Narendra Ahuja

Narendra Ahuja

Research Professor (homepage: vision.ai.uiuc.edu)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Coordinated Science Laboratory, and
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
405 N. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
n-ahuja@illinois.edu, Tel: +1 (217) 333-1837

BIOSKETCH


Narendra Ahuja is a Research Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). During 2013-2019, he was the Founding Director of Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA), a national initiative started by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, to pilot a new model of enhancing the quality of advanced technical and related education across India (https://itra.digitalindiacorporation.in/). His research is in Artificial Intelligence fields of computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, image processing and their applications, including on problems in developing societies. He received B.E. (Hons) in Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, M.E. (Distinction) in Electrical Communication Engineering from IISc, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, USA. In 1979, he joined UIUC faculty where he was Donald Biggar Willet Professor until starting at ITRA in 2012. 

During 1999-2002, he served as the Founding Director of the first IIIT (IIITs are dedicated to IT and its applications), at Hyderabad (https://www.iiit.ac.in/), which remains the top ranked among over 20 IIITs now.

During 2014-2019, he directed the ITRA research program, aimed at IT enabled societal problem solving through collaborating teams of academic institutions. It was designed to enhance the quality of problem oriented research and technology development, its impact on curriculum, development of sensitivity to societal needs and outreach to deploy the developed solutions. ITRA work in the areas of IT enabled Rural health, Transportation, Disaster management, Sustainability of water resources, and Agriculture and Food was carried out by 16 teams formed by 76 Research groups at 62 institutions, 143 Faculty, 43 renowned scientists and translators as mentors, 167 PhD students and fellows, and 173 interns. It resulted in 21 prototype technologies that are at various stages of transfer through startups/existing industry.

He has co-authored the books Pattern Models (Wiley), Motion and Structure from Image Sequences (Springer-Verlag), and Face and Gesture Recognition (Kluwer); and co-edited the book Advances in Image Understanding (IEEE Press, 1996); and coauthored over 500 papers in journals and conferences. He has supervised research of over 50 PhD, 15 MS and 100 Undergrad students and 10 Postdocs.

He received the 1999 Emanuel R. Piore award of the IEEE, and the 1998 Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering, and 2008 TA Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2008-11 Open Innovation Research Award from Hewlett-Packard, and a 2010 Google Research Award. With his students, he shared Best Paper Awards from several conferences and journals of high repute. He was inducted into University of Maryland’s Computer Science Alumni Hall of Fame (2016), received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from University of Maryland Department of Computer Science (2008) and from BITS, Pilani (2012), and was conferred an Honorary Doctorate from York University, England (2018). He was selected as Associate for 1998-99 and 2006-07 and Beckman Associate for 1990-91 in the UIUC Center for Advanced Study. He received University Scholar Award (1985), Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984), National Scholarship (1967-72), President’s Merit Award (1966), and President’s Scout recognition (1966).

He is a fellow of IEEE, American Assoc for Artificial Intelligence, Intl. Association for Pattern Recognition, Assoc for Computing Machinery, American Assoc for the Advancement of Science, and Intl. Society for Optical Engineering. He has served on editorial boards of 7 journals. He has served or is serving on the Advisory/Governing Boards of IIIT, Hyderabad; IIT BHU; IIIT Delhi; LNMIIT, Jaipur; Microsoft Research Connections, USA; and Microsoft Research, India; Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies, Scuola Superiore, Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; and Swiss Innovation Valley.

He is the founding president of Vision Technology, a computer vision technology company. He has received 4 patents in computer vision. His texture models were incorporated by General Electric in their flight simulators, and by CMC Ltd. in a fingerprint identification system deployed at 50 installations in 4 countries. His solutions to two automated railway inspection problems were combined into a product to scan the railcar bodies (http://www.beenavision.com/products_cscview.html). His prototype of a body-neck-eyes move-orient-verge-focus-zoom stereo vision camera system was a motivation for the establishment of companies such as Helpmate Robotics. His invention of the omnifocus camera was demonstrated to the US Congress as an example of breakthroughs that can arise from unplanned basic research. Ahuja’s algorithms for representation of spatial occupancy were acquired by Honeywell for use in their own systems. His Football Videos Analysis software was one of the earliest pilots for automated sports software analysis (featured in TV sports channel ESPN)

VITAE


Education

Ph.D. Computer Science
         University of Maryland, College Park, May 1979
         Thesis title: Mosaic Models for Image Analysis and Synthesis
         Thesis advisor: Professor Azriel Rosenfeld

M.E. Electrical Communication Engineering (with Distinction)
         Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 1974
         Thesis title: Machine Recognition of Spoken Digits
         Thesis advisor: Professor B.S. Ramakrishna

B.E. Electronics Engineering (with Honors)
         Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, May 1972
         B.E. Project: Design of a Digital Voltmeter
         Project advisor: Professor Mohi Mukherjee

Awards and Honors

2018Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Science
2018Honorary Doctorate, Dept. of Computer Science, York University, UK
2016University of Maryland Computer Science Alumni Hall of Fame
2014Piero Zamperoni Best Student Paper Award (with A. Kumar), International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2014Best Paper Award (with J. B. Huang, Q. Cai, Z. Liu, and Z. Zhang), Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
2013Best Paper Award (with Indriyati Atmosukarto, Bernard Ghanem, Shaunak Ahuja, Karthik Muthuswamy), 1st IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports
2012Best Paper Award (with J.B. Huang), International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2012Distinguished Alumnus Award of BITS, Pilani
2010Google Research Award
2008TA Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize Institution of Mechanical Engineers
2008Open Innovation Research Award of Hewlett-Packard
2008Distinguished Alumnus Award of University of Maryland
2006Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
2005-06Associate in the Center for Advanced Study
2002On Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students
1999Donald Biggar Willet Professorship of UIUC College of Engineering
1999UIUC Campus Award for Guiding Undergraduate Research – Honorable Mention
1999Emanuel R. Piore Award of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
1998Technology Achievement Award of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering)
1998Associate in The Center for Advanced Study
1996Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
1996Fellow of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
1995Fellow of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering)
1994Fellow of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition)
1992Fellow of AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
1992Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
1990Beckman Associate in the Center for Advanced Study
1985University Scholar Award
1984Presidential Young Investigator Award
University Grants Commission Fellowship for the two-year Master’s studies
National Scholarship for the five-year undergraduate studies
President of India’s Award for merit in High School
President’s (Eagle) Scout

Professional Experience

Teaching: Courses in Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Robotics, Signal Processing, Computer Architecture.
Research: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Robotics, Pattern Recognition, with particular interests in Object Recognition, 3D Computer Vision, Information Integration, Extraction and Representation of Image and Video Structure, Computational Cameras and Photography, Applications to Visual Communication, and Railroad, Biomedical and Sports Videos
Research Enablement: Building teams of institutions focused on specific problems in IT and its Societal Applications

Research Professor7/12-present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science Laboratory

Director8/13-12/19
Information Technology Research Academy, ML Asia, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi

Donald Biggar Willet Professor9/99-6/12
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science Laboratory

Coordinator6/11-7/13
Program Steering and Implementation Group
Information Technology Research Academy, ML Asia, Dept. of Info Tech., Govt. of India, New Delhi

Founding director6/99-3/02
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Professor8/88 -8/99
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science Laboratory

Associate Professor8/84 – 8/88
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science Laboratory

Assistant Professor8/79 – 8/84
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and Coordinated Science Laboratory

Research Associate5/79 – 8/79
Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland

Faculty Research Assistant5/78 – 5/79
Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland

Graduate Research Assistant8/75 – 5/78
Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland

Scientific Officer9/74 – 7/75
Department of Electronics, Govt. of India

Publications

3 Books Co-Authored, 1 Book Co-Edited, 20 Book Chapters, Over 115 Journal Articles, 350 Conference Papers, 4 Patents

Student Advisees

50+ PhD, 15 MS, 100 Undergrad Research

Professional Societies

IEEE Computer Society, Fellow
Association for Computing Machinery, Fellow
American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Fellow
International Association for Pattern Recognition, Fellow
International Society for Optical Engineering, Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
IEEE Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Member
IEEE Technical Committee on Robotics, Member
ACM/TEEE-CS Curriculum Task Force, Reviewer
IEEE PAMI EIC Evaluation Committee, Member, 1996
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Committee Member, 1999-2001
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Committee, Chair, 2001-2003
SPIE Technology Achievement Award Committee, Member, 2003-2006
SPIE Engineering Excellence Award Committee, Member, 2004
IAPR Fellow Committee, Member, 2012-
ACM Dissertation Awards Committee, India, Chair, 2012-2014

Editorships

Area Editor: Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal
Member of Advisory Board: IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Journal
Associate Editor: Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Associate Editor: Journal of Information Science and Technology
Guest Coeditor, Special Volume on Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Jrnl., Vol. 78, No. 1 2, Oct 1995
Member, Editorial Board: Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal
Member, Editorial Board: International Journal of Imaging Systems & Technology
Member, Editorial Advisory Board: Trans on Electrical and Electronic Engr, (Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan)
Member, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee

Professional Conferences

IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision, 1987, Program Co-chair.
American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1987, Member – Program Committee.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1988, Member – Program Committee.
North American Manufacturing Research Conference, 1988, Member – Organizing Committee.
IEEE Workshop on Interpretation of 3D Scenes, 1989, Invited Panelist.
IEEE Workshop on CAD Based Vision, 1991, Invited Panelist.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1991, Member – Program Committee.
NSF Workshop on Future Directions in Computer Vision Research, 1991, Invited Speaker.
NSF Workshop on Active Vision Research, 1991, Invited Participant.
IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, 1991, Member – Program Committee.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1992, Program Co-chair.
AlS’92 3rd Annual Conference on Al, Simulation and Planning, 1992, Member – Program Committee.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1992, Invited Panelist.
AAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1993, Member – Program Committee.
5th UNB International Artificial Intelligence Symposium, 1993, Member – Advisory Committee.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1994, Area Chair.
3rd Int. Conf. on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, 1994, Member – Int. Advisory Committee.
Int. Conf. on Expert System for Development, 1994, Member – International Advisory Committee.
TENCON, 1994, Member – International Advisory Committee.
International Dedicated Conference on Mechatronics, 1994, Member – Program Committee.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1994, Member – Program Committee.
2nd Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 1995, Member – International Advisory Committee.
Int. Computer Science Conference, ICSC’95, Hong Kong, Member – International Advisory Committee.
Int. Symp. on Automotive Tech. & Automation, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995, Member – Program Committee.
IEEE Computer Vision Symposium, 1995, Member – Program Committee.
IFIP World Congress 1996, Canberra, Australia, Member – Program Committee.
4th Int. Conf. on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, 1996, Member – lnt. Advisory Committee.
Dedicated Conf. on Simulation, Diagnosis & Virtual Reality in the Automotive Industry, Florence, Italy, 1996, Member – Program Committee.
3rd Int. Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics & Vision, Singapore, 1996, Member – Int. Advisory Committee.
Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, NM, 1997, Member – Program Committee.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Puerto Rico, 1997, Member – Program Committee
Int. Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, Bahamas, 1997, Member – Program Committee
TENCON’97, Member – International Advisory Committee
6th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, Jan. 4-8, 1998, – General Co-Chair
IEEE/ATR Workshop on Computer Vision for Virtual Reality Based Human Comm., Bombay, 1/3/98-CoChair.
3rd Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hong Kong, 1998, Member – Program Committee
31st Int. Symp. on Automotive Technology & Automation, Dusseldorf, Germany, June 1998, Member – Program Committee
IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL, Oct. 4-7, 1998, Member – Program Committee
Image and Vision Computing New Zealand ’98, Auckland, NZ, Nov. 1998, Member – Program Committee
Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics & Vision, Singapore, Dec. 1998, Member – Int. Advisory Comm.
7th IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, Greece, Sept. 1999, Member – Program Committee
4th Int. Conf. Advances in Pattern Recognition & Digital Techniques, Calcutta, 12/99, Member – Advisory Committee
4th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Taipei, January 8-11, 2000, Member – Program Committee
6th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics 7 Vision, Singapore, Dec. 2000, Member, Int. Program Committee
ICMI’2000, 2000, Program Committee Member
Indian Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics 7 Image Processing, Bangalore, India, 12/00, Int. Advisory Committee
Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, Aug. 2002 – Member, Program Committee
Asian Conferenmce on Computer Vision, 2002, Member, Program Committee
Indian Conf. on Vision, Graphics & IP, Akmedabad, Gujarat, India, Dec. 2002, Member Tech. Program Comm.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2003, Madison, WI, Member-Program Committee
Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Jeju, South Korea, January 2004, Member, Program Committee
European Conference on Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004, Member, Program Committee
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Washington, DC, June 2004, Member, Program Committee
International Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, England, September 2004, Member, Program Committee
IEEE Conf. On Enabling Technologies for Smart Appliances, Hyderabad, India, Jan. 2005, Member, Advisory Panel
IEEE Conf. On Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004, Member-Program Committee
International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005, Area Chair
11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Perth, Western Australia, October 2005, Member, Program Committee
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, August 2006, Member, Program Committee
ICPR’06 Wkshp on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, Xian, China, Aug. 2006, Member, Program Comm
IEEE Int. Conf. On Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Southampton, UK, April 2006, Member, Program Committee
3rd International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, Bangalore, India, Sept. 2006, Member, Program Committee
Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technolgy, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2006, Member, Program Committee
Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Madurai, India, Dec. 2006, Member, Program Committee
IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Multimodal Information Retrieval , Hyderabad, India, Jan. 2007, General Chair
Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Austin, TX, Feb. 2007, Co-General Chair
Workshop on Computer Vision for Developing Countries (in conjunction w/ ICCV 2007), Oct. 2007, Member, Program Committee
IEEE Conf. On Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska, 2008, Co-General Chair
IMMERSCOM, 2009, Member, Program Committee
Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Spain, June 2011, Member, Program Committee
21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, November 2012, Member, Technical Program Committee
IEEE Workshop on Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis, CVPR, June 2013, Member, Program Committee
IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports), June 2013, Member, Program Committee
International Conference on Computer Vision, 2015, Area Chair
Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2016, Area Chair

New Courses Developed and Taught

Introduction to Image Processing and Computer Vision(senior/graduate)
Introduction to Robotics: Sensing, Control and Manipulation (with Mark Spong)(senior/graduate)
Computer Vision(graduate)
Introduction to Robotics (½ semester, with Seth Hutchinson and Mark Spong)(senior/grad, ½ semester)
Robot Sensing (½ semester)(senior/grad, ½ semester)
Pattern Recognition(graduate)
Visualizing & Navigating Knowledge Networks (with N. Contractor & M. Twidale)(senior/graduate)
Seminar: Computer Vision(graduate)

New Laboratories Developed

Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory in Beckman Institute(Research)
Vision and Robotics Laboratory in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering(Teaching)

LargeTeam-Courses Co-Developed and Co-Taught

Seminar: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience (Coordinator: Bill Greenough)(graduate)
Introduction to Manufacturing Engineering (Coordinators: Tom Conry, Dick Devor)(junior/senior)
Introduction to Cognitive Science (Coordinator: Janet Keller)(senior/graduate)

Courses Taught but not Developed

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence(senior/graduate)
Advanced Artificial Intelligence(graduate)
Introduction to Computer Engineering(sophomore/junior)
Computer Organization and Design(senior/graduate)
Microcomputer Laboratory(senior/graduate)
Probability with Engineering Applications(junior/senior)
Photonics(senior/graduate)
Digital Signal Processing(junior/senior)

Consulting

Scientific Applications International Corporation
United Nations Development Program-Distinguished Scientist Consultant
Illinois Department of Commerce, Springfield, Illinois
US Army Center for Night Vision, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia
Battelle Corporation, Columbus, Ohio
CMC Limited, Secunderabad, India
Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York
A&T Systems, Silver Spring, Maryland
Lockheed Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, New York
Honeywell Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Westinghouse, Baltimore, Maryland
HRL Laboratories, Los Angeles, California
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (Italian Railways)

Start-Up Companies

President, Vision Technology, Inc.
One product, the hemispherical camera, is operational at several user locations.

Co-Founder, Auoscout Incorporated
Developing Commercial Sports Software

Technology Transfer

Texture Generation Algorithms used in Flight Simulators developed by General Electric Company
Computational Grouping Algorithms used in Defense Applications Systems developed by Westinghouse
Feature Detection Algorithms used in Map Data Processing Systems developed by Advanced Technology, Inc.
Octree Software Adapted for a Defense Application System Developed by Honeywell
Developed an Automatic, Weld-Evaluation Hardware and Software System for Computer-controlled High-fidelity Welding for Adaptation by General Motors, Caterpillar and MTS Inc.
Assisted U.S. Army Night Vision Laboratory in the Development of a Radar System
Assisted Corning Inc. in Formulating Plans for Automation of their Measurement and Production Systems
Assisted CMC Limited in Developing a Fingerprint Recognition System
Automated Rail Inspection Prototypes used as basis for new products (http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/communications/take-a-look-at-this.html) by two companies: (i) Beena Vision and (ii) Tecnogamma

Advisory Boards

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India – Member, Governing Council, and Director International
Microsoft Research Connections Advisory Board, Member
Microsoft India Technical Advisory Board — Member
Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies, Scuola Superiore, Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, International Advisory Committee — Member
Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi – Board of Governors
Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur

Media Coverage

Channel 15 News, Champaign, July 4, 1990
Daily Illini, July 12, 1990
Engineering Outlook, Winter 1990
Inside Illinois, September 6, 1990
Chicago Tribune, May 20, 1991
San Francisco Examiner, May 27, 1991
Oxnard (CA) Press Courier, September 15, 1991
Optical Materials and Engineering News (OMEN), September 1993, pp. 5-6
Illinois Technograph, October 1993
Photonics Spectra, November 1993, p. 29
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Science Program “Quirks and Quarks”, December 18, 1993;
Repeated in December 1995
International Science and Technology Satellite News, March 2, 1994
Arlington Heights Daily Herald, l,ake County, Illinois, April 4, 1995
Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, April 20, 1995
IEEE Expert, April 1995, pp. 67-70
Popular Mechanics, August 1995, p. 24
Graduating Senior, September 1995, pp. 15-16
Discover Magazine, November 1995, p. 48
ZDF German Television’s Program Science and Technology, 1995
San Diego Post Tribune, January 3, 1996
Super Interessante Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, Brazil, January 1996, p. 10
San Francisco Examiner, January 1996
Aviation Week and Space Technology, January 1996
ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine, April 1996, p. 14
Boys’ Life, July 1997, p. 12
ASEE PRISM, February 1998, p. 22
Channel 15 News, February 1999
Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Aug 2001
Inside Illinois
Times of India
India Abroad, 2008
Several Articles in Miscellaneous Singapore Media (2011-13)
TV Channel ESPN, Oct 4, 2014
Singapore Today newspaper
https://nationalcoaltransportation.org/component/rsfiles
http://www.rtands.com/index.php/track-structure/ballast-ties-rail/improving-inspection-of-turnouts.html
Automated Railroad Inspection: https://nationalcoaltransportation.org/component/rsfiles/
Automated Railroad Inspection: http://www.bnsf.com/customers/intermodal-in-action/intermodal-in-action.html
Automated track inspection: http://www.rtands.com/index.php/track-structure/ballast-ties-rail/improving-inspection-of-turnouts.html
Automated train inspection: http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/communications/take-a-look-at-this.html

PUBLICATIONS


Patents

  • N. Ahuja and M. Tabb, Multiscale Image Edge and Region Detection Method and Apparatus, U. S. Patent, Issued September 1998.
  • R. Dugad and N. Ahuja, Transform Domain Significant Coefficient Digital Image Watermarking Method, U.S. patent Application filed, June 2000.
  • H. Hua and N. Ahuja, Method and Apparatus for a High-Resolution and Real-Time Panoramic Camera, Patent Application Filed, November 2001.
  • A. Krishnan and N. Ahuja, Imaging Apparatus and Method for Determining Range from Focus and Focus Information, U. S., Patent, Issued September 1995. European Patent issued, October 2001.
  • H. Hua and N. Ahuja, Method and Apparatus for a High-Resolution and Real-Time Panoramic Camera, Patent Application Filed, November 2001.
  • R. Dugad and N. Ahuja, Transformation of Image Parts in Different domains to Obtain Resultant Image Size Different From Initial Image Size, U.S. Patent, Issued October 2004.

Books Authored

  • N. Ahuja and B. Schachter, Pattern Models, Wiley, l983.
  • J. Weng, T. S. Huang and N. Ahuja, Motion and Structure from Image Sequences, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
  • Ming-Hsuan Yang and N. Ahuja, Face Detection and Hand Gesture Recognition for Vision-Based Human Computer Interaction, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Books Edited

  • K. Bowyer and N. Ahuja, Advances in Image Understanding: A Festschrift for Azriel Rosenfeld, IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1996.

Book Chapters

  • N. Ahuja, Mosaic Models for Textures. A. Rosenfeld (ed.), Image Modeling,Academic Press, 1981, 1-8. (Also appears in Digital Image Processing and Analysis: Vol. 1, R. Chellappa and A. Sawchuk (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington D. C., 1986.)
  • N. Ahuja and A. Rosenfeld, Image Models. P. R. Krishnaiah and L. N. Kanal (eds.), Handbook of Statistics, Volume 2, North Holland, l982, 383-397.
  • N. Ahuja and S. Swamy, Multiprocessor Pyramid Architectures for Bottom-Up Image Analysis, A. Rosenfeld (ed.), Multiresolution Image Processing and Analysis, Volume 1, Springer-Verlag, 1984, 38-59.
  • J. Veenstra and N. Ahuja, Deriving Object Octrees from Images, G. Goos and J. Hartmanis(eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 206, (same as Proc. 5th Conf. on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, December 16-18, 1985, New Delhi, India, editor: S. N. Maheshwari), Springer-Verlag, 1985, 196-211.
  • N. Ahuja, Texture Analysis, S. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley, 1987, 1101-1115. (Updated Versions Reprinted in second edition, 1992, 1587-1605.)
  • N. Ahuja and M. Tuceryan, Dot Pattern Analysis. S. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Wiley, 1987, 253-256.
  • M. Sharma, N. Ahuja and J. Patel, NETRA: An Architecture for a Large Scale Multiprocessor Vision System, L. Uhr (ed.), Parallel Computer Vision, Academic Press, 1987, 87-105.
  • A. N. Choudhary, S. Das, N. Ahuja and J. Patel, High Speed Stereo, S. Prasad and R. L. Kashyap (Eds.), Spectral Analysis in One or Two Dimensions, Vedam Books International, 1990, 577-590.
  • D. Blostein and N. Ahuja, Shape from Texture: Integrating Texture Element Extraction and Surface Estimation, R. Kasturi and R. C. Jain (Eds.), Computer Vision: Principles, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington D. C., 1991, 325-343.(Also appears in IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, December 1989, 1233-1251.)
  • A. N. Choudhary, J. H. Patel and N. Ahuja, Architecture and Performance Evaluation of NETRA, V. K. Prasanna Kumar (Ed.), Parallel Architectures and Algorithms for Image Understanding, Academic Press, 1991, 251-278.
  • J. Weng, T. Huang and N. Ahuja, Motion and Structure from Two Perspective Views: Algorithm, Error Analysis, and Error Estimation R. Kasturi and R. C. Jain (Eds.), Computer Vision: Advances and Applications, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington D. C., 1991,352-377. (Also appears in IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, May 1989, 451-476.
  • S. Das and N. Ahuja, Integrating Mutilresolution Image Acquisition and Coarse-to-fine Surface Reconstruction from Stereo from Stereo, L. Wolff, S. Shafer and G. Healey (Eds.), Physics Based Vision, Principles and Practice: Radiometry, Jones and Bartlett, 1992, 361-367.
  • J. Weng, T. S. Huang and N. Ahuja, Object Recognition by a Self-Organizing Neural Network which Grows Adaptively, Parallel Image Analysis, A. Nakamura, et.al. (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1992, 32-33.
  • N. Ahuja, Computer Vision, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology,1995.
  • N. Ahuja and R. Charan, Pixel Matching and Motion Segmentation in Image Sequences, Lecture Notes in Computer Science – Recent Developments in Computer Vision, 1035, S. Z. Li, D. P. Mital, E. K. Teoh, and H. Wang(Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1996, 139-148.
  • N. Ahuja, A Transform for Multiscale Image Segmentation, K. Bowyer and N. Ahuja (Eds.), Advances in Image Understanding: A Festschrift for Azriel Rosenfeld,IEEE Computer Society Press, June 1996, 45-64.
  • N. Ahuja and R. Charan, Curve Detection in 3D Dot Patterns using Voronois Impact on Modern Science, Voronois Impact on Modern Science, H. Syta and P. Engel (Eds.), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Mathematics, Book II, 1998, 204-212.
  • M. Shaw, N. Ahuja and S. Hutchinson, Coordination, Collaboration, and Control of Multi-Robot Systems, Handbook for Industrial Robotics, 2nd Edition, S. Nof (Ed.), Wiley, 1999,423-437.
  • N. Ahuja and S. Sull, Analysis Guided Video Synthesis for Hyper Reality, N. Terashima and J. Tiffin (Eds.), Hyper Reality: The Infrastructure of the Information Society, Routledge, UK, 2001, 43-53.
  • M. Singh and N. Ahuja, Edge Measures Using Similarity Regions, Foundations of Image Understanding, L. S. Davis (Ed.), Kluwer, 2002, 241-288.
  • I. Atmosukarto, B. Ghanem, M. Saadalla, N. Ahuja, Recognizing Team Formation in American Football, Computer Vision in Sports, Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer 2014, 271-291.

Journal Papers

Conference Papers