Debojyoti Biswas and Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on
"MMVAD: A vision-language model for cross-domain video anomaly detection with contrastive learning and scale-adaptive frame segmentation"
on Expert Systems with Applications (2025). Follow the published paper here.
04/29/2025
Jones, Chloe and Mirna Elizondo have been awarded at the CS Awards Day 2025. Chloe received two prestigious honors:
the Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award and was the only recipient of the Undergraduate Research Excellence Award!
Mirna has won the Graduate Research Excellence Award!
03/06/2025
Mirna Elizondo has been selected for the AIM-AHEAD NCATS Cohort 2 Training Program, a traineeship in advanced data analysis.
Follow the news
here.
01/22/2025
Tanzina Akter Tani, Andrew Scouten, Evan Ortiz, Robert J C McLean & Jelena Tešić published a conference paper on "Automated Corrosion Identification in Metal Imagery: Traditional vs. Deep Learning"
in Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2024. Follow the published paper
here.
11/15/2024
Mirna presented her research at a student poster session organized as part of the College of Science and Engineering Advisory Council meeting on Friday, November 15, 2024, in Ingram Hall 2nd floor front lobby.
09/24/2024
Tanzina Akter Tani and Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on "Advancing Retinal Vessel Segmentation With Diversified Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" on IEEE Access. Follow the published paper here.
09/14/2024
MM Mahabubur Rahman, Debojyoti Biswas, Xiao Chen, Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on
"Image deduplication using efficient visual indexing and retrieval: optimizing storage, time and energy for deep neural network training"
on Signal, Image and Video Processing. Follow the published paper here.
08/07/2024
M. M. Mahabubur Rahman & Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on
"Stratified graph indexing for efficient search in deep descriptor databases" on International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval.
Follow the published paper here.
06/23/2024
Debojyoti Biswas and Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on "Binarydnet53: a lightweight binarized CNN for monkeypox virus image classification" on Signal, Image and Video Processing. Follow the published paper here.
04/21/2024
Debojyoti Biswas and Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on "Domain Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Object Detection in Satellite Imagery" on IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Follow the published paper here.
04/19/2024
Tanzina presented her poster "Semantic segmentation for retinal blood Vessel images." at 3rd TxST Analytics Showcase. Her poster won Panelist choice award in graduate student category.
02/21/2024
TXST graduate students collaborate for NASA mission to the International Space Station. See the news details here.
02/19/2024
Muhieddine Shebaro, Lia Nogueira de Moura and Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on "Improving association discovery through multiview analysis of social networks" on Springer Nature Social Analysis and Mining. Follow the published paper here.
01/16/2024
Debojyoti Biswas and Jelena Tešić published a journal paper on "Unsupervised domain adaptation with debiased contrastive learning and support-set guided pseudo labeling for remote sensing images" on IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. Follow the published paper here.
04/30/2023
Muhieddine Shebaro and Jelena Tešić presented a poster on "Identifying Stable States of Large Signed Graphs" at ACM Web Conference (PhD Symposium) and INSA Sunbelt. Follow the published paper here.
03/20/2023
Mirna Elizondo, Rasim Musal, June Yu, Jelena Tešić published a conference paper on "Long COVID Challenge: Predictive Modeling of Noisy Clinical Tabular Data" in the 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics at Houston, Texas. Follow the published paper here.
03/03/2023
Deniel Payan and Jelena Tešić presented a poster on "Identifying Learning Loss in Texas Students and the Impacts of Recovery Spending" at Health Scholar Showcase 2023. Follow the event here.
03/03/2023
Deniel Payan and Jelena Tešić presented a poster on "Learning Loss recovery after Covid-19 panedemic in texas public schools" at 2023 CHERR health research program, Texas State University. Follow the event here.
12/19/2022
M M Mahabubur Rahman presented a poster on "Evaluating Hybrid Approximate Nearest Neighbor Indexing and Search (HANNIS) for High-dimensional Image Feature Search" at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data in Osaka, Japan (virtual presentation).
12/19/2022
M M Mahabubur Rahman presented a workshop paper on "Hybrid Approximate Nearest Neighbor Indexing and Search (HANNIS) for Large Descriptor Databases" at BigData'22 7th Workshop on Advances in High Dimensional (AdHD) in Osaka, Japan (virtual presentation).
12/06/2022
Debojyoti Biswas presented work on "Small Object Difficulty (SOD) Modeling for Objects Detection in Satellite Images" at 14th IEEE CICN conference in Saudi Arabia (virtual presentation).
Data Lab team participated in the SyData 2022. Jelena Tešić was an invited speaker (slides): Debojyoti presented poster on domain adaptation, Mo presented poster on multi-modal analysis of Twitter at scale; and June presented poster on scalable data science integration and modeling pipeline and Daniel demoed open source dashboard for identifying resilience in Texas education .
9/21/2022
Departmentof Energy (DoE) funded $150,000 Research and Development Partnership Pilot project with Salah Faroughi as the PI, and Jelena Tešić and John Tiefenbacher as the co-PIs until Aug 31 2024.
9/15/2022
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) funded $451,875 for a 3-year project "Artificial Intelligence for Pavement Condition Assessment from 2D/3D Surface Images" with Dr. Feng Wang, Civil Engineering as the PI, and Dr. Jelena Tešić as the co-PI.
8/11/2022
Muhieddine Shebaro, Jason Oliver, Tomiwa Olarewaju, Jelena Tešić's short paper on "DL-TXST Fake News: Enhancing Tweet Content Classification with Adapted Language Models" got published at MediaEval 2021. See the accepted paper.
Jelena Tešić presented the benchmark effort "NewsImages: Addressing the Depiction Gap with an Online News Dataset for Text-Image Rematching" at the ODS track of ACM MMSys'22 in Athelone, Dublin. See the published paper.
Data Lab received two RTX A6000 48GB GPUs as a gift from NVIDIA. The gift will support the research in developing a high-recall low-noise deep learning system for localizing objects from 20,000 x 20,000 pixel overhead images at various scales from a variable distance.
1/10/2022
Ph.D. student Haitao Hong presented the paper "Automated Pavement Crack Detection with Deep Learning Methods: What Are Main Factors and How to Improve the Performance? Transportation Research Record, 2022" at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 101th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in January 2022.
Lia Nogueira (M.Sc. 2020) presented "pytwanalysis: Twitter Data Management And Analysis at Scale" at IEEE SNAMS 2021 conference. See the accepted paper
11/17/2021
Ghadeer Alabandi (Ph.D. student) presented "Discovering and Balancing Fundamental Cycles in Large Signed Graphs" paper at the International Supercomputing SC '21 conference.
Jelena Tešić has received NAWCAD NAVAIR SBIR Phase 2.5 AT grant extension for $199,708 . Data Lab was awarded the subcontract for their advances in implementing novel indexing, re-identification, and class discovery algorithms for large overhead imagery (Prime: Mayachitra Inc.)
12/14/2020
Andrew Magill (Ph.D. student) presented FakeNews task submission at Media Eval 2020 workshop meeting. Data Lab team placed 2nd place for coarse classification and 10th place for fine classification. [paper] and [slides]
Data Lab students Maria Tomasso and Eric Hull were featured in Texas State University Research Spotlight. [screenshot]
08/09/2019
Dr. Jelena Tešić presents Data Lab research on Maritime Object Localization and Identification at Office of Naval Research Meeting.
05/10/2019
Dr. Jelena Tešić presents the paper at the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications, SPIE vol. 11006, Apr 2019, Baltimore, MD.
10/18/2018
Nicholas Warren (B.Sc. 2019) presents the paper at the the IEEE 4th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), Pages 246-255, Oct 2018 Philadelphia, PA.
4/20/2018
Dr. Tešić has received $327,147 for Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) NAVAIR SBIR Phase 2.5 Accelerated Transition project ``Object Cueing Using Biomimetic Approaches to Visual Information Processing,’’ subcontract, Prime: Mayachitra Inc.
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