Rahul Sukthankar's Publications

Refereed Papers

  1. L. Yang, R. Jin, L. Mummert, R. Sukthankar, A. Goode, B. Zheng, S. Hoi, M. Satyanarayanan. A Boosting Framework for Visuality-Preserving Distance Metric Learning and its Application to Medical Image Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on PAMI. (to appear)
  2. L. Yang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar. Semi-supervised Learning with Weakly-Related Unlabeled Data: Towards Better Text Categorization. NIPS 2008. (to appear)
  3. J. Campbell, L. Mummert, R. Sukthankar. Video Monitoring of Honey Bee Colonies at the Hive Entrance. Proceedings of Workshop on Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, 2008. (to appear)
  4. P. Matikainen, R. Sukthankar, M. Hebert, Y. Ke. Fast Motion Consistency through Matrix Quantization. Proceedings of BMCV, 2008.
  5. D. Batra, R. Sukthankar, T. Chen. Semi-Supervised Clustering via Learnt Codeword Distances. Proceedings of BMCV, 2008.
  6. L. Yang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar, F. Jurie. Unifying Discriminative Visual Codebook Generation with Classifier Training for Object Category Recognition. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. Supplemental material (proofs).
  7. D. Batra, R. Sukthankar, T. Chen. Learning Class-Specific Affinities for Image Labelling. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008.
  8. P. Yang, R. Freeman, G. Gordon, K. Lynch, S. Srinivasa, R. Sukthankar. Decentralized Estimation and Control of Graph Connectivity for Mobile Sensor Networks. Proceedings of ACC, 2008.
  9. A. Goode, R. Sukthankar, L. Mummert, M. Chen, J. Saltzman, D. Ross, S. Szymanski, A. Tarachandani, M. Satyanarayanan. Distributed Online Anomaly Detection in High-Content Screening. Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2008.
  10. D. Batra, T. Chen, R. Sukthankar. Space-Time Shapelets for Action Recognition, Proceedings of Visual Motion Computing (WMCV), 2008.
  11. Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, M. Hebert. Event Detection in Crowded Videos. Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, 2007.
  12. S. Park, R. Sukthankar, L. Mummert, M. Satyanarayanan, B. Zheng. Optimization of Reference Library used in Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval Scheme. Medical Physics, 34(11), 2007.
  13. L. Yang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar. Bayesian Active Distance Metric Learning. Proceedings of Uncertainty in AI, 2007.
  14. R. Jin, M. Wu, R.Sukthankar. Semi-supervised Collaborative Text Classification. Proceedings of ECML, 2007.
  15. M. Leordeanu, M. Hebert, R. Sukthankar. Beyond Local Appearance: Category Recognition from Pairwise Interactions of Simple Features. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007.
  16. L. Yang, R. Jin, C. Pantofaru, R. Sukthankar. Discriminative Cluster Refinement: Improving Object Category Recognition Given Limited Training Data. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007.
  17. Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, M. Hebert. Spatio-temporal Shape and Flow Correlation for Action Recognition, Proceedings of CVPR Workshop on Visual Surveillance, 2007.
  18. A. Goode, M. Chen, A. Tarachandani, L. Mummert, R. Sukthankar, C. Helfrich, A. Stefanni, L. Fix, J. Saltzman, M. Satyanarayanan. Interactive Search of Adipocytes in Large Collections of Digital Cellular Images. Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2007.
  19. L. Yang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar. Resource-Constrained Supervised Dimensionality Reduction. Proceedings of IJCAI Workshop on Multimodal Information Retrieval, 2007.
  20. D. Parikh, R. Sukthankar, T. Chen, M. Chen. Feature-based Part Retrieval for Interactive 3D Reassembly. Proceedings of WACV, 2007.
  21. L. Yang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar, B. Zheng, L. Mummert, M. Satyanarayanan, M. Chen, D. Jukic. Learning Distance Metrics for Interactive Search-Assisted Diagnosis of Mammograms. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, 2007.
  22. S. Funiak, C. Guestrin, M. Paskin, R. Sukthankar. Distributed Inference in Dynamical Systems. Proceedings of NIPS, 2006.
  23. J. Summet, M. Flagg, T.-J. Cham, J. Rehg, R. Sukthankar. Shadow Elimination and Blinding Light Suppression for Interactive Projected Displays. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2006. (to appear)
  24. L. Yang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar, Y. Liu. An Efficient Algorithm for Local Distance Metric Learning. Proceedings of AAAI, 2006.
  25. R. Sukthankar, Y. Ke, D. Hoiem. Semantic Learning for Audio Applications: A Computer Vision Approach. Proceedings of CVPR Workshop on Semantic Learning in Multimedia, 2006. (invited talk)
  26. F. Kang, R. Jin, R. Sukthankar. Correlated Label Propagation with Application to Multi-label Learning. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006.
  27. S. Funiak, C. Guestrin, M. Paskin, R. Sukthankar. Distributed Localization of Networked Cameras. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2006.
  28. Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, M. Hebert. Efficient Visual Event Detection using Volumetric Features. Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005.
  29. S. Funiak, C. Guestrin, M. Paskin, R. Sukthankar. Distributed localization of networked cameras. NIPS Workshop on Intelligence beyond the Desktop, 2005.
  30. Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, M. Hebert. Efficient Temporal Mean Shift for Activity Recognition. NIPS Workshop on Activity Recognition and Discovery, 2005.
  31. Y. Ke, D. Hoiem, R. Sukthankar. Computer Vision for Music Identification. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005.
  32. J. Campbell, P. Gibbons, S. Nath, S. Seshan, R. Sukthankar. IrisNet: An Internet-scale Architecture for Multimedia Sensors". Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, 2005.
  33. G. Wallace, O. Anshus, P. Bi, H. Chen, Y. Chen, D. Clark, P. Cook, A. Finkelstein, T. Funkhouser, A. Gupta, M. Hibbs, K. Li, Z. Liu, R. Samanta, R. Sukthankar, O. Troyanskaya. Tools and Applications for Large-Scale Display Walls. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2005.
  34. L. Huston, R. Sukthankar, Y. Ke. Evaluating Keypoint Methods for Content-based Copyright Protection of Digital Images Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2005.
  35. L. Huston, A. Nizhner, P. Pillai, R. Sukthankar, P. Steenkiste, J. Zhang. Dynamic Load Balancing for Distributed Search. Proceedings of High Performance Distributed Computing, 2005.
  36. J. Summet, R. Sukthankar. Tracking Locations of Moving Hand-held Displays Using Projected Light. Proceedings of International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2005.
  37. J. Campbell, R. Sukthankar, I. Nourbakhsh, A. Pahwa. A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision. Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005.
  38. R. Sukthankar. Towards Ambient Projection for Intelligent Environments. Book chapter in Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environments, 2005.
  39. D. Hoiem, Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar. SOLAR: Sound Object Localization and Retrieval in Complex Audio Environments. Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2005.
  40. R. Ulichney, R. Sukthankar. Correcting Luminance for Obliquely-Projected Displays. Proceedings of International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2005.
  41. L. Huston, R. Sukthankar, D. Hoiem, J. Zhang. SnapFind: Brute Force Interactive Image Retrieval. Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing and Graphics, 2004.
  42. Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, L. Huston. Efficient Near-duplicate and Sub-image Retrieval. Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, 2004.
  43. L. Huston, R. Sukthankar, J. Campbell, P. Pillai. Forensic Video Reconstruction. Proceedings of International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, 2004.
  44. J. Summet, M. Flagg, M. Ashdown, R. Sukthankar, J. Rehg, G. Abowd, T.-J. Cham. Robust Projected Displays for Ubiquitous Computing. Proceedings of Ubicomp Workshop on Ubiquitous Display Environments, 2004.
  45. J. Campbell, R. Sukthankar, I. Nourbakhsh. Techniques for Evaluating Optical Flow for Visual Odometry in Extreme Terrain. Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004.
  46. Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar. PCA-SIFT: A More Distinctive Representation for Local Image Descriptors. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004.
  47. M. Ashdown, M. Flagg, R. Sukthankar, J. Rehg. A Flexible Projector-Camera System for Multi-Planar Displays. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004.
  48. D. Hoiem, R. Sukthankar, H. Schneiderman, L. Huston. Object-Based Image Retrieval Using the Statistical Structure of Images. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004.
  49. M. Ashdown, M. Flagg, R. Sukthankar, J. Rehg. Applications for Multi-Planar Projected Displays. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (demo), 2004.
  50. J. Campbell, R. Sukthankar, I. Nourbakhsh. Visual Odometry Using Commodity Optical Flow. AAAI (demo), 2004.
  51. L. Huston, R. Sukthankar, R. Wickremesinghe, M. Satyanarayanan, G. Ganger, E. Riedel, A. Ailamaki. Diamond: A Storage Architecture for Early Discard in Interactive Search. Proceedings of USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2004.
  52. T.-J. Cham, J. Rehg, R. Sukthankar, G. Sukthankar. Shadow Elimination and Occluder Light Suppression for Multi-Projector Displays. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003.
  53. S. Reese, G. Sukthankar, R. Sukthankar. An Efficient Recognition Technique for Mine-like Objects using Nearest-Neighbor Classification. Proceedings of Underwater Defense Technologies Europe, 2003.
  54. J. Rehg, M. Flagg, T.-J. Cham, R. Sukthankar, G. Sukthankar. Projected Light Displays Using Visual Feedback. Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, 2002.
  55. H. Chen, R. Sukthankar, G. Wallace, K. Li. Scalable Alignment of Large-Format Multi-Projector Displays Using Camera Homography Trees. Proceedings of Visualization, 2002.
  56. B. Sanders, R. Nelson, R. Sukthankar. A Theory of the Quasi-static World. Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002.
  57. B. Sanders, R. Nelson, R. Sukthankar. The OD Theory of TOD: The Use and Limits of Temporal Information for Object Discovery. Proceedings of AAAI, 2002.
  58. R. Sukthankar, T.-J. Cham, G. Sukthankar. Dynamic Shadow Elimination for Multi-Projector Displays. Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001.
  59. H. Chen, R. Sukthankar, G. Wallace, T.-J. Cham. Calibrating Scalable Multi-Projector Displays Using Camera Homography Trees. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Technical Sketch), 2001.
  60. B. Sanders, R. Sukthankar. Unsupervised Discovery of Objects Using Temporal Coherence. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Technical Sketch), 2001.
  61. T.-J. Cham, J. Rehg, G. Sukthankar, R. Sukthankar. Shadow Elimination and Occluder Light Suppression for Multi-Projector Displays. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Demo), 2001.
  62. R. Sukthankar, R. Stockton, M. Mullin. Smarter Presentations: Exploiting Homography in Camera-Projector Systems. Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, 2001.
  63. R. Sukthankar, T.-J. Cham, G. Sukthankar, J. Rehg, D. Hsu, T. Leung. Self-Calibrating Camera-Projector Systems for Interactive Displays and Presentations. International Conference on Computer Vision (Demo), 2001
  64. R. Sukthankar, R. Stockton. Argus: The Digital Doorman. IEEE Intelligent Systems Vol. 16 No. 2, 2001.
  65. R. Sukthankar, R. Stockton, M. Mullin. Self-Calibrating Camera-Assisted Presentation Interface. Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, 2000 (invited talk).
  66. R. Sukthankar, R. Stockton, M. Mullin. Automatic Keystone Correction for Camera-assisted Presentation Interfaces. Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia Interfaces, 2000.
  67. R. Stockton, R. Sukthankar. Wavelet-based Kanji Character Recognition and Completion. Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2000.
  68. M. Mullin, R. Sukthankar. Complete Cross-Validation for Nearest Neighbor Classifiers. Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning, 2000.
  69. S. Baluja, V. Mittal, R. Sukthankar. Applying Machine Learning for Named-Entity Extraction. Computational Intelligence Vol. 16 No. 2, 2000.
  70. T. Sim, R. Sukthankar, M. Mullin, S. Baluja. Memory-based Face Recognition for Visitor Identification, Proceedings of International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2000.
  71. R. Sukthankar, R. Stockton. ARGUS: An Automated Multi-Agent Visitor Identification System. Proceedings of AAAI, 1999.
  72. R. Sukthankar, A. Brusseau, R. Pelletier, R. Stockton. JGram: Rapid Development of Multi-Agent Pipelines for Real-World Tasks. Proceedings of International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, 1999.
  73. S. Baluja, V. Mittal, R. Sukthankar. Applying Machine Learning for High-Performance Named-Entity Extraction. Proceedings of Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, 1999.
  74. R. Sukthankar, S. Baluja, J. Hancock. Multiple Adaptive Agents for Tactical Driving. International Journal of AI, Vol. 9 No. 1, 1998.
  75. R. Sukthankar, J. Hancock, C. Thorpe. Tactical-level Simulation for Intelligent Transportation Systems. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 27 No. 9-11, 1998.
  76. R. Sukthankar. Situation Awareness in Tactical Driving: The Role of Simulation Tools. Transactions Society for Computer Simulation, 14(4), 1997.
  77. R. Sukthankar, D. Pomerleau, C. Thorpe. A Distributed Tactical Reasoning Framework for Intelligent Vehicles. In Proceedings of SPIE: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 1997.
  78. C. Unsal, R. Sukthankar, C. Thorpe. Functional Sensor Modeling for Automated Highway System Simulation. In Proceedings of SPIE: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 1997.
  79. R. Sukthankar, S. Baluja, J. Hancock. Evolving an Intelligent Vehicle for Tactical Reasoning in Traffic. In Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997.
  80. R. Sukthankar. Teaching Intelligent Vehicles to Drive in Traffic: Tactical-level Scenarios. In Proceedings of Workshop on Scenario and Traffic Generation for Driving Simulation, 1996.
  81. S. Baluja, R. Sukthankar, J. Hancock. Prototyping Intelligent Vehicle Modules Using Evolutionary Algorithms. In Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications, D. Dasgupta and Z. Michalewicz (ed), 1997.
  82. R. Sukthankar, J. Hancock, S. Baluja, D. Pomerleau, C. Thorpe. Adaptive Intelligent Vehicle Modules for Tactical Driving. In Proceedings of AAAI, 1996.
  83. R. Sukthankar, J. Hancock, D. Pomerleau, C. Thorpe. A Simulation and Design System for Tactical Driving Algorithms. In Proceedings of AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, 1996.
  84. R. Sukthankar, D. Pomerleau, C. Thorpe. SHIVA: Simulated Highways for Intelligent Vehicle Algorithms. In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles, 1995.
  85. D. Pomerleau, C. Thorpe, D. Langer, J. Rosenblatt, R. Sukthankar. AVCS Research at Carnegie Mellon University. In Proceedings of Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems, 1994.
  86. R. Sukthankar, D. Pomerleau, C. Thorpe. Panacea: An Active Sensor Controller for the ALVINN Autonomous Driving System. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research, 1993. Expanded version appears as Carnegie Mellon University technical report CMU-RI-TR-93-09.
  87. R. Sukthankar. RACCOON: A Real-time Autonomous Car Chaser Operating Optimally at Night. In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles, 1993. Expanded version appears as Carnegie Mellon University technical report CMU-RI-TR-92-13.
Rahul Sukthankar (rahuls@cs.cmu.edu)