People

VIVA

Our Team

At VIVA, we strongly promote a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our alumni have been from diverse backgrounds, and pursued diverse interests! We firmly believe our current team reflects our culture, and are always interested in hiring motivated students for pursuing research in advancing image and video analysis techniques.

Thank you for your interest in our group - Virginia Image and Video Analysis. If you are interested in applying, please apply HERE. Do remember to mention Dr. Scott T. Acton as the faculty you would be interested in conducting research with.

Faculty

Scott T. Acton

Lawrence R. Quarles Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering (By Courtesy)

Professor Acton’s laboratory at UVA is called VIVA - Virginia Image and Video Analysis. They specialize in biological image analysis problems. The research emphases of VIVA include machine learning for image and video analysis, AI for education, tracking, segmentation, and enhancement.
VIVA (lab group) Google Scholar
Email acton@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 982-2003

Post Doctorals

Matthew Korban

Matthew Korban

Dr. Matthew Korban is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and an IEEE Senior Member working with Prof. Scott T. Acton in VIVA Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (LSU) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he led several recognizable research projects, including LSU CAVE2 VR, the largest and most advanced VR structure in the world. His research interests are Image and Video Processing, Computer Graphics, Human Motion, Facial and Geometric modeling, and Virtual Reality.
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Email acw6ze@virginia.edu

Graduate Students

Chongyu He

Chongyu He

Chongyu is pursuing a PhD in Computer Engineering. His research focuses on applying machine learning to computer vision, specifically in the analysis of medical images.
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Email ekn8kz@virginia.edu
Jonathan McGee

Jonathan McGee

Jonathan McGee is an Electrical Engineering PhD student who joined VIVA in Fall 2023. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2017. Jonathan worked in industry for 5 years, building skills in Software Engineering and Signal Processing. His research interests include video processing, action recognition, and machine learning.
Email tkg5kq@virginia.edu
Samarth Singh

Samarth Singh

Samarth is currently pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, focused on developing explainable and interpretable medical image analysis methods for neurosurgery. His primary research interests include image processing, explainable and interpretable machine learning, applied linear algebra and computational geometry.
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Email ss5xp@virginia.edu
Soumee

Soumee Guha

Soumee is pursuing her PhD in Computer Engineering, working on diffusion models for medical and biological applications. She has worked on projects related to single-molecule localization, video tracking and video classification projects. 
Google Scholar
Email ccf3dv@virginia.edu

Undergraduate Students

Berlizova, Lisa Stanislavovna

Lisa Berlizova

Lisa is pursuing her BS in Computer Engineering. She is working on multiple camera multiple object tracking and dynamic average consensus in computer vision.
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Email dmk3nf@virginia.edu
Jessica Tierney

Jessica Tierney

Jessica is pursuing her BS in Computer Science. Her current work focuses on video analysis in surgical settings, specifically on classifying surgical tasks to aid in understanding and improving medical procedures.
Email vsf6tk@virginia.edu