
Niels da Vitoria Lobo
Associate Professor
- Office: L3 Harris Engineering Center Room 252
- Email: niels.davitorialobo@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-2873
BIOGRAPHY
Niels da Vitoria Lobo is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on computational vision, active vision and mobile robotics, and user interfaces and graphical modeling. He has contributed to advancements in object detection, curve detection, person tracking, and obstacle detection.
Lobo has served as an associate editor for academic journals in computer vision and has been recognized for his contributions to research and teaching.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Computer Science – University of Toronto
RESEARCH
- Computational Vision
- Object Detection in Cluttered Backgrounds
- Integral Image Based Curve Detection
- Hand and Person Detection and Tracking
- Active Vision and Mobile Robotics
- Automobile Lane Following
- Obstacle Detection
- Optical Flow and Affine Motion Integration
- User Interfaces and Graphical Modeling
- Wristband Trackers
- Games for Mathematics Education
AWARDS
- UCF Millionaire’s Club, UCF Office of Research, 2008
- Teaching Incentive Program Award, 1996