P. Anandan

For the cricketer, see P. M. Anandan.

P. Anandan is Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Outreach. Previously, he was Managing Director at Microsoft Research India, which he founded in December 2004 in Bangalore, India. He joined Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington in 1997, where he founded and built the Interactive Visual Media group.

Education

Anandan holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a master of science in computer science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Career

Anandan’s research work has been in computer vision, in the area of visual motion analysis, video surveillance, and 3D scene modeling from images and video. He has published over 60 papers in leading journals and conferences, leading to several awards and honors. His own papers published in 1987 and 1991 on these topics as well as his joint paper with his student Michael Black are essential reading in many computer-vision curricula. He has over 6000[1] citations by other researchers in the field of computer vision.

His research has been used in real world applications in entertainment (movies and games), defense, and civilian security. His own work and his joint work with Michael Black have been applied to create special effects in movies such as “What dreams may come”, “Prince of Egypt” and latter movies in the “The Matrix” series. Anandan assumed consecutive posts at Yale University, Sarnoff Corporation, and Microsoft Research (MSR). At Yale, he was a founding member of the computer-vision research group. At Sarnoff, he led the video information processing group that invented “video mosaics”. Based on a white-paper he wrote and with the help of the research community, the US Defense Research Projects Agency started the Video Surveillance and Monitoring research program which funded research at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and other major research universities. Many of the techniques such as mosaics and moving object detection (and tracking) that were pioneered in the VSAM program and at Sarnoff are now part of various defense and civilian video surveillance and security systems. and several new companies (e.g., ObjectVideo) have been formed that leverage these technologies.

At Microsoft Research in Redmond, Anandan helped build one of the leading computer vision research teams in the world. He established the Microsoft Research India lab in Bangalore, India, in January 2005, and continues to serve as its Managing Director. Microsoft Research India currently employs more than 60 researchers working across a wide spectrum of fields in computer science. Anandan has often spoken on research, innovation and technology at forums hosted by organizations such as The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and also by the media. He was part of the working group constituted by the 12th Planning Commission, Government of India, to make recommendations on India's Higher Education Policy. Anandan also currently serves on the Board of Governors of IIIT Delhi and IIT Madras.

Honors and recognition

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External links

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