⚠️ Job Opportunity Phishing Scam:
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opportunities.
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process, even for student part time work. I will never write you
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Background
My research area is Computer Vision, with current emphasis on video scene understanding, human body segmentation, activity analysis, and real-time tracking. I teach courses in the CSE and EE departments at PSU on Computer Vision and Image Processing, and run the CSE Laboratory for Perception, Action and Cognition (LPAC).
Since Jan 2005: Associate Professor, CSE Department, Penn State University.
1996-2004: Research Faculty, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
1994-1996: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
1994: Ph.D., CS Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
New Course Spring 2023
Recent News
- Invited keynote talk at 1st Joint BMTT-PETS Workshop on Tracking and Surveillance
(held in conjunction with CVPR2017).
Title of talk "Tracking: Where has it been and where is it going?"
- Area chair for
CVPR2017 and
CVPR2018.
- United States Patent 9,361,520 "Method and system for tracking objects" awarded June 7, 2016 to inventors Collins (PSU) and Carr (Disney Research).
- Serving on editorial board for IEEE T-PAMI
- On sabbatical, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014. Visiting CMU Robotics Institute.
- Gave invited keynote talk at 9th IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum
(PBVS'13,
held in conjunction with CVPR'13).
Title of talk was Multi-frame Data Association with Higher-Order Cost Functions.
- TMS (Toronto Matching System) Program Coordination Chair for CVPR2013).
- Gave invited lecture on
Video Tracking and Crowd Scene Analysis
at VLPR 2012
in Shanghai China, July 2012.
A web page for summer school participants that includes links to background reading material for the lecture can be found
here .
- Served as area chair for
CVPR2011,
CVPR2012 and
ACCV2012.
- Gave invited tutorial lecture,
Online Learning for Tracking,
at the 1st Sino-USA Summer School on Vision, Learning and Pattern
Recognition (VLPR'09) in Beijing.
Also gave a longer lecture on Fundamentals of Video Surveillance, the year after, at VLPR2010 in Xi'an.
- Serving on editorial board for IJCV
- Served as area chair for
CVPR2009 and
ICCV2009.
- Our new lab web page is up! Go to
http://vision.cse.psu.edu/
- Three patents were finally awarded for work we performed at CMU on the EyeVision system.
- United States Patent 7,027,083 "System and method for servoing on a moving fixation point within a dynamic scene" awarded April 11, 2006 to inventors Kanade, Collins, Amidi, Miller, and Hua.
- United States Patent 7,102,666 "System and method for stabilizing rotational images" awarded Sept 5, 2006 to inventors Takeo Kanade and Robert Collins.
- United States Patent 7,106,361 "System and method for manipulating the point of interest in a sequence of images" awarded Sept 12, 2006 to inventors Takeo Kanade and Robert Collins.
- In November 2005 I co-chaired a workshop on "Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environments" with Chris Jaynes from University of Kentucky. The proceedings is now available from IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2524-5. Read our introduction to learn more about the workshop topics and presentations.
