Venu Govindaraju
Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University at Buffalo
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department Computer Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors
Director, NSF Center for Identiification Technology Research (CITeR)
Research Interests
AI, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval
Application Areas
Biometrics: Face, Fingerpint, Iris, Multi-biometrics, Fusion, Soft biometrics, Behavioral biometrics
Document Analysis and Recognition: Multilingual OCR, Digital Libraries, Historical documents processing
Augmented learning: Lecture video processing, Chart infographics processing
Video analytics: Activity recognition
Affective computing: Emotion analysis. Facial expression recognition
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
113H Davis Hall
University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1558; Fax: 716-645-2377
Email: govind@buffalo.edu
Citation Impact
Conference Chairs
- General Co-Chair: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, (ICDAR ‘13), Washington D.C., Sept. 2013
- Program Chair, IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop (with CVPR ‘12), Providence, RI, June 2012
- General Co-Chair: International Workshop on Multilingual OCR, (MOCR 11), Beijing, China, Oct. 2011
- Program Chair, IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop (with CVPR ‘11), Colorado Springs, CO, June 2011
- Area Chair: Indian Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, (ICVGIP ’10), Chennai, India, Dec. 2010
- Tutorials Chair: Int. Conf. on Handwriting Recognition, (ICFHR ’10), Kolkata, India, Oct. 2010.
- Program Chair, IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop (with CVPR ‘10), San Francisco, CA, June 2010
- General Co-Chair: International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-based Biometrics, Aug. 2010
- General Co-Chair: International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, (DAS ‘10), Boston, MA, Jun. 2010
- General Chair: International Workshop on Multilingual OCR, (MOCR ‘09), Barcelona, Spain, 2009
- Program Chair, IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop (with CVPR ‘09), Anchorage, AL, June 2008
- Program Chair, IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop (with CVPR ‘08), Minneapolis, MN, June 2008
- Program Co-Chair: Document Analysis Track, Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR ‘08), Tampa, FL, Dec 2008
- Program Co-Chair: First IEEE Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS ‘07), Washington, D.C., Sept 2007
- Web and Publicity Chair, IEEE CVPR Workshop on Multi-Biometrics (with CVPR ’07), Minneapolis, MN, June 2007
- Web and Publicity Chair, IEEE CVPR Workshop on Multi-Biometrics (with CVPR ‘06), New York, NY, June 2006
- Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Cognition and Recognition (ICCR ‘05), Mandya, India, December 2005
- General Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID ‘05), Buffalo, NY, October 2005
- Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR ‘05), Seoul, S. Korea, September 2005
- General Co-Chair, International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL ‘04), Palo Alto, CA, January 2004
- General Co-Chair, CVPR Workshop on Document Image Analysis and Retrieval (DIAR ‘03), Madison, WI, June 2003
Editorial Boards
- Editor-in-Chief: IEEE Biometrics Council Compendium (2012 – present)
- Associate Editor: IET Biometrics Identification Journal (2012 – present)
- Associate Editor: Journal of Technology Management for Emerging Economies (2011- present)
- Guest Co-Editor: IEEE SMC Special Issue on Advances in Biometrics (Oct 2007)
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (B)
- Associate Editor: The International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2004 - Present)
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Pattern Analysis and Applications (2005 - Present)
- Associate Editor: The Journal of Pattern Recognition (1999 - Present)
Research Supervision
Post-doctoral Fellows
| 2004-06 | L. Lorigo PhD. MIT | Arabic Handwriting Recognition, Funded by the Directorate of Central Intelligence | |||
| 2006-07 | S. Tulyakov PhD, UB | Fusion of Classifiers |
PhD Students
| C. Ramiah | Accents in handwriting: A novel perspective for handwriting analysis 2014 (expected) | |
| A. Shivram | Dynamic hierarchical relational models for handwriting recognition on mobile devices 2014 (expected) | |
| U. Porwal | A semi-supervised framework for handwriting analysis. 2014 | eBay, CA |
| M. Malgireddy | Language motivated approaches for human action recognition and spotting. 2013 | Amazon, WA |
| X. Cheng | A novel multi-sample fusion methodology for improving biometric verification. 2012 | Lightpoint, CA |
| S. Wshah | Word Spotting in Multilingual Documents 2012. | Xerox, NY |
| D. You | A Markov Random Field Framework for Recognizing Annotations Overlaid on Biomedical Images. 2011. | NIH, MD |
| R. N. Rodriguez | Transfer Learning for Probability Distributions. 2011. | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil |
| X. Peng | Probablistic Framework for Document Preprocessing. 2010. | BBN Technologies, MA |
| A. Bhardwaj | Statistical Techniques for Efficient Indexing and Retrieval of Document Images 2010. Abstract | eBay, California |
| A. O. Thomas | Enhancing Cyber Security through the use of Synthetic Handwritten CAPTCHAs. 2010. | Yahoo! Research, CA |
| I. Nwogu | Statistical Modeling and Inferencing Techniques for Medical Image Segmentation. 2009. | University of Buffalo, NY |
| J. Li | Integrating Minutiae Based Fingerprint Matching with Local Correlation Methods. 2009. | University of Memphis, TN |
| Z. Zhang | Integrating Facial Expressions and Skin Texture in Face Recognition. 2008. Thesis | IBM, NY |
| H. Cao | Enhancement and Retrieval of Low Quality Handwritten Documents. 2008. | BBN Technologies, MA |
| R. V. Yampoliskiy | Behavioral Biometrics in Online Gaming Scenarios. 2008. Thesis | University of Louisville, KY |
| F. Farooq | Use of Language Models and Automatic Topic Categorization for Indexing and Retrieval of Handwritten Document Images. 2008. Thesis | Siemens Medical Solutions, PA |
| P. Mansukhani | Efficient Fingerprint Identification using a Minutiae Tree. 2008. Thesis | Amazon Inc., WA |
| A. Rusu | Exploiting the Gap between Human and Machine Abilities in Handwriting Recognition for Web Security. 2007. Thesis | Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT |
| C. Wu | A Framework for Fingerprint Enhancement and Feature Detection. 2007. Thesis | Brandeis University, MA |
| S. Kompalli | A Stochastic Framework for Font-Independent Devanagari OCR. 2007. Thesis | Wayne State University, MI |
| R. Milewski | Automatic Search Engines for Handwritten Medical Forms. 2006. Thesis | Become Japan Inc. |
| S. Tulyakov | A Complexity Framework for Combining Classifiers in Verification and Identification Systems. 2006. Thesis | University at Buffalo, NY |
| T. Jea | Minutiae-Based Partial Fingerprint Recognition. 2005. Thesis | IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
| H. Lei | Sequential Pattern Classification Without Explicit Feature Extraction. 2005. Thesis | University of North Texas, Brownsville, TX |
| A. Teredesai | Use of Genetic Programming for Advanced Pattern Recognition. 2003. | University of Washington, Tacoma, WA |
| H. Xue | Stochastic Models for Handwritten Word Recognition. 2002. Thesis | IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| I. Krassimir | Organizing Multiple Experts for Efficient Pattern Recognition. 2001. Thesis | Fair Isaac Inc. |
| *J. Park | Hierarchical Character Recognition and its Use in Handwritten Phrase Recognition. 2000. | Chung-Ang University, S. Korea |
| *S. Madhvanath | The Holistic Paradigm in Handwritten Word Recognition and its Applications to Large and Dynamic Lexicon Scenarios. 1997. | HP Research Labs, India |
| *G. Kim | Handwritten Word Recognition for Real-time Applications. 1996. Thesis | Sogang University, S. Korea |
* - Co-Advisor
Masters Students
| O. Mukhtar | Language Modeling. 2009. | Amazon, Seattle, WA | |
| B. Purkayastha | Gesture Recognition. 2009. | Hughes Systems, MD | |
| D. Jose | Transcript Mapping. 2008. | Microsoft, Seattle, WA | |
| K. Sridharan | Semantic Face Recognition. 2006. | TTI, Chicago | |
| S. Nayak | Devanagri OCR. 2006. | Morgan Stanley, NY | |
| A. Mhatre | Hand Geometry Biometrics. 2005. | Amazon, WA | |
| S. Chikkerur | Online Fingerprint Verification. 2005. | MIT, MA | |
| S. Manocha | Security of Biometric Systems. 2004. | Patni Computers, India | |
| V. Chavan | Biometrics and Barcode Representation. 2004. | Yahoo, CA | |
| S. Palla | Multimodal Biometrics. 2004. | Amazon, WA | |
| D. Bartnik | Video Surveillance. 2000. | Ultra Scan | |
| G. Pal | Music Index on the Web. 2000. | ||
| F. Zhou | Comparing Thinning Algorithms. 2000. |