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Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC)
School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
(480) 544 – 5182, vineeth.nb@asu.edu, http://www.public.asu.edu/~vnallure
RESEARCH INTERESTS
CORE EXPERTISE Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Human-centered
Multimedia Computing, Uncertainty Quantification, Information Fusion
APPLICATION DOMAINS Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies, Healthcare Systems, Biometrics
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Computer Science) 2010
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ CGPA: 4.17/4.00
Masters in Technology (Computer Science) 2003
Sri Sathya Sai University, India CGPA: 5.00/5.00
Masters in Science (Math) 2001
Sri Sathya Sai University, India CGPA: 4.97/5.00
Bachelors in Science (Math) 1999
Sri Sathya Sai University, India CGPA: 4.95/5.00
TEACHING Teaching Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aug 2005 –
Arizona State University May 2010
CSE/EEE 230 - Computer Organization/Assembly Language Programming 2007-10
CSE 220 – Programming for Computer Engineering 2006-07
CSE 355 – Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science 2005-06
JOURNALS/BOOK CHAPTERS
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/WORKSHOPS
26. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Dynamic Batch Size Selection for Batch Mode
Active Learning in Biometrics", 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
(ICMLA'10), Washington DC, Dec 2010.
22. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Batch Mode Active Learning for Biometric
Recognition", SPIE International Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification, SPIE
Defense, Security & Sensing, Orlando, Florida, USA, Apr 2010.
18. S. Nataraju, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Learning Attention Based Saliency in Videos from
Human Eye Movements", IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC), Snowbird, UT, Dec
2009.
17. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Generalized Query by Transduction for Online
Active Learning", IEEE ICCV 2009 International Workshop on Online Learning for Computer Vision,
Kyoto, Japan, Oct 2009.
16. V Balasubramanian, RK Gouripeddi, J Vermillion, A Bhaskaran, RM Siegel, S Panchanathan, "Support
Vector Machine Based Conformal Predictors for Risk of Complications Following a Coronary Drug Eluting
Stent Procedure." Computers in Cardiology 2009 (CinC 2009), Park City, UT, Sep 2009 (Paper selected
for the Young Investigator Award final)
15. RK Gouripeddi, V. Balasubramanian, J Harris, A Bhaskaran, RM Siegel, S Panchanathan, "Ranking
Predictors of Complications following a Drug Eluting Stent Procedure using Support Vector
Machines." Computers in Cardiology 2009 (CinC 2009), Park City, UT, Sep 2009
14. R. Gouripeddi, V. Balasubramanian, J. Harris, A. Bhaskaran, R. Siegel, S. Panachanathan, "Predicting
risk of complications following a Drug Eluting Stent Procedure: a SVM approach for imbalanced data."
The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Albuquerque, NM, Aug
2009
13. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Confidence Estimation in Pattern Classification:
An Analysis with Head Pose Estimation", Technical Report TR-09-12, School of Computing and
Informatics, Arizona State University, Jul 2009.
12. S. Krishna, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, D. Colbry, S. Panchanathan, "Haptic Belt for Delivering
Nonverbal Cues to People who are Blind/Visually Impaired", CSUN's 24th Annual International
Conference - Technology and Persons with Disabilities (CSUN 2009) Los Angeles, CA, Mar 2009.
11. McDaniel, T.; Krishna, S.; Balasubramanian, V.; Colbry, D.; Panchanathan, S., "Using a haptic belt to
convey non-verbal communication cues during social interactions to individuals who are blind,"
published at Haptic Audio visual Environments and Games, 2008. HAVE 2008. IEEE International
Workshop on , pp.13-18, 18-19 Oct 2008 (Best Paper Award)
10. S Krishna, D Colbry, J Black, V N Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, A Systematic Requirements
Analysis and Development of an Assistive Device to Enhance the Social Interaction of People Who are
Blind or Visually Impaired, ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired
(CVAVI'08), Marseille, France, Oct 2008.
9. S Panchanathan, N C Krishnan, S Krishna, T McDaniel, V N Balasubramanian, Enriched Human-Centered
Multimedia Computing through Inspirations from Disabilities and Deficit-Centered Computing Solutions.
3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing, ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, Oct 2008.
8. V Balasubramanian, S Chakraborty, S Panchanathan, Multiple Cue Integration in Transductive
Confidence Machines for Head Pose Classification, IEEE International Workshop on Online Learning for
Classification (in conjunction with CVPR’08), Alaska, Jun 2008.
7. S Krishna, S Panchanathan, T Hedgpeth, C Juillard, V Balasubramanian, N C Krishnan, A Wearable
Wireless RFID System for Accessible Shopping Environments, 3rd Intl Conference on Body Area Networks
(BodyNets’08), Tempe, AZ, Mar 2008.
6. S Krishna, V Balasubramanian, N C Krishnan, T Hedgpeth, The iCARE Ambient Interactive Shopping
Environment, California State University, Northridge, Center on Disabilities' 23rd Annual International
Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN 2008), Los Angeles, CA, Mar 2008.
5. Panchanathan, S.; Krishna, S.; Black, J.A.; Balasubramanian, V., Human Centered Multimedia
Computing: A New Paradigm for the Design of Assistive and Rehabilitative Environments, International
Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, 2008. ICSCN '08, 4-6 Jan 2008.
4. V N Balasubramanian, J Ye, S Panchanathan, “Biased Manifold Embedding: A framework for Person-
Independent Head Pose Estimation”, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR’07), Minneapolis, USA, Jun 2007.
3. V N Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, “Biased Manifold Embedding for Person-Independent Head Pose
Estimation”, 2nd Intl Conference on Comp Vision Theory and Applications, Barcelona, Mar 2007.
2. K Kahol, N C Krishnan, V N Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, M Smith, J Ferrara, “Measuring
movement expertise in surgical tasks”, 14th Annual ACM Conference on Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA,
USA, Oct 2006.
1. Vineeth NB, Krishnamoorthy B, G.V.Prabhakar Rao, “Mosaicing of MPEG compressed video: a unified
approach”, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Engineering, Denver, CO, Aug 2004.
OTHER
D Merrill, S Krishna, V Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, “The iCARE Social Interaction Assistant”,
Fulton Undergraduate Research Internship (FURI) Symposium, Arizona State University, 2007.
V N Balasubramanian, “Towards Task-based Gestemes: Surgical Gesture Recognition using Maximum
Mutual Information Neural Networks”, Research in Engineering & Applied Sciences (REAS) Symposium,
Arizona State University, 2006.
PRESENTATIONS/TALKS
Kernel Learning for Efficiency Maximization in the Conformal Predictions Framework, CUbiC Seminar
Series, ASU, May 2010
Generalized Query by Transduction for Online Active Learning, IEEE ICCV 2009 International Workshop
on Online Learning for Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, Oct 2009
Support Vector Machine Based Conformal Predictors for Risk of Complications Following a Coronary Drug
Eluting Stent Procedure, Computers in Cardiology 2009 (CinC 2009), Park City, UT, Sep 2009 (Young
Investigator Award finalist)
Conformal Predictions for Multimedia Pattern Recognition, CUbiC Seminar Series, ASU, Sep 2008
Active Learning for Images and Videos, Machine Learning seminar series, ASU, Fall 2008
A Wearable Wireless RFID System for Accessible Shopping Environments, 3rd Intl Conference on Body
Area Networks (BodyNets’08), Tempe, AZ, Mar 2008
Manifold Learning, Machine Learning seminar series, Arizona State University, Summer 2007
Biased Manifold Embedding for Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation, 2nd Intl Conference on Comp
Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP’07), Barcelona, Mar 2007.
Towards Task-based Gestemes: Surgical Gesture Recognition using Maximum Mutual Information Neural
Networks, Research in Engineering & Applied Sciences (REAS) Symposium, ASU, 2006.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Local Arrangements Co-chair, ACM Multimedia, 2011
Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2011
Demos Co-chair, IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Video Environments and Games, 2010
Reviewing Activities: International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI),
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JCVIR), Springer book on Machine Learning
for Vision-based Motion Analysis, IEEE WACV 2011; Assisted in reviewing papers submitted to IEEE
Multimedia, IET Journal, Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, I2MTC 2010, ICIP 2007-
present, ICME 2007-09, ICPR 2008, ICVGIP 2008, WACV 2008.
Professional Membership: ACM SIGACCESS (Special Interest Group on Accessibility), IEEE Computer
Society, IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee of IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence
MENTORING ACTIVITIES
Current Shayok Chakraborty (PhD in Computer Science), Hemanth Kumar (PhD in Computer Science)
Past Ramkiran Gouripeddi (Masters in Biomedical Informatics) – thesis nominated for the Western
Association of Graduate Schools and University Microfilms International’s Distinguished
Master’s Thesis Award, 2010.
Sunaad Nataraju (Masters in Computer Science), completed Jan 2010.
NASA MUST Scholars Mentor for David Hayden, undergraduate student, 2008-09
ASU Fulton Undergraduate Research Internship (FURI) program mentor for Daniel Merrill, senior
undergraduate student, 2007-08.
Undergraduate Capstone Project Research Advisor, Computer Science and Engineering, ASU
(Led teams of 5-6 undergraduate students in 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10)
GRANTS/FUNDING ACTIVITIES
NSF IGERT, Person-centered Technologies and Practices for Individuals with Disabilities, $2,990,159
(2010)
o Role: Participating research faculty and co-author of proposal
o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU) and Forouzan Golshani (California State University Long Beach)
o Status: Preliminary proposal selected for final phase, final proposal under review
NSF Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities, A Requirements Engineering Methodology for Engaging
People who are Blind in System Design and a Case Study with the Retail Shopping Assistant
Prototype, $450,000 (2010)
o Role: Postdoctoral researcher and co-author of proposal
o PI: Ken Peffers (University of Nevada Las Vegas) and Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU)
o Status: Under review
NIH R01 (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine), Development of a
Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) to guide Music Intervention for Dementia Patients, $600,000
(2010)
o Role: Postdoctoral researcher and co-author of proposal
o PI: Kay Norton (ASU)
o Status: Rejected, currently seeking funding from Alzheimer/dementia related foundations
NSF IIS Human-Centered Computing, Social Interaction Assistant for Individuals with Visual
Impairments, $500,000 (2009)
o Role: Graduate student and co-author of proposal
o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU)
o Status: Rejected, request to resubmit in 2010
NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation, e-REACH (enriching REsearch Advancements through
Collaborative TecHnologies), $1,500,000 (2009)
o Role: Graduate student and co-author of proposal
o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU)
o Status: Preliminary proposal selected for final phase, final proposal rejected
ASU Entrepreneurship Advantage Program, Head-based Communications Tool for Autistic Children,
$2,000 (2008)
o Role: PI and lead author of proposal
o PI: Vineeth Balasubramanian
o Status: Funded
NSF IIS Human-Centered Computing Exploratory, iCARE Ambient Interactive Shopping Environment,
$157,000 (2007)
o Role: Graduate student and co-author of proposal
o PI: Terri Hedgpeth (ASU)
o Status: Funded