Avideh Zakhor

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Biography

Avideh Zakhor is currently Qualcomm Chair and professor in EECS at U.C. Berkeley. Her areas of interest include theories and applications of signal, image and video processing and 3D computer vision. She has won a number of best paper awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1997 and 2009, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1997 and 1999 and IEEE Solid Circuits Society in 2008.

Prof. Zakhor received the B. S. degree from Caltech and the S. M. and Ph. D. degrees from MIT all in electrical engineering, in 1983, 1985, and 1987 respectively. She was a General Motors scholar from 1982 to 1983, was a Hertz fellow from 1984 to 1988, received the Presidential Young Investigators (PYI) award from President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, and Office of Naval Research (ONR) young investigator award in 1992. In 2001, she was elected as IEEE fellow and in 2018 she was chosen as the Electronics Imaging Scientist of the year by Society of Photographic instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

She co-founded OPC technology in 1996, which was later by Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq: MENT) in 1998, and UrbanScan Inc. in 2005 which was acquired by Google (Nasdaq:GOOGL) in 2007. She founded Indoor Reality in 2015 to develop technologies for rapid 3D mapping and visualization of buildings and assets;

Education

1987, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985, S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1983, B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Selected Publications

L. Jaffe and A. Zakhor, "Gallery Filter Network for Person Search," in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023, pp. 1684-1693.
A. Sahiner, F. Heng, A. Balamurugan, and A. Zakhor, "In Situ Width Estimation of Biofuel Plant Stems," in Computational Imaging, SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2019.
C. Hiller and A. Zakhor, "Fast, Automated Indoor Light Detection, Classification, and Measurement in Buildings," in Computational Imaging, SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2018.
B. Nemsick, A. Buchan, A. Nagabandi, R. S. Fearing, and A. Zakhor, "Cooperative Inchworm Localization with a Low Cost Team," in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
D. Fridovich-Keil, E. Nelson, and A. Zakhor, "AtomMap: A Probabilistic Amorphous 3D Map Representation for Robotics and Surface Reconstruction," in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
V. Shankar and A. Zakhor, "Approximate Subgraph Isomorphism for Image Localization," in Computational Imaging, SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2016.
R. Garcia and A. Zakhor, "Markerless Motion Capture with Multi-view Structured Light," in Computational Imaging, SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2016.
S. Yang, M. Krishnan, and A. Zakhor, "Access Point Selection for Multi-Rate IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs," in IEEE Globecom, 2015.
A. Marston, E. Turner, A. Zakhor, O. Baumann, and P. Haves, "Testing RAPMOD: Can a Portable Scanner Collect Existing Building Data and Create an Energy Model Faster and More Accurately Than a Human," in Building simulation Confernece,, 2015.
J. Menke and A. Zakhor, "Multi-Modal Indoor Positioning of Mobile Devices," in IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, 2015.
E. Turner and A. Zakhor, "Automatic Indoor 3D Surface Reconstruction with Segmented Building and Object Elements," in International Conference on 3D Vision, 2015.
E. Turner, P. Cheng, and A. Zakhor, "Fast, Automated, Scalable Generation of Textured 3D Models of Indoor Environments," IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, April 2015.
N. Corso and A. Zakhor, "Indoor Localization Algorithms for an Ambulatory Human Operated 3D Mobile Mapping System," Remote Sensing, vol. 5, Oct. 2013.
R. Garcia and A. Zakhor, "Consistent Stereo-Assisted Absolute Phase Unwrapping Methods for Structured Light Systems," IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 6, Sep. 2012.
A. Abate, M. Chen, Y. Wang, A. Zakhor, and S. S. Sastry, "Design and Analysis of a Flow Control Scheme over Wireless Networks," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, March 2011.
V. Dai, G. Cramer, and A. Zakhor, "Full-chip characterization of compression algorithms for direct-write maskless lithography systems," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3), vol. 9, Sep. 2010.
A. Gu and A. Zakhor, "Optical proximity correction with linear regression," IEEE Trans. Semiconductor Manufacturing, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 263-271, May 2008.
C. Frueh and A. Zakhor, "Automatic 3D modeling of cities with multimodal air and ground sensors," IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, Z. Zhu and T. S. Huang, Eds., vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 52-61, July 2007.
H. Liu, V. Dai, A. Zakhor, and B. Nikolic, "Reduced complexity compression algorithms for direct-write maskless lithography systems," SPIE J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 13007-1-12, Jan. 2007.
M. Chen and A. Zakhor, "Multiple TFRC connections based rate control for wireless networks," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1045-1062, Oct. 2006.