Ryan Farrell - University of Maryland, College Park

I am a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. I am conducting research in the field of Computer Vision under the supervision of Professor Larry Davis.

My dissertation research is focused on understanding and semantically labeling sports videos. This includes work on video stabilization, tracking humans and inference/prediction of player and team interactions using temporal analysis of spatial features.

Earlier research included substantial work in two areas. First, I worked on sensor network localization problems and then more recently, I worked on learning the topology and transition models for non-overlapping camera networks.

Further interests include object recognition, learning scene models in unconstrained video, and image/video segmentation.

Target Localization in Camera Networks.
Ryan Farrell, Roberto Garcia, Dennis Lucarelli, Andreas Terzis, I-Jeng Wang.
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2008.

Decentralized Discovery of Camera Network Topology.
Ryan Farrell and Larry S. Davis.
ICDSC 2008.

Distributed Inference for Network Localization using Radio Interferometric Ranging.
Dennis Lucarelli, Anshu Saksena, Ryan Farrell, I-Jeng Wang.
EWSN 2008.

Tracking Down Under: Following the Satin Bowerbird.
Aniruddha Kembhavi*, Ryan Farrell*, Yuancheng Luo, David Jacobs, Ramani Duraiswami, Larry S. Davis.
WACV 2008.

Localization in Multi-Modal Sensor Networks.
Ryan Farrell, Roberto Garcia, Dennis Lucarelli, Andreas Terzis, I-Jeng Wang.
ISSNIP 2007. Best Paper Award (out of 128 papers).

Learning Higher-order Transition Models in Medium-scale Camera Networks.
Ryan Farrell, David Doermann, Larry S. Davis.
OMNIVIS 2007, in conjunction with ICCV 2007.

The Designers Outpost: A Tangible Interface for Collaborative Web Site Design.
Scott R. Klemmer, Mark W. Newman, Ryan Farrell, Mark Bilezikjian, James A. Landay.
UIST 2001.

Reviewer and Website Co-Chair for CVPR 2010.

The most important things in my life are my family and my faith. I consider myself fortunate to be married to my best friend and sweetheart and to be a devoted father to three wonderful children. I spend most of my free time with them and with friends. When occasion permits (and it rarely does these days), I pursue my favorite hobby, birding.