Multimodal Vision Research Laboratory

MVRL

News Archives

A complete archive of news and updates from the Multimodal Vision Research Laboratory.

2026

January

  • Jan 14, 2026
    PhD student Zhexiao Xiong is heading to ByteDance for a spring internship.

2025

December

  • Dec 20, 2025
    one papers accepted to AAMAS, congrats to author Srikumar Sastry!

November

October

September

  • Sep 18, 2025
    one papers accepted to NeurIPS, congrats to authors Eric Xing and Abby Stylianou!
  • Sep 05, 2025
    one paper accepted to WACV (Round 1, Accept Rate 6%), congrats to author Alex Wollam!

August

  • Aug 01, 2025
    Eric Xing, PhD student, is heading to an internship at Pintrest.

June

May

  • May 06, 2025
    congrats to Jack McCall, Jingyun Ma, and Haris Naveed on successfully defending their MS projects!

April

  • Apr 29, 2025
    one paper accepted to TMLR, congrats to co-authors Zhexiao Xiong, Xin Xing, Scott Workman, and Subash Khanal!
  • Apr 25, 2025
    congrats to Vinh Pham on successfully defending his MS project!
  • Apr 22, 2025
    congrats to Lunchi Guo and Myan Sudharsanan on successfully defending their MS projects and Ethan Weilheimer on successfully defending his MS thesis!

March

  • Mar 31, 2025
    three papers accepted to CVPR workshops!

February

2024

December

  • Dec 09, 2024
    two papers accepted to AAAI!

November

October

  • Oct 03, 2024
    five abstracts accepted to the AGU Fall Meeting!

September

July

April

March

2023

December

  • Dec 21, 2023
    one paper accepted to AAMAS!
  • Dec 12, 2023
    congrats to Hongzhang Wang on successfully defendinghis MS project!

November

  • Nov 14, 2023
    congrats to Xin Xing on successfully defending his PhD dissertation!

October

September

  • Sep 21, 2023
    one paper accepted to NeurIPS

August

July

  • Jul 25, 2023
    congrats to Alex Wollam on successfully defending hisMS project!

April

February

  • Feb 20, 2023
    congrats to Yu Zhang on successfully defending his dissertation!

January

2022

December

  • Dec 01, 2022
    one paper accepted to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

November

  • Nov 05, 2022
    one paper accepted to BMVC, congrats to authors Xin Xing and Yu Zhang!

August

July

  • Jul 25, 2022
    congrats to Zachary Pulliam on successfully defending his MS DS capstone project!
  • Jul 01, 2022
    the lab has relocated to CSE @ WashU

June

  • Jun 15, 2022
    congrats to Connor Greenwell on successfully defending his dissertation!
  • Jun 01, 2022
    one paper accepted to the XAI4CV (Explainable AI) workshop CVPR 2022, congrats to the authors, Subash Khanal, Benjamin Brodie, and Xin Xing!

March

January

2021

December

  • Dec 14, 2021
    congrats to Xin Xing and Subash Khanal on successfully defending their dissertation proposals!

November

  • Nov 23, 2021
    congrats to Jacob Birge on successfully defending hisMS thesis!

October

May

March

2020

December

  • Dec 04, 2020
    one paper accepted to the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

November

October

September

March

  • Mar 12, 2020
    lab members, Gongbo 'Tony' Liang and Armin Hadzic, selected as the Outstanding Graduate Students in the Computer Science Department (PhD and MS respectively).
  • Mar 02, 2020
    MS student, Armin Hadzic, successfully defended his thesis.

February

  • Feb 27, 2020
    two papers, both on applications of neural networks to remote sensing, accepted to CVPR 2020
  • Feb 14, 2020
    one article exploring domain adaptation challenges in breast cancer classification accepted to the Journal of the American College of Radiology
  • Feb 14, 2020
    one paper on detecting deforestation from satellite imagery accepted to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

2019

November

  • Nov 02, 2019
    one paper on defending against adversarial attacks on point-cloud neural networks accepted to the LiDAR workshop at IEEE Big Data

October

  • Oct 19, 2019
    one paper on tree classification using airborne LiDAR accepted to ISPRS
  • Oct 01, 2019
    two papers on mammography classification accepted for presentation at BIBM

August

  • Aug 15, 2019
    congrats to REU students on their award winning projects: Yuhan Long (Outstanding Research), Sean Grate (Outstanding Presentation), and Thomas Barber (Outstanding Presentation-Runner Up)!
  • Aug 01, 2019

July

  • Jul 19, 2019
    one abstract on 2D-3D mammography classification accepted for presentation at RSNA 2019
  • Jul 15, 2019
    PhD student, Tawfiq Salem, successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats to Dr. Salem!

April

  • Apr 18, 2019
    MS student, Weilian Song, successfully defended his thesis.
  • Apr 12, 2019
    three papers accepted to IGARSS 2019 and one to EARTHVISION 2019.

2018

December

  • Dec 05, 2018
    PhD student, Zach Bessinger, successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats to Dr. Bessinger!

November

  • Nov 05, 2018
    one paper accepted to WACV

October

  • Oct 19, 2018
    PhD student, Menghua "Ted" Zhai, successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats to Dr. Zhai!
  • Oct 11, 2018
    one paper accepted to BIBM

August

July

  • Jul 03, 2018
    one paper accepted to ECCV
  • Jul 02, 2018
    one paper accepted to BMVC

April

  • Apr 16, 2018
    PhD student, Scott Workman, successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats to Dr. Workman!
  • Apr 09, 2018
    MS student, Derek Jones, successfully defended his thesis!
  • Apr 09, 2018
    PhD student, Hamid Hamraz, successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats to Dr. Hamraz!

March

February

  • Feb 19, 2018
    attended the CVPR AC Meeting and presented at the workshop

January

  • Jan 31, 2018
    one paper accepted to WACV

2017

December

September

  • Sep 30, 2017
    one paper accepted to BIBM

August

  • Aug 08, 2017
    three papers accepted to ICCV

July

June

  • Jun 06, 2017
    gave tutorial on deep learning for remote sensing with Stella Yu at GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio, TX

May

  • May 24, 2017
    Tawfiq Salem successfully defended his Ph.D. proposal
  • May 15, 2017
    PhD Student (Scott Workman) has been selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum as a Young Researcher
  • May 01, 2017
    I am serving as co-chair for the CVPR 2017 Doctoral Consortium and will be an Area Chair for CVPR 2018.

March

  • Mar 29, 2017
    Lab members selected for Computer Science Departmental Awards:Outstanding PhD Student (Scott Workman), Best Teaching Assistant(Tawfiq Salem), Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship (Menghua Zhai),and Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Performance (Sam Davidson).

February

January

  • Jan 30, 2017
    Zach Bessinger successfully defended his Ph.D. proposal.
  • Jan 24, 2017
    Menghua 'Ted' Zhai successfully defended his Ph.D. proposal
  • Jan 10, 2017
    presented work on image-driven mapping at USGIF Workshop on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Jan 01, 2017
    teaching computer vision (UK CS 636)

2016

August

July

June

  • Jun 30, 2016
    Attended CVPR. PhD student Menghua "Ted" Zhai gave a spotlight talk. I gave an invited talk in a workshop.
  • Jun 10, 2016
    journal article accepted to Image and Vision Computing

May

  • May 06, 2016
    two papers accepted to ICIP (Phoenix, Arizona)

April

  • Apr 12, 2016
    congratulations to Ryan Baltenberger for defending his Masters project

February

  • Feb 16, 2016
    NSF CAREER Award
  • Feb 15, 2016
    Google Faculty Research Award
  • Feb 10, 2016
    talk at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)

January

  • Jan 21, 2016
    talk at Uber ATC (Pittsburgh, PA)

2015

December

  • Dec 15, 2015
    presented two posters at ICCV (Santiago, Chile)

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