AMIT K. ROY-CHOWDHURY
Associate Professor
Room 322 EBU-II
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

Affiliations:

Phone: 951-827-7886
Fax: 951-827-2425
Email


Short Bio

Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Cooperating Faculty in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside. His broad research interests are in the areas of image processing and analysis, computer vision, video communications and statistical methods for signal analysis. His current research projects include intelligent camera networks, wide-area scene analysis, physics-based mathematical modeling of images, activity recognition and search, video-based biometrics (face and gait), biological video analysis and distributed video compression. The work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, DARPA and private industries. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury has over eighty 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". For more details, please see his CV.


Current Research Projects

  • Camera Networks
  • Wide Area Scene Analysis
  • Human activity search and analysis
  • Biometrics, especially face and soft biometrics
  • Theoretical methods - integration of physics-based models with statistical inference
  • Biological Image Processing - cell tracking, database search
  • Distributed Video Communication