Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology

Margrit Betke
Email: betke@bu.edu
Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995)

Computer Science, Thermal Imaging Analysis,

Betke's CS Home Page

Computer Vision, in particular, Human-Computer Interfaces, Statistical Object Recognition, Medical Image Processing, Intelligent Vehicles, Sensorium, and Thermal Video Analysis of Bats.

Margrit Betke was one of two academics to win the "Top 10 Women to Watch in New England" Award. Press Release.

Her students have won several awards: Angshuman Bachgi (BU President's Award 2005), Diane Hirsh (NASBR's Lubee Award 2003), Stephen Crampton (BU's Chancellor's Award 2003), and Harrison Hong (BU's Provost Award 2002).

M. Betke, O. Gusyatin, and M. Urinson, "SymbolDesign: A User-centered Method to Design Pen-based Interfaces and Extend the Functionality of Pointer Input Devices." Universal Access in the Information Society. In press.

J. Wang, E. Gu, and M. Betke. "MosaicShape: Stochastic Region Grouping with Shape Prior." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005.
D. P. Gierga, J. Brewer, G. C. Sharp, M. Betke, C. G. Willett, G. T. Y. Chen. "The correlation between internal and external markers for abdominal tumors: Implications for respiratory gating." International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 61(5), pp. 1551--1558, 2005. Online publication, April 2005.
M. Betke, T. H. Kunz, S. Tang, and D. E. Hirsh. "Censusing Brazilian Free-tailed Bats with Infrared Thermal Imaging - Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Initial Results." 34th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2004.
E. Y. Lee, M. Betke, and T. H. Kunz. "Bats in Motion: Stereo Object Recognition and Trajectory Analysis of Flying Bats." 34th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2004.
D. E. Hirsh, M. Betke, and T. H. Kunz. "Computer Vision for Tracking Bats in Infrared Thermal Video: A Tool for Understanding the Behavior of Bats in Flight." 34th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2004.
J. Wang, M. Betke, and J. P. Ko. "Shape-based Curve Growing Model and Adaptive Regularization for Pulmonary Fissure Segmentation in CT." C. Barillot, D. R. Haynor (editors), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'04), Part I, LNCS 3217, pp. 541-548. Saint-Malo, France, September 2004.
J. Brewer, M. Betke, D. P. Gierga, and G. T. Y. Chen. "Real-time 4D Tumor Tracking and Modeling From Internal and External Fiducials in Fluoroscopy." C. Barillot, D. R. Haynor (editors), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2004), Part II, LNCS 3217, pp. 594-601, Saint-Malo, France, September 2004.