Trackers Galore

Speaker: 	Prof. Rama Chellappa
          	University of Maryland, College Park
		USA

Title: 		"Trackers Galore"

Date:		Friday, 10 Dec 2004

Time: 		2:00 - 3:00pm

Venue: 		Room 2303 (Phase I, via lift nos. 17/18)
		HKUST


Abstract:

In this talk, I will present some recent results in the area of tracking
of humans in video.  Topics include recognition of humans and their
activities from video, identification using gaits and faces, and visual
tracking using appearance-adaptive models in particle filters.


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Biography:

Rama Chellappa received the B.E. (Hons.) degree from the University of
Madras, India, in 1975 and the M.E. (Distinction) degree from the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1977.  He received the M.S.E.E. and
Ph.D. Degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN, in 1978 and 1981 respectively

Since 1991, he has been a Professor of electrical engineering and an
affiliate Professor of computer science at the University of Maryland,
College Park.  He is also affiliated with the Center for Automation
Research (Director) and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
(Permanent member).  Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was
an Assistant (1981-1986) and Associate Professor (1986-1991)  and Director
of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (1988-1990) with the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  Over the last 21 years,
he has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal and
conference papers.  He has edited a collection of Papers on Digital Image
Processing (published by IEEE Computer Society Press), co-authored a
research monograph on Artificial Neural Networks for Computer Vision (With
Y.T. Zhou) published by Springer-Verlag, and co-edited a book on Markov
Random fields (with A.K. Jain) published by Academic Press.  His current
research interests are face and gait analysis, 3D modeling from video,
automatic target recognition from stationary and moving platforms,
surveillance and monitoring, hyper spectral processing, image
understanding, and commercial applications of image processing and
understanding.

Dr. Chellappa has served as an associate editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, IMAGE
PROCESSING, and NEURAL NETWORKS.  He was co-Editor-in- Chief of Graphical
models and Image Processing.  He is now serving as the Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE. INTELLIGENCE.  He served
as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
during 1996-1999. Currently he is serving as the Vice President of Awards
and Membership for the IEEE Signal Processing Society.  He has received
several awards, including NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an
IBM Faculty Development Award, the 1990 Excellence in Teaching Award from
School of Engineering at USC, and the 1992 Best Industry Related Paper
Award from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (with Q.
Zheng), the 2000 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal
Processing Society. He was elected as a Distinguished Faculty Research
Fellow (1996-1998) at the University of Maryland.  He is a Fellow of the
International Association for Pattern Recognition.  He has served as a
General the Technical Program Chair for Server IEEE international and
national conferences and workshops.