Rama Chellappa

College Park Professor
4246 Iribe Center
(301) 405-3656
(301) 314-9115
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Education: 
Ph.D., Purdue University (Electrical Engineering)
Special Awards/Honors: 
IAPR Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, University Maryland Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow, University Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award
Biography: 

Rama Chellappa is a College Park Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Since 1991, he has been a professor of electrical engineering and an affiliate professor of computer science. He is also affiliated with the Center for Automation Research and previously served as its director. In 2005, he was named a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was an assistant (1981-1986), an associate professor (1986-1991) and director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (1988-1990) at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.

Over the last 29 years, he has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He has co-authored and edited books on MRFs, face and gait recognition and collected works on image processing and analysis. His current research interests are face and gait analysis, markerless motion capture, 3-D modeling from video, image and video-based recognition and exploitation and hyper spectral processing.

He has received several awards, including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, four IBM Faculty Development Awards, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering at USC, two paper awards from the International Association of Pattern Recognition, Society, Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society. At the University of Maryland, he was elected as a Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow, a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, received the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the College of Engineering, an Outstanding Innovator Award from the Office of Technology Commercialization and an Outstanding GEMSTONE Mentor Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the International Association for Pattern Recognition, and Optical Society of America.

Chellappa served as the associate editor for four IEEE Transactions, as a co-editor-in-chief of Graphical Models and Image Processing, and as an editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He has also served as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors and as its Vice President of Awards and Membership. He has been the technical program chair for several IEEE international and national conferences and workshops. He is a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society and served a two-year term as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

He received his B.E. (Hons.) degree from the University of Madras, India, in 1975 and M.E. (Distinction) degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1977. He also holds M.S.E.E. (1978) and doctorate degrees (1981) in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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Publications

2005


Rajagopalan AN, Chellappa R, Koterba NT.  2005.  Background learning for robust face recognition with PCA in the presence of clutter. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 14(6):832-843.

Roy-Chowdhury A, Chellappa R, Gupta R.  2005.  3D face modeling from monocular video sequences. Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods.

Aggarwal G, Biswas S, Chellappa R.  2005.  UMD Experiments with FRGC Data. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, 2005. CVPR Workshops. IEEE Computer Society Conference on. :172-172.

Kianzad V, Saha S, Schlessman J, Aggarwal G, Bhattacharyya SS, Wolf W, Chellappa R.  2005.  An architectural level design methodology for embedded face detection. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis. :136-141.

Parameswaran V, Chellappa R.  2005.  Human action-recognition using mutual invariants. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 98(2):294-324.

Kale A, Cuntoor N, Yegnanarayana B, Rajagopalan A, Chellappa R.  2005.  Gait-based human identification using appearance matching. Optical and Digital Techniques for Information Security. :271-295.

Ramachandran M, Zhou SK, Jhalani D, Chellappa R.  2005.  A method for converting a smiling face to a neutral face with applications to face recognition. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on. 2:ii/977-ii/980Vol.2-ii/977-ii/980Vol.2.

Cuntoor NP, Yegnanarayana B, Chellappa R.  2005.  Interpretation of state sequences in HMM for activity representation. Proc. IEEE Conf. Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing. 2:709-712.

Zhou S K, Chellappa R.  2005.  Image-based face recognition under illumination and pose variations. Journal of the Optical Society of America AJ. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 22(2):217-229.

Chellappa R, Veeraraghavan A, Aggarwal G.  2005.  Pattern Recognition in Video. Pattern Recognition and Machine IntelligencePattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. 3776:11-20.

Vaswani N, Chellappa R.  2005.  Non-Stationary "Shape Activities". Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on. :1521-1528.

Qian G, Chellappa R, Zheng Q.  2005.  Bayesian algorithms for simultaneous structure from motion estimation of multiple independently moving objects. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 14(1):94-109.

Chellappa R, Srinivasan S, Aggarwal G, Veeraraghavan A.  2005.  Image Sequence Stabilization, Mosaicking, and Superresolution. Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Second Edition)Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Second Edition). :309-VII-309-VII.

A V, Roy-Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2005.  Matching shape sequences in video with applications in human movement analysis. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 27(12):1896-1909.

Li J, Chellappa R.  2005.  A Factorization Method for Structure from Planar Motion. Application of Computer Vision, 2005. WACV/MOTIONS '05 Volume 1. Seventh IEEE Workshops on. 2:154-159.

Agrawal A, Chellappa R.  2005.  Fusing Depth and Video Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter. Pattern Recognition and Machine IntelligencePattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. 3776:521-526.

Sundaresan A, Chellappa R.  2005.  Markerless Motion Capture using Multiple Cameras. Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environment, 2005. :15-26.

Chellappa R, Roy-Chowdhury AK, Zhou KS.  2005.  Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video. Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing. 1(1):1-173.

Aggarwal G, Veeraraghavan A, Chellappa R.  2005.  3D Facial Pose Tracking in Uncalibrated Videos. Pattern Recognition and Machine IntelligencePattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. 3776:515-520.

Vaswani N, Roy-Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2005.  "Shape Activity": a continuous-state HMM for moving/deforming shapes with application to abnormal activity detection. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 14(10):1603-1616.

Agrawal AK, Chellappa R.  2005.  Ego-Motion Estimation and 3D Model Refinement in Scenes with Varying Illumination. Application of Computer Vision, 2005. WACV/MOTIONS '05 Volume 1. Seventh IEEE Workshops on. 2:140-146.

Sankaranarayanan AC, Chellappa R, Srivastava A.  2005.  Algorithmic and architectural design methodology for particle filters in hardware. Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 2005. ICCD 2005. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Conference on. :275-280.

Agrawala AK, Chellappa R.  2005.  Moving Object Segmentation and Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Using Two Frames. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on. 2:705-708.

Li J, Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2005.  Appearance modeling under geometric context. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 2:1252-1259Vol.2-1252-1259Vol.2.

Yue Z, Zhao W, Chellappa R.  2005.  Pose-Encoded Spherical Harmonics for Robust Face Recognition Using a Single Image. Analysis and Modelling of Faces and GesturesAnalysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures. 3723:229-243.

Agrawal A, Chellappa R, Raskar R.  2005.  An algebraic approach to surface reconstruction from gradient fields. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 1:174-181Vol.1-174-181Vol.1.

Yue Z, Chellappa R.  2005.  Pose-normalized view synthesis from silhouettes. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Aggarwal G, Chellappa R.  2005.  Face recognition in the presence of multiple illumination sources. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 2:1169-1176Vol.2-1169-1176Vol.2.

Yue Z, Chellappa R.  2005.  Synthesis of novel views of moving objects in airborne video. Proc. British Machine Vision Conference. :290-299.

Sankaranarayanan AC, Chellappa R, Zheng Q.  2005.  Tracking objects in video using motion and appearance models. Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on. 2:II-394-7-II-394-7.

[Anonymous].  2005.  Beyond one still image: Face recognition from multiple still images or a video sequence. Face ProcessingFace Processing. :547-575.

Roy-Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2005.  Statistical bias in 3-D reconstruction from a monocular video. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 14(8):1057-1062.

Vaswani N, Agrawal A, Zheng Q, Chellappa R.  2005.  Moving Object Detection and Compression in IR Sequences. Computer Vision Beyond the Visible SpectrumComputer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum. :141-165.

2004


Agrawala AK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Robust ego-motion estimation and 3D model refinement using depth based parallax model. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 4:2483-2486Vol.4-2483-2486Vol.4.

Kale A, Roy Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Fusion of gait and face for human identification. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 5:V-901-4vol.5-V-901-4vol.5.

Qian G, Chellappa R.  2004.  Bayesian self-calibration of a moving camera. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 95(3):287-316.

Chellappa R, Qian G, Zheng Q.  2004.  Vehicle detection and tracking using acoustic and video sensors. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 3:iii-793-6vol.3-iii-793-6vol.3.

Kale A, Sundaresan A, Rajagopalan AN, Cuntoor NP, Roy-Chowdhury AK, Kruger V, Chellappa R.  2004.  Identification of humans using gait. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 13(9):1163-1173.

Agrawala AK, Chellappa R.  2004.  3D model refinement using surface-parallax. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 3:iii-285-8vol.3-iii-285-8vol.3.

Zhou S, Chellappa R, Jacobs DW.  2004.  Characterization of human faces under illumination variations using rank, integrability, and symmetry constraints. Computer Vision-ECCV 2004. :588-601.

Broadwater J, Meth R, Chellappa R.  2004.  A hybrid algorithm for subpixel detection in hyperspectral imagery. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International. 3:1601-1604vol.3-1601-1604vol.3.

Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Kullback-Leibler distance between two Gaussian densities in reproducing kernel Hilbert space. IEEE Intl. Symp. Information Theory.

Zhou S, Chellappa R, Jacobs DW.  2004.  Generalized photometric stereo and its application to face recognition. International Journal of Computer Vision.

Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Multiple-exemplar discriminant analysis for face recognition. Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on. 4:191-194Vol.4-191-194Vol.4.

Zhou S, Chellappa R, Moghaddam B.  2004.  Probabilistic analysis of kernel principal components. NIPS.

Zhou SK, Chellappa R, Jacobs DW.  2004.  Illumination, Reflectance, and Reflection-Characterization of Human Faces under Illumination Variations Using Rank, Integrability, and Symmetry Constraints. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3021:588-601.

Vaswani N, Chellappa R.  2004.  Classification probability analysis of principal component space analysis. Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on. 1:240-243Vol.1-240-243Vol.1.

Zhou S, Chellappa R, Moghaddam B.  2004.  Appearance tracking using adaptive models in a particle filter. Proc. of 6th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).

Aggarwal G, Chowdhury AKR, Chellappa R.  2004.  A system identification approach for video-based face recognition. Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on. 4:175-178Vol.4-175-178Vol.4.

Yue Z, Chellappa R.  2004.  Pose-normailzed view synthesis of a symmetric object using a single image. Proceedings of the 6th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'04). :915-920.

Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Probabilistic identity characterization for face recognition. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 2:II-805-II-812Vol.2-II-805-II-812Vol.2.

Sundaresan A, RoyChowdhury A, Chellappa R.  2004.  3d modelling of human motion using kinematic chains and multiple cameras for tracking. Proc. of Eighth International Symposium on the.

Veeraraghavan A, Chowdhury AR, Chellappa R.  2004.  Role of shape and kinematics in human movement analysis. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 1:I-730-I-737Vol.1-I-730-I-737Vol.1.

Qian G, Chellappa R.  2004.  Structure from Motion Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods. International Journal of Computer Vision. 59(1):5-31.

Zhou SK, Chellappa R, Mei X, Wu H, Zheng Q.  2004.  Video-Based Automatic Target Recognition.

Parameswaran V, Chellappa R.  2004.  View independent human body pose estimation from a single perspective image. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 2:II-16-II-22Vol.2-II-16-II-22Vol.2.

Kale A, Sundaresan A, Roy Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Gait-based human identification from a monocular video sequence. Handbook on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.

Broadwater JB, Meth R, Chellappa R.  2004.  Dimensionality Estimation in Hyperspectral Imagery Using Minimum Description Length.

Roy-Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2004.  An information theoretic criterion for evaluating the quality of 3-D reconstructions from video. Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 13(7):960-973.

Gupta H, Roy Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Contour-based 3D Face Modeling from a Monocular Video. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference. :39.1-39.10-39.1-39.10.

Zhou S K, Chellappa R, Moghaddam B.  2004.  Visual tracking and recognition using appearance-adaptive models in particle filters. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 13(11):1491-1506.

Roy-Chowdhury AK, Chellappa R, Keaton T.  2004.  Wide baseline image registration with application to 3-D face modeling. Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on. 6(3):423-434.

Sundaresan A, Chellappa R, RoyChowdhury R.  2004.  Multiple view tracking of humans modelled by kinematic chains. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 2:1009-1012Vol.2-1009-1012Vol.2.

Zhou S, Chellappa R, Moghaddam B.  2004.  Intra-personal kernel space for face recognition. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2004. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE International Conference on. :235-240.

Shao J, Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Simultaneous background and foreground modeling for tracking in surveillance video. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 2:1053-1056Vol.2-1053-1056Vol.2.

Zhou S, Chellappa R.  2004.  Illuminating light field: image-based face recognition across illuminations and poses. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2004. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE International Conference on. :229-234.

Ramanathan N, Chellappa R, Roy Chowdhury AK.  2004.  Facial similarity across age, disguise, illumination and pose. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 3:1999-2002Vol.3-1999-2002Vol.3.

Yue Z, Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Robust two-camera tracking using homography. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 3:iii-1-4vol.3-iii-1-4vol.3.

Qian G, Chellappa R, Zheng Q.  2004.  Robust Bayesian cameras motion estimation using random sampling. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 2:1361-1364Vol.2-1361-1364Vol.2.

Shao J, Zhou SK, Chellappa R.  2004.  Appearance-based tracking and recognition using the 3D trilinear tensor. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 3:iii-613-16vol.3-iii-613-16vol.3.

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