Pattern Analysis Lab News (last updated 11/8/2009)
November 2009 -- MS Thesis Defense, Lori Ziegelmeier, A Colorful World: Techniques for Quantizing Color Space in Natural Imagery
October 2009 -- Tesla S1070 GPU computer with host 48GB RAM device 16 GB RAM.
September 2009 -- NSF Awards grant for developing mathematical algorithms for Automatic Threat Detection. Michael Kirby PI.
August 2009 -- NSF Awards grant entitled "Reality, Exactness, and Computation in Numerical Algebraic Geometry", Dan Bates PI.
July 2009 -- IR Canon 10 D begins collecting data.
July 2009 -- New server with 32 core and 128GB ram added to cluster.
June 2009 -- NSF Awards grant Algebraic Geometry of Tensors, Chris Peterson PI.
May 2009 -- Natalia Cordova defends M.S.
January 2009 -- Justin Marks defends M.S.
September 2008 -- High speed camera experiments generate over 500,000 images in 6 seconds. Effectively dt -> 0 and we may perform calculus on image sequences.
September 2008 -- Undergraduate Mathematics, Computer Science double major Kyle Kelly wins Bob Gaines Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work with PAL.
September 2008 -- PAL appoints Josh Thompson as DCI Postdoctoral Fellow.
August 2008 -- PAL acquires high fidelity digital recorded capable of acquiring stereo data at 94,000 Hz. Experiments proposed for "hearing the inaudible".
July 2008 -- PAL acquired the CANON 40D capable of capturing 6 images per second at 10 mega-pixels.
July 2008 -- Directorate for Central Intelligence awards Postdoctoral Fellowship to PAL.
July 2008 -- Ph.D. defense, Arta Jamshidi, Modeling Spatio-Temporal Systems with Skew Radial Basis Functions: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
July 2008 -- PAL student Arta Jamshidi earns postdoctoral appointment at Imperial College London.
May 2008 -- PAL illumination face data base reaches 100 subjects and over 500,000 images.
May 2008 -- Ph.D. defense, Jen-Mei Chang, Classification on Grassmannians
April 2008 -- AFOSR Awards grant, Classification of Data Bundles via Parameter Spaces
March 2008 -- PAL graduate student Jen-Mei Chang accepts tenure track position at Cal State Long Beach.
December 2007 -- Ph.D. defense, Yue Qiao, Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) For Solving Color Conversion Problems.
July 2007 -- Ph.D. defense, Fatemeh Emdad, Signal Fraction Analysis for Subspace processing of high dimensional data.
June 2007 -- PAL acquires HD-dvr camera capable of capturing raw HD images at 24 frames per second.
May, 2007 -- CSU Dean of Natural Sciences awards grant to purchase a high memory node for the lab's cluster. This will bring the total number of processors to 42 and the total main memory to 156GB. With over 5 terabytes of disk space this cluster is well equipped to push the frontiers in pattern analysis research.
April 2007 -- The National Science Foundation award to investigate transport, mixing and intensity of hurricanes and the importance of geometric structure in data moved to the NAVY-DOD.
March, 2007 -- The Pattern Analysis Lab co-organized a workshop on frontiers in high dimensional data sets. Over 20 top researchers from across the USA and Europe participated.
March, 2007 -- The Bohemian Foundation donated money for elementary school kids to learn math and chess. This activity is part of the Labs K-12 school outreach program.
