Invited Talks

Invited Presentations and Talks

[Vijayan K. Asari]

Research Talk Organized by UTAS-Musandam, Sultanate of Oman 

April 29, 2024 (Virtual)

Topic: Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Invited Talk)


Vivekananda Auditorium, UPES, Dehradun, India 

April 12, 2023

Topic: Music Assistive Neuro-Therapy Response and Assessment (Invited Talk)


NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore, India 

January 20, 2023

Topic: Deep Neural Machine: An Autonomous Vision System For Search And Rescue (Invited Talk)


Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 

October 15, 2022

Topic: Impact of Emotion AI on NLP: Vision Transformers Make a Difference (Invited Talk)


Topic: Search and Rescue by Aerial Vision (Invited Talk)

June 04, 2022 (Virtual)

Bangalore, India


(Co-hosted by IEEE GRSS Kerala Section)

Bhoo-Mandal Talk Series

Bangalore, India

March 30, 2022 (Virtual)

Topic: Addressing the Data Desert in Aerial LiDAR (Invited Talk)


Recent Trends in Bio-signal Acquisition and Research Perspectives in Signal Analysis 

Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India (SERB) 

(Under SERB Scientific Social Responsibility Policy)

NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala, India

March 25, 2022 (Virtual)

Topic: Sensing Brain Waves for Robotic Manipulation by State of Mind (Invited Lecture)


The Department of Energy Isotope Program (DOE IP) 

Washington DC, USA

March 17, 2022 (Virtual)

Topic: Applied AI: Transforming Theory to Practice (Invited Talk)


North South University

Dhaka, Bangladesh 

December 19, 2021 (Virtual)

Topic: A Semi-Supervised Learning Framework for Image Data Annotation (Invited Talk)


IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Student Chapter

NIT Calicut, Kerala, India.

Robert B Moore Lecture Series 

November 22, 2021 (Virtual)

Topic: Brain Waves to State of Mind: A Communicator in Need  (Invited Lecture)


IEEE Gujarat Section 

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 

October 02, 2021 (Virtual)

Topic: Emotion Recognition by Spatiotemporal Analysis of EEG Signals  (Invited Talk)


Dayton, Ohio, USA

July 19, 2021 (Virtual)

Topic: Automated data annotation methodology for deep-learning based object detection and recognition (Invited Talk)


National University of Littoral (Universidad Nacional del Litoral)

Santa Fe, Argentina

May 24, 2021 (Virtual)

Topic: Chromatic Domain Phase Features with Gradient and Texture for Efficient Human Detection (Invited Lecture)


Wright State University

Dayton, Ohio, USA. 

February 28, 2020

Topic: Arial Surveillance for Oil/Gas Pipeline Infrastructure Protection (Invited Talk)


University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio, USA. 

April 10, 2019

Topic: Intelligent Visual Perception for Autonomous Systems (Invited Talk)


Obuda University

Budapest, Hungary. 

July 01-10, 2018

Topic 1: Sensing, Processing and Automatic Decision Making in Real Time

Topic 2: Brain Signal Analysis for Emotion Recognition and Brain Machine Interface (Theus Aspiras)


2018 PRCI Webinar: Automated Threat Detection System (ATDS)

April 11, 2018

Panelists: Mark Piazza, Colonial Pipeline; Don Price, SME; Mike McCutcheon, TransCanada; David Yoel, American Aerospace Technology Inc.; Dr. Vijay Asari, University of Dayton


Burlingame, California, USA. 

January 28 - February 02, 2018

Topic: Depth and super-pixel extraction for augmenting human detection (Invited Talk)


UNL, Santa Fe, Argentina

November 07 - 24, 2017

Topic: Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Course)

(UNL Engineering and Water Sciences)


UNER, Parana, Argentina.

November 15, 2017

Topic: Computational Intelligence and Machine Perception for Autonomous Systems (Invited Talk)

(UNER Engineering)


Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Dayton, Ohio 

October 20, 2017

Topic: Sensing, Processing and Automatic Decision Making in Real Time (with Dr. Theus Aspiras)


Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kochi, India 

August 18, 2017

Topic: Sensing, Processing and Automatic Decision Making in Real Time (Video Presentation)


San Diego, California, USA 

August 06-10, 2017

Directional ringlet intensity feature transform (DRIFT) based object tracking in IR imagery (Invited Talk)


Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

July 31, 2017

Emerging Technology Overview: Sensing, Processing and Automatic Decision Making in Real Time

Deep Dive Workshop: Sensing, Processing and Automatic Decision Making for Security and Surveillance Applications


Wright Brothers Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA 

April 20, 2017

Technology Areas: Semi-Conductors, RF Power Conversion, and LADAR (Panelist)


Kingdom of Bahrain 

April 11-12, 2017

Topic: Automatic detection and segmentation of oil leak in ocean environment (Invited Talk:)


Kingdom of Bahrain 

April 10, 2017

Topic: Advanced Image Processing Techniques for Automatic Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition in Complex Environmental Conditions (Invited Talk)


Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435 USA 

March 22, 2017

Topic: State Preserving Extreme Learning Machine: A Monotonically Increasing Learning Approach for Pattern Classification (Invited Talk)


Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 

March 08, 2017

Topic: Learning Complex Manifold of Visual Perception for Pattern Association (Invited Talk)


Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India 

March 07, 2017

Topic: Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition in Images Captured in Complex Environmental Conditions (Invited Talk)


Chandigarh, Panjab, India 

March 03, 2017

Topic: Wide Area Surveillance for Situational Awareness and Security Automation (Invited Talk)


Gurgaon, Haryana, India 

March 01, 2017

Topic: Wide Area Surveillance for Situational Awareness and Security Automation (Invited Talk)


Wright Brothers Institute (WBI), Tec^Edge Innovation and Collaboration Center (Tec^Edge ICC)

Dayton, Ohio (December 02, 2016)

Topic: Multi-spectral Data Exploitation for Automatic Object Detection and Segmentation (Invited Talk)


Webinar. (November 02, 2016)

Topic: Recent Advances in Wide Area Surveillance (Invited Talk) 


Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC. (October 20, 2016)

Topic: Recent Advances in Wide Area Surveillance: What We Can See? (Invited Talk) 


University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 08, 2016)

Topic: Wide Area Aerial Surveillance for Situational Awareness and Security Automation (Invited Talk). 


London, United Kingdom. (August 15-16, 2016)

Topic: Automatic object recognition and tracking in complex environmental conditions (Invited Talk)


ACS College of Engineering

RajaRajeswari College of Engineering

RajaRajeswari Medical College and Hospital 

Kambipura, Mysore Road, Bengaluru - 560 074.

Bangalore, India. (July 18-19, 2016)

Topic: Academic/research level collaboration initiatives. (Invited Talks)


Organized by the Washington DC Chapter of ACM. (6:30 - 7:30 pm, June 27, 2016)

Topic: Automated Intrusion Detection for Oil/Gas Pipeline Infrastructure Protection (Webinar Presentation)


Stevens Institute of Technology, Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, Washington, DC. (June 08, 2016)

Topic: Wide Area Surveillance for Situational Awareness (Invited Talk)


Science Center Auditorium, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA. (April 27, 2016)

Topic: Meeting the Challenges in Wide Area Surveillance for Situational Awareness (Invited Talk)


Oberoi Center, Dubai, UAE. (April 21-22, 2016)

Topic: Network enabled feature search on distributed servers around the world for human identification in video sequences (Invited Talk)


Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) at the College of New Jersey 

Ewing Township, New Jersey, USA. (March 18, 2016)

Topic: Automated surveillance system for oil/gas pipeline infrastructure protection (Invited Talk)


Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum

Trivandrum, Kerala, India. (March 03, 2016)

Topic: Automatic object detection and recognition in complex environmental conditions (Invited Talk)


Hosted by The Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)

San Ramon, California, USA. (October 19-22, 2015)

Topic: Automatic Pipeline Right-of-Way Threat Detection by Advanced Image Analysis 


Washington, DC (October 13-15, 2015)

Topic: Meeting the Challenges in Wide Area Surveillance: Automatic Object Detection, Tracking and Identification in Complex Environmental Conditions


Science Center Auditorium at the University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio, USA. (September 17, 2015)

Topic: Recent Progress in Wide Area Surveillance: Protecting Our Pipeline Infrastructure (STARS)


Birmingham, United Kingdom. (August 10-11, 2015)

Topic: Wide Area Surveillance: Situational Awareness for Security Automation (Invited Talk)


Tel Aviv, Israel. (May 18-22, 2015)

Topic: Automatic Object Detection, Tracking and Identification by Advanced Image Analysis


Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. (May 15, 2015)

Panel Discussion: Smart City/Infrastructure (Indian Express)


Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. (May 15, 2015)

Topic: Network Enabled Feature Search for High-Speed Face Recognition in Video Sequences (Invited Talk)


Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. (May 12, 2015)

Topic: Automatic Object Detection, Tracking and Identification by Advanced Image Analysis (Invited Talk)


Dayton, Ohio, USA. (February 27, 2015)

Topic: Electroencephalographic Signal Based Emotion Recognition and Brain Machine Interface (Invited Talk)


Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. (January 04-07, 2015)

Topic: Learning Embedded Lines of Attraction by Self-Organization for Multidimensional Pattern Recognition (Invited Talk)


Dallas, Texas, USA. (November 17, 2014)

Topic: Recent Advances in Wide-Area Surveillance: What Can We See Now? (Invited Talk)


Dayton, Ohio, USA. (October 7-9, 2014)

Topic 1: Advanced Image Analysis for Automatic Object Recognition in Complex Environmental Conditions (Invited Talk)

Topic 2: Smart Facial Recognition System (Invited Talk)


Surathkal, Karnataka, India (August 27, 2014)

Topic: Automatic Object Recognition and Tracking in Complex Environmental Conditions (Invited Talk)


Manipal, Karnataka, India (August 26, 2014)

Topic: Automatic Object Recognition and Tracking in Complex Environmental Conditions (Invited Talk)


International Center for Applied Sciences, Manipal University

Manipal, Karnataka, India (August 25-26, 2014)


Chicago, Illinois, USA (August 6-7, 2014)

Topic: Advanced Image Analysis for Automated Pipeline Threat Detection (Invited Talk)


Dayton, Ohio, USA (July 31, 2014)

Topic: Image Feature Extraction (Invited Talk)


Mason, Ohio, USA (July 23, 2014)

Topic: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Research at UD Vision Lab (Invited Talk)


San Pedro Montes de Oca, San Jose, Costa Rica (July 14, 2014)

Topic: Automatic Detection and Tracking of Objects in Complex Environments (Invited Talk)


SIAM Workshop Celebrating Diversity: Applications in Human Performance, Counter-terrorism and Risk Analysis

Chicago, Illinois, USA. (July 07-11, 2014)

Topic: Learning Hierarchical Invariant Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Action and Activity Recognition (Invited Talk)


Hosted by The Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)

Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (February 04-06, 2014)

Topic: Pipeline Right-of-Way Automated Threat Detection by Advanced Image Analysis (Invited Talk)


RAM Program Baseline Flight Test and Data Acquisition for Machinery Threat Detection

Gary, Indiana, USA. (May 20-22, 2013)


Hosted by The Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)

Dallas, Texas, USA. (February 05-07, 2013)

Topic: Automatic Pipeline Right-of-Way Threat Detection by Advanced Image Analysis (Invited Talk)


Trivandrum, India . (August 13, 2012)


RAM Program Baseline Flight Test for Machinery Threats

Gary, Indiana, USA. (May 07-08, 2012)


AFRL/RYAT (Sensors Directorate)

Dayton, Ohio, USA (May 23, 2012)

Topic: A Self Organized Learning Strategy for Pattern Association by an Embedded Line of Attraction


Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (April 25-27, 2012)

Topic: A self-organized learning strategy for object recognition by an embedded line of attraction (Invited Talk)


San Diego, California, USA. (February 28, 2012)

Topic: Automatic detection of whale blows in infrared video


Hosted by The Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)

Phoenix, Arizona, USA. (February 07-09, 2012)

Topic: Automatic detection and tracking of objects in complex environments


Hosted by Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT)

Herndon, Virginia, USA. (November 03, 2011)

Topic: Vessel Position Tracking


Dayton, Ohio, USA. (September 26, 2011 )

Topic: Health and Human Performance: Leveraging the Overlap


Kennedy Union Boll Theater & Science Center Auditorium at the University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio, USA. (November 19, 2010)

Topic: Intelligent Signal Processing Techniques for Security and Surveillance Applications


AFRL/RY (Sensors Directorate)

Dayton, Ohio, USA (August 19, 2010)

Topic: Sensing, Processing and Automatic Decision Making in Real Time


Dayton Engineer’s Club

Dayton, Ohio, USA. (June 14, 2010)

Topic: Wide Area Surveillance for Security Automation: Sensing, Processing and Decision Making in Real Time


E.V. Williams Engineering and Computational Sciences Building, Old Dominion University

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (July 09, 2009)

Topic: Security Automation and Future Electro Robots (SAFER) 


Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC)

Suffolk, Virginia, USA. (October 23, 2008)

Panel: Situation Awareness, Communication and Data Relay: access to UAV flight activity to test visual technology; head display and robot interaction; real-time deployment of multi-hop relays for communication and indoor tracking for first responders


MITRE 1

McLean, Virginia, USA. (July 09, 2008)

Topic: Nonlinear Techniques for Image Enhancement and Person Identification


Booz-Allen Hamilton

McLean, Virginia, USA. (May 13, 2008)

Topic: Automatic Vessel Identification System


Washington DC, May 06-07, 2008 (Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites)

Alexandria, Virginia, USA. (May 07, 2008)

Topic: Robotic Nose for the Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices


Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

Washington DC, USA. (March 20, 2008)

Topic: Automatic Vessel Identification


IRP@ODU

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (November 15, 2007)

Topic: Robotic sensing for security automation


Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. (November 16, 2006)

Topic: Self organizing line attractor for pose and lighting invariant face recognition (The Open Channel)


(Organized in cooperation with The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer)

Arlington, Texas, USA. (March 29, 2006)

Topic: Face recognition in extremely dark and non-uniform lighting environment (Face recognition research at ODU Vision Lab) (Invited Talk)


Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Old Dominion University

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (November 10, 2005)

Topic: Research at ODU Vision Lab


Norfolk State University

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (October 12, 2005)

Topic: Self-organizing line attractor for pattern association, prediction and classification


Ronald Reagan International Building

Washington DC, USA. (July 27, 2005)

Topic: Computer vision and image processing applications: Enabling naval innovations to win the global war on terrorism (link)


Arlington, Texas, USA. (March 30, 2005)

Topic: An automatic learning machine (Invited Talk)


Old Dominion University

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (March 18, 2005)

Topic: Self-organizing line attractor for pattern association, prediction and classification (link)


Newport News, Virginia, USA (July 01, 2005)

Topic: Computer vision and image processing research at ODU Vision Lab


MITRE

McLean, Virginia, USA. (February 16, 2005)

Topic: Pose and lighting invariant face detection and recognition (link)


Arlington, Virginia, USA. (September 20-22, 2004)

Topic: Pose and lighting invariant face detection and recognition (link) (presentation)


Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. (September 14, 2004)

Topic: Enhancement of images captured in an extremely low and non-uniform lighting environment


Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (July 14, 2004)

Topic: Computer vision and image processing research at ODU Vision Lab (link)


Booz Allen Hamilton

McLean, Virginia, USA. (January 13, 2004)

Topic: Pose and lighting invariant face detection and tracking (pdf)


Norfolk State University

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (September 25, 2003)

Topic: Neural network based face recognition in complex lighting environment


Pandalam, Kerala, India. (August 07, 2003)

Topic: High performance embedded systems for computer vision applications


Ronald Reagan International Building

Washington DC, USA. (June 25, 2003)

Topic: Network enabled feature search for high speed face recognition (pdf)


Old Dominion University

Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (January 19, 2001)

Topic: Non-linear spatial warping of wide-angle camera images based on least squares estimation