Research Associates and Graduate Students

Dr. Mohammad Nazrul Islam (Research Scientist, July 2007 - August 2009)
Currently with Farmingdale State University of New York, Farmingdale, NY (Faculty in Security Systems)

Dr. Ming Zhang (Post Doctoral Researcher, January 2009 - March 2009)

Dr. Hiroki Higa (Visiting Scientist, May 2008 - February 2009)
Currently with University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan (Faculty in Electrical and Electronics Engineering)

Dr. Hau T. Ngo (Post Doctoral Researcher, January 2008 - June 2008)
Currently with The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (Faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Dr. Satyanadh Gundimada (Post Doctoral Researcher, January 2008 - February 2008)
Currently with Symetix, Walla Walla, WA

Former PhD Students

Praveen Sankaran
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2009 (Dissertation Defense: September 09, 2009)
Dissertation: A Subspace Projection Methodology for Nonlinear Manifold Based Face Recognition

Ming Z. Zhang
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2008 (Dissertation Defense: October 24, 2008)
Dissertation: Design of High-Speed Architecture for Stabilization of Video Captured under Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions

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 (Faculty in ECE Department)

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

My Thy Thi Tran
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2009 (Thesis Defense: March 25, 2009)
Thesis: Analysis of Electroencephalogram Signals for the Identification of Mental Tasks

Inder K. Purohit
MS Electrical Engineering
Graduation: Summer 2008 (Thesis Defense: July 17, 2008)
Thesis: Joint Transform Correlation with a Synthetic Discriminant Function for Object Classification

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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