Abhijit Mahalanobis

About

Abhijit Mahalanobis is a professor of electrical, computing, and software engineering at the University of Arizona. His primary research areas are video/image processing for target detection and recognition and computational imaging. He has over 190 journal and conference publications in this area. He also holds six patents, has co-authored a book on pattern recognition, contributed several book chapters and edited special issues of several journals. Mahalanobis completed his BS degree with honors at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. He then joined Carnegie Mellon University and received MS and PhD degrees in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Before joining the U of A, Mahalanobis was an associate professor of the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Ce

Education

• PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, August 1987
• MS, Carnegie Mellon University, September 1985
• BS, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1984

Selected publications

• A. Mahalanobis, M. Neifeld, "Optimizing Measurements for Feature Specific Compressive Sensing," Applied Optics, Vol. 53 Issue 26, pp.6108-6118 (2014)
• A. Mahalanobis, R. Shilling, R. Murphy, R. Muise, "Recent results of medium wave infrared compressive sensing," Applied Optics Vol. 53, Iss. 34, pp. 8060–8070 (2014)
• A. Mahalanobis, B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, and D. Casasent, "Minimum average correlation energy filters", Applied Optics , Vol. 26, No. 17, pp. 3633‑3640, September 1987
• A. Mahalanobis, B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, S. Song, S.R.F. Sims, J. Epperson, "Unconstrained Correlation Filters", Applied Optics, Vol. 33, No. 17, pp 3751-3759, 1994
• A. Mahalanobis, R. Muise and S. Roy, “Efficient target detection using an adaptive compressive imager,” in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 2528-2540, October 2014
• A. Mahalanobis, and R. Muise “Object Specific Image Reconstruction using a Compressive Sensing Architecture for Application in Surveillance Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES), Volume: 45, Issue: 3, 1167-1180, July 2009
• A. Mahalanobis, R.Muise, R. Stanfill, “Design and application of quadratic correlation filters for target detection,” IEEE Transactions on AES, Vol. 40, Issue 3, pp. 837-850, July 2004
• A. Rodriguez, V.N. Boddeti, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, and A. Mahalanobis, “Maximum Margin Correlation Filter: A New Approach for Localization and Classification,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 22(2): 631-643 (2013)