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2008 |
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Spring |
New Research Assistant |
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Wael Mamdouh
has joined the
lab as PhD student. |
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Graduated Ph.D. |
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Abdelrehim
H. Ahmed has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “SHAPE FROM SHADING UNDER
VARIOUS IMAGING CONDITIONS”
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Asem M Ali
has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “IMAGE LABELING BY ENERGY MINIMIZATION WITH
APPEARANCE AND SHAPE PRIORS”
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Rachid
Fahmi has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “VARIATIONAL METHODS FOR SHAPE AND IMAGE REGISTRATIONS”
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2007
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Spring |
The Lab won the two
first awards (graduate and under-graduate) in the E-Expo (Engineering day). |
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Graduated Ph.D. |
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Alaa Aly
has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “NOVEL FRAMEWORKS FOR ROBUST FEATURE
EXTRACTION IN COLOR AND 3D SPACES” |
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Hossam
Hassan has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled “IMPLICIT CURVE/SURFACE
EVOLUTION WITH APPLICATION TO THE IMAGE SEGMENTATION PROBLEM” |
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Fall |
New Research Assistant |
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Shireen Elhabian
has joined
the lab as PhD student. |
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Melih Aslan
has joined the lab as PhD student. |
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2006
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Spring |
The Lab won the first
three awards in the E-Expo (Engineering day): |
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Congratulation for Hossam,
Noha and Sabry. |
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2005
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Fall |
New Research
Assistant |
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Asaad Farrag
has joined the lab as PhD student. |
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Graduated Ph.D.
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Refaat Mohamed has finished his Ph.D. Thesis
titled "Kernel
methods for statistical learning in computer vision and pattern recognition
applications ". |
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2004
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Fall |
New Research
Assistant |
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Wael Emara
has joined the lab as PhD student. |
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Graduated Ph.D.
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Ahmed Eid has finished his Ph.D. Thesis titled
"On the
Performance Evaluation of 3-D Reconstruction Techniques from a Sequence of
Images". |
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Spring |
New Research
Assistant |
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Abdelrehim Ahmed, Asem Ali , and Noha
El-Zehiry
have joined the lab as PhD students.
Ham Rara has joined the lab as Master Student. |
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2003
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Fall |
New Research
Assistant |
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Rachid Fahmi and Sergie
Checkmenev have joined
the lab as PhD students
Seniha Esen Yuksel has joined the lab as a Master Student |
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Summer |
New Research
Assistant |
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Dongqing Chen has joined the
lab as a PhD student |
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2002
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December |
CVIP Recognition
from SGI. |
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SGI-CVIP Lab "Success Story" |
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November |
Research
Louisville First Place |
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Prof Aly. Farag won
the 1st place in Research! Louisville.
Ayman Sabry, research assistant in the CVIP lab won also the 1st place in
Research! Louisville for graduate students. |
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August |
New Research
Assistant |
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Hong Shi, ECE
Ph.D. Student, joined the CVIP Lab as RA. |
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July |
SIGGRAPH 2002 |
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Mohamed Sabry, ECE
Ph.D. Student and RA at the CVIP Lab, attended
the 2002 SIGGRAPH Conference in St. Antonio Texas |
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IF2002 |
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Refaat M. Mohamed, ECE Ph.D. Student and RA at the CVIP Lab, attended
the Information Fusion Conference 2002 in Annapolis, Maryland. |
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June |
A new robot joins the lab |
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The first robotic vehicle
platform for vision research is delivered from
RoboDirect.com |
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June |
CARS 2002 |
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Dr. Aly Farag attended the 2002 CARS Conference
in Paris where he presented a research paper on MRA segmentation |
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Summer Medical
School |
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Ayman Elbaz, ECE Ph.D. student and RA at the
CVIP Lab, attended the EMBS Medical Imaging Summer School in France |
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Summer Trainee |
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Ramsey Ibrahim, Undergraduate Engineering
Student, joined the CVIP Lab as an undergraduate RA |
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May |
The SGI Onyx
Supercomputer is upgraded |
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We added another 300Gb to
the Old Onyx supercomputer for more image storage. |
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New Research
Assistants |
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Alaa Aly and Hossam Hassan, ECE Ph.D. Students,
joined the CVIP Lab as RAs. |
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March |
SGI Excellence
in Visualization Award |
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Mohamed Sabry, ECE Ph.D. student and RA at the
CVIP Lab, won the SGI Award on Visualization and High Performance Computing. |
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February |
Aly Farag is a
University Scholar |
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Dr. Aly Farag was appointed as University
Scholar, for Excellence in Scholarly Activities. |
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Engineer's Days! |
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Refaat M. Mohamed,
ECE Ph.D. Student and RA at the CVIP Lab, achieved the 2nd place in ECE
dept. in the E-Days held by Speed School. |
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New Grant |
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The CVIP Lab proposal "Perception for Autonomous
Mobility" was funded by the US Army
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October |
CVIP Lab is cited in a Courier-Journal |
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August |
New Research Scientist Joins the Lab |
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Dr. Hani Mahdi has joined the lab as a
visiting Research Scientist. |
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Summer |
New Ph.D. Students Join the Lab |
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Three new Ph.D. students have joined the
lab. They are Ayman El-Baz, Mohamed Sabry, and Refaat Mohamed. |
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June |
The FANUC robot arm is received and
installed in the lab |
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The new FANUC M-6i robot arm has arrived,
along with the associated control equipment. The arm has been installed in
the lab, and is functional. |
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May |
Yurong Li Graduates |
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Yurong Li has graduated, with a M.Eng
Thesis done in the lab. Yurong's thesis is "Motion Tracking in an Active
Vision System." |
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March 30 |
CVIP Lab projects are cited in a
Courier-Journal story. |
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The
CardEye and Jaw Project
are cited in a news story in the Louisville, KY newspaper,
The Courier-Journal. The projects are presented as examples of research
developments that could be commercialized through the company Minerva
Ventures, that has been created by UofL to market research and services. (link
to story) |
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Feb. 24 |
The CVIP Lab sweeps Speed School
Engineer's Days! |
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E-Days presentations by the CVIP Lab's
students take 1st and 3rd places in Speed School, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
places in the ECE department.
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1st place Speed School, 1st place ECE: 3D Fax/Copy Machine, Moumen
Ahmed
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3rd place Speed School, 2nd place ECE: Medical Imaging, Jeremy Nett,
Chuck Sites
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3rd place ECE: Motion Tracking with an Active Vision System, Yurong
Li, Moumen Ahmed
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1999 |
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Dec 14 |
CVIP on WAV3 TV. |
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The CVIP Lab is featured on
WAVE3 TV. 5-Oclock news with Eldora Jackson in the Health cast Reports |
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Dec 6 |
CVIP on Courier Journal |
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The CVIP Lab is featured in
the Metro section of the
Courier Journal. |
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Nov 4 |
CVIP on Speed School
Magazine |
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The CVIP Lab is featured in
the Speed Engineer Alumni Magazine. |
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Oct 15 |
Immersa Desk |
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The Immersa Desk from Pyramid
Systems is installed. |
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Feb 21, 22 |
Engineers
Days - University of Louisville |
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Elsayed Hemayed,
Moumen Ahmed and Matthew Eklund won the
First Place: Electrical Engineering,
third Place: Best Overall Exhibit |
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March 11 |
President's Award for Research |
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University of Louisville President's Award for Research, Achievmement, and
Creative Ability
Pictured left to right are University Provost Carol
Garrison, Dr. Farag, and Tom Hanley, the Dean of Speed School |
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