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