AMIT K. ROY-CHOWDHURY

   Assistant Professor

   Room 322 EBU-II
   Department of Electrical Engineering,

   University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

   Affiliations:

   Cooperating Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

   Member, Center for Research in Intelligent Systems

   Member, Center for Plant Cell Biology

 

   Phone: 951-827-7886

   Fax:     951-827-2425

   Email

 

Short Bio

Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Cooperating Faculty in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside. He completed his PhD in 2002 from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he also worked as a Research Associate in 2003. Previous to that, he received his Masters in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interests are in the broad areas of image processing and analysis, computer vision, video communications and statistical methods for signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning. His current research projects include distributed scene analysis and control in camera networks, physics-based mathematical modeling of image appearance, activity modeling and recognition, face and gait recognition, biological video analysis and distributed video compression. The work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, DARPA and private industries. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury has over seventy papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and edited books. He is an author of the book titled "Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video". He is on the program committee of many major conferences in computer vision and image/signal processing and is a regular reviewer for the main journals in these areas. He is an Associate Editor of the IAPR journal Machine Vision and Applications. For more details, please see his CV.

Current Research Projects

  • Camera Networks - tracking, control and scene analysis
  • Human activity analysis, including database retrieval
  • Biometrics, especially face and soft biometrics
  • Video Communication, especially multi-terminal compression
  • Theoretical methods, especially the integration of physics-based models with statistical inference
  • Biological Image Processing - cell tracking, database search

News

  • Post-doctoral position available - candidate must have research experience in human activity analysis in video and broad knowledge of computer vision. Experience in video biometrics is desirable. Please send me resume with references.
  • Special Issue on Video-based Modeling, Analysis, and Recognition of Human Motion, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
  • Graduate student positions available - I will be looking for a number of PhD graduate students in the next academic year. If you are interested, please apply to the University. You can mention your interests in my research areas, as well as your interest in working with me. However, admission decisions are NOT made by me. If you wish, you may let me know in late January 2009 that you have applied with a short email specifying your name, current position, and any higlights (e.g., publications, awards). Please do not send me emails asking about your chances of getting admitted.