Venu Govindaraju
PhD
Founding Director
Vice President
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Research Topics
Pattern recognition; digital libraries; biometrics
Recent Publications
- Handbook of Statistics Vol 35: Cognitive Computing: Theory and Applications, V. V. Raghavan, V. Gudivada, V. Govindaraju, and C. R. Rao (eds.), Elsevier 2017 (in print).
- Handbook of Statistics Vol 33: Big Data, V. Govindaraju, V. V. Raghavan, and C. R. Rao (eds.), Elsevier 2016.
- Handbook of Statistics Vol 31: Machine Learning Theory and Applications, C. R. Rao & V. Govindaraju (eds.), Elsevier 2013.
- Multibiometrics for Human Identification. B. Bhanu & V. Govindaraju (eds.), Cambridge University Press 2011.
- Indic OCR- Document Recognition & Retrieval. V. Govindaraju & S. Setlur (eds.), Springer 2009. 6. Biometrics: Sensors, Systems, and Algorithms. N. Ratha & V. Govindaraju (eds.), Springer 2007.
- N. Pokhriyal, K. Tayal, I. Nwogu and V. Govindaraju, “Cognitive-biometric recognition from language usage: A feasibility study”, Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2017. 7.
- Gaurav Kumar, Venu Govindaraju, “Bayesian background models for keyword spotting in handwritten documents”, Pattern Recognition 64: 84-91, 2017.
- S. Wshah, G. Kumar, and V. Govindaraju, “Statistical script independent word spotting in offline handwritten documents”, Journal of Pattern Recognition, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 1039-1050, 2014.
- V. Menon, B. Jayaraman, and V. Govindaraju, “Probabilistic spatio-temporal retrieval in smart spaces” Special issue of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 383-392, 2014.
- X. Peng, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju and R. Sitaram, “Handwritten text separation from annotated machine printed documents using Markov random fields”, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-16 , 2013.
- U. Porwal, and V. Govindaraju, “Semi supervised framework for writer identification using structural learning”, IET Biometrics, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 208-215, 2013.
- M. Malgireddy, I. Nwogu, and V. Govindaraju, “Language motivated approach to action recognition”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 2189-2212, 2013.
- A. Shivram, C. Ramaiah, and V. Govindaraju, “A hierarchical Bayesian approach to online writer identification”, IET Biometrics, Special Issue on Handwriting Recognition, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 191- 198, 2013.
- Y. Zhou, I. Inwogu, and V. Govindaraju, “Labeling Spain with Stanford”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 5362-5371, 2013.
- V. Menon, B. Jayaraman, and V. Govindaraju, “Enhancing biometric recognition with spatiotemporal reasoning in smart environments”, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 987-998, 2013.
- X. Peng, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju, and R. Sitaram, “Using a boosted tree-classifier for text segmentation in hand-annotated documents”, Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue of Award Winning Papers, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 943-950, 2012.
- V. Menon, B. Jayaraman, and V. Govindaraju, “The 3 R’s of cyber-physical spaces”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 73-79, 2011.
- V. Menon, B. Jayaraman and V. Govindaraju, “Spatio-temporal querying in smart spaces”, Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier Press, Vol. 10, pp. 366-373, 2011.
- H. Cao, A. Bhardwaj, and V. Govindaraju, “Unconstrained handwritten document retrieval”, International Journal for Document Analysis and Recognition, Special Issue on Noisy Text Analytics, Springer, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 145-157, 2011.
- P. Mansukhani, S. Tulyakov, and V. Govindaraju, “A framework for efficient fingerprint identification using a minutiae tree”, IEEE Systems Journal- Special Issue on Biometrics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 126-137, 2010.
- V. Menon, B. Jayaraman, and V. Govindaraju, “Multimodal identification and tracking in smart environments”, Special Issue on Multimodal Systems, Services and Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 685- 694, 2010.
- R. Chandrasekhar, J. C. Miecznikowski, D. P. Gaile, V. Govindaraju, F. V. Bright, and K. F. Sellers, “Xerogel package”, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Elsevier Press, Vol. 96, No. 1, pp. 70-74, 2010.
- A. Rusu, A. Thomas, and V. Govindaraju, “Generation and use of handwritten CAPTCHAs”, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Springer, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 49-64, 2010.
- S. Tulyakov, C. Wu, and V. Govindaraju, “On the difference between optimal combination functions for verification and identification systems”, International Journal Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 173-191, 2010.
- R. Pandey, Y. Zhou, and V. Govindaraju, “Learning représentations for cryptographic hash based face template protection”, Deep Learning for Biometrics, Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, B. Bhanu and A. Kumar (editors), Springer (in print).
- M. R. Malgireddy, I. Nwogu, and Venu Govindaraju: “Language-Motivated Approaches to Action Recognition”, Gesture Recognition, Escalera, Guyon, Athitsos (editors), Springer, 155-181, 2017.
- V. Govindaraju, I. Nwogu, and S. Setlur, “Document informatics for scientific learning and accelerated discovery”, Handbook of Statistics, Big Data Analytics, V. Govindaraju and C. R. Rao (editors), Elsevier, Vol. 33, pp. 3-28, 2015.
- N. Pokhriyal, I. Nwogu, and V. Govindaraju, “A large-scale study of language usage as a cognitive biometric trait”, Handbook of Statistics, Big Data Analytics, V. Govindaraju, V. Raghavan, and CR Rao (editors), Elsevier, Vol. 33, pp. 69-88, 2015.
- S. Tulyakov, and V. Govindaraju, “Matching score fusion methods”, Handbook of Statistics, Machine Learning, V. Govindaraju and C. R. Rao (editors), Elsevier, Vol. 31, pp. 151-175, 2013.
- I. Nwogu and V. Govindaraju, “Conditional random fields for scene labeling”, Handbook of Statistics, Machine Learning, V. Govindaraju and C. R. Rao (editors), Elsevier, Vol. 31, pp. 227- 247, 2013.
- Z. Shi, S. Setlur, and V. Govindaraju, “Pre-processing issues in Arabic OCR”, Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts, V. Margner and H. E. Abed (editors), Springer, pp. 79-102, 2012.
- M. G. Frank, C. J. Maccario, and V. Govindaraju, "Behavior and security", Protecting Airline Passengers in the Age of Terrorism, P. Seidenstat and F. X. Splane (editors), pp. 86-106, 2011.
- S. Tulyakov and V. Govindaraju, “Predicting performance in large-scale identification systems by score resampling”, Multibiometrics for Human Identification, Bhanu and V. Govindaraju (editors), pp. 363-378, 2011.
- A. O. Thomas and V. Govindaraju, “Biometrics in security”, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, H. C. A. van Tilborg and S. Jajodia (editors), Springer, Vol. 2, 2010.
Patents
- US 8,005,277: "Secure fingerprint matching by hashing localized information", S. Tulyakov; F. Farooq; S. Chikkerur; and V. Govindaraju, 2011.
- US 7,689,006: "Biometric convolution using multiple biometrics", V. Govindaraju; V. Chavan; and S. Chikkerur, 2010.
- US 7,580,551. "Method and apparatus for analyzing and/or comparing handwritten and/or biometric samples", S. Srihari; V. Govindaraju; et. al. 2009.
- US 5,515,455: "System for recognizing handwritten words of cursive script", V. Govindaraju; D. Wang; and S. Srihari, 1996.