Thommen Korah
Senior ResearcherSanta Monica
My research interests lie at the juncture of Computer Vision and Graphics. In particular, I am interested in automatically processing and understanding large amounts of visual data (images, videos, 3D LIDAR) collected from urban environments. I work at the Multimedia Lab of NRC and am located in the Santa Monica office. My current projects involve exploring new forms of mobile media that leverage Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies. Before joining NRC in 2009, I was a Research Staff Member at HRL Labs in Malibu. I graduated with a PhD in Computer Vision and Robotics from the University of Delaware in 2007.
Publications
Korah, T.; Medasani, S. & Owechko, Y. Strip Histogram Grid for Efficient LIDAR Segmentation from Urban Environments. Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond the Visible Spectrum, 2011.
Korah, T.; Wither, J.; Tsai, Y.-T. & Azuma, R. Mobile Augmented Reality at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Virtual Reality Conference (VR), 2011 IEEE, 2011, 183 -186.
Wither, J.; Allen, R.; Samanta, V.; Hemanus, J.; Tsai, Y.-T.; Azuma, R.; Carter, W.; Hinman, R. & Korah, T. The Westwood Experience: Connecting story to locations via Mixed Reality. Mixed and Augmented Reality - Arts, Media, and Humanities (ISMAR-AMH), 2010 IEEE International Symposium On, 2010
Korah, T. & Rasmussen, C. Analysis of Building Textures for Reconstructing Partially Occluded Facades. European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008
Korah, T. Robust Spatiotemporal Analysis of Architectural Imagery. Doctoral Thesis, University of Delaware, 2007
Korah, T. & Rasmussen, C. 2D Lattice Extraction from Structured Environments. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007.
Korah, T. & Rasmussen, C. Spatiotemporal Inpainting for Recovering Texture Maps of Occluded Building Facades. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2007, 16, 2262-2271.
Korah, T. & Rasmussen, C. Aligning Sequences from Multiple Cameras. IEEE International Conference on Speech, Acoustics, and Signal Processing, 2005.
Rasmussen, C. & Korah, T. On-Vehicle and Aerial Texture Analysis for Vision-Based Desert Road Following. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles, 2005
Korah, T. & Rasmussen, C. Probabilistic Contour Extraction with Model Switching for Vehicle Localization. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2004
