• 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
• 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

Past News

• 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. Also, check out the article in the ODU News.
  – March 2021
• Vision Lab in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team from ODU and UVa win grant for Flood Notification Research. Check out the article in the ODU News.
  – December 2020
• Congratulations to several ODU faculty including Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin, for ranking in top 2% of the most-cited scientists worldwide in a recent study conducted at Stanford University. Check out the article in the ODU News.
  – December 2020
• ODU Vision Lab research on real-time flood alert systems is highlighted in the Virginia Pilot News.
  – December 2020
• Congratulations Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin, for receiving the ODU Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award. Check out the article in the ODU News.
  – September 2020
• Congratulations Zeina Shboul for successfully defending her dissertation “Model-Based Approach for Diffuse Glioma Classification, Grading, and Patient Survival Prediction”.
  – May 2020
• Congratulations Megan Witherow, for winning prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award. Check out the article in the ODU News.
  – April 2020
• Congratulations Linmin Pei for successfully defending his dissertation “Longitudinal Brain Tumor Tracking, Tumor Grading, and Patient Survival Prediction Using MRI”.
  – March 2020
• Congratulations Zeina Shboul, for being selected as a Finalist for the 2020 Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award in the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
  –February 2020
• Congratulations Lasitha Vidyaratne for successfully defending his dissertation “Deep Cellular Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Efficient Multidimensional Time-Series Data Processing”.
  – November 2019
• Vision Lab featured in ODU News for winning second place in worldwide Medical Image Computing Assisted Intervention Society MICCAI2019 challenge for brain tumor subtype classification.
  – November, 2019
• Vision Lab Team featured in Batten College of Engineering and Technology Illuminator magazine for winning second place in worldwide Medical Image Computing Assisted Intervention Society MICCAI2019 challenge for brain tumor subtype classification.
  – November, 2019
• Vision Lab mentioned in ODU news for 3rd year of participation in Research Experience for Undergraduates in Cybersecurity Research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  – November, 2019
• Congratulations ODU Vision Lab for winning second place in worldwide Medical Image Computing Assisted Intervention Society MICCAI2019 challenge for brain tumor subtype classification – see National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering NIBIB tweet.
  – November, 2019
• Congratulations ODU Vision Lab for brain tumor segmentation research featured in 2019 Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation brochure. See page 2 of The Illuminator for coverage.
  – August, 2019
• Congratulations to Tom Batchelder, Gabriel Fernandez, Ross Kinard, and Casey Gupton for winning first place at the Engineering Student Projects Expo on May 30, 2019.
  – May, 2019
• Congratulations Megan Witherow on receiving the Batten College of Engineering and Technology Graduate Fellowship Award for 2019-2020 academic year.
  – May, 2019
• Congratulations to Mahbubul Alam for successfully defending his dissertation “Deep Recurrent Learning For Efficient Image Recognition Using Small Data”
  – November, 2018
• Atif Qarni, Virginia Secretary of Education and Frances C. Bradford, Deputy Secretary of Education visited Vision Lab.
  – November, 2018
• Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin featured in Batten College of Engineering Magazine leading collaboration between ODU and Army for senior design projects related to night vision and electronic sensors.
  – November, 2018
• Congratulations Professor Manar Samad, on your tenure track faculty position at Tennesee State University. Dr. Manar Samad graduated from Old Dominion University and works with the ODU Vision Lab on affective computing.
  – September, 2018
• Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin awarded a Certificate of Merit by the IEEE Signal Processing Society for “Outstanding Editorial Board Service”.
  – August, 2018
• Elijah Snow, from University of Texas at Dallas, presents his final Cybersecurity malware detection results, at the finale of the 10 week summer research project with the Vision Lab.
  – August, 2018
• Congratulations Megan Witherow on receiving the Batten College of Engineering and Technology Graduate Fellowship Award for 2018-2019 academic year.
  – May, 2018
• Congratulations Megan Witherow on receiving the J. Harold Lampe Award for Overall Excellence in Engineering.
  – May, 2018
• Congratulations Megan Witherow on receiving the Provost’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.
  – May, 2018
• Vision Lab highlighted for placing first worldwide in Brain Tumor Imaging Competition in local Southside Daily News and Old Dominion University News.
  – February, 2018
• Vision Lab demonstrates brain controlled robotics at NATO Conference. Coverage of the event is featured in ODU Illuminator publication.
  – December, 2017
• Congratulations to Kwasi Afrifa for successfully completing D. Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  – December, 2017
• Dr. Iftekharuddin and Dr. Cetin (civil and environmental engineering) appear in local news as collaborators on sea-level rise study.
  – September, 2017
• Congratulations Lasitha Vidyaratne and Mahbubul Alam for being finalists in the Old Dominion University inaugural Three Minute Thesis Competition.
  – October, 2017
• Dr. Iftekharuddin wins grant as co-principal investigator in joint ODU/UVA project using imaging to study sea-level rise. ODU News.
  – September, 2017
• Vision Lab Research Using Robot to Help Kids with Autism featured on ODU News.
  – July, 2017
• Congratulations to Syed Mohammad Shamim Reza for successfully defending his dissertation “Computational Modeling for Abnormal Brain Tissue Segmentation, Brain Tumor Tracking and Grading”
  – June, 2017
• Vision Lab’s hosts student researcher from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for undergraduate reasearch experience in cybersecurity sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
  – June-August, 2017
• Congratulations to Alexander M. Glandon for successfully defending his thesis “Recurrent Neural Networks and Matrix Methods for Cognitive Radio Spectrum Prediction and Security”.
  – March, 2017
• Admitted Students Day: Vision Lab hosts demonstrations for admitted students including NAO humanoid robot.
  – March, 2017
• Engineering Open Labs Day: Vision Lab hosts demonstrations for prospective students.
  – February, 2017
• U.S. Fleet Forces Command Officers visit Vision Lab aimed at initiating collaboration through student projects.
  – February, 2017
• Congratulations to Christina M. Williams for successfully defending her thesis “Machine Learning Approach For Gender Classification Using Full-Body Biological Motion”.
  – November, 2016
• Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) visits ODU, with Vision Lab presenting projects in lab and participating in poster session with other research labs.
  – October, 2016
• Vision Lab participates in NATO Technology for Information, Decision, and Execution superiority initiative.
  – October, 2016
• Michael J. Logan, head of the NASA Langley Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Laboratory visits ODU Vision Lab.
  – October, 2016
• Vision Lab Team Wins $1.6 Million Grant to Search for Brain Tumors: ODU News Article.
  – August, 2016
• 2016 Hampton Roads Radio Spectrum and Wireless Communication Workshop and Summer School (HRSWC) brings group of high school student visitors to Vision Lab.
  – July, 2016
• Biofuels-Research Apprenticeship Program (B-RAP) hosted by the Biomass Research Lab (BRL) brings group of high school student visitors to Vision Lab.
  – July, 2016
• Congratulations to Manar D. Samad for successfully defending his dissertation “Computational Modeling of Facial Response for Detecting Differential Traits in Autism Spectrum Disorders”.
  – May, 2016
• Congratulations to Lasitha Vidyartne on receiving the Graduate Assistant Service Award. He was recognized in the ECE graduation ceremony.
  – May, 2016
• Congratulations to Manar Samad on receiving the ECE Ph.D. Researcher of the Year Award for 2015. He was recognized in the ECE graduation ceremony.
  – May, 2016
• Vision Lab’s research study on 3D facial expressions in Autism has been listed in the 3dMD customer research page.
  – January, 2016
• Student Part of Team Winning Fourth in Global Stroke Detection Competition. Old Dominion University Vision Lab and the Virginia Institute of Vision Analysis placed fourth in a recent worldwide competition involving sophisticated methods of separating brain stroke lesions among other similar brain tissues.
  – November, 2015
• Research Spotlight: LiDAR for Air Quality Measurement
  – September, 2015
• Multidisciplinary Funding Presentations : Engineering College Shines Bright. Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin presents research team’s project, “3D Facial Expression and Visual Stimuli Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).”
  – February, 2015
• Grant Will Help ODU Vision Lab, Transportation Research Institute Scientists Classify Airborne Pollutant Types
  – February, 2015
• Office of Research Announces Seed Funding Program Winners. Collaborative Research: Development of Super-Resolution and Real-Time Optical Nanoscopy for Biomedical Research”X. Nancy Xu – Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry (PI)
  – January, 2015
• Congratulations to Randall Mays on his graduation.
  – December, 2014
• Congratulations to Jeff Flora for passing his MSc thesis defense.
  – Dec, 2014
• Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin shares $250,000 grant from NASA
  to help design the next generation of the National Airspace (NAS) using sub-scale unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
  – November, 2014
• Vision Lab research team have successfully developed an algorithm pipeline which can detect, track, segment, and classify vehicles for future exploration into the impact of specific vehicle types on carbon emissions in individual transportation networks.
  – November, 2014
• Congratulations to Shamim Reza on receiving SPIE Medical Imaging Robert Wagner Best Paper Awards
  – April, 2014
• Congratulations to Prof Khan Iftekharuddin on receiving 2014 Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology EXCELLENCE Award in research
  – April, 2014
• Congratulations to Jeff Flora on receiving the MS researcher award for 2013-2014
  – April, 2014
• Engineering Building Features State-of-the-Art Labs, Collaborative Space. ODU Vision Lab, will move groundbreaking study of machine vision and computational intelligence into the new building.
  – March, 2014
• Professor Khan Iftekharuddin and his team share the 2014 Multidisciplinary Seed Funding (MSF) award for conducting research on Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  – January, 2014
• Congratulations to student team lead by Syed Reza from ODU Vision Lab Places Third in Worldwide Competition
  – December, 2013
• Congratulations to Vision Lab members Kwasi Afrifa and Linmin Pei for passing the Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Diagnostic Examination
  – November, 2013
• A group of distinguished visitors from Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) was given a tour of the Vision Lab. along with other engineering laboratories at ODU.
  – November, 2013
• Call for papers: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSIVP) IEEE SSCI2014 – October, 2013
• Professor Khan Iftekharuddin has been awarded NSF grant for computer pattern recognition research. – September 26, 2013
• Vision Lab journal article “Multi-fractal Texture Estimation for Detection and Segmentation of Brain Tumors” is among the top 10 most popular articles in IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering in August 2013. – September, 2013
• Professor Khan Iftekharuddin and graduate student Jeff Flora have been awarded a competitive 2013 summer
  faculty fellowship program (SFFP) sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) administered by the American Association of Engineering Education (ASEE). – June 3, 2013
• Michael Chatman has received an Undergraduate Fellowship Research Grant for the summer of 2013. His research involves the segmentation and detection of tumors in mammogram images. – May 13, 2013
• Congratulations to Vision Lab members Mahbubul Alam, Manar Samad, and Lasitha Vidyaratne for passing the Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Diagnostic Examination. – May 9, 2013
• Dr. Yousef and Manar Samad presented their works in SPIE 2013 conference – April 29, 2013
• An expanded research focus for Vision Lab comes into view –News at ODU – April, 2013
• Michael Chatman presented his work on Tumor Detection in Mammography Image Analysis at 5th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium – February 9, 2013
• Prof. Iftekharuddin is a lead guest editor for special issue of Optical Engineering on Optical and Hybrid Imaging and Processing for Big Data Problems –
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently delivered a keynote talk on Advances in Brian Tumor Recognition at 15th ICCIT conference – December 22, 2012
• Professor Khan Iftekharuddin and graduate student Jeff Flora have been awarded a competitive 2013 summer
  faculty fellowship program (SFFP) sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) administered by the American Association of Engineering Education (ASEE). The award will allow them to perform collaborative research at the AF Wright lab, Dayton, OH during the summer of 2013. This fellowship provides awareness of Air Force research needs and offers opportunities to enhance research interest and professional relationship through hands-on exposure to research challenges at Air Force research facilities. – June 3, 2013
• Michael Chatman has received an Undergraduate Fellowship Research Grant for the summer of 2013. His research involves the segmentation and detection of tumors in mammogram images. – May 13, 2013
• Congratulations to Vision Lab members Mahbubul Alam, Manar Samad, and Lasitha Vidyaratne for passing the Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Diagnostic Examination. – May 9, 2013
• An expanded research focus for Vision Lab comes into view –News at ODU – April, 2013
• Michael Chatman presented his work on Tumor Detection in Mammography Image Analysis at 5th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium – February 9, 2013
• Prof. Iftekharuddin is a lead guest editor for special issue of Optical Engineering on Optical and Hybrid Imaging and Processing for Big Data Problems –
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently delivered a keynote talk on Advances in Brian Tumor Recognition at 15th ICCIT conference – December 22, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin delivered an invited talk on Multiclass Feature Selection and Segmentation of PF Tumors at 46th Asilomar conference – November, 2012
• Jeff Flora and his team took the second position in an annual student paper competition hosted by the Hampton Roads chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – November 19, 2012
• NASA donates advanced aerosol detection machine to ODU Vision Lab – October 8, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently co-authored a book titled Image Processing published by the SPIE press – October 1, 2012
• Welcome new vision lab members Dr. Amr Yousef, Mahbubul Alam, Linmin Pei, and Jeff Flora. – August 26, 2012
• Vision Lab members visit Canon industrial office at Gloucester – August 23, 2012
• Vision Lab purchases a new Eye Tracking System – August 6, 2012
• Vision engineers from Canon visit ODU Vision Lab – July 23, 2012
• Nhat Nguyen, a student at the Ocean Lakes High school, joins as a trainee in the Vision Lab to work with graduate students and faculty members on image enhancement techniques in summer – June 18, 2012
• Vision Lab hosts undergraduate student Michael Chatman and Ocean Lake High School student Nhat Nguyen for summer research experience – June 18, 2012
• Manar Samad presents at 2nd Hampton Roads Neuroscience Network Meeting at EVMS. – June 8, 2012
• Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin spends four weeks at L2TI, Institut Galilee, Universite Paris 13 as a visiting scholar working on collaborative research – June 7, 2012
• Vision Lab purchases a state-of-the-art EEG acquisition system – May 14, 2012
• Congratulations Shamim Reza and Musa Arslan for passing their PhD diagnostic exam – May 10, 2012
• Post Doctoral fellow Dr. Elbakary joins vision Lab – May 8, 2012
• Michael Chatman joins Vision Lab on an NCI funded brain tumor segmentation project. – May 8, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin recently co-authored a book titled Image Processing published by the SPIE press – May 2, 2012
• Prof. Iftekharuddin receives grant from National Institutes of Health for $350,000 to study brain tumor modeling and detection – Feb 23, 2012
• Rear Admiral Kevin Cook from USCG visits the lab – Feb 9, 2012
• Welcome new vision lab members, Manar Din Samad, Wenjuan Jiang, and Lasitha Vidyaratne – Jan 9, 2012
• SPIE news article Prof. Iftekharuddin is enthusiastic about collaboration possibilities at ODU Vision Lab – Dec 19, 2011
• Representatives from the US Marshals Service visit the lab. – Nov 30, 2011
• Congratulations Qun Wang for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. – Nov 7, 2011
• Loc Tran presents at Memphis BioImaging Sysposium. – Nov 3, 2011
• Prof. Iftekharuddin is co-organizing a SPIE conference on Optics and Photonics for Information Processing VI in SPIE’s annual meeting Optics + Photonics 2012. The deadline for paper submission is Jan 30, 2012. – Oct 20, 2011
• Vision Lab director Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin is acting as a guest co-editor of a special issue on BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED APPROACHES FOR VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS in Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing: Image Communication. The deadline for paper submission is Dec. 31. More details about the special issue can be found here. – Oct 19, 2011
• Vision Lab director Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin is organizing a special session on Computational Intelligence for Image, Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing in 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) in Brisbane, Australia. Paper submission deadline is Dec. 19. – Oct 19, 2011
• Vision Lab director Prof. Khan Iftekharuddin is serving as the scientific program committee chair for a symposium on Biomedical Imaging, MemBIS – Oct 19, 2011
• Dr. Khan M. Iftekharuddin appointed as new director – August 15, 2011
• Congratulations Loc Tran for completing his candidacy examination. – March 30, 2011
• Regent University Summer Government Campers visit Vision Lab – July 16, 2009
• MyThy Tran receives ECE MS Researcher of the Year award. – April 25, 2009
• Rupal Patel receives Outstanding Senior in Computer Engineering award. – April 25, 2009
• Congratulations Praveen Sankaran for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. – February 11, 2009
• Congratulations Cort Tompkins for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. – December 11, 2008
• Congratulations Praveen Sankaran for receiving the University Graduate Research Fellowship for Spring 2009. – December 2008
• Congratulations Ming Zhang for defending his dissertation. – November 2008
• Congratulations Adam Livingston for completing and presenting his dissertation proposal. – November 2008
• ODU sets pace to better ID a face. (link) – November 2008
• Second Patent of the Year Awarded to Asari. (link) – October 2008
• ODU’s Bioelectrics Center and Vision Lab Get $1.6 million in DOD Funding for Casualty Care. (link) – October 2008
• Dr. Asari presented a seminar titled “Nonlinear Techniques for Image Enhancement and Person Identification” at MITRE, McLean Virginia. – June 2008
• Asari awarded new patent. (link) – May 2008
• Jake Foytik and Loc Tran receive Marine Engineering Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. – May 2008
• Praveen Sankaran receives ECE Exceptional Service award. – May 2008
• Ming Zhang receives ECE ReseMammographyarcher of the Year award. – May 2008
• Loc Tran’s ECE 486 team captures 3rd place in design contest featuring brain-signal analysis. – May 2008