Ph. D dissertation (University of Maryland, Dec 1999): Probabilistic Models For Motion Estimation

Current Research Interests

• Statistics on Lie Groups and Differentiable Manifolds
• Shape Statistics
• Structured-Light 3D Scanning

Papers

Area : Image Alignment

• V. Govindu, C. Shekhar and R. Chellappa. Correspondence-less Image Alignment using a Geometric Framework,
  First International Image Registration Workshop, IRW,1997.
  A shorter version appeared in the proceedings of ICPR 1998
  
• V. Govindu, C. Shekhar. Alignment Using Distributions of Local Geometric Properties,
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI, October 1999.
  
• C. Shekhar, V. Govindu and R. Chellappa. Multisensor Image Registration by Feature Consensus
  Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Image Registration, January 1999.
  Honorable Mention Award of the Pattern Recognition Society
  

Area : Structure and Motion

• J. Oliensis and V. Govindu, Experimental Study of Projective Structure from Motion
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI, July 1999.
  
• V. Govindu, Statistical Estimation and Analysis of Two-Frame Motion
  Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, ICVGIP, 1998.
  
• V. Govindu, Using Rotational Consistency For Calibration Estimation
  Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS, Princeton, 2000 Invited Paper
  
• V. Govindu, Linear Consistency Models for Motion Estimation
  Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing , ICVGIP, 2000. Best Paper Award
  
• V. Govindu, Combining Two-View Constraints for Motion Estimation
  Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2001.
  
• V. M. Govindu, Lie-Algebraic Averaging for Globally Consistent Motion Estimation
  Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2004.
  
• V. M. Govindu, Probabilistic Measures for Motion Segmentation,
  Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing , ICVGIP, 2004.
  
• V. M. Govindu, A Tensor Decomposition for Geometric Grouping and Segmentation
  Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2005.
  
• V. M. Govindu, Robustness in Motion Averaging
  Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV, 2006.
  

Area : Optical Flow

• S. Roy and V. Govindu, MRF Solutions for Probabilistic Optical Flow Formulations,
  Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR, 2000.
  
• V. M. Govindu, Revisiting the Brightness Constraint : Probabilistic Formulation and Algorithms,
  European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2006.
  

Area : Other

• V. Govindu and M. Werman On using Priors in Affine Matching,
  Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, ICVGIP, 2002.
  
• V. M. Govindu and M. Werman On using Priors in Affine Matching,
  Image and Vision Computing, IVC, 2004. [Journal Version]