Sitterson Hall
CB# 3175
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone: (919) 962 1981
Fax: (919) 962 1799

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Adrian Dumitru Ilie

  

Objective

A career in research and development of computer vision applications.
  

Education

  • January 2003 - present UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
    PhD candidate, Computer Science.
  • August 2000 – December 2002 UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
    M.S., Computer Science.
  • 1995 – 2000 Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
    B.S., Economic Informatics.
  

Experience

  • August 2007 - present Chapel Hill, NC
    Research Assistant – "BASE-IT" Project
    Working on scheduling multiple PTZ cameras for 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes.
  • August 2006 – August 2007 Chapel Hill, NC
    Research Assistant – "CISCO" Project
    Worked on a 3D teleconferencing system, using multiple cameras and an auto-stereo display.
  • August 2004 – August 2006 Chapel Hill, NC
    Research Assistant – "3DMC" Project
    Worked on a 3D reconstruction system, and on photometric and geometric calibration of multiple cameras.
  • May 2002 – August 2004 Chapel Hill, NC
    Research Assistant – "Electronic Books" Project
    Worked on the design and implementation of a hybrid display system for surgical training; then on 3D reconstruction and photometric calibration of multiple cameras.
  • December 2002 – January 2003 Cambridge, MA
    Intern – Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
    Worked on methods for gradient-domain enhancement of images and videos.
  • May 2001 – May 2002 Chapel Hill, NC
    Research Assistant – "Being There" Project
    Assisted in the preparation of the group publications; re-factored code into a more flexible configuration; designed and implemented a client-server configuration; ported the system from SGI to a cluster of PCs.
  • August 2000 – May 2001 Chapel Hill, NC
    Research Assistant – "EPA Modeling" Group
    Worked with and integrated the PostgreSQL DBMS, GRASS GIS, and R statistical programming language towards a unified environment model specification interface.
  • January 2000 – August 2000 Bucharest, Romania
    Lead Programmer – DentExpert SRL
    Designed and developed a dental management software system.
  • December 1998 – August 2000 Bucharest, Romania
    Programmer, Lead Programmer – Pagini Aurii SA
    Designed and developed an automatic pagination system for yellow pages books; the company’s commercial CD containing the Romanian phone and business directory; and a client-server application for building customer reports.
  

Publications

  • Adrian Ilie, Greg Welch, and Marc acenko (2008). "A Stochastic Quality Metric for Optimal Control of Active Camera Network Configurations for 3D Computer Vision Tasks", Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2), Marseille, October 2008.
  • Ram Krishan Kumar, Adrian Ilie, Jan-Michael Frahm, and Marc Pollefeys (2008). "Simple Calibration of Non-overlapping cameras with a mirror", Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR' 08), 2008.
  • Hua Yang, Marc Pollefeys, Greg Welch, Jan-Michael Frahm, and Adrian Ilie (2007). "Differential camera tracking through linearizing the local appearance manifold", The 2007 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR' 07), 2007.
  • Greg Welch, B. Danette Allen, Adrian Ilie, and Gary Bishop (2007). "Measurement Sample Time Optimization for Human Motion Tracking/Capture Systems", Trends and Issues in Tracking for Virtual Environments, Workshop at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2007 Conference (Charlotte, NC USA) (Gabriel Zachmann, ed.), Shaker, March 11 2007.
  • Greg Welch, Vincent Noel, Hua Yang, Andrei State, Adrian Ilie, Ruigang Yang, Marc Pollefeys, and Henry Fuchs (2006). "GPU-Based View Synthesis Using an Orbital Reconstruction Frustum", The 2006 Workshop on Edge Computing Using New Commodity Architectures (EDGE 2006), May 23–24, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  • Andrei State, Greg Welch, and Adrian Ilie (2006). "An Interactive Camera Placement and Visibility Simulator for Image-Based VR Applications", to appear in Proceedings of the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2006 (3D Imaging, Interaction, and Measurement; IS&T/SPIE 18th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology), San Jose, CA, January 2006.
  • Adrian Ilie and Greg Welch (2005). "Ensuring Color Consistency across Multiple Cameras," The 10th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, 2:1268-1275, October 17-20, 2005.
  • Greg Welch, Ruigang Yang, Sascha Becker, Adrian Ilie, Dan Russo, Jesse Funaro, Andrei State, Kok-Lim Low, Anselmo Lastra, Herman Towles, Bruce Cairns, M.D., Henry Fuchs, and Andy van Dam (2005). "Immersive Electronic Books for Surgical Training", IEEE Multimedia, 12(3):22-35, July-September 2005.
  • Ramesh Raskar, Adrian Ilie and Jingyi Yu (2004). "Image Fusion for Context Enhancement", the 3rd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), Annecy, France. June 7-9, 2004.
  • Adrian Ilie (2004). "Ensuring Color Consistency across Multiple Cameras," UNC-CH Department of Computer Science Technical Report 04-012, April 2004.
  • Adrian Ilie, Kok-Lim Low, Greg Welch, Anselmo Lastra, Henry Fuchs, and Bruce Cairns (2004). "Combining Head-Mounted and Projector-Based Displays for Surgical Training," Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 13, issue 2, pp. 128-145.
  • Adrian Ilie, Ramesh Raskar and Jingyi Yu (2004). "Gradient Domain Context Enhancement for Fixed Cameras," Proceedings of ACCV 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, January 27-30, 2004.
  • Kok-Lim Low and Adrian Ilie (2003). "Computing a View Frustum to Maximize an Object's Image Area, " Journal of Graphics Tools, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 3-15.
  • Kok-Lim Low, Adrian Ilie, Greg Welch, and Anselmo Lastra (2003). "Combining Head-Mounted and Projector-Based Displays for Surgical Training," Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003, Los Angeles, California. March 22-26, 2003.
  • Andries van Dam, Henry Fuchs, Sascha Becker, Loring Holden, Adrian Ilie, Kok-Lim Low, Anne Morgan Spalter, Ruigang Yang, and Greg Welch (2002). "Immersive Electronic Books for Teaching Surgical Procedures," Pre-ICAT CREST Symposium on Telecommunication, Teleimmersion, and Telexistence. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN. December 3, 2002.
  

Research interests

  • Computer vision
  • Real-time scheduling
  • Computer graphics
  • Networking
  

Computer skills

  • Programming languages: C, C++, Matlab, Delphi, Assembler, Java.
  • User interface toolkits: Qt, GLUI.
  • Graphics programming: OpenGL, GLUT.
  • 3D modeling software: 3D Studio Max.
  • Internet: HTML, JavaScript, socket programming.
  • DBMS: SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Interbase, PostgreSQL.
  

References

  • Greg Welch, welch@cs.unc.edu
  • Henry Fuchs, fuchs@cs.unc.edu
  • Anselmo Lastra, lastra@cs.unc.edu
  • Ramesh Raskar, raskar@merl.com
  

Hobbies

  • Computers: music, animation, games.
  • Sports: mountain hiking, soccer, ultimate frisbee.
  • Books: Sci-Fi.