Dr. Vidya Manian

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico
PO Box 9042
Mayaguez, PR 00681-9042
Office: CID Bldg. 221
Phone: (787) 832 4040 x 5298, 5299
Fax: (787) 832-2825
Email: manian@ece.uprm.edu
RESEARCH

  • Remote Sensing and Biomedical image processing - development of algebraic topology, conceptual algorithm development and implementation with application to classification, target detection in geospatial and biomedical images.

  • Image texture modeling - grey scale, color, multi/hyperspectral images.
  • Image Classification - hyperspectral/multispectral images and target detection.
  • Hardware implementation - algorithm modules for color/multispectral iamge processing.

    • Graduate Assistantship is available for graduate students who are interested in working in the above areas. Pls. contact me.

    TEACHING

    Fall 2009

    Spring 2009

    Fundamentals of Computing-ICOM 4075

    Image Processing-INEL 5327

    FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
    Graduate Students
  • Sol Marie Cruz - MS Electrical Engineering. Graduated July 2008
  • Andres Alarcon - MS Computer Engineering. Graduated July 2009
  • Nestor Diaz - MS Computer Engineering
  • Susi Huaman - MS Computer Engineering
  • Fanny Nina - MS Computer Engineering
  • Romel Campana - MS Computer Engineering
    • EDUCATION
    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    SELECTED JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

    S. Velasco-Forero and V. Manian, "Improving hyperspectral image classification using spatial preprocessing," IEEE trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, In press.

    V. Manian and M. Velez-Reyez, "Support vector classification of land cover and benthic habitat from hyperspectral images," Intl. Journal of high speed elelectronics and systems," Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 337-348, June 2008.

    1. V. Manian and L. O. Jimenez, "Land cover and benthic habitat classification using texture features from multispectral and hyperspectral images," SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2007.

    2. V. Manian and M. Velez-Reyes, “Support vector classification of land cover and benthic habitats from hyperspectral images.” presented at ISSSR 2006 Intl. Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research , Bar Harbor, Maine, June 2006.

    2. V. Manian, L. O. Jimenez and M. Velez-Reyes, “A comparison of statistical and multiresolution texture features for improving hyperspectral image classification.” In SPIE Intl Conf. Remote Sensing, Proceedings SPIE, Belgium, Sept. 2005.

    3. V. Manian and A. Ross, “Face detection using statistical and multi-resolution texture features.” Multimedia Cyberspace Journal, Special Issue on Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-9, 2005.

    4. V. Manian and M. Velez-Reyes, “A boosted learning algorithm for texture classification and object detection.” In SPIE Conf. Defense & Security, Proceedings SPIE, Orlando, April 2005.

    5. V. Manian and R. Vasquez, “Application of nonlinear texture dynamics for image classification.” Proceedings In SPIE Conf. Defense and Security, Proceedings SPIE, Orlando, FL, April 2004.

    6. V. Manian and R. Vasquez, “Texture discrimination based on neural dynamics of visual perception.” In IEEE Joint Intl. conf. Neural Networks, Proceedings IEEE, Portland, Oregon, July 2003.

    7. V. Manian and R. Vasquez, “Approaches to color and texture based image classification.” Journal of Optical Engineering, SPIE, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 1480-1490, July 2002.

    8. V. Manian, R. Vásquez, and P. Katiyar, “Texture classification using logical operators.” IEEE Trans. on image processing, Vol. 9, No: 10, pp. 1693-1703, Oct. 2000.

    9. V. Manian and R. Vásquez, “Scaled and rotated texture classification using a class of basis functions.” Journal of Pattern Recognition, Vol. 31, No. 12, pp. 1937-1948, 1998