The City
College Visual Computing Research Laboratory (CCVCL) is directed by
Professor Zhigang Zhu in the Computer Science Department at CCNY. It
serves as an experimental environment for both research and education
in advanced visual and other media computing. The research activities
in the CCVCL primarily focus on the understanding of 3D natural scenes
and the events in the scenes from multiple sensor modalities, including
visible cameras, thermal sensors and acoustic sensors. Currently there
are two main research themes in the Lab. The first aspect of the
research is three-dimensional scene modeling and rendering from images
and videos. The second aspect of the research is human and other
subject tracking and human signature extraction from multiple cameras
and multimodal sensors. Potential applications of the advanced visual
(and other media) computing range across Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI), virtual reality, robot/human navigation, aerial/ground
surveillance, content-based video coding and transportation.