The Vision Lab aims to develop novel theory, state-of-art algorithms, and architectures for learning and real-time applications in human and machine-centered interaction and recognition; biomedical imaging and signal analysis; and environmental and geoscience applications based on the disciplines of computer vision, signal/image processing and AI/machine learning.
News Highlights
- Congratulations Dr. Witherow for being appointed as Post-Doctoral Research Associate working in the Vision Lab at Old Dominion University.
– September 2024 - Congratulations Joe Zalameda on being awarded a Department of Defense SMART Scholarship. Joe is a PhD student in the Vision Lab and will be working with a facility in South Carolina on defense applications in conjunction with his program here at ODU.
– June 2024 - ODU Vision Lab welcomes Emily DeGroff, a student from Marshall University in WV, for the Research Experience for Undergraduates program with ODU Cyber Security. Emily is working with the lab to complete a project this summer involving reinforcement learning for cyber security applications. See Cyber Security REU for details.
– June 2024 - Congratulations Megan Witherow for successfully defending her dissertation “Computational Modeling and Analysis of Facial Expressions and Gaze for Discovery of Candidate Behavioral Biomarkers for Children and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder”.
– April 2024 - Khan Iftekharuddin, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Vision Lab, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Read the ODU news article here.
– March 2024 - Khan Iftekharuddin, director of the Vision Lab, has been named as one of two 2024 Old Dominion University Eminent Scholars. Read the story here.
– March 2024 - Old Dominion University researchers among top 2% of scientists in the world. Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin and other ODU professors are recognized in the list of researchers compiled by Stanford. Read the ODU news article here.
– December 2023 - Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin is featured on the latest episode of the With Good Reason Radio Show & Podcast, titled “Seeing Isn’t Believing”. Listen to the episode here.
– September 2023 - Erin Miller from WTKR News Channel 3 visits the Vision Lab to learn how the lab is contributing to the future of artificial intelligence. Read the story and watch the broadcast here.
– June 2023 - Vision Lab welcomes NSF REU students Shawn McDonald from Coastal Carolina University and Isaac Longoria from Our Lady of the Lake University. Shawn and Isaac will spend 10 weeks conducting cybersecurity research with the lab for their Cyber Security – Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU).
– June 2023 - Old Dominion University has been awarded a $2.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health as part of NIH’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) for Virginia Commonwealth University. The grant at ODU will apply machine learning techniques to analyze functional brain imaging and other imaging, proteomics and health informatics data in people with opioid use disorder, Parkinson’s and other diseases. Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin is the PI for the grant. See the article in ODU News.
– March 2023 - Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin has been named a 2023 Outstanding Faculty Award winner by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). He will receive his award, along with a $7,500 gift from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, at a March 7 ceremony in Richmond. See the articles in SCHEV News and ODU News.
– January 2023 - Vision Lab hosts students in the Cyber Security – Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). Jose Aguilera is from Amherst College Computer Science Program with a research interest in security applications using Deep Learning. Charlotte Carter is from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Data Science and Computer Science Programs with a research interest in Cyber Security for Medical applications.
– June, 2022 - New Traineeship Program Supports Graduate Studies in Accelerator Technology at Jefferson Lab. See article in ODU News
– February, 2022 - More than 50 current and former Old Dominion University faculty are among the top 2% of most-cited researchers in the world, according to a Stanford University study. See articles in ODU news and Batten College of Engineering and Technology News.
– January, 2022 - The U.S. Department of Energy has recently funded $3M joint traineeships award to ODU, JLAB, Hampton University and Norfolk State University designed to support graduate-level education in critical need areas of accelerator technology. Drs. Jean Delayen and Iftekharuddin are the co-PIs for the ODU site. Read more at VITA page.
– January, 2022 - Congratulations Walia Farzana on receiving the Batten College of Engineering and Technology Graduate Fellowship Award for 2021-2022 academic year.
– May, 2021 - Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin to be Honored at Provost’s Spotlight on March 2 where he will talk about his life and work. The event is recorded and available for viewing: Provost’s Spotlight Video. Check out the article in the ODU News.
– March 2021
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