Rene Vidal, Ph.D. Primary Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Institute for Computational Medicine
Assistant Professor, Center for Imaging Science
Secondary Appointments
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering Vision, Dynamics and Learning Lab
Clark Hall 302B
410-516-7306
rvidal AT cis.jhu.edu
Website EducationPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1997) B.S., Electrical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley (2000) M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley (2003) Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Vidal was a research fellow at the National ICT Australia
from September to December of 2003 and joined The Johns Hopkins University
in January 2004 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Imaging Science.
Dr. Vidal was co-editor (with Anders Heyden and Yi Ma) of the book
"Dynamical Vision" and has co-authored more than 100 articles in
biomedical image analysis, computer vision, machine learning, hybrid
systems, and robotics. Dr. Vidal is Associate Editor of the Journal of
Mathematical Imaging and Vision, and was a program chair for WMVC
2009, PSIVT 2007 and area chair for CVPR 2005 and ICCV 2007.
Dr. Vidal is recipient of the 2009
ONR Young Investigator Award, the 2009
Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2005 NFS CAREER Award and the
2004 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (with Prof. Yi Ma) for his
work on "A Unified Algebraic Approach to 2-D and 3-D Motion
Segmentation" presented at the European Conference on
Computer Vision. He also received the 2004
Sakrison Memorial Prize for "completing an exceptionally
documented piece of research", the 2003
Eli Jury award for "outstanding achievement in the area
of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing",
the 2002 Student Continuation Award from NASA Ames, the 1998
Marcos Orrego Puelma Award from the Institute of Engineers of
Chile, and the 1997 Award of the School of Engineering of the
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile to the best graduating
student of the school. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. Research Interests
- Biomedical image analysis:
estimation and processing of high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI),
registration and segmentation of diffusion MRI,
segmentation and fiber tracking of cardiac MRI,
interactive medical image segmentation,
heart motion analysis
- Computer vision:
camera sensor networks,
activity recognition,
dynamic texture segmentation and recognition, 3D motion segmentation,
non-rigid shape and motion analysis, structure from motion and multiple view geometry, omnidirectional vision
- Machine learning:
manifold clustering, kernels on dynamical systems, GPCA, kernel GPCA, dynamic GPCA
- Dynamical systems:
observability, identification, realization, metrics and topology for hybrid systems
- Robotics:
formation control of teams of non-holonomic robots,
coordination and control of multiple autonomous vehicles for pursuit-evasion games,
multiple view motion estimation and control for landing an unmanned aerial vehicle
- Signal processing:
consensus on manifolds, distributed optimization, compressive sensing.
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