I am a second year PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology. My research area is Computer Vision and I work under Prof. James Rehg. I am currently working on Object Recognition using an Activity Based Approach. I am also very interested in Biometrics and Medical Image Processing.
Education
Ph.D. student, College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology - Aug. 2005.
B.S. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering at University of South Florida - Aug. 2000 to May 2005.
Research Experience
Research Assistant - Fall 2005 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing
Advisor: Prof. James M. Rehg
Activity-Based Approach to Functional Object Recognition
Research Assistant - Summer 2002 - Spring
2005
University of South Florida
Advisor: Prof. Sudeep Sarkar
Human Identification by Gait
Research Assistant (SUPERB-IT)- Summer 2003
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Advisor: Prof. Jennifer Mankoff
Implementation and Evaluation of a Peripheral Display
Professional Experience
Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY - Summer 2005
Research Intern
Computer Aided Detection of Pulmonary Nodules
Awards
Graduate
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Spring 2006
Ford Fellowship - Spring 2006
GEMS Fellowship - Spring 2005
Georgia Institute of Technology, Presidents Fellow - 2005
Undergraduate
Ronald E. McNair Scholar, University of South Florida (USF)- Fall 2002
Provost’s Scholar, USF - Spring 2001
College of Engineering Scholar, USF, Fall 2003
Golden Key International Honour Society, Fall 2001
USF Dean’s List, College of Engineering, USF, 2000 - 2005
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2000
USF Honors College. 2000 - 2005.
Black Scholar, University of South Florida, 2000 - 2005
Green & Gold Scholar Award, University of South Florida, 2000 - 2005.
Florida Academic Scholar, 2000 - 2005.
Publications
Jianxin Wu, Adebola Osuntogun, Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, James M. Rehg
A Scalable Approach to Activity Recognition based on Object Use.
In Proceedings of ICCV 2007. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007.