Current Graduate Students

Pengcheng Liu, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering

My current research topic is to develop and implement a power efficient hardware-accelerated real-time 3D reconstruction system. The system includes a DSP, a FPGA, and two CMOS image sensors with motorized zoom lenses mounted on a mechanically actuated platform to generate 3D data from a stereo camera pair. I use uclinux to process sensed 2D image from CMOS sensor and generate 3D positions of surfaces observed by both cameras.

Yunfeng Sui, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering

My research focuses on generating and processing 3D surfaces given 3D point measurements of the surface. Research addresses needs that arise from a the proliferation of 3D laser measurement devices, two of which are used in my laboratory experiments.These scanners collect surface data from real word 3D objects both small (about 2 cm3) to large (<20m.) to generate 3D mesh models of these objects. I am interested in extracting structures and patterns from the measured surfaces which can be subsequently used to recover infer high-level semantic information from the data. Examples of such inferences include : (1) reconstructing broken objects from measurements of their fragments and (2) recognizing objects in a scene given a scan of the scene.

Current Undergraduate Students

Adam Wickersham Charlotte, NC Undergraduate in Computer Engineering The project I am working on is for my senior design project: the UNC Charlotte 3D Laser Scanning for Video Game Model Creation. My partners and I will be scanning buildings, terrain, and objects around campus and then using the scans to make a 3D video game. We will be useing texture mapping from picture we take from on campus to map on the laser scans.

Joe Haines Charlotte, NC Undergraduate in Computer Engineering I am working with a senior design team that is developing a stereoscopic vision system that will control a robot. This project is funded by the NC Space Grant. We plan to have a completed product in December 2007.

Thomas Meiswinkel
Charlotte, NC
Undergraduate in Computer Engineering

I am working on a senior design project that is funded by the NC Space Grant along with Ali Abdurazzak, Joe Haines, and Adam Stevens. My interests are in Linux development, digital signal processing, and communications protocols. I will be attending graduate school at UNC Charlotte in the spring 2008 semester with an emphasis in digital signal processing.

Students that have graduated. Where are they now?

Christopher Mack, MS Electrical Engineering

After graduation I accepted a position as a software developer for Logos Technologies in their newly created Raleigh branch. The majority of my time is spent programming in Java, most of the projects the company works on are image-base d government contracts. In my short time with the company I have worked mostly with image compression, object tracking and designing or extending user interfaces within an existing program. My future work may include designing a program to automatically create camera models from images and a variety of image processing tasks.

Vishali Mogallapu, MS Electrical Engineering

After graduation, I accepted a position as a Computer Vision and Characterization intern for Canesta Inc., in Sunnyvale, CA. My job here is to assist in analysis, calibration and characterization of CanestaVision 3D imaging products. Partly, I implement some of their computer vision and image processing programs. The other part of my time is spent on collecting measurements using their 3D camera and doing statistical analysis of a large volume of real time data. I enjoy my work here and look forward to go back to school in future to pursue a PhD program specializing in image processing/computer vision.