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University of Florida Computer and Information Science and Engineering Baba C. Vemuri, Ph.D.
ProfessorDirector, Lab for Computer Vision, Graphics & Med. Img. (CVGMI) |
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| Mailing Address: | Prof. Baba C. Vemuri Dept. of CISE, E301 CSE University of Florida Gainesville, Fl. 32611 |
| Office Location: | E324 CSE |
| Office Phone: | (352) 505-1569 |
| Departmental FAX: | (352) 392-1220 |
| Email: | vemuri@cise.ufl.edu |
| Website: | http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~vemuri/ |
Interests
My research interests are in: Medical Image Analysis, Image Processing and Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Statistical Learning, Information Geometry and Applied Mathematics. Some salient features of my published work are: (1) We introduced the geometric active contours idea in a level-set framework for image segmentation to the field of Computer Vision (SPIE'93, ECCV'94, PAMI'95), (2) We developed the fastest pre-conditioners to-date, for a host of early vision problems that involved solving elliptic PDEs including (a) surface reconstruction, (b) shape from shading, (c) the lightness problem (d) optical flow (see PAMI'97 and IJCV'98); (3) Several efficient algorithms for uni-modal and multi-modal image (rigid and non-rigid) registration in Medical Imaging (MedIA'98, MedIA'03, IEEE TMI'02), (4) Diffusion weighted MRI smoothing, estimation and segmentation (IPMI'03,TMI'04,TMI'05, NI'07, TMI'07,NI'09); (5) We introduced a novel measure of entropy which has more general properties than Shannon entropy and applied it to multi-modal image registration with superior results in comparison to mutual information-based methods (see IPMI'03,IJCV'07). (6) Pioneered the development of the tensor distribution model for achieving multi-fiber reconstruction from DWMRI, (7) Developed the first methods in literature for imposing positive definiteness on rank-4 tensor field estimation from DWMRI.
Education
- Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Current and Recent Courses
| Semester | Number | Title |
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| Fall '08 | CAP5416 | Computer Vision |
| Fall '08 | CAP4410 | Digital Image Processing |
| Spring'10 | CAP6516 | Medical Image Analysis |
| Fall'10 | CAP5416 | Computer Vision |
It is possible that changes in listings are pending. Contact the (CISE Student Services Center) at 352-392-1090 for the most up-to-date information.
Additional course information is available at:
- CISE Undergraduate Courses
- CISE Graduate Courses
- UF Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog Course Descriptions
Selected Publications
- (1) Arunava Banerjee, Santhosh Kodipaka, Baba C. Vemuri: A Conic Section Classifier and its Application to Image Datasets. CVPR (1) 2006: 103-108.
- (2) Fei Wang, Baba C. Vemuri, Anand Rangarajan: Groupwise point pattern registration using a novel CDF-based Jensen-Shannon Divergence. CVPR (1) 2006: 1283-1288.
- (3)Tim McGraw, Baba C. Vemuri, Robert Yezierski, Thomas Mareci: Segmentation of High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI Modeled as a Field of von Mises-Fisher Mixtures. ECCV (3) 2006: 463-475.
- (4)Fei Wang, Baba C. Vemuri, Anand Rangarajan, Ilona M. Schmalfuss, Stephan J. Eisenschenk: Simultaneous Nonrigid Registration of Multiple Point Sets and Atlas Construction. ECCV (3) 2006: 551-563.
- (5) Zhizhou Wang, Baba C. Vemuri: DTI segmentation using an information theoretic tensor dissimilarity measure. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 24(10): 1267-1277 (2005).
- (6) Özlem N. Subakan, Bing Jian, Baba C. Vemuri, C. Eduardo Vallejos: Feature Preserving Image Smoothing Using a Continuous Mixture of Tensors. ICCV 2007: 1-6
- (7) Bing Jian, Baba C. Vemuri: Multi-fiber Reconstruction from Diffusion MRI Using Mixture of Wisharts and Sparse Deconvolution. IPMI 2007: 384-395
- (8)Angelos Barmpoutis, Bing Jian, Baba C. Vemuri, Timothy M. Shepherd: Symmetric Positive 4th Order Tensors & Their Estimation from Diffusion Weighted MRI. IPMI 2007: 308-319
- (9) Bing Jian, Baba C. Vemuri, Evren Özarslan, Paul R. Carney, Thomas Mareci: A Continuous Mixture of Tensors Model for Diffusion-Weighted Mr Signal Reconstruction. ISBI 2007: 772-775
- (10) Bing Jian, Baba C. Vemuri: A Unified Computational Framework for Deconvolution to Reconstruct Multiple Fibers From Diffusion Weighted MRI. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 26(11): 1464-1471 (2007)
Professional Awards and Honors
- Fellow of ACM and IEEE, UFRF Professor 2003-06
- Best Paper IAPR'92; Best Peer Reviews ECCV'94; Best poster award IPMI'01 & IPMI'05
- Associate Editor for: IEEE TMI (1997-'2004), CVIU ('00-Present), MedIA ('98-Present), IEEE TPAMI ('94-'97).
