Computer Vision Laboratory
Computer Vision & Robotics Laboratory, Hunter College of CUNY

[People, Publications, Projects, Equipment, Alumni, Funding, Data]

Principal Investigator

Current PhD Students

Zhujun Li, Ph.D. candidate Computer Science Department, The Graduate Center of CUNY.

Yimeng Guo, Ph.D. candidate Computer Science Department, The Graduate Center of CUNY. <Currently on leave>

Current MA Students

Youngsu Jung, MA student (project: human tracking).

Alumni PhD graduates

Dr. Jimmy (Xiaoke) Shen, Jimmy was partially supported by a Google gift during his PhD studies. Thesis can be found here.

Allan's photo Dr. All an Zelener, [now at Zoox, California]. Allan was partially supported by NSF grants and Google gift during his PhD studies. Thesis can be found here.

Juan's picture Dr. Juan Liu [now at Google, New York City]. Juan was partially supported by an NSF grant during her PhD studies. Thesis can be found here.

Dr. Sam Friedman [now at Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA (before at Apple, Cupertino, California)]. Sam was supported by an NSF grant during his PhD studies. Sam's thesis can be found here.
Dr. Lingyun Liu [now at Google, Mountain View, California]. Lingyun was supported by an NSF grant during his PhD studies.

Dr. Cecilia Chao Chen [now at Google, New York City]. Cecilia was supported by an NSF grant during her PhD studies.

Dr. Adriana Wise [now adjunct lecturer, Hunter College, New York City]. Adriana's thesis can be found here.

Projects

3D Object Detection and Instance Segmentation from 3D & 2D Images

Classification Algorithms

3D/2D Registration and Photorealistic Modeling (NSF Career)

Funding

Google Research Award, "Classification of urban objects in 3D point clouds", I. Stamos (PI), 2017-
NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI), "MRI: Acquisition of mobile robots to support indoor navigation and online 3D object detection", CNS, Oct. 2016 - Oct. 2019, I. Stamos (PI), S. Epstein & O. Hadjiliadis (co-PIs), $100,450 (plus $43,050 Hunter's cost-sharing).
Google Research Award, "Classification of vehicles in points clouds of urban scenes", I. Stamos (PI), (O. Hadjiliadis (co-PI), 2015-2016, $45,550.

CUNY Collaborative Award, "Gradual Change detection for object classification in 3D Computer Vision", I. Stamos (co-PI), (O. Hadjiliadis PI), 2014-2015, $30,000.

CUNY Central and Hunter, "Shape Completion, Recognition and Modeling from Registered 3D and 2D Datasets", I. Stamos (PI), 2014-2015, $50,000.

PSC-CUNY Research Award Program, "Automated Classification of Urban Objects for Accurate 3D reconstruction", I. Stamos (PI), 2013-2014, $6,000.

Presidential Grant for Faculty Advancement (Hunter College), 2013-2014, $1,500

NSF Robust Intelligence, "RI: Small: Modeling Cities by Integrating 3D and 2D Data'', IIS-0915971, September 2009 - August 2012 (Principal Investigator), $474,963.

NSF MSC, "MSC: Sequential Classification and Detection via Markov Models in Point Clouds of Urban Scenes'', CCF-0916452, September 2009 - August 2012 (Principal Investigator), Olympia Hadjiliadis (co-PI), $379,998.

NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI), "MRI: Acquisition of Range-Scanning and Rapid Prototyping Equipment for 3D Urban Modeling'',
CNS-0821384, September 2008 - August 2011 (Principal Investigator), $99,500 (NSF) + $42,856 (Hunter's co-share).

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), "CAREER: Photorealistic 3-D Modeling of Large-Scale Scenes: Integration of 3-D Range and 2-D Intensity Sensing in a Complete System'', IIS-0237878, February 2003 - January 2009 (Principal Investigator), $427,047. The award includes three Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) supplements (2005, 2006 and 2008).

NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI), "MRI/RUI: Acquisition of Range-Scanning Equipment and of Data Servers for the Reconstruction of Large-Scale Scenes from 3D Range and 2D Color Data'', EIA-0215962, May 2002 - April 2004 (Principal Investigator), $159,307.

Urban Modeling Project, Google Gift, 2007-2008 (with Prof. George Wolberg), $50,000.

CUNY Collaborative Award, "Visualization Toolkit for 3D Photography'', September 2006 - August 2007 (with Prof. George Wolberg), $40,000.

Presidential Travel Grant, Hunter College, January 2008 ($1,700), February 2009 ($650).

PSC-CUNY Research Award Program: a) ``Photorealistic 3-D Modeling'', 2002 - 2003 , b) ``Automated Registration'', 2005 - 2006 , c) ``3D Modeling in Urban Environments'', 2008 - 2009.

CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development, ``Automatic Registration of 3-D Point Sets'', June 2002 - October 2002, January 2003 - June 2003 (Principal Investigator), $12,000.

Data

Equipment

Our laboratory is equipped with the latest generation in range sensing technology (Leica 3D laser scanning system) and robotic platforms. The necessary funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0821383, 0215962 and 1625843. Indoor scanners (Matterport and DotProduct, LLC) are part of thour laboratory as well. High end digital color cameras are used for the acquisition of color photographs. Linux- and Windows-based workstations are used for processing and visualization.

Alumni MA Students

James Kluz, Hunter College Computer Science BA / Mathematics MA graduate. Earned an MS at Cornell Tech.

Jaime Canizales, MA Project on Robotic navigation and ROS.

Alumni (undergraduate, or towards PhD)

Dr. Marius Leordeanu

Marius worked in our lab (funded by the National Science Foundation) as an undergraduate, where he published two research papers. He then earned a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is now a Professor University of Bucharest.

Dr. Ilya Korsunsky

Ilya worked in our lab, as an undergraduate, in the area of 3D object classification. He then earned a Ph.D. degree from NYU. He is now a Principal Investigator at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Thomas Flynn (worked in our lab as an undergraduate and as a PhD student). He is now at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Agis Mesolongitis [co-advised with Olympia Hadjiliadis]. Completed Candidacy Exam. Worked in our lab as a PhD candidate (supported by NSF grant). Now at Zoox, Sillicon Valley, CA.

Ilona Michalowska, Hunter College Computer Science graduate. Ilona worked in 3D labeling software.

Joyce Kim worked in our lab (funded by the National Science Foundation) as an undergraduate student. Her concentration was range-to-range registration.

Andrey Goltsev, worked in our lab (funded by the National Science Foundation) as an undergraduate student. He is pursued MS at NYU-Poly.

Jeff Epstein worked in our lab when he was an undergraduate student. He completed his MS at Cambridge University, UK.

Yevgeniy Pavlov worked in our lab (funded by the National Science Foundation) when he was an undergraduate student. His concentration was shape similarity.

Koichiro Matsunaga, worked in our lab (funded by the National Science Foundation) when he was an undergraduate student (Summer 2006). Koichiro completed his MS at Columbia University.

Older Work

Photorealistic Photorealistic 3D Modeling (PhD work at Columbia University)

Interactive Sensor Planning

Beuvais The Beauvais Project (collaboration with Columbia University)