James E. Fowler — Research Group

Research Areas

My research interests include:
  • computational imaging
  • analysis and coding of hyperspectral imagery
  • random projections and compressed-sensing of imagery and video
  • image and video coding

Former Students

  • Zoe Fowler (B.S. EE, May 2021); currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jinhuan Xu, Ph.D. (visiting from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
  • Christopher Stefanovic (M.S. ECE, December 2019); currently at Radiance Technologies
  • Amit Das (M.S. ECE, December 2019); currently at the University of North Alabama
  • Xiaoqing Wan, Ph.D. (visiting from Harbin Engineering University, China)
  • Nicolas Sockeel (Ph.D. ECE, May 2018); dissertation: “Sensitivity Analysis of the Battery Model for Model Predictive Control Implementable into a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle” dissertation director M. Shahverdi; currently at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Meng Lv, Ph.D. (visiting from China Agricultural University, China); currently at China Agricultural University
  • Vineetha Menon (Ph.D. ECE, December 2016); dissertation: “Dimensionality Reduction of Hyperspectral Imagery Using Random Projections”; currently at the University of Alabama Hunstville
  • Wu Liu, Ph.D. (visiting from Harbin Engineering University, China)
  • Nam H. Ly (Ph.D. ECE, December 2013); dissertation: “Dimension Reduction for Hyperspectral Imagery”; currently at Microsoft
  • Eric W. Tramel (Ph.D. CPE, December 2012); dissertation: “Distance-Weighted Regularization for Compressed-Sensing Video Recovery and Supervised Hyperspectral Classification”; currently at Amazon
  • Sungkwang Mun (Ph.D. CPE, December 2012); dissertation: “Block Compressed Sensing of Images and Video”; currently at Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University
  • Chen Chen (M.S. EE, May 2012); thesis: “Multihypothesis Prediction for Compressed Sensing and Super-Resolution of Images”; currently at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Wei Li (Ph.D. EE, May 2012); dissertation: “Pattern Classification and Reconstruction for Hyperspectral Imagery”; currently at Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Zhen Ye, Ph.D. (visiting from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); currently at Chang'an University
  • Azam Karami, Ph.D. (visiting from Shiraz University, Iran); currently at the University of Antwerp
  • Jing Zhang (Ph.D., December 2009); dissertation: “Research on 3D Hyperspectral Imagery Compression”; co-directed with G. Liu at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China; currently at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks of Xidian University
  • Kristen M. Parker (M.S. EE, December 2007); thesis: “Watermarking with Wavelet Transforms”; currently at Southern Company, Birmingham, AL.
  • Joseph B. Boettcher (M.S. CPE, December 2007); thesis: “Video Coding with 3D Wavelet Transforms”; currently at FoxFuel Creative
  • Maria Trocan (Ph.D., October 2007); co-advised with B. Pesquet-Popescu at ENST Paris; currently at Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris
  • Justin T. Rucker (M.S. EE, December 2005); thesis: “3D Wavelet-Based Algorithms for the Compression of Geoscience Data”; currently at Quality Vision International, Tempe AZ
  • Yonghui Wang (Ph.D. CPE, December 2003); dissertation: “Fully Scalable Video Coding Using Redundant-Wavelet Multihypothesis and Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering”; currently at the Department of Computer Science, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.
  • Suxia Cui (Ph.D. CPE, August 2003); dissertation: “Motion Estimation and Compensation in the Redundant Wavelet Domain”; currently at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.
  • Li Hua (Ph.D. EE, August 2003); dissertation: “Vector Wavelet Transforms for the Coding of Static and Time-Varying Vector Fields”; currently at Microsoft, Redmond, WA.
  • Madhavi Marka (M.S. EE, August 2002); thesis: “Object-Based Unequal Error Protection”; currently at Medtronic
  • Tong Chu (M.S. CPE, Dec. 2000)