Bir Bhanu

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Bir Bhanu
Born1951
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Irvine, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi
Scientific career
FieldsMachine Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Analysis & Data Mining, Image/Video Databases, Video Networks, Video Bioinformatics
Institutions University of California, Riverside
Thesis Shape Matching and Image Segmentation Using Stochastic Labeling  (1981)
Doctoral advisor Oliver Faugeras
Website vislab.ucr.edu/PEOPLE/BIR_BHANU/

Bir Bhanu is the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Endowed University of California Presidential Chair in Engineering, [1] the Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Cooperative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside [2] (UCR). He is the first Founding Faculty of the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at UCR and served as the Founding Chair of Electrical Engineering from 1/1991 to 6/1994 [3] and the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) from 4/1998 to 6/2019. He has been the director of Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) at UCR since 1991. He was the Interim Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at UCR from 7/2014 [4] to 6/2016. Additionally, he has been the Director of the NSF Integrative Graduate Education, Research and Training (IGERT) program in Video Bioinformatics at UC Riverside. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs for NSF, DARPA, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO and other agencies and industries in the areas of object/target recognition, learning and vision, image/video understanding, image/video databases with applications in security, defense, intelligence, biological and medical imaging and analysis, biometrics, autonomous navigation and industrial machine vision.

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Education

Dr. Bhanu received the S.M. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California and the M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine. He also received B.S. (with Honors) in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, and M.E. (with distinction) in Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

Work in Industry and Prior Affiliations

Prior to joining UCR in 1991, Dr. Bhanu was Senior Fellow at Honeywell, Inc., Engineering Specialist at Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, Research Fellow at INRIA - France and Academic Associate at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory. His work in the industry dealt with computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning with applications to target/object recognition, autonomous navigation with commercial, defense, space and intelligence applications. Dr. Bhanu has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, where he worked on CAD-based vision and robotics, multi-sensor fusion, motion analysis, and computer vision and pattern recognition problems.

Recognition

Dr. Bhanu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Bhanu is also a member of ACM, AAAI, and BMES. Bhanu received the university, industry, and conference/journal paper awards [5] for research excellence, outstanding contributions, team efforts, and best papers. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] He received an award from the President of Honeywell on patented technology on inertial navigation sensor integrated video-based navigation. [15] He received the Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award of UC Riverside at the commencement held in June 2011. [16] He received the Bourns College of Engineering Research Excellence Award in 2003 and Pioneering award in 2015. He received the UCR Faculty Research Lecturer Award, the UCR Senate's highest Award for Faculty Research in June 2019. It is the first such award for Bourns College of Engineering in 30 years. He received Distinguished Alumnus Award of BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Science), Pilani in 2019. He has over 18 U.S. and International patents issued and several pending. He has over 550 refereed publications including over 155 journal papers. He was the General Chair for the first IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV (now renamed as IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision) (Palm Springs, CA, 1992, 2000, 2005 (Program Chair), 2015), Chair for the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, IUW (Monterey, CA, 1994), General Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR (San Francisco, CA, 1996), General Chair for IEEE Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance, AVSS (Santa Fe, 2008), General Chair for ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras ICDSC (Palm Springs in 2014), and General Chair for IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (Xian, China, 2018).

Authored Books

Dr. Bhanu is the author of the following books:

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  2. ↑ Bhanu, Bir. "Distinguished Professor". Archived from the original on 2013-06-24.
  3. ↑ "Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Profile: Bir Bhanu". www.ece.ucr.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  4. ↑ "Department of Bioengineering: Chair's Welcome". www.bioeng.ucr.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-05-05. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  5. ↑ "Selected Awards". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  6. ↑ "2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras". 2008-09-07. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  7. ↑ "Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" (PDF). 2009-06-20.
  8. ↑ "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2009" (PDF). 2009-07-08. p. 16.
  9. ↑ "9th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition" (PDF). 2011-03-25.
  10. ↑ "IGERT Video and Poster Competition 2012". 2012-05-22.
  11. ↑ "2nd IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology" (PDF). 2012-09-27.
  12. ↑ "IGERT Video and Poster Competition 2013". 2013-05-22.
  13. ↑ "Awards". 2013-08-27.
  14. ↑ "Prizes and Paper Awards". 2014-08-24. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  15. ↑ "Selected Awards". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  16. ↑ "Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award". 2011-06-13. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  17. ↑ "Human Recognition at a Distance in Video | Bir Bhanu | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  18. ↑ "Human Ear Recognition by Computer | Bir Bhanu | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  19. ↑ "Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems | Bir Bhanu | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  20. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Tan, Xuejun (2003-11-30). Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition (2004 ed.). Springer. ISBN   9781402076510.
  21. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Lee, Sungkee (1994). Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation (1 ed.). Springer. ISBN   978-0-7923-9491-4.
  22. ↑ Burger, Wilhelm; Bhanu, Bir (1992). Qualitative Motion Understanding (1 ed.). Springer. ISBN   978-0-7923-9251-4.
  23. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Das, Subhodev (2016). Computational Learning for Adaptive Computer Vision (1 ed.). Springer. ISBN   978-0-387-23703-9.
  24. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Talbot, Prue, eds. (2015). Video Bioinformatics: From Live Imaging to Knowledge (1 ed.). Springer. ISBN   978-3-319-23723-7.
  25. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Govindaraju, Venu, eds. (2011). Multibiometrics for Human Identification (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521115964.
  26. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Ravishankar, Chinya V.; Roy-Chowdhury, Amit K.; Aghajan, Hamid; Terzopoulos, Demetri, eds. (2011). Distributed Video Sensor Networks (1 ed.). Springer-Verlag London. ISBN   978-0-85729-126-4.
  27. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Pavlidis, Ioannis, eds. (2011). Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (1 ed.). Springer-Verlag London. ISBN   978-1-85233-604-2.
  28. ↑ Bhanu, Bir; Kumar, Ajay, eds. (2017). Deep Learning for Biometrics. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1 ed.). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61657-5. ISBN   978-3-319-61656-8.
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