• I am an Associate Professor and Associate Chairman in the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (Boca Raton, Florida). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from FAU in 2001.

    My research interests are in the area of intelligent processing of visual information, which combines the fields of image processing, computer vision, image retrieval, machine learning, and human visual perception. I am particularly interested in the combination of human computation and machine learning techniques to solve object recognition, and robust methods for visual information retrieval.

    Latest news (see Blog for more)

    • I will teach a new graduate course (“Machine Learning for Computer Vision”) at UTFPR (Curitiba-PR, Brazil) in May 2012.
    • I will give an invited talk at the Brazilian Workshop on Computer Vision (WVC 2012), Goiania-GO, Brazil), May 27-30 2012.
    • I am working with my colleague Mathias Lux (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) on our upcoming book: “Visual Information Using Java and LIRE” (a Morgan&Claypool Synthesis Lecture)

    Current activities

    Research (see Research page for more)

    • Working on “the use of human computation to solve selected computer vision problems” with colleagues from ENSEEIHT (Toulouse, France)
    • Working on “intention-based video retrieval” with colleagues from Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Austria)
    • Working on “computational models of visual attention and applications” with colleagues from UTFPR (Curitiba, Brazil)
    • Working on “sparse models and image constrained dictionary learning” (Joel Gibson’s PhD dissertation)
    • Working on “mobile visual search” (Asif Rahman’s MS thesis)

    Teaching (see Teaching page for more)

    • Internet Programming (Weekend MS) – FAU – April 2012
    • Machine Learning for Computer Vision –  UTFPR (Curitiba, Brazil) – May 2012
    • Digital Image Processing (CAP 4401 / COP 5930) – FAU – Fall 2012
    • Introduction to Internet Computing (COP 3813) - FAU – Fall 2012

    Professional Service

    • Associate Chairman of the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at FAU
    • Editorial Board Member – Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)

     

    Contact information

    Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CEECS)

    Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
    777 Glades Road
    Boca Raton, FL 33431 – USA

    • Phone: (561) 297-3857
    • Fax: (561) 297-2800
    • Email: omarques AT fau DOT edu

     

    My office (EE 441) is on the 4th floor of the
    “Engineering East” (EE) building
    (building 96 in the FAU interactive campus map).
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