Jason Fritts


    Associate Professor
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Saint Louis University

    E-mail:
    Office: Ritter Hall 233
    Phone: (314) 977-7001
    Fax: (314) 977-1452


    Projects:

    • MediaBench
    • Accio!
    • Liquid Architecture


    Research Interests:
    • Media Processing
    • Video and Image Processing
    • Computer Vision
    • Embedded Systems
    • Computer Architecture
    • Compiler Optimizations
    • Parallel Processing


    Courses for Fall 2009: (previous courses)

      CSCI 290 - Object-Oriented Software Design
      CSCI 327 - Compilers

    Courses for Spring 2010:

      CSCI 130 - Computer Game Design
      CSCI 224 - Computer Architecture


    Selected Publications: (Complete List of Publications)

    • "MediaBench II Video: Expediting the Next Generation of Video Systems Research,"
      Jason E. Fritts, Frederick W. Steiling, Joseph A. Tucek, and Wayne Wolf
      Microprocessors and Microsystems, Special Issue on Media and Stream Processing, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 301-318, June 2009.
      (PDF version)

    • "Localized Content Based Image Retrieval,"
      Rouhollah Rahmani, Sally A. Goldman, Hui Zhang, Sharath R. Cholleti, and Jason E. Fritts,
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 1902-1912, Nov. 2008.
      (PDF version)

    • "Image Segmentation Evaluation: A Survey of Unsupervised Methods",
      Hui Zhang, Jason E. Fritts, and Sally A. Goldman,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 260-280, May 2008.
      (PDF version)

    • "Meta-Evaluation of Image Segmentation Using Machine Learning,"
      Hui Zhang, Sharath Cholleti, Sally Goldman, and Jason Fritts,
      IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1138-1145, June 2006.
      (PDF version)

    • "An entropy-based objective segmentation evaluation method for image segmentation,"
      Hui Zhang, Jason E. Fritts, and Sally A. Goldman,
      SPIE Electronic Imaging - Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia 2004, pp. 38-49, Jan. 2004.
      (PDF version, Postscript version, slides)

    • "Image Segmentation Using Topological Persistence,"
      David Letscher and Jason Fritts,
      Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), pp. 587-595, August 2007.
      (PDF version)

    • "Evaluating Dusty Caches on General Workloads,"
      Praveen Krishnamurthy, Roger D. Chamberlain, Ron K. Cytron, and Jason E. Fritts
      5th Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking, June 2006.
      (PDF version)


    Graduate Students:

      Hui Zhang
      Wei Yu (completed 2002)
      Huakai Zhang (completed 2004)


    Interesting Links:

      Computer Architecture:
        WWW Computer Architecture Page

      Media Processor Research:
        The ALP (All Levels of Parallelism for Multimedia) Benchmark project, directed by Sarita Adve
        Bill Dally's Imagine Project at Stanford
        Michael Bove's Home Page at MIT Media Labs
        Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS) at University of Hannover