Sethuraman Panchanathan, PhD

Director, School of Computing and Informatics - Arizona State University

Chair, Computer Science and Engineering - Arizona State University

Interim Chair, Biomedical Informatics - Arizona State University

UA Office Phone: (602) 827-2537
ASU Office Phone: (480) 965-4831
Office: Building ABC1, Room 121
Email: panch@asu.edu

Education:

PhD; University of Ottawa, Canada; 1989

Background:

Sethuraman Panchanathan has been at ASU since 1997. He is currently professor and director of the School for Computing and Informatics as well as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the director of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (InCISE) and Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC).

Research Interests:

- Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing
- Multimedia Computing and Communications
- Media Processor Designs
- Content-based and Compressed Domain Indexing and Retrieval of Images And Video
- Face/Gait Analysis and Recognition
- Genomic Signal Processing

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Selected Publications:

  1. K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, and S. Panchanathan, "Gesture Segmentation in Complex Motion Sequences," to appear in IEEE Multimedia Journal, 2005.
  2. R. Gurunathan, B. Van Emden, S. Panchanathan, S. Kumar, "Identifying Spatially Similar Gene Expression Patterns in Early Stage Fruit Fly Embryo Images: Binary Feature Versus Invariant Moment Digital Representations," BMC Bioinformatics Journal, vol. 5, Dec. 2004, pp. 202.
  3. A. Dasu and S. Panchanathan, "A Wavelet Based Sprite Codec," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 14, no. 2, Feb. 2004, pp. 244-255.
  4. K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, and S. Panchanathan, "Tactile Cueing in Haptic Visualization," to appear in Proc. ACM Workshop on Haptic Visualization at AMC Computer Human Interface Conference (CHI 2005).
  5. K. Kahol, M. Smith, J. Ferrara, P. Tripathi, A.Leibowitz, and S. Panchanathan, "Gesture Based Hand Movement Analysis and Haptic Feeback for Surgiccal Training," Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Califoria, January 2006 (Best Poster Paper Award)