation: Learning Latent Temporal Manifolds for Recognition and Prediction of Multiple Actions in Streaming Videos Using Deep Networks

• 15. Fatema Albalooshi

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2015 (Dissertation Defense: March 26, 2015)

Dissertation: Self-organizing Approach to Learn a Level-set Function for Object Segmentation in Complex Background Environments

• 16. Alex Mathew

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2014 (Dissertation Defense: April 07, 2014)

Dissertation: Rotation Invariant Histogram Features for Object Detection and Tracking in Aerial Imagery

• 17. Nilesh Powar

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2013 (Dissertation Defense: November 15, 2013)

Dissertation: An Approach for the Extraction of Thermal Facial Signatures for Evaluating Threat and Challenge Emotional States

• 18. Varun Santhaseelan

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2013 (Dissertation Defense: November 08, 2013)

Dissertation: Robust Feature-based Reconstruction Technique to Remove Rain from Video

• 19. Menatoallah Youssef

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2011 (Dissertation Defense: July 27, 2011)

Dissertation: Hull Convexity Defect Features for Human Action Recognition

• 20. Richard Cortland Tompkins

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2011 (Dissertation Defense: July 21, 2011)

Dissertation: Multimodal Recognition Using Simultaneous Images of Iris and Face with Opportunistic Feature Selection

• 21. Jacob D. Foytik

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2011 (Dissertation Defense: July 14, 2011)

Dissertation: Locally Tuned Nonlinear Manifold for Person Independent Head Pose Estimation

Former PhD Students @ Old Dominion University

• 22. Adam R. Livingston

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2012 (Dissertation Defense: March 20, 2012)

Dissertation: An Efficient Boosted Classifier Tree-Based Feature Point Tracking System for Facial Expression Analysis

• 23. Mohammad Moinul Islam

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

(Co-advisor: Dr. Mohammad A. Karim)

Dissertation Defense: February 03, 2012

Dissertation: Robust Face Representation and Recognition Under Low Resolution and Difficult Lighting Conditions

• 24. Qun Wang

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

(Co-advisors: Dr. Mohammad A. Karim and Dr. Jiang Li )

Graduation: Spring 2012 (Dissertation Defense: November 07, 2011)

Dissertation: Creation of a Large Scale Face Dataset Using Single Training Image

• 25. Rajkiran Gottumukkal

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2011 (Dissertation Defense: March 25, 2011)

Dissertation: Learning Local Features Using Boosted Trees for Face Recognition

• 26. Numan Unaldi

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2010 (Dissertation Defense: March 01, 2010)

Dissertation: Wavelet Based Enhancement Technique for Visibility Improvement of Digital Images

Currently with the Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey

• 27. Praveen Sankaran

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2009 (Dissertation Defense: September 09, 2009)

Dissertation: A Subspace Projection Methodology for Nonlinear Manifold Based Face Recognition

Currently with National Institute of Technology Kozhikode, Kerala, India

• 28. Ming Z. Zhang

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2008 (Dissertation Defense: October 24, 2008)

Dissertation: Design of High-Speed Architecture for Stabilization of Video Captured under Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions

• 29. Hau T. Ngo

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Dissertation Defense: November 14, 2007)

Dissertation: Power Aware Design Methodologies for FPGA Based Implementation of Video Processing Systems

Currently with The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (Faculty in ECE Department)

• 30. Satyanadh Gundimada

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Dissertation Defense: May 10, 2007)

Dissertation: Neighborhood Defined Feature Selection Strategy for Improved Face Recognition in Different Sensor Modalities

Currently with Symetix, Walla Walla, WA

• 31. Ming-Jung Seow

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2006 (Dissertation Defense: May 3, 2006)

Dissertation: Learning as a Nonlinear Line of Attraction for Pattern Association, Classification and Recognition

Currently with Behavioral Recognition Systems Inc., Houston, TX

• 32. Li Tao

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2006 (Dissertation Defense: December 12, 2005)

Dissertation: Multimodal Enhancement Techniques for Visibility Improvement of Digital Images

Currently with Samsung Electronics Inc., Irvine, CA

1. Adam J Steiner

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2024 (Thesis Defense: April 17, 2024)

Thesis: Spatial-Spectral W-Net: Exploratory Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Segmentation

2. Aqsa Sultana

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2022 (Thesis Defense: July 20, 2022)

Thesis: Residues in Succession U-Net for Fast and Efficient Segmentation

3. Garrett Daniel Fitzgerald

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2022 (Thesis Defense: April 19, 2022)

Thesis: Space Object Detection and Monitoring Using Persistent Wide Field of View Camera Arrays

4. Jonathan Paul Schierl

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2022 (Thesis Defense: April 13, 2022)

Thesis: A 2D/3D Feature-Level Information Fusion Architecture for Remote Sensing Applications 

5. Dhaval Dilip Kadia

MS Computer Science

(Co-advisor: Dr. Tam Nguyen)

Graduation: Fall 2020 (Thesis Defense: December 10, 2020)

Thesis: Advanced UNet for 3D Lung Segmentation and Applications

6. Quinn R. Graehling

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2020 (Thesis Defense: November 23, 2020)

Thesis: Feature Extraction Based Iterative Closest Point Registration for Large Scale Aerial Lidar Point Clouds

7. Rachel Rajan

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2020 (Thesis Defense: July 23, 2020)

Thesis: Semi Supervised Learning for Accurate Segmentation of Roughly Labeled Data

8. Cameron Ellsworth Long

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2019 (Thesis Defense: August 05, 2019)

Thesis: Quaternion Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks

9. Bradley R. Sorg

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2018 (Thesis Defense: November 12, 2018)

Thesis: Multi-Task Learning SegNet Architecture for Semantic Segmentation

10. Zhiyuan Xie

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2018 (Thesis Defense: March 05, 2018)

Thesis: Effect of Enhancement on Convolutional Neural Network Based Multi-View Object Classification

11. Patrick K. Martell

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2017 (Thesis Defense: November 02, 2017)

Thesis: Hierarchical Auto-associative Polynomial based Convolutional Neural Network (HAP-CNN)

12. Garrett Craig Sargent

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2017 (Thesis Defense: March 31, 2017)

Thesis: Single Image Super-Resolution via Regularized Extreme Learning Regression for Imagery from Microgrid Polarimeters

13. Daniel P. Prince

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2016 (Thesis Defense: November 09, 2016)

Thesis: Automatic Building Change Detection Through Linear Feature Fusion and Difference of Gaussian Classification

14. Kevin Thomas Geary

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2016 (Thesis Defense: November 21, 2016)

Thesis: Color Feature Integration with Directional Ringlet Intensity Feature Transform for Enhanced Object Tracking

15. Kevin C. Krucki

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Thesis Defense: November 30, 2015)

Thesis: Person Re-identification in Multi-camera Surveillance Systems

16. Nina Marie Varney

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Thesis Defense: October 08, 2015)

Thesis: LiDAR Data Analysis for Automatic Region Segmentation and Object Classification

17. Evan William Krieger

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Thesis Defense: July 23, 2015)

Thesis: Directional Ringlet Intensity Feature Transform (DRIFT) for Tracking in Enhanced Wide Area Motion Imagery

18. Chen Cui

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2013 (Thesis Defense: July 08, 2013)

Thesis: Adaptive Weighted Local Textural Features for Illumination, Expression and Occlusion Invariant Face Recognition

19. Yakov Diskin

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2013 (Thesis Defense: April 05, 2013)

Thesis: Dense 3D Point Cloud Representation of a Scene Using Un-calibrated Monocular Vision

20. Kevin S. Jackovitz

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2013 (Thesis Defense: April 04, 2013)

Thesis: Integrated Coarse to Fine and Shot Break Detection Approach for Fast and Efficient Registration of Aerial Image Sequences

21. Ann Theja Alex

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2012 (Thesis Defense: November 12, 2012)

Thesis: Local Alignment of Gradient Features for Face Photo and Face Sketch Recognition

22. Theus H. Aspiras

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2012 (Thesis Defense: June 28, 2012)

Thesis: Emotion Recognition Using Spatiotemporal Analysis of Electroencephalographic Signals

Former MS Students @ Old Dominion University

23. Minqi Zhou

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2011 (Thesis Defense: March 25, 2011)

Thesis: Video Stabilization Based on Speeded-Up Robust Features

24. Rupal Patel

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2010 (Thesis Defense: July 26, 2010)

Thesis: Neighborhood Dependent Nonlinear Technique for Image Enhancement

25. Binu M. Nair

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2010 (Thesis Defense: July 26, 2010)

Thesis: Action Recognition Based on Multi-level Representation of 3D Shape

26. Christopher G. Morris

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2010 (Thesis Defense: January 21, 2010)

Thesis: Selective Phase-based De-Weathering (SPDW)

27. Trisha Ahmed

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2010 (Thesis Defense: January 07, 2010)

Thesis: Expression Invariant Face Recognition Using Shifted Phase-Encoded Joint Transform Correlation Technique

28. My Thy Thi Tran

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2009 (Thesis Defense: March 25, 2009)

Thesis: Analysis of Electroencephalogram Signals for the Identification of Mental Tasks

29. Inder K. Purohit

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2008 (Thesis Defense: July 17, 2008)

Thesis: Joint Transform Correlation with a Synthetic Discriminant Function for Object Classification

30. Chandrika Tummala

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2008 (Thesis Defense: April 04, 2008)

Thesis: A Weighted Modular Principal Component Analysis Approach for Face Authentication

31. Zaheer Shaik

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: October 25, 2007)

Thesis: A Robust Method for Multiple Face Tracking using Kalman Filter

32. Ramya Reddy Maaram

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: October 16, 2007)

Thesis: Neighborhood Defined Adaboost Based Mixture of Color Components for Efficient Skin Segmentation

33. Saibabu Arigela

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: September 27, 2007)

Thesis: An Adaptive and Non-Linear Technique for Enhancement of High Contrast Images

34. Neeharika Gudur

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: September 25, 2007)

Thesis: A Modular Kernel Linear Discriminant Analysis of Gabor Features for Improved Face Recognition

35. Ismail Kosum

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2007 (Thesis Defense: April 2, 2007)

Thesis: A Wavelet Based Complementary Approach for Image Enhancement

36. Cenk Yaman

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2007 (Thesis Defense: April 2, 2007)

Thesis: Long Range Target Classification in a Cluttered Environment Using Multi-Sensor Image Sequences

37. Mehmet R. Ormanoglu

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2007 (Thesis Defense: May 25, 2005)

Thesis: A Resolution Enhancement Technique in Digital Images

38. Ender Oguslu

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2006 (Thesis Defense: April 7, 2006)

Thesis: A Nonlinear Technique for the Enhancement of Extremely Non-uniform Lighting Images

39. Adam Redd Livingston

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2006 (Thesis Defense: March 22, 2006)

Thesis: A Multilane Pipelined Architecture for Real-Time Enhancement of Color Video Streams

40. Ming Z. Zhang

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2005 (Thesis Defense: August 4, 2005)

Thesis: A Multiplier-less Architecture for High Speed Computation of Multidimensional Convolution

41. Praveen Sankaran

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2005 (Thesis Defense: June 16, 2005)

Thesis: A Feature Specific Modular Approach for Pose and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition

42. Kirankumar Boyapati

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2005 (Thesis Defense: April 20, 2005)

Thesis: Image Compression by Vector Quantization of DCT Coefficients Using a Self-Organizing Neural Network

43. Satish Ravichandran

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: SPring 2003 (Thesis Defense: April 18, 2003)

Thesis: Unidirectional CORDIC for Efficient Computation of Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions

44. Hariharan Harishwaran

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: April 11, 2003)

Thesis: A Combinatorial Technique for Face Detection Based on Color and Statistical Analysis

45. Hau T. Ngo

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: March 28, 2003)

Thesis: A Pipelined Architecture for Real Time Correction of Barrel Distortion in Wide-Angle Camera Images

46. Deepthi P. Valaparla

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: March 28, 2003)

Thesis: Adaptive Segmentation Techniques for Object Region Extraction from Images with Complex Lighting Environment

47. Rajkiran Gottumukkal

MS Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: December 6, 2002)

Thesis: Parallel Implementation of a Face Recognition System Based on Modular PCA Approach

48. Ming-Jung Seow

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2002 (Thesis Defense: October 30, 2002)

Thesis: Recurrent Neural Networks and Algorithms for Reconstruction of Images from Noisy and/or Partial Data

49. Linda Rajan

MS Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2002 (Thesis Defense: October 29, 2002)

Thesis: Multilevel Neural Network Architecture for Digital Implementation of a Face Recognition System Based on Eigenface Approach

• 1. Dr. Zahangir Alom (Post Doctoral Researcher (UD Vision Lab), January 2019 - July 2020)

  2. Dr. Suman K. Mitra (Visiting Scholar from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Summer 2016)

  3. Anand Chandran (Visiting Scholar from The City University of New York, June 2013 - August 2013)

  4. Kongfeng Zhu (Visiting Scholar from University of Konstanz, Germany, September 2012 - December 2012)

  5. Dr. Mohammad Nazrul Islam (Research Scientist (ODU Vision Lab), July 2007 - August 2009)

  6. Dr. Ming Zhang (Post Doctoral Researcher (ODU Vision Lab), January 2009 - March 2009)

  7. Dr. Hiroki Higa (Visiting Scientist from University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, May 2008 - February 2009)

  8. Dr. Hau T. Ngo (Post Doctoral Researcher (ODU Vision Lab), January 2008 - June 2008)

  9. Dr. Satyanadh Gundimada (Post Doctoral Researcher (ODU Vision Lab), January 2008 - February 2008)