Larry Davis

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus

2252 Iribe Center

(301) 405-6718

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Research Group(s):

CfAR – Center for Automation Research

Education:

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Special Awards/Honors:

IAPR Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow

Biography:

Larry S. Davis is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and former director of the Center for Automation Research (CfAR).

His research focuses on object/action recognition/scene analysis, event and modeling recognition, image and video databases, tracking, human movement modeling, 3-D human motion capture, and camera networks.

Davis is also affiliated with the Computer Vision Laboratory in CfAR. He served as chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1999 to 2012.

He received his doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1976. He was named an IAPR Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow.

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Publications

2008

Farrell R, Davis LS. 2008. Decentralized discovery of camera network topology. Distributed Smart Cameras, 2008. ICDSC 2008. Second ACM/IEEE International Conference on. :1-10.

Gupta A, Davis LS. 2008. Beyond nouns: Exploiting prepositions and comparative adjectives for learning visual classifiers. Computer Vision–ECCV 2008. :16-29.

Han B, Comaniciu D, Zhu Y, Davis LS. 2008. Sequential Kernel Density Approximation and Its Application to Real-Time Visual Tracking. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 30(7):1186-1197.

Vitaladevuni SN, Kellokumpu V, Davis LS. 2008. Action recognition using ballistic dynamics. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. CVPR 2008. IEEE Conference on. :1-8.

2007

Lin Z, Davis LS, Doermann D, DeMenthon D. 2007. An Interactive Approach to Pose-Assisted and Appearance-based Segmentation of Humans. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

Lim SN, Davis LS, Mittal A. 2007. Task scheduling in large camera networks. Computer Vision–ACCV 2007. :397-407.

Lin Z, Davis LS, Doermann D, DeMenthon D. 2007. Hierarchical Part-Template Matching for Human Detection and Segmentation. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

Lim SN, Davis LS. 2007. An ease-of-use stereo-based particle filter for tracking under occlusion. Human Motion–Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation. :225-239.

Han B, Joo S-W, Davis LS. 2007. Probabilistic Fusion Tracking Using Mixture Kernel-Based Bayesian Filtering. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

Hussein M, Varshney A, Davis LS. 2007. On implementing graph cuts on cuda. First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units.

Gupta A, Mittal A, Davis LS. 2007. COST: An Approach for Camera Selection and Multi-Object Inference Ordering in Dynamic Scenes. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

El-Alfy H, Jacobs DW, Davis LS. 2007. Multi-scale video cropping. Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia. :97-106.

Farrell R, Doermann D, Davis LS. 2007. Learning Higher-order Transition Models in Medium-scale Camera Networks. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

Abd-Almageed W, Davis LS. 2007. Robust appearance modeling for pedestrian and vehicle tracking. Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans. :209-215.

Tran SD, Davis LS. 2007. Object Tracking at Multiple Levels of Spatial Resolutions. Image Analysis and Processing, 2007. ICIAP 2007. 14th International Conference on. :149-154.

Ghanem NM, Davis LS. 2007. Human Appearance Change Detection. Image Analysis and Processing, 2007. ICIAP 2007. 14th International Conference on. :536-541.

Zotkin DN, Raykar VC, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2007. Multimodal Tracking for Smart Videoconferencing and Video Surveillance. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR '07. IEEE Conference on. :1-2.

Shet VD, Neumann J, Ramesh V, Davis LS. 2007. Bilattice-based Logical Reasoning for Human Detection. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR '07. IEEE Conference on. :1-8.

Prasad VSN, Siddiquie B, Golbeck J, Davis LS. 2007. Classifying Computer Generated Charts. Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 2007. CBMI '07. International Workshop on. :85-92.

Gupta A, Davis LS. 2007. Objects in Action: An Approach for Combining Action Understanding and Object Perception. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR '07. IEEE Conference on. :1-8.

Yu Y, Harwood D, Yoon K, Davis LS. 2007. Human appearance modeling for matching across video sequences. Machine Vision and Applications. 18(3):139-149.

Ran Y, Weiss I, Zheng Q, Davis LS. 2007. Pedestrian detection via periodic motion analysis. International Journal of Computer Vision. 71(2):143-160.

Morariu VI, Prasad VSN, Davis LS. 2007. Human activity understanding using visibility context. IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop: From sensors to human spatial concepts (FS2HSC).

Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2007. Segmentation using Meta-texture Saliency. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

Lin Z, Davis LS, Doermann D, DeMenthon D. 2007. Simultaneous appearance modeling and segmentation for matching people under occlusion. Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part II. :404-413.

Tran S, Davis LS. 2007. Robust Object Tracking with Regional Affine Invariant Features. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.

Lin Z, Davis LS, Doermann D, DeMenthon D. 2007. Poster Session 5: Matching and Registration-Simultaneous Appearance Modeling and Segmentation for Matching People Under Occlusion. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4844:404-413.

2006

Yoon K, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2006. Appearance-based person recognition using color/path-length profile. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 17(3):605-622.

Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2006. Segmentation of planar objects and their shadows in motion sequences. International journal of computer vision. 67(1):53-69.

Tran S, Davis LS. 2006. 3d surface reconstruction using graph cuts with surface constraints. Computer Vision–ECCV 2006. :219-231.

Shet VD, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2006. Top-down, bottom-up multivalued default reasoning for identity maintenance. Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Video surveillance and sensor networks. :79-86.

Shet V, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2006. Multivalued default logic for identity maintenance in visual surveillance. Computer Vision–ECCV 2006. :119-132.

Sepehri A, Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2006. Employing the Hand as an Interface Device. Journal of Multimedia. 1(7)

Prasad V, Kellokumpu V, Davis LS. 2006. Ballistic hand movements. Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects. :153-164.

Sepehri A, Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2006. Employing the hand as an interface device. Journal of Multimedia. 1(7):18-29.

Prasad VSN, Davis LS, Tran S D, Elgammal A. 2006. Edge affinity for pose-contour matching. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 104(1):36-47.

Lim SN, Davis LS, Mittal A. 2006. Constructing task visibility intervals for video surveillance. Multimedia systems. 12(3):211-226.

Abd-Almageed W, Hussein M, Davis LS. 2006. Tracking Articulating Objects from Ground Vehicles using Mixtures of Mixtures. Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. :1230-1236.

Kim K, Davis LS. 2006. Multi-camera tracking and segmentation of occluded people on ground plane using search-guided particle filtering. Computer Vision–ECCV 2006. :98-109.

Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2006. Detection and analysis of hair. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 28(7):1164-1169.

Kim K, Chalidabhongse TH, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2006. PDR: A Performance Evaluation Method for Foreground-Background Segmentation Algorithms. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.

Gupta A, Mittal A, Davis LS. 2006. Constraint Integration for Multiview Pose Estimation of Humans with Self-Occlusions. 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, Third International Symposium on. :900-907.

Han B, Davis LS. 2006. Semi-Parametric Model-Based Clustering for DNA Microarray Data. Pattern Recognition, 2006. ICPR 2006. 18th International Conference on. 3:324-327.

Davis LS, Lim SN, Mittal A. 2006. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST ILLUMINATION-INVARIANT BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION USING TWO VIEWS. PCT/EP2005/056207(WO/2006/056592)

Gumerov NA, Zandifar A, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2006. 3D structure recovery and unwarping of surfaces applicable to planes. International journal of computer vision. 66(3):261-281.

BenAbdelkader C, Davis LS. 2006. Estimation of Anthropomeasures from a Single Calibrated Camera. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2006. FGR 2006. 7th International Conference on. :499-504.

Davis LS. 2006. Segmenting people in small groups. Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Video surveillance and sensor networks. :1-2.

Lim S-N, Davis LS. 2006. A One-Threshold Algorithm for Detecting Abandoned Packages Under Severe Occlusions Using a Single Camera. Technical Reports from UMIACS.

Davis LS, Basili VR, V.S. Subrahmanian, Reggia JA, Aloimonos Y. 2006. Real-Time Distributed Algorithms for Visual and Battlefield Reasoning.

Lim S-N, Mittal A, Davis LS. 2006. Task-Driven Video Collection. Technical Reports from UMIACS.

BenAbdelkader C, Cutler R, Davis LS. 2006. View-invariant estimation of height and stride for gait recognition. Biometric Authentication. :155-167.

Sepehri A, Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2006. Parametric Hand Tracking for Recognition of Virtual Drawings. Computer Vision Systems, 2006 ICVS '06. IEEE International Conference on. :6-6.

Agrawal M, Mittal A, Davis LS. 2006. Multi-view Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes. Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision. :405-422.

Hussein M, Abd-Almageed W, Ran Y, Davis LS. 2006. Real-Time Human Detection, Tracking, and Verification in Uncontrolled Camera Motion Environments. Computer Vision Systems, 2006 ICVS '06. IEEE International Conference on. :41-41.

Abd-Almageed W, Davis LS. 2006. Density estimation using mixtures of mixtures of Gaussians. Computer Vision–ECCV 2006. :410-422.

2005

Yang C, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2005. Fast multiple object tracking via a hierarchical particle filter. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 1:212-219Vol.1-212-219Vol.1.

Lim S-N, Mittal A, Davis LS. 2005. Constructing task visibility intervals for a surveillance system. Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Video surveillance & sensor networks. :141-148.

Shiv Naga Prasad V, Davis LS. 2005. Detecting rotational symmetries. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 2:954-961Vol.2-954-961Vol.2.

Kim K, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2005. Background updating for visual surveillance. Advances in Visual Computing. :337-346.

Han B, Davis LS. 2005. On-line density-based appearance modeling for object tracking. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 2:1492-1499Vol.2-1492-1499Vol.2.

Kim K, Chalidabhongse TH, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2005. Real-time foreground-background segmentation using codebook model. Real-time imaging. 11(3):172-185.

Yacoob Y, Davis LS. 2005. Detection, analysis and matching of hair. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 1:741-748Vol.1-741-748Vol.1.

Zhao L, Davis LS. 2005. Segmentation and appearance model building from an image sequence. Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on. 1:I-321-4-I-321-4.

Davis LS, Duraiswami R, Grassi E, Gumerov NA, Li Z, Zotkin DN. 2005. High Order Spatial Audio Capture and Its Binaural Head-Tracked Playback Over Headphones with HRTF Cues. Audio Engineering Society Convention 119.

Shet VD, Harwood D, Davis LS. 2005. VidMAP: video monitoring of activity with Prolog. Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2005. AVSS 2005. IEEE Conference on. :224-229.

Duraiswami R, Zotkin DN, Li Z, Grassi E, Gumerov NA, Davis LS. 2005. System for capturing of highorder spatial audio using spherical microphone array and binaural head-tracked playback over headphones with head related transfer function cues. Proc. 119th convention AES.

Ran Y, Zheng Q, Weiss I, Davis LS, Abd-Almageed W, Zhao L. 2005. Pedestrian classification from moving platforms using cyclic motion pattern. Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on. 2:II-854-7-II-854-7.

Han B, Davis LS. 2005. Robust observations for object tracking. Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on. 2:II-442-5-II-442-5.

Abd-Almageed W, Burns BJ, Davis LS. 2005. Identifying and segmenting human-motion for mobile robot navigation using alignment errors. 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2005. ICAR '05. Proceedings. :398-403.

Gupta A, Prasad VSN, Davis LS. 2005. Extracting regions of symmetry. Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on. 3:III-133-6-III-133-6.