Profile

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D.
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Department: Electrical Engineering
Specialization: Digital Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures
Year: 1994
Dissertation: Multiple Valued Logic Neural Network Architectures and Algorithms for Prediction, Classification and Recognition of Multi-valued Patterns
Advisor: Dr. C. Eswaran

M. Tech
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Department: Electrical Engineering
Specialization: Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems
Year: 1984
Thesis: Design of a Microprogrammed Graphic Controller
Thesis Advisor: Dr. V.V. Rao

B.Sc. Engineering
Institution: College of Engineering - Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India
Department: Electronics and Communication Engineering
Specialization: Electronics and Communication Engineering
Year: 1978

Professional Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member: 1996 – 2001
Senior Member: 2001 – present

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member: 2001 – present

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Member: 2008 – present

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member: 2001 – present

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Member: 2005 – present

IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee(link)
Member: 2005 - present

IEEE Computer Society
Member: 1998 – present

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Member: 1998 – present

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Member: 1996 – 2002

Present Position

Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Laboratories and Research Groups

Director, Computer Engineering Laboratory (Computer Engineering Senior Design Project Lab)
Director, Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision Laboratory (ODU Vision Lab)
Director, VLSI Systems Laboratory
Director, Homeland Security Research Group

Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member, Recent Patents on Signal Processing, Bentham Science Publishers
Period: 2009 - present

Guest Editor, Journal of Computers, Academic Publisher(link)
Period: 2008 - present

Editorial Board of International Journal of Hybrid Computational Research - IJHCR
Period: 2007 - present

Editorial Board of International Journal of Computational Intelligence – IJCI
Period: 2004 - 2005

Program Committee Member of International Conferences

Program Committee Member, Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks – ISNN 2010
June 6-9, 2010, Shanghai, China.

Program Committee Member, 2009 International Symposium on Visual Computing – ISVC 2009
November 30 - December 02, 2009, Las Vegas Nevada, USA.

Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE TENCON 2009: Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development - TENCON 2009
November 23-26, 2009, Singapore.

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Neural Computation– ICNC 2009
October 5-7, 2009, Madeira, Portugal.

Program Committee Member, Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks – ISNN 2009
May 26-29, 2009, Wushan, China.

Program Committee Member, The First International Conference on Database Theory and Application – DTA 2008
December 13-15, 2008, Hainan Island, China.

Program Committee Member, 2008 International Symposium on Visual Computing – ISVC 2008
December 1-3, 2008, Las Vegas Nevada, USA.

Program Committee Member, Fifth International Symposium on Neural Networks – ISNN 2008
September 24-28, 2008, Beijing, China.

Program Committee Member, Thirteenth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference – ACSAC-2008
August 4-6, 2008, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu Taiwan.

Program Committee Member, 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology – ICCIT 2007
December 27-29, 2007, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Program Committee Member, 2007 International Symposium on Visual Computing – ISVC 2007
November 26-28, 2007, Lake Tahoe Nevada, USA.

Program Committee Member, Twelth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference – ACSAC-2007
August 23-25, 2007, Seoul, South Korea.

Program Committee Member, SoutheastCon 2007 by the IEEE Virginia Council
March 2007, Richmond Virginia, USA.

Program Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology – ICCIT 2006
December 21-23, 2006, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Program Committee Member, 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems – KES 2006
October 9-11, 2006, Bournemouth, UK.

Program Committee Member, 2006 International Symposium on Visual Computing – ISVC 2006
November 6-8, 2006, Lake Tahoe Nevada, USA.

Program Committee Member, Eleventh Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference – ACSAC-2006
June 28-30, 2006, Shanghai, China.

Program Committee Member, Tenth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference – ACSAC-2005
October 24-26, 2005, Singapore.

Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security – A3DISS-2005 in conjunction with CVPR 2005
June 20-26, 2005, San Diego, USA.

Technical Committee Member of International Conferences

Technical Committee Member, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008)
June 1-6, 2008, Hong Kong

Technical Committee Member, Third International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2003)
December 14-17, 2003, Melbourne, Australia

Technical Committee Member, Third International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2003)
August 10-13, 2003, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Technical Committee Member, Second International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2002)
December 01-04, 2002, Santiago, Chile

Technical Committee Member, International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques (I-KOMAT 2002)
September 16-18, 2002, Crema, Italy

Technical Committee Member, Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2002)
August 07-08, 2002, Atlanta, USA

Technical Committee Member, First International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2001)
December 11-12, 2001, Adelaide, Australia

Session Chair in National and International Conferences

Session Chair, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering -ANNIE 2005
St. Louis, MO, November 06 – 09, 2005

Session Chair, SensorsGov Expo and Conference – SensorsGov-2004, (Session: OI2-Analysis Enhancement)
September 13-15, 2004, Virginia Beach, VA

Session Chair, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics – SMC 2003
Washington, D.C., USA

Session Chair, 5th International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing – CVPRIP’03 (JCIS-2003)
Cary, North Carolina, USA

Session Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control - ISC -8216;99 (IASTED - 1999)
October 28-30, 1999, Santa Barbara, USA

Chair of IEEE Society Task Force

Chair, Speech and Vision Processing Task Force (TF) of the IEEE Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

College Committee Positions

Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committe, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
Period: 2008 - present

Chair, College of Engineering and Technology Laboratory Committee
Period: 2004 - 2006

Member, College of Engineering and Technology Laboratory Committee
Period: 2003 - 2004

Member, Homeland Security Research Committee
Period: 2004 - 2006

Member, College of Engineering and Technology Laboratory Safety Committee
Period: 2002 - 2004

Department Committee Positions

Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committe, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Period: 2008 - present

Chair, Computer Engineering Program Revision/Modification Committee, Old Dominion University
Period: 2006 - present

Member, ECE Ad Hoc Commission on Graduate Enrollment
Period: January 2006 - Present

Member, Undergraduate Committee
Period: 2003 - Present

Faculty-in-Charge, Laboratory Maintenance and Modernization
Period: 2003 - 2006

Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Assistant Professor position in Electrical and Computer Engineering (specialization in modeling, simulation and visualization)
September 2005

Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Assistant/Associate Professor position in Electrical and Computer Engineering (specialization in systems, communication, signal and image processing)
September 2005

Member, Course Revision and Restructuring Committee
ECE241 Digital Logic and ECE284 Digital Design Laboratory, 2004.

University Committee Positions

Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committe
Period: July 2009 - present

Member: Research Exposition 2006 Steering Committee
Represented Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
Period: 2005 – 2006.

Chair: Homeland Security Panel Organization Committee
Research Exposition Day 2006.

Coordinator: Project Demonstrations Organization Committee
Research Exposition Day 2006.

Member, Faculty Senate
Old Dominion University
Period: February 2005 - 2006

Member, Committee C - Faculty Senate
Graduate Studies Committee
Period: February 2005 - 2006

Member, Engineering and Technology–Business and Public Administration - Homeland Security Research Committee
Period: 2004 - 2006

Member: Student Conduct Committee
Old Dominion University Faculty Senate
Period: 2001 - 2003

Research Proposal Review Committee Positions

National Science Foundation
Meeting: 11-12, January 2007

Chair, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
National Science Foundation
Meeting: 10-13 February 2005

Member, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
National Science Foundation
Meetings: 16-18 February 2004, 04-07 March 2003

Member, SBIR/STTR Research Projects
National Science Foundation
Meetings: 8 April 2003, 29 April 2003, 21 August 2003, 17 August 2005, 15 March 2006, 14 September 2006, 21 August 2007, 14 February 2008

Reviewer of International Journals

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part B
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Machine Vision and Applications Journal
Pattern Recognition Letters
International Journal of Computational Intelligence - IJCI
International Journal of Signal Processing – Image Communication
IEE Proceedings of Circuits, Devices and Systems
Multimedia Cyberscape Journal
Information Fusion Journal
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding
International Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
International Journal of Image and Vision Computing
Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems
International Journal of Neural Systems
Journal of Electronic Imaging

Reviewer of International Conferences

International Conference on Computer Design - ICCD1999
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision - ICARV2000
International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - ISDA2001
International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS’01
International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - ISDA 2002
International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques - I-KOMAT2002
International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - ISDA 2003
International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems – KES 2004
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – CVPR 2004
Tenth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference – ACSAC-2005
IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems - APCCAS 2006
Eleventh Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference – ACSAC-2006

Nineth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology – ICCIT 2006

2006 International Symposium on Visual Computing – ISVC 2006

SoutheastCon 2007

Patents Awarded

Color Image Characterization, Enhancement and Balancing (with Dr. Ming-Jung Seow), April 22, 2008 (ODU News)

Visibility Improvement in Color Video Stream (with Dr. Li Tao), September 23, 2008 (ODU News)

Patents Filed

Optical Pattern Recognition Technique (with Dr. Mohammad Nazrul Islam and Dr. Mohammad A. Karim), 2008

Visibility Improvement in Color Video Stream (with Dr. Li Tao), 2005

Color Image Characterization, Enhancement and Balancing (with Dr. Ming-Jung Seow), 2005

Research Publications

Journal and Conference Papers

Research Collaborations and Collaborative Research Initiatives

NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA ((link))
Vision Innovations Corporation
Virginia Beach, VA ((link))

Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
University of Tennessee, TN ((link))

Viisage Technology AG
Bochum, Germany ((link))

Image Science and Machine Vision Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN ((link))

Intelligent Devices and Systems Cluster
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ((link))

Center for High Performance Embedded Systems
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ((link))

Center for Multimedia Computing
Multimedia University, Malaysia ((link))

Center for Advanced Engineering Environments
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA ((link))

Frank Reidy Center for Bioelectrics
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA ((link))

Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, VA ((link))

International Thesis/Dissertation Examiner

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chennai, India

School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

Faculty of Information Technology
Multimedia University, Malaysia

Candidacy Examination and Dissertation Committee Member

Qin Hu (Candidacy: November 09, 2001), Rania Hussain (Candidacy: May 23, 2003), Fansheng Meng (Candidacy: March 25, 2004), Weiying (Candidacy: November 04 and 12, 2004), Li Tao (Candidacy: December 01 and 03, 2004), Bing Xiao (Dissertation: April 29, 2005), Ming-Jung Seow (Candidacy: September 26, 2005), Li Tao (Dissertation: December 12, 2005), Feng Wu (Dissertation: December 13, 2005), Emre Baygoden (Candidacy: March 24, 2006), Fanshen Meng (Dissertation: April 18, 2006), Weiying Zhu (Dissertation: April 25, 2006), Satyanadh Gundimada (Candidacy: April 28, 2006), Ming-Jung Seow (Dissertation: May 3, 2006), Hau Ngo (Candidacy: May 5, 2006), Rania Hussein (Dissertation: July 17, 2006), Kurt Peters (Candidacy Exam: September 13, 2006), Rajkiran Gottumukkal (Candidacy Exam: September 18, 2006), Amir Khan (Candidacy Exam: December 20, 2006), Satyanadh Gundimada (Dissertation Defense: May 10, 2007), Hau T. Ngo (Dissertation Defense: November 14, 2007), Praveen Sankaran (Candidacy Exam: November 20, 2007), Ming Zhang (Candidacy Exam: November 30, 2007), Richard Cortland Tompkins (Candidacy Exam: December 06, 2007), Adam Livingston (Candidacy Exam: December 18, 2007), Kurt Peters (Dissertation Proposal: December 17, 2007), Numan Unaldi (Candidacy Exam: December 21, 2007), Sertan Erkanli (Candidacy Exam: January 11, 2008), Ming Zhang (Dissertation Proposal: June 13, 2008), Emre Baydogan (Dissertation Defense: July 11, 2008), Praveen Meduri (Candidacy Exam: July 24, 2008), Ming Z. Zhang (Dissertation Defense: October 24, 2008), Adam Livingston (Dissertation Proposal: November 19, 2008), Richard Cortland Tompkins (Dissertation Proposal: December 11, 2008), M. Amir Khan (Dissertation Proposal: January 06, 2009), Praveen Sankaran (Dissertation Proposal: February 11, 2009), Eugene Stoudenmire (Candidacy Exam: March 20, 2009), Numan Unaldi (Dissertation Proposal: May 27, 2009), Qun Wang (Candidacy Exam: August 19, 2009), Praveen Sankaran (Dissertation Defense: September 09, 2009), Bo Jiang (Candidacy Exam: October 07, 2009), M. Amir Khan (Dissertation Defense: October 28, 2009), Kurt Peters (Dissertation Defense: October 30, 2009)

Thesis Committee Member

Satish Ravichandran (May 29, 2001), Ronald W. Bentley (July 13, 2001), Andrew Matthew Zimmer (February 01, 2002), Lingyun Gu (February 01, 2002), Satyanadh Gundimada (May 31, 2002), Kavitha Kasi (September 06, 2002), Linda Rajan (October 29, 2002), Ming-Jung Seow (October 30, 2002), Rajkiran Gottumukkal (December 06, 2002), Deepthi Valaparla (March 28, 2003), Hau T. Ngo (March 28, 2003), Hariharan Harishwaran (April 11, 2003), Satish Ravichandran (April 18, 2003), Phani Pandyala (May 28, 2003), Anuj Maheshkumar Shah (June 03, 2003), Mukund Devarajan (July 03, 2003), Juan Gonzalez (November 18, 2003), Wei Wang (February 12, 2004), Princy Dikshit (November 18, 2004), Guillermo Loaisiga (November 22, 2004), Mame C. Sall (January 31, 2005), Kirankumar Boyapati (April 20, 2005), Chikaodiro N. Okpo (May 06, 2005), Mehmet Ormanoglu (May 25, 2005), Praveen Sankaran (June 16, 2005), James Gibson Bolitho (July 11, 2005), Mohammad Yacoub Al-laho (July 12, 2005), Genevieve Hankins (July 18, 2005), Ming Z. Zhang (August 4, 2005), Reynel Jude Castelino (November 3, 2005), Sam Miller (March 16, 2006), Adam Livingston (March 24, 2006), Ibrahim Zagli (March 21, 2006), Turgut Yucel (March 21, 2006), Ender Oguslu (April 7, 2006), Sahin Yasar (April 11, 2006), Usha Gayatri Chalkapally (July 14, 2006), Tara Singh (July 19, 2006), Gurkan Haznedaroglu (March 21, 2007), Cenk Yaman (April 02, 2007), Ismail Kosum (April 02, 2007), Makhin Thitsa (April 09, 2007), Randy Woods (April 13, 2007), Neeharika Gudur (September 25, 2007), Saibabu Arigela (September 27, 2007), Ramya Reddy Maaram (October 16, 2007), Zaheer Shaik (October 25, 2007), Chandrika Tummala (April 04, 2008), Swathi Tandra (April 09, 2008), Girish Singh Rajput (April 28, 2008), Triveni Vuppalapti (May 2, 2008), Inder Kumar Purohit (July 17, 2008), Sri Satya Vardh Gogineni (July 22, 2008), Naresh Reddy (August 19, 2008), Diana Vincent (October 24, 2008), My Thy Tran (March 25, 2009), Nathanael Miller (October 28, 2009), Ngoc Tran (November 03, 2009)

Community Service

Volunteer Tutor, Adult Learning Center, Virginia Beach City Public Schools System, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Period: 2004 – 2008

Technical Presentations/Participations

ICCV 2009: IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Vision
International Conference Center, and Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (September 27 - October 04, 2009)

JCOTS Meeting: Virginia's Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Meeting (News @ Old Dominion)
E.V. Williams Engineering and Computational Sciences Building, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA (July 09, 2009)
Topic: Security Automation and Future Electro Robots (SAFER)

CVPR 2009: IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Miami Beach, FL (June 20-25, 2009)

ICB 2009: The 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics
University of Sassari, Alghero (in Sardinia Island), Italy (June 02-05, 2009)

ANNIE 2008: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering
St. Louis, MO (November 10, 2008)
Topic: Nonlinear manifold representation of a face image for classification

Robust 2008: The Robust Biometrics: Understanding the Science & Technology Workshop
Waikiki, Hawaii (November 04, 2008)
Topic: Creation of a large training database with comprehensive lighting and pose variations using minimum number of 2D images

Robot/Unmanned Vehicle Systems Tech Transfer Forum : First Responders, Homeland Security
Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC), Suffolk, Virginia (October 23, 2008)
Panel: Situation Awareness, Communication and Data Relay: access to UAV flight activity to test visual technology; head display and robot interaction; real-time deployment of multi-hop relays for communication and indoor tracking for first responders

Technology Seminar at MITRE
MITRE 1, McLean Virginia (July 09, 2008)
Topic: Nonlinear Techniques for Image Enhancement and Person Identification

Technology Focus Group (TFG) Event
Booz-Allen Hamilton, McLean Virginia (May 13, 2008)
Topic: Automatic Vessel Identification System

Defeating IEDs Conference at Washington DC, May 06-07, 2008 (Defeating IEDs), (ASD-Network)
Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites, Alexandria VA (May 07, 2008)
Topic: Robotic Nose for the Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices

ODU-NSU-EVMS-VTC Research Exposition Day Presentations (Vision Lab Presentations)
Ted Constant Hall, Norfolk, VA (April 09, 2008)
Poster 1: Pattern recognition using adaptive progressive thresholding and shifted phase-encoded joint transform correlation
Poster 2: Vision-based capability enhancement for low-cost surveillance robots
Poster 3: Master-slave camera system for long range person tracking and identification
Poster 4: Small boat detection in visible and infrared images using morphology-based segmentation
Poster 5: Manifolds for face recognition
Poster 6: Creation of large 2D face database based on analytical 3D face model using minimum 2D images
Project Demonstration: Vision based robot navigation, face detection, tracking and recognition

Navy League Sea Air Space Exposition 2008 (SeaAirSpace Expo)
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC (March 20, 2008)
Topic: Automatic Vessel Identification

ICICS 2007: International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing
Singapore (December 11, 2007)
Topic: An area efficient modular architecture for real-time detection of multiple faces in video stream

Robot Venture General Meeting
IRP@ODU, Norfolk, VA (November 15, 2007)
Topic: Robotic sensing for security automation

IJCNN 2007: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Orlando, FL (August 14, 2007)
Topic: A new framework for automatic feature selection for tracking

ODU-NSU-EVMS-VTC Research Exposition Day Presentations (Vision Lab Presentations)
Ted Constant Hall, Norfolk, VA (April 05, 2007)
Poster 1: State of mind recognition
Poster 2: A modular approach for skin region extraction using color manifold
Poster 3: Long-range target classification in a cluttered environment using multi-sensor image sequences
Poster 4: Nonlinear enhancement of extremely high contrast images
Poster 5: A robust algorithm for real-time stabilization of shaky video captured under low lighting conditions
Poster 6: Pose and lighting invariant real-time face recognition system
Poster 7: Long range face recognition
Poster 8: Super-resolution of image sequences
Poster 9: Multiview face detection
Poster 10: Robotic nose for the detection of improvised explosive devices
Poster 11: Image luminance and contrast enhancement, and denoising
Poster 12: Face recognition under arbitrary lighting conditions using spherical harmonics
Poster 13: Adaptive local contrast enhancement applied to super-resolution image recreation
Project Demonstration 1: Automatic face recognition in video
Project Demonstration 2: Real-time skin segmentation (hardware)
Project Demonstration 3: Real-time face tracking and PTZ camera control
Project Demonstration 4: Face authentication

Invited Speech
IEEE Hampton Roads Chapter Meeting, Virginia Beach, VA (November 16, 2006)
Topic: Self organizing line attractor for pose and lighting invariant face recognition (The Open Channel)

ODU-NSU-EVMS Research Exposition Day Presentations (Vision Lab Presentations)
Ted Constant Hall, Norfolk, VA (April 05, 2006)
Poster 1: Multi-sensor fusion for face recognition and surveillance
Poster 2: Image fusion for visibility improvement of digital color images
Poster 3: Image registration and super-resolution
Poster 4: Explosive detection using chemical vapor sensors
Project Demonstration 1: Multi-sensor image fusion for surveillance and object identification in extremely dark environment
Project Demonstration 2: Person tracking and identification with computer controlled cameras using visual cues
Project Demonstration 3: Advanced multimodal human-computer interaction environment

World’s Best Technologies Showcase – WBT06:
(organized in cooperation with The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer)
Arlington, Texas (March 29, 2006)
Topic: Face recognition in extremely dark and non-uniform lighting environment (Face recognition research at ODU Vision Lab) (link)

Seminar Talk: IEEE Student Brach
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA (November 10, 2005)
Topic: Research at ODU Vision Lab

International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering - ANNIE 2005
Saint Louis, MO (November 9, 2005)
Topic 1: An adaptive technique for image compression using a self-organizing neural network
Topic 2: Nonlinear line attractor network for face expression association

Seminar Talk:
Department of Computer Science, Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA (October 12, 2005)
Topic: Self-organizing line attractor for pattern association, prediction and classification

Naval-Industry R&D Partnership Conference
Ronald Reagan International Building at Washington DC (July 27, 2005)
Topic: Computer vision and image processing applications: Enabling naval innovations to win the global war on terrorism (link)

Allied Aerospace
Newport News, VA (July 01, 2005)
Topic: Computer vision and image processing research at ODU Vision Lab

IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments – FRGC 2005
(in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – CVPR 2005) (link)
San Diego, CA (June 21, 2005)
Topic 1: An illuminance-reflectance model for nonlinear enhancement of color images
Topic 2: Pose angle determination by face, eyes and nose localization
Topic 3: A new nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique for pose and lighting invariant face recognition

IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired – CVAVI 2005
(in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – CVPR 2005)
San Diego, CA (June 20, 2005)
Topic: A visibility improvement system for low vision drivers by nonlinear enhancement of fused visible and infrared video (link)

Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems – ICCNS 2005
Boston, MA (May 19, 2005)
Topic: Learning a perceptual manifold (link)

ODU-NSU Research Exposition Day Presentations (Vision Lab Presentations)
Ted Constant Hall, Norfolk, VA (April 06, 2005)
Poster 1: Self-organizing line attractor for pattern association, classification and prediction
Poster 2: Driver’s assistant for visibility improvement
Project Demonstration: Automatic face recognition in video

International Conference on World’s Best Technologies – WBT05
Arlington, TX (March 30, 2005)
Topic: An automatic learning machine

Seminar Talk:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA (March 18, 2005)
Topic: Self-organizing line attractor for pattern association, prediction and classification (link)

Third Face Recognition Grand Challenge Workshop – FRGC 2005
MITRE, McLean, VA (February 16, 2005)
Topic: Pose and lighting invariant face detection and recognition (link)

Biometric Consortium Conference – BCC 2004
Arlington, VA (September 20-22, 2004)
Topic: Pose and lighting invariant face detection and recognition (link) (presentation)

SensorsGov Expo and Conference – SensorsGov-2004
Virginia Beach, VA (September 14, 2004)
Topic: Enhancement of images captured in an extremely low and non-uniform lighting environment

Image Science and Machine Vision (ISMV)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (July 14, 2004)
Topic: Computer vision and image processing research at ODU Vision Lab (link)

ODU Research Exposition Day Presentations (Vision Lab Presentations)
Ted Constant Hall, Norfolk, VA (March 23, 2004)
Poster 1: Nonlinear techniques for image enhancement
Poster 2: Automatic face detection and recognition
Project Demonstration: Real-time enhancement of video

DoD TSWG Research Review Meeting
Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA (January 13, 2004)
Topic: Pose and lighting invariant face detection and tracking (pdf)

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics
Washington, DC (October 7, 2003)
Topic: L2-norm approximation based learning in recurrent neural networks for expression invariant face recognition

Third International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing –CVPRIP’03
Cary, NC (September 29, 2003)
Topic 1: A novel face recognition algorithm based on PCA
Topic 2: An adaptive skin extraction technique for face images with complex lighting environments
Topic 3: Eye-proximation in digital images based on chrominance paradigms

Seminar Talk:
Department of Computer Science, Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA (September 25, 2003)
Topic: Neural network based face recognition in complex lighting environment

Seminar Talk:
Sree Budha College of Engineering
Pandalam, Kerala, India (August 07, 2003)
Topic: High performance embedded systems for computer vision applications

IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks–IJCNN 2003
Portland, OR (July 23, 2003)
Topic 1: Associative memory using ratio rule for multi-valued pattern association
Topic 2: High performance associative memory with distance based training algorithm for character recognition

IDHS Research Summit
Ronald Reagan International Building at Washington DC (June 25, 2003)
Topic: Network enabled feature search for high speed face recognition (pdf)

Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI – GLSVLSI 2003
Washington DC (April 29, 2003)
Topic: System level design of real time face recognition architecture based on composite PCA

International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE 2002)
Saint Louis, MO (November 10, 2002)
Topic 1: A modular architecture for a recurrent neural network for character recognition
Topic 2: A multilevel architecture for FPGA based implementation of feed-forward neural network for pattern recognition

IASTED International Conference on Applied Modeling and Simulation (AMS 2002)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (November 05, 2002)
Topic: Adaptive segmentation and boundary detection for images with complex lighting environment

IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Non-linear Signal and Image Processing - NSIP-01
Baltimore, MD (June 4, 2001)
Topic: Nonlinear spatial warping of wide-angle camera images based on L2 -norm approximation

Seminar Talk:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, (January 19, 2001)
Topic: Non-linear spatial warping of wide-angle camera images based on least squares estimation

Previous Positions

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
August 2001 - May 2007

Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
August 2000 - July 2001

Guest Faculty
Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore
(Open University Degree Program, Open University, United Kingdom)
July 1998 - July 2000

Research Fellow
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
July 1998 - July 2000

Research Fellow
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore , Singapore
October 1996 - June 1998

Assistant Professor
Department of Electronics and Communications, T K M College of Engineering, University of Kerala
November 1984 - June 1990 and July 1993 - September 1996

Lecturer
Department of Electronics and Communications, T K M College of Engineering, University of Kerala
October 1979 - June 1982 and July 1984 - October 1984

Lecturer
Department of Electrical Engineering, Government Engineering College Thrissur, University of Calicut
August 1979 - September 1979

Lecturer
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Institute of Engineering, Trivandrum
November 1978 - July 1979

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
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