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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
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· 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),
· 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,
· 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),
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
· 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.