{"57017":{"#nid":"57017","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Patricio Vela Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPatricio Vela has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project entitled \u0022Observer Design for Intelligent Visual Tracking.\u0022  An assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, Dr. Vela specializes in systems and controls. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn practical applications, sensor data is often filtered or passed to an observer, both of which provide a smoothed version of the noisy sensor signal. While computer vision algorithms are increasingly being used for feedback purposes, many of the algorithms do not temporally filter the signal from the computer vision algorithm in a manner consistent with the signal\u0027s mathematical structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the CAREER Award, Dr. Vela seeks to derive such algorithms and develop practical applications to problems that rely on a clean interpretation of an imaged scene.  His specific areas of focus will be on workforce tracking for safety in heavily mechanized environments, cellular tracking, and human-robot gesture-based communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Vela has been on the ECE faculty since August 2005. He is a past recipient of the HENAAC Most Promising Engineer Award and is currently the faculty advisor for the Georgia Tech chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation\u0027s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Patricio Vela has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project entitled \u0022Observer Design for Intelligent Visual Tracking.\u0022 With funding from this award, Dr. Vela seeks to develop practical applications to problems that rely on a clean interpretation of an imaged scene.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Patricio Vela received an NSF CAREER Award for visual tracking w"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2009-08-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57018":{"id":"57018","type":"image","title":"photo of Patricio Vela","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"photo of Patricio Vela","file":{"fid":"190512","name":"teq87664.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teq87664_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teq87664_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45591,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/teq87664_0.jpg?itok=2tJRWW7v"}}},"media_ids":["57018"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=139","title":"Patricio Vela"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8791","name":"computer vision algorithm"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"5333","name":"Patricio Vela"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"8790","name":"visual tracking"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}