Human Movement Analysis Using Single and Multiple Cameras

Rama Chellappa

Minta Martin Professor of Engineering

University of Maryland, College Park

Date: Friday, March 10, 2006
Place: Humanities and Social Sciences, 1173
Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm (Reception to follow)

Abstract:
In this talk, many approaches for analyzing human movements using single and multiple cameras will be presented. Specifically, I will discuss apperance, motion, shape and behavior encoded trackers with applications in ground and airbone surveillance and study of insect behaviors.A new approach for summaring the human gait manifold will be described. Methods for accurate estimation of human movements using detailed models of body parts and multiple cameras with applications in healthcare will then be presented. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of future research directions.

RAMA CHELLAPPA 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). Recently, he was named a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering. 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 25 years, he has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He has co-authored and edited many books in visual surveillance, biometrics, MRFs and image processing. 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. Prof. Chellappa served as the associate editor of many IEEE Transactions and as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE. INTELLIGENCE during 2001-2004. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors during 1996-1999 and served as its Vice President of Awards and Membership during 2002-2004. He has received several awards, including NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Development Award, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering at USC, the Best Industry Related Paper Award from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (with Q. Zheng), and a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected as a Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow (1996-1998) and as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (2003) at University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He has served as a General the Technical Program Chair for several IEEE international and national conferences and workshops. He is a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society.

Host: Professor B.S. Manjunath, Electrical & Computer Engineering