2008

• On July 31, 2008, Dr. Fan received a 3-year research grant from the Army Research Office (ARO) that is entitle with "Multiple Domain Particle Filters with Dual-Band Sensing for Multi-Contextual Tracking and Recognition". This is a collaborative project led by Dr. Joseph Havlicek (PI) and Dr. Guoliang Fan (Co-PI).

• On July 7th, 2008, Yi's paper that is entitled with "Multi-channel Segmental Hidden Markov Models for Sports Video Mining" is accepted by the ACM Multimedia Conference 2008 that will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2008.

• On June 29, 2008, the VCIPL has two papers accepted by the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008) that are Tina's paper on multi-view face recognition and Xin's paper on video-based gait tracking and estimation. Especially, Xin's paper is accepted as an oral presentation. Congratulations to Tina and Xin!

• On May 27, 2008, Cheng Chen has received the Summer Graduate Fellowship from the Graduate College that provides additional support to Cheng for his research and his trip to CVPR08 in summer. Congratulations to Cheng!

• On April 15, 2008, Vijay and Frank's paper entitled with "Integrated Target Tracking and Recognition using Joint Appearance-Motion Generative Models" is accepted by the 5th Joint IEEE International Workshop on Objective Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS08).

• On April 10, 2008, Dr. Fan visited Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (WMASC) at Old Dominion University (ODU). He served as a judge for the VMASC Student Capstone Conference. He was also invited to give a talk in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at ODU on April 11. 

• On April 10, 2008, two VCIPL members received special recognitions in the annual IEEE-OSU meeting. Vijay received a special Ph.D. scholarship and Dr. Fan received the Outstanding Professor Award.  

• On April 9, 2008, Dr. Fan visited the Army Research Lab (ARL) Adelphi, MD, and gave a talk on target tracking and recognition in Dr. Nasser M. Nasrabadi's research group.

• On March 17, 2008, John and Davis, two undergraduate researchers in VCIPL, have received that the Wentz Project Award that will support them to do research in VCIPL for 2008-2009 under Dr. Fan's supervision. Only three ECEN undergraduate students have received this award, and two of them are from VCIPL. Congratulations to both of them! 

• On March 7, 2008, Cheng's paper entitled with "Hybrid Body Representation for Integrated Pose Recognition, Localization and Segmentation" is accepted by the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2008).  Congratulations to Cheng! 

• On Feb. 28, 2008, Cheng passed his Ph.D. qualify exam that is a critical step for a Ph.D. student. The committee members have highly complimented his research. Congratulations to him! 

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2007

• On Nov. 20, 2007, the VCIPL web server launched the website of the 5th Joint IEEE International Workshop on Objective Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS08). Dr. Fan is the co-chair of OTCBVS08 that will be held in conjunction with CVPR2008 in Anchorage, AK, June 2008.

• On Nov. 2, 2007, Dr. Lijie Liu visited the VCIPL and gave an interesting talk on his research in the Friday group meeting. As the first VCIPL graduate, Lijie received his M.S. degree from OSU under Dr. Fan's supervision in summer 2003. He recently defended his Ph.D. dissertation at Johns Hopkins University (picture of Drs. Fan and Liu). 

• On Oct. 23, 2007, Dr. Fan received a travel grant from Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR. This grant will support Dr. Fan to visit NASA Ames Research Center where he will meet with NASA scientists to discuss possible research collaboration in the area of vision-based approaches for safety monitoring. 

• On July 24, 2007, Xiaomu's paper entitled with "Selecting Salient Frames for Spatiotemporal Video Segmentation" is accepted as a regular paper by IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. This paper is developed from one chapter in his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations to Xiaomu! 

• On July 1, 2007, Dr. Fan is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure by OSU Board of Regents. Thank all VCIPL members both current and past for their hard work in the past six years.

• From June 18-22, 2007, Dr. Fan led the VCIPL team to attend the CVPR2007 conference in Minneapolis, MN, where the VCIPL members presented four papers in three workshops. Particularly, the past two VCIPL Ph.D. graduates, Xiaomu and Thitiporn, also attended the conference. Here are some pictures of the VCIPL reunion (picture1, picture2, picture3).  

• On May 14, 2007, Dr. Fan received a REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will support two undergraduate students, Andy Hammett and Stephen Nilson, to work at the VCIPL in summer and fall 2007.

• In April, 2007, there are six conference papers that have been accepted for publication in the major IEEE conferences and workshops. Yi's two papers on video mining have been accepted for publication by ICME07 (International Conference on Multimedia and Expo) and SLAM07 (Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia). Frank's paper on image segmentation will be presented in ICIP07 (International Conference on Image Processing). Vijay and Frank have two papers on target tracking to be presented in OTCBVS07 (Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond Visible Spectrum). Thitiporn also has one paper accepted for publication in BMG07 (Beyond Multiview Geometry). SLAM07, OTCBVS07, and BMG07 are workshops to be held in conjunction with CVPR07 in June. Congratulations to all them!

• On Feb. 12, 2007, Ms. Shan (Sandra) Jiang joined the VCIPL as a Visiting Scholar. Sandra is an associate professor at the China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, and she will spend half-year at OSU working in the area of face recognition. Welcome her to the VCIPL!

• On Jan. 19, 2007, Jason and Charlie joined the VCIPL as the M.S. graduate students to work on their M.S thesis related to 3D medical imaging and visualization. Welcome both of them!

• On Jan. 4, 2007, the VCIPL web server launched the website of 4th Joint IEEE International Workshop on Objective Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS07). Dr. Fan is the Publication Chair of OTCBVS07 that will be held in conjunction with CVPR2007 in Minneapolis, MN, June 22, 2007.

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2006

• From Dec. 10-13, 2006, Dr. Fan and Yi attended IEEE Multimedia Symposium on Multimedia in San Diego, CA. Yi did an oral presentation on his recent research that is entitled with "Camera View-based American Football Video Analysis". 

• On Dec. 1, 2006, Tom passed his Ph.D. preliminary exam that is entitled with "3D Model Inference for Man-made Point Clouds". He is the seven Ph.D. student in VCIPL to successfully enter the second stage of Ph.D. study. 

• On Nov. 20, 2006, Chunna (Tina) Tian joined the VCIPL as a visiting Ph.D. student from Xidian University, China. As the first student in a joint Ph.D. training program between OSU and Xidian, she will spend one year at OSU working in the area of face detection and recognition. Welcome her to the VCIPL!

• From Nov. 6-9, 2006, Dr. Fan led three Ph.D. students, Thitiporn, Xin, and Cheng, to the second International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) held in Lake Tahoe, NV. Cheng gave an oral presentation on human motion segmentation. Thitiporn and Xin presented a poster on their retinal imaging research. Some pictures can be seen from here. 

• On Oct. 23, 2006, Vijay has passed his Ph.D. preliminary exam that is entitled with "Integrated Target Tracking and Recognition using Particle Filters". He is the sixth Ph.D. student in VCIPL to successfully enter the second stage of Ph.D. study. 

• On Oct. 6, 2006, Xin has passed her Ph.D. preliminary exam that is entitled with "Statistical Modeling and Learning Approaches for Social Activity Analysis in Visual Surveillance". Currently, she is the fifth Ph.D. student in VCIPL to successfully enter the second stage of Ph.D. study. 

• On Oct. 4, 2006, the lab is re-named to the "Visual Computing and Image Processing Lab", and the abbreviation is still "VCIPL". The new name is meant to better reflect the mission and the research focuses of this lab.

• On Sept. 27, 2006, Yi has passed his Ph.D. preliminary exam that is entitled with "Generative Models for Video Mining". Currently, he is the fourth Ph.D. student in VCIPL to successfully enter the second stage of Ph.D. study. 

• On June 29, 2006, Anne successfully defended her M.S. thesis. and she is the fifth M.S. (thesis option) student in VCIPL. Congratulations to her!

• On June 8, 2006, Thitiporn passed her Ph.D. qualify exam that is a critical step for a Ph.D. student. Congratulations to her! She is expected to take the final defense by the end of 2006.

• On May 19, 2006, two VCIPL undergraduate students, Bryan and Colby are listed on the President's Honor Roll. Only full-time undergraduate students who completed 12 or more hours with a grade point average of 4.00 and with no incomplete grade, were placed on the President Honor Roll. Congratulations to both of them!

• On May 15, 2006, three new members joined in the VCIPL, Dr. Xin Fan (Post-doc), Matt Watt (M.S. student), and Mike Fergades (REU student). Welcome all of them!

• On May 1, 2006, Dr. Fan received Halliburton Outstanding Young Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at OSU. The Halliburton Young Faculty Award is provided annually to recognize outstanding overall performance for young Engineering faculty.

• On April 21, 2006, Colby presents his Wentz project in the annual conference at OSU. His research is regarding data fusion for 3D visualization (picture), and Dr. Fan is his mentor on this project (picture). 

• On April 20, 2006, Dr. Fan received a REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will support two undergraduate students to work at the VCIPL in summer and fall 2006.

• On March 22, 2006, the VCIPL has been moved to ATRC233 in the Advanced Technology Research Center. The new lab facility has 600 square foot with a nice view to outside. Take a look of the new lab here (picture1, picture2, picture3, and picture4). 

• On March 21, 2006, Xiaomu Song, who is the first Ph.D. from the VCIPL and currently a Post-doc in Northwestern University, has his third journal manuscripts accepted  by IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Congratulations to him!

• On Feb. 7, 2006, Drs. Fan and Yen were invited to visit the Image Science and Machine Vision Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Drs. Fan and Yen presented a technical seminar titled "Advanced Retinal Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy", which reviewed their recent collaborative work in non-invasive evaluation of diabetic retinopathy by applying advanced retinal imaging approaches.

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2005

• On Dec. 5 and 7, 2005, Thitiporn and Vijay presented their research papers at International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, NV. 

• On Nov. 1, 2005, Dr. Fan was invited by Prof. Tiange Zhuang to visit the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and he gave a talk on "Advanced Retinal Imaging for Non-invasice Disease Study". 

• On Oct. 24, 2005, Dr. Fan was invited by Prof. Xinbo Gao, to give a talk in the Graduate School at Xidian University, China. The title of his presentation is "Statistical Mixture Modeling for Object-based Video Segmentation" (See some pictures from Album). It has been nine year since he graduated from Xidian University with the M.S. degree in 1996.

• On Aug. 22, 2005, Yi Ding joined in the VCIPL as a Ph.D. student. He will be working in the field on content-based video analysis. Welcome him!

• On July 14/15, 2005, three graduate students have successfully defended their theses. Xin and Vijay have received their M.S. degrees, and both of them will continue on their Ph.D. studies in the VCIPL. Xiaomu have received his Ph.D. degree, and he is the first Ph.D. graduate in the VCIPL. Congratulations to all of them! 

• On June 18, 2005, Dr. Fan was elevated to an IEEE Senior Member. He is currently affiliated with Signal Processing Society and Circuits & Systems Society. 

• On June 16, 2005, Thitiporn's first journal paper entitled with "Hybrid Retinal Image Registration" was accepted for publication by IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Medicine. Congratulations to her!

• On March 17, 2005, Colby received OSU Wentz Project Award fro the 2005-2006 academic year. As OSU's largest scholarship, the Wentz Research Projects provide an opportunity for undergraduates to design and conduct research under the supervision of a faculty mentor.  Dr. Fan will serve as the faculty mentor. Congratulations to Colby! 

• From Jan. to Feb 2005, Xiaomu has two journal papers accepted by IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Congratulations to Xiaomu! 

• On Feb. 4, 2005, Ms. Anne Krishna Sravanthi joined the VCIPL as a M.S. student. Welcome her!

• On Feb. 1, 2005, Dr. Fan (Co-PI) received a Research Initiation Grant from Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR. This project involves multidisciplinary remote sensing and GIS research which is jointly led by Dr. Mahesh Rao (PI) from Geography, Dr. Johnson Thomas (Co-PI) from Computer Science, and Dr. Fan from ECEN. The project is entitled with "Using a Multi-resolution GIS-modeling Approach to Evaluate Carbon Sequestration Potential in Texas County, Oklahoma". 

• On Jan. 28, 2005, Dr. Fan received OSU-Big XII Faculty Fellowship award which will support Dr. Fan to visit University of Colorado in summer 2005 and to develop research collaboration. 

• In January 2005, three new members joined in the VCIPL, including Dr. Li Tang (post-doc), and Thomas Patten (Ph.D. student), and Donald Stutson (LS-OKAMP undergraduate researcher). Welcome all of them!

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2004

• On Dec. 21th, 2004, Cheng passed his Ph.D. preliminary exam that is entitled with "A Multi-layer Framework for Object-based Video Segmentation". He is the third Ph.D. student in the VCIPL to successfully enter the second stage of Ph.D. study. 

• On Dec. 8th, 2004, Xiaomu successfully passed the Ph.D. qualify exam, the major step prior to the final defense. He is the first Ph.D. student in the VCIPL who passed this exam. Congratulations to Xiaomu!

• On Dec. 1st, 2004, Ginto successfully passed the M.S. defense. He is the second M.S. graduate (thesis option) in the VCIPL. Congratulations to Ginto (picture1, picture2, picture3, and picture4)! 

• On Aug 16th, 2004, Mr. Vikay BVenkataraman and Ms. Xin Zhang joined the VCIPL as M.S. graduate students and research assistants. Welcome both of them.

• On July 23rd, 2004, the VCIPL is moved from ES402 to ES410 which is more spacious. Here is a new look of VCIPL, (picture1, picture2, and picture3). 

• On July 20th, 2004, Dr. Fan received a 3-year research grant from Army Research Office (ARO). This is a collaborative project between OSU and University of Oklahoma (OU). Dr. Joseph Havlicek is the Principal Investigator (PI), and Dr. Fan is Co-PI. The project is entitled with "Integrated Target Detection, Tracking, Classification, and Learning for Dual-band Infrared Imagery".

• On May 13th, 2004, Dr. Fan received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. Dr. Fan's 5-year CAREER project will focus on video understanding at both the object-level and scene-level. 

• On May 8th, 2004, Dr. Fan was awarded the Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award from the College of Engineering at OSU. 

• On Jan. 14th, 2004, Mr. Cheng Chen (Ph.D. student) joined the VCIPL. Welcome him!

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2003

• On July 27, 2003, VCIPL members had a farewell party for Lijie at Dr. Fan's home (pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Lijie received his M.S. degree in Summer 2003, and he is the first graduated student at VCIPL.  

• On July 1st, 2003, VCIPL is expanded by adding a new lab space at 405 Engineering South where the biomedical imaging group (BIG) will be working on the OCAST Health Research project, see the BIG members (picture1, picture2).

• On June 1, 2003, Drs. Johnson Thomas (PI, Computer Science), Guoliang Fan (Co-PI), Mahesh Rao (PI, Geography) received a research grant from OSU to build an integrated Web-GIS system for environmental quality and resource management. 

• On April 20, 2003, Dr. Guoliang Fan (PI) and Dr. Gary Yen (Co-PI) received a three-year research grant from OCAST Health Research Program to work on Advanced Retinal Imaging for Non-invasive Disease Study. 

• On Feb 1st, 2003, IEEE Signal Processing Letters published Lijie Liu's first international journal paper which is also the first one authored by the Graduate student at VCIPL. Congratulations to Lijie!

• On Jan. 17, 2003, Dr. Guoliang Fan (PI) received a Research Initiation Grant from Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR. The project will involve a multidisciplinary research team including Dr. Mahesh Rao (Geography) and Dr. Johnson Thomas (Computer Science). They will develop a prototype Web-GIS decision support system for environment quality and resource management.

• On Jan. 13, 2003, Ginto Cherian (M.S. student) joined in the VCIPL as graduate students supervised by Dr. Guoliang Fan. Welcome him to the VCIPL!

• On Jan. 12, 2003, Thitiporn's first paper was accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003) that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, May 25-28, 2003. She will have her first international conference experience in her hometown! Congratulations to her!

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2002

• On Nov, 14, 2002, Thitiporn passed the Ph.D. preliminary exams with the excellent performance. Congratulations to her!

• On Oct. 16, 2002, Dr. Guoliang Fan Dr. Mahesh Rao have received Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR Travel Grant which will support both of them to visit NASA Stennis Space Center, MS, in November 2002. 

• On Aug. 6, 2002, Lijie, Xiaomu, and Yan Dong presented their first papers in the 45th IEEE International Midwest Symposium Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Tulsa, OK. They reported their most recent research on JPEG image coding, Bayesian image segmentation, and document image segmentation, see publications. 

• On April 22, 2002, Dr. Guoliang Fan received a grant from Environmental Institute's Center for Water and Energy Research program. In this project, Dr. Fan will collaborate with Dr. Mahesh (Geography) on developing a GIS-based tool for Automated Feature Information Retrieval from multisource geospatial data. The proposed project will be extended to build an efficient decision-tool for natural resource management and monitoring based on various geospatial data, such as satellite imagery, elevation, slope, and soil data, etc.

• On March 8, 2002, Lijie and Xiaomu attended the Research Symposium held by OSU Graduate College. Lijie presented his research on motion-oriented video segmentation (in front of the poster, discuss with attendee). Xiaomu gave a presentation on semi-supervised image segmentation (in front of the screen, in process).

• On Jan, 4, 2002, Mr. Lijie Liu and Ms. Thitiporn Chanwimaluang join the VCIPL as Ph.D. student supervised by Dr. Guoliang Fan. Welcome both of them to VCIPL (group picture)!

• On Jan. 4, 2002, VCIPL has been moved to 402 Engineering South. There is a new look of VCIPL.

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2001

• On Nov. 2, 2001, Dr. Guoliang Fan was awarded NASA EPSCoR Travel Grant which will support Dr. Fan to visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, on November 28, 2001.

• On Aug. 20, 2001, Mr. Xiaomu Song, was admitted to the Ph.D. program in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was also awarded the ECEN Graduate Scholar package. Mr. Song is the first graduate student in the VCIPL under the supervision of Dr. Fan.

• On Aug. 20, 2001, with the generous support from ECEN and CEAT at OSU, the Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIPL) was founded. Dr. Fan is the Director of the VCIPL. The VCIPL is currently located in 313 Engineering North.

• On Aug. 16, 2001, Dr. Guoliang Fan joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor, after he received his Ph.D.'s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.

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