Research Associates and Graduate Students

Hau T. Ngo
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2007 (Dissertation Defense: November 14, 2007)
Dissertation: Power Aware Design Methodologies for FPGA Based Implementation of Video Processing Systems
Currently with The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

Satyanadh Gundimada
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2007 (Dissertation Defense: May 10, 2007)
Dissertation: Neighborhood Defined Feature Selection Strategy for Improved Face Recognition in Different Sensor Modalities
Currently with Symetix, Walla Walla, WA

Ming-Jung Seow
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduation: Summer 2006 (Dissertation Defense: May 3, 2006)
Dissertation: Learning as a Nonlinear Line of Attraction for Pattern Association, Classification and Recognition
Currently with Behavioral Recognition Systems Inc., Houston, TX

Li Tao
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2006 (Dissertation Defense: December 12, 2005)
Dissertation: Multimodal Enhancement Techniques for Visibility Improvement of Digital Images
Currently with Samsung Electronics Inc., Irvine, CA

Former MS Students

Chandrika Tummala
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2008 (Thesis Defense: April 04, 2008)
Thesis: A Weighted Modular Principal Component Analysis Approach for Face Authentication

Zaheer Shaik
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: October 25, 2007)
Thesis: A Robust Method for Multiple Face Tracking using Kalman Filter

Ramya Reddy Maaram
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: October 16, 2007)
Thesis: Neighborhood Defined Adaboost Based Mixture of Color Components for Efficient Skin Segmentation

Saibabu Arigela
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: September 27, 2007)
Thesis: An Adaptive and Non-Linear Technique for Enhancement of High Contrast Images

Neeharika Gudur
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2007 (Thesis Defense: September 25, 2007)
Thesis: A Modular Kernel Linear Discriminant Analysis of Gabor Features for Improved Face Recognition

Ismail Kosum
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2007 (Thesis Defense: April 2, 2007)
Thesis: A Wavelet Based Complementary Approach for Image Enhancement

Cenk Yaman
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2007 (Thesis Defense: April 2, 2007)
Thesis: Long Range Target Classification in a Cluttered Environment Using Multi-Sensor Image Sequences

Mehmet R. Ormanoglu
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2007 (Thesis Defense: May 25, 2005)
Thesis: A Resolution Enhancement Technique in Digital Images

Ender Oguslu
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2006 (Thesis Defense: April 7, 2006)
Thesis: A Nonlinear Technique for the Enhancement of Extremely Non-uniform Lighting Images

Adam Livingston
MS Computer Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2006 (Thesis Defense: March 22, 2006)
Thesis: A Multilane Pipelined Architecture for Real-Time Enhancement of Color Video Streams

Ming Z. Zhang
MS Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2005 (Thesis Defense: August 4, 2005)
Thesis: A Multiplier-less Architecture for High Speed Computation of Multidimensional Convolution

Praveen Sankaran
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Summer 2005 (Thesis Defense: June 16, 2005)
Thesis: A Feature Specific Modular Approach for Pose and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition

Kirankumar Boyapati
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2005 (Thesis Defense: April 20, 2005)
Thesis: Image Compression by Vector Quantization of DCT Coefficients Using a Self-Organizing Neural Network

Satish Ravichandran
MS Computer Engineering
Graduation: SPring 2003 (Thesis Defense: April 18, 2003)
Thesis: Unidirectional CORDIC for Efficient Computation of Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions

Hariharan Harishwaran
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: April 11, 2003)
Thesis: A Combinatorial Technique for Face Detection Based on Color and Statistical Analysis

Hau T. Ngo
MS Computer Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: March 28, 2003)
Thesis: A Pipelined Architecture for Real Time Correction of Barrel Distortion in Wide-Angle Camera Images

Deepthi P. Valaparla
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: March 28, 2003)
Thesis: Adaptive Segmentation Techniques for Object Region Extraction from Images with Complex Lighting Environment

Rajkiran Gottumukkal
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2003 (Thesis Defense: December 6, 2002)
Thesis: Parallel Implementation of a Face Recognition System Based on Modular PCA Approach

Ming-Jung Seow
MS Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2002 (Thesis Defense: October 30, 2002)
Thesis: Recurrent Neural Networks and Algorithms for Reconstruction of Images from Noisy and/or Partial Data

Linda Rajan
MS Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2002 (Thesis Defense: October 29, 2002)
Thesis: Multilevel Neural Network Architecture for Digital Implementation of a Face Recognition System Based on Eigenface Approach

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
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