Accurate computational representations of highly deformable surfaces are indispensable in the fields of computer animation, medical simulation, computer vision, digital modeling, and computational physics. The focus of ...

In this thesis we investigate visual place categorization by combining successful global image descriptors with a method of visual attention in order to automatically detect meaningful objects for places. The idea behind ...

Measuring student learning is fundamental to any educational endeavor. A primary goal of many computer science education projects is to determine the extent to which a given instructional intervention has had an impact on ...

This body of work explores an emerging aspect of human-robot interaction, transparency. Socially guided machine learning has proven that highly immersive robotic behaviors have yielded better results than lesser interactive ...

Software development is no longer a task limited to professionally trained computer programmers. Increasing support for software customization through scripting, the opening of application programmer interfaces on the ...

Over the years, exemplar-based methods have yielded significant improvements over their model-based counterparts in image synthesis applications. Notably, texture synthesis algorithms using an exemplar-based approach have ...

This thesis explores techniques for synthesizing crowds from imagery. Synthetic photorealistic crowds are desirable for cinematic gaming, special effects and architectural visualization. While motion captured-based ...

My research centers upon designing transformative learning environments and supporting technologies. Kitchen Science Investigators (KSI) is an out-of-school transformative learning environment we designed to help young ...

This dissertation investigates novel middleware mechanisms for building streaming applications. Developing streaming applications is a ...