Edited 1/20/08

Sina Farsiu

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION

 

Duke University Eye Center

BOX 3802, DUMC
103 Wadsworth Bldg.
Durham, NC, 27710

Voice: (919) 684-6642

E-mail: sina.farsiu AT duke DOT edu

WWW: http://www.duke.edu/~sf59/

 

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Duke University, Durham, NC

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Duke University Medical Center, April, 2007 - Present

Member of the Duke Advanced Research in SDOCT Imaging Laboratory supervised by Prof. Cynthia A. Toth, M.D. in the Ophthalmology Department,
in collaboration with the Laboratory for Biophotonics  supervised by  Prof. Joseph  Izatt, Ph.D. in the BioMedical Engineering Department.\\
     Conducted Research in the area of medical image/signal processing and computer-vision:

* Biomedical Signal/Image Processing
* Video Enhancement and Reconstruction

* Optical Coherence Tomography

* Motion Estimation.

* Automated Object Detection and Segmentation

* Super-Resolution

 

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Postdoctoral Scholar in the Electrical Engineering Department January, 2006 - April 2007

Published papers and developed software in the area of image/signal processing

* Efficient Multi-Frame Image Fusion and Enhancement:

Super-resolution.

Demosaicing.

Video Processing.

Motion Estimation.

* Enhanced Imaging and Detection Through Turbid Media (sponsored by DARPA):

Low photon count imaging

Statistical analysis of photon count imaging systems

Time-resolved imaging through turbid media.

Ballistic photon detection.

Coherent imaging through turbid media.

Adaptive Sampling.

 

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering Department September, 2001 - December, 2005

Published papers/patents and developed software in the area of image processing (sponsored by the Center for Adaptive Optics (CFAO) )

* Efficient Multi-Frame Image Fusion and Enhancement:


MotionDSP, San Mateo, CA

Consulting Engineer and shareholder April 2005-June 2006

Research and software development for multi-frame image reconstruction from digital videos.

 

KLA-Tencor, San Jose, CA

Summer Intern. June-September, 2004

Research and software development for multi-frame image reconstruction of optical and electron

beam microscopy images.

 

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PUBLICATIONS

 

 

*Book Chapters

  1. S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Simultaneous demosaicing and resolution enhancement from under-sampled image sequences, to appear in "Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras", CRC Press 2008, ISBN: 9781420054521, Rastislav Lukac (Editor)
  2. C.A Toth, S. Farsiu, A. Khanifar, G. Chong, Application of Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Analysis, to appear in "OCT IN ARMD",  LAMY, Edit, Marseille , France, 2008, Gabriel Coscas (Editor)

*Publications in Journals

  1. R. Rajimehr, S. Farsiu, L.M. Kouhsari, A. Bidari, C. Lucas, S. Yousefian, F. Bahrami, Prediction of Lupus Nephritis in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Artificial Neural Networks, Lupus, vol. 11, no. 8, Page(s): 485-492, August 2002.
  2.  S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Fast and Robust Multi-Frame Super-Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol 13, no 10, Page(s): 485-492, October 2004.
  3. S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Advances and Challenges in Super-Resolution, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 14, no. 2, Page(s): 47-57, July 2004.
  4. S. Farsiu, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Multi-Frame Demosaicing and Super-Resolution of Color Images, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 141-159, Jan. 2006.
  5. S. Farsiu, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Video-to-Video Dynamic Superresolution for Grayscale and Color Sequences, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Volume 2006, Page(s): 1-15, Feb. 2006.
  6. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, Kernel Regression for Image Processing and Reconstruction, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 349-366, Feb. 2007
  7. D. Robinson, S. Farsiu, P. Milanfar, Optimal Registration of Aliased Images Using Variable Projection with Applications to Superresolution, The Computer Journal doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxm007, April 2007
  8. X. Wang, S. Farsiu, P Milanfar, A. Shakouri, Power Trace: An Efficient Method for Extracting the Power Dissipation Profile in an IC Chip from Its Temperature Map, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, June 2007.
  9. S. Farsiu, J. Christofferson, B. Eriksson, P. Milanfar, B. Friedlander, A. Shakouri, R. Nowak, Statistical Detection and Imaging of Objects Hidden in Turbid Media Using Ballistic Photons, Applied Optics, vol. 46, no. 23, pp. 5805-5822, Aug. 2007.
  10. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, Denoising and Deblurring of Images Using Regularized Adaptive Kernel Regression, Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Jan. 2008
  11. A. W. Scott, S. Farsiu, L. B. Enyedi, D. K.Wallace, C. A. Toth, "Imaging the Infant Retina with Handheld Spectral Domain OCT", Submitted to American Journal of Ophthalmology, Feb. 2008
  12. S.G. Schuman, A.F. Koreishi, S. Farsiu, J.A. Izatt, C.A. Toth,"Photoreceptor Layer Thinning over Drusen in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Age-related Macular Degeneration",  Submitted to Ophthalmology Feb. 2008.
  13. G.T. Chong, S. Farsiu, S.F. Freedman, N. Sarin, A.F. Korieshi, J.A. Izatt, C.A. Toth, "Abnormal Foveal Morphology in Ocular Albinism Imaged with Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography", Submitted to Archives of Ophthalmology 2008.

 

*Selected Publications in Conference Proceedings

  1. S. Farsiu, S. G. Schuman, A. F. Koreishi, J. A. Izatt, C. A. Toth, "A Quantitative Study of the Photoreceptor Changes Over Drusen in AMD Eyes Using Spectral Domain OCT",   to be presented at ARVO/ISIE 6th Annual Meeting; Fort Lauderdale, Florida,   Feb. 2008.
  2. D. Robinson, S. Farsiu, J. Lo, C.A. Toth, "Efficient Restoration  and Enhancement of Super-resolved X-ray Images",  Submitted to the  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, 2008.
  3. S. Farsiu, B.A. Bower, J.A. Izatt, C.A. Toth, "Image Fusion Based Resolution Enhancement of Retinal Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Images",  to be presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2008.
  4. C.A. Toth, S. Farsiu,  S.J. Chiu, A.A. Khanifar, J.A. Izatt, "Automatic Drusen Segmentation and Characterization in Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SDOCT) Images of AMD Eyes",   to be presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2008
  5. G. Chong, S. Farsiu, A. J. Korieshi, S. F. Freedman, C.A. Toth, "Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SDOCT) Imaging in the Spectrum of Pediatric Ocular Albinism ", to be presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2008.
  6. A.W. Scott, S. Farsiu, C.A. Toth, "Novel Techniques to Evaluate the Infant Retina With Portable, Handheld Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography",  to be presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2008.
  7. S. Farsiu, S. J. Chiu, J. A. Izatt, C. A. Toth, Fast Detection and Segmentation of Drusen in Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Images, To appear in the Proc. of Photonics West, San Jose, CA, 2008.
  8. D. Robinson, S. Farsiu, J. Lo, P. Milanfar, C.A. Toth, Efficient Multiframe Registration of Aliased X-Ray Images, To appear in the Proc. of the 41th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2007.
  9. S. Farsiu and P. Milanfar, Multi-Scale Statistical Detection and Ballistic Imaging Through Turbid Media , IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, TX, Page(s):III - 537-540, Sept 2007.
  10. X. Wang, A. Shakouri, S. Farsiu and P. Milanfar, Extraction of power dissipation profile in an IC chip from temperature map, 23rd Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium, San Jose, CA, Page(s):51-56, March 2007.
  11. Takeda, H., S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, Higher Order Bilateral Filters and Their Properties, Proceedings of the SPIE Conf. on Computational Imaging, San Jose, January 2007.
  12. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, J. Christou, and P. Milanfar, Super-Drizzle: Applications of Adaptive Kernel Regression Technique in Astronomical Imaging, To appear in the Proc. of the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Maui Hawaii , Sept. 2006.
  13. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, Regularized Kernel Regression for Image Deblurring, Invited Paper, the Proc. of the 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Page(s): 1914-1918, Oct. 2006.
  14. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, Robust Kernel Regression for Restoration and Reconstruction of Images from Sparse Noisy Data, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, GA, Page(s): 1257-1260, Oct. 2006.
  15. S. Farsiu, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, A Practical Approach to Super-Resolution, Invited Paper, Proc. of the SPIE: Visual Communications and Image Processing 2006, San Jose, CA, Page(s): 24-38, January 2006.
  16. S. Farsiu, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Constrained, Globally Optimal, Multi-Frame Motion Estimation, Proc. of IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Page(s): 396 - 1401, July 2005.
  17. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, Image Denoising by Adaptive Kernel Regression, Proc. of the 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Page(s): 1660 - 1665, Nov. 2005.
  18. S. Farsiu, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Multi-Frame Demosaicing and Super-Resolution from Under- Sampled Color Images, Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2004, San Jose, CA, Volume 5299, Page(s): 222-233, January 2004.
  19. S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Dynamic Demosaicing and Color Superresolution of Video Sequences, SPIE 48th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Volume 5562, Page(s): 169-178, August 2004.
  20. S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Robust Shift and Add Approach to Super-Resolution International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, SPIE 48th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Volume 5203, Page(s): 121-130, August 2003.
  21. S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, Fast Robust Super-Resolution, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona. Volume: 2, Page(s): 291-294, September 2003.

 

*Patents (Under Review) :

 

1. US Patent Application, 20060291751, P. Milanfar, S. Farsiu, D. Robinson, M. Elad , entitled Robust Reconstruction of High Resolution Grayscale Images from a Sequence of Low-Resolution Frames (Robust Gray Super-Resolution)

 

2. US Patent Application, 20060290711-20060279585, P. Milanfar, S. Farsiu, M. Elad, entitled System and Method for Robust Multi-Frame Demosaicing and Color Super-Resolution

 

3. US Patent Application, 20060291750, P. Milanfar, S. Farsiu, M. Elad, entitled Dynamic Reconstruction of High-Resolution Video from Color-Filtered Low-Resolution Video-to-Video Super-Resolution

 

4. US Patent Application, 11/513833, P. Milanfar, H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, entitled Kernel Regression for Image Processing and Reconstruction


5. US  Provisional Patent Application.  EFS-ID: 2733882, Application #:61021821, Farsiu S, Chiu SJ, Izatt JA, Toth CA. entitled Fast Detection and Segmentation of Drusen
in Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Images.


6. Disclosure and Record of Invention, filed with University of California Office of Technology Transfer, P. Milanfar, H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, entitled Deblurring using Regularized Locally-Adaptive Kernel Regression.
 

 

* DEVELOPED SOFTWARE  (as  Principal Architect)

1. MDSP Resolution Enhancement Software (Academic/Commercial licenses are issued for many major corporations and tens of academic institutes). With Dirk Robinson, M. Elad, P. Milanfar. Available in http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~milanfar/SRSoftware.htm

2. Duke Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Analysis Program (DOCTRAP) Software. With S.J. Chiu, J.A. Izatt, C.A. Toth .


 

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EDUCATION

 

*University of California, Santa Cruz, California

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, December 2005

Advisor: Prof. Peyman Milanfar

Thesis Title: A Fast and Robust Framework for Image Fusion and Enhancement

 

*University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, June, 2001

Advisor: Prof. Caro Lucas

Thesis Title: Prediction Of Lupus Nephritis In Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Artificial Intelligence.

 

*Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

B.S., Electrical Engineering, September, 1999

 

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

 

Contributor: Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (selected as one of the top 10 reviewers in 2005)

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Reviewer for IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Reviewer for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Reviewer for Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal

Reviewer for Signal Image and Video Processing Journal

Reviewer for Applied Optics Journal

Reviewer for Optical Engineering Journal

Reviewer for International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing
Reviewer for  Journal of Electronic Imaging
Reviewer for Image and Vision Computing Journal
Co-Chair for session on  "Super-resolution in Imaging and Video" at Asilomar 06, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

Program Committee memeber in the sixth International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR), 2008

Thesis reading committee member for Hiroyuki Takeda, Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, March 2006

Thesis reading committee member for Michael R. Charest Jr., Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, June 2006

Member IEEE, SPIE, Center for Adaptive Optics (CFAO), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)