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E540 CSE Building
University of Florida
Phone: 352-562-0979
Fax: 352-273-0738
ejain@cise.ufl.edu
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 116120
Gainesville, FL 32611
Address for Packages:
432 Newell Dr.
Building 42
Room 301
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

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Principal Investigator - Dr. Eakta Jain

Eakta Jain

Eakta Jain is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, working in the Graphics Lab. Her B.Tech. degree is in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. She has worked in industrial research at Texas Instruments R&D labs, Disney Research Pittsburgh, and the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Eakta’s research interests are in building human-centered computer graphics algorithms to create and manipulate artistic content, including traditional hand animation, comic art, and films. Her work has been presented at venues such as ACM SIGGRAPH, and has won multiple awards.

Current Students

Ph.D. / M.S.
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Pallavi Raiturkar
Ph.D.

Research interests: Eyetracking, Computer Vision, Algorithms, Video Processsing, Virtual Reality

Courses: CAP5705 Computer Graphics, CAP5108 Research Methods for HCC, COP5536 Advanced Data Structures, EEE6512 Image Processing and Computer Vision, EEL6825 Pattern Recognition

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Yuzhu Dong
Ph.D.

Research interests: animation, computer graphics, virtual character, virtual reality, human computer interaction, machine learning

Courses: CIS6930 Virtual Reality, CAP5705 Computer Graphics, CAP5108 Research Methods for HCC, COP5536 Advanced Data Structures, EEE6512 Image Processing and Computer Vision, EEL6825 Pattern Recognition, EEL5934 Computational Photography, EEL6841 Machine Intelligence

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Sachin Paryani
M.S.

Research interests: Eyetracking, Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Game Design

Courses:CAP5108 Research Methods for HCC, DIG6788C Digital Production and Game Design, CAP5705 Computer Graphics, COP5536 Advanced Data Structures, COP5615 Distributed Operating Systems Principles

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Madhusudan Govindraju
M.S.

Research interests: Computer Vision, Machine Vision

Courses: EEL6825 Pattern Recognition, EEE6512 Image processing Computer Vision, EEL5840 Elements of Machine Intelligence, EEL5934 Computational Photography

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Archana Nagarajan
M.S.

Research interests: Algorithms, Virtual Reality

Courses: COT5405 Algorithms, COP5536 Advanced Data Structures

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Chaitra Yangandul
M.S.

Research Interest: Computer Vision, Eye-Tracking, Human-Computer Interaction, Usability

Courses: CEN5726 Natural User Interaction, COT5405 Analysis Of Algorithms, CIS6905 Individual Study (Human-Centered Computing) under Dr. Jain

Undergraduate
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Kartik Chaturvedi
Webmaster

Technical and research interests: NodeJS, React, GulpJS, Bootstrap, UX/UI Design, Virtual Reality, User Interaction

Courses: CIS4930 iOS Swift Development, CNT4007C Network Fundamentals, COP4600 Operating Systems, NodeJS Developer Course (Udemy), React Web Developer Course (Udemy), Development with GulpJS (Udemy)

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Matthew Pearson

Research interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Courses: CIS4930 Human Computer Interaction, CAP4053 AI for Video Games, CEN4072 Software Verification, COT3100 Data Structures, EEL3701 Digital Logic



Spring 2017 Lab Team

Summer 2016 Lab Team

Research Opportunities
Graduate Students:TA/RA positions are available. We are also looking for summer students. Please email to ask for a meeting (in person/Skype/phone) if you are interested in this area. For our meeting, please come prepared to discuss three ideas that you’d like to work on. If you have a hobby or a favorite science-fiction book, we’ll talk about that too.
Undergraduate Students:Please check the Center for Undergraduate Research page. Opportunities are advertized via the CURBS Research Opportunities page. Also, join the Facebook group. For any questions, please email to set up a meeting.
New Check out the Computer Engineering Undergraduate Research page.

Past Students

Khimya Khetarpal
(Intel)

Lavanya Chennupatti
(Spotify)

Andrew Lee
(University Scholar 2015, pursuing PhD at Duke University)

Melissa Franklin
 

Caleb Bryant
 

Isaac Manjarres
(Visiting Student, CMU)

Julian Tolentino
(UF)

Isabella Cuba
(DREU, Vasser College)

Other

Kai Lee (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Asst. Prof. Alireza Entezari)

Aishat Aloba (PhD committee, chaired by Asst. Prof. Lisa Anthony)

Alex Shaw (PhD committee, chaired by Asst. Prof. Lisa Anthony)

Sanethia Thomas (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Juan Gilbert)

Dhruv Mahajan (M.S. committee, chaired by Prof. Sanjay Ranka)

Shashank Ranjan (M.S. committee, chaired by Asst. Prof. Corey Toler-Franklin)

Michael Borish (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Benjamin Lok)

Jae Woong Lee (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Sumi Helal)

Andrew Robb (Ph.D. committee, chaired by Prof. Benjamin Lok)

Previous Committees:

  • Ph.D. Thesis Committee
    • Abhishek Chhetri, University of Texas at Dallas
    • Michael Borish
    • Jae Woong Lee
    • Andrew Robb
  • Masters Thesis Committee
    • Xuehan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Qualifiers Committee
    • Laura Trutoiu, Carnegie Mellon University

News

21 March 2017 Dr. Jain presents research at the UF Data Science and Informatics Symposium, Spring 2017.

10 February 2017 Dr. Jain presents ongoing research projects at UF ACM.

1 November 2016 Jain lab receives funding from Youtube Research!

20 September 2016 Take a look at the exciting things the team was doing over the summer!

29 June 2016 Paper on 'Decoupling Light Reflex from Pupillary Dilation to Measure Emotional Arousal in Videos' to be presented at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2016. Congratulations Pallavi! See project page here.

29 June 2016 Article on "Is the motion of a child perceivably different from the motion of an adult?" accepted to ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. See project page here.

9 June 2016 Poster on analyzing heart-rate of viewers on environmental public service announcements to be presented at SAP. Congratulations to Kartik Chaturvedi, Beida Chen, Isabella Cuba, Melissa Franklin, Nia Haynes, Andrew Lee, Pallavi Raiturkar, Rebecca Soodeen, and Julian Tolentino! Download preprint poster abstract here.

9 June 2016 Poster on analyzing visual scan paths on movie trailers to be presented at SAP. Congrats to Pallavi and Andrew! Download preprint poster abstract here.

18 May 2016 Workshop paper on benchmarking saliency algorithms on comic art to be presented at ICME Workshop on MMArt. Congratulations Khimya! See project page here.

18 May 2016 Poster on clustering gaze data for segmentation on comics to be presented at SAP. Congratulations Ishwarya! See project page here.

18 May 2016 Article on Predicting Moves-on-Stills for Comic Art accepted to IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Quality Assessment and Perception. See project page here.

1 May 2016 Jain lab receives funding from NSF! (CRII: RI 1566481)

29 April 2016 Don't miss the tutorial on "Visual Attention from a Graphics Point of View" on May 9 at Eurographics. Organized by Dr. Jain, along with Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik and Dr. Olivier Le Meur.

27 April 2016 Two papers from Jain Lab accepted to ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. Coming soon!

15 April 2016 Andrew Lee has accepted a PhD position at Duke University. Congratulations Andrew!

5 Feb 2016 Dr. Jain is conference co-chair for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), along with Dr. Joerg. Call for papers for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP)is out. Deadlines here.

5 Feb 2016 Dr. Jain to organize a tutorial on "Visual Attention from a Graphics Point of View" at Eurographics 2016with Olivier Le Meurand Sumanta Pattanaik.

29 Jan 2016 Jain Lab receives research funding from Oculus Research!

2 Dec 2015 Dr. Jain presents her research at the Fall 2015 UF Data Science Symposium.

18 Nov 2015 Dr. Jain is a panelist for SEWIC 2015 in Atlanta. See picture here.

18 Nov 2015 Dr. Jain talks about Gaze-driven Video Re-editing as part of Marston Library's iSTEAM lecture series.

14 Oct 2015 Dr. Jain presents her pencil sketches at 2015 Art in Engineering Museum Night at the Harn Museum.

9 Sept 2015 Dr. Jain invited to speak at the Marston Science Library iSTEAM seminar series.

9 Sept 2015 Dr. Jain invited to speak at the UF ACM student chapter on Sept 16th 2015.

9 Sept 2015 Dr. Jain presents Gaze-driven Video Re-editing at SIGGRAPH 2015.

22 July 2015 Stop-motion Animation Camp at Harn Museum

22 July 2015 Andrew Lee accepted into the University Scholars Program. Congratulations Andrew!

22 July 2015 Human Centered Computer Graphics at CISE

22 July 2015 While at Dallas, Dr. Jain collaborated with the Creative Automata Lab

20 July 2015 Dr. Jain's article as part of the collection of thoughts on Liz Larner's X sculpture: Models of X

20 July 2015 Press on the Social Saliency project: on CMU news and NSF news