Dr. Ahmed Elgammal?is director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers-NB. Dr Elgammal is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers-NB and is also a member of the Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling (CBIM). His primary research interest is computer vision and machine learning. His research focus includes human activity recognition, human motion analysis, tracking, human identification, and statistical methods for computer vision. He develops robust real-time algorithms to solve computer vision problems in areas such as visual surveillance, visual human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and multimedia applications. Dr. Elgammal is currently working with RU Camden Prof. Elizabeth Demary on PandoraBird, a computer vision system aimed at identifying the musical tastes of songbirds, and on the IndaPlant Project, which is an AI system that lets robotically supported potted plants freely seek sunlight and water.
For more information on Dr. Elgammal’s work please visit the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at: https://sites.google.com/site/digihumanlab/website-builder