Funded Projects
PARTICIPATION IN FUNDED PROJECTS and GRANTS: IN THE US 2001-present:
- Title: Delineation of Skin Cancer and Lesions by Filters Supported Active Contour, Research Enhancement Program, PI N.M. Sirakov, 2010, $14,533.
- Title: 3D Segmentation and Features Extraction for 3D Database Indexing, School of Graduate studies, Research Enhancement Grant, 2007-2008,$5698.
- Title: 2D Image Segmentation and Efficient Features Extraction for Indexing. A Step Toward the 3D Case, School of Graduate studies, Research Enhancement Grant, $5000, 2006-2007.
- Title: Segmentation, Matching and Features Extraction for Content Based Image Retrieval, School of Graduate studies, Research Enhancement Grant, $4030,2005 to 2006.
- Title: Undergraduate Science-Mathematics Research Program Summer 2005 Introduction, granted by Dean of the Graduate School, $620 ,March 2005.
- Title: The Faculty Development Committee has awarded me with a Competitive Travel Grant in the amount of $500, Spring 2005.
- Title: Image segmentation for Content Based Image Retrieval. Mini Grant funded by Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, $520, November 16.2004-August 31.2005, completed.
- Title: Boundary support and its applications - Mr. Christopher Rex (my student in Math 192), funded -$384 by the Dean of College of Arts and Science, Undergraduate Student Research initiative.
- Title: Biomedical Image Feature Extraction for Content Based Retrieval. PI Dr. P. Mlsna Elec. Eng. Dept. –NAU, $43 000 funded by U.S. Dept. of Energy grant DE-FC08-01NV13974, 2004.
- Title: An Application of Differential Equations to Image Retrieval and Visualization in 2D/3D, approved for funding by NSF-REU program-around $15 000, 2004.
- Title: An Application of the Heat Differential Equations to Image Processing, funded by NSF-REU program-around $6000. Supervising the research of Catherine Lichten McGill University, 2003. She was also funded to present our research on the Conference “Summer Undergraduate Research in Math”- august 2003, http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/conferences/surc/ .
- Title: Objects Detection in an Image Database Using Shape Features, funded by NSF-REU program- around $6000. Supervising the research of Andrey Kislyuk- UC Berkeley, 2003.
In Europe
- Title: Digital Access to Books of the Renaissance, DEBORA, DGXIII/Telematics Program/LB-5608/A, 4th EU Framework, Participants: RFV-INSA, Lyon, France, CS Dept - University of Lancaster-UK, CVRM-IST, Lisbon, Portugal, 1999-2001, funded 1000000 EURO.
- Title: Automatic Characterization of Ornamental rocks, COSS - 4th EU Framework, University of Bologna-Italy, University of Granada – Spain, Instituto Superior Tecnico - Portugal, 1996-1998.
- Title: Development of manipulator and tools capable of Nuclear Reactors inspection. Project № 3.1.7, Czech Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Mechanics-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1987-1990. Institute of Mechanics was funded around $1000 000.
- Title: Biomechanics of Motions and Robots Control. Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Biocybernetics and Bioengineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences –Center of Math. Comp. Sc. & Mechanics. 1986-1989. Around $ 130 000 per year.
- Group and differential-geometrical approaches to modeling and control of coupled body mechanical systems, PI-Clementina Dimitrova Mladenova, 1997-1998.
