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Faculty Listing--Nikolay Sirakov PhD, Assistant Professor

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Office: Binnion 322;           Telephone: 903.886.5943

E-mail: Nikolay_Sirakov@tamu-commerce.edu

PhD, Center of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1991
MS, Sofia University (Bulgaria), 1983
BS, Sofia University (Bulgaria), 1982

Research Interests: Image Processing via gradient methods,

                                 2D/3D Active Contours

                                 Content Based Image Retrieval, Image Data Bases

                                 Image Data Bases Mining for Features Extraction

                                 3D Modeling, Reconstruction and Visualization

                                 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Areas of Applications: Geological structures, Medicine, Robotics, Internet

CV, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH PROJECTS

Teaching , Student_Research_Meetings , Student Researchers

2007/2008,Title: 3D Segmentation and Features Extraction for 3D Database Indexin

2006/2007,Title: 2D Image Segmentation and Efficient Features Extraction for Indexing. A Step Toward the 3D Case.

2005/2006,Title: Features Extraction for Content Based Image Retrieval

SEMINARS:

Regular Seminar Dept of Physics TAMUC- September 27,2007,

Title: Image Databases to Science. Methods for Features Extraction;

NSF-REU, Dept. of Chemistry-TAMUC;

Title: "Enhancement and Features Extraction from Surface Images.", June 06,2007,

UT ARLINGTON-Applied Mathematics Seminar, 2/2/2007 Friday -2:30 pm, Room 304

Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, Jour129, May 05,2006, 12PM

Title: Level Set Formulation of the Heat Differential Equation, Applications to Content Based Image Retrieval

Department of Chemistry February 10.2005, 4PM, Room 138

Undergraduate Science-Mathematics Research Program Summer 2005