Sr. principal researcher, Intel; adjunct research professor, Robotics Institute, CMU Email: rahuls@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rahuls Tel: +1-412-297-4025 Research Interests - Computer vision - Machine learning - Intelligent vehicles		Rahul Sukthankar Research: Research bio I am serving as Workshops Chair for CVPR 2009. Proposal deadline Nov 30, 2008. Download CFP (pdf) Online publications Current Projects: Diamond -- Interactive exploration of non-indexed data Projector-Camera Systems (aka Smart Projectors) Claytronics -- smart matter for synthetic reality Current student collaborators: Yan Ke: PCA-SIFT; Music Identification; event detection in video Marius Leordeanu: learning shape for object category recognition Liu Yang: Distance metric learning, medical imaging Dhruv Batra: class-specific affinities for image labeling Pyry Matikainen David Todd: (undergraduate IFYRE student) information retrieval Former student collaborators: Derek Hoiem: Object-based Image Retrieval; Sound Object Detection Devi Parikh: Feature-based 3D reconstruction Stano Funiak: simultaneous localization and tracking Jonathan Huang Jay Summet: BurningWell -- localization using projected light S. Charles Brubaker: medical imaging Mark Ashdown and Matthew Flagg: Multi-planar Displays Han Chen: alignment of large-format projected displays Brandon Sanders: unsupervised object discovery Terence Sim: face recognition Trista Chen: image retrieval International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS) Earlier research (includes JKanji, face recognition and intelligent vehicles) Personal Interests: Family & friends Martial arts Games Current Software of Choice: OS: Linux (Ubuntu distro) Editor: Vim (Vi IMproved) Mail client: Mutt Word processor: LaTeX Scripting language: Perl Search engine: Google