Dimitri Lisin

7 Old Laxfield Road
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
(774) 242-1047
dima at cs dot bc dot edu
http://www.cs.bc.edu/~dima

EDUCATION:

University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Ph. D., Computer Science, May 2006
Advisor: Erik Learned-Miller

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
Master of Science, Computer Science, October, 1998.
Advisors: Michael Gennert and Lawrence Lifshitz

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, February, 1997, with high distinction.

PUBLICATIONS:

D. Lisin, Image Classification with Bags of Local Features, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2006

D. Lisin, M. Mattar, M. Blaschko, M. Benfield, E. Learned-Miller, "Combining Local and Global Image Features for Object Class Recognition," Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (in conjunction with CVPR), San Diego, California, June, 2005. [slides]

M. Sieracki, E. Riseman, W. Balch, M. Benfield, A. Hanson, C. Pilskaln, H. Schultz, C. Sieracki, P. Utgoff, M. Blaschko, G. Holness, M. Mattar, D. Lisin, and B. Tupper, "Automatic Classification of Plankton from Digital Images," ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, 2005. (Abstract, Poster)

M. Blaschko, G. Holness, M. Mattar, D. Lisin, P. Utgoff, A. Hanson, H. Schultz, E. Riseman, M. Sieracki, W. Balch, And B. Tupper, Automatic In Situ Identification of Plankton, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Breckenridge, Colorado, Jan. 5-7, 2005.

Walter A. Carrington and Dimitri Lisin. "Cluster computing for digital microscopy," Microscopy Research and Technique. 68(2), 2004

Dimitri Lisin and Edward Riseman. Topology-based Feature Grouping and Matching for Object Detection, Technical Report UM-CS-2004-034, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Dimitri Lisin, Edward M. Riseman, Allen R. Hanson. Extracting Salient Image Features for Reliable Matching Using Outlier Detection Techniques, Proc. Int. Conf. Vision Systems, 2003

B. Stein, D. Lisin, J. Horowitz, E. Riseman, and G. Whitten. Statistical and Deformable Model Approaches to the Segmentation of MR Imagery and Volume Estimation of Stroke Lesions. Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2001

Lisin, D. A., and M. A. Gennert, "Optimal Function Approximation Using Fuzzy Rules". Proc. Int. Conf. North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, June 1999

PROGRAMMING:

C, C++, Matlab, Java, Perl, LISP/Scheme, Prolog, Intel x86 Assembly.

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

UNIX (Linux, Digital UNIX, ULTRIX, IRIX, SUN OS), MS Windows, Mac OS, Novell Netware

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

2006-present
Boston Colledge, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Computer Science Department
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research involving eye tracking, saliency modeling, image compression, and object recognition.

1999-2006
UMASS Amhrest, Amherst, MA.
Department of Computer Science
Research Assistant.

Developed a system for semi-automatic segmentation of brain lesions from 3D MRI using deformable models and statistical techniques. The system is written in Java.
Object recognition and detection using local image features. Developed a novel algorithm for interest point detection, and a novel method of feature matching using scale-space topology.
Automatic classification of images of plankton using local image features.

1998-1999
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Department of Physiology, Biomedical Imaging Group
Research Engineer.

Implemented a distributed algorithm for 3D image deconvolution using MPI, for a cluster of workstations.
Designed and implemented software for computer-controlled microscope stage.

1997-1998
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Department of Physiology, Biomedical Imaging Group
Research Assistant.

Developed a method for tracking live cells in in video sequenses, using deformable models and fuzzy rules.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Teaching Assistant.

Spring 2001. Artificial Intelligence. UMASS Amherst.
Spring 1997. Computer Graphics. WPI.
Spring 1997. Programming Language Concepts. WPI.
Summer 1996, 1997. Frontiers/Strive, a summer camp program at WPI for high-school students interested in science.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

06/2000 - 09/2000

Connection Concepts, Inc., Farmington, CT
Software Engineering Consultant.

Worked in a small team to design and implement a client-server system for retrieval and presentation of railroad data. The client was implemented as an applet, which communicated with the server via a servlet. The server in turn communicated with a database residing on an AS/400. All layers of the system above the database were written in Java.

09/1996-06/1997

Optical Access International, Inc, Woburn, MA.
Software Engineer.

Designed and implemented an administrative application for a CD-ROM file server using MS Visual C++, MFC, and Novell SDK.

06/1995-08/1995

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Chelmsford, MA.
Software Engineer.

Designed and implemented GUI components of CAD system in C and Lisp.

06/1994-08/1994

Software 2000, Inc., Hyannis, MA.
Quality Assurance Person.

Performed high-level testing of object-oriented software for OS/2 & Windows.
Maintained LOTUS NOTES based bug-tracking system.

Professional Societies / Honors:

IEEE Student Member.

2001 Graduate Fellowship from Eastman-Kodak Corporation Research Lab.

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, international honor society for computing sciences.

Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor society.

1994 Charles O. Thompson Award for outstanding first year performance at WPI.

REFERENCES:

Available upon request.