Invited Presenter, “Understanding the Health Needs for People with Disabilities: Implications for Assistive Technologies Research,” World Health Organization: Forum 8, Mexico, 2004. Best Demo Award, “A Multimodal Gamified Platform for Real-time User Feedback in Sports Performance,” 24th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2016. Tamil American Pioneer (TAP) Award, Computing and Informatics, Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America (FeTNA), 2015. Outstanding Doctoral Mentor, Arizona State University, in recognition of commitment to doctoral education and professional preparation of students, 2014. Honoree, Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), Inventor Recognition, 2014. Arizona Business Leader, Manufacturing and Technology Research Leader, AZ Business Leaders, 2016. Best Doctoral Thesis Award, Ph.D. student Mrs. Rita Chattopadhyay in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision System Engineering, Arizona State University, 2013. ASU Leadership Award, “Outstanding Service and Contributions to the ASU Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Computing and Informatics,” 2009. Best Department Article Award, IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, “Person-Centered Multimedia Computing: A New Paradigm Inspired by Assistive and Rehabilitative Applications,” October 2017. Best paper award, “Configurable Haptic Training System for Laparoscopy,” Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16 Conference, California, 2008. Best award, “Gesture-Based Hand Movement Analysis and Haptic Feedback for Surgical Training,” Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14 Conference, California, 2006. Academic Collaboration Award, Outstanding contributions to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities through the iCARE Research Project, ASU Disability Resources for Students, 2004. Member, Standards Council of Canada Committee for International Multimedia Standards, JBIG/JPEG/ MPEG/MHEG Standards, 1992 – 1997. Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) Best Graduate Thesis Award, Master’s Thesis student Mr. Eric Chan, Toronto, 1994. Rhodes Scholar Finalist, India, 1984. Scholarly Activities Publications Summary (Details, p. 60) Category Number of Publications Papers in Refereed Journals 84 Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings 382 Chapters/Sections in Books 17 Technical Reports 9 Other Publications (Editor-in-Chief Message) 9
A Performance Evaluation Framework for Internet and Multimedia Services in Network Processors (PI: Y. Lee; Co-PI: S. Panchanathan) $89,347 5/16/01-5/15/02 NSF – DUE CCLI Grant A Logical Foundation for an Information Engineering Curriculum (PI: F. Golshani; Co-PI: S. Panchanathan) $386,000 7/15/99-6/30/02 SUN Research Grant Multimedia Computing with UltraSparc (PI: S. Panchanathan) $200,000 9/01/99-5/31/02 Luxxon Corp. Software Environment for H.223 Implementation (PI: S. Panchanathan) $81,337 5/15/00-8/31/01 Motorola Research Contract Media Processing for Digital Television (PI: S. Panchanathan) $176,203 1/16/99-5/15/01 ASU Research Grant Genomic Signal Proceeding (PI: S. Panchanathan) $90,000 1999-2000 ASU Research Grant Media Processing (PI: S. Panchanathan) $27,000 1999-2000 TRIO Content Indexing of Visual Media $125,000 1997 – 1998 Research Grant Indexing of Compressed Video Sequences $88,000 1997 – 1998 NSERC – Industry Oriented Research (IOR) Video Signal Processing and Coding for Multimedia Services in Future Networks. $180,000 1996 – 1998 – IOR Distance Learning over an ATM Network $150,000 1994 – 1997 NCE – Network (MICRONET) Computing in Random Access Memory (CRAM) $80,000 1993 – 1997
Center of Excellence - Telecom Res. Institute of Ontario (TRIO) Multimedia Communications $1,360,000 1993 – 1997 Research Grant Real–Time Coders for Image Coding using VQ $95,855 1990 – 1997 Center of Excellence – Canadian Institute of Telecom Res. (CITR) Scalable Video Coding for Database Storage $525,000 1990 – 1996 National Research Council (NRC) Optical Computing Architectures for Video Processing $33,785 1995 – 1996 CANARIE – Canadian Marconi Company Compression for a Video Server $43,000 1994 – 1995 University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) Multimedia Communications Workstation for Cardiac Image Sequences $459,945 1990 – 1993 TRIO Multimedia Communications $680,000 1991 – 1993 University Research Fund Compression $26,000 1990 – 1992 Mentoring Activities Details Doctoral Students – Current 1. A. Tadayon, Anticipatory and Invisible Interfaces to Address Impaired of Proprioception in Neurological Disorders, Ph.D., expected 2018.
24. T.M. Le#, Computing RAM's for Video Processing Ph.D., 2000, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. 25. M. Mandal, Wavelets for Compression and Indexing, Ph.D., 1998, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, CA. †Nominated for the Best Ph.D. student School of Computing, Informatics and Decision System Engineering #Nominated for the Governor General's Gold Medal for the Best Ph.D. thesis at the University of Ottawa *Best Ph.D. Student Award, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision System Engineering Masters Degree by Thesis Students – Current P. Papreja, Smart Wheelchairs for People with Motor Impairments, M.S., expected 2019. Masters Degree by Thesis Students – Graduated J. Eusebio, Learning Transferable Data Representations Using Deep Generative Models, M.S., 2018. S. Mian, Long-Term Deployment of an Autonomous Drone System in an Urban Environment, M.S., 2018. D. D'Souza, Addressing Problems Facing Drone Scheduling Systems in Urban Environment, M.S., 2018. L. Narayan Viswanathan, Enhancing Movie Comprehension for Individuals who are Visually Impaired or Blind through Haptics, M.S., 2011. H. Venkatesan, Human Activity Recognition, M.S., 2011. S. Nataraju, Visual Attention-Based Saliency in Videos, M.S., 2010. R. Gouripeddi, Kernal-Based Machine Learning Approaches for Decision Support in Interventional Cardiology, M.S., 2009. L. Gade, Person Localization in Videos from a Wearable Camera, M.S., 2009. M. Vankipuram, Hybrid Optimization of Haptic Rendering for Volumetric Drilling Simulation, M.S., 2008. D. Villenueva, Characterization of Dynamic Expertise in Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition Systems, M.S., 2008. F. Saeidi, Predictive Model for Errors in High Cognitive Load Environments Using Electroencephalography, M.S., 2008.
33. K. Tsougarakis, Unsupervised Content–Based Video Object Segmentation and Tracking, M.S., 2000. 34. V. Singhla, Video Composition and Retrieval System, M.S., 1999. 35. L. Chandrasekhar, Architectures for Motion Estimation in MPEG 4, M.S., 1999. 36. R. Gururaj, Visual Query Specification and Retrieval, M.S., 1999. 37. G. Hammouri, Video Algebra, ., August 1997. 38. Q. Hu, Scalable Video Compression, ., March 1997. 39. D. Knox, Telecommunications Call Processing on a Linear Processor Array, ., 1996. 40. Real–Time Methods for Face Recognition, ., 1999. 41. A. Grezeszczak, VLSI Architectures for Discrete Wavelet Transform, ., 1995. 42. T.M. Le, Computing RAM's for Video Compression, ., 1995. 43. M. Mandal, Wavelets for Image Compression, ., 1994. 44. A. Jain, Scalable Image Coding for Storage, and Transmission, ., 1994. 45. E. Chan+, Novel Motion Estimators for Video Compression, ., 1994. 46. F. An Algorithm and Architecture for Video Compression, ., 1993. 47. R. Gandhi, 3–D Pyramids for Video Compression, ., 1993. 48. G. Iyengar, Algorithms and Architectures for Progressive Image Transmission, ., 1993. 49. D.Richens, Multimedia Workstation for Cardiac Image Sequences, ., 1993. 50. L. Frame Replenishment Coding over Noisy Channels, ., 1991. + Best Thesis Award in Multimedia Communications from Canadian Advance Technology Association (CATA). Masters Degree by Project Students – Current B. Gupta, Chat-Box: A Mood Analyzer for Individuals with Social Interaction Disabilities, MCS, Expected 2018. Masters Degree by Project Students – Graduated
1. K. Bracamonte, Image Quality Assessment for Wearable Vision Systems, MCS, December 2010. 2. R. Hiremagalur, A Platform Evaluating Potential Augmentations to the Human Visual System, MCS 2006. 3. M. Rush, iCARE Reader Design, Development and Background Work, M.Eng., 2005. 4. M. Walters, Human Skin Detection: An Implementation of the Fleck and Forsyth Naked People Skin Filter, 2004. 5. N. Video Indexing in the MPEG Domain Compressed, M.Eng., 2002. 6. R. Brinkerhoff, iGuide Reader: A System for Automatic Reading of Printed Test, M.Eng., 2002. 7. J. Chen, Video Browser for Distance Learning, M.Eng., 2000. 8. S. Dillman, An Image and Video Processing Tool–Box, M.Eng., 1999. 9. S. Padhy, Scalable Video Browsing, M.Eng., 1999. 10. Y.P. Ko, Scalable Video Transmission over Wireless Networks, M.Eng., 1999. 11. C. Huang, Color–based Indexing of Visual Information, M.Eng., 1998. 12. K. A. Qazi, Transmission over ATM, M.Eng., 1998. Research Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Engineers – Current 1. Dr. Hemanth Venkateswara, Transfer Learning for Computer Vision Applications, 2017 – to date. 1. Dr. Troy McDaniel, Haptic User Interfaces for Assistive and Rehabilitative Applications, 2011 – to date. Research Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Engineers – Completed
1. Dr. Ramin Tadayon, Person-Centered Motor Learning and Rehabilitation, 2017 – 2018. 2. Dr. S. Chakraborty, Batch Mode Active Learning for Multimedia Pattern Recognition, completed, 2017. 2. Dr. S. Yasmin, iHap: Toward a Vision Substitution System for Active Analysis of Facial Expressions, 2013 – 2015. 3. Dr. V. Balasubramanian, Human Centered Multimedia Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Assistive Technology, 2010 – 2013. 4. Dr. J. Black, Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing Research, 2004 – 2012. 5. Dr. G. Pradhan, Pattern Recognition, Classification, and Cluster Analysis on Databases, 2009 – 2011. 6. Dr. D. Colbry, Analysis and Recognition of Faces, Emotions, and Events, 2007 – 2009. 7. Dr. T. Hedgpeth, iCARE Reader and Interaction Assistant Research, 2002 – 2008. 8. Mr. W. Atwood, User Interface Designs for Surgical Simulators, 2007 – 2008. 9. Mr. S. Brainman, Prototype Designs for iCARE project, 2007 – 2009. 10. Dr. B. Van Emden, Genomic Image Processing, 2002 – 2009. 11. Dr. K. Kahol, Haptic Interfaces – Modeling, Rehabilitation and Surgical Simulation, 2005 – 2007. 12. Mr. P. Kuchi, Visual Search and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition, 2006. 13. Dr. O. Lotfollah, MPEG–4 Video Communication and Performance Analysis, 2004 – 2006. 14. Dr. M. Donderler, Multimedia Databases and Information Assistants for Blind Individuals, 2002 – 2004. 15. Dr. D. Liu, 3D Feature Extraction for Indexing, 2000 – 2002.
9. J. Rosenthal, Haptic Belt System Design, Project, 2009. 10. C. Juillard, iCARE Immersion Assistant Prototype, Project, 2008. 11. S. Philipp, Multiple Accelerometers Based Tap Interface, Project, 2009. 12. D. Merrill, iCARE Interaction Assistant Prototype, Project, 2008. 13. D. G. Little, A Methodology for Evaluating Robustness of Face Recognition Algorithms with Respect to Variations in Pose and Illumination Angle, Thesis, 2005. 14. P. Tripathi, Visual Processing of 3D Dance Data, Thesis, 2003. 15. R. Walker, Visual Representation of Audio Signals, Thesis, 1999. 16. I. Jama, Video Retrieval, Thesis, 1997. 17. A. Vashist, and Video Indexing using Text, Thesis, 1997. 18. R. Djafarzadeh, Browsing, Thesis, 1997. 19. P. Rojas, Video Indexing, Thesis, 1997. 20. Y. P. Ko, Indexing, Project, 1995. 21. K. Tse, Scene Change Detection in MPEG–2 Domain, Project, 1995. 22. J. Wei, Scene Change Detection for a Sequence of Raw Frames, Project, 1995. 23. H. Dam, Color Mapping Algorithms, Project, 1994. 24. P. Manga, A Neural Network Approach to PVQ for Image Compression, Thesis, 1993. 25. C. Cell Loss Effects on Compressed Images, Project, 1993. 26. S. Nashikkar, Kohonen Learning Applied to Vector Quantizer Design, Project, 1992.
Technical Reports S. Panchanathan, S. Krishna, B. Patel, “Studying Individual’s and Group’s Artifacts in Medical Teams Toward Improved Patient Safety: A TeamSTEPPS Approach,” ASU/Mayo, June 2010. S. Panchanathan, “Design of High–Performance General Purpose Embedded Processors on the ARM Architecture,” ARM Inc., August 2002. S. Panchanathan, “Software Environment for H.223 Implementation,” Luxxon, May 2000. S. Panchanathan, Processing for Digital Television,” Motorola, May 2000. S. Panchanathan, “Multimedia Computing with UltraSparc,” Sun Microsystems, May 2001. S.Panchanathan, “H.263 Implementation Using a Strong–ARM Processor,” Corel Corp., August 1997. S. Panchanathan, “Optical Computing Architectures for Video Compression,” National Research Council of Canada, January 1996. S. Panchanathan, Compression for a Video Server,” Canadian Marconi Co., March 1995. S. Panchanathan, “Advanced Techniques for Video Compression,” Telesat Canada, March 1994. Other Publications IEEE Multimedia Magazine EIC Message, Passing the Baton with Fond Memories, p. 2, January – March 2010. IEEE Multimedia Magazine EIC Message, Looking Forward to Changes in 2009, p. 1, January – March 2009. IEEE Multimedia Magazine Feature Article on Documenting Motion Sequences with a Personalized Annotation System, p. 37–45, January – March 2006. IEEE Multimedia Magazine EIC Message, The Journey Ahead, p. 1, April– June 2006. IEEE Multimedia Magazine, EIC Message, Haptic User Interfaces for Multimedia Systems, p. 22– 23, July– September 2006. IEEE Multimedia Magazine EIC Message, Creativity at the Fusion of Disciplines, January – March 2007. Health Technology TRENDS, Novel interdisciplinary collaborations bring sea change to surgical training through virtual reality, Vol. 19, No. 6, p.10, June 2007. IEEE Multimedia Magazine EIC Message, Looking into the Future, p.2, July – September 2007. IEEE Multimedia Magazine EIC Message, Looking Forward: New Ideas, New Opportunities, p. 1, January – March 2008.