6.2011 - "Spatial Pyramid Co-occurrence for Image Classification" authored by PhD student Yi Yang and Professor Newsam has been accepted at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.
1.13.2011 - PhD student Daniel Leung successfuly passed his qualifying exam and has advanced to candidacy! The title of his presentation was "Image understanding using geo-referenced social media."
2.24.2010 - "Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections" authored by PhD student Daniel Leung and Professor Newsam has been accepted at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as oral presentation.
8.6.2009 - PhD student Yi Yang successfuly passed his qualifying exam and has advanced to candidacy! The title of his presentation was "Land-use Classification and Object Recognition in High Resolution Remote Sensed Imagery."
7.27.2009 - PhD student Joshua Phillips has been awarded a Best Student Poster Award at the 2009 Annual Symposium of The Protein Society for his poster titled "Dynamics Analysis of Unstructured FG-Nucleoporins." He was also recently featured in a Spotlight article on the UC Merced website. Way to go Josh!
7.15.2009 - Professor Newsam has been awarded a $396K 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Integrating Image and Non-Image Geospatial Data." Awarded through the Information Integration and Informatics program in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate, this project will develop novel methods for integrating image and non-image geospatial data to (1) advance the state-of-the-art of automated remote sensed image analysis and, in turn, (2) improve the coverage and fidelity of the non-image repositories. See the NSF official award pagefor more details.