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, IEEE (2003), AAAS (200), IAPR (2008), SPIE, 2008
- University Excellence in Research Award, 2005, 2012, 2017
- CECS Advisory Board Award for Faculty Excellence, 2011
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, 2011
- UCF Distinguished Researcher Award, 2007
- SANA Award, 2007
- Pegasus Professor Award, 2006
- UCF Millionaires’ Club award, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
- Honorable mention, ICCV 2005 Where Am I? Challenge Problem.
- UCF Research Incentive Award, 2003, 2009
- ACM Distinguished Speaker (DSP), 2008-2014.
- IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997-2000
- Engineering Achievement Award, Harris Corp. Information Systems Div., 1999
- Outstanding Engineering Educator, IEEE 1997
- UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 1996, 2003
