Research

Prof. Bovik research interests broadly spans digital video, image processing, and computational aspects of biological visual perception. Prof. Bovik is the director of the Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering (LIVE) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Current Research Projects:


Previous Research Topics:

1 . Foveated object recognition by corner search
2 . Image communication system design based on the structural similarity index
3 . Discovery and representation of human strategies for visual search
4 . Optimal visual search strategies using natural scene statistics
5 . Optimal sampling strategies for active stereo vision systems
6 . Evidence-based detection of spiculated lesions on mammography
7 . Automatic Classification and Segmentation of Multiplex-Fluorescence In-Sity Hybridization Chromosome Images
8 . Joint Source-Channel Distortion Modeling for Wireless Image and Video Communication
9 . Statistical Analysis and Selection of Visual Fixations
10 . Image Quality Assessment Using Natural Scene Statistics
11 . Maximum likelihood techniques for joint segmentation-classification of multi-spectral chromosome images
12 . DCT Domain Video Foveation and Transcoding for Heterogeneous Video Communication
13 . The Development of Raman Imaging Microscopy to Visualize Drug Actions in Living Cells
14 . Rate Scalable Foveated Image and Video Communications
15 . Full motion multiparty videoconferencing using motion compensated visual pattern image sequence coding
16 . Foveated video compression and visual communications over wireless and wireline networks
17 . Multichannel blind image restoration
18 . Coiflet-type wavelets : theory, design, and applications
19 . Design and quality assessment of forward and inverse error diffusion halftoning algorithms
20 . AM-FM transforms with applications
21 . Multiresolution 3-D range segmentation using focus cues
22 . AM-FM image models
23 . FOVEA : a foveated vergent active stereo vision system for dynamic three-dimensional scene recovery
24 . Stereo disparity from local image phase : new models for image modulation, coarse-to-fine processing, and disparity channels
25 . Generalized deterministic annealing with applications to nonconvex problems in image processing
26 . Computer lipreading for improved accuracy in automatic speech recognition
27 . The analysis of biological shape and shape-change from multi-dimensional image sequences
28 . Understanding images of textured surfaces
29 . Design of least squares order statistic filters
30 . Visual pattern image coding
31 . On using chromatic information in stereo correspondence
32 . Locally monotonic regression and related techniques for signal smoothing and shaping
33 . Computation of shape from stereo images with application to biological shape analysis
34 . Implementation and limitations of scanning light microscopy for the determination of three-dimensional structure from optical serial sections
35 . Deterministic theory of order statistic filters
  Last Updated: March 21, 2008