Mihran Tuceryan

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986
• B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978

Professional Experience

• Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (March 1997 - present)
  Associate Professor in Computer Science
• Information in Place, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana (Summers of 2002, 2003)
  Visiting Professor
• Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. (SCR) (Summers of 1999, 2000, and 2001)
  Visiting Professor
• Texas Instruments (Oct 1995 - March 1997)
  Member of Technical Staff
• European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC) (Sept 1992 - Sept 1995)
  Senior Research Scientist
• Michigan State University (Sept 1986 - August 1992)
  Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Research Grants

• Mihran Tuceryan, “Advanced three-dimensional Imaging and Visualization for Biomedical Research,” Indiana University Strategic Directions Round 3 Funding, 6/1/1998-5/30/2000, $310,000.

• M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Integration of Perceptual Grouping Modules with 3D Interpretation Modules,'' National Science Foundation, February 1992 - July 1994, $233,401.00.
• M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Perceptual Grouping in Computer Vision,'' National Science Foundation, June 1987 - December 1989, $156,761.00.

Patents Awarded

• Yakup Genc, Nassir Navab, Mihran Tuceryan, Erin McGarrity, US Patent #7190331: “System and method for measuring the registration accuracy of an augmented reality system,” Awarded, 3/13/2007. (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
• Mihran Tuceryan, Nassir Navab, and Yakup Genc, US Patent #6753828: “System and method for calibrating a stereo optical see-through head-mounted display system for augmented reality,” Awarded, June 22, 2004. (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc).
• Mihran Tuceryan and B. Flinchbaugh, US Patent #6044168: “Model based faced coding and decoding using feature detection and eigenface coding,” Awarded, March 28, 2000. (Texas Instruments, Inc).

Publications

• Book Chapters and Sections
  • M. Tuceryan, R. Raje. “Distributed Heterogeneous Tracking for Augmented Reality Using Component-based Software Technologies.”  Vol. 2, pp. 207-212, Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce, David Taniar (ed.), Information Science Reference, 2007.
  • M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Texture Analysis,'' In The Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (2nd Edition), by C. H. Chen, L. F. Pau, P. S. P. Wang (eds.), pp. 207-248, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1998.
  • N. Ahuja and M. Tuceryan, ``Perceptual Organization of Dot Patterns,'' Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1, pp. 253-256, S. Shapiro (ed.), Wiley, 1985.
• Reviewed Journal Papers
  • M. Tuceryan, Y. Genc, and N. Navab, “Single point active alignment method (SPAAM) for optical see-through HMD calibration for augmented reality,” Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 259–276, June 2002.
  • Shiaofen Fang, Mihran Tuceryan and Ken Dunn, "Three-Dimensional Microscopy Data Exploration by Interactive Volume Visualization," in Journal of Scanning Microscopies, vol. 22, pp. 218–226, July/August 2000.
  • Gudrun J. Klinker, Klaus H. Ahlers, David E. Breen, Pierre-Yves Chevalier, Chris Crampton, Douglas S. Greer, Dieter Koller, Andre Kramer, Eric Rose, Mihran Tuceryan, Ross Whitaker, ``Confluence of Computer Vision and Interactive Graphics for Augmented Reality,'' PRESENCE, Special Issue on Augmented Reality, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 433-451, August, 1997.
  • M. Tuceryan, D. S. Greer, D. E. Breen, R. T. Whitaker, C. Crampton, E. Rose, and K. Ahlers, ``Calibration Requirements and Procedures for a Monitor-Based Augmented Reality System,'' In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 255-273, September 1995.
  • D. Trytten and M. Tuceryan, ``The Construction of Labeled Line Drawings from Intensity Images.'' In Pattern Recognition Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 171-198, 1995.
  • M. Tuceryan, ``Moment Based Texture Segmentation.'' in Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 15, pp. 659-668, July 1994.
  • M. Tuceryan and T. Chorzempa, ``Relative Sensitivity of a Family of closest point graphs in computer vision applications,'' Pattern Recognition, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 361-373, 1991.
  • M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Texture Segmentation Using Voronoi Polygons,'' IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-12, pp. 211-216, February, 1990.
  • N. Ahuja and M. Tuceryan, ``Extraction of Early Perceptual Structure in Dot Patterns: Integrating Region, Boundary, and Component Gestalt,'' Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, vol. 48, pp. 304-356, December 1989.
• Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
  • Adebayo Olowoyeye, Mihran Tuceryan, Shiaofen Fang, “Medical Volume Segmentation using Bank of Gabor Filters,” in Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 826-830, March 2009.
  • Glenn Flora, Mihran Tuceryan, Herb Blitzer, “Forensic Bite Mark Identification Using Image Processing Methods,” in Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 903-907, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2009.
  • Amirali Jazayeri, Hongyuan Cai, Jiang Yu Zheng, Mihran Tuceryan, Herbert Blitzer, “An Intelligent Video System for Vehicle Localization and Tracking in Police Cars,” in Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 939-940, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2009. (Poster paper)
  • Mihran Tuceryan, Herb Blitzer, Fang Li, Edwin T. Parks, Jeffrey A. Platt, and Glenn Flora, “Use of 3-D Imaging and Mathematics in Assigning the Probability of a Match Between a Dental Model and a Bite Mark,” in Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Denver, Colorado, Feb 2009. (Abstract)
  • D. S. Greer, M. Tuceryan (2008). “Image Retrieval and Classification Using Associative Reciprocal-image Attractors.” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 713-716, San Diego, CA, Oct, 2008.
  • Girish G. Joshi, Rajeev R. Raje, Mihran Tuceryan (2008), “Designing and Experimenting with a Distributed Tracking System,” in 14th Intl Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 64-71, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2008.
  • Alex Leykin and Mihran Tuceryan, “Detecting Shopper Groups in Video Sequences,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 07), pp. 417-422, London, UK, September 2007.
  • Jiandong Fang, Shiaofen Fang, Jeffrey Huang, M. Tuceryan, "Digital Geometry Image Analysis for Medical Diagnosis," In Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 216-220, Dijon, France, 2006.
  • S. H. Liu, B. R. Bryant, J. Gray, R. Raje, M. Tuceryan, A. Olson, M. Auguston. "QoSPL: A QoS-Driven Software Product Line Engineering Framework for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems." pp.724 - 729, In Proceedings of First International Workshop on Evaluation and Evolution of Component Composition (held at SEKE '06), San Francisco, CA, USA, July, 2006.
  • Alex Leykin and Mihran Tuceryan "A Vision System for Automated Customer Tracking for Marketing Analysis: Low Level Feature Extraction." In Proc. of the International Workshop on Human Activity Recognition and Modelling, pp. 1-7, Oxford, UK, September 2005.
  • S. H. Liu, B. R. Bryant, M. Auguston, J. Gray, R. Raje, M. Tuceryan. A Component-Based Approach for Constructing High-Confidence Distributed Embedded Systems. LNCS, Springer Verlag, Vol.4322, pp.225 - 247, In Proceedings of the Monterey Workshop Series, 2005 Theme: Workshop on Networked Systems: Realization of Reliable Systems on Top of Unreliable Networked Platforms, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, September, 2005.
  • A. Leykin and M. Tuceryan "Automatic determination of text readability over textured backgrounds for augmented reality systems" in Proc. of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2004), pp. 224-230, Nov 2-5, 2004, Washington, DC.
  • A. Leykin, F.Cutzu and M.Tuceryan  "Using Multiple Views To Resolve Human Body Tracking Ambiguities." in Proc. of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2004), pp. 217-226, Sept 7-9, 2004, London, UK.
  • A. Leykin and M. Tuceryan, "Determining text readability over textured backgrounds in augmented reality systems," in Proceedings of the ACM  SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI 2004), pp. 436-439, Singapore, June 16-18, 2004.
  • Y. Genc, M. Tuceryan, and N. Navab, "Practical Solutions for Calibration of Optical See-through Devices," in Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR '02), pp. 169–175, Darmstadt, Germany, Sept 30–Oct 1, 2002.
  • Y. Genc, M. Tuceryan, A. Khamene, and N. Navab, “Optical see-through calibration with vision-based trackers: propagation of projection matrices,” In Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, pp. 147–156, New York, NY, October 2001.
  • E. McGarrity, Y. Genc, M. Tuceryan, C. Owen, and N. Navab, “A new system for online quantitative evaluation of optical see-through augmentation,” In Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, pp. 157–166, New York, NY, October 2001.
  • E. McGarrity, M. Tuceryan, C. Owen, Y. Genc, and N. Navab, “Evaluation of Optical See-Through Systems,” In Proceedings of Euroimage International Conference on Augmented, Virtual Environments and Three-Dimensional Imaging (ICAV3D), pp. 18–21, Mykonos, Greece May 30–June 1, 2001.
  • Y. Genc, F. Sauer, F. Wenzel, M. Tuceryan,  and N. Navab, “Optical See-Through HMD Calibration: A Novel Stereo Method Validated with a Video See-Through System,” in Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, pp. 165-174, Munich, Germany, October, 2000.
  • M. Tuceryan and N. Navab, “Single Point Active Alignment Method (SPAAM) for Optical See-through HMD Calibration for AR,” in Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, pp. 149-158, Munich, Germany, October, 2000.
  • R. L. Hsu, A. K. Jain, and Mihran Tuceryan, “Multiresolution Model Compression Using 3D Wavelets,'' In Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2000, pp. 74-79, Jan 8-11, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Erin McGarrity and Mihran Tuceryan, ``A Method for Calibrating See-through Head-mounted Displays for AR,'' in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Augmented Reality (IWAR 99), pp. 75-84, San Francisco, CA, Oct 20-21, 1999.
  • Shiaofen Fang, Tom Biddlecome and Mihran Tuceryan, "Image-Based Transfer Function Design for Data Exploration in Volume Visualization," Proc. IEEE Visualization'98, pp. 319-326, 1998.
  • Tom Biddlecome, Shiaofen Fang, Ken Dunn and Mihran Tuceryan "Image Guided Interactive Volume Visualization for Confocal Microscopy Data Exploration," Proc. 1998 SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, pp. 130-140, Feb., 1998.
  • D. Koller, G. Klinker, E. Rose, D. Breen, R. Whitaker, M. Tuceryan, ``Real-time Vision-Based Camera Tracking for Augmented Reality Applications,'' in Proceedings of the Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST-97), pp. 87-94, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 15-17, 1997.
  • M. Davis and M. Tuceryan, ``Coding of Facial Image Sequences by Model-Based Optical Flow,'' in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Synthetic-Natural Hybrid Coding and Three Dimensional Imaging (IWSNHC3DI'97), pp. 192-194, September 5-9, 1997, Rodos-Palace, Rhodes, Greece.
  • D. Koller, G. Klinker, E. Rose, D. Breen, R. Whitaker, M. Tuceryan, ``Automated Camera Calibration and 3D Egomotion Estimation for Augmented Reality Applications,'' in Proceedings of CAIP '97, 7th International Conference Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, pp. 199-206, Kiel, Germany, September 10-12, 1997; G. Sommer, K. Daniilidis, and J. Pauli (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1296, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
  • D. E. Breen, R. T. Whitaker, E. Rose, and M. Tuceryan, ``Interactive Occlusion and Automatic Object Placement for Augmented Reality,'' In Proc. of Eurographics '96 Conference, pp. 11-22, Poitiers, France, August 26-30, 1996. (Also an ECRC Tech Report: ECRC-95-02)
  • R. T. Whitaker, C. Crampton, D. E. Breen, M. Tuceryan, and E. Rose, ``Object Calibration for Augmented Reality,'' In Eurographics '95 Conference, pp. 15-27, Maastricht, The Netherlands. (Also an ECRC Tech Report: ECRC-95-04)
  • K. Ahlers, A. Kramer, D. Breen, P.-Y. Chevalier, C. Crampton, E. Rose, M. Tuceryan, R. Whitaker, and D. Greer, ``Distributed Augmented Reality for Collaborative Design Applications,'' In Eurographics '95 Conference, pp. 3-14, Maastricht, The Netherlands. (Also an ECRC Tech Report: ECRC-95-03)
  • E. Rose, D. Breen, K. Ahlers, C. Crampton, M. Tuceryan, R. T. Whitaker, and D. Greer, ``Annotating Real-World Objects Using Augmented Vision,'' In Proc. of Computer Graphics International '95, pp. 357-370, Leeds, UK. (Also and ECRC Tech Report: ECRC-94-41).
  • K. Ahlers, D. E. Breen, C. Crampton, E. Rose, M. Tuceryan, R. T. Whitaker, and D. Greer, ``Augmented Vision System for Industrial Applications,'' in Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Intelligence Robots and Computer Vision, Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies, pp. 345-359, Nov. 1994, Boston, MA. (Also an ECRC Tech Report: ECRC-94-39)
  • S. Pankanti, A. K. Jain, and M. Tuceryan, ``On Integration of Vision Modules,'' in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 316-322, 1994.
  • M. Tuceryan, ``Moment Based Texture Segmentation,'' in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Conference C: Image, Speech, and Signal Analysis, vol. III, pp. 45-48, The Hague, Netherlands, August 1992.
  • M. Tuceryan, A. K. Jain, and N. Ahuja, ``Supervised Classification of Early Perceptual Structure in Dot Patterns,'' in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Conference B: Pattern Recognition Methodologies and Systems, vol. II, pp. 88-91, The Hague, Netherlands, August 1992.
  • D. Trytten and M. Tuceryan, ``Segmentation and Grouping of Object Boundaries Using Energy Minimization,'' in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 730-731, Maui, 1991.
  • N. S. Raja, M. Tuceryan, and A. K. Jain, ``Texture Segmentation on two high-performance computers,'' in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Computer Architectures for Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 601-605, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 1990.
  • M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Segmentation and Grouping of Object Boundaries,'' in Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 570-575, November 14-17, 1989, Cambridge, MA.
  • M. Tuceryan, A. K. Jain, and Y. Lee, ``Texture Segmentation Using Voronoi Polygons,'' in Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 94-99, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1988.
  • M. Tuceryan, A. K. Jain, and Y. Lee, ``Extracting Perceptual Structures in Line Patterns,'' in Proceedings of the 5th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, pp. 531-538, June 1987.
  • M. Tuceryan and N. Ahuja, ``Perceptual Grouping of Dot Patterns,'' in Proceedings of the SPIE Conf. on Optical and Digital Pattern Recognition, January 13-15, 1987, Los Angeles, CA.
  • M. Tuceryan and N. Ahuja, ``Extracting Perceptual Structure in Dot Patterns,'' in Proceedings of the 1985 IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation: Cognitive Aspects in Information Processing, June 28-29, 1985, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
  • M. Tuceryan and N. Ahuja, ``Perceptual Segmentation of Nonhomogeneous Dot Patterns,'' in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 47-52, June 19-23, 1983, Washington, DC, USA.
  • M. Tuceryan and N. Ahuja, ``Segmentation of Dot Patterns Containing Homogeneous Clusters,'' in Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 392-394, Oct. 19-22, 1982, Munich, Germany.
• Invited Conference Papers
  • N. Ahuja and M. Tuceryan, ``Representing Geometric Structure in Dot Patterns,'' in Proceedings of Geobild '85, Georgenthal, DDR, January 14-18, 1985.

Courses Taught at IUPUI (1997 - present)

Graduate Level

Computer Vision and Image Processing, Virtual and Augmented environments, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining, Computer Architecture.

Undergraduate Level

Introduction to Computing, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Introduction to Theory of Computation, Numerical Methods.

Courses Taught at MSU (1986 - 1992)

Graduate Level

Computer Vision, Fundamentals of Pattern Recognition, Advances in Pattern Recognition (Topic: Integration of Visual Modules), Artificial Intelligence.

Undergraduate Level

Computer Graphics, Computer Architecture, Digital Logic Design, Introduction to Theory of Computation.

Theses Directed

Alex Leykin, PhD degree, 2007

Visual Human Tracking and Group Activity Analysis: A Video Mining System for Retail Marketing

Deborah Trytten, PhD, 1992

The Construction of Labeled Line Drawings from Intensity Images

Terence Chorzempa, MS degree, 1988

Relative Sensitivity of a Family of Closest Point Graphs in Vision Applications

Masters Projects Supervised

Vibhu A. Veerabadrappa, 1991

An Interactive Tool to visualize 3D Surfaces

Ki-Yin Chang, 1992

3D Surface Shading with Illumination under X Window System

Renuka V. Savalapurkar, 1992

An Interactive Demonstration Tool for Image Processing Applications

Srinivas Battu, 1992

XIB: X Interface Builder

Membership in Professional Societies

• Member, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• Member, The Association for Computing Machinery