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  • UM Audio Engineering Student helps design HF Ultrasound Transducer for Intravascular Applications :
    Heather Miller, a senior Audio Engineering student at the University of Miami worked on the design of a high-frequency ultrasound transducer ideally suited for intravascular applications. Instead of using conventional piezoelectric elements in the transducer, the hope was that her research team could vastly increase the sensitivity...full text

  • Faculty Candidate Seminar Series: Dr. Sakhrat Khizroev, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California-Riverside: Applied Spin to Nano Technology
    Location: McArthur Engineering Annex MEA202: ECE Conference Room
    Time    : Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 12:00PM
          Projections indicate that nanotechnology will be a trillion dollar industry by the year 2015, affecting computing, medical devices and renewable energy sources, to mention a few. However, this technology has barely any presence in today's commercial landscape. Nanotechnology needs a new spin directed towards practical applications rather than abstract theory. Research done in Dr. Khizroev's laboratory that moves towards this goal will be discussed... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. Abbas Alighanbari, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto: Electromagnetic Modeling of Microwave Ultra-Wideband Indoor COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building EB409: ECE Conference Room
    Time    : Monday, April 21, 2008 at 3:00PM - 4:00PM
          Multiresolution Time-Domain (MRTD) techniques are potentially capable of solving large scale electromagnetic problems that include modeling and optimization of wireless communication systems and sensor networks. This talk demonstrates the application of MRTD and their parallel implementation to the solution of large scale indoor wireless problems... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. Ravi Marawar, Academic Program Manager, National Instruments Corporation: Engineering Education-Converging Complexity, Changing Technology
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building MEB289
    Time    : Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12:00PM - 1:00PM
          Come see this exciting lecture, lunch will be provided!

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. John H. Linehan, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Northwestern University: Medical Device Innovation
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 12:00PM - 1:00PM
          In science, the most exciting problems arise at the intersection of disciplines. For bioengineers, it's biology, chemistry and engineering. Biomedical engineers are motivated to use their deep understanding of applied science to create devices, processes, and systems with the patient squarely in mind. Innovation is defined as inventiveness put to use ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. William P. Murphy, Lemelson-Massachussetts Institute of Technology Lifetime Achievement Award: From the Mind to the Marketplace
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:00PM - 1:00PM
          Dr. Murphy will describe his early experiences in developing ideas for biomedical applications and ultimately their incorporation into the founding of Cordis Corporation, a medical device company and pioneer in innovative devices and products for interventional vascular medicine and electrophysiology. ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. Erol Gelenbe, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, UK: Random Neural Networks and Gene Regulatory Networks - Scholastic Models and Methods of Solution
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Monday, April 7, 2008 at 3:00PM - 4:00PM
          We will show how "master equations" similar to the fundamental models used in chemistry, can be derived for spiked neuronal ensembles as well as gene regulatory networks. Mathematical properties of these models, including equilibrium probability distributions and existence-uniqueness of the solutions will be shown ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. Bryan Pardo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Music Theory and Cognition, Northwestern University: Separation of Harmonic Instruments from Stereo Music Recordings
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 12:30PM - 1:30PM
          A key problem facing us today is multimedia retrieval and management ? how to retrieve, process, and store what one seeks from the huge and ever-growing mass of available data. Music, from mp3s to ring tones to digitized scores, is one of the most popular categories of multimedia. In accessing and manipulating music, people often wish to perform tasks that require the ability to separate a recording containing a mixture of simultaneous sounds into its component sound sources ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Rong Jin, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University: BoostCluster -Boosting Clustering by Pairwise Constraints
    Location: Ungar 402
    Time    : Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 5:00PM - 6:00PM
          Data clustering is an important task in many disciplines. A large number of studies have attempted to improve clustering by using the side information that is often encoded as pairwise constraints. However, these studies focus on designing special clustering algorithms that can effectively exploit the pairwise constraints. We present a ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. Srinivasa Narasimhan, The Robotics Institue, Carnegie Mellon University: The Physics of Active Lighting for Computer Vision and Graphics
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Friday, February 22, 2008 at 2:00PM - 3:00PM
          In this talk, we will demonstrate the power of designing lighting environments for computer vision and graphics applications. First, we discuss how light sources can be used as "cameras" to recover 3D shapes of highly intricate objects such as wreaths and tree branches that are not possible to obtain with traditional methods like stereo and laser range scanning ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. L. Miguel Encarnacao, Dr. Peter Stevenson, Humana Inc.: New Opportunities for Research in Health Services - Games for Health and Visual Analytics
    Location: Ungar 411
    Time    : Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 5:00PM
          As governments and the health care industry struggle with the spiraling cost of health care, proactive approaches such as preventative care, early intervention and treatment adherence procedures are necessary if we are to reign in ballooning expenditure and protect ourselves against epidemic diseases. As we face new waves ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Koch , Multimedia Information Processing: Structure from motion and 3D reconstruction by combining 2D-visual and 3D-range cameras
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 03:30pm
          3D reconstruction and camera pose estimation (structure from motion) from perspective video is nowadays a well established technique. However, there are still some problems and ambiguities associated with this technique. In case of perspective cameras with small field of view, ambiguities between translation and rotation estimation occurs due to ... full text

  • Department of Computer Science, UM: Professor Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell University: Computational Social Science - Large-scale studies of Wikis, Blogs, Social Networking
    Location: Cox 126
    Time    : Monday, February 4, 2008 at 8pm
          Many social interactions that are ephemeral in the physical world are recorded and accessible in the online world. The widespread use of online systems such as blogs, wikis and social networking sites provides a treasure trove of information about human behavior. This talk discusses some recent studies of large-scale online social systems, and speculates about what these studies suggest about human interactions more generally.

  • The Miami Institute for Human Genomics: Sheila Sanders, Ph.D.: Understanding Gene Regulation with Genomatix Software
    Location: Mailman Center for Child Development, Room 3003
    Time    : Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 12 Noon
          The Center for Computational Science, The Miami Institute for Human Genomics, and The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Center for Medical Genetics jointly present Sheila Sanders, Ph.D. "Support Scientist, Genomatix Software Inc.". Also present will be Peter Grant, CEO, Genomatix Software Inc. "http://www.genomatix.de/products/index.html" ... full text

  • ECE - Eliahu/Jury Seminar: P. P. Vaidyanathan: SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC SIGNALS
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time    : Friday, November 30, 2007, 02:30-03:30 pm
          Dear All, this year, we are extremely fortunate to have Professor P. P. Vaidyanathan deliver the Jury Award Seminar. This is a rare opportunity for you to listen to a world renowned authority on signal processing presenting his latest research work on application of DSP methods to genomic and proteomic signals. Please mark your calendar and make sure that you attend this seminar ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Feng Niu: HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION AND PATHOLOGICAL GAIT PATTERN IDENTIFICATION
    Location: ECE Conference room (McArthur Eng. Bldg. 4th floor)
    Time: Thursday, Nov.15th, 2007, at 10:00am
          Human activity analysis has attracted great interest from computer vision researchers due to its promising applications in many areas such as automated visual surveillance, computer-human interactions, and motion-based identification and diagnosis.
    This dissertation presents work in two areas: general human activity recognition from video, and human activity analysis for the purpose of ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Gabriel Tsechpenakis: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES IN IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS
    Location: ECE Conference room (McArthur Eng. Bldg. 4th floor)
    Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday November 14th 2007
          In this talk I will present some recent advances in image and video analysis using computer vision and machine learning techniques. Specifically, I will focus on three major problems: (a) 2D/3D segmentation, (b) 2D/3D feature tracking, and (c) content-based image classification and retrieval. For each one of these areas, I will describe the problem in general terms, I will give a brief description ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Brent Yen: QUANTUM COMMUNICATION
    Location: ECE Conference room (McArthur Eng. Bldg. 4th floor)
    Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday October 31st 2007
          Information theory as developed by Shannon describes our ability to process and transmit information in a communication system. Since all physical communication channels are subject to the laws of quantum mechanics, a basic understanding of communication needs to be developed according to quantum theory. We will discuss the basic concepts of quantum communication and ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Chan-Su Lee: MODELING VIEW AND POSTURE MANIFOLDS FOR TRACKING
    Location: ECE Conference room (McArthur Eng. Bldg. 4th floor)
    Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm on Friday October 12th 2007
          In this talk, we consider modeling data lying on multiple continuous manifolds. In particular, we model shape manifold of a person performing a motion observed from different view points along a view circle at fixed camera height. We introduce a model that ties together the body configuration (kinematics) manifold and the visual manifold (observations) in a way that facilitates tracking the 3D configuration with ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dr. Stephan Schulz: ADS-B: SURVEILLANCE FOR COOPERATIVE AIR TRAFFIC
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm on Wednesday September 26th 2007
          Both the increase in civilian air traffic and the desire for improved routing? and scheduling of aircraft put larger and larger demands on?air traffic control (ATC). Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) is a technique developed to meet the resulting demand?for better information about the air situation. Civilian aircraft have a strong desire to be visible to ATC, and are willing to contribute to that end. This is already used in ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dalong Li: NEW METHODS FOR BLIND IMAGE DECONVOLUTION
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time: 02:00-03:00pm on Monday, May 7, 2007
          The goal of image deconvolution is to recover the original image from a degraded one (due to blurring, noise etc.). In practice, information about degradation might be partially or completely unknown. This is known as an ill-posed problem.  In this talk, two new blind image deconvolution methods are introduced. One is an example based approach that is based on support vector machines (SVMs). This SVM-based method is ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Dimitris Metaxas: HYBRID DEFORMABLE MODELING METHODS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION, REGISTRATION AND TRACKING
    Location: ECE Conference room (Eng. Bldg. 4th floor)
    Time: 03:30-04:30pm on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
          Recent advances in deformable models have lead to new classes of methods that borrow the best features form level sets as well as traditional parametric deformable models. In this talk I will first present new approaches to such modeling, namely (i) the Metamorphs, whose formulation integrates shape, intensity and texture by borrowing ideas from level sets and traditional parametric deformable models, and (ii) learning-driven models, which integrate Conditional Random Fields with ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Ajay Divakaran: A VIDEO BROWSING ENABLED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER
    Location: McArthur Engineering Building Annex MCA202
    Time: 03:30-04:30pm on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
          We present the world’s first highlights-playback-capable Hard Disk Drive (HDD)-enhanced DVD recorder. It automatically detects highlights in sports video by detecting portions with a mixture of the commentator’s excited speech and cheering, using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM’s) trained using the MDL criterion. Our computation is carried out directly on the MDCT coefficients from the AC-3 coefficients thus giving us a tremendous speed advantage. Our accuracy of detection of sports highlights is high across a variety of sports. Our user-study shows that ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Ahmed Elgammal: THE ROLE OF MANIFOLD LEARNING IN HUMAN MOTION ANALYSIS
    Location: ECE Conference room (Eng. Bldg. 4th floor)
    Time: 03:30-04:30pm on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
          Human body is an articulated object with high degrees of freedom.
    Despite the high dimensionality of the configuration space, many human motion activities lie intrinsically on low dimensional manifolds.
          Although the intrinsic body configuration manifolds might be very low in dimensionality, the resulting appearance manifolds are challenging to model given various aspects that affects the appearance such as the shape and appearance of the person performing the motion, or ... full text

  • ECE Seminar Series: Peter H Bauer: QUANTIZED FEEDBACK STABILIZATION OF LINEAR/NONLINEAR SYSTEMS WITH DATA RATE CONSTRAINTS AND TIME-VARIANT DELAYS: THE FIRST ORDER CASE - Location: McArthur Eng. Bldg. MCA220
    Time: 03:30-04:30pm on Monday, March 12, 2007
          The problem of stabilizing an unstable plant through limited data rate feedback is a topic that has attracted considerable attention in the technical literature recently. For linear systems without delays, this stabilizing rate is related to the unstable eigenvalues of the system. In this presentation, we attempt to extend these results to certain classes of nonlinear plants with access delays in the networked feedback path. The results show that ... full text

     
  • ECE Seminar Series: Jinsong Zhang: SELF-ORGANIZATION OF UNATTENDED ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS FOR GROUND TARGET TRACKING - Location: McArthur Eng. Bldg. EB409: ECE Conference Room
    Time: 03:30-04:30pm on Wednesday, February 14, 2007
          With the advancements in computing, signal processing and communication technologies, wireless acoustic sensor networks have become popular in a wide range of application areas such as military and environmental monitoring. However, restrictions on deployment options of the traditional pre-assembled acoustic sensor arrays make it infeasible to deploy these networks using air drop or gun projection in remote areas with limited accessibility such as hostile regions of a battlefield. To solve this problem, we propose to use sensor nodes with a single acoustic sensor to form an ad hoc acoustic sensor network. Self organization of sensor nodes then becomes ... full text

  • The Spring 07 Career Expo will have a Technical section for engineers with 57 firms registered.  There are opportunities in all majors, for both fulltime and internship candidates. 
    Time: Wednesday, February 14 11:00 am till 3:00 pm at the Wellness Center.  Business attire required, bring a resume. URL:  www.miami.edu/careerexpo

  • Mathworks conducted a free MATLAB seminar on campus for all UM faculty and students. The seminar was a tremendous success. There were 49 attendees in the morning session and 58 in the afternoon session from ECE, Biomedical and other departments. This was the first such seminar offered at the University. A second seminar for Spring of 2007 is being planned. ...   full text

  • The SPEAK Test: Required to demonstrate ability in spoken English for prospective International Teaching Assistants will be given on: Thursday, January 11th 3:30 p.m. in Allen Hall – Room 102. A Photo I.D. (Cane Card or passport) is required. Please call the Intensive Language Institute office at (305) 284-4727 to reserve a place or email us atalc.cstudies@miami.edu. Students must be registered by 5:00, January 10th, 2007.

  • Friday, December 01 The 2006 Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury Seminar of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. H. Vincent Poor, Ph.D., Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science and Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, will deliver the 2006 Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury Seminar on “Wireless: Revolution and Evolution,” in Room MCA202 of the McArthur Engineering Annex at 2 p.m. Professor Poor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the IEEE. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow. The implications of wireless technologies cut across many aspects of technology and society. This talk will discuss this technological landscape, its societal implications, and some likely future developments. For more information, contact Kamal Premaratne kamal@miami.edu or 305.284.4051 ... full text