2026 Bir Bhanu: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	69	1973	1911	997	959	637	19434

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2015 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
2003 - SPIE Fellow
2002 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision
1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1996 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to sensor-based navigation, automatic object recognition and closed-loop adaptive techniques for developing robust algorithms.

Overview

Bir Bhanu is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Media Technology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics include:

Human Pose and Action Recognition
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Image Processing Techniques and Applications
Gait Recognition and Analysis
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Bir Bhanu has published extensively in various venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
SSRN Electronic Journal
Knowledge-Based Systems
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bir Bhanu include:

"MonoIndoor: Towards Good Practice of Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation for Indoor Environments," 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"Attention-based anomaly detection in multi-view surveillance videos," 2022, Knowledge-Based Systems
"Dite-HRNet: Dynamic Lightweight High-Resolution Network for Human Pose Estimation," 2022, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"An Automated System for Generating Tactical Performance Statistics for Individual Soccer Players From Videos," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
"MonoIndoor++: Towards Better Practice of Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation for Indoor Environments," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Collaborations with frequent coauthors include working with Qun Li, Runze Li, Fu Xiao, Hengyue Liu, and Pan Ji.

Throughout their career, Bir Bhanu has received multiple recognitions and fellowships, including:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2020)
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2015)
SPIE Fellow (2003)
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (2002) for contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1997)
IEEE Fellow (1996) for contributions to sensor-based navigation, automatic object recognition, and closed-loop adaptive techniques for developing robust algorithms

Best Publications

Individual recognition using gait energy image

J. Han;B. Bhanu

2287
Citations
Automatic Target Recognition: State of the Art Survey

Bir Bhanu

717
Citations
3D free-form object recognition in range images using local surface patches

Hui Chen;Bir Bhanu

645
Citations
Human Ear Recognition in 3D

Hui Chen;B. Bhanu

487
Citations
Adaptive image segmentation using a genetic algorithm

B. Bhanu;Sungkee Lee;J. Ming

425
Citations
Physical models for moving shadow and object detection in video

S. Nadimi;B. Bhanu

402
Citations
Shape Matching of Two-Dimensional Objects

Bir Bhanu;Olivier D. Faugeras

315
Citations
Fingerprint indexing based on novel features of minutiae triplets

Bir Bhanu;Xuejun Tan

308
Citations
Representation and Shape Matching of 3-D Objects

Bir Bhanu

280
Citations
Towards Visually Explaining Variational Autoencoders

Wenqian Liu;Runze Li;Meng Zheng;Srikrishna Karanam

277
Citations
Fusion of color and infrared video for moving human detection

Ju Han;Bir Bhanu

264
Citations
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Vehicle Classification in Video

M. Kafai;B. Bhanu

225
Citations
Statistical feature fusion for gait-based human recognition

Ju Han;B. Bhanu

222
Citations
Contour Matching for 3D Ear Recognition

Hui Chen;B. Bhanu

198
Citations
Probabilistic feature relevance learining for content-based image retrieval

Jing Peng;Bir Bhanu;Shan Qing

195
Citations
Genetic learning for adaptive image segmentation

Bir Bhanu;Sungkee Lee;Takeo Kanade

189
Citations
Genetic algorithm based feature selection for target detection in SAR images

Bir Bhanu;Yingqiang Lin

187
Citations
Human Activity Recognition in Thermal Infrared Imagery

Ju Han;B. Bhanu

184
Citations
Image understanding research for automatic target recognition

B. Bhanu;T.L. Jones

183
Citations
Adaptive integrated image segmentation and object recognition

B. Bhanu;Jing Peng

177
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Venu Govindaraju University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury University of California, Riverside

Charles Hansen University of Utah

Alexander A. Balandin University of California, Los Angeles

Zhenbiao Yang University of California, Riverside

Peng-Yeng Yin National Chi Nan University

Rama Chellappa Johns Hopkins University

Bruce A. Draper Colorado State University

Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles

Iryna M. Ethell University of California, Riverside

External Links

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