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IMAGE PROCESSING
COMPUTER VISION
SPEECH RECOGNITION
Applied PROBABILITY and STATISTICS





PROJECTS



Markov Random Field-based Renormalization Group Approach to Image Processing Problems

Mathematical Properties of the Annealing and Other Stochastic Optimization Algorithms, as well as of Metropolis-type Monte Carlo Simulation Algorithms


Shape from Shading via MRF-type Regularization Techniques

Multi-grid Procedures for Single Photon Emission Tomography


Two-stage Variation of the EM Algorithm

Efficient Methods for the Statistical Estimation of the Parameters of MRF's from Complete or Incomplete Data


Consistency of Maximum-Likelihood and Other Estimators of Gibbs Distributions

Speech Research


Speech research focuses on object-recognition, simultaneous recognition and tracking of moving objects, via a coherent model-based framework. The framework explores Stochastic Hierarchical/Syntactic models (related to Context Free Grammars (CFG)) for object representation, non_parametric data models, and dynamic programming-type computational algorithms; In the case of moving objects, the framework employs nonlinear Kalman filters for articulating the dynamics of motion.

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