Margrit Betke 
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Margrit Betke |
Camera Mouse Website |
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| Short Bio | |
| Education: | Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. |
| Research: | Computer Vision, in particular, Tracking Systems that Reason about Group Behavior, Human-Computer Interfaces, Medical Image Processing, Intelligent Vehicles, Video-sensor Networks, Statistical Object Recognition, and Thermal Video Analysis of Bats |
| Students: | PhD students: Samuel Epstein, Zie Kone, Tianqiang Liu, John Magee, Diane Hirsh Theriault, Zheng Wu. MA students: Harshith Chennamaneni, Chao Chung Hsieh, Hari Mohan, Yili Pan, and Shuo Zeng, Yun Wang BA students: David House and Eric Missimer. Current and former students. |
| Teaching: |
Artificial Intelligence (CS 440/640), Fall 2009. Tue, Thu
12:30-2:00 pm, CAS Rm 216 Image and Video Computation (CS 585) in Spring 2009, Tue, Thu 12:30-2 pm Seminar on Video-Based Human-Computer Interfaces (CS 591) in Fall 2001. Directed Study in Image and Video Computing: CAS CS 492 or GRS CS 979, ongoing. |
| Office Hours: | Fall 2009: Tue 9-11, Tue 2-2:30, Thu 2-2:30 and by appointment. |
| Awards: |
Margrit Betke was one of two academics to win the "Top 10 Women to
Watch in New England" Award. Press Release:
doc,
pdf,
BU's Student Newspaper.
Her students have won several research awards: Caitlin Connor (Clare Booth Luce Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow, 2008), Angshuman Bachgi (BU President's Award 2005), Diane Hirsh (NASBR's Lubee Award 2003), Stephen Crampton (BU's Chancellor's Award 2003), and Harrison Hong (BU's Provost Award 2002). |
| In the Press: |
Group Behavior: BU.
Camera Mouse:
BU Today
Kablenet,
Belfast Telegraph,
MassHighTech,
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
Empathic Painting: BBC, ABC News, SydneyMH, The Hindu, Aljazeera, Turkish Daily News, DigitalWorld Tokyo, Inky, TecChannel - München, PCWorld - Romania. News, France, Frontpage - Netherlands GazetaWeb - Brazil |
| Free Software: |
Camera Mouse - a program that
enables a person with severe disabilities to control the mouse pointer
on the computer screen just by moving the head. Animate! -- a program that enables people with disabilities to create animations of an anthropomorphic figure. |
| Patent: |
"Method
and system for the detection, comparison and volumetric quantification
of pulmonary nodules on medical computed tomography scans."
Inventors Margrit Betke and Jane P. Ko.,
US Patent 7,206,462, issued on April 17, 2007.
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N. I. Hristov, M. Betke, and T. H. Kunz, "Applications of thermal infrared imaging for research in aeroecology." Integrative and Comparative Biology. 48(1):50-59, July 2008. Abstract. Pdf file.
J. J. Magee, M. Betke, J. Gips, M. R. Scott, B. N. Waber, "A human-computer interface using symmetry between eyes to detect gaze direction," IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics: 38(6):1-14, November 2008.
W. Mullally, M. Betke, M. Albert, and K. Lutchen. "Explaining Clustered Ventilation Defects via a Minimal Number of Airway Closure Locations." Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 37(2):286-300, February 2009. Pdf file. Html file.
T. G. Hallam, A. Raghavan, H. Kolli, D. Dimitrov, P. Federico, H. Qi, G. F. McCracken, M. Betke, J. K. Westbrook, K. Kennard, T. H. Kunz. "Dense and sparse aggregations in complex motion: Video coupled with simulation modeling." Ecological Complexity. In press.
N. Hristov, M. Betke, A. Bagchi, D. Hirsh, T. H. Kunz. "Seasonal variation in colony size of Brazilian free-tailed bats at Carlsbad Cavern using thermal imaging" Journal of Mammalogy. 91(1), February 2010. In press.
Z. Wu, N. I. Hristov, T. L. Hedrick, T H. Kunz, and M. Betke "Tracking a Large Number of Objects from Multiple Views." International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto Japan, 2009.
C. Connor, E. Yu, J. Magee, E. Cansizoglu, S. Epstein, and M. Betke. "Movement and Recovery Analysis of a Mouse-Replacement Interface for Users with Severe Disabilities." 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2009), San Diego, CA, July 2009. 10 pp. pdf.
D. House, M. L. Walker, Z. Wu, J. Y. Wong, and M. Betke. "Tracking of cell populations to understand their spatio-temporal behavior in response to physical stimuli." In MMBIA 2009: IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Miami, FL, June 2009. 8 pp. pdf.
S. Deshpande and M. Betke. "RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to References." The 9th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2009), Milan, Italy, May, 2009, pages 28-36, INSTICC Press. pdf.
M. Betke. Intelligent Interfaces to Empower People with Disabilities. In Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. H. Nakashima, J. C. Augusto, and H. Aghajan (Editors), Springer Verlag. June 2009. ISBN: 0387938079.
T. H. Kunz, M. Betke, N. I. Hristov, and M. Vonhof. Methods for assessing colony size, population size, and relative abundance of bats. In T. H. Kunz and S. Parsons, editors, Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats. 2nd Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009. In press.
M. L. Walker, D. M. House, M. Betke, and J. Y. Wong. "Using automated cell tracking tools to quantify durokinesis and durotaxis in real time." Proceedings of the Biophysical Society 53rd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, February 2009. Abstract.
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