Hi, my name is Shankar Rao, and I am a research staff member at HRL Laboratories. I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Professor Yi Ma of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. My research interests span many areas of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence including:

• Machine Learning
  • Loss Coding-based Clustering and Classification
  • Robust Subspace (Piecewise-Linear) Segmentation
  • Manifold Learning
  • Sparsity-based Entry Completion and Error Correction
• Computer Vision
  • Motion Segmentation
  • Image Segmentation
  • Spatiotemporal Video Segmentation
  • Multiple-View Geometry

PhD Research Projects

• Natural Image Segmentation via Lossy Compression
• Robust Motion Segmentation via Lossy Compression
• Low-Rank Matrix Recovery via Convex Optimization
• Generalized Principal Component Analysis