Akila de Silva
Office Hours: Monday 12pm to 1pm, Zoom
Biography
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer vision, Visualization, Applied AI
Khan, F. H., Lovell, E.,de Silva, A. Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. "WIP: Citizen Science Tools with Machine Learning as a Pathway to Engage High School Students in Research". Accepted at Frontiers in Education.
Dusek, D.,Hernandez, D., Long, J., Porter, D., Pang, A., Cothran, J.,Schandera, L., Showalter, L., Rhoades, J, Sager, C., Palmsten, M, de Silva, A., Khan, F. and Jass, T., “Expanding partnerships, products and use-cases for an operational coastal web camera observation network” In: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024. AGU.
de Silva, A., Zhao, M.◦, Stewart D.◦, Khan, F. H., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “RipViz: Finding Rip Currents by Learning Pathline Behavior.” In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3243834
Luo, J., Khan, F. H.,Mori, I., de Silva, A., Ruezga, E. S., Pang, A., Davis, J. “How Much Does Input Data Type Impact Final FaceModel Accuracy?.” In: IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01841
Mori, I., de Silva, A., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “Flow-based Rip Current Detection and Visualization.” In: IEEE Access 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3140340
Khan, F. H., de Silva, A., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “A Citizen Science Platform for Creating ML-poweredMobile Apps to Collect Visual Data.” In: Conference on Computer Supported CooperativeWork and Social Computing (CSCW) 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481743
De Silva, A.,Mori, I., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “Automated rip current detection with region based convolutional neural networks.” In: Coastal Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103859
Luo, J., Khan, F. H.,Mori, I., de Silva, A., Ruezga, E.S., Davis, J. “FaceModels: How Good DoesMy Data Need To Be?.” In: IEEE ICIP 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506668
Khan, F. H.∗, de Silva, A.∗, Yetukuri, J.∗, Norouzi, N.∗ “Sequential Image Synthesis for Human Activity Video Generation.” In: International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (pp. 129-133). ∗ equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1007/978−3−030−27272−2_11
Dusek, G., Churma, M., Im, J. S., Pang, A., de Silva, A.,Mori, I. “From Lifeguards to AI:Advancing Rip Current Forecasting Through New DetectionMethods.” In: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. AGU.
de Silva, A., Tee, N. Ganekar, O., Khan, F. H., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. VortexViz: Finding Vortices by Learning from particle trajectories.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.01352
Michael Richman Award, with Professor Leigh Jin and Professor Weimin Zhang, for 2024-25.