Michael Grossberg
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Co-Director of the Data Science and Engineering Master's Program (phishing alert: Not currently advertising for RA position. Beware of scam.)
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Computer Vision
- Data Science
- Data Visualization
- Machine Learning
- Web Development
Building
North Academic Center
Office
7/311
Phone
(212 ) 650-6166
Fax
(212) 650-5768
Website

Michael Grossberg
Profile
Michael D. Grossberg is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at City College, City University of New York. He works applying machine learning and visualization techniques to science problems, particularly in problems in medical imaging, remote sensing, and climate data analysis. He works with collaborators at the NOAA-CREST center and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Before coming to CCNY, he spent four years as a Research Scientist with the Columbia Automated Vision Environment (CAVE), at Columbia University. He received his PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. His research in computer vision has included topics in the geometric and photometric modeling of cameras, and analyzing features for indexing. Dr. Grossberg was a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. He was also a Ritt Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Plank Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has authored and coauthored papers that have appeared in ICCV, ECCV, CVPR. He has filed several U.S. and international patents for inventions related to computer vision.
Education
Ph.D MIT
BA. U of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
- DSE I1020 Introduction to Data Science
- DSE I2100 Applied Machine Learning and Data Mining
- CSC 59969 Data Visualization
- CSC 47300 Web Development
- G 2010 MIS Software Engineering and Object Oriented Design
- I 43300 Advanced Topics in Internet Programming (web services)
- CSC 59866/7 Senior Design (Data Visualization)
- CSC 47100: Computer Vision
- CSC 32200: Software Engineering
- CSC 10200: Introduction to Computing (C/C++/Python)
Research Interests
Data Visualization, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Machine Learning.
Publications
- Aizenmann, H., M. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, and N. Krakauer. 2015. 鈥淭oolbox for Evaluating Ensembles Using an Information Gain Measure.鈥 AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix.
- Hu, Y, M Grossberg, and G Mageras. 2015. 鈥淪U-d-BRA-03: What Image Features Are Useful for Tumor Segmentation in Multi-Modal Images?鈥 Medical Physics 42 (6). American Association of Physicists in Medicine: 3213鈥3.
- Tessler, Z., C. V枚r枚smarty, M. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, H. Aizenman, J. Syvitski, and E. Foufoula-Georgiou. 2015. 鈥淧rofiling Risk and Sustainability in Coastal Deltas of the World.鈥 Science 349 (6248). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 638鈥43.
- Hu, Y, M Grossberg, and G Mageras. 2014. 鈥淭umor Segmentation with Multi-Modality Image in Conditional Random Field Framework with Logistic Regression Models.鈥 In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 6450鈥4. IEEE.
- Cross, J., I. Gladkova, W Paul Menzel, A. Heidinger, and M. D. Grossberg. 2013. 鈥淪tatistical Estimation of a 13.3 渭M Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Channel Using Multisensor Data Fusion.鈥 Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 7 (1). International Society for Optics; Photonics: 073473鈥3.
- Gladkova, I., J. Cross, P. Menzel, A. Heidinger, and M. Grossberg. 2013. 鈥淪tatistical Estimation of a 13.3 Micron Channel for VIIRS Using Multisensor Data Fusion with Application to Cloud-Top Pressure Estimation.鈥 Proc. AMS 29th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies, Austin, TX
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, G. Bonev, P. Romanov, G. Riggs, and D. Hall. 2013. 鈥淎 Full Snow Season in Yellowstone: A Database of Restored Aqua Band 6.鈥 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE 10 (3). IEEE: 553鈥57.
- Gladkova, I., F. Shahriar, M. Grossberg, R. Frey, and W. P. Menzel. 2013. 鈥淚mpact of the Aqua MODIS Band 6 Restoration on Cloud/Snow Discrimination.鈥 Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 30 (12): 2712鈥9.
- Krakauer, N., M. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, and H. Aizenman. 2013. 鈥淚nformation Content of Seasonal Forecasts in a Changing Climate.鈥 Advances in Meteorology 2013. Hindawi Publishing Corporation: 12.
- Tessler, Z., C. V枚r枚smarty, K. McDonald, R. Schroeder, M. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, and H. Aizenman. 2013. 鈥淎 Global Deltas Typology of Environmental Stress and Its Relation to Terrestrial Hydrology.鈥 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1: 02.
- Aizenman, H., M. Grossberg, D. Jones, N. Barnes, J. Smerdon, K. Anchukaitis, and Julien E. Geay. 2012. 鈥淲eb Based Visualization Tool for Climate Data Using Python.鈥 92nd AMS Annual Meeting, Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python.
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, G. Bonev, P. Romanov, and F. Shahriar. 2012. 鈥淚ncreasing the Accuracy of MODIS/Aqua Snow Product Using Quantitative Image Restoration Technique.鈥 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE 9 (4). IEEE: 740鈥43.
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, F. Shahriar, G. Bonev, and P. Romanov. 2012. 鈥淨uantitative Restoration for MODIS Band 6 on Aqua.鈥 Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on 50 (6). IEEE: 2409鈥16.
- Hu, Y., A. Grossberg M.and Wu, Na. Riaz, C. Perez, and G. Mageras. 2012. 鈥淚nteractive Semiautomatic Contour Delineation Using Statistical Conditional Random Fields Framework.鈥 Medical Physics 39 (7). American Association of Physicists in Medicine: 4547鈥58.
- Grossberg, M., J. Gabaldon, P. Alabi, J. Neiman, and I. Gladkova. 2011. 鈥淕raphyte Software for Integrated Remote Sensing Research Using HPCC.鈥 In SPIE Optical Engineering+ Applications, 81531F鈥81531F. International Society for Optics; Photonics
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, G. Bonev, and F. Shahriar. 2011. 鈥淎 Multiband Statistical Restoration of the Aqua MODIS 1.6 Micron Band.鈥 In SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 804819鈥9. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Gladkova, I., F. Shahriar, M. Grossberg, G. Bonev, D. Hillger, and S. Miller. 2011. 鈥淰irtual Green Band for GOES-R.鈥 In SPIE Optical Engineering+ Applications, 81531C鈥81531C. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Grossberg, M., F. Shahriar, I. Gladkova, P. Alabi, D. Hillger, and S. Miller. 2011. 鈥淓stimating True Color Imagery for GOES-R.鈥 In SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 80481A鈥80481A. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Hu, Y, M Grossberg, and G Mageras. 2011. 鈥淭H-a-220-07: Semi-Automatic Multi-Modality Image Segmentation for Normal Organ Delineation in Head & Neck Radiation Treatment Planning.鈥 Medical Physics 38 (6). American Association of Physicists in Medicine: 3847鈥7.
- Nayar, S., G. Krishnan, M. Grossberg, and R. Raskar. 2011. 鈥淰isual Chatter in the Real World.鈥 In Robotics Research, 13鈥24. Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Ahmed, S, R Amin, I Gladkova, A Gilerson, M Grossberg, S Hlaing, F Shariar, and P Alabi. 2010. 鈥淐haracterizing Bio-Optical and Ecological Features of Algal Bloom Waters for Detection and Tracking from Space.鈥 In SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 767804鈥4. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Bonev, G, I Gladkova, and M. Grossberg. 2010. 鈥淚ncreasing the Accuracy of MODIS Snow Product Using Quantitative Restoration for MODIS Band 6 on Aqua.鈥 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1: 1343.
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, and F. Shahriar. 2010. 鈥淨uantitative Image Restoration.鈥 In SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 769519鈥9. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Hu, Y, M Grossberg, and G Mageras. 2010. 鈥淔ast Graph-Based Medical Image Segmentation with Expert Guided Statistical Information.鈥 In Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on, 1鈥5. IEEE
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, S. Gottipati, F. Shahriar, and G. Bonev. 2009. 鈥淓rror Mitigation for CCSD Compressed Imager Data.鈥 In SPIE Optical Engineering+ Applications, 744408鈥8. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Grossberg, M., I. Gladkova, I. Guch, P. Alabi, F. Shahriar, G. Bonev, and H. Aizenman. 2009. 鈥淩ich Client Data Exploration and Research Prototyping for NOAA.鈥 In SPIE Optical Engineering+ Applications, 74560C鈥74560C. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Grossberg, M., S. Gottipati, I. Gladkova, M. Rabinowitz, P. Alabi, T. George, and A. Pacheco. 2009. 鈥淎 Comparative Study of Lossless Compression Algorithms on Multispectral Imager Data.鈥 In SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 733408鈥8. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Hu, Y, M Grossberg, and G Mageras. 2009. 鈥淪urvey of Recent Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation Techniques.鈥 In Biomedical Engineering, edited by Carlos Alexandre Barros de Mello, 321鈥46. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.
- Said, E., A. Homaifar, and M. Grossberg. 2009. 鈥淐reating Virtual Sensors Using Learning Based Super Resolution and Data Fusion.鈥 In Aerospace Conference, 2009 IEEE, 1鈥9. IEEE.
- Hu, Y., M. Grossberg, and G. Mageras. 2008. 鈥淪emi-Automatic Medical Image Segmentation with Adaptive Local Statistics in Conditional Random Fields Framework.鈥 In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 3099鈥3102. IEEE.
- Yu, G., M. Grossberg, G. Wolberg, and I. Stamos. 2008. 鈥淭hink Globally, Cluster Locally: A Unified Framework for Range Segmentation.鈥 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT鈥08), Atlanta, USA.
- Gladkova, I, S Gottipati, and M Grossberg. 2007. 鈥淎 New Lossless Compression Algorithm for Satellite Earth Science Multi-Spectral Imagers鈥, Proceedings of the SPIE, 6683. International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999: 6683.
- Gottipati, S., J. Goddard, M. Grossberg, and I. Gladkova. 2007. 鈥淎 Comparative Study of Lossless Compression Algorithms on Modis Data.鈥 In Optical Engineering+ Applications, 66830F鈥66830F. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Grossberg, M, S Gottipati, and I Gladkova. 2007. 鈥淭he Impact of Striping Artifacts on Compression.鈥 In Proceedings of the SPIE, 6683鈥22. International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999.
- Park, Jong-Il, Moon-Hyun Lee, Michael Grossberg, and Shree K Nayar. 2007. 鈥淢ultispectral Imaging Using Multiplexed Illumination.鈥 In Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on, 1鈥8. IEEE.
- Gladkova, I, and M Grossberg. 2006. 鈥淎 Lossless Compression Algorithm for Hyperspectral Data.鈥 Proceedings of the SPIE, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving II 6300: 630001.
- Gladkova, I, M Grossberg, E Grayver, D Olsen, N Nalli, W Wolf, L Zhou, and M Goldberg. 2006. 鈥淧riority-Based Error Correction Using Turbo Codes for Compressed AIRS Data.鈥 In SPIE Optics+ Photonics, 630008鈥8. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Grossberg, M, S Gottipati, I Gladkova, M Goldberg, and L Roytman. 2006. 鈥淎n Analysis of Optimal Compression for the Advanced Baseline Imager Based on Entropy and Noise Estimation.鈥 In SPIE Optics+ Photonics, 63000M鈥63000M. International Society for Optics; Photonics.
- Nayar, S., G. Krishnan, M. Grossberg, and R. Raskar. 2006. 鈥淔ast Separation of Direct and Global Components of a Scene Using High Frequency Illumination.鈥 ACM Trans. on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), July, 935鈥44.
- Swaminathan, R., M.D. Grossberg, and S.K. Nayar. 2006. 鈥淣on-Single Viewpoint Catadioptric Cameras: Geometry and Analysis.鈥 International Journal of Computer Vision 66 (3): 211鈥29.
- Fujii, Kensaku, Michael D Grossberg, and Shree K Nayar. 2005. 鈥淎 Projector-Camera System with Real-Time Photometric Adaptation for Dynamic Environments.鈥 In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005. CVPR 2005. IEEE Computer Society Conference on, 1:814鈥21. IEEE.
- Grossberg, M., and S. Nayar. 2005. 鈥淭he Raxel Imaging Model and Ray-Based Calibration.鈥 International Journal of Computer Vision 61 (2). Kluwer Academic Publishers: 119鈥37.
- Grossberg, M., and S. Nayar. 2004. 鈥淢odeling the Space of Camera Response Functions Images.鈥 EEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 26 (10): 1272鈥82.
- Grossberg, M., H. Peri, S. Nayar, and P. Belhumeur. 2004. 鈥淢aking One Object Look Like Another: Controlling Appearance Using a Projector-Camera System.鈥 In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, 1:452鈥59. IEEE.
- Hadjidemetriou, E., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2004. 鈥淢ultiresolution Histograms and Their Use for Recognition.鈥 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 26 (7): 831鈥47.
- Swaminathan, R., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar, Beyond Perspective Imaging - Geometry and Design Proc. of Workshop on 鈥淚maging Beyond the Pinhole Camera鈥, Schlo Dagstuhl. Wadern, Germany June 2004
- Swaminathan, R., M. Grossberg, and S.K. Nayar. 2004. 鈥淒esigning Mirrors for Catadioptric Systems That Minimize Image Errors.鈥 Fifth Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, May.
- Grossberg, M., and S. Nayar. 2003. 鈥淒etermining the Camera Response from Images: What Is Knowable?鈥 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 11 (November): 1455鈥67.
- Grossberg, M. and S. Nayar. 2003. 鈥淲hat Is the Space of Camera Response Functions?鈥 In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, 2:II鈥602. IEEE.
- Hadjidemetriou, E., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2003. 鈥淢ultiresolution Histograms and Their Use for Texture Classification.鈥 3rd International Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis at ICCV.
- Nayar, S., H. Peri, M. Grossberg, and P. Belhumeur. 2003. 鈥淎 Projection System with Radiometric Compensation for Screen Imperfections.鈥 ICCV Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS), October.
- Swaninathan, R, M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2003. 鈥淎 Perspective on Distortions.鈥 In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, 2:594鈥601. IEEE.
- Grossberg, M., and S. Nayar. 2002. 鈥淲hat Can Be Known About the Radiometric Response from Images?鈥 In Computer Vision鈥擡CCV 2002, 189鈥205. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Hadjidemetriou, E., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2002. 鈥淩esolution Selection Using Generalized Entropies of Multiresolution Histograms.鈥 In Computer Vision鈥擡CCV 2002, 220鈥35. Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Grossberg, M., and S. Nayar. 2001. 鈥淎 General Imaging Model and a Method for Finding Its Parameters.鈥 In Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on, 2:108鈥15. IEEE.
- Hadjidemetriou, E., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2001. 鈥淪patial Information in Multiresolution Histograms.鈥 In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. CVPR 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, 1:702鈥9. IEEE.
- Swaminathan, R., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2001. 鈥淐austics of Catadioptric Cameras.鈥 In Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on, 2:2鈥9. IEEE.
- Hadjidemetriou, E., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2000. 鈥淗istogram Preserving Image Transformations.鈥 In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE Conference on, 1:410鈥16. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2000.855848.
- Park, J. , M. Lee, M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2012. 鈥淢ethod of Multispectral Imaging and an Apparatus Thereof.鈥, US Patent 8,284,279
- Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, and L. Roytman. 2011. 鈥淪electively Lossy, Lossless, and/or Error Robust Data Compression Method.鈥, US Patent 7,907,78
- Nayar, S., M. Grossberg, H. Peri, and P. Belhumeur. 2010. 鈥淢ethods and Systems for Compensating an Image Projected onto a Surface Having Spatially Varying Photometric Properties.鈥, US Patent 7,663,640
- Nayar, S., K. Gurunandan, M. Grossberg, and R. Raskar 鈥淢ethod for Separating Direct and Global Illumination in a Scene鈥, US Patent App. 11/624016
- Grossberg, M., S. Nayar, 2006 鈥淢ethod and system for enhancing data quality鈥, US Patent 7,151,801
- Hadjidemetriou, E., Grossberg M.D., and S.K. Nayar. 2001. 鈥淗istogram Preserving Image Transformations.鈥 International Journal of Computer Vision 45 (1): 5鈥23.
- Yemini, Y., M. Grossberg, and D. Florissi. 2001. 鈥淢ethod and Apparatus for Providing Forwarding and Replication Services on a Dynamically Addressed Network.鈥 US Patent App. 09/775,349
- Yemini, Y., M. Grossberg, and D. Florissi. 2001 鈥淢ethod and Apparatus for Dynamically Addressing a Circuits Based Network.鈥 US Patent App. 09/775,348
- Yemini, Y., M. Grossberg, and D. Florissi. 2001. 鈥淢ethod and Apparatus for the Exchange of Data Between a Dynamically Addressed Network and a Foreign Network.鈥 US Patent App. 09/775,346
- Yemini, Y., M. Grossberg, and D. Florissi. 2001. 鈥淎 Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Addressing and Routing in a Data Network.鈥 US Patent App. 09/775,349
- Yemini, Y., M. Grossberg, and D. Florissi. 2001. 鈥淢ethod and apparatus for providing services on a dynamically addressed network.鈥 US Patent App. 09/775,347
- Swaminathan, R., M. Grossberg, and S. Nayar. 2000. 鈥淢ethod and Apparatus for Reducing Distortion in Images.鈥 US Patent 7.245.761.
- Grossberg, M., and Y. Karshon. 1998. 鈥淓quivariant Index and the Moment Map for Completely Integrable Torus Actions.鈥 Advances in Mathematics 133 (2): 185鈥223.
- Grossberg, M., and Y. Karshon. 1994. 鈥淏ott Towers, Complete Integrability, and the Extended Character of Representations.鈥 Duke Math Journal 76 (1): 23鈥58