Vladimir Glavtchev

vglavtchev [at] ucdavis [dot] edu   ---   

Location

Office: 83 Kemper Hall
University of California, Davis

Education

- B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of California, Davis, 2008.
- M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of California, Davis - currently in progress.

I'm currently pursuing my MS degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. I work in John Owens' research group, which is currently performing research in GPGPU computing.


Research

Officer: Did you not see the traffic sign?
Driver: Am I driving a red car?

Speed Limit Sign Recognition video demo:
sli_demo.avi

I joined Owens' group in 2007 as an undergraduate and am continuing my work as a Master's student. My research focuses on in-vehicle real-time speed limit sign recognition. I am collaborating on this project with Pınar Muyan-Özçelik, BMW Technology Office in Palo Alto, and NVIDIA.

GPU Computing in Tomorrow's Automobiles, Talk given at nVision, San Jose, CA, August 27, 2008. [presented with Pınar Muyan-Özçelik in the technical session on Automotive Visual Computing].

Teaching

Fall 08 - Winter 09: Teaching Assistant (TA) for NATCAR, led by Professor Richard Spencer.
Office Hours (Kemper 2147 - Natcar Lab):
Mondays: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Wednesdays: 10:30am - 12:30pm

Personal

I like photography, sports, electronics, performance cars, and playing the drums.