2026 Harpreet Sawhney: 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	74	1480	1435	771	743	213	24111

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to video algorithms

Overview

Harpreet Sawhney is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a strong emphasis on computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques

Harpreet Sawhney has contributed to the following recent papers:

"Self-supervised Learning with Local Contrastive Loss for Detection and Semantic Segmentation," 2023, 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
"Domain-Specific Priors and Meta Learning for Few-Shot First-Person Action Recognition," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"ShapeICP: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation From Depth," 2025, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Self-supervised Learning with Local Contrastive Loss for Detection and Semantic Segmentation," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"STEPs: Self-Supervised Key Step Extraction and Localization from Unlabeled Procedural Videos," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent collaborators include:

Ben Lundell
Sudipta N. Sinha
Peter Morales
Richard J. Radke
Ashraful Islam

Harpreet Sawhney's research has been disseminated through several publication venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

In recognition of their contributions, Harpreet Sawhney was named an IEEE Fellow in 2012, cited specifically for contributions to video algorithms.

Best Publications

Query by image and video content: the QBIC system

M. Flickner;H. Sawhney;W. Niblack;J. Ashley

6093
Citations
Efficient color histogram indexing for quadratic form distance functions

J. Hafner;H.S. Sawhney;W. Equitz;M. Flickner

1265
Citations
Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases

Rakesh Agrawal;King-Ip Lin;Harpreet S. Sawhney;Kyuseok Shim

1116
Citations
Compact representations of videos through dominant and multiple motion estimation

H.S. Sawhney;S. Ayer

501
Citations
Object tracking with Bayesian estimation of dynamic layer representations

Hai Tao;H.S. Sawhney;R. Kumar

473
Citations
True multi-image alignment and its application to mosaicing and lens distortion correction

H.S. Sawhney;R. Kumar

465
Citations
Method and apparatus for total situational awareness and monitoring

Manoj Aggarwal;Keith Hanna;Harpreet Sawhney;Vincent Paragano

438
Citations
A global matching framework for stereo computation

H. Tao;H.S. Sawhney;R. Kumar

431
Citations
Method and apparatus for synthesizing new video and/or still imagery from a collection of real video and/or still imagery

Harpreet Singh Sawhney;Hai Tao;Rakesh Kumar;Keith Hanna

422
Citations
Method for generating a three-dimensional model of a roof structure

Vivek Verma;Rakesh Kumar;Stephen Charles Hsu;Harpreet Sawhney

393
Citations
Method and apparatus for processing images to compute image flow information

Keith James Hanna;Rakesh Kumar;James Russell Bergen;Harpreet Singh Sawhney

364
Citations
Bilateral Filtering-Based Optical Flow Estimation with Occlusion Detection

Jiangjian Xiao;Hui Cheng;Harpreet Sawhney;Cen Rao

350
Citations
Robust Video Mosaicing through Topology Inference and Local to Global Alignment

Harpreet S. Sawhney;Steve Hsu;Rakesh Kumar

344
Citations
Layered representation of motion video using robust maximum-likelihood estimation of mixture models and MDL encoding

Unknown

338
Citations
Aerial video surveillance and exploitation

R. Kumar;H. Sawhney;S. Samarasekera;S. Hsu

293
Citations
Method and apparatus for performing local to global multiframe alignment to construct mosaic images

Stephen Charles Hsu;Rakesh Kumar;Harpreet Singh Sawhney;James R Bergen

283
Citations
Method and apparatus for providing immersive surveillance

Aydin Arpa;Keith J. Hanna;Rakesh Kumar;Supun Samarasekera

251
Citations
Method and apparatus for automatically generating a site model

Yanlin Guo;Rakesh Kumar;Stephen Charles Hsu;Harpreet Singh Sawhney

242
Citations
Method and apparatus for processing images

Keith Hanna;Rakesh Kumar;James Bergen;Harpreet Sawhney

230
Citations
Method and system for performing surveillance

Manoj Aggarwal;Harpreet Sawhney;Supun Samarasakera;Rakesh Kumar

219
Citations
Recognition and volume estimation of food intake using a mobile device

Manika Puri;Zhiwei Zhu;Qian Yu;Ajay Divakaran

218
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rakesh Kumar SRI International

Supun Samarasekera SRI International

Ying Shan Tencent (China)

Rakesh Kumar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James R. Bergen SRI International

Ajay Divakaran SRI International

Peter J. Burt SRI International

Zhiwei Zhu SRI International

Mubarak Shah University of Central Florida

Richard Szeliski University of Washington

External Links

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