Kostas Daniilidis
Associate Professor


Department of Computer and Information Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania

Director of the GRASP Laboratory
News:

Be tuned for ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision.

CV Publications
Research: Localization as a Filtering Problem
Catadioptric Geometry and Omnidirectional Vision,
Tele-immersion and 3D-Scene Acquisition (watch the demos of Aug 2002)(8MB) and Jan 2002 (14MB),
Sensor Placement,
Multi-robot emergency response,
Computing and Retrieving 3D Archaeological Structures from Subsurface Surveying .
Recent Activities: Assosiate Editor of PAMI, the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Short Courses Chair at CVPR 2007

3DPVT: 3rd Int. Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission 2006

Page for Omnidirectional Vision.
Area Chair of ICCV 2007, CVPR 2006, 2005, 2004, and ECCV 2004.
Special Issue of the IEEE R&A Magazine on Panoramic Robotics, will be out in December 2004.
Co-Chair of the Computer and Robot Vision TC of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, June 12, 2000.,

News/Media: Watch Sandy Patterson and me for 5min in the Discovery Channel feature "Debunked" .
PhD Students: Nima Moshtagh. Rana Molana, Ankita Kumar, Alexander Patterson, Alexander Toshev, Roy Anati,
Supervised PhD Students: Ameesh Makadia (Google Labs), Volkan Isler (faculty at RPI), Christopher Geyer (project scientist at CMU), Adnan Ansar (JPL/NASA), Weichuan Yu (faculty at HKUST).
Postdocs: Philippos Mordohai, Jean-Philippe Tardif, Irene Cheng.
Supervised Postdocs/Associates: Rodrigo Carceroni(Google Labs), Rahul Swaminathan (Deutsche Telekom Labs), Xenophon Zampoulis (FORTH/CSI), Joao Barreto (University of Coimbra), Nikhil Kelshikar, Thomas Buelow (Philips Research), Jane Mulligan (University of Colorado at Boulder).
Supervised MSE Students: Ming-Hsien Yang (2004), Ting-Chung Hung (2004), Dinkar Gupta (2004), Oleg Naroditski (2003, Sarnoff), Daniel Rudoy (2002, Harvard PhD), Andrew Trister (2002, MD-PhD Penn). ,
Teaching: Spring 2007, 2008: CSE121 Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Fall 2006, 2007: CIS580 Machine Perception
Sping 2005: CSE399-002 or cse399b Computer Vision
Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2002, Fall 2002,: CSE390 Robotics.
Fall 2000, 1999, 1998: CSE240 Introduction to Computer Architecture.
Spring 2004, 2001: CIS 700 Special Topics in Machine Perception
Spring 2003, 2000, 1999: CIS 680 Advanced Topics in Machine Perception
Undergraduate students advising or advised for CSE 99 Independent Study and CSE400/1 Senior Design Project
2001 Ford Motor Company Award for Best Faculty Advising
Education: PhD, 1992, University of Karlsruhe with Hans-Hellmut Nagel. My advisor's advisor was the 1989 Physics Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Paul (1913-1993). Wolfgang Paul's advisor was Hans Kopfermann (1895-1963). Kopfermann's advisor was James Franck (1882-1964) Nobel Laureate 1925, Franck's advisor was Emil Warburg (1846-1931).
Diploma (Masters equivalent) in EE, 1986, National Technical University of Athens
Office Hours: Fall 07: Tue 11:30-1, Levine 472
Mail Address: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 3330 Walnut Street, Levine Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104. How to reach GRASP
Acknowledgments: Grateful for support through the following grants: NSF-EIA-0324977, NSF-IIS-0713260, NSF-IIP-0742304, ARO/MURI DAAD19-02-1-0383, and ARL/CTA DAAD19-01-2-0012.
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