Senior Principal Researcher, Intel Labs Pittsburgh; 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		Rahul Sukthankar Research: Research bio Online publications Some current projects: SLIPstream -- scalable, low-latency perception Event Detection in Video Diamond -- Interactive exploration of non-indexed data Projector-Camera Systems (aka Smart Projectors) Claytronics -- smart matter for synthetic reality Current student collaborators: Marius Leordeanu: learning shape for object category recognition Pyry Matikainen: event detection in video Ming-yu (Robert) Chen: action recognition in video Dhruv Batra: class-specific affinities for image labeling Liu Yang: Distance metric learning, medical imaging Subh Bhattacharya: compressive sensing Kevin Tang: (NSF REU student) object recognition Joel Jurik: (NSF REU student) object recognition David Todd: (CMU IFYRE student) information retrieval Former student collaborators: Yan Ke: PCA-SIFT; Music Identification; event detection in video 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 Events I am organizing: Special issue on Labeling the World for IEEE Pervasive Computing Workshops Chair for IEEE CVPR 2009. Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Mining and Retrieval, collocated with ACM Multimedia 2009. Workshop on Computer Vision for Humanoid Robots in Real Environments, collocated with ICCV 2009. International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS), collocated with ICCV, CVPR and SIGGRAPH. Workshop on cross-validation, bootstrap and model selection, collocated with NIPS 2000. Earlier research (includes JKanji, face recognition and intelligent vehicles) Personal Interests: My wife, Gita, is an asst professor at UCF. Martial arts Games Scuba