Fall 2006 semester completed

I've completed the Fall 2006 semester. During this semester I cleared the relatively small hurdle of passing the oral qualifiers. For Stevens, if you have passed the written quals, the oral quals is more of a formality. (not to trivialize it!) And the good news is, unofficially, I believe i've completed 51 of the 90 credits that I need to complete the PhD. The bad news is that even if I complete all the credits I still won' t graduate. Here's why...
I've now completed 2 stages of the 4 stage PhD process. Stage 1 and 2 were the written and oral quals. Next, I must conjure a thesis proposal and present it to the CS department (stage 3). Upon approval, I can begin research in earnest towards proving my thesis. If the moons are aligned, then in a few years i'll prove my thesis and successfully defend it as part of a thesis defense (stage 4).
For the spring semester I plan to research vector and tensor fields with the hope of applying 3D shape matching techniques for improved matching/comparison of vector and tensor fields. peace-out and happy holidays 2006!

Fall Fall

Yeah, I know, I havn't updated this thing in a while. It's a free blog, so you get what you pay for. Anyways, that multi-resolution spin-image paper that I was working on with my advisor was published. Here's the link:
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/cvpr/2006/2597/01/2597toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/CVPR.2006.197

We gave a presentation at the conference in June in some NYU building. There were lots of cool presentations there. If you ever have an opportunity to go to a computer vision/computer graphics conference definitely do it!

Ohh, and i'm taking six research credits towards my PhD this fall and auditing Advanced Calculus. Hopefully, if all goes well i'll be putting together some concepts towards my thesis topic by the end of the semester, but we'll see...

Passed the written Quals!

Yo, I passed the written qual exams! (Algorithms, Operating Systems, Programming Languages)
Sweet. Now i'm preparing for the IEEE CVPR conference. I'll be presenting my work on improving spin images. The spin images concept was conjured by Johnson and Hebert (from CMU at the time).
I'll post a link to the paper after it's published.

Get up to speed

OK, so... I started this adventure in the Spring of 2005 by taking the class CS-638 Computer Graphics II, at Stevens Institute of Technology.
As a result of taking this class, I developed a spin image correlation application. Further details on this application, source code and associated powerpoint slides can be found here.

One piece of follow-on work that i'm working on now is to perform a more in-depth analysis of spin images. I'll provide a reference to the results once I generate some good stuff.

First post

This is my first post to the blog. I'm sure everything will work out great. I feel compelled to say "Hello World".