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Rahul Sukthankar
Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)

Email address: rahuls@cs.cmu.edu
Office: CIC 410
Phone: (412) 297-4025
Fax: 412-297-4110

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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I am currently working on ideas in computer vision and machine learning, with applications to face recognition and intelligent user interfaces. Earlier research at the Robotics Institute includes work in agent architectures, simulation and autonomous navigation.

This section last updated - January 1999.

artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, mobile robots, and multi-agent systems

• Event Detection in Videos - Our event detection method can detect a wide range of actions in video by correlating spatio-temporal shapes to over-segmented videos without background subtraction.

• Event Detection in Crowded Videos
  Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, and M. Hebert
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1712 KB] copyrighted

• Beyond Local Appearance: Category Recognition from Pairwise Interactions of Simple Features
  M. Leordeanu, M. Hebert, and R. Sukthankar
  Proceedings of CVPR, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [5404 KB] copyrighted

• Discriminative Cluster Refinement: Improving Object Category Recognition Given Limited Training Data
  L. Yang, R. Jin, C. Pantofaru, and R. Sukthankar
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [191 KB] copyrighted

• Spatio-temporal Shape and Flow Correlation for Action Recognition
  Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, and M. Hebert
  Visual Surveillance Workshop, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1204 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Inference in Dynamical Systems
  S. Funiak, C.E. Guestrin, M. Paskin, and R. Sukthankar
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, MIT Press, December, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [379 KB] copyrighted

• Semantic Learning for Audio Applications: A Computer Vision Approach
  R. Sukthankar, Y. Ke, and D. Hoiem
  2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, June, 2006, pp. 112. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [398 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Localization of Networked Cameras
  S. Funiak, C.E. Guestrin, R. Sukthankar, and M. Paskin
  Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06), April, 2006, pp. 34 - 42. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [777 KB] copyrighted

• Efficient Visual Event Detection using Volumetric Features
  Y. Ke, R. Sukthankar, and M. Hebert
  International Conference on Computer Vision, Vol. 1, October, 2005, pp. 166 - 173. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [602 KB] copyrighted

• Computer Vision for Music Identification
  Y. Ke, D. Hoiem, and R. Sukthankar
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, June, 2005, pp. 597 - 604. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [311 KB] copyrighted

• Computer Vision for Music Identification
  Y. Ke, D. Hoiem, and R. Sukthankar
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2005. [Abstract]