Ruzena Bajcsy

Contact:

bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu

Director, CITRIS and CITRIS @ Berkeley (2001-2005) - Go to her CITRIS profile.

Professor of EECS - Go to her EECS Profile

Research Interests

• Tele-immersive Environments
• Computer Vision
• AI
• Robotics
• Sensor Networks

• R. Vasudevan, G. Kurillo, E. Lobaton, T. Bernardin, O. Kreylos, R. Bajcsy, and K. Nahrstedt, "High-Quality Visualization for Geographically Distributed 3-D Teleimmersive Applications," Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 573 -584, June 2011.
• Z. Yang, W. Wu, K. Nahrstedt, G. Kurillo, and R. Bajcsy, "Enabling multiparty 3D tele-immersive environments with ViewCast," ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl., vol. 6, pp. 29:1--29:28, Nov. 2010.
• E. Lobaton, R. Vasudevan, R. Bajcsy, and S. S. Sastry, "A distributed topological camera network representation for tracking applications," Trans. Img. Proc., vol. 19, pp. 2516--2529, Oct. 2010.
• I. Tien, S. D. Glaser, R. Bajcsy, D. S. Goodin, and M. J. Aminoff, "Results of using a wireless inertial measurirlg system to quantify gait motions in control subjects," Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 14, pp. 904--915, July 2010.
• A. Yang, M. Gastpar, R. Bajcsy, and S. S. Sastry, "Distributed Sensor Perception via Sparse Representation," pieee, vol. 98, no. 6, pp. 1077-1088, June 2010.
• A. Y. Yang, M. Gastpar, R. Bajcsy, and S. S. Sastry, "Distributed Sensor Perception via Sparse Representation," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 98, no. 6, pp. 1077-1088, June 2010. [abstract]
• E. Guenterberg, A. Y. Yang, H. Ghasemzadeh, R. Jafari, R. Bajcsy, and S. S. Sastry, "A method for extracting temporal parameters based on hidden Markov models in body sensor networks with inertial sensors," Trans. Info. Tech. Biomed., vol. 13, pp. 1019--1030, Nov. 2009.
• J. Lien, G. Kurillo, and R. Bajcsy, "Multi-camera tele-immersion system with real-time model driven data compression: A new model-based compression method for massive dynamic point data," Vis. Comput., vol. 26, pp. 3--15, Nov. 2009.
• J. Bailenson, K. Patel, A. Nielsen, R. Bajcsy, S. H. Jung, and G. Kurillo, "The effect of interactivity on learning physical actions in virtual reality," Media Psychology, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 354-376, July 2008.
• S. Lin and R. Bajcsy, "Single-viewpoint, catadioptric cone mirror omnidirectional imaging theory and analysis," J. Optical Society of America A, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 2997-3015, Dec. 2006.
• V. Isler and R. Bajcsy, "The sensor selection problem for bounded uncertainty sensing models," IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 372-381, Oct. 2006.
• R. Bajcsy and R. McGeer, "CITRIS and data and knowledge engineering: What is old and what is new? (A DKE "Top 25 Hottest Articles" selection)," Special Jubilee Issue: Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 261-276, Sep. 2004.
• R. Bajcsy, A. D. Joseph, V. Paxson, D. Tygar, S. S. Sastry, and other DETER/EMIST Members, "Cyber defense technology networking and evaluation," Communications of the ACM Special Issue: Emerging Technologies for Homeland Security, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 58-61, March 2004.
• A. Fitzpatrick, J. Abbate, F. S. Preston, L. Slater, M. L. Berners-Lee, J. Sammet, D. S. Shirley, R. Bajcsy, A. Hardy, A. Goldberg, and A. Borg, "Anecdotes," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 78-82, Oct. 2003.
• S. S. Sastry, J. Sztipanovits, R. Bajcsy, and H. Gill, "Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue: Scanning the Issue," Proc. IEEE: Special Issue on Modeling and Design of Embedded Software, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 3-10, Jan. 2003.
• R. Bajcsy and C. Reynolds, "Computer science: The science of and about information and computation," Communications of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 94-98, March 2002.
• R. A. Hicks and R. Bajcsy, "Reflective surfaces as computational sensors," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 773-777, Sep. 2001.
• R. A. Hicks, D. Pettey, K. Daniilides, and R. Bajcsy, "Closed form solutions for reconstruction via complex analysis," J. Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 57-70, Aug. 2000.

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• A. Leonardis, F. Solina, and R. Bajcsy, Eds., Confluence of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, NATO Science Series, 3. High Technology; v. 84, Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. [abstract]

• S. Ganesh, A. D. Ames, and R. Bajcsy, "Composition of dynamical systems for estimation of human body dynamics," in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. Proc. 10th Intl. Workshop (HSCC 2007), A. Bemporad, A. Bicchi, and G. Buttazzo, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4416, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 702-705.
• R. Bajcsy, "Digital anatomy atlas and its registration to MRI, fMRI, PET: The past presents a future," in Biomedical Image Registration: Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop (WBIR 2003). Revised Papers, J. C. Gee, J. B. A. Maintz, and M. W. Vannier, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2717, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 201-211.
• R. Bajcsy, "Information technology research: Tranforming our future," in Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research: Proc. 7th Intl Workshop (ACAT 2000), P. C. Bhat and M. Kasemann, Eds., AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 583, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2001, pp. 7-10.
• S. S. Beauchemin and R. Bajcsy, "Modelling and removing radial and tangential distortions in spherical lenses," in Multi-Image Analysis: Proc. 10th Intl. Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision (Revised Papers), R. Klette, T. Huang, and G. Gimel'farb, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2032, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 1-21.
• J. Lien, G. Kurillo, and R. Bajcsy, "Skeleton-based data compression for multi-camera tele-immersion system," in Advances in Visual Computing: Proc. 3rd Intl. Symp. (ISVC 2007). Part I, G. Bebis, R. Boyle, B. Parvin, D. Koracin, N. Paragios, S. M. Tanveer, T. Ju, Z. Liu, S. Coquillart, C. Cruz-Neira, T. Muller, and T. Malzbender, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4841, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 714-723.