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Dr. Fan receives a NSF
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
“The Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that
offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards for new
faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early
career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely
to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.”
The
National Science Foundation
Dr.
Guoliang Fan, an Assistant Professor of ECEN, recently received a Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation
(NSF). Dr. Fan’s 5-year CAREER project (2004-2009) is entitled with
“CAREER: Advanced Statistical Modeling Approaches for Structured Video
Representation and Research Oriented Multidisciplinary Education”.
This research aims to develop a
comprehensive structured video representation via advanced statistical
modeling approaches. The goal of research is to enhance interpretability and
manipulability of visual data, leading to effective visual communications
and innovative multimedia applications. The approach consists of four major
research components: (1) joint frame and object video segmentation that
applies advanced statistical clustering methods; (2) object-oriented
structured video representation that integrates extended HMMs and is able to
capture important structures in space and time; (3) the application in
visual communications; (4) the application in the MPEG-7 Multimedia
standard. This research addresses fundamental issues in visual information
processing, with widespread applications in diverse areas, including
multimedia, digital library, security surveillance, entertainment,
biomedical imaging, and human-computer interface, etc. Moreover, the
proposed research has significant contribution to industry standards
(MPEG-7). The results of the project will be disseminated by scientific
papers, software, online demos, and prototype video databases, which can be
accessed from the project’s website http://www.vcipl.okstate.edu.
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