Bir Bhanu

Background

Bhanu, Bir was born on January 8, 1951 in Etah, India. Came to the United States, 1975. Naturalized, 1987.. Son of Rameshwar Dayal and Omwati Devi.

Education

Bachelor of Science with honors, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 1972. Master in Engineering with distinction, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 1974. Master of Science and Electrical engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977.

Doctor of Philosophy Image Processing Institute, University Southern California, 1981. Master of Business Administration, University California, Irvine, 1984. Diploma in German, B.H.U., India, 1971.

Career

He is also Director of the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory and the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Riverside. He was the first Founding Faculty of the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside and served as the Founding Chair of its department of Electrical Engineering from 1991-1994. His current research interests are computer vision, pattern recognition and data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, image processing, image and video database, graphics and visualization, robotics, and human-computer interactions, and biological, medical, military and intelligence applications.

He received his Bachelor of Surgery (with honors) in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (Banaras Hindu University) and Mechanical Engineering (with distinction) in Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

In addition, he received a Diploma in German from Banaras Hindu University. Bhanu has previously been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Utah, and has worked with Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique-France, and International Business Machines Corporation San Jose Research Laboratory. Immediately before coming to University of California, Riverside, he held the position of Senior Honeywell Fellow at Honeywell Incorporated.

Bhanu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), the International Association of Pattern (IAPR), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (International Society for Optical Engineering).

Achievements

• Bir Bhanu has been listed as a notable information scientist, director, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Qualitative Motion Understanding (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

    (Mobile robots operating in real-world, outdoor scenarios ...)

  • Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

    (Image segmentation is generally the first task in any aut...)

  • Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition (International Series on Biometrics)

    ( Biometrics such as fingerprint, face, gait, iris, voice...)

  • Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)

    ( At the frontier of research, this book offers complete ...)

  • Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems (Monographs in Computer Science)

    ( Integrates computer vision, pattern recognition, and AI...)

  • Qualitative Motion Understanding (The Springer International Series in Engineeri
  • (Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum ) Author: Bir Bhanu Jan-2005
  • (Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation ) Author: Bir Bhanu Sep-1994
  • (Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition ) Author: Bir Bhanu Dec-2012
  • Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) by Bir Bhanu (1994-09-30)
  • (Genetic Learning for Adaptive Image Segmentation ) Author: Bir Bhanu Dec-2012
  • (Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition ) Author: Bir Bhanu Dec-2003
  • (Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum ) Author: Bir Bhanu Dec-2010
  • (Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems ) Author: Bir Bhanu Mar-2005
  • (Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems ) Author: Bir Bhanu Oct-2010
  • (Human Recognition at a Distance in Video ) Author: Bir Bhanu Nov-2010
  • Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition (International Series on Biometrics) by Bir Bhanu (2003-11-30)
  • (Human Ear Recognition by Computer ) Author: Bir Bhanu Oct-2010
  • (Human Ear Recognition by Computer ) Author: Bir Bhanu Jun-2008
  • Bir Bhanu: Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition (Hardcover); 2003 Edition

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (general chair Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers workshop applications computer vision 1992, chair Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Image Understanding Workshop 1994, general chairman Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference on computer vision and pattern recognition 1996), American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Association Computing Machinery, Society Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers, Pattern Recognition Society, Sigma Xi.

Interests

• Avocations: swimming, skiing, tennis, table tennis, writing.

Connections

Married Archana Bhanu Bhatnagar, December 21, 1982. Children: Shiv Bir, Ish Bir.

Father:

Rameshwar Dayal

Mother:

Omwati Devi

Spouse:

Archana Bhanu Bhatnagar

child:

Ish Bir Bhanu

child:

Shiv Bir Bhanu