Alexandra Branzan Albu, Ph.D., P.Eng. Associate Professor  Faculty of Engineering Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Victoria B.C. Canada V8W 3P6 Office: ECS 631 Email: aalbu at uvic dot ca Phone: 1(250)721-8681

VITA

Curriculum vitae

Publication list

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

· July 2009 – present: Associate Professor

University of Victoria, BC

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

· August 2005 – June 2009: Assistant Professor

University of Victoria, BC

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

· May 2003- July 2005: Assistant Professor

Laval University, Québec
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EDUCATION

· October 2001- April 2003

Postdoctoral fellowship in the Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory, Laval University.

Project: 3D Modelling of Liver and Hepatic Tumours from Interventional Magnetic Resonance Images

· March 1993 - December 2000

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania

Dissertation: Contributions to Pattern Recognition in Medical Imaging

TEACHING

My teaching style enhances the traditional lecture-based model with problem-based learning. I try to motivate my students to become creative thinkers and to approach problem solving from interdisciplinary viewpoints.

Here are some of my teaching-related publications.

Courses taught in the current academic year (2010-2011)

· Spring 2011 CENG 421/ELEC 536 Computer Vision

· Summer 2012 CENG 435 Medical Image Processing

Courses previously taught:

· Spring 2010 - ELEC 310 Digital Signal Processing

· Spring 2010 - CENG 421/ELEC 536 Computer Vision

· Summer 2009 - CENG412 Human Factors in Engineering

· Spring 2009, 2008 - ELEC 310 (Digital Signal Processing)

· Spring 2009, 2008, 2006 - CENG421/ELEC 536 (Computer Vision)

· Summer 2006, 2007, 2010 - SENG 310 (Human Computer Interaction)

· Winter 2005 (Laval) - Introduction a la Realite virtuelle (Introduction to Virtual Reality)

· Winter 2005, 2004 (Laval) - Analyse de mouvement en vision par ordinateur (Computer Vision Based Motion Analysis)

· Fall 2004 (Laval) – Calcul Matriciel (Linear Algebra)

RESEARCH

My research belongs to the field of Computer Vision.

From a practical standpoint, my contributions to this field involve investigating research questions that are closely linked to societal needs such as rehabilitation, aging-in-place, medical imaging, and art.

The nature of the research problems that I have been working on contains a substantial theoretical content, thus my contributions serve also to advancing the state-of-the-art in theoretical aspects of computer vision.

I am the PI of ACVA: Applied Computer Vision Algorithms Research Laboratory. Together with Jens Weber, I co-direct the Simbioses Group.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Current (in alphabetical order)

· Trevor Beugeling, Ph.D. candidate

Research topic: Processing and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Images

· Patrick Bonneau, M.A.Sc. candidate

Research topic: Automatic Detection of Fiducial Markers from Electronic Portal Images of Prostate Radiotherapy

· Chris Gatt, M.A.Sc. candidate (co-supervised with Daniel German, UVIC)

Research Topic: Automatic change detection in Landscape images from the Mountain Legacy Project

· David Kerr, M.A.Sc. candidate

Research Topic: Content-Based Image Retrieval and Annotation

· Aleya Gebali, M.A.Sc. candidate

Research Topic: TBA

· Frederic Jean, Ph.D. candidate (co-supervised with Robert Bergevin, Laval University, QC)

Research Topic: Gait-Based Modelling

· Nguyen Nhat Tan, Ph.D. candidate(co-supervised with Denis Laurendeau, Laval University, QC)

Research Topic: Human Motion Analysis for Automatic Movie Annotation

· Joey Quevillon, M.A.Sc. candidate

Research topic: Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras for surveillance applications

· Jeremy Svendsen, Ph.D. candidate, ARC Fellow

Research Topic: Document Image Analysis for Business Intelligence Applications

Alumni

· Trevor Beugeling, M.A.Sc, UVIC, 2010

Computer Vision-Based Analysis of Human Daily Motions with Hidden Markov Models

· Jeremy Svendsen, M.A.Sc, UVIC, 2009

Computer Vision-Based Analysis of Motor Skilles in Suubjects with Down Syndrome

· Kaveh Malakuti, M.A.Sc., UVIC, 2008

Human Motion Tracking from Bed Pressure Maps

· Geoffroy Rivet Sabourin, Ph.D., Laval, 2008

Fusion de L’information Clinique pour l’Aide a la Segmentation

· Kedar Shrikhande, M.A.Sc, UVIC, 2007

Analysis and Visualization of Conflicting Requirements

· Louis Buteau Vaillancourt, M.A.Sc, Laval, 2006

Paire Stereo Agile: en Vue d’une Application a MONNET

· Christian Dompierre, M.A.Sc, Laval, 2006

AVATAR: Une Application de Realite Virtuelle

· Sebastien Quirion, M.A.Sc., Laval, 2006

Model-Based Description of Periodic Human Activities

· Nguyen Nhat Tan, M.A.Sc, Laval, 2006

Segmentation of MR Images of the Human Shoulder

AFFILIATIONS

· IAPR Newsletter Editor (Check the latest issue of our newsletter at www.iapr.org/publications/ )

· Professional Engineer (APEGBC)

· IEEE Technical Program Chair, IEEE Victoria Section

· Qualified Health Researcher, Center on Aging, University of Victoria

· Cross-Listed Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Victoria

· Adjunct Professor, ECE Dept., Laval University, Quebec