Computer Vision Laboratory, Hunter College of CUNY

[People, Alumni, Publications, Funding, Projects]

People

Principal Investigator: Prof. Ioannis Stamos

Samuel Friedman, Ph.D. candidate Computer Science Department, The Graduate Center of CUNY.

Adriana Wise, Ph.D. candidate Computer Science Department, The Graduate Center of CUNY.
Georgios Koumantaris, Ph.D. candidate Computer Science Department, The Graduate Center of CUNY.

Ilya Korsunsky, Hunter College undergraduate student.
Thomas Flynn, Hunter College undergraduate student.

Alumni

Dr. Lingyun Liu [now at Google, Inc., Mountain View]. Lingyun earned his Ph.D. degree from the CUNY Graduate Center, under the supervision of Prof. Stamos.

Dr. Cecilia Chao Chen [now at Google, Inc., New York City]. Cecilia earned her Ph.D. degree from the CUNY Graduate Center, under the supervision of Prof. Stamos.

Dr. Marius Leordeanu

Marius worked in our lab as an undergraduate, where he published two research papers. He then earned a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.

Joyce Kim worked in our lab when she was an undergraduate student. Her concentration was range-to-range registration. She now pursues Ph.D.-level studies at Columbia University.
Jeff Epstein worked in our lab when he was an undergraduate student.
Yevgeniy Pavlov worked in our lab when he was an undergraduate student. His concentration was shape similarity.

Publications: go to link.

Equipment

Our laboratory is equipped with the latest generation in range sensing technology (Leica 3D laser scanning system) . The necessary funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0821383 and 0215962. Our scanners can provide dense spherical 3D range scans  of outdoor and indoor environments. High end digital color cameras are used for the acquisition of color photographs. Linux- and Windows-based workstations are used for processing and visualization.

Funding

• 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.
  

Projects

NSF Career Award

Photorealistic 3D Modeling (PhD work at Columbia University)

Interactive Sensor Planning

The Beauvais Project (collaboration with Columbia University)

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