Exemplar Tiger Team Projects

Dr. Jason Lawrence is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is a lead researcher on an NSF-funded project that is investigating a radically different approach to image processing tasks. While many important image processing tasks involve solving some type of inverse problem (e.g., eliminating noise, enhancing a black-and white image with plausible colors, increasing the resolution of an image), Dr. Lawrence’s team poses the question of whether an image can be improved by evaluating trillions of image patches constructed from millions of on-line images and using the set of relevant patches to improve the quality of the original.