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

WHO AM I? WER BIN ICH? MOI, C'EST QUI?

I am a PhD student (and now a PhD candidate) 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.

Some fun

• A collection of mathematical jokes. Some of them really really aren't for kids.

Research Interests

Image Processing and Restoration, Probability Density Estimation, Computational Geometry, Image Compression.

Side Interests

Combinatorics, Hypothesis testing.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• 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]
  

• Image Filtering

• Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee and Anand Rangarajan,
  Image Filtering Driven by Level Curves,
  International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Bonn, Germany, August 2009. [.pdf](accepted for oral presentation) [Presentation Slides]

• 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], also available as Technical Report number REP-2009-476 (Department of CISE, UF).
  Code for grayscale and color image compression available here and here.

• 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).
• 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).