Dr. Kristin Dana
Assistant Professor,
Computer Engineering

Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cooper Union and New York University, New York, NY, 1990
M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1992
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1999

Research Interests

Computer Vision and Computer Graphics

Awards and Recognitions

National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2001
Best Presentation in Session Award, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Puerto Rico, 1997.
Sarnoff Team Award, 1995 for applying and demonstrating the impact of innovative technologies developed for the intelligence community in the battle against breast cancer.
Sarnoff Technical Achievement Award 1994, for the development of a unique and practical algorithm to align infrared and visible images.
NYU Computer Science and Engineering Award 1990.
General Electric "Faculty of the Future" Fellowship 1990.

 

Recent Journal Articles

Skin Texture Modeling, O.G. Cula, K.J. Dana, F.P. Murphy, and B.K. Rao to appear in International Journal of Computer Vision 2004.

3D Texture Recognition Using Bidirectional Feature Histograms, O.G. Cula and K.J. Dana, to appear in International Journal of Computer Vision 2004.

A Novel Approach For Texture Shape Recovery, J. Wang, K.J. Dana, International Conference on Computer Vision, Nice, France, 2003.

BRDF/BTF Measurement Device, K.J. Dana, International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 460-466, Vancouver, Canada, 2001,

Reflectance and texture of real world surfaces, K.J. Dana, B. van Ginneken, S.K. Nayar, and J.J. Koenderink. ACM Transactions on Graphics, pages 1--34, 1999.