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For my Computer Vision course project, I implemented the seam carving technique by Shai Avidan of Mitsubishi Electronic Research Labs and Ariel Shamir of The Interdisciplinary Center and MERL. My final paper, presentation, and code for my seam carving project is now available.

Paper

My final writeup can be downloaded here.

Presentation

Presentation available here!

Code

Java code available here!
Matlab code available here!

Video

Examples

Original image

Image with 100 lowest energy seams shown

Image with 100 seams removed (no noticeable artifacts)

Image with 250 seams removed (artifacts start to appear)

The IEEE paper (Improving Measurement Accuracy in Sensor Networks by an Object Model Generation and Application) which I co-authored with Dr. Leon Reznik is now available on IEEE’s website. It was prepared for the IEEE Sensors 2007 Conference in Atlanta, GA. Bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{4388413,
	Address = {Atlanta, GA},
	Author = {Reznik, Leonid and Kluever, Kurt Alfred},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE Conference on Sensors},
	Doi = {10.1109/ICSENS.2007.4388413},
	Issn = {1930-0395},
	Month = {October},
	Pages = {371-374},
	Publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
	Title = {Improving Measurement Accuracy in Sensor Networks by an Object Model Generation and Application},
	Year = {2007},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2007.4388413}
}

For my Master’s thesis, I’ve decided to work in the Department of Computer Science’s new Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (DPRL) lab under the advisement of Dr. Richard Zanibbi. My area of research will be Human Interactive Proofs / CAPTCHAs.

I presented a talk on Selenium on September 11th, 2007 at a recent RJUG meeting. I was first introduced to the excellent tool at my summer internship at Google this summer. My slides from the presentation are available here.

I was spotlighted by the Computer Science Department in the latest ‘Undergraduate Quarterly’ newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 20071) that was released on September 3rd, 2007. The newsletter contains important dates, announcements, a student spotlight and an alumni spotlight. The newsletter can be found scattered around the Golisano building and online here. Many thanks to Christina for putting the newsletter together.

My recent co-op experience (at Google) is currently on the homepage of the RIT Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services as a featured co-op profile. The full article can be viewed here. Patrick Copeland, the Test Engineering Director at Google, recently blogged about my “Googley Adventure”.

Chris Tice and I developed a Facebook application that allows you to export all of your friends birthdays into an iCalendar file. The iCalendar file can be imported into Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, KOrganizer, etc. It currently has over 4200 total users.  You can add the application here.

I wrote a paper on a sample of current methods of biometric feature extraction for my Intelligent Secure Systems course taught by Dr. Leon Reznik. The paper can be downloaded here.

My team designed the questions, conducted an online survey, and analyzed the results from approximately 1000 respondents. The respondents were questioned about their computer security practices. The survey was conducted as part of my Security Measurement and Testing course taught by Dr. Leon Reznik.  An informal publication was made in RIT’s ITS monthly newsletter.

This is one of my first papers on CAPTCHAs which I wrote for my Privacy and Security course taught by Warren R. Carithers. The survey paper can be downloaded here.