Current students:

1.Ravi Panchumarthy, PhD candidate

2.Ravi Subramanium, PhD candidate

3.Fillipe Souza, PhD candidate

4.Kristina Contino, PhD candidate

Doctoral Students:

1.Ravi Kiran Krishnan, PhD., “Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Ordered Set,” 2014 (Unifi Software).

2.Kester Duncan, PhD., “Scene-Dependent Human Intention Recognition for an Assistive Robotic System,” 2014 (Digital Signal Corporation).

3.Aveek Brahmachari, PhD., “Basal Graphs Structures for Geometry Based Organization of Wide-Baseline Image Collections,” 2012 (Samsung).

4.Saumya P. Amarasiri, PhD., (co-major advisor with Dr. Gunaratne), “Use of Innovative Computer Technology and Optical Texture Properties in the Analysis of Pavement Digital Images,” 2011 (Geotechnical Engineer, Radise International).

5.Vasant Manohar, PhD., (co-major advisor with Dr. Goldgof), “Facial Skin Motion Properties from Video: Modeling and Applications,” 2009 (Raytheon BBN Technologies).

6.Himanshu Vajaria, PhD., (co-major advisor with Dr. Kasturi), Dissertation, “Diarization, Localization and Indexing of Meeting Archives,” 2008 (Photon-X).

7.Ruiduo Yang, Ph.D., Dissertation, “Dynamic programming with multiple candidates and its applications to sign language and hand gesture recognition,” 2007 (Qualcomm.).

8.Sunita Nayak, Ph.D., Dissertation, “Representation and Learning in Recognition of Sign Language,” 2007 (Photometria Inc.).

9.Pranab Mohanty, Ph.D. (co-major advisor with Dr. Kasturi), Dissertation, “Learning from Biometric Distances: Performance and Security Related Issues in Face Recognition Systems,” 2007 (Aware Inc.).

10.Duminda Randeniya, Ph.D. (co-major advisor with Dr. Gunaratne), Dissertation, “Automatic Geo-Referencing by Integrating Camera Vision and Inertial Measurements,” 2007 (Oak Ridge National Labs.).

11.Nivedita Das, Ph.D. (co-major advisor with Dr. Ashmawy), Dissertation: “Modeling Three-Dimensional Shape of Sand Grains Using Discrete Element Method,” 2007, (GEI Consultants Inc.).

12.Yong Zhang, Ph.D.  (co-major advisor with Dr. Goldgof) Dissertation: “Robust algorithms for property recovery in motion modeling, medical imaging and biometrics,” 2005. (Associate Professor at Youngstown University).

13.Zongyi Liu, Ph.D., Dissertation: “Gait-based human recognition at a distance performance, covariate impact and solutions,” Nov. 2004 (Amazon.com now at Google Inc.).

14.Padmanabhan Soundarajan, Ph.D., Dissertation: “Core issues in graph based perceptual organization: Spectral cut measures, Learning,” April 2004 (Neilsen Media Research).

15.Isidro Robledo-Vega, Ph.D., Dissertation: “Motion models based on statistics of feature relations: Human Identification from Gait,” Sept 2002 (Faculty at the Instituto Technologico de Chihuahua, Mexico).

16.Mark Powell, Ph.D., Dissertation: “Towards objective color from images,” Nov 2000, (Jet Propulsion Labs, California) (USF Outstanding Dissertation Award).

17.Leonid Tsap, Ph.D. (co-major with Dr. Goldgof), Dissertation: “Physically-based modeling of non-rigid motion in biomechanics problems”, Spr. 1999. (Lawrence Livermore National Labs, National Institutes of Health) (USF Outstanding Dissertation Award).

Masters Students:

1.Owen Watson, MS Thesis: “Full 3D Reconstruction from Multiple RGB-D Cameras,” Spring 2013.

2.Ravi Kiran Krishnan, MS Thesis: “Detecting Group Turns of Speaker Groups in Meeting Room Conversations using Audio-Video Change Scale Space,” Summer 2010, (PhD program at USF).

3.Kester Duncan, MS Thesis: “Relational Entropy-based Measure of Saliency,” Summer 2010, (PhD program at USF).

4.Aveek Brahamachari, MS Thesis: “BLOGS: Balanced Local and Global Search for Non-degenerate Two-view Epipolar Geometry, Summer 2009, (PhD program at USF).

5.Brendan Klare, MS, Thesis: “Background Subtraction using Ensembles of Classifiers with an Extended Feature Set,” Summer 2008.

6.Sunil Ravulapalli, MS, Thesis: “Association of Sound to Motion in Video using Perceptual Organization,” Spring 2006.

7.Amit Khemlani, MS, Thesis: “Counting of mostly static people in indoor conditions,” 2004.

8.Soumee Chaudhari, MS, Thesis: “Modeling distance functions induced by face recognition algorithms,” Nov 2004.

9.Ayush Parashar, MS, Thesis: “Representation and Interpretation of Manual and Non-manuals Information for Automated American Sign Language Recognition,” July 2003. (Oracle Corp.).

10.Laura Malave, MS, Thesis: “Silhouette based gait recognition: Research Resource and Limits,” July 2003. (PhD student at USF).

11.Lakshmi Reguna, MS, Thesis: “An In-depth Analysis of Face Recognition Algorithms using Affine approximations,” May 2003. (Cyberguard, Florida).

12.Barnabas Victor, MS, (co-major with Dr. Bowyer), Thesis: “Image-based ear biometrics,” Sept 2002. (ISSICAD/Cambio networks).

13.Nikhil Kelshikar, MS, Thesis: “Issues in volume computation using Cyberware range scanner,” Sept. 2001. (GRASP Lab., UPenn).

14.Li Zhou, MS (co-major with Dr. Goldgof), Thesis: “Computer aided image analysis of skin histology images,” Nov 2000.

15.Yong Zhang, MS, (co-major with Dr. Goldgof), Thesis: “A physical model based motion recovery algorithm and its applications in computer vision and imaging,” Nov 2000. (Completed PhD at USF).

16.Kishore Korimilli, MS, Thesis: “Motion segmentation based on perceptual organization of spatio-temporal volumes,” Sept. 1999 (IBM).

17.Srikanth Chavali,MS, Thesis: “Encoding the parameter space behavior of vision algorithms using Parameter Dependence Networks,” Aug 1998 (Nortel Networks, Texas).

18.Hariprasad Janardana, MS, Thesis: “Experiments with a new structural similarity measure for image databases,” July 1998 (Data Base Technologies, Boca Raton).

19.Sriprakash Sainath, MS, Thesis: “Approximate algorithms for matching image structures captured using Random Parametric Structural Descriptions,” May 1998. (Motorola, Chicago).

20.Vinod Kannan, MS, Thesis: “Delineation of scars and volume estimation using range data,” April 1997 (Motorola, Chicago).

21.Sudhir Borra, MS, Thesis: “Quantitative performance evaluation of perceptual organization modules in the context of object recognition,” July 1996 (Worldres, California).

22.Nina Saxena, MS, (co-major with Dr. Ranganathan) Thesis: “Mapping and parallel implementation of Bayesian Belief networks,” Dec. 1995 (Completed her PhD from University of Texas at Austin).

23.Barry Sheppard, MS, Project: “A fast technique for extracting motion parameters from motion blurred images,” Sept. 1995 (Texas Instruments).

Undergraduate Students (REUs, Senior Projects etc.)

1.Jason Melancon, 2014.

2.Thomas Dietert, 2014.

3.Juan Lujan, 2014.

4.Andrew Messier, 2009.

5.Jeremy White, 2008.

6.Michele McLean, 2006-2007.

7.Oluwabukola Akinbo, 2006 (graduate studies at USF).

8.Melinda Black, 2006.

9.Eric Adams, 2005-2006.

10.Adebola Osuntogun, (went for graduate studies at Georgia Tech.), 2003-2005.

11.Laura Malave (continued graduate studies at USF), 2001-2002.

12.Christine Bexley (went for graduate studies at Notre Dame Univ.), 2001-2002.

13.Christine Kranenbru, 2001-2002.

14.Kenny Radfar, 1997.

15.Mat Galvin, 1997.