INDUSTRY

The research conducted by NCSA's Image Spatial Data Analysis (ISDA) group, led by Peter Bajcsy, revolves around theoretical modeling and experimental understanding of multi-instrument measurement systems that deal with multi-dimensional multi-variate data. The group also addresses automation of common image pre-processing and analysis tasks. "Based on our past work, our research could also be described as X-informatics, where the X stands for bio, hydro, medical image, or sensor," Bajcsy says. In addition to Bajcsy, the other members of the ISDA team are: Rob Kooper, Sang-Chul Lee, and Luigi Marini. Among the group's current projects are: * Cyberinfrastructure environments: meta-workflow environments, provenance information gathering. * GIS and multi-spectral analysis and modeling: raster and vector data processing; georeferencing; feature extraction and selection from high-dimensional data; statistical, model-based and hybrid scene analysis and synthesis. * Understanding medical and bioinformatics data: processing and analysis of confocal microscopy imagery; microarray data analysis; novel imaging in medicine. * PDF document understanding: image and text extraction and pre-processing, image and text information aggregation, information classification and knowledge repository building. * Hazard sensing; wireless sensor communication; spectral sensor registration and calibration; multi-sensor data fusion; collaborative robot control for sensor deployment; spatially adaptive hazard sensing, tele-immersive environments. The group's current collaborators include: * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers Noshir Contractor (Speech Communication, Psychology and NCSA), Praveen Kumar (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Barbara Minsker (NCSA and Civil and Environmental Engineering), Klara Nahrstedt (Computer Science), Marilyn Ruiz (Pathobiology), Ken Watkin (Medical Imaging Research Laboratory), and Weimo Zhu (Kinesiology). * University of Illinois at Chicago pathology researchers Andre Balla, Robert Folberg, and Peter Gann. * Momcilo Markus and Yu-Feng Lin, Illinois State Water Survey. * Fred Fonseca, Penn State. For more information about ISDA, go to its Web site or contact Peter Bajcsy.