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Classes Taught

• ENGR 692 Computer Vision Research
• ENGR 591/691 Intelligent Systems
• ENGR 454 Automatic Controls

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 2002.
• M.E., Applied Systems Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1993.
• B.E., Instrumentation Engineering, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 1991.

Recent Publications

• M. Awad, X. Jiang, and Y. Motai, "Incremental Framework of Support Vector Machine for Distributed Vision Sensors", Special Issue on Visual Sensor Network, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Issue 1, Article ID 64270, 15 pages, 2007.
• J.B. Zurn, X. Jiang, and Y. Motai, "Video-Based Tracking and Incremental Learning Applied to Rodent Behavioral Activity under Near-Infrared Illumination", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 56, No.6, pp.2804-2813, 2007.
• M. Awad and Y. Motai, "Dynamic Classification for Video Stream using Support Vector Machine", Special Issue on Soft Computing for Dynamic Data Mining, Journal on Applied Soft Computing, in Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp. 1314-1325, 2008.
• Y. Motai, "Synthesized Articulated Behavior using Space-temporal On-line Principal Component Analysis", Special Issue on Imitative Robots, Advanced Robotics, Vol. 21, No. 13, pp. 1503-1520, 2007.
• Y. Motai and A. Kosaka, "Hand-Eye Calibration Applied to Viewpoint Selection for Robotic Vision," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 55, Issue 10, pp. 3731-3741, 2008.
• S. Hanna, Y. Motai, W. Varhue, and S. Titcomb, "Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Detector With Data Acquisition ", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 58, Issue 1, pp. 129-pp. 140, 2009.

• Complete list is http://www.people.vcu.edu/~ymotai/publication.html

  

Research Expertise

• Build Intelligent Systems with Adaptive Tracking and Online Classification Methodologies.

Research Interests

• Medical Imaging
• Pattern Recognition
• Computer Vision
• Robotics
• Biomedical Applications
• Project list is http://www.people.vcu.edu/~ymotai/research.html

Research Lab

• Sensory Intelligence Lab http://www.sil.vcu.edu

  Opening positions for Ph.D. research fellowship