Jason Fritts


    Associate Chair and Associate Professor
    Department of Computer Science
    Saint Louis University

    E-mail:  
    Office:   Ritter 359
    Phone:   (314) 977-7001


    Courses for Fall 2025: (previous courses)

      CSCI 2500 - Computer Organization and Systems
      CSCI 4750/5750 - Machine Learning


    Research Interests:

    • Computer Vision
    • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
    • Image Segmentation and Evaluation
    • IoT and Embedded Systems
    • Virtual and Augmented Reality


    Past Projects:
    • Image Segmentation Evaluation
    • MediaBench and Media Processing
    • Accio! content-based image retrieval (CBIR)
    • Liquid Architecture reconfigurable computing


    Selected Publications: (Complete List of Publications)

    • "Leveraging Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing for Object Detection and Localization",
      B. Rahmani, S. Bhavanasi, A. Maazallahi, H. S. Korapala, J. L. S. Yenugu, Y.K. Bhatia, M.A. Salari, E. Snir, P. Norouzzadeh, J. Fritts
      International Journal of Operations Research and Applications (ORAJ), vol. 12, no. 1, 2025.

    • "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)

    • "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)

    • "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)

    • "A Co-Evaluation Framework for Improving Segmentation Evaluation,"
      Hui Zhang, Jason E. Fritts, and Sally A. Goldman
      SPIE Defense and Security Symposium - Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XIV, pp. 420-430, March 2005.
      (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)