People

Current Research Associates

1. Vishal M. Patel
   

Current Ph.D. Students and Thesis Topics

1. M. Du, Face Recognition in Video.
2. N. Shroff, Efficient Methods for Video Summarization and Classification.
3. Ming Yu Liu, Markerless Motion Capture.
4. Sima Taheri, Manifold Trackers.
5. Jaishanker Pillai, Recognition of Humans and their activities from images and video.
6. Wu Tao, Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments.
7. Hien Nguyen, Video-based Face Recognition.
8. Nazre Batool, Facial texture analysis.
9. Jie Ni,  Remote Face Recognition.
10. Ashish Srivastava, Efficient Markerless Motion Capture.
    
11. Sumit Shekhar, Remote Face Recognition.
12. Huy Tho Ho, Face Alignment.
13. Garrett Warnell, Adaptive Sensing for Computer Vision.
14. Qiang Qiu, Semantic Methods for Activity Recognition.
    
15. Jun-Cheng Chen
16. David Shaw Model Selection and Misspecification on Manifolds
17. Chris Reale Tracking and Group Activity Recognition
18. Raviteja Vemulapalli Domain Adaptation for Computer Vision 
19. Kota Hara 
20. Xavier Gibert Serra Anomaly Detection using Sparse Representations
21. Yi-Chen Chen  Video-based Face Recognition and Clustering 
22. Jingjing Zheng  Domain Adaptation Methods for Face Recognition 

Current Exchange Students

1. Maria Puertas Calvo Domain Adaptation in Biometrics
   

Former Research Scientists and Associates

1. Qinfen Zheng, Asst., Associate and Senior Research Scientist (1992-2005)  
2. Philippe Burlina, Asst. Research Scientist (1994-1999)  
3. Reuven Meth, Research Associate (1998-2004)  
4. Hassan Shekarforoosh, Research Associate (2000-2002)
5. Chandra Shekhar, Asst. Research Scientist (1998-2002)
6. Amit Roy Chowdhury, Research Associate (2003-2004)
7. Volker Kruger, Research Scientist
8. Volkan Cevher
9. Gang Qian, Research Associate (2003-2004)
10. Pavan Kumar Turaga   

Graduated Ph.D. Students and Thesis Topics

1. Govind Sharma, August 1984, Modern 2-D Spectral Estimation Using Non-causal Models. (Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
2. Paul Singer, May 1985, Machine Perception of Partially Specified Planar Shapes. (Senior Scientist, Raytheon, Electro-optical Data Systems Group, El Segundo, CA).
3. Hao Jinchi, December 1986, Image Restoration Algorithms Using 2-D Gaussian Markov Random Field Models. (Professor, Military College in Taiwan, R.O.C.).
4. Shankar Chatterjee, July 1987, Synthesis, Analysis and Segmentation of Natural Textures. (Multimedia Company, Hollywood, CA).
   
5. Robert T. Frankot, December 1987, Computational Vision Algorithms for SAR Imagery. (Senior Staff Engineer, Raytheon Company, Tucson, AZ).
6. Ted J. Broida, December 1987, Estimating the Kinematics and Structure of a Moving Object from a Sequence of Images. (Was a Scientist, Hughes Aircraft Company, Radar Systems Group, El Segundo, CA, Deceased 08/96.).
7. Tal Simchony, December 1988, Parallel Deterministic and Stochastic Algorithms for Some Computer Vision Problems. (Chief Engineer, ECI Telecom Ltd., Israel).
8. Zhou Yi-Tong, December 1988, Artificial Neural Networks for Some Computer Vision Problems. (Consultant, San Diego, CA)
9. Richard R. Hansen, Jr., December 1988, Parametric Spectrum Estimation for Contaminated Random Fields. (Chief Engineer, Electronic Combat Development Branch, Edwards Airforce Base, CA).
10. Anand Rangarajan, Jan. 1991, Representation and Recovery of Discontinuities in Some Early vision Problems. (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville).
11. Gason Young, May 1991, 3-D Motion Estimation Using a Sequence Binocular of Noisy Images. (Thomson Electronics, CA).
12. V. Venkateswar, May 1991, Hierarchical Representation, Matching and Search for Some Computer Vision Problems. Was in Texas Instruments. (Co-Founder of a small company in Bay area).
13. E.J.M. Rignot, May 1991, Segmentation of Multifrequency and Polarmetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data. (Senior Member, Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.)
14. Q. Zheng, August 1991, Robust Algorithms for Estimation of Illuminant and Shape from Shading. (Vice-President, Advanced Technology, SET Corporation, Greenbelt, MD).
15. B.S. Manjunath, August 1991, Perceptual Grouping and Segmentation Using Neural Networks. (Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA).
16. S. Chandrashekhar, 1991, 3-D Motion Estimation and Passive Navigation Using a Long Sequence. (Free-lance writer)
17. T.H. Wu, 1993, Estimation of Motion and Structure Using Long Sequences of Noisy Images. (Prodigy, New York).
18. P. Burlina, 1994, Time-to Collision Estimation and Navigation Using Long Sequences. Technical Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, MD
19. O.J. Kwon, 1994, Region Based Coding of Images. (Technical Staff, Samsung Corporation, Korea).
20. S.Z. Der, March 1995, Automatic Target Recognition Using Passive Infrared and Laser Radar Sensors. (The Aerospace Corporation. Washington, D.C)
21. S. Krishnamachari, June 1995, Hierarchical Markov Random Field Models for Image Analysis. (Start up Company, Atlanta, Georgia).
22. Y.S. Yao, September 1995, Electronic Stabilization and Feature Tracking in Long Image Sequences. (Technical Staff, Pacific Bell, SanFranciso, CA).
23. H.C. Liu, September 1995, A General Motion Model and Spatio temporal Filters for 3-D Motion Interpretations. (Technical Staff, ETAK Company, Palo Alto, CA)
24. C.L. Lin, Dec. 1995 Model Supported Exploitation of Aerial Images, Technical Staff, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA.(Computer Science)
25. K. Etemad, May 1996, Multiscale Discriminant Analysis and Recognition of Signals and Images (Technical Staff, Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, MD).
26. C. Morimoto, March 1997, Electronic Image Stabilization, Associate Professor, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Computer Science)
27. S. Kuttikad, Dec. 1997, Site Models for SAR Image Exploitation. (Technical Staff, ETAK Company, Palo Alto, CA).
28. W. Phillips, March 1998, SAR Image Exploitation (Technical Staff, Northrop-Grumman, Baltimore, MD).
29. S. Srinivasan, Dec. 1998, Structure from Motion (Technical Staff, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA).
30. R. Meth, Dec. 1998, SAR Feature Extraction and Target Classification. (Scientist, SET Corporation, Greenbelt, MD, 20740).
31. V. Madhav Govindu, Nov. 1999, Probabilistic Models for Motion Estimation (Freelance writer and Social Activist).
32. M. Srinivasan, August 1999, Video Compression (Flavian)
33. W. Zhao, Dec. 1999, Robust Face Recognition (Technical Staff, David Sarnoff Corporation. Princeton, NJ).
34. B. Li, July 2000, Human and Object Verification in Video (Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept, Arizona State University).
35. A. Banerjee, August 2000, Target Detection in Foliage (Technical Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, MD).
36. H. Moon, August 2001, Shape -Encoded Particle Filtering for Object Detection and Tracking (Startup company, College Station, PA.
37. G. Qian, Dec.2001, Robust Methods for Structure From Motion Using Video Sequences (Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Arizona State University.    
38. Y. Wexler, December 2000, Projective Geometric Techniques for Video Analysis, Research Staff, Microsoft Corporation. (Computer Science)
39. A. Roy Chowdhury, June 2002, Structure from motion, Assistant Professor, EE, UC Riverside, CA.
40. Huying Liu, August 2003, Hierachical Structure and Movement Estimation, Technical Staff, Object Video, VA. (Computer Science). 
41. Amit Kale, Nov. 2003, Gait-Based Human Identification, Siemens Medical Systems, Bangalore, India.    
42. V. Parameswaran, April 2004, View Invariants for Activity Modelling and Recognition, Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ. (Computer Science).   
43. Shaohua Kevin Zhou, July 2004 Unconstrained FaceRecognition,Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ.
44. N. Vaswani, July 2004, Change Detection in Partially Observed Dynamical Systems with Applications in Activity Recognition, Assistant Professor, ECE Iowa State University.
45.  Amit Agrawal, May 2006, Research Scientist, MERL, Boston, MA.
46.  Jian Li, Dec. 2006, Technology Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY.
47.  Yang Ran, August 2006, Research Scientist, SET Corporation, Greenbelt, MD.  
48.  N. Cuntoor, May 2007, Activity modeling and Recognition, KitWare, Inc, NY.  
49. Seong-Wook Joo, May 2007, Multiobject tracking, event detection and activity modeling, Google, Mountain View, CA.(Computer Science)
50.  Joshua Broadwater, May 2007, Anomaly detection in hyperspectral images, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, MD.   
51. Feng Guo, August 2007, Research Scientist, ObjectVideo, VA. (Computer Science).
52.  ZhangFeng Yue, August 2007, FastVideo LLC, Group Leader, Columbia, MD.
53.  Aravind Sundaresan, Dec. 2007, Member of the Staff, SRI International Inc, Menlo Park, CA.
54.  Gaurav Aggarwal, Feb. 2008, Illumination-invariant face recognition, ObjectVideo, Reston, VA. (Computer Science).
55.  Ashok Veeraraghavan, Aug. 2008, Staff Scientist, MERL, Boston, MA.
56.  Narayanan Ramanathan, Dec. 2008, Face recognition across aging, Cernium Corporation, VA.  
57.  Dalton Rosario, Semi-parametric statistical methods for target detection, August 2008, ARL. (Applied Mathematics).
58.  Wu Hao, August 2009, Robust methods for visual tracking and model alignment, Member of Staff, Kodak Corporation, Rochester, NY.   
59. Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Sept. 2009, Efficient inference in multi-camera systems, Research Associate, Rice University, Houston, TX.
60. Pavan Turaga, October 2009, Statistical and geometric modeling of spatio-temporal patterns for video understanding, Asst. Research Scientist, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD.
61.  Jie Shao, December 2009, Object tracking and mensuration in surveillance videos, Member of Staff, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA.  
62. Soma Biswas, Dec. 2009, Statistical/Geometric techniques for object representation and recognition, Assistant Research Scientist, Univ. of Notre Dame, IN.
63. Mahesh Ramachandran, May 2010, Video Processing with Additional Information, Member of Technical Staff, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA   
64. Vishal Patel, August 2010, Sparse and Redundant Representations for Inverse Problems and Recognition. Research Associate, UMD.
65. M. Abdelkader, Human Activity Recognition.
    
66. K. Mitra, Statistical data learning for computer vision problems.
67. R. Li, Modeling and recognition of complex motion patterns in video.
68. D. Reddy, Compressive Sensing and Computer Vision.
69. Raghuram Gopalan, Object Recognition using Invariants and Context.

Graduated M.S. Students and Thesis Topics

1. Y. Lau, 1992 Computation of Optic Flow and Depth with Known Motion.
2.  G. Cheesman, 1992 Classification of Millimeter Wave Radar Signatures.
3.  H. Singh, 1992 An Improved Algorithm for Shape form Shading (Aware Inc, MA).
4.  V. Sabio, 1993 Target Recognition in Ultrawide Band Images (SAIC, Arlington, VA).
5.  S. Sirohey, 1993 Segmentation and Recognition of Faces (General Electrical, Chicago).
6.  D. Wason, 1994 Enhancement and Minutiae Detection in Fingerprints. (SAIC, VA).
7.  R. Parulekar, 1995 Parallel Algorithms for Classification of Remotely Sensed Imagery (Shearson-Lehman).
8.  S. Balakrisky, 1995 Performance Characterization of Image Stabilization Algorithms (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
9.  C. Stevens, 1997, Enhancement and Matching of Fingerprints ( LNK Corporation, MD).
10.  H. Mahmood, 1999, Active Vision for LADAR ATR (Wireless Company in S. Carolina).
11.  D. Ayers, 2000, Activity Monitoring in Video (SAIC, MD).
12.  H. Gupta, 3-D Face Modeling Using Contours, (Object Video, VA).
13.  Francesc, Frigole-Roma, Image Stabilization for Unmanned Air Vehicles.
14.  Marty, Ballcells-Capellades, Video Activity Analysis.
    
15.  T. Yamamoto, 3-D Motion Analysis for Sports Video (Hitachi, Japan)U. Akdemir, Ontology for Activity Modeling (Technical Staff Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ).
16.  A. Trias, Processing Aerial Images (Engineer, SET Corporation, MD).
17.  K. Nandy, Simulation of Human Movement (Engineer, National Cancer Institute, Frederic, MD).
18.  G. Rosenbush, Detection of Unattended Packages Using Attributed Grammars (SET Corporation, Greenbelt, MD).