Octavia Camps
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office
- 322 Dana Research Center
- 617.373.4663
Research Focus
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
About
Octavia I. Camps received the B.S. degree in computer science and the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad de la Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington.She is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. From 1991 to 2006 she was a faculty member at the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. In 2000, she was a visiting faculty at the California Institute of Technology and at the University of Southern California. Her current research interests include robust computer vision, image processing, and machine learning.
Education
- PhD, University of Washington, 1992.
Research Overview
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Selected Research Projects
- Safe Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Data Driven Control of Switched Systems with Applications to Human Behavioral Modification
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Confocal Video-Mosaicking Microscopy to Guide Surgery of Superficially Spreading Skin Cancers
- – Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health
- Dynamic and Statistical Based Invariants on Manifolds for Video Analysis
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- W. Liu, R. Li, M. Zheng, S. Karanam, Z. Wu, B. Bhanu, R.J. Radke, O. Camps, Towards Visually Explaining Variational Auto Encoders, IEEE/CVF Conf. On Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2020
- S. Karanam, M. Gou, Z. Wu, A. Rates-Borras, O.I. Camps, R.J. Radke, A Systematic Evaluation and Benchmark for Person Re-Identification: Features, Metrics and Datasets, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 41(3), 2019, 523-536
- L. Wenqian, A. Sharma, O.I. Camps, M. Sznaier, DYAN: A Dynamical Atoms-Based Network For Video Prediction, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, 170-185
- M. Gou, F. Xiong, O.I. Camps, M. Sznaier, MoNet: Moments Embedding Network, In Proceedings 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recog. (CVPR), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018
- M. Sznaier, O.I. Camps, SoS-RSC: A Sum-of-Squares Polynomial Approach to Robustifying Subspace Clustering Algorithms, In Proceedings 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recog. (CVPR), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018
Jul 02, 2021
Team Led by Sznaier Awarded $7.5M by DoD for Safer Vehicle Automation
Mario Sznaier, Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), is leading a multi-university team that was awarded a $7.5 million, five-year grant from the Department of Defense (DoD).
Sep 09, 2020
Creating Safe Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
ECE Professors Mario Sznaier and Octavia Camps were awarded an $880K NSF grant for “Safe Learning-Enabled Cyberphysical Systems.”
Sep 05, 2018
Professor Camps Awarded Best Paper from 2018 ICDSC Conference
ECE Professor Octavia Camps and her collaborators were awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The paper, titled "Correlating Belongings with Passengers in a Simulated Airport Security Checkpoint," is co-authored by Ashraful Islam, Yuexi Zhang, Dong Yin, Octavia Camps and Richard Radke. The research for […]
Aug 30, 2018
Creating Personalized Behavior Monitoring Systems
ECE Professors Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier, in collaboration with Constantino Lagoa and David Conroy from Pennsylvania State University, were awarded a $500K NSF grant for "Data Driven Control of Switched Systems with Applications to Human Behavioral Modification". Abstract Source: NSF Dramatically increasing health care costs threaten the nation's economy. Over 80% of those costs are […]
Jul 31, 2018
Neural Network Modules for Computer Vision Systems
ECE Professors Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier were awarded a $500K NSF grant for "Dynamic and Statistical Based Invariants on Manifolds for Video Analysis." Abstract Source: NSF Computer vision systems can benefit society in many ways. For example, spatially distributed vision sensors endowed with activity analysis capabilities can prevent crime, help optimize resource use in […]
May 01, 2018
Faculty and Staff Awards 2018
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2017-2018 academic school year.
Apr 28, 2017
The Future of Airport Security
ALERT researchers Carey Rappaport, Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, & Octavia Camps are developing cutting-edge technology that can detect suspicious behavior at airports.
Apr 03, 2017
ISEC Grand Opening Marks a New Era of Discovery
The grand opening ceremony for the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex took place on April 3, 2017.
Jul 28, 2016
$2.5M NSF grant for Critical Infrastructure Resilience
ECE professors Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, Ali Abur, & Edmund Yeh, MIE assistant professor Jacqueline Griffin, CEE professor Jerome Hajjar, COS professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, CCIS professor Stacy Marsella, and Kostas director Peter Boynton were awarded a $2.5M NSF grant for the “Identification and Control of Uncertain, Highly Interdependent Processes Involving Humans with Applications to […]
Apr 28, 2016
Improving Airport Security
ALERT's Carey Rappaport, Jose Martinez Lorenzo, and Octavia Camps each explain the research they are conducting to make airport security checkpoints safer.