Dimitris Metaxas

Metaxas has developed formal methods upon which computer vision, computer graphics and medical image computing have advanced synergistically. In computer vision, his work pioneered the simultaneous segmentation and fitting of complex objects, statistical model-based tracking, shape representation, learning, sparsity, ASL as well as gesture recognition. In particular, Metaxas is focusing on human body and shape motion analysis, human surveillance, security applications, ASL recognition, behavior modeling and analysis and scalable solutions to large and distributed sensor-based networks. In the area of biomedical applications, Metaxas has developed new methods for material modeling and shape estimation of internal body parts (such as the lungs) using data from MRI, SPAMM and CT scan.

He has pioneered the linking of the anatomical and physiological models of the human body and deformable models used for the automatic diagnosis of heart disease from MRI data. In computer graphics, Metaxas introduced the Navier-Stokes methodology for Fluids, based on which the water scenes in the movie Antz were created in 1998. For this work, his student Nick Foster won a Technical Achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1999.^[4] Since then, Metaxas is working on new techniques for modeling fluid phenomena, and control theoretic techniques for automating and improving the animation of articulated (e.g., humans) objects. Metaxas has published over 900 research articles. He has more than 67,000 citations.^[1]

Metaxas's research has been awarded by the major Government agencies including the NSF, NIH, NASA, ONR, AFOSR and the ARO.^[3] He has received several patents and best paper awards for his work. Metaxas was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1986, is a recipient of an NSF Research Initiation and Career awards, an ONR YIP, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM. He has served as the Program Chair of ICCV 2007, the General Chair of ICCV 2011,^[5] the General Chair of MICCAI 2008 ,^[6] the Senior Program Chair for SCA 2007 ,^[7] and the General Chair of CVPR 2026 ^[8].