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

• Nov 11, 2025
  congrats to Srikumar Sastry on successfully defendinghis PhD proposal!
• Nov 10, 2025
  one paper accepted to WACV (Round 2), congrats to authors Daniel Cher, Brian Wei, and Srikumar Sastry!
• Nov 04, 2025
  one papers accepted to AAAI, with lab alumni Gongbo "Tony" Liang!

October

• Oct 15, 2025
  Daniel Cher wins prestigious Ann W. and Spencer T. Olin-Chancellor's Fellowship!

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

• Jun 26, 2025
  two papers accepted to ICCV, congrats to co-authors Feng Qiao, Srikumar Sastry, Zhexiao Xiong, Aayush Dhakal, Eric Xing, and Subash Khanal!
• Jun 01, 2025
  Three PhD students are heading for summer internships: Srikumar Sastry to Dolby,Aayush Dhakal, to Oak Ridge National Labs, andZhexiao Xiong to Bosch.

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

• Feb 26, 2025
  two papers accepted to CVPR, congrats to first authors Eric Xing and Aayush Dhakal!

2024

December

• Dec 09, 2024
  two papers accepted to AAAI!

November

• Nov 04, 2024
  one paper accepted to WACV, congrats to Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, Aayush Dhakal, and Adeel Ahmad!

October

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

September

• Sep 25, 2024
  one paper accepted to NeurIPS, congrats to Anindiya Sarkar, Srikumar Sastry, Aleksis Pirinen, Chongjie Zhang, and Eugene Vorobeychik!

July

• Jul 15, 2024
  one paper accepted to ICMLA, congrats to Michael Lanier and one paper accepted to WIFS, congrats to José Nascimento!
• Jul 15, 2024
  one paper accepted to ACM Multimedia, congrats to Subash Khanal, Eric Xing, Srikumar Sastry, Aayush Dhakal, Zhexiao Xiong, and Adeel Ahmad!
• Jul 02, 2024
  one paper accepted to PLOS ONE, congrats to Alex Levering!
• Jul 02, 2024
  one paper accepted to ECCV, congrats to Oscar Skean, Aayush Dhakal, and Luis Sanchez Giraldo!

April

• Apr 22, 2024
  Best Paper Award in the EARTHVISION workshop for Sat2Cap: Mapping Fine-Grained Textual Descriptions from Satellite Images
• Apr 05, 2024
  three papers accepted to CVPR workshops!

March

• Mar 15, 2024
  two papers accepted to IGARSS. Congrats to Aayush Dhakal, Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, and Adeel Ahmad!

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

• Oct 28, 2023
  one paper accepted to NeurIPS Workshop: Self-Supervised Learning:Theory and Practice. Congrats to Oscar Skean, Aayush Dhakal, and Luis Sanchez Giraldo!
• Oct 24, 2023
  four papers accepted to WACV, congrats to lab members: Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, Aayush Dhakal, and Michael Lanier!
• Oct 04, 2023
  one paper accepted to JSTARS. Congrats to Gongbo "Tony" Liang!

September

• Sep 21, 2023
  one paper accepted to NeurIPS

August

• Aug 22, 2023
  two papers accepted to BMVC, congrats to lab members: Subash Khanal, Zhexiao Xiong, Aayush Dhakal, Srikumar Sastry, and Yu Zhang!

July

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

April

• Apr 28, 2023
  congrats to Alex Greene on successfully defending his MS project!
• Apr 05, 2023
  six papers accepted to IGARSS, congrats to lab members: Aayush Dhakal, Aram Ansary Ogholbake, Benjamin Brodie, Cohen Archbold, Jacob Birge, M. Usman Rafique, Raian Vargas Maretto, Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, and Yu Zhang!

February

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

January

• Jan 15, 2023
  welcome to new postdoc Adeel Ahmad, PhD student Lydia Reader, and MS student Alex Wollam!

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

• Aug 15, 2022
  welcome to new PhD students Srikumar Sastry, Aayush Dhakal, Michael Lanier, and Zhexiao Xiong and new MS student Nia Hodges!
• Aug 01, 2022
  one paper accepted to ICPR, congrats to authors Gongbo "Tony" Liang and Xin Xing!

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

• Mar 02, 2022
  one paper accepted to CVPR 2022, congrats to the authors, Scott Workman, M. Usman Rafique, and Hunter Blanton!
• Mar 01, 2022
  one paper accepted to IEEE TIFS, congrats to the lab authors, Rafael Padilha, Tawfiq Salem, Scott Workman, and our collaborators, Fernanda Andaló and Anderson Rocha!

January

• Jan 07, 2022
  one paper accepted to ISBI 2022, congrats to the authors, Xin Xing, Gongbo "Tony" Liang, Yu Zhang, and Subash Khanal!

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

• Oct 04, 2021
  one paper accepted to WACV 2022, congrats to the authors, Hunter Blanton and Scott Workman!

May

• May 18, 2021
  M. Usman Rafique, current PhD student, and Scott Workman, graduated PhD student, were both selected as outstanding reviewers for CVPR 2021.

March

• Mar 22, 2021
  Hunter Blanton was selected as the Outstanding PhD Student in the Computer Science Department.
• Mar 16, 2021
  one paper accepted to IGARSS 2021, congrats to the authors, Benjamin Brodie, David T. Jones, Subash Khanal, M. Usman Rafique, and Connor Greenwell!

2020

December

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

November

• Nov 02, 2020
  Connor Greenwell and Yu Zhang both successfully defended their PhD thesis proposals.

October

• Oct 11, 2020
  one paper accepted to ICPR 2021, congrats to the authors, Yu Zhang and Gongbo "Tony" Liang!

September

• Sep 23, 2020
  PhD student, Gongbo 'Tony' Liang, successfully defended his thesis.

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
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 460g)

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

• Aug 21, 2018
  one paper accepted to ACM GIS (SIGSPATIAL)
• Aug 01, 2018
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 460g)

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

• Mar 20, 2018
  I am a Guest Editor for a CVIU Special Issue on Computer Vision for Remote Sensing.
• Mar 18, 2018
  two papers accepted to IGARSS 2018
• Mar 12, 2018
  hosted the PhD Forum at WACV 2018

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

• Dec 14, 2017
  Derek Jones, an MS student I co-advise with Dr. Sally Ellingson, has two comp. bio. papers accepted to the AMIA Informatics Summit.

September

• Sep 30, 2017
  one paper accepted to BIBM

August

• Aug 08, 2017
  three papers accepted to ICCV

July

• Jul 15, 2017
  Hamid Hamraz has a paper on using LiDAR to understand forests accepted to ISPRS

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

• Feb 24, 2017
  our service for horizon-line estimation has gotten a few mentions lately.

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

• Aug 10, 2016
  journal article accepted to Signal Processing: Image Communication
• Aug 01, 2016
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 460g)

July

• Jul 14, 2016
  paper accepted to BMVC (York, UK)
• Jul 08, 2016
  Mohammad "Tarik" Islam successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
• Jul 01, 2016
  promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure)

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)

October

• Oct 27, 2015
  talk at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Oct 22, 2015
  three papers accepted to WACV (round 1)

September

• Sep 30, 2015
  two talks and a poster presentation in Quebec
• Sep 17, 2015
  talk at IC Academic Research Symposium (Washington, DC)

August

• Aug 01, 2015
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 460g)

May

• May 11, 2015
  paper accepted to JIVP
• May 06, 2015
  Scott Workman successfully defended his PhD Proposal

April

• Apr 15, 2015
  Visiting Speaker (Erik Learned-Miller)
• Apr 15, 2015
  paper accepted to EARTHVISION Workshop

February

• Feb 23, 2015
  Visiting Speaker (Richard Souvenir)

January

• Jan 01, 2015
  teaching learning-based methods for computer vision (UK CS 585/685)

2014

December

• Dec 11, 2014
  NVIDIA Hardware Donation

October

• Oct 15, 2014
  paper accepted to CVIU
• Oct 09, 2014
  paper accepted to ACM GIS Workshop

August

• Aug 01, 2014
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 460g)

June

• Jun 16, 2014
  paper accepted to ECCV

May

• May 21, 2014
  paper accepted to ICIP
• May 21, 2014
  Connor Greenwell receives an NSF REU Award
• May 20, 2014
  machine learning course approved
• May 12, 2014
  congratulations to Dr. Paul Mihail

April

• Apr 17, 2014
  Paul Mihail successfully defended his dissertation
• Apr 17, 2014
  paper accepted to AIM

March

• Mar 28, 2014
  paper accepted to ICPR

January

• Jan 31, 2014
  another paper accepted to WACV

2013

December

• Dec 04, 2013
  Mohammad T. Islam successfully defended his PhD Proposal
• Dec 03, 2013
  Feiyu Shi successfully defended his Master's Project

November

• Nov 30, 2013
  two papers accepted to WACV
• Nov 30, 2013
  oral presentation at ICDSC

October

• Oct 30, 2013
  article published in PAMI

August

• Aug 01, 2013
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 485)

April

• Apr 30, 2013
  paper accepted to CVPR Workshop

March

• Mar 30, 2013
  paper accepted to CVPR

January

• Jan 01, 2013
  teaching computer vision (UK CS 636)

2012

August

• Aug 01, 2012
  teaching undergraduate machine learning (UK CS 485)

January

• Jan 01, 2012
  teaching graduate machine learning (UK CS 685)

2011

August

• Aug 01, 2011
  teaching computational photography (UK CS 585)

January

• Jan 01, 2011
  teaching computer vision (UK CS 636)

2010

August

• Aug 01, 2010
  teaching computational photography (UK CS 585)