robert pless

Best Paper Award, "SparkleGeometry: Glitter Imaging for 3D Point Tracking" (Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless), In IEEE Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays, 2016
Best Paper Award, ICDP 2013, for Finding Jane Doe: A Forensic Application of 2D Image Calibration Abby Stylianou, Austin Abrams, Robert Pless 5th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention
Best Student Paper Award, to NathanJacobs, for: Passive vision: The global webcam imaging network.
Nathan Jacobs, Richard Souvenir, and Robert Pless.
In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2009.
Ph.D. Forum Prize awarded to Nathan Jacobs at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2009.
Reviewers' Choice Award, for: Applications of Manifold Learning Techniques in 4D-CT Reconstruction
Andrew Hope, Manfred Georg, Jonathan Cannon, J Hubenschmidt, Wei Lu, Dan Low, and Robert Pless
In International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR), 2007.
NSF Graduate Fellowship for Calvin Murdock, an undergraduate in my lab now working with Fernando de la Torre at Carnegie Mellon.
NSF Graduate Fellowship for my PhD student, Richard Souvenir, now Associate Professor at UNC-Charlotte.
Goldwater Fellowship for Nathaniel Roman, an undergraduate student who did extensive research in our lab.

Research to improve strain mapping variation of optic flow algorithm featured in gizmag, this work started as a class project in my Computer Vision class.
Finding the lost grave of a Jane Doe crime victim in a 30 year old case from old imagery (Fox News story).
CACM blurb: a cloudly day time-lapse to solve for 3D scene structure.
New Scientist blurb: integrate webcams into Google Earth.
The Engineering School Magazine recently wrote up a non-technical version of the research in my lab.