I am Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, a research scientist in the DSP Group at ECE Department at Rice University. I work with Prof. Richard Baraniuk. Before this, I was a graduate student at the University of Maryland; with Prof. Rama Chellappa as my PhD advisor.

 contact info
Duncan Hall, 1040,
6100 Main Street, MS 380,
Houston, TX 77005
email: saswin -at- rice -dot- edu
phone: 713-348-3579

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journals

  1. V. Cevher, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, J. H. McClellan and R. Chellappa
    Target Tracking using a Joint Acoustic Video System
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. vol. 9, pp. 715-727, June 2007.

  2. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, A. Srivastava and R. Chellappa
    Algorithmic and Architectural Optimizations for Computationally Efficient Particle Filtering
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing May 2008, Vol. 17(5), pp.737-748.

  3. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, A. Veeraraghvan and R. Chellappa
    Distributed Detection, Tracking and Recognition using a Network of Video Cameras
    Proceedings of IEEE, Oct 2008, Vol. 96(10), pp. 1606-1624

  4. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, R. Patro, P. Turaga, A. Varshney and R. Chellappa
    Modeling and Visualization of Human Activities for Multi-Camera Networks
    EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2009.

  5. R. Chellappa, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, A. Veeraraghavan and P. Turaga
    Statistical Methods and Models for Applications in Computer Vision
    Foundation and Trends in Signal Processing, vol. 3, (1-2), 2010.

  6. W. Hao, A. C. Sankaranarayanan and R. Chellappa
    Online empirical evaluation of Tracking Algorithms
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32(8), pp. 1443-1458, August, 2010.

  7. S. Taheri, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. Chellappa,
    Joint Albedo Estimation and Pose Tracking from Video
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2013 (to appear).

jounals [under review]

  1. S. Nagaraj, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. G. Baraniuk,
    A Theory for Optical flow-based Transport on Image Manifolds
    Applied Computational Harmonic Analysis (submitted: October 2011)

  2. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, P. K. Turaga, R. Chellappa, and R. G. Baraniuk,
    Compressive Acquisition of Dynamic Scenes
    SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Submitted: January 2012)

  3. E. Dyer, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. G. Baraniuk,
    Greedy Feature Selection for Subspace Clustering
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (Submitted: April 2012)

  4. C. Hegde, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. G. Baraniuk,
    Learning manifolds in the wild
    Jounral of Machine Learning Research (Submitted: July 2012)

  5. M. Du, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. Chellappa,
    Pose-Invariant Face Recognition from Multi-View Videos
    IEEE Trans. Image Processing (Submitted: November 2012)

  6. C. Hegde, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, W. Yin, and R. G. Baraniuk,
    A Convex Approach for Learning Near-Isometric Linear Embeddings
    J. Machine Learning Research (Submitted: November 2012)

conferences

  1. C. Hegde, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. G. Baraniuk
    Near-isometric linear embeddings of manifolds
    Statistical Signal Processing workshop, Ann-arbor, MI, August 2012.

  2. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, C. Studer, and R. G. Baraniuk
    CS-MUVI: Video compressive sensing for spatially multiplexing cameras
    IEEE Intl. Conf. Computational Photography, Seattle, WA, April 2012.

  3. J. Holloway, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, A. Veeraraghavan, and S. Tambe
    Flutter shutter video camera for compressive sensing of videos
    IEEE Intl. Conf. Computational Photography, Seattle, WA, April 2012.

  4. A. E. Waters, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. G. Baraniuk
    SpaRCS: Recovering Low-rank and Sparse matrices from Compressive Measurements
    Neural Information Processing Systems, Granada, Spain, December 2011.

  5. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, C. Hegde, S. Nagaraj, and R. G. Baraniuk
    Go with the Flow: Optical Flow-based Transport Operators for Image Manifolds
    Allerton Conf. on Communications and Controls, IL, September 2011.

  6. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, P. K. Turaga, R. G. Baraniuk and R. Chellappa
    Compressive Acquisition of Dynamic Scenes
    European Conf. on Computer Vision, , Crete, Greece, September, 2010.

  7. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, A. Veeraraghavan, O. Tuzel and A. Agrawal
    Image Invariants for Smooth Reflective Surfaces
    European Conf. on Computer Vision, , Crete, Greece, September, 2010.

  8. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, A. Veeraraghavan, O. Tuzel and A. Agrawal
    Specular Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Reflection Correspondences
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , San Francisco, CA, June, 2010.

  9. Q. Cai, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, Q. Zhang, Z. Zhang and Z. Liu
    Real Time Head Pose Tracking from Multiple Cameras with a Generic Model
    IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, San Fancisco, CA, June 2010

  10. V. Cevher, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, M. Duarte, D. Reddy, R. Baranuik and R. Chellappa
    Compressive Sensing for Background Subtraction
    European Conf. on Computer Vision, Marseilles, France, Oct, 2008.

  11. A. C. Sankaranarayanan and R. Chellappa
    Stochastic Fusion of Multi-View Gradients, IEEE Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, Oct 2008.

  12. D. Reddy, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, V. Cevher and R. Chellappa
    Compressed Sensing for Multi-View Tracking and 3-D Voxel Reconstruction
    IEEE Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, Oct 2008.

  13. V. Cevher, A. C. Sankaranarayanan and R. Chellappa
    Factorized Variational Approximations for Acoustic Multi Source Localization
    IEEE Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, Apr 2008.

  14. A. C. Sankaranarayanan and R. Chellappa
    Optimal multi-view fusion of object locations
    IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video computing, Jan 9, 2008.

  15. W. Hao, R. Chellappa, A. C. Sankaranarayanan and S. K. Zhou
    Robust visual tracking using the time-reversibility constraint
    ICCV 2007, Oct 14-20, 2007.

  16. W. Hao, A. C. Sankaranarayanan and R. Chellappa
    In situ evaluation of tracking algorithms using time reversed chain
    CVPR 2007, June 18 - 23, 2007.

  17. V. Cevher, F. Guo, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. Chellappa
    Joint acoustic-video fingerprinting of vehicles, part II,
    ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-20 April 2007.

  18. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, R. Chellappa and A. Srivastava.
    Algorithmic and Architectural Design Methodology for Particle Filters in Hardware
    ICCD 2005.

  19. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, R. Chellappa and Q. Zheng
    Tracking Objects in Video Using Motion and Appearance Models
    ICIP 2005.

book chapters

  1. R. Chellappa and A. C. Sankaranarayanan,
    Surveillance
    Encyclopedia of Biometrics, 2009.

  2. R. Chellappa, A. Veeraraghavan and A. C. Sankaranarayanan,
    Knowledge Extraction from Surveillance Sensors, Wiley Handbook on Science and Technology for Homeland Security, 2009.

  3. M. Du, A. C. Sankaranarayanan and R. Chellappa,
    Face Tracking and Recognition in a Camera Network, Multibiometrics for Human Identification, 2010.

  4. A. C. Sankaranarayanan, R. Chellappa and R. G. Baraniuk,
    Distributed Processing and Sensing for Multi-camera Networks
    ----2010.

PhD Dissertation

A. C. Sankaranarayanan
Robust and Efficient Inference of Scene and Object Motion in Multi-Camera Systems
PhD Dissertation, Fall 2009.