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Faculty

Department of Computer Science

 

Research Interests

  • Video Surveillance and Monitoring
  • Visual Tracking
  • Scene and Object Recognition
  • Human Activity Recognition
  • UAV Video Analysis
  • Video Registration
  • Video Categorization and Segmentation
  • 3D reconstruction
  • Content-based Video Retrieval

Professional Activities

  • Series Editor, Video Computing, Int’l book Series, Springer, 2000-
  • Editor-in-Chief, Machine Vision & Applications, Springer, 2004-20015
  • Associate Editor ACM Computing Surveys, 2006-2015
  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), 2021.
  • Fellow, NAI (National Academy of Inventors), 2020.
  • Fellow, AAAS (American Association of Advancement of Science), 2010.
  • Fellow, SPIE (Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers), 2008.
  • Fellow, IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), 2006.
  • Fellow, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), 2003.
  • ACM SIGMM award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2019.
  • Inducted to UCF Chapter of National Academy of Innovators, December 2017.
  • UCF Luminary Award, October 2017
  • University Excellence in Research Award, 2017.
  • Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students Award, 2017
  • Top 10% Paper Award at International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2014), 2014.
  • 2nd place in NHK Where is beauty? Grand Challenge at the ACM Multimedia 2013 conference.
  • NGA(National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency) Best Research Poster award at NARP Symposium Award, 2013.
  • University Distinguished Researcher award, 2012.
  • College of Engineering & Computer Science Advisory Board Award For Faculty Excellence, 2011
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) award, 2011.
  • Finalist for the Best Paper award, ACM Conference on Multimedia, 2010.
  • ACM Distinguished Speaker (DSP), 2008-2014.
  • University Distinguished Researcher award, 2007.
  • Sindhi Association of North American award, 2007.
  • Pegasus Professor, 2006.
  • UCF Millionaires’ Club, 2005, 2006, 2009-2013, 2015.
  • Honorable mention, ICCV 2005 Where Am I? Challenge Problem.
  • Finalist for the Best Paper award, ACM Conference on Multimedia, 2005.
  • Research Incentive Award (RIA), 2003, 2009, 2014.
  • Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, 1996, 2003.
  • IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997-2000.
  • Engineering Achievement Award of Information Systems Division of Harris Corporation, 1999.
  • IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, 1997.
  • TOKTEN awards by UNDP, 1992, 1995, 2000.
  • Philips International Institute Scholarship 1980.