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RESUME

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PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
 

Image/Video Processing and Computer Vision; 2D/3D Medical Imaging; Real-time Data Processing and Analysis; Computer Assisted Surgical Systems; Multithreading; Software Development; System Design.

 
EXPERIENCE
  3/2006 - Present Research Engineer
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
 

My current employer, the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (ERC-CISST) is a multi-disciplinary research institution funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). (The ERC is changing to the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) from 2008.) The institute develops surgical systems that integrate novel computer and human/machine interface technologies that will revolutionize surgical procedures, extending the surgeon's abilities to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. ERC-CISST/LCSR is one of the world's most acknowledged and influential research institutions on surgical robotics. As a member of the senior research staff my responsibility is to contribute to the engineering research and facilitate the implementation of novel medical applications. Based on my previous experience, I am mainly involved in the real-time computer vision aspects of various projects. Our objective is to interpret the visual information obtained from 2D and/or 3D image sources and help physicians during interventional procedures.

  2/2003 - 2/2006 Systems Engineer
GE Healthcare VSE, Budapest, Hungary
 

GE Healthcare (GEHC) is the global market leader of medical imaging systems. As a Systems Engineer in the Image Quality (IQ) System team in the digital vascular X-ray imaging modality my task was to simulate, analyze, evaluate, and improve the image quality of the most sophisticated fully digital medical imaging systems (Innova 2000, 2100, 3100, 4100). This work incorporates the extensive knowledge of medical imaging equipments and advanced digital image processing algorithms. The engineering work is carried out under strict quality regulations using the Six Sigma methodology.

  3/2001 - 2/2003 R&D Team Leader
Tateyama Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary
 

Tateyama Laboratory Hungary Ltd. is a member of the Tateyama Kagaku Group based in Toyama, Japan The group is formed by 10 companies in Japan, Malaysia, Hungary, and Thailand. The Hungarian division was responsible for research and development on the fields of Automated Manufacture of Industrial Robots, Office Automation and Video Surveillance Systems. I joined the R&D team as an intern graduate student in 1998 and was hired officially in 2001 as a full-time employee and team leader. I was responsible for managing the development team, carrying out image processing (IP) development for surveillance systems and research unique IP algorithms for future products. During my years at Tateyama, I spent months at the Japanese operations (mostly in Toyama) in several occasions for direct collaboration in various projects. Moreover I am the co-author of three Japanese patents on panoramic image processing and on motion detection on video.

 
SKILLS
 

Systems Engineering; Six Sigma; Image Processing, Computer Vision; Medical imaging; ANSI C/C++, POSIX; Objective-C; Visual C++ Win32, MFC; Xcode (Mac OS X); Pascal; Assembly (x86, MMX); TCP/IP (Winsock32, Berkeley Sockets); Multithreading (Win32, POSIX); DirectShow; LibDC1394 & Video4Linux2; Quicktime Kit (Mac OS X); CMake; VTK; CVS; Matlab; Latex; HTML, CSS

 
EDUCATION
  9/1994 - 6/2000 Master's Degree University of Veszprem, Hungary
  Computer Science (Information Technology/Image Processing)
 
AFFILIATIONS
    IEEE Member
 
LANGUAGES
    Hungarian Native
  English Fluent
 
PUBLICATIONS
  Conference presentations & posters:
 
  • Mohsen Mahvash, James Gwilliam, Rahul Agarwal, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Allison Okamura, David Yuh MD, and Li-Ming Su MD. Force-Feedback Surgical Teleoperator: Controller Design and Palpation Experiments, Haptics Symposium 2008, Reno, NV
  • Ioana Fleming, Sandrine Voros, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Zach Pezzementi, James Handa MD, Russell Taylor, and Gregory Hager. Intraoperative Visualization of Anatomical Targets in Retinal Surgery, IEEE WACV (Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision) 2008, Copper Mountain, CO
  • Carol Reiley, Henry Lin, Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Sanjeev Khudanpur, David Yuh, and Gregory Hager. Automatic Recognition of Surgical Motions Using Statistical Modeling for Capturing Variability, MMVR (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality) 2008, Long Beach, CA
  • Balazs Vagvolgyi, Carol Reiley, Gregory Hager, Russell Taylor, Adam Levinson MD, and Li-Ming Su MD. Toward Direct Registration of Video to Computer Tomography for Intraoperative Surgical Planning During Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy, WCE (World Congress of Endourology) 2007, Cancun, Mexico
  • Gregory Hager, Balazs Vagvolgyi, and David Yuh. Stereoscopic Video Overlay with Deformable Registration, MMVR 2007, Long Beach, CA
  • Berry Belanger, Farid Betraoui, Paritosh Dhawale, Priya Gopinath, Pal Tegzes, Balazs Vagvolgyi. Development of next generation digital flat panel catheterization system: design principles and validation methodology, SPIE 2006, San Diego, CA
  • Laszlo Czuni, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Tamas Sziranyi, Tamas Greguss. A Compact Panoramic Visual Sensor for Intelligent Applications, ACCV 2000, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Ivan Kopilovic, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Tamas Sziranyi. Application of Panoramic Annular Lens for Motion Analysis Tasks: Surveillance and Smoke Detection, ICPR 2000, Barcelona, Spain
  • Ivan Kopilovic, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Tamas Sziranyi. Smoke-detection and Motion Sensitive Video Surveillance Using Panoramic Annular Lens, KEPAF 2000, Noszvaj, Hungary


Latest update: 03/23/2008