Welcome to my personal web page! (For the official version please click here.) I am a Ph.D. student in the Image and Video Computing Group (IVC) at Boston University. My advisor is Prof. Stan Sclaroff. My current research interest is person tracking with layered graphical models (supplemental material). Here is a little bit about my prior endeavors.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.S. Computer Science

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

B.A. Mathematics

 

 

 

PAST AFFILIATIONS

 

1999-2004

Charles River Analytics, Inc, Cambridge MA

1998-1999

Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA

1996-1998

Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. Amherst, MA

 

 

PAST PROJECTS

 

At Charles River Analytics I contributed to and led a variety of applied research projects. In particular I focused on geometric path-planning for autonomous aerial vehicles, investigated approaches to real-time autonomous video enhancement, initiated the development of a document image analysis system, explored vision-based methods to recognize gestural commands for taxiing the aircraft (joint work with the IVC group), and experimented with tracking small boats in omnidirectional videos.

 

At Cognex I helped implement fast, accurate, and robust machine vision algorithms.

 

After getting my Master's degree I became a member of a small team that designed the AphelionTM image analysis system. It was co-developed on both sides of the Atlantic by Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. (Amherst, MA) and ADCIS SA (Hérouville Saint-Clair, France).

 

 

PUBLICATIONS PRIOR TO IVC

(Note that some of these are not "peer reviewed" but I include them as a reference to projects/systems that have been built)

 

C. Monnier, V. Ablavsky, S. Holden, and M. Snorrason, "A Document Image Enhancement Module: Perspective Warp Correction," Simposium on Document Image Understanding Technology (SDIUT), College Park, MD, November 2005.

C. Monnier, V. Ablavsky, S. Holden, and M. Snorrason, "Sequential Correction of Perspective Warp in Camera-based Documents," IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seoul, Korea, August 2005.

V. Ablavsky, M. R. Stevens and J. Pollak, "Data-Structure-Independent Algorithms for Image Processing," C/C++ Users Journal, pp. 24-31, November 2003.

V. Ablavsky, D. Stouch, and M. Snorrason, "Search Path Optimization for UAVs using Stochastic Sampling with Abstract Pattern Descriptors," Proceedings of AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Austin, TX, August 2003.

V. Ablavsky, "Background Models for Tracking Objects in Water," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

V. Ablavsky and M. R. Stevens, "Automatic Feature Selection with Applications to Script Identification of Degraded Documents," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 750-754, August 2003.

V. Ablavsky, M. Snorrason, and M. R. Stevens, "OCR Accuracy Prediction as a Script Identification Problem," Proceedings of Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, Greenbelt, MD, April 2003.

T. Goodsell, M. Snorrason, M. R. Stevens, D. Cartwright, B. Stube, and V. Ablavsky, "Sign Detection for Autonomous Navigation," Proceedings of SPIE Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology V, 2003.

V. Ablavsky, "Applying BGL to Computational Geometry," C/C++ Users Journal, pp. 6-12, August 2002.

V. Ablavsky, D. Cartwright, M. Snorrason, M. R. Stevens, and J. Pollak, "ISIS: Intelligent Surveillance and Intrusion Detection for Ships," Final Technical Report R02131, Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA, October 2002.

V. Ablavsky, M. Snorrason, and C.J. Taylor, "RAVE: Real-time Autonomous Video Enhancement system," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002.

V. Ablavsky, M. Snorrason, and S. Holden, "Efficient Pursuit of a Moving Target via Spatial Constraint Exploitation," Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Montreal, CA, August 2001.

T. Goodsell, M. Snorrason, H. Ruda, and V. Ablavsky, "Navigability Evaluation and Visualization for Mars Rover Operations," Proceedings of the International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Marbella, Spain, July 2001.

M. R. Stevens, M. Snorrason, V. Ablavsky, and S. Amphay, "ATA Algorithm Suite for Co-Boresighted PMMW and LADAR Imagery," Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4373, AeroSense, Orlando, FL, April 2001.

T. Goodsell, M. Snorrason, H. Ruda, V. Ablavsky, "Automated Obstacle Mapping and Navigability Analysis for Rover Mission Planning," Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4364, AeroSense, Orlando, FL, April 2001.

T. Goodsell, M. Snorrason, H. Ruda, and V. Ablavsky, "Rover Obstacle Visualizer and Navigability Evaluator," Proceedings of SPIE, Volume. 4195, Photonics East, Boston, MA, November 2000.

V. Ablavsky and M. Snorrason, "Optimal Search for a Moving Target: a Geometric Approach," Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Denver, CO, August 2000.

M. Snorrason, V. Ablavsky, and C. J. Taylor, "Passive Millimeter-Wave and Laser-Radar Autonomous Target Acquisition," Final Technical Report R99079, Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA, January 2000.

V. Ablavsky and H. Schultz, "Recovering the Small Scale Structure of the Ocean Surface from Digital Images," Ocean Sciences Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Diego, CA, February 1994.

 

 

This page was last updated on Sept 15, 2008