The CITL Research Group, November 2009
Post-doctoral researchers
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Mr. Koch is joining the CITL research group in January 2010 and will oversee the synthesis and validation activities of the NSF sponsored vision tracking project. In parallel, he will be implementing his project on pavement condition assessment systems through machine vision.
Student researchers
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Candidate, expected graduation in 2010
Mr. Zhu is doing research in real time concrete damage visual assessment for first responders. His thesis proposes a novel method that can provide first responders with a crude but quick estimate of the safety of damaged structures.
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student, expected graduation in 2012
Ms. Makhmalbaf is a Ph.D. student doing research in automated equipment recognition from video, for intelligent, machine-vision-based tracking of construction equipment in large scale project sites. Her work is part of the NSF sponsored automated vision tracking of project related entities project. Her thesis will focus on feature based equipment parts classification and recognition through parameter estimation with AI learning algorithms.
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student, expected graduation in 2012
Mr. Park is a junior Ph.D. student doing research in construction object classification from video data. His work is part of the NSF sponsored vision tracking of project related entities project. His thesis will focus on robust 3D tracking through multiple video region matching, and feature identification and recognition based on visual pattern recognition models.
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student, expected graduation in 2013
Ms. Jog is a junior Ph.D. student doing research in spatial tracking using sterometric camera systems. She is currently exploring ways to achieve rotation, translation and scale invariant self- calibration of a video camera system needed in her research of a novel, vision-based tracking method that reports the 4D location of distinctly shaped, project related entities.
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student, expected graduation in 2013
Mr. Fathi is a junior Ph.D. student doing research in point corresondence matching for videogrammetric surveying of construction sites.
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student, expected graduation in 2013
Mr. Rashidi is a junior Ph.D. student doing research in points verification and intelligent data smoothing of multi camera videogrammetric systems for spatial modeling.
Research Assistant
M.S. Student, expected graduation in 2011
Ms. German is a junior M.S. student collaborating closely with Mr. Zhu on research in damage assessment and remaining load capacity estimation. She is currently focusing on fundamental coursework in the fields of image processing and computer vision, along with core courses in civil engineering.
Research Assistant
M.S. Student, expected graduation in 2011
Ms. Sivaram is a junior M.S. student exloring the research field of machine-vision-based automations for as-built Building Information Modeling. She is currently focusing on fundamental coursework in the fields of image processing and computer vision, along with core courses in civil engineering.