Home TOSCA Research Publications Talks Teaching Technology Press Misc Topics Projects Video Genome Efficient video representation, search, alignment, and copy detection using bioinformatics algorithms Metric learning Metric learning and similarity-preserving hashing, multimodal similarity learning. Self-similarity, symmetry, and structure Classification and detection of self-similarity of deformable objects manifested as symmetry and repeating structure Feature-based shape analysis Bags of geometric words and expressions for deformation- and topology-invariant shape retrieval in Internet-scale databases. Deformable shape analysis Deformation-invariant similarity and correspondence of non-rigid objects, metric models of shapes, Gromov-Hausdorff distance. Partial similarity of objects Partial similarity and correspondence of different objects, such as rigid and non-rigid shapes, images and text sequences. Expression-invariant face recognition Three-dimensional face recognition based on expression-invariant intrinsic geometric properties. Geodesic distance computation Efficient parallel algorithms for computation of geodesic distances on curved surfaces. MDS and manifold learning Efficient methods for multidimensional scaling, non-linear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. Fast and accurate 3D video acquisition Fast, accurate, and cost-efficient solutions for three-dimensional surface acquisition at video rates.