AMIT K. ROY-CHOWDHURY
Associate Professor
431 WCH
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

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Phone: 951-827-7886
Fax: 951-827-2425
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Short Bio

Dr. Roy-Chowdhury leads the Video Computing Group at UCR. His group is studying problems in video analysis with applications in national and homeland security, commercial multimedia and computational biology. The underlying approach of his research is to harness various methods in systems theory, signal processing, machine learning, mathematics and statistics to the analysis of images and videos in order to obtain an understanding of their content. This scientific understanding can lead to machine vision technologies that can provide an automated/semi-automated analysis of the 3D environment from images/videos, analogous to the capabilities of biological visual systems. Currently, the group is focused on multi-agent autonomous camera networks, modeling and recognition of complex behaviors in video, and image-based modeling of biological growth dynamics (specifically in plants). Prof. Roy-Chowdhury is a PI on several grants from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, DARPA, and private industries like CISCO and Lockheed-Martin. His recent book on Camera Networks provides an overview of current research in the field. He has served as a program committee member and reviewer in various capacities, organized workshops and special sessions, is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Tans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - B and Machine Vision Applications, and a Section Editor of Elsevier’s Electronic Reference on Signal Processing. He has recently co-edited a book on the topic of "Distributed Video Sensor Networks".For more details, please see his CV.


Current Research Projects

  • Camera Networks and Wide-Area Scene Analysis
  • Human activity search and analysis
  • Biometrics, especially face and soft biometrics
  • Mathematical models in image analysis
  • Biological Image Processing - cell tracking, database search