From April 2005 to April 2007 I worked at the
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
University of Kentucky.
First as a postdoc and from December 2007 as an assistant research professor.
My research interests are
Image Recognition, that is, given a query image we want to find the closest image in a very large database. We currently have two systems, one with very low query-times and geometric verifivation on 50000 images and one for larger databases. Currently our largest database is 110 million images. The larger system is running from disk while still maintaining a decent
query-time (sub 6s, on average).
Solving Minimal Problems for structure and motion. This was the
main topic of my thesis. Minimal solvers are useful for
building structure from motion systems. They also provide an
excellent excuse for a computer vision researcher to use
3D reconstruction. Stable, reliable and fast 3D reconstruction is the
big dream in computer vision.