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Overview

Rakesh Kumar is affiliated with SRI International in the United States and works across multiple scientific disciplines, including Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans several subfields such as Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main themes in Kumar's work address topics like Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows, Advanced Differential Geometry Research, Geometry and Complex Manifolds, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, as well as Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization.

Kumar has authored papers published in various academic venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Semantically-aware Spatio-temporal Reasoning Agent for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments, 2022, 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
  • ApproxNet: Content and Contention-Aware Video Object Classification System for Embedded Clients, 2021, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
  • Conformal slant submersions from nearly Kaehler manifolds, 2021, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
  • Long-Range Augmented Reality with Dynamic Occlusion Rendering, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • GraphMapper: Efficient Visual Navigation by Scene Graph Generation, 2022, 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)

The concentration of publications in venues such as the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, the 2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), the Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, arXiv (Cornell University), and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach combining theoretical and applied aspects of mathematics and computer science.

Kumar frequently collaborates with several researchers, with repeated coauthor relationships including Han-Pang Chiu, Supun Samarasekera, Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun, Rupali Kaushal, and Garima Gupta.

Best Publications

  • Object tracking with Bayesian estimation of dynamic layer representations

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

  • Method and apparatus for performing geo-spatial registration of imagery

    Rakesh Kumar;Stephen Charles Hsu;Keith Hanna;Supun Samarasekera

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

    H.S. Sawhney;R. Kumar

  • Method and apparatus for total situational awareness and monitoring

    Manoj Aggarwal;Keith Hanna;Harpreet Sawhney;Vincent Paragano

  • A global matching framework for stereo computation

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

  • 3D Building Detection and Modeling from Aerial LIDAR Data

    V. Verma;R. Kumar;S. Hsu

  • 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

  • Method and apparatus for processing images to compute image flow information

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

  • Efficient representations of video sequences and their applications

    Michal Irani;P. Anandan;Jim Bergen;Rakesh Kumar

  • Robust Video Mosaicing through Topology Inference and Local to Global Alignment

    Harpreet S. Sawhney;Steve Hsu;Rakesh Kumar

  • Robust methods for estimating pose and a sensitivity analysis

    Rakesh Kumar;Allen R. Hanson

  • Direct recovery of shape from multiple views: a parallax based approach

    R. Kumar;P. Anandan;K. Hanna

  • Aerial video surveillance and exploitation

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

  • 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

  • Method and apparatus for automatically generating a site model

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

  • Method and apparatus for processing images

    Keith Hanna;Rakesh Kumar;James Bergen;Harpreet Sawhney

  • Method and apparatus for mentoring via an augmented reality assistant

    Rakesh Kumar;Supun Samarasekera;Girish Acharya;Michael John Wolverton

  • Method and system for performing surveillance

    Manoj Aggarwal;Harpreet Sawhney;Supun Samarasakera;Rakesh Kumar

  • Method and apparatus for efficiently representing, storing and accessing video information

    James Russell Bergen;Curtis R. Carlson;Rakesh Kumar;Harpreet S. Sawhney

  • Method and apparatus for enhancing and indexing video and audio signals

    Rakesh Kumar;Harpreet S. Sawhney;Keith Hanna

Frequent Co-Authors

Harpreet Sawhney
Harpreet Sawhney Microsoft (United States)
Supun Samarasekera
Supun Samarasekera SRI International
Zhiwei Zhu
Zhiwei Zhu SRI International
Ying Shan
Ying Shan Tencent (China)
Padmanabhan Anandan
Padmanabhan Anandan Microsoft (United States)
James R. Bergen
James R. Bergen SRI International
Keith W. Ross
Keith W. Ross New York University
Michal Irani
Michal Irani Weizmann Institute of Science
Shmuel Peleg
Shmuel Peleg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Raia Hadsell
Raia Hadsell DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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