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CV Lab secures NRPU grant from HEC
Our NRPU proposal on “Analyzing and Forecasting Socio-economic development using Satellite Imagery of Districts of Punjab” has been approved for funding by HEC. Acceptance rate among CS & IT related proposals in NRPU call for 2017-18 was only 3% and the overall acceptance rate was only 28%. Our is among 1104 accepted proposals out of total […]
Open Positions
PhD (Stipend, Fees) 2 x PhD Position in Agriculture Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision 2 x PhD Position in Satellite Imagery, Deep Learning, Image Processing MS (Stipend) 2 x MS Position in Agriculture Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision 2 x MS Position in Satellite Imagery, Deep Learning, Image Processing How To Apply: Email: murtaza.taj@lums.edu.pk Apply Online: https://admissions.lums.edu.pk/
Summer Internships 2018
The Computer Vision Lab hosted a rigorous summer internship program for undergraduate students. Sophomore, Junior and Senior interns worked for 2 months in the lab, under the supervision of faculty and PhD students. The students worked both individually and in groups, on a range of ideas, from making a campus 3D model to automatic generation […]
MS Thesis Defense: Mohbat Tharani
Challenging the dogma of Relevance Feedback in Content based Image Retrieval Systems with Deep Learning May, 2018 at 3:00 pm in Smart Room 9-105 SBASSE. Abstract Association of images to their content based similar images in a database, is quite a fascinating challenge specially on social media platform where billions of tagged and untagged images […]
Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Ijaz Akhter
Tuesday 20 Nov, 2012 at 5:50 pm in Smart Room 9-105 SSE. Abstract A variety of dynamic objects, such as faces, bodies, and cloth, are represented in computer vision and computer graphics as a collection of moving spatial landmarks. A number of tasks are performed on this type of data such as character animation, motion […]
Press Release on Carnegie Mellon News
Our joint research project with Iain Matthews at Disney Research Pittsburgh and Yaser Sheikh and Tomas Simon at Carnegie Mellon University is covered by Carnegie Mellon News. To quote from the press release: Computer graphic artists who produce computer-animated movies and games spend much time creating subtle movements such as expressions on faces, gesticulations on […]
Haris Baig to continue his Ph.D. studies at Dartmouth
M Haris Baig, who did his senior project in CV lab and also is a co-author on our ICCV 2011 paper, has received a fully funded PhD offer from Univ of Dartmouth, where he will be joining this Fall. He will be working with Lorenzo Torresani, who has pioneering work in the field of nonrigid […]
Maheen Rashid wins Fulbright Scholarship
Maheen Rashid, a CV Lab research assistant since 2011, who earlier also did her senior project in our lab, has received a Fulbright scholarship and has joined Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University for her Ph.D. studies. Maheen worked on Single View Reconstruction during her research assistantship here, and has coauthored our ECCV 2012 paper […]
CV Lab students win at Startup Weekend Lahore
Group Photo, a project at CV Lab by Aamer Zaheer, Ali Rehan, Abdur Rehman Naeem and Maria Zubair, won the first position at Startup Weekend Lahore. Group Photo android app solved the age-old problem that while taking a photograph of a group of friends, the photographer is missed out in the picture. The app, which […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Arif Mahmood
Arif Mahmood successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on May 27, 2011 at LUMS, Lahore. Thesis Abstract: Template matching is frequently used in Digital Image Processing, Machine Vision, Remote Sensing and Pattern Recognition, and a large number of template matching algorithms have been proposed in literature. The performance of these algorithms may be evaluated from the […]
