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Newsletter of the Department of Electrical Engineering

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The University of Maryland's Health Maintenance Organization for Video Cameras

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Pictured: A mosaic of shots taken of the University of Maryland’s Memorial Chapel and surrounding area. These images have been stitched together from a video sequence using the image sequence stabilization techniques developed by Chellappa’s research group.

Most video cameras have health-related problems of one sort or another. Many have “the shakes.” Others have poor eyesight. Some suffer from tunnel vision.

Prof. Rama Chellappa’s research group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Center for Automation Research offers a comprehensive Health Maintenance Organization package for ailing video cameras–along with fast, efficient, and cost-effective treatments...
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The Institute for Plasma Research Features Research on High-Power Energy Sources and Applications

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Pictured: The Microwave Cavity: key component of a Plasma-Loaded Backward Wave Oscillator

The Institute for Plasma Research is a multidisciplinary center of excellence for basic and applied research in charged particle beams, plasmas, high power microwave generation, millimeter-wave electronics, advanced high energy particle accelerators, ion beam microfabrication, nonlinear dynamics (chaos) and more.

IPR’s staff includes 28 faculty members from five academic departments...
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