Deva Ramanan - UC Irvine - Computer Vision


	Deva Ramanan Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of California at Irvine 4072 Donald Bren Hall (Office) 3019 Donald Bren Hall (Mailing address) Irvine, CA 92697-3435 dramanan@ics.uci.edu 949-824-4893 (phone) 949-824-4056 (fax)

Bio: I graduated with a PhD from UC Berkeley, where I was advised by David Forsyth. I spent the last two years as a research professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. I was also fortunate enough to be a visting researcher at the Visual Geometry Group at Oxford, the Robotics Institute at CMU, and the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research.

Research: I work primarily in computer vision, but am also interested in machine learning and computer graphics. Recent projects I've worked on:

Object recognition (a recent invited talk and paper draft)
Large-scale video analysis
People tracking and activity recognition (a recent tutorial)
Discriminative machine learning methods

Charless Fowlkes and I are currently setting up a CS vision lab. Please e-mail one of us if you are a current/prospective UCI student.

Teaching: I will teach CS116, the undergraduate computer vision and computational photography class, this fall.
I taught CS273A (machine learning) this winter quarter - check out the nifty final projects.

CODE (all matlab):
part-based object detection
single-image pose reconstruction
people tracker

Journal Publications/Books

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A., Zisserman, A. "Tracking People by Learning their Appearance" IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). Jan 2007. PDF Videos

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A., Barnard, K. "Building Models of Animals from Video" IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). August 2006. PDF Videos

	Forsyth, D,. Arikan, O., Ikemoto, L., O'Brien, J., Ramanan, D. "Computational Studies of Human Motion: Part 1, Tracking and Motion Synthesis." Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, Hanover, Massachusetts. Now Publishers Inc., 2006. PDF

Conference Publications

	Felzenszwalb, P., McAllester, D. and Ramanan, D. "A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model" Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008. PDF Code (Matlab)

	Ramnath, K., Baker, S., Matthews, I. and Ramanan, D. "Increasing the Density of Active Appearance Models" Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008. PDF

	Ramanan, D., Baker, S. and Kakade, S. "Leveraging Archival Video for Building Face Datasets" International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 2007. PDF

	Ramanan, D. "Using Segmentation to Verify Object Hypotheses." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Minneapolis, MI, June 2007. PDF

	Allin, S. and Ramanan, D. "Assessment of Post Stroke Functioning Using Machine Vision." IAPR Machine Vision and Applications (MVA), Tokyo, Japan, May 2007. PDF

	Ramanan, D. "Learning to Parse Images of Articulated Objects." Neural Info. Proc. Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, Dec 2006. PDF Details/Examples

	Ramanan, D., Sminchisescu, C. "Training Deformable Models for Localization." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, NY, June 2006. PDF Related Work (with code)

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A., and Zisserman, A. "Tracking People and Recognizing their Activities." (video) Video Proceeedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (VPCVPR), San Diego, CA, June 2005. PDF Video

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A., and Zisserman, A. "Strike a Pose: Tracking People by Finding Stylized Poses." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, CA, June 2005. PDF Details/Examples

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A., and Barnard, K. "Detecting, Localizing, and Recovering Kinematics of Textured Animals." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, CA, June 2005. PDF Details/Examples

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A. "Automatic Annotation of Everyday Movements." Neural Info. Proc. Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, Dec 2003. PDF Details/Examples

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A. "Using Temporal Coherence to Build Models of Animals." Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, France, Oct 2003. PDF Details/Examples

	Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D. A. "Finding and Tracking People From the Bottom Up." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Madison, WI, June 2003. PDF Details/Examples

	Ramanan, D. and Barner, K. E. "Non-linear image interpolation through extended permutation rank selection filters," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 2000. PDF

	Ramanan, D."Spatial-rank order methods and their application in image interpolation," Undergraduate thesis, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, May 2000. PDF