Current Activities

Research

• Ongoing sponsored research on skin lesion segmentation and classification and early melanoma detection. See recent press release and news story.
• Ongoing sponsored research on fingerprint segmentation and verification.
• Ongoing sponsored research on multi-channel real-time video enhancement.
• Ongoing research on medical image analysis using deep learning techniques.

Books

• O. Marques, “Image Processing and Computer Vision for iOS”, Springer, 2018 (to appear).
• B. Furht and O. Marques (editors), “Encyclopedia of Multimedia”, 3rd edition, Springer, 2018 (to appear).
• O. Marques, “Computer Vision and Image Processing Recipes Using MATLAB®” (in preparation).

Courses

• Teaching CAP 6618 – Machine Learning for Computer Vision, ISM 6058 – Mobile Apps for Business, and COP 3813 – Intro to Internet Computing (Spring 2018).

Talks

• Self-driving cars, robot radiologists, and more: how artificial intelligence is changing the world forever, Lifelong Learning Society (LLS), Florida Atlantic University, March 2018. (upcoming)
• Looking through the artist’s eyes, Lifelong Learning Society (LLS), Florida Atlantic University, March 2018. (upcoming)

Conferences

• Organizer and Co-chair of the Special Track on
  Medical Image and Video Analysis Using Deep Learning, 31st IEEE CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Karlstad, Sweden, June 18-21, 2018.
  • See Call for Papers here

• Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICACC 2018), New Delhi, India, Dec 22-23, 2018.
• General Chair, Fourth International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS’18), Bangalore, India, September 19-22, 2018.
• Advisory Committee Member and Reviewer, 7th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Bangalore, India, September 19-22, 2018.
• Track Chair, Technical Program Committee Member, and Reviewer, 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, September 3-7, 2018.
• Reviewer, Program Committee Member, and Liaison for the Americas, International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2018), La Rochelle, France, September 4-6, 2018.

Graduate student advising

• PhD advisor for Mr. Luiz Zaniolo
• PhD advisor for Ms. Nancy VanNest
• MS thesis advisor for Mr. Jack Burdick

Editorial Boards

• Editorial Board member of the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer.
• Associate Editor, SET International Journal of Broadcast Engineering, Brazilian Society of Television Engineering.

Committees

• CEECS Department Undergraduate CS Program Committee (Chair)
• CEECS Department Executive Committee (member)
• College of Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Program Committee (member)
• OIT (Office of Information Technology) Advisory Committee (member)
• Mindfulness Working Group (under the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights initiative – Office of the Provost) (member)