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Scott T. Acton |
| Research Interests: |
- Image and Video Processing
- Biomedical Image Analysis
- Biomedical and military tracking problems
- Content-based image retrieval
- Diffusion algorithms, active contours
- Image morphology and scale space
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| Professor and Director, VIVA |
Email address:
acton@virginia.edu |
Home Page:
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Phone:
(434) 982-2003 |
Fax:
(434) 924-8818 |
Office:
Thornton Hall - E309 |
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Summary:
Scott Acton's research group, Virginia Image and Video Analysis (VIVA), specializes in image analysis techniques such as image segmentation and motion tracking. Current projects including tracking cells observed in vivo, tracking military targets in clutter, segmenting the myocardial border in ultrasound and MR images, and seeking new ways of retrieving images by content. Theoretical interests include diffusion algorithms that utilize partial differential equations, scale space theory, active contours (snakes), level set theory, optimization techniques for image processing, and image morphology.
Background:
Scott Acton received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech (1988). He has worked in industry for AT&T, the MITRE Corporation and Motorola, Inc. and in academia for Oklahoma State University. For his research in video tracking, Dr. Acton was given an ARO Young Investigator Award. He received the Halliburton Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 1998. In 1997, he was named the Eta Kappa Nu utstanding Young Electrical Engineer -- a national award that has been given annually since 1936. At UVa, he received the New Faculty Teaching Award in 2002 and was named Faculty Fellow in 2003. Dr. Acton is a senior member of the IEEE and has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Research:
Most Recent Publications:
- S.T. Acton and N. Ray, Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2005.
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