Ramin Zabih
  Professor of Computer Science and Radiology

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Research

My research interests lie in computer vision and in medical imaging. I have worked on a variety of problems in early vision, including motion and stereo; many of these problems can be solved very accurately using algorithms based on graph cuts (see the graph cuts home page for details, and the MRF comparison project for experimental results).  Recently I have spent much of my time developing a new freshman course (CS100R) that uses robot vision to teach basic CS; the course was profiled in a Cornell Chronicle article.I served as a Program Chair for CVPR 2007 (the primary North American vision conference), and for the International Workshop on Computer Vision 2008 and 2010 (a small workshop for senior vision researchers). Since January 2009 I have served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, generally viewed as the top journal in computer vision (see this recent press release by IEEE). In 2013 I will be a General Chair for CVPR.

My work with the Radiology department has focused on the problem of MR image reconstruction. More technical information is available from the CS Medical Imaging group page.

I have also investigated a number of applications of computer vision, including new methods for content-based access to databases of images, and have developed some simple computer vision techniques to automate program debugging at Microsoft.

Students

Ashish Raj has now taken a faculty position at Cornell Radiology, after spending several years at UCSF. My most recent PhD student is Joyce Chen. Alumni include Yuri Boykov (postdoc), Jing Huang, Olga Veksler, Vera Kettnaker, Junhwan Kim, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Gurmeet Singh and Jie Zhu (PhD students)  and Chris Danis, Brian Rogan, Brian Cody, Justin Miller, Greg Pass and Justin Voskuhl (undergraduates).

Selected Publications
(complete list)

The complete list of my publications contains electronic versions of almost all papers. The list below includes a few papers in computer vision,  plus some unpublished drafts. Most of my papers on medical imaging are also available on the group page.
 

Please note that these papers are copyrighted by the respective organizations, including IEEE and ACM.

Teaching

I developed a new course, originally called CS100R, that uses camera-controlled robots to introduce basic concepts in computer science. I typically teach graduate computer vision , or advanced undergraduate programming, . In the past I have taught CS212, an honors-level freshman introduction to CS.

Professional Activities

External

I've consulted for several companies, primarily Microsoft. Over the past decade I've also served as an expert witness in  a number of litigation matters involving software patents, object-oriented progamming, multimedia systems and medical imaging. I've been an external committee member for some talented students, including David Tolliver  and Dhruv Batra at CMU, Hao Jiang at Simon Fraser, Pushmeet Kohli and Pawan Kumar at Oxford Brookes, and Gabriel Tavares at Rutgers.

Personal

I live in Manhattan and Ithaca with my wife Melanie, our daughter Annabella, and our cat Grover who now has his own home page.

Acknowledgements

This web page design is courtesy of Dan Huttenlocher