Department of Mechanical Engineering

Song Zhang

Assistant Professor

2096 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515 294-0723
Fax: 515 294-3261
E-mail: song@iastate.edu

Links
3D Machine Vision Laboratory

Education
B.S., Precision Machinery & Precision Instrumentations, University of Science & Technology of China, China, 2000
M.S., Mech. Eng., Stony Brook University, 2003
Ph.D., Mech. Eng., Stony Brook University, 2005

Areas of interest
Three-dimensional optical metrology, machine and computer vision, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, nondestructive evaluation, and biometrics.

Selected publications

  • Song Zhang and Shing-Tung Yau, “Absolute Phase Assisted Three-Dimensional Data registration for a Dual-Camera Structured Light System”,  Appl. Opt., Vol. 47, No. 17, pp 3134-3142, 2008 (Cover Feature of Applied Optics).
  • Ritvik P. Mehta, Song Zhang, and Terresa A Hadlock , “Novel 3-D Video for Quantification of Facial Movement”,  Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg., Vol. 138, No. 4, pp 468-472, 2008.
  • Yang Wang, Mohit Gupta, Song Zhang, Sen Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Dimitris Samaras, and Peisen Huang, “High Resolution Tracking of Non-Rigid 3D Motion of Densely Sampled Data Using Harmonic Maps,” Intl J. Comp. Vis., Vol. 76, No. 3, pp 283-300, 2008.
  • Song Zhang and Shing-Tung Yau, “Three-dimensional Data Merging Using Holoimage,” Opt. Eng., Vol. 47, No. 3, pp 033608, 2008. (Cover Feature of Optical Engineering).
  • Song Zhang and Shing-Tung Yau, “Three-dimensional Shape Measurement using a Structured Light System with Dual Cameras,” Opt. Eng., Vol. 47, No 1, pp 013604, 2008.