ISHWAR K. SETHIhttp://www.cse.secs.oakland.edu/isethi

Office Address:Computer Science and Engineering Department

School of Engineering and Computer ScienceOakland University

Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401 Tel: 248-370-2820, Fax: 248-370-4625

Email: isethi@oakland.edu

Home Address: 1677 Heatherwood Drive Troy, Michigan 48098 Tel: 248-641-8102

Date of Birth: January 30, 1948

Current Position: Professor and Chair (Since August 15, 1999)

University Education: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India), Ph.D., 1978 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India), M.Tech. 1971 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India), B.Tech. (Hons), 1969

Professional Positions Held:Professor, September 1992 to August 1999, Wayne State University, DetroitVisiting Professor, July 1988 to Dec. 1988, I.I.T. Delhi, IndiaAssociate Professor, Sept. 1985 to August 1992, Wayne State University, DetroitAssistant Professor, Sept. 1982 to August 1985, Wayne State University, DetroitAssistant Professor, Jan. 1978 to August 1982, Dept. of Electronics, I.I.T. Kharagpur, India

Honors and Awards:IEEE Fellow for contributions in statistical pattern recognition and neural networks, January 1, 2001Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE Computer Society for outstanding services as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, June 2001 Second Best Paper Award, ANNIE, St. Louis, November 1999 Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE Computer Society, June 1999Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1998General Chair, Int’l Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, May 1998, Adelaide, Australia

Current Research Interests:Data MiningMultimedia Information Management Information RetrievalPattern RecognitionVideo Analysis & Object Recognition and TrackingDocument Image Processing

Externally Funded Research:

Title: Adaptation of an Undergraduate Program in Information TechnologySource: NSFAmount: $194,275 (Pending; Co-PI)Duration: June 2003- May 2005

Title: Pictorial Information Retrieval Through Feature AssociationsSource: NSFAmount: $330,407 (Pending)Duration: June 2003- May 2006

Title: Data Mining of Medical Outcomes Data for Hip-replacementSource: Mandala SciencesAmount: $95,238Duration: November 2002- August 2003

Title: Undergraduate Computer Research (UnCoRe) for Women at Oakland UniversitySource: NSFAmount: $288,384Duration: June 2002- May 2006

Title: Industrial Partnership Program with Accenture Technology LabSource: AccentureAmount: $10,000Duration: April 2002- March 2003

Title: Industrial Partnership Program with Guardian IndustriesSource: Guardian IndustriesAmount: $5,000Duration: May 2002 – April 2003

Title: Airport Obstruction IdentificationSource: Rutgers University, New JerseyAmount: $118,320 (Co-PI)Duration: April 2002 – August 2003

Title: Text Analysis ToolboxSource: Philips ResearchAmount: $17,040Duration: January 2002 – May 2002

Title: Artificial Intelligence Methods for Sputter Coating Production LineSource: Guardian Science and TechnologyAmount: $127,360Duration: March 2001- February 2004

Title: Center for Entrepreneurial in Information Technology (CEIT)Source: Michigan Economic Development CorporationAmount: $150,000 (Co-PI)Duration: January 2001- December 2003

Title: Industrial Partnership Program with Andersen ConsultingSource: Andersen ConsultingAmount: $15,000Duration: April 2000- December 2001

Title: Industrial Partnership Program with Guardian IndustriesSource: Guardian IndustriesAmount: $10,000Duration: May 2000 – April 2002

Title: Client Computing for Next Generation TAS SystemSource: Interpro CorporationAmount: $46,620 (Co-PI)Duration: September 2000 – May 2001

Title: Recognition of Movement PatternsSource: DCS CorporationAmount: $24,999 Duration: August 15, 1999 – February 14, 2001

Title: A Feature Space Method for MRI Computer-Based AnalysisSource: Henry Ford HospitalAmount: $11,103 Duration: January 1, 1999 – May 31, 1999

Title: Audio Analysis for Content-Based Video Indexing and RetrievalSource: Philips LaboratoriesAmount: $155,066Duration: September 1, 1998 – December 31, 2001

Title: Tools for High Speed Biplane RadiographySource: Henry Ford HospitalAmount: $16,771Duration: September 1, 1997 – June 30, 1998

Title: Laboratory for Data Management and ModelingSource: National Science FoundationAmount: $91,048Duration: Jan. 1, 1998 - June 30, 1999

Title: Data Mining: Issues and Future DirectionsSource: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, CaliforniaAmount: $29,799 Duration: March 1, 1997 - December 31, 1997

Title: Self-Organizing Neural Representation GeneratorSource: Dept. of Air Force / Rome LaboratoryAmount: $25,998 Duration: June 1, 1995 - July 31, 1996

Title: Medical ImagingSource: Medical Knowledge Systems, DetroitAmount: $25,000 Duration: September 1, 1994 - August 31, 1995

Title: Transparent Neural NetworksSource: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, CaliforniaAmount: $199,056 Duration: July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1997

Title: Eye Movement Tracking in VideoSource: Kresge Eye Institute, DetroitAmount: $57,000

Duration: January 1, 1994 - December 31, 1995

Title: Development of Model-Based Fault Diagnostic ToolsSource: Ford Motor Company, DearbornAmount: $18,433Duration: June 1993 - December 1993

Title: Extracting Diagnostic Rules for Lupus Using Neural Networks Source: Sinai Hospital, Detroit

Amount: $5,000Duration: August 1992 - December 1993

Title: REU Supplement to Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees Source: National Science Foundation

Amount: $4,000Duration: June 1992 - May 1993

Title: Evaluation of Operational Action Plan for Improved MobilitySource: Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT)Amount: $9,950 Duration: October 1992 - September 1993

Title: Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)Amount: $184,166Duration: February 1991 - December 1993

Title: REU Supplement to Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)Amount: $4,000Duration: June 1991 - May 1992

Title: Autonomous Imaging SystemSource: Naval Surface Warfare CenterAmount: $39,914Duration: June 1989 - May 1990

Title: Suspicious Movement Detection in Presence of Wave MotionSource: Naval Surface Warfare CenterAmount: $9,931Duration: March - May 1989

Title: Trajectory Based Dynamic Scene AnalysisSource: National Science FoundationAmount: $39,723Duration: July 1985 - May 1987

Title: NSF Range Image Processing WorkshopSource: NSFAmount: $500 (Travel Grant)Duration: March 1988

Publications:

Books and Chapters Oktay Ibrahimov, IK Sethi and N. Dimitrova, “Clustering of Imperfect Transcripts using a Novel Similarity

Measure” in Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications, A. Coden, E. Brown and S. Srinivasan (Eds.), pp.35 - 42, Springer-Verlag, March 2002.

IK Sethi, “Introduction to Data Mining,” in Data Mining in Design and Manufacturing, D. Braha (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

N. Dimitrova, Y. Rui and IK Sethi, “Media Content Management,” in Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems, SM Rahman (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, 2001.

R. Khosla, IK Sethi and E. Damiani, Intelligent Multimedia Multiagent Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, October 2000.

N. Patel and IK Sethi, “Video Segmentation for Video Data Management,” in The Handbook of Multimedia Information Management, WI Grosky, R. Jain, and R. Mehrotra (Eds.), Prentice-Hall, 1997.

IK Sethi and J.H. Yoo, "Symbolic Approximation of Feedforward Neural Networks," in E.S. Gelsema and L.N. Kanal (Eds.), Pattern Recognition in Practice IV, pp. 313-324, North-Holland, 1994.

IK Sethi and N. Patel, "Token Correspondence Through Neural Optimization," in C.H. Dagli, L.I. Burke, B.R. Fernandez, and J. Ghosh (Eds.), Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 3, pp. 335-342, ASME Press, 1993.

IK Sethi, "Decision Tree Performance Enhancement Using and Artificial Neural Network Implementation," in IK Sethi and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Artificial Neural Nets and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Old and New Connections, pp. 71-86, North Holland, 1991.

IK Sethi, “Pattern Recognition,” in GB Bitter (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopedia of Computers, pp. 759 - 764, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1992.

IK Sethi and E. Hajeer, “Tactile Object Recognition Using Hopfield Net,” in C.H. Dagli, S.R.T. Kumara, and Y.C. Shin (Eds.), Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, pp. 415-422, ASME Press 1991.

IK Sethi, V. Salari, and S. Vemuri, "Feature Point Matching Using Temporal Smoothness of Motion," NATO ASI Series: Advances in Pattern Recognition, Eds. P. Devijuer and J. Kittler, Springer-Verlag Pub, pp. 119-132, 1987.

Editorships of Books/Proceedings

Journal of Electronic Imaging, Editor, Special Section on Image and Video Databases, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1998.

Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI , Editors IK Sethi and Ramesh Jain, SPIE Vol. 3312, January 1998.

Machine Vision and Applications, Editor, Special Issue on Image and Video Databases, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1997.Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V , Editors IK Sethi and Ramesh Jain, SPIE Vol. 3022,

Feb. 1997.Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV , Editors IK Sethi and Ramesh Jain, SPIE Vol. 2670,

Jan. 1996.Machine Vision and Applications, Editor, Special Issue on Artificial Neural Networks for Machine Vision,

Vol. 8, No. 5, 1995.Artificial Neural Nets and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Old and New Connections , Eds. IK Sethi and Anil

K. Jain, North-Holland, September 1991.

Journal Articles

Aiyesha Ma, R. Mukhopadhyay, and IK Sethi, “Vector Quantization of Binary Images using Hausdorff Distance,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing (Submitted).

Sorin Draghici, F. Graziano, S. Kettoola, IK Sethi, and G. Towfic, “Mining HIV Dynamics Using Independent Component Analysis,” Bioinformatics (To appear).

Daniela Stan and Ishwar K Sethi, “eID: A System for Exploration of Image Databases,” Information Processing and Management, Vol. 39, pp. 335-361, May 2003.

Daniela Stan and Ishwar K Sethi, “Synobins: An Intermediate Level Approach for Image Annotation and Semantic Retrieval,” IEEE Trans. Multimedia (In revision).

Dongge Li, Gang Wei, Ishwar K Sethi, and N Dimitrova, “Person Identification in TV Programs,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 10, pp. 930-938, October 2001.

Dongge Li, IK Sethi, N Dimitrova and T McGee, “Classification of General Audio Data for Content-Based Retrieval,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 22, pp. 533-544, April 2001.

IK Sethi and I. Coman, “Image Retrieval using Hierarchical Self-Organizing Feature Maps,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 20, pp. 1337-1345, November 1999.

G. Wei and IK Sethi, “Face Detection for Image Annotation,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 20, pp. 1313-1321, November 1999.

Shen, B., IK Sethi and B. Vasudev, “Adaptive Motion-Vector Resampling for Compressed Video Down-Scaling,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 9, pp. 929-936, September 1999.

Shen, B., IK Sethi and B. Vasudev, “DCT Convolution and its Application in Compressed Domain,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 8, pp. 947-952, December 1998.

Shen, B. and IK Sethi, "Block-Based Manipulations of Transformed-Compressed Images and Videos," Multimedia Systems, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 1998.

K. Han and IK Sethi, “An Off-line Cursive Handwritten Word Recognition System and its Application to Legal Amount Interpretation,” International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 757-770, 1997.

N. Patel and IK Sethi, "Video Shot Detection and Characterization for Video Databases," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 30, pp. 583-592, April 1997.

J.H. Yoo and IK Sethi, “Growing Neural Trees using Mutual Information,” International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 57-66, April 1997.

IK Sethi and J.H. Yoo, "Structure-Driven Induction of Decision Tree Classifiers Through Neural Learning," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 1893-1904, 1997.

B. Shen and IK Sethi, “Convolution-Based Edge Detection for Image/Video in Block DCT Domain,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 411-423, December 1996.

N. Patel and IK Sethi, "Compressed Video Processing for Cut Detection," IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 143, No. 3, pp. 315-323, October 1996.

IK Sethi and J.H. Yoo, "Multiple-Valued Logic Representation of Neurons in Feedforward Networks," Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 243-253, December 1996.

B. Shen and IK Sethi, ”Scanline Algorithms in the JPEG Discrete Cosine Transform Compressed Domain,”

Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 5, pp. 182-190, April 1996.

K. Han and IK Sethi, "Handwritten Signature Retrieval and Identification," Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 83-90, 1996.

IK Sethi and J.H. Yoo, "Symbolic Mapping of Neurons in Feedforward Networks," Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 17, No. 10, pp. 1035-1046, 1996.

IK Sethi, “Neural Implementation of Tree Classifiers," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 1243-1249, 1995

IK Sethi, N. Patel, and J.H. Yoo, “A General Approach for Token Correspondence,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 1775-1786, 1994

Tao Li and IK Sethi, “Optimal Decision Fusion in Presence of Link Failures,” IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 661-667, April 1996.

N. Ramesh, J.H. Yoo, and IK Sethi, “Thresholding Based on Histogram Approximation,” IEE Proceedings Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 142, No. 5, pp. 271 - 279, 1995.

W.I Grosky, F. Fotouhi, IK Sethi, and B. Capatina, "Using Metadata for the Intelligent Browsing of Structured Media Objects," SIGMOD Record, Vol. 23, pp. 49-56, December 1994.

IK Sethi and Jae H. Yoo, “Design of Multicategory Multifeature Split Decision Trees Using Perceptron Learning,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 939-947, 1994

IK Sethi, "Comments on "Tracking Multiple Features Using Relaxation," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 865, 1994.

IK Sethi and Gening Yu, "Robot Localization Using Entropy Net," Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 24, pp. 393-402, April 1994.

IK Sethi and Jae H. Yoo, “An Ellipse Detection Method from the Polar and Pole Definition of Ellipse,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 307 - 316, 1993.

Tao Li and IK Sethi, “Optimal Multiple Level Decision Fusion with Distributed Sensors,” IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronics Systems, Vol. 29, pp. 1252-1259, October 1993.

IK Sethi and Nagarajan Ramesh, "Local Association Based Recognition of Two Dimensional Objects," Machine Vision & Applications, Vol. 5, pp. 265-276, 1992.

IK Sethi, "Entropy Net: From Decision Trees to Neural Nets," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 78, No. 10, pp. 1605-1613, 1990. (This paper has been reprinted by IEEE Press and appears in Neural Networks: Theoretical Foundations and Analysis, 1992)

V. Salari and IK Sethi, "Correspondence of Feature Points in Presence of Occlusion,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 12, pp. 87-91, Jan. 1990.

IK Sethi, V. Salari, and S. Vemuri, "Feature Point Matching in Image Sequences,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 7, pp. 113-121, 1988.

IK Sethi and R. Jain, "Finding Trajectories of Feature Points in a Monocular Image Sequence," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 9, pp. 56-73, 1987. (This paper has been reprinted by IEEE Press and appears in Computer Vision: Principles, 1991)

IK Sethi, "A General Scheme for Discontinuity Detection,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 3, pp. 327-333, 1985.

G.P.R. Sarvarayudu and IK Sethi, "Walsh Descriptors for Polygonal Curves,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 16, pp. 327-336, 1983.

BP Bandyopadhyay, IK Sethi, and P.N. Chakraborty, "Classification, Data Analysis and Composition Determination in High Pressure Moulding Sand Systems Using Pattern Recognition Techniques,” British Foundaryman, Vol. 76, pp. 104-107, 1983.

IK Sethi, "Edge Detection Using Charge Analogy," Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 20, pp. 185-195, 1982.

IK Sethi and G.P.R. Sarvarayudu, "Hierarchical Classifier Design Using Mutual Information,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 4, pp. 441-445, 1982

IK Sethi, "A Fast Algorithm for Recognizing Nearest Neighbors," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 11, pp. 245-248, 1981

IK Sethi, "Fault Detection in Combinational Circuits Using Compressed Fault Table,” Int'l Journal of Electronics, Vol. 49, pp. 279-286, 1980.

IK Sethi and B. Chaterjee, "Conversion of Decision Tables into Efficient Sequential Testing Procedures,” Comm. of ACM, Vol. 23, pp. 279-285,1980.

IK Sethi, "Fast Sequential Evaluation of Monotonic Boolean Functions,” Information Sciences, Vol. 20, pp. 101-113, 1980

IK Sethi and B. Chaterjee, "Efficient Decision Tree Design for Discrete Variable Pattern Recognition Problems,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 9, pp. 197-206, 1978.

IK Sethi and B. Chaterjee, "Learning Classifier Design for Discrete Variable Pattern Recognition Problems,” IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 8, pp. 49-52, 1978.

IK Sethi and B. Chaterjee, "Machine Recognition of Constrained Handprinted Devanagari,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 9, pp. 69-75, 1977.

IK Sethi and B. Chaterjee, "Machine Recognition of Handprinted Devanagari Numerals", JIETE (India), Vol. 22, pp. 532-535, 1976.

Conference Publications

Mingkun Li, Dongge Li, Nevenka Dimitrova and Ishwar K Sethi, “Audio-Visual Talking Face Detection,” Proceedings IEEE Conference on Multimedia Exposition (ICME), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 2003.

Mingkun Li, Ishwar K Sethi, Dongge Li and Nevenka Dimitrova, “Region Growing Using Online Learning,” Proceedings Int’l Conference on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology (CISST), pp. 73-76, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003.

Aiyesha Ma, Rishi Mukhopadhyay and Ishwar K Sethi, “Hausdorff Metric Based Vector Quantization of Binary Images,” Proceedings Int’l Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE), pp. 315-320, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003.

Dongge Li, IK Sethi and N. Dimitrova, “Fast DCT-Domain Filtering Using Frequency Division Processing,” Proceedings Int’l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, December 2002.

V Kulesh, VA Petrushin and IK Sethi, “Video Clip Recognition Using Joint Audio-Visual Processing Model,” Proceedings Int’l Conf. Pattern Recognition, pp. I-500-03, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.

Oktay Ibrahimov, IK Sethi and N. Dimitrova,” The Performance Analysis of a Chi-Square Similarity Measure for Topic Related Clustering of Noisy Transcripts,” Proceedings Int’l Conf. Pattern Recognition, pp. IV-485-490, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002.

Daniela Stan and Ishwar K Sethi, “Color Patterns for Pictorial Content Description,” Proceedings ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Madrid, Spain, March 2002.

Oktay Ibrahimov, IK Sethi and N. Dimitrova, “Novel Similarity-Based Clustering Algorithm for Grouping Broadcast News,” Proceedings SPIE Conf. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, pp. 294-304, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.

V Kulesh, VA Petrushin and IK Sethi, “PERSEUS: Personalized Multimedia News Portal,” Proceedings IASTED Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications, pp. 307-312, Marbella, Spain, September, 2001.

V Kulesh, VA Petrushin and IK Sethi, “The PERSEUS Project: Creating Personalized Multimedia News Portal,” Proceedings Second Int’l Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining, pp. 31-37, San Francisco, California, August, 2001.

IK Sethi, IL Coman and D Stan, “Mining Association Rules between Low-level Image Features and High-level Concepts,” Proceedings SPIE Conf. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Orlando, Florida, April 2001.

D. Stan and IK Sethi, “Mapping Low-level Image Features to Semantic Concepts,” Proceedings IS&T/SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, San Jose, CA, January 2001.

D. Li, G. Wei, IK Sethi and N. Dimitrova, “Fusion of Visual and Audio Features for Person Identification in Real Video,” Proceedings IS&T/SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, San Jose, CA, January 2001.

G. Wei, IK Sethi and N. Dimitrova, “Tracking Faces of Arbitrary Views for Video Annotation,” Proceedings SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, January 2001.

D. Stan and IK Sethi, “Image Retrieval using a Hierarchy of Clusters,” Proceedings International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2001.

V. Kulesh, K. Schaffer, IK Sethi and M. Schwartz, “Handwriting Quality Evaluation,” Proceedings International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2001.

G. Wei and IK Sethi, “Omni-Face Detection for Image/Video Content Description,” Proceedings ACM Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, pp. 185-190, Marina del Rey, CA, November 2000.

G. Wei and IK Sethi, “Detection of Side-view Faces in Color Images,” Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 79-84, Palm Spring, CA, December 2000.

D. Reimann, V. Chaudhary, and IK Sethi, “Modeling Core-Beam Tomographic Reconstruction using LogSMP: An Extended LogP Model for Clusters of SMPs,” Proceedings International Conference on High Performance Computing, pp. 77-83, December 1999.

Alina Lazar and IK Sethi, “Decision rule extraction from trained neural networks using rough sets,” Proceedings ANNIE’99, pp. 493-497, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1999. (Awarded Second Best Paper Prize)

G. Wei, IK Sethi and S. Sarkar, “Traffic sign detection for driving assistance,” Proceedings ANNIE’99, St. Louis, Missouri, pp. 821-826, November 1999.

S. Sarkar, IK Sethi and G. Bocheneck, “A survey of alertness monitoring methods for drivers,” Proceedings ANNIE’99, pp. 845-850, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1999.

IK Sethi and I. Coman, “Image Retrieval using Hierarchical Self-Organizing Feature Maps,” Pattern Recognition in Practice VI, Vlieland, Holland, June 1999.

G. Wei and IK Sethi, “Face Detection for Image Annotation,” Pattern Recognition in Practice VI, Vlieland, Holland, June 1999.

Dongge Li and IK Sethi, “MDC: A Software Tool for Developing MPEG Applications,” IEEE Conf. Multimedia Systems, Florence, Italy, June 1999.

IK Sethi, “Building a Term Association Model for Documents of Interests,” Proc. SPIE Conf. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, pp. 102-107, Orlando, Florida, April 1999.

B. Shen, IK Sethi and V. Bhaskaran, “DCT domain alpha blending,” Proc. IEEE Conf. Image Processing, pp. I-857-861, Chicago, Illinois, October 1998.

IK Sethi et al, “Color-WISE: A System for Image Similarity Retrieval using Color,” Proceedings Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, pp. 140-148, San Jose, California, January 1998.

Bo Shen, Dongge Li and IK Sethi, “Cut Detection via Edge Extraction in Compressed Video,” Visual’97, pp. 149-156, San Diego, December 1997.

Bo Shen, IK Sethi and V. Bhaskaran, “Adaptive Motion Vector Resampling for Compressed Video Down-Scaling,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Santa Barbara, October 1997

Bo Shen and IK Sethi, “Closed Loop MPEG Video Rendering,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, Ottawa, June 1997.

Sorin Draghici, V. Beiu and IK Sethi, “A VLSI optimal constructive algorithm for classification problems,” Proc. Smart Engineering Systems: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Data Mining and Evolutionary Programming, vol. 7, pp. 145-151, ASME Press, New York, 1997.

Sorin Draghici and IK Sethi, “On the possibilities of the limited precision weights neural networks in classification problems,” in Biological and Artificial Computation: From Neuroscience to Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Mira, R. Moreno-Diaz, J. Cabestany (Eds.), pp. 753-762, Springer Verlag, 1997.

Sorin Draghici and IK Sethi, “Choosing the appropriate size network for low-cost hardware implementation: a tight lower bound for the number of bits of integer limited weights neural networks,” In I. Dumitrache (ed.): Proc. of the 11th Intl. Conf. on Control System and Computer Science CSCS-11 , Politehnica Univ., Bucharest, Romania, vol. 2, pp. 95-100, 28-30 May 1997.

Sorin Draghici and IK Sethi, “Adapting theoretical constructive algorithms to hardware implementations for classification problems, in Neural Networks in Engineering Systems,” AB Bulsari, S. Kallio (Eds.), Proc. of the 1997 International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-18 June 1997, pp. 303-308, Systeemitekniikan seurary, 1997.

Nilesh Patel and IK Sethi, “Video Classification using Speaker Identification,” Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, San Jose, February 1997

Bo Shen, IK Sethi, and V. Bhaskaran, “Digital Blue Screen Editing in Compressed Domain,” Proc. Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, February 1997.

Richard J.H. Filer, IK Sethi, and J. Austin, “A Comparison Between Two Rule Extraction Methods for Continuous Data,” Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Rule Extraction from Trained Neural Networks, Snowmass, Colorado, December 1996.

David Reimann, V. Chaudhary, M.J. Flynn, and IK Sethi, "Parallel Implementation of Cone Beam

Tomography," Proc. Int'l Conf. Parallel Processing, Bloomingdale, Illinois, August 1996.

Bo Shen and IK Sethi, "Scanline Algorithms in Compressed Domain," Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. Digital Video Compression, San Jose, Jan. 1996.

N. Patel and IK Sethi, "Audio Characterization for Video Indexing," Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, pp. 376-384, San Jose, Jan. 1996

Bo Shen and IK Sethi, "Direct Feature Extraction from Compressed Images," Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, San Jose, Jan. 1996

Jae Yoo and IK Sethi, "Design of Radial Basis Function Networks Using Decision Trees," Proc. ICNN-95, Perth, Australia.

Bo Shen and IK Sethi, "Inner-Block Operations for Compressed Images," Proc. ACM Multimedia, pp. 489-498, San Francisco, November 1995.

Gening Yu and IK Sethi, "Road Following with Continuous Learning," Proc. Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, pp. 412-417, Detroit, September 1995.

IK Sethi, "Image Computing for Visual Information Systems," ETD 2000, Adelaide, Australia, May 1995 (Invited Paper).

Ke Han and IK Sethi, "Signature Identification via Local Association of Features," Proc. Int'l Conf. Document Analysis & Recognition, pp. 187-190, Montreal, August 1995.

Ke Han and IK Sethi, "Off-Line Cursive Writing Segmentation Scheme," Proc. Int'l Conf. Document Analysis & Recognition, pp. 894-897, Montreal, August 1995.

IK Sethi and N. Patel, "Scene Change Detection Using Statistical Approach," Proc. IS&T/ SPIE Conference Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, pp. 329-339, 1995.

N. Ramesh and IK Sethi, "Feature Identification as an Aid to Content-Based Image Retrieval," Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conference Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, pp. 2-11, 1995.

IK Sethi and Ke Han, "Retrieval of Signature Images Using Local Structural Associations," Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conference Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, pp. 125-136, 1995.

N. Ramesh and IK Sethi, “Nearest Neighbor Classification Using CMAC,” Proc. IEEE Conference Neural Networks, Vol. V, pp. 3061-3066, Orlando, Florida, June 1994.

E. Hajeer and IK Sethi, "Adaptive Hyperplane Algorithm for Texture Characterization," Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. III, pp. 2426-2430, San Antonio, Texas, October, 1994.

N. Ramesh and IK Sethi, "Efficient Nearest Neighbor Classification," Proceedings World Congress on Neural Networks, Vol. III, pp. 138-143, San Diego, California, June 1994.

J.H. Yoo and IK Sethi, "Growing Neural Trees Using AMIG Learning," Proceedings World Congress on Neural Networks, Vol. III, pp. 396-401, San Diego, California, June 1994.

IK Sethi and J.H. Yoo, “Modified Pocket Algorithm for Single Perceptron Training in Multicategory Environment,” Proc. World Congress on Neural Networks, Vol. IV, pp. 33-38, Portland, Oregon, July 1993.

IK Sethi, J.H. Yoo, and C. Brickman, “Extraction of Diagnostic Rules Using Neural Networks,” Proc. 6th Annual Symp. Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp. 217-222, Ann Arbor, June 1993

IK Sethi and J.H. Yoo, "SIR: Simultaneous Induction of Rules Using Neural Networks," Proc. Int'l Joint

Conf. Neural Networks, pp. I-359-364, Baltimore, June 1992.

IK Sethi, Y.K. Chung, and J.H. Yoo, "Correspondence Using Property Coherence," Proc. SPIE Conf. Applications of AI, Orlando, April 1992.

IK Sethi and Y.K. Chung, "Relative Motion Detection in Point Patterns," Proc. Int'l Conf. Pattern Recognition, pp. I-696-699, Hague, The Netherlands, August 1992.

IK Sethi and Gening Yu, "Robot Localization With Entropy Net Using Ultrasonic Sensing," Proc. Int'l Joint Conf. Neural Networks, pp. II-753-758, Seattle, July 1991.

IK Sethi and W.L. Brillhart, "Traffic Analysis Including Non-Conforming Behavior via Image Processing," Proc. Int'l Conf. on Vehicle Navigation and Information System, Dearborn, Michigan, October 1991.

IK Sethi and E. Hajeer, "Tactile Object Recognition Using Hopfield Net," Proc. Int'l Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 415-422, St. Louis, November 1991.

N. Ramesh and IK Sethi, “A Model Based Industrial Part Recognition System Using Hashing,” Proc. International Robots and Vision Automation Conference, pp. 3-37-3-51, Detroit, October 1991.

IK Sethi and Gening Yu, “Making a Mobile Robot Learn to Determine its Location," Proc . International Robots and Vision Automation Conference, Detroit, October 1991.

IK Sethi and Gening Yu, "A Neural Network Approach to Robot Localization," Proc. Int'l Symp. Intelligent Control Systems, pp. 513 - 517, Philadelphia, September 1990

IK Sethi and Mike Otten, "Comparison Between Entropy Net and Decision Tree Classifiers", Proc. Int'l Joint Conf. Neural Networks, pp. 63-68, San Diego, June 1990.

IK Sethi, H. Cheung, N. Ramesh, and Y.K. Chung, "Automatic Detection of Motion of Interest for Surveillance," Proc. Int'l Conf. Automation, Robotics, and Vision, pp. 227-231, Singapore, September 1990.

IK Sethi, "Layered Neural Net Design Using Decision Trees,” Proc. IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1082 - 1085, Louisiana, May 1990.

IK Sethi and Nagarajan Ramesh, "A Flexible 2-D Shape Recognition Approach Through Hashing,” Proc. ROBEX 89, pp. 185-188, Palo Alto, August 1989.

K. Dreyer, IK Sethi, and AC Held, "Segmenting Echocardiographic Images Using Expert Labeling,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Vision, pp. 807-817, Philadelphia, November 1989.

IK Sethi and Nagarajan Ramesh, "2-D Shape Recognition Using Redundant Hashing,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Vision, pp. 477-486, Philadelphia, November 1989.

D. Thomas and IK Sethi, "Detection of Small Moving Objects,” Proc. Pattern Recognition for Advanced Missile Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, Nov. 1988.

J. Sowers, R. Mehrotra, and IK Sethi, "Road Boundary Detection", Proc. SPIE Conf. on Mobile Robots III, pp. 56 -63, Cambridge, November, 1988.

J. Leu, IK Sethi, and T. Hong, "Object Surface Characterization from Range Images,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on Piece Recognition. & Image Proc., Dearborn, Michigan, June 1988.

D. Thomas, IK Sethi, and V. Salari, "Motion Filtering for Target Extraction and Tracking in Infrared Images,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on AI Applications, pp. 505-511, Orlando, April 1988.

V. Salari and IK Sethi, "Feature Point Correspondence in Presence of Occlusion,” Proc. IEEE Computer

Vision Workshop, pp. 327-330, Miami, Dec. 1987.

Jia-Guu Leu, IK Sethi, and G. Yu, "Range Image Segmentation Using Equi-distance Contours,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision Workshop, pp. 339-341, Miami, Dec. 1987.

Jia-Guu Leu and IK Sethi, "Range Image Analysis via Density Slicing,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on Advances in Intelligent Robots, pp. 388-393, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1987.

GM Tse and IK Sethi, "Road Boundary Detection for a Mobile Robot,” Proc. of 30th Midwest Symposium Circuits and Systems, pp. 373-375, Syracuse, August 1987.

IK Sethi, V. Salari, and S. Vemuri, "Image Sequence Segmentation Using Motion Coherence," Proc. First Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision, pp. 667-671, London, England, June 1987

IK Sethi, V. Salari, and S. Vemuri, "Temporal Segmentation in Image Sequences,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on AI Applications, pp. 162-168, Orlando, Florida, May 1987.

IK Sethi and R. Jain, "Finding Trajectories of Points in a Monocular Image Sequence,” Proc. Second IEEE Conf. on AI Applications, pp. 106-110, Miami Beach, Florida, December 1985.

IK Sethi and S.N. Jayaramamurthy, "Surface Classification Using Characteristic Contours,” Proc. Seventh Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pp. 438-440, Montreal, Canada, July 1984.

IK Sethi, "A General Scheme for Discontinuity Detection,” Proc. Seventh Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pp. 42-44, Montreal, Canada, July 1984.

R. Jain and IK Sethi, "Establishing Correspondence of Non-rigid Objects Using Smoothness of Motion,” Proc. IEEE Computer Vision Workshop, pp. 83-87, Annapolis, Maryland, May 1984.

G.P.R. Sarvarayudu and IK Sethi, "Condensed Library Approach for 3-D Object Recognition,” Proc. Int'l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 40-42, Bombay, India, December 1983.

IK Sethi and G.P.R. Sarvarayudu, "Boundary Approximation Using Walsh Series Expansion for Numeral Recognition,” Proc. Fifth Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pp. 879-881, Miami, Florida, December 1980.

IK Sethi, "Sequential Evaluation of Logic Statements in Character Recognition,” Proc. Fifth National Systems Conf., pp. 12-15, Ludhiana, India, October 1978.

IK Sethi and B. Chatterjee, "Syntactic Methods in Character Recognition,” Proc. All India Symp. Pattern Recognition and Digital Techniques, pp. 56-62, ISI Calcutta, India, January 1977.

Book Reviews Published

IK Sethi, A Review of Neural Networks in Vision and Pattern Recognition, (Eds.) J. Skrzypek and W. Karplus, World Scientific Press, Journal of Classification, Vol. 12, pp. 140-142, 1995

IK Sethi, A Review of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Y. Anzai, Academic Press, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, Vol. 4, pp. 889-890, November, 1993.

IK Sethi, A Review of Algorithms for Clustering Data by AK Jain and R. Dubes, PAMI Newsletter, pp. 13-14, October 1988.

Professional Achievements:

Membership on Editorial Boards

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Multimedia (January 2002 –)Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Jan 1997 – Dec 2000)Associate Editor, IEEE Multimedia (July 2000 –)Associate Editor, Journal of Pattern Recognition (January 1990 –)Associate Editor, Machine Vision and Applications (January 1994 –)Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters (January 1996 –)

Membership on Conference Committees (Last Five Years)

Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Motion, Orlando, 2002Program Committee Member, Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP), 1997 - 2001Program Committee Member, SPIE Conference Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Orlando, Since 1999 Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,Santa Barbara, June 1998Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop Content-Based Retrieval, Santa Barbara, June 1998Honorary Chair, First International Conference on Conventional and Knowledge-BasedIntelligent Electronic Systems, Adelaide, Australia, May 1997Co-Chair, IS&T/SPIE Conference on Storage & Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, San Jose, 1996 - 1998Program Committee Member, Visual’97, San Diego, December 1997Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,San Francisco, June 1996

Reviewing Activities

NIH Panel Member (1992 – 2001)NSF Panel Member (2001 –)Regular Reviewer for many journals and book publishersAustralian Research Council (1997 –) Dutch Research CouncilUniversity of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 1996-1997University of New South Wales, Australia, 1996, 2000La Trobe University, Australia, 2001