DIMITRIS N. METAXAS, Ph.DONR YIP, 1997
NSF Career Award, 1996
NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993
Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering
Director: CBIM Center (Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling Center)
UPENN Position: Adjunct Professor of Computer and Information Science
Director: VAST Lab (Vision, Analysis and Simulation Technologies Laboratory)
Research Interests
Research areas: Computational Biomedicine, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.
Major Emphasis: Novel theories for segmentation methods, dynamic object tracking and recognition, statistical modeling, physics-based and deformable object modeling, computer animation of fluid phenomena, control methds for animation and haptic interaction.
Applications: heart modeling and analysis, segmentation methods for internal organs, lung, cancer and prostate cancer detection, functional anatomy, American Sign Language Recognition, 3D Dynamic and Stochastic Human Tracking, Human Activity Recognition, Modeling of clothes, smoke and water, control methods for human and other special effects animations.