GASP Group 😲😱🙀

Geometric Audiovisual Signal Processing Research Group At Ursinus College

We have a wide variety of interests in multimedia data processing including time series analysis, computer graphics, music information retrieval, topological data analysis, applied geometry, and beyond.

Students / Student Projects

Summer 2022

NSF REU Project on Stable, Informative, And Computable Metrics for Ordered Merge Trees

  • ArXiV Paper:"The DOPE Distance is SIC: A Stable, Informative, And Computable Metric on Time Series And Ordered Merge Trees

From left to right: Zachary Schlamowitz (University of Arizona), Charley Kirk (Juniata College), Chris Tralie, Dr. Nick Scoville, Jose Arbelo, Tony Delgado

Summer Project on Automated Identification of Bowhead Whales in Images (jointly advised with Dr. Leslie New)

From left to right: Dr. Leslie New, Sam Gregory, Kacey La, Chris Tralie

Spring 2022

Will Gillette

A Data Driven Approach to Structure-Based Large Scale Audio Version Identification

Michael Tecce

Augmented Reality for Counterpoint Education (Continued!)

Alexa Lewis

Also pictured: Professor Lisa Grossbauer

Traveling Salesperson Tunes And Stipple Tunes

Seraiah Kutai

Ursinus Smokestack 3D Modeling And Annotation Interface (Grand Finale!)

Fall 2021

Michael Tecce

Augmented Reality for Counterpoint Education (jointly advised with Rosa Abrahams)

Seraiah Kutai, Tom Boccuto

Also pictured: Matt Cole, Dr. Nicholas Scoville

Amplification of Hidden Motions in Depth Videos

Summer 2021

Seraiah Kutai, Sam Kirk (Illinois State), Chris Tralie, Kristen Mosley (Spelman College), Tom Boccuto

NSF REU Project on 3D Video Amplification of Hidden Periodic Motions

Spring 2021

Asberto (AJ) Alvero

Web-Based Virtual Reality for Everyone

Seraiah Kutai

Ursinus Smokestack 3D Modeling And Annotation Interface

Fall 2020

Ronsard Malonda

Statistical Machine Translation of Lingla Facile (jointly advised with Alvin Grissom)

Summer 2020

Michael Tecce

Geometry Aided Sonification, Summer Fellows

Chris Tralie, Michael Tecce

Undisclosed location in Baltimore, MD

Spring 2020

Rachel Thornton

Nonrigid Reconstruction of 3D Shapes

Tom Mease

Dimension Reduction with Eilenberg-MacClane Coordinates (DREiMaC) in Emscripten/Javascript

Fall 2019

Elizabeth Dempsey

Parallel Dynamic Time Warping for Musical Audio Synchronization

Benjamin Klybor

Self-Similarity Transforms for Large Scale Audio Cover Song Identification

Parker Fairchild

FaceJam Javascript/WebGL

Web site: http://www.facejam.app

Liz Dempsey, Ben Klybor, Chris Tralie, Parker Fairchild

Shagun Indian Cuisine

Lab Consultants

Layla Ophelia Litovsky-Tralie (LOL-T)

Areas of specialization

Laser optics, target detection and tracking, mice, debugging

Administrative assistants

Chris Tralie, Celia Litovsky

Mr. Darcy

Areas of specialization

Vocal synthesis

Administrative assistants

Chris Tralie, Celia Litovsky

Theo Ignatius Litovsky-Tralie (TILT)

Areas of specialization

Packet sniffing, steganography

Administrative assistants

Chris Tralie, Celia Litovsky

Linus Othello Litovsky (LOL)

Areas of specialization

Threat detection

Administrative assistants

Silvio Litovsky, Arlene Litovsky

Violet Litovsky

Areas of specialization

Path planning, Execution Speedups / Optimization

Administrative assistants

Silvio Litovsky, Arlene Litovsky

Mr. Meowgi

Areas of specialization

Path planning, autonomous vehicle engineering

Administrative assistants

Silvio Litovsky, Arlene Litovsky

Artemis And Apollo Tralie

Areas of specialization

Astrophysical data analysis, astrobiology, plant dissection

Administrative assistants

James Tralie

Teddi And Toby Litovsky

Areas of specialization

Ambient energy harvesting

Administrative assistants

Abby Litovsky

Amelia Besnoff-Virgil

Areas of specialization

Cloud computing, object partitioning

Administrative assistants

Jordan Besnoff, Sara Virgil

Titina Besnoff-Virgil

Areas of specialization

Cricket wireless liaison

Administrative assistants

Jordan Besnoff, Sara Virgil

Harry Srinivas

Areas of specialization

K-12 outreach and mentoring

Administrative assistants

Sadhwi Srinivas, Jonathan Jones

Zuri Srinivas

Areas of specialization

Adversarial Attacks

Administrative assistants

Sadhwi Srinivas, Jonathan Jones

Ember LaBoda

Areas of specialization

High frequency signal detection, image scratch inpainting

Administrative assistants

Craig LaBoda, Heather LaBoda

Ash LaBoda

Areas of specialization

Automated lump detection in 3D

Administrative assistants

Craig LaBoda, Heather LaBoda

Ori Sadowski

Areas of specialization

Math pedagogy

Administrative assistants

Chris Sadowski

Pilgrim Gus Cooper (Pil)

Areas of specialization (according to administrative assistant Casey Schwarz)

  • Chaos theory: randomness versus determinism and what if I just eat the butterfly?
  • Brownian motion in squirrel escape routes and my inability to ever catch one

Administrative assistants

Casey Schwarz

Houdini Veca-Schilling

Areas of specialization

Steganography

Administrative assistants

Ann Marie Veca-Schilling

Rex Harrison

Areas of specialization

Applications of computer graphics: textile and FABRIK quality consultant

Administrative assistants

Ross Martin-Wells, Kassie Martin-Wells

Marigold

Areas of specialization

Academic coaching, diplomacy

Administrative assistants

Ross Martin-Wells, Kassie Martin-Wells

Faraday von Gurken

Areas of specialization

hospitality, dishwasher, and inequality checker

Administrative assistants

Brian McFee