NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Summer 2010 - Computer Vision and Multi-Agent Systems
Department of Computer Science, Utah State University

  Name:

  David Isele

  Major:

  Electrical Engineering

  School:

  The Cooper Union

About Me

 I completed my third year at Cooper Union and thought it might be fun to venture out to Utah and do some computer vision. So that's what I did. While here I enjoyed mountain climbing, rock climbing, and even tried scaling a building or two. Logan, Utah is a pretty place with a love of sprinklers. There's some nice hikes, like the trail to the windy cavern, and a few mountainside trails for running.

Project

I created an edge detection neural network that trains on human generated base truth cases and produces results that are similar, though superior to an image generated using a Laplacian mask.

I also created an algorithm for edge detection based on using difference equations rather than the typical gradient based edge detection. It produces a thicker edge and is pretty good at ignoring patterns like grass and fur.

Results

You can read my papers here and here and view my presentation here.

Feel free to write me at:
isele@cooper.edu