The ECU Computer Vision Lab is led by Dr. David Hart and investigates topics in the fields of computer vision and machine learning. The lab consists of undergraduate and graduate students of various backgrounds and expertises. If you are an ECU student and would like to join the lab, please contact Dr. Hart directly. Applicants should generally have a good mathematical background and programming skills in Python.

Look at our Current Research Topics page to learn more.

Student Research Highlights

Optimization-Free Style Transfer for 3D Gaussian Splats

Raphael Du Sablon, ****David Hart

Preprint / Code / Video

(Accepted to WACV 2026)

A Framework for Evaluating Predicted Sperm Trajectories in Crowded Microscopy Videos

David Hart, Kylie Cashwell, Anita Bhandari, Jayath Premasinghe, Cameron Schmidt

PLOS Computational Biology

Paper / Code

Theses, Projects, and Publications

Evolving PITON: AI-Driven Conversations with IoT Data - Colby Sawyer

• Analyzing Style Transfer Algorithms for Segmented Images - Hadi Seyed
• Towards Automated Garment Measurements in the Wild Using Landmark and Depth Estimation - Cris Zbavitel
• Improving Segmented Style Transfer via Blended Partial Convolution - Ayberk Cansever
• Sampling and Selection Methods for Applying 2D Neural Networks to 3D Gaussian Splats - Raphael Dusablon
• Evaluating Object Detection Algorithms for Crowded Sperm Microscopy Videos - Anita Bhandari
• A Framework for Temporal-Based Prediction of Eye Diseases - Saumya Jaiswal
• Superpatching for Image Analysis using Transformers and Superpixels - Brannon McCutcheon
• Simon Polishchuk - Transformer Models For Robust EEG Source Localization
• Jayath Premasinghe - A Deep Learning Framework for Multi-object Tracking and Predictive Trajectory Analysis of Sperm Motility
• Lee Ostadi - Information-Geometric Latent Encoding for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Current Students

Cecilia Milla

MS in Computer Science

Research Topic: Implementing Priors into Transformers

Sarthak Acharya

BS in Software Engineering

Research Topic: RL for Cell Movements

Lab News

May 9 2026 - Congratulations to Majoie Ngandi for receiving the Robert Wright Leadership Award.