Neuroscientists are now collecting datasets of unprecedented scale thanks to technological advances. Yet, there are many unanswered questions that must be addressed to keep moving the field forward. To Register for the Webinar.
The paper entitled “Sequence of the most informative joints (SMIJ): A new representation for human skeletal action recognition” co-authored by CIS and CS PhD alumni Rizwan Chaudhry and CIS and BME Professor René Vidal, Ph.D., has received Elsevier’s 2015 Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) Best Paper Award. The paper proposed a novel […]
René Vidal, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Imaging Science, will be co-hosting a workshop at the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2016). IMCL 2016 is scheduled for June 19-24 in New York City. The workshop, entitled “Theory of Deep Learning”, is scheduled for June 24. Dr. Vidal is hosting the workshop […]
This workshop is organized by Rene Vidal, Alan Yuille, and Austin Reiter. The workshop brings together computer vision researchers around the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States for an informal exchange of ideas in all areas of computer vision. We welcome people to present new research, work that will be presented at upcoming conferences, reviews of […]
Tilak Ratnanather, associate research professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, has earned a reputation as a remarkable scientist, researcher, role model, and mentor. Born with probable damage to his inner ear, Ratnanather was fitted with hearing aids at an early age and attended schools for the deaf through high school. His family moved from […]
Dr. Tilak Ratnanather, associate research professor of Biomedical Engineering and core faculty member of the Center for Imaging Science, is featured on the cover of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Magazine Winter 2016 release. Inside, a four-page article entitled, “Can You Hear Me Now?” expounds upon his tireless efforts to increase the number of deaf […]
Michael I. Miller, Ph.D., Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor, Director, Center for Imaging Science, has been recognized as one of the “Influential BioMedical Engineering Professors Who Teach Online” by onlineengineeringprograms.com. The online resource lists Dr. Miller and Johns Hopkins University among the number of highly regarded universities which offer online biomedical engineering programs. Click here to view.
The Kavli Foundation and its university partners will announce on Oct. 1 the founding of three new neuroscience research institutes, including one at Johns Hopkins. The new Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute will bring an interdisciplinary group of researchers together to investigate the workings of the brain. “The challenges of tomorrow will not be confined to […]
The solutions to the world’s biggest challenges do not lie in any one discipline—they lie in the connections among big thinkers and bridge-builders. The four individuals appointed this week as Bloomberg Distinguished Professors represent this new generation of cross-specialty collaborators who pull insights from across the spectrum of human knowledge. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships are […]
Donald Geman, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and core faculty member in the Center for Imaging Science and the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. The honor is bestowed […]
