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