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Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
37
Citations
5468
World Ranking
10807
National Ranking
4498

Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 150 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics and Astronomy. Within these areas, their work focuses particularly on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

The scientist's main topics of work include Advanced Vision and Imaging, Image Processing Techniques and Applications, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies, Optical measurement and interference techniques, Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies, Random lasers and scattering media, and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications.

Frequent publication venues for their research have been:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2022 (FIO, LS)
  • 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

They have produced several recent papers, illustrating their focus on imaging technologies and optical systems:

  • "SweepCam - Depth-Aware Lensless Imaging Using Programmable Masks", 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Designing Display Pixel Layouts for Under-Panel Cameras", 2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays", 2023, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "A Simple Framework for 3D Lensless Imaging with Programmable Masks", 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • "Kaleidoscopic structured light", 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics

The researcher collaborates frequently with several scholars including Yi Hua, Anat Levin, Ashok Veeraraghavan, M. Salman Asif, and Matthew O'Toole. Each of these coauthors has contributed multiple publications in partnership with them.

Best Publications

  • Compressive Sensing for Background Subtraction

    Volkan Cevher;Aswin Sankaranarayanan;Marco F. Duarte;Dikpal Reddy

  • One Network to Solve Them All — Solving Linear Inverse Problems Using Deep Projection Models

    J. H. Rick Chang;Chun-Liang Li;Barnabas Poczos;B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

  • FlatCam: Thin, Lensless Cameras Using Coded Aperture and Computation

    M. Salman Asif;Ali Ayremlou;Aswin Sankaranarayanan;Ashok Veeraraghavan

  • SpaRCS: Recovering low-rank and sparse matrices from compressive measurements

    Andrew E. Waters;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Richard Baraniuk

  • Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition for Multiple Smart Cameras

    A.C. Sankaranarayanan;A. Veeraraghavan;R. Chellappa

  • CS-MUVI: Video compressive sensing for spatial-multiplexing cameras

    Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Christoph Studer;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • Greedy feature selection for subspace clustering

    Eva L. Dyer;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • A Theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-Of-Sight Shape Reconstruction

    Shumian Xin;Sotiris Nousias;Kiriakos N. Kutulakos;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

  • Compressive acquisition of dynamic scenes

    Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Pavan K. Turaga;Richard G. Baraniuk;Rama Chellappa

  • Skin Detection -a Short Tutorial

    John Daugman;Stephanie Schuckers;Karthik Nandakumar;Ryan N. Rakvic

  • PhaseCam3D — Learning Phase Masks for Passive Single View Depth Estimation

    Yicheng Wu;Vivek Boominathan;Huaijin Chen;Aswin Sankaranarayanan

  • One Network to Solve Them All --- Solving Linear Inverse Problems using Deep Projection Models

    J. H. Rick Chang;Chun-Liang Li;Barnabas Poczos;B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

  • Compressive Video Sensing: Algorithms, architectures, and applications

    Richard G. Baraniuk;Thomas Goldstein;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Christoph Studer

  • Towards multifocal displays with dense focal stacks

    Jen-Hao Rick Chang;B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

  • Flutter Shutter Video Camera for compressive sensing of videos

    Jason Holloway;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Ashok Veeraraghavan;Salil Tambe

  • Lensless Imaging: A computational renaissance

    Vivek Boominathan;Jesse K. Adams;M. Salman Asif;Benjamin W. Avants

  • The Geometry of First-Returning Photons for Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging

    Chia-Yin Tsai;Kiriakos N. Kutulakos;Srinivasa G. Narasimhan;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

  • Beyond Volumetric Albedo — A Surface Optimization Framework for Non-Line-Of-Sight Imaging

    Chia-Yin Tsai;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Ioannis Gkioulekas

  • Online Empirical Evaluation of Tracking Algorithms

    Hao Wu;Aswin C Sankaranarayanan;Rama Chellappa

  • NuMax: A Convex Approach for Learning Near-Isometric Linear Embeddings

    Chinmay Hegde;Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Wotao Yin;Richard G. Baraniuk

  • Compressive Acquisition of Linear Dynamical Systems

    Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan;Pavan K. Turaga;Rama Chellappa;Richard G. Baraniuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Baraniuk
Richard G. Baraniuk Rice University
Ashok Veeraraghavan
Ashok Veeraraghavan Rice University
Rama Chellappa
Rama Chellappa Johns Hopkins University
Volkan Cevher
Volkan Cevher École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar
B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar Carnegie Mellon University
Kalyan Sunkavalli
Kalyan Sunkavalli Adobe Systems (United States)
Pavan Turaga
Pavan Turaga Arizona State University
Oncel Tuzel
Oncel Tuzel Apple (United States)
Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
Srinivasa G. Narasimhan Carnegie Mellon University

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