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143
Citations
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World Ranking
54
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal For contributions to image and video processing
  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to Markov random fields, 3D recovery from single and mutiple images and image/video-based recognition
  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition.
  • 2012 - IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize For pioneering contributions to statistical methods for image- and video-based object recognition.
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - OSA Fellows For pioneering and sustained contributions to image and video-based pattern recognition and computer vision.
  • 1996 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to theory and applications of Markov Random Fields and computer vision

Overview

Rama Chellappa is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research mainly spans the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Signal Processing, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics in the domain of machine learning and pattern recognition, including:

  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition

Rama Chellappa has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A

Recent papers include:

  • Next-generation deep learning based on simulators and synthetic data, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Segment and Complete: Defending Object Detectors against Adversarial Patch Attacks with Robust Patch Detection, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • An Automatic System for Unconstrained Video-Based Face Recognition, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science
  • Max-Margin Contrastive Learning, 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks, 2021, Proceedings of the IEEE

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Chun Pong Lau, Carlos D. Castillo, Hossein Souri, Joshua Gleason, and Vishal M. Patel.

In addition to journal and conference articles, Rama Chellappa has contributed to books published by Springer Science+Business Media and Johns Hopkins University Press, including titles like Computer Vision - ACCV 2022 and Can We Trust AI?

Rama Chellappa's recognitions include several fellowships and awards over the years, notably:

  • Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, 2020, for contributions to image and video processing
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2020
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015, for significant contributions to Markov random fields, 3D recovery from single and multiple images, and image/video-based recognition
  • ACM Fellow, 2013, for contributions to image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition
  • IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, 2012, for pioneering contributions to statistical methods for image- and video-based object recognition
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • OSA Fellow, 2009, for pioneering and sustained contributions to image and video-based pattern recognition and computer vision
  • Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1996, for contributions to theory and applications of Markov Random Fields and computer vision

Best Publications

  • Face recognition: A literature survey

    W. Zhao;R. Chellappa;P. J. Phillips;A. Rosenfeld

  • Machine Recognition of Human Activities: A Survey

    P. Turaga;R. Chellappa;V.S. Subrahmanian;O. Udrea

  • Soft-NMS — Improving Object Detection with One Line of Code

    Navaneeth Bodla;Bharat Singh;Rama Chellappa;Larry S. Davis

  • Human Action Recognition by Representing 3D Skeletons as Points in a Lie Group

    Raviteja Vemulapalli;Felipe Arrate;Rama Chellappa

  • Discriminant analysis for recognition of human face images

    Kamran Etemad;Rama Chellappa

  • A method for enforcing integrability in shape from shading algorithms

    R.T. Frankot;R. Chellappa

  • HyperFace: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, Pose Estimation, and Gender Recognition

    Rajeev Ranjan;Vishal M. Patel;Rama Chellappa

  • Domain adaptation for object recognition: An unsupervised approach

    Raghuraman Gopalan;Ruonan Li;Rama Chellappa

  • Estimation of illuminant direction, albedo, and shape from shading

    Q. Zheng;R. Chellappa

  • Discriminant analysis of principal components for face recognition

    Wenyi Zhao;A. Krishnaswamy;R. Chellappa;D. L. Swets

  • Entropy rate superpixel segmentation

    Ming-Yu Liu;Oncel Tuzel;Srikumar Ramalingam;Rama Chellappa

  • Visual tracking and recognition using appearance-adaptive models in particle filters

    Shaohua Kevin Zhou;R. Chellappa;B. Moghaddam

  • Visual Domain Adaptation: A survey of recent advances

    Vishal M Patel;Raghuraman Gopalan;Ruonan Li;Rama Chellappa

  • Discriminant analysis of principal components for face recognition

    W. Zhao;R. Chellappa;A. Krishnaswamy

  • Defense-GAN: Protecting Classifiers Against Adversarial Attacks Using Generative Models

    Pouya Samangouei;Maya Kabkab;Rama Chellappa

  • Identification of humans using gait

    A. Kale;A. Sundaresan;A.N. Rajagopalan;N.P. Cuntoor

  • Classification of textures using Gaussian Markov random fields

    R. Chellappa;S. Chatterjee

  • Estimation of Object Motion Parameters from Noisy Images

    Ted J. Broida;Rama Chellappa

  • Frontal to profile face verification in the wild

    Soumyadip Sengupta;Jun-Cheng Chen;Carlos Castillo;Vishal M. Patel

  • Estimation and choice of neighbors in spatial-interaction models of images

    R. Kashyap;R. Chellappa

Frequent Co-Authors

Vishal M. Patel
Vishal M. Patel Johns Hopkins University
Pavan Turaga
Pavan Turaga Arizona State University
Ashok Veeraraghavan
Ashok Veeraraghavan Rice University
Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan Carnegie Mellon University
Larry S. Davis
Larry S. Davis University of Maryland, College Park
Azriel Rosenfeld
Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland, College Park
Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury University of California, Riverside
P. Jonathon Phillips
P. Jonathon Phillips National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nasser M. Nasrabadi
Nasser M. Nasrabadi West Virginia University
A. N. Rajagopalan
A. N. Rajagopalan Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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