Ajit Rajwade Office: E331, CSE Building, University of Florida P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. EMAIL:

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Who am I? Wer bin ich? Moi, c'est qui?

I have recently (Oct 2010) defended my PhD thesis in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. My advisors are Anand Rangarajan and Arunava Banerjee. I have a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Pune, India, and a master's degree in computer science from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

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Visit my blog here

Some fun

• This is what innocent intelligence is all about! :-)
• A collection of mathematical jokes. Some of them really really aren't for kids.
• A few more math jokes.
• The "that's not my job" syndrome
• Who is the president of China?
• The strength of "mathematical" opinions.
• The story of the hardworking ant and the lazy grasshopper (and Indian policitians and media). [scroll down on the linked page a bit]

Links

• SPICMACAY (Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music Amongst Youth) at the campus of the University of Florida

Research Interests

Image Processing and Restoration, Probability Density Estimation, Image Compression and Sparse representations.

Curriculum Vitae

Click here for my CV.

Publications

• Image Denoising

• Ajit Rajwade, Anand Rangarajan and Arunava Banerjee,
  Using the higher order singular value decomposition for video denoising,
  Accepted to EMMCVPR 2011.
• Ajit Rajwade, Anand Rangarajan and Arunava Banerjee,
  Image Denoising Using the Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition,
  University of Florida Technical Report, access here.

• Criteria for Automated Selection of Filter Parameters

• Ajit Rajwade, Anand Rangarajan and Arunava Banerjee,
  Automated Filter Parameter Selection using Measures of "Noiseness",
  Canadian Robot Vision Conference, Ottawa, June 2010. [.pdf], [Poster].

• Image Compression

• Karthik Gurumoorthy, Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  Beyond SVD: Sparse Projections Onto Exemplar Orthonormal Bases for Compact Image Representation,
  Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008. [.pdf] [Presentation slides] BEST SCIENTIFIC PAPER AWARD
  
• Karthik Gurumoorthy, Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  A Method for Compact Image Representation using Sparse Matrix and Tensor Projections onto Exemplar Orthonormal Bases,
  Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).[.pdf], [Link on IEEExplore],also available as Technical Report number REP-2009-476 (Department of CISE, UF).
  *Code* for grayscale and color image compression available here and here.
• Xin Hou, Karthik Gurumoorthy and Ajit Rajwade, "Color Image Compression using a Learned Dictionary of Pairs of Orthonormal Bases", Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2011. [.pdf]

• Probability Density Estimation

• Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  Probability Density Estimation Using Isocontours and Isosurfaces: Application to Information Theoretic Image Registration,
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), March 2009. [Link] [.pdf] [Code]
  
• Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  A New Method of Probability Density Estimation with Application to Mutual Information Based Image Registration,
  Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006. [.pdf], [Presentation slides] [Acceptance ratio for oral presentation: 6 per cent]
  
• Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  Continuous Image Representations Avoid the Histogram Binning Problem in Mutual Information Based Image Registration,
  Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2006. [.pdf]
  
• Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  Image Filtering Driven by Level Curves, [Application of the above p.d.f. estimator in a mean-shift based denoising framework]
  International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Bonn, Germany, August 2009. [.pdf](accepted for oral presentation) [Presentation Slides]

• Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

• Masoumeh Tabaeh-Izadi, Ajit Rajwade and Doina Precup,
  Using core beliefs for point-based value iteration,
  In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2005. [.pdf]
  

• Face Recognition

• Ajit Rajwade and M. Levine,
  Facial Pose from 3D Data,
  Journal of Image and Vision Computing (IMVC), 2006. Link.

Teaching

• COT 3100: Applications of Discrete Structures (Fall 2007) [110 students]
• MAC 2311: Calculus 1 (Summer 2008)

• Spring 2009: COT 4930/6930 Data Mining
• COT 4501 Numerical Analysis (Fall 2008)
• COT 3100: Applications of Discrete Structures (Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009).
• CIS 6930: Mathematical Methods for Intelligent Systems (Fall 2006).
• CIS 3022: Java programming (Spring 2005)
• Theoretical Computer Science, Java Programming, Programming Languages and Principles, Data Structures (at McGill).