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Henry S. Baird Students (Note to students considering applying to the CSE Dept's Ph.D. and M.S. programs. Admissions are decided by the dept's graduate admissions committee: I can advise the committee but I don't determine its decisions. Nevertheless, please feel free to introduce yourself to me by email and/or have your academic advisor write to me. Please bear in mind that I rarely offer financial support to students before they have finished their first year here. If you decide to apply, follow the steps on the admissions page. ) Students presently working with Dr. Baird: Chang An, CSE student in the PhD program, is working on research problems arising in digital libraries. Kristen Gardner carried out a senior project to extract Haar features using the fast Viola-Jones algorithm; she will evaluate these features on DICE problems in summer 2007 (under an Independent Study course with me). Michael Moll, Research Assistant (SP05-present): investigating open problems in pattern recognition and document image analysis, e.g. (a) technical conditions for human legibility of the ScatterType CAPTCHA (cf. our paper presented at the Int'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seoul, Korea, August, 2005); (b) software infrastructure for DIA R&D; and (c) the DICE project (cf. below). He has written a research proposal Voracious Classifiers (abstract, pdf), has formed a Dissertation Committee and has been admitted to candidacy. This work has been supported in part by a grant from DARPA IPTO. Jean Nonnemaker has written a Ph.D. Dissertation proposal and formed a Dissertation Committee. She is investigating safe uses of synthetic training data in supervised classification. Kaustubh Pansare has joined the DICR project as a research assistant for the summer of 2007. Sui-Yu Wang, Research Assistant (FL05-present): investigating advanced human interactive proofs, including implicit and hinted CAPTCHAs (cf. my paper with Jon Bentley at the Document Recognition & Retrieval Conf., San Jose, CA, January 2005; and another paper will be presented at ICPR in Hong Kong this August); this project has been supported in part by Avaya Labs Research. She is also exploring this topic for research towards a PhD candidacy: automatic identification of discriminating features. Pingping Xiu is performing research for Profs. Baird & Lopresti as an RCEAS Dean's Doctoral Assistant. Dr. Baird is serving on Ph.D. dissertation committees for:
In the past..... He has worked with these students since joining Lehigh: Rehana Valli worked on a senior project in which she enhance an existing interactive graphics tool for ground-truthing document images (now in use). Matthew Casey wrote a Master's Thesis on Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbors [abstract, pdf] and submitted it May 2006. He interned at Google in summer 2006. He joined Google as a full-time permanent employee in early 2007. Rami Khouri wrote a CS Master's Thesis on Pattern Matching Techniques Applied to Human Computer Interfaces for Virtual Environments and received his M.S. degree in May 2006. Marc Bollinger, CSE M.S. student, worked on research problems arising in digital libraries in the Summer of 2006. Don Delorenzo, worked as a Summer Intern (Summer 2005) on the DICE project, contributing feature-extraction code. He joins Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Labs, Cherry Hill, NJ, in Summer 2006. Tim Penge, Independent Study (Summer 2005): redesigned the ScatterType CAPTCHA and its human-user website, and invited widespread use and attacks. Dishant Patel, informal independent study (Summer 2005); he helped port an old K&R C code set for document image analysis. Derek Drake, Senior Project (FL04) and Independent Study (SP05): algorithms for distinguishing mathematics notation from English text in images of machine-printed text-lines. His presentation (PPT file) of this work won Second Prize in the RCEAS Undergraduate Research Symposium (April 20, 2005). He co-authored a paper with me on this which was presented at the Int'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (Seoul, Korea, August, 2005). He joined the Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences at Purdue University in Fall 2005. Zhenming Liu, Independent Study (SP05): the mathematical foundations of two closely related statistical models for language & context: (a) variable-length character n-gram probabilities; and (b) word occurrence probabilities. He joined the M.S. program in Computer Science at Harvard University in Fall 2005. Before joining Lehigh University... Dr. Baird has served on dissertation committees for these students:
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