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 All students (graduate or undergraduate) are welcome to my office to discuss a project (thesis or capstone).

 The project topic is flexible that fits into a student’s interest, background, and schedule.

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Refereed Publications by Students (names in bold font):

 

·         Y. Zhang, S. L. Ellyson, A. J. Zone, P. R. Gangam, J. R. Sullins, C. McCullough, S. Canavan, and L. Yin,

Recognizing Face Sketches by a Large Number of Human Subjects: A Perception-Based Study for Facial Distinctiveness,

IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2011),

Santa Barbara, California, March 21-25, 2011.

 

·         H. Marie, S. Vadde, S. Gadapa, H. Kukatla, Y. Zhang, and J. R. Sullins,

Characterization of Strain Elastograms during Large Tissue Deformations,

Inter. Conf. on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity,

Snowbird, Utah, October 16-19, 2010.

 

·         H. Marie, S. Vadde, H. Kukatla, S. Gadapa, Y. Zhang, and J. R. Sullins,

A Feasibility Study of Calibrating Optical Strain Elastograms with Biomechanical Testing,

Inter. Conf. on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity,

Snowbird, Utah, October 16-19, 2010.

 

·         S. Canavan, B. Johnson, M. Reale, Y. Zhang, L. Yin, and J. R. Sullins,

Evaluation of Multi-frame Fusion Based Face Classification under Shadow,

The 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010),

Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010.

 

·         H. A. Al Nizami, J. P. Adkins-Hill, Y. Zhang, J. R. Sullins, C. McCullough, S. Canavan, and L. Yin,

A Biometric Database with Rotating Head Videos and Hand-drawn Face Sketches,

IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS09),

Washington DC, September 28-30, 2009.

 

·         J. P. Adkins-Hill, J. M. Fortunato, Y. Zhang, and J. R. Sullins,

An Empirical Comparison of High Definition Video and Regular Video in Optical Flow Computation,

The19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR08),

Tampa, Florida, December 4-6, 2008.

 

·         J. Blackann, Y. Zhang, R. T. Brodell, and H. Marie,

Optical Skin Elastography, A Case Study of Seborrheic Keratoses,

The 7th International Conference on Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity,

Austin, Texas, October 27-30, 2008.

 

·         S. J. Canavan, M. P. Kozak, Y. Zhang, J. R. Sullins, M. A. Shreve, and D. B. Goldgof,

Face Recognition by Multi-Frame Fusion of Rotating Heads in Videos,

IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS07),

Washington DC, September, 2007.

 

 

 

Master Theses and Projects:

 

·         Susheel Reddy Vadde (major advisor), M.S., spring 2011,

Improving Tissue Elasticity Imaging Using a Kalman Filter-based Non-rigid Motion Tracking Algorithm.

 

·         Nathaniel Persin (major advisor), M.S., spring 2011,

National Biometric Identification Cards.

 

·         Priyanka Reddy Gangam (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., summer 2010,

Recognizing Face Sketches by Human Volunteers.

 

·         Harish Kukatla (major advisor), M.S., summer 2010,

A Study of Strain Elastography under a Normal Tensile Testing Condition.

 

·         Anthony J. Zone (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., spring 2010,

Face Composite Recognition: Multiple artists, Large Scale Human Performance and Multivariate Analysis.

 

·         Baha Ateereh (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., spring 2009,

Selection of Video Frames Using Reference Images of Known Poses.

 

·         Mari Ann Cann (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., summer 2008,

Procedures and Issues in Building a Medium-Sized Digital Face Sketch Database.

 

·         Ruby Jones (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., summer 2008,

Procedures and Issues in Building a Medium-Sized Digital Face Sketch Database.

 

·         Shaun Canavan (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., spring 2008,

Face Recognition Using Multiple Video Frame Fusion.

(Shaun is currently a PhD student at State University of New York at Binghamton).

 

·         Michael Kozak  (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., spring 2008,

Application of biometric technology to the healthcare registration system.

(Mike is from Department of Electrical Engineering with an option in Computer Science).

 

·         Sherif  El Seuofi (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., fall 2007,

Performance Evaluation of Face Recognition Using Frames of Ten Pose Angles.

 

·         Salem Al Emaishat (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., summer 2007,

Pose Determination of Rotating Faces in Videos Based on Empirical Criteria.

 

·         Samuel Snyder (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., summer 2007,

Realistic 3D Face Modeling Using Limited Image Inputs.

 

·         Matthew Shreve (major advisor), M.S., spring 2007,

Imaging and Characterization of Facial Strain in Long Video Sequences.

(Matt is from Department of Mathematics, and is currently a Ph.D. student at University of South Florida).

 

·         Rupali Patil (co-major advisor with Dr. Sullins), M.S., spring 2007,

Development of a Multimedia Database with an Application to Face Recognition.

 

 

 

Undergraduate Senior Projects: 

 

·         Jeremy Adkins-Hill, B.S., spring 2009,

A Biometric Database with Rotating Head Videos and Hand-drawn Face Sketches.

 

·         Hanan Al Nizami, B.S., spring 2009,

A Biometric Database with Rotating Head Videos and Hand-drawn Face Sketches.

 

·         Andrew Crown, B.S., spring 2009,

Programming of an interactive gaming platform: STAR*FORCE.

 

·         Brad Galla, B.S., spring 2009,

Programming of an interactive gaming platform: STAR*FORCE.

 

·         Fares Bouchedid, B.S., spring 2007,

An Intelligent Software Tool for Automatic Feature Selection and Interpolation in Videos.

 

·         Gregory Myers, B.S., spring 2007,

Development of an Interactive Eye Tracking and Interpolation Software Package with Java.

 

 

 

Software Developed by Students:

 

·         STAR*FORCE by Crown and Galla, 2009.

 

·         LIBM-1.0 (beta version) by Bouchedid and Myers, 2007.