Research

We do a wide spectrum of research related to various aspects of visual computing

• Research interests and projects
  • Statistical Inference & Machine Learning in Visual Computing
  • Deep Learning
  • Feature selection for data/sensor fusion
  • Content/Semantics analysis for image/video retrieval
  • Stereoscopic Visualization and HCI
  • Perceptual Enhancement of Image and Video
  • Vision-based Navigation in Robotics
  • Content-adaptive Video Compression and Transmission
  • Human-cognition Driven Visual Computing for People with Vision Impairment
  • GoingEasy® with Crowdsourcing: Building Cyber-Physical Systems for People with Visual Impairment
  • Computational Understanding of Motion-related Expertise in Simulation-based Surgical Training
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• Recent Publications
• Code/Software/Dataset

Current Group Members

• Baoxin Li (Faculty)
• Jiuxu Chen (PhD student)
• Riti Paul (PhD student)
• Nupur Thakur (PhD student)
• Pin-Yin Huang (PhD student)
• Prasanth Sai Gouripeddi (PhD student)
• Jay Shar (PhD Student; co-supervising with Prof. T. Wu)

Alumni (Degree & year, if applicable; Initial placement, if known)

• Yaoxin Zhuo (PhD, 2024, Google)
• Sachin Chhabra (PhD, 2024, Wayfair)
• Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee (PhD, 2024, co-supervised with Prof. T. Wu, Meta)
• Sahil Vora (MS, 2024,Barclays)
• Tsz Chan (MS, 2023, Garmin))
• Yuzhen Ding (PhD, 2022, Mayo Clinic)
• Tianshu Yu (PhD, 2021, Chinese University of Hongkong)
• Yikang Li (PhD, 2020, Oppo Research)
• Kevin Ding (PhD, 2020, Amazon)
• Yilin Wang (PhD, 2018, Adobe)
• Jun Cao (PhD, 2018, Intel)
• Xu Zhou (PhD, 2018, Amazon)
• Ragav Venkatesan (PhD, 2017, Amazon)
• Parag Chandakkar (PhD, 2017, Walmart Labs)
• Qiongjie Tian (PhD, 2017, Qualcomm)
• Jashmi Lgisetty (MS, 2017, SparkCognition)
• Zhigang Tu (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2016-17)
• Devi Archana Paladugu (PhD, 2016)
• Lin Chen (PhD, 2016, SnapChat)
• Steve Sheng-shung Hu (MS, 2016, Tesla)
• Kan Chang (Visiting Scholar, 2015-2016, Guangxi University)
• Vijetha Guttupalli (MS, 2016)
• Xiaoyan Qian (Visiting Scholar, 2014-15, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Xiangyang Liu (Visiting Scholar, 2014-15, Hehai University)
• Aaron Gubrud (MS, 2015, Intel)
• Fei Teng (Visiting PhD student, 2014-15)
• Peng Zhang (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2013-15, Alibaba)
• Collin Walker (MS, 2014)
• Qiang Zhang (PhD, 2014, Samsung Research)
• Gazi Islam (PhD, 2013, co-supervised with Prof. J. Liang of BMI, Intel)
• Hima Bindu Maguluri (MS, 2013, Meta)
• Akshay Vankipuram (MS, 2012, MathWorks)
• Nan Li (MCS, 2011, Microsoft)
• Naveen Kulkarni (MS, 2011; Research in Motion)
• Zheshen Wang (PhD, 2011; Amazon)
• Xiaolong Zhang (MCS, 2010; Microsoft)
• Wenfeng Li (PhD, 2010; Google)
• Pradeep Nagesh (MS, 2009; Samsung R&D Center, Irvine)
• Jin Zhou (PhD, 2009; Signal Processing Inc.)
• Rahul Gowda (MS, 2009; NVIDIA)
• Avin Kannur (MS, 2009; Qualcomm)
• Xinyu Xu (PhD, 2008; SHARP Laboratories of America)
• Shankara Subramanya (MS, 2008; co-advisor Huan Liu; Amazon)
• Yinghua Fu (Visiting Scholar, Summer 2007 ~ Spring 2008; Univ. of Shanghai for Science &Technology)
• Viswesh Parameswaranasu (MS, 2008; Qualcomm)
• Jayanth Madapura (MS, 2007; Microchip)
• Yue Yang (MS, 2006; Intel)

Past Undergraduate Research Assistants (most were supported via NSF REU grants)

• Nicholas Shaw (Honor’s Thesis)(2023 ~24)
• Jacob Hilliker (Honor’s Thesis)(2020 ~21)
• Melissa Ip (2016 ~17)
• Christina Wilmot (2016)
• Kelly Ndombe (2016)
• Daniel Molina (2015 ~16)
• Peter Huffer (2014 ~15)
• Vina Martin (2014 ~15)
• Aaron Ogata (2012 ~ 2013)
• Filip Jaros (2011 ~ 2012)
• Samantha Axtell (1/2011 ~ 8/2011)
• Yajun Gao (11/2010 ~ 6/2011)
• Katherine McMichael (1/2011 ~ 5/2011)
• Jesus Yuriar (B.S., 2011)
• Jeremy Stayton (B.S., 2010; General Dynamics)

Past High School Students (via ASU’s High School Engineering Research Program or DoD’s HSAP program)

• Rohit Dhole (2015)
• Khayti Raka (2015)
• Tracy Zhang (2015, 2016-17)
• Molly Pavey (2016-17)