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Professor Suya You

 

 

Dr. Suya You received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985, MS. in 1991, and Ph.D., with honors, in 1994 from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China., where his focus was on the 3D Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition  Following the receipt of his doctorate, he joined the Tsinghua University (Computer Science Department), followed by a year at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Visualization Lab), he joined the University of Southern California, where he currently is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Dr. You’s expertise is in the fundamental and applied aspects of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Video/Image based Modeling and Rendering, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Interactive Media.  Recent research activities are in the Video-based Modeling and Rendering (VBMR) that is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary research field employing techniques from Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Immersion, and Telecommunications.  Current research projects include the developments of hybrid motion tracking technology of combining inertial sensor, GPS, and imaging sensor for virtual/augmented reality and navigation applications; dynamic scene analysis, multi-sensing-data fusion for battlefield information extraction and understanding; dynamic object modeling; and large-scale scene modeling and 3D visualization…  His research has been supported by several government agencies including NSF, DARPA, NASA, ONR, U.S. Army, NGA, and industry partners including HP, Northrop Grumman, and Olympus of Japan.

Dr. You is also an investigator in the Immersive Technologies field, the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), has developed unique motion tracking and augmented reality technologies, and co-hold several patents and technology disclosures in those areas.  The image based motion tracking technique developed by Dr. You and Dr. Neumann has licensed to several companies, for example, the special effects house, Rhythm & Hues, has used the software for special effects for three new films - “Gigli,” “XMen II,” and “Daredevil”, reducing the time it takes for a key part of the process - feature tracking in image sequences - from minutes to seconds per frame. The software also reduces the need for hand-corrections by robust tracking of the features.

The developed AVE (Augmented Virtual Environment) offers a unique methodology required for dynamic time-critical modeling and visualization, using VBMR, augmented reality, video visualization, and 4D dynamic models of the environment, leading to enhanced and improved tools and techniques, as well as compact representations for time-space understanding of real world scenery.

 

Affiliations

Computer Graphics and Immersive Technologies Lab (CGIT)

USC Computer Graphics Group

Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC)

Computer Science Department