Summary: c Copyright by Kar-Han Tan, 2003
VISUAL OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENTS:
CAPTURE, EXTRACTION, AND REPRESENTATION
BY
KAR-HAN TAN
B.S., National University of Singapore, 1994
M.S., University of California at Los Angeles, 1996
THESIS
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
in the Graduate College of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Urbana, Illinois
To Sandra
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my advisor Professor Narendra Ahuja for sharing his wisdom with
me, and the members of the Beckman Institute Computer Vision and Robotics Lab for
creating the stimulating and supportive environment in the group. I am also very grateful
to Professors David Kriegman, Michael Garland, and Yizhou Yu for their suggestions and

Source: Ahuja, Narendra - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences; Engineering