CISE Faculty Update Overview of Recent Research Activities Sumi Helal CISE Department University of Florida
2 Pieces of the Puzzle Computer Systems Aesthetic Computing Computer Graphics And Modeling High Performance Computing Database Systems Computer Vision
3 Featured Faculty Joachim Hammer, Database Systems Jorg Peters, Computer Graphics & Modeling Paul Gader, Computer Vision Anand Rangarajan, Computer Vision Meera Sitharam, High Perfromance Computing Su-Shing Chen, Biomedical Engineering Paul Fishwick, Aesthetic Computing Tim Davis, High Performance Computing Sumi Helal, Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Scalable Extraction of Enterprise Knowledge SEEK Dr. Joachim Hammer - PI Dr. Mark Schmalz Dr. Raymond Issa Dr. William O’Brien Dr. Sherman Bai Dr. Joseph Geunes Sponsor National Science Foundation WHERE DISCOVERIES BEGIN Computer Science Construction Engineering Industrial Engineering Project Information Project Information Affiliated Faculty Joachim Hammer
5 Flexible Production Networks Firm 1/ lead Firm 2 Firm 3 Firm n Firm 4 Firm 5 … Negotiation Support Supply chain analysis Commerce applications Examples Construction ($700 bn+) Manufacturing (Dell - “made-to-order” PC) Decentralized coordination
6 SEEK Toolkit Firm 1/ lead SEEK Firm 2 Legacy Data and systems Secure, value-added extraction of firm knowledge domain expert Analysis Module Knowledge Extraction Module Source Connection SEEK Components
7 SEEK is Being Developed with Industry Partners supplier Assembler/ coordinator supplier Secure hosting infrastructure Supply chain analysis (e.g., E-ERP system)
8 Jorg Peters Enter
9 Paul Gader Land Mine Detection Overview Estimated Between Million Land Mines Buried Throughout World UF Researchers working with government and industry involved in signal and image processing algorithms to detect landmines using a variety of sensor technologies, – Ground Penetrating Radar – Acoustics and Lasers – Infrared Interaction with ECE (report here only on projects lead by CISE) Future interaction with other departments (Nuclear, Mechanical)
10 Land Mine Detection Projects Army Research Office MURI Basic Research Technology Transfer Hand-held Humanitarian Demining Mine Hunter/Killer Vehicle-Based AcousticsGPSAR
11 Land Mine Detection Funding Funding source U. S. Army – Science and Technology Division (Acoustics, GPSAR) $128K Fall 2001 $500K Jan 2002 – Nov 2003 (Awarded but not committed) – Countermine Division (Hand-held, Vehicle-Mounted, Mine H/K, VMMD) $40K Fall 2001 $140K Jan 1 – Dec (Expected) – Humanitarian Demining Division $400K Sept Sept 2002 – Army Research Office (pending) $250K per year last 2 years (MURI at previous institution) $50K – DARPA (Pending) $250K per year for 5 years
12 Land Mine Detection Industry Interaction Develop algorithms for industry built prototype systems – EG&G, Albuquerque NM – GEO-CENTERS, Boston MA – British Aerospace (BAE), San Diego CA – Cyterra (formerly part of Coleman Research Corp.), Orlando FL – Planning Systems Inc, LA – NIITEK, Alexandria VA
13 Automated Document Processing Previous Funding USPS –National Science Foundation
14 Anand Rangarajan
15 Brain Mapping Prof. Anand Rangarajan’s ongoing research applies shape matching techniques to brain mapping. Funded by NSF and NIH (P.I.: James Duncan). Non-rigid registration of cortical anatomical structures – a key aspect of brain mapping.
16 A Unified Feature Registration Method Outer Cortex SurfaceMajor Sulcal RibbonsAll FeaturesPoint Feature Representation Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Feature MatchingFeature Matching Subject I Subject II
17 Meera Sitharam Enter
18 Su-Shing Chen No Picture
19 UFDLUFDL NSF supports $50+ million: NSDL (National SMETE Digital Library) Program 1. National Biological Digital Library (Subcontracts: UIUC, NCSA, and Missouri Botanical Garden) 2. Enhancing Interoperability for NSDL Collections & Services (Subcontracts: NCSA and VT; Collaborative partner: SMETE.ORG and UCBerkeley)
20 Information Preservation Projects (Su-Shing Chen) Supported by NSF and NHPRC/NARA
21 Paul Fishwick Recall Presentation
22 Tim Davis MATLAB Primer, 6 th Edition, CRC Press – Software adapted by the MathWorks, publisher of MATLAB (sparse matrix re-ordering, fastest re-ordering algorithm known) Sparse Matrix Factorization Research – x=A\b under consideration to use Davis’ code. Graph partitioning, optimization, sparse Cholesky update/downdate, …
23 Mobile Computing Research Pervasive & Proximity Computing Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Successful Aging Mobile Networking Ad-Hoc Networking Wireless and Mobile Applications Power-aware Computing E-Services Sumi Helal
24 Funding Harris Microsoft Citrix Motorola Sun Microssystem DE/NIDRR USSOCOM NSF
25 Recent Happenings DE/NIDRR Center Grant – 5 yrs grant for a center of successful aging – Joint center: college of Engineering, college of health professions, and UF Aging Institute National Technology Alliance – With Sarnoff and SRI Motorola to commercialize parts of the JiniEDN system developed by UF
26 RERC-Aging