John R. Kender

Welcome to my home page.
(Like much of life itself, continually under construction)

I am:

• Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Great Teacher, Society of Columbia Graduates
• Distinguished Faculty Teacher, Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association
• former Vice Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
• at Columbia University in New York City

Some of my more recent research, supported by NSF, DARPA/ONR, DTO, New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Intel, and Microsoft:

• Aner, A., and Kender, J.R.,
  "A Unified Memory-Based Approach to Cut, Dissolve, Key Frame, and Scene Analysis",
  ICIP '01.
  (abstract) (postscript)
• Fenster, S., and Kender, J.R.,
  "A Comparative Technique and Performance Results on Novel Learned Snakes in Two Dissimilar Medical Domains",
  CVPR '00 (oral presentation),
  (abstract) (postscript)
• Liu, T., and Kender, J.R.,
  "A Hidden Markov Model Approach to the Structure of Documentaries",
  CVPR '00 Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries,
  (abstact) (postscript)
• Kender, J.R.,
  "Visual Interfaces to Computers: A Systems-Oriented First Course in Robust Control via Imagery",
  CVPR '00 Workshop on Undergraduate Education and Image Computation,
  (abstract) (postscript)
• Kender, J.R., and Yeo, B.L.,
  "On the Structure and Analysis of Home Videos",
  ACCV '00 (invited paper)
  (abstract) (postscript)
• Abella, A., and Kender, J.R.,
  "From Images to Sentences via Spatial Relations",
  ICCV '99 Workshop on the Integration of Image and Speech Understanding (invited paper)
  (abstract) (postscript)
• Kender, J.R., and Yeo, B.L.,
  "Video Scene Segmentation Via Continuous Video Coherence",
  CVPR '98 (oral presentation)
  (abstract) (postscript)
• Fenster, S., and Kender, J.R.,
  "Sectored Snakes: Evaluating Learned-Energy Segmentations",
  ICCV '97
  (abstract) (postscript)

• Natural Language Description from Visual Images by Alicia Abella, now at AT&T Research
• Training Deformable Models for Medical Imagery by Sam Fenster, now at City College of New York
• Visual Interpretation of Gestures by Rick Kjeldsen, now at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
• Qualitative Navigation by Il-Pyung Park, now at New York Institute of Technology
• Shape from Darkness by David Yang, now at St. Joseph's University

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Current and Recent PhD students:

• Aya Aner
• Lalitha Agnihotri
• Alex Haubold
• Tiecheng Liu
• Yan Liu
• Hassan Malik
• Mitchell Morris
• Lijun Tang

• Fall 2006: CS W1007, "Introduction to Computer Science"
  • Course web page
• Summer and Spring 2007: CS W3998/W4901/E6901, "Directed research"
  • Descriptions of projects
• Spring 2007: CS W4735, "Visual Interfaces to Computers"
  • Course description
  • Course web page