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Document Analysis and Recognition: Multilingual OCR, Digital Libraries, Historical documents processing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

Venu Govindaraju - 2019

Contact Information

113H Davis Hall
University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260-2500

Phone: 716-645-1558; Fax: 716-645-2377
Email: govind@buffalo.edu

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.