Dr. Ross T. Whitaker
Background:
Dr. Whitaker received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1993. From 1994-1996 he worked at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich Germany as a research scientist in the User Interaction and Visualization Group. From 1996-2000 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Since then he has been at the University of Utah where he is Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and a faculty member of the Institute for Scientific Computing and Imaging. He teaches image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. His research interests include: computer vision, image processing, medical imaging, and computer graphics/visualization.
Current Responsibilities:
Classes:
- Introduction to Image Processing
- Computational Geometry
Research Interests:
Image Processing
3D Signal Processing and Surface Reconstruction
Medical Image Analysis
Publications -- Whitaker
Image Gallery -- Whitaker
