Isaac Cohen -- Research Topics

I s a a c C O H E N

R e s e a r c h T o p i c s

V i d e o A n a l y s i s

Video Analysis and Content Extraction
Developing tools for automated analysis of video sequences. Detection and tracking of moving objects for deriving a structured description of the video and automatic events understanding. An ARDA funded project.

V i d e o S u r v e i l l a n c e

Ground-based video surveillance
Detection and tracking from a single or multiple video streams acquired by stationary or moving cameras

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Stabilizing UAV-acquired video streams, mosaicing,
detection and tracking of multiple objects

Fusion of EO and IR video streams
Fusion of multimodal video streams for an efficient detection and tracking of moving objects

3D H u m a n S e n s i n g

3D Human body modeling
Reconstructing an articulated body model from multiple video streams

3D Hand modeling
Real-time reconstruction of hand articulated model from two synchronized video streams.

Body Posture Recognition for Gesture Understanding
Machine Learning method for real-time body postures recognition from multiple synchronized video streams and their time-evolution.

3D body pose inferrence from a static image
Inferring 3D body posture from a single image.

Face Detection and 3D Head Pose Estimation
Real-time detection of multiple faces and characterization of head pose.

M e d i c a l I m a g e A n a l y s i s

Registration of retinal images and 3D reconstruction
A NIH grant in collaboration with the Doheney Eye Institute.

P a s t P r o j e c t s

Remote Sensing Environmental Changes
A NSF-INRIA collaborative research initiative.
Perceptual Interfaces for Immersive Activities. An Institute for Creative Technologies project.
Global Registrations techniques for high quality image mosaicing
Geometric and Texture based techniques for registration of 3D surfaces. JPL-NASA Project
Video Surveillance and Activity Monitoring. DARPA Project