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Karl
Ni Research
Staff MIT Lincoln Laboratory Phone:
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Education
Doctorate
(2008)
Under the advisement of Truong Q.
Nguyen
Video Processing Laboratory
Statistical Visual Computing Lab
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Masters of
Science
(2005)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of
Science
(2002)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS)
University of California at Berkeley
Curriculum
Vitae (4/2007)
Resume (9/2006)
Research
Support
Vector Regression based Superresolution
Learning
the Kernel Matrix for Superresolution
Optimal
Regression Techniques from Training Sets
Optimal Regression Techniques for Color Image (and
Video) Superresolution
Publications
Book
Chapter Contributions
- Peyman
Milanfar, Super-Resolution
Imaging,
Chapter X - “Pattern Recognition Techniques for Image
Interpolation”, K. Ni, T. Q. Nguyen, to appear in September 2010, Francis and
Taylor/
- Truong
Nguyen, The Video Processing Online Resource, Chapter 11 -
“Image Interpolation”, N. Mueller and K. Ni , to appear in
July 2010
- Truong
Nguyen, The Video Processing Online Resource, Chapter 12
– “Advanced Concepts in Image Interpolation”, K. Ni, S.
Kumar, M. Li, and S. Ho, to appear in July 2010
Journal
Papers
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, Image Superresolution Using
Support Vector Regression:
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, No. 6, June 2007,
pp 1596-1610. (Number 1 in the list of "Top 10 Most Viewed Articles" in
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, June 2007.)
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, An
Adaptive k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for MMSE Image Interpolation, IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 9, September 2009, pp
1976-1987.
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, Mixture of Experts Framework for Color Image Superresolution,
manuscript submitted to Correspondences of the IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing (TIP) on 1/19/08.
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, Zero-phase Filter Design for Image Interpolation,
manuscript submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) on
3/29/2008.
Conference Papers
- S. Sawyer and
K. Ni, “XXXX” (HPEC)
- S. Sawyer and
K. Ni, “XXXX” (R?)
- H. Viggh and
K. Ni, “SIFT Based Localization Using Prior World Model for Robotic
Navigation in Urban Environments,” to appear in Presentation and
Proceedings of the 16th
International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern
Recognition, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada (IPCV-2012)
- K. Ni, Z.
Sun, N. Bliss, "Real-time Global Motion Blur Detection", to
appear in Presentation and Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2012,
Orlando, Florida, (ICIP-2012)
- N. Arcalano,
K. Ni, B. Miller, N. Bliss, P. Wolfe, "Moments of Parameter Estimates
for Chung-Lu Random Graph Models", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2012, Kyoto Japan,
ICASSP-2012
- A. Vasile, L.
Skelly, K. Ni, R. Heinrichs, O. Camps, and M. Sznaier, “Efficient
City-sized 3D Reconstruction from Ultra-High Resolution Aerial and Ground
Video Imagery”,
Proceedings of the IEEE
International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2011, Las Vegas, NV,
ISCV-2011, pp 347-358
- K. Ni, Z.
Sun, N. Bliss, "3-D
Image Geo-Registration Using Vision-Based Modeling",
Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2011,
Prague, Czech Republic, ICASSP-2011, pp 1573 - 1576
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, "Empirical
Type-I Filter Design for Image Interpolation",
Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
ICASSP-2010, pp 866 - 869
- Z. Sun, N.
Bliss, & K. Ni, "A
3-D Feature Model for Image Matching", Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP-2010, pp
2194-2197
- K. Ni, Z.
Sun, N. Bliss, & N. Snavely, "Construction
and exploitation of a 3D model from 2D image features",
Proceedings of SPIE International
Conference on Electronic Imaging, Inverse Problems Session, SPIE-2010,
Vol. 7533, San Jose, CA, U.S.A., January 2010.
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, "Polyphase
Interpretation of Empirical Image Interpolation",
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech,
and Signal Processing, ICASSP-2009,
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, "A
Model for Image Patch-based Algorithms",
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,
ICIP-2008, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., September 2008, pp 2588-2591
- K. Ni, T.Q.
Nguyen, "An
Adaptive k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Image Interpolation",
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech
and Signal Processing, ICASSP-2008,
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, "Color
Image Superresolution Based on a Stochastic Combinational
Classification-Regression Algorithm", Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2007,
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, "Complex
Function Estimation using a Stochastic Classification/Regression
Framework: Specific Applications to Image Superresolution",
Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Optics and
Photonics, SPIE-2007, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., August 2007. (Invited
paper)
- V.
Ramachandra, K. Ni, T. Q. Nguyen, "Filling Time by Plugging Holes",
Presented in the 34th International Conference and
Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques,
SIGGRAPH-2007, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., August 2007. [Results] [Supplemental]
- K. Ni, T. Q.
Nguyen, "Kernel
Resolution Synthesis for Superresolution",
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech
and Signal Processing, ICASSP-2007,
- K. Ni,
- K. Ni, S.
Kumar, N. Vasconcelos, T. Q. Nguyen, "Single Image
Superresolution Based on Support Vector Regression", Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing, ICASSP-2006, Toulouse, France, May 2006. Vol 2, pp
601-604. [Results]
Miscellaneous Talks and
Invited Presentations
- SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for
Scientific Computing, On Sparse Representations
for Scalability in Image Pattern Matching, February 2011
- Banff International Research Station (BIRS) Workshop
– Sampling and Reconstruction: Applications and Advances, Scalability in Geo-registering and
Geo-locating Images with 3-D Data, November 2010, Banff, Canada
- High Performance and Embedded Computing (-Software
Initiative), HPEC(-SI) Talk Titled:
Image Registration in Urban Photo-collections, September 2010, A Coarse to Fine Framework for
Geo-registration and Geo-location from Images, September
2011.Lexington, MA
- Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
Workshop. Poster: Scalable Image
Graph Matching and Analysis, December 2010,
Patents Owned
- Y. Ye, G. Dane, Y-C. Lee, M-C. Tsai, N-C. Feng, and
K. Ni, "Temporal
error concealment for video communications", Invention disclosed
to QUALCOMM, United States Patent, Publication# 20060133495, Filed
12/22/2004, Issued 6/22/2006.
- K. Ni, T. Q. Nguyen, "Combinational
Classification-Regression Function Estimation with Application to Image
and Video Processing", Disclosed to the University of California, San
Diego. November 2, 2006. Provisional patent filed April 12, 2007 based on
ICASSP 2007 submission.
- S. Kumar, K. Ni, T. Q. Nguyen, Disclosed to the
University of California, San Diego. August 2, 2007
- K. Ni, H. Masnadi, T. Q. Nguyen, N. Vasconcelos,
Disclosed to the University of California, San Diego, September 3, 2007