Biography
Mubarak Shah is the Trustee Chair Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and the founding director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision.
His research focuses on video surveillance, visual tracking, human activity recognition, and UAV video analysis. He has authored multiple books and published extensively in the field of computer vision. He has also served as editor-in-chief of a leading computer vision journal and as associate editor for several others.
Shah is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, SPIE and IAPR. His honors include the ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing and UCF’s Pegasus Professor award.
He has mentored more than 50 graduate students and leads a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision. He also mentors high school students through a Department of Defense apprenticeship program.
His research focuses on video surveillance, visual tracking, human activity recognition, and UAV video analysis. He has authored multiple books and published extensively in the field of computer vision. He has also served as editor-in-chief of a leading computer vision journal and as associate editor for several others.
Shah is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, SPIE and IAPR. His honors include the ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing and UCF’s Pegasus Professor award.
He has mentored more than 50 graduate students and leads a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision. He also mentors high school students through a Department of Defense apprenticeship program.
Recent Publications
Forthcoming
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Wayne State University
Specialties
- Video Surveillance and Monitoring
- Visual Tracking
- Scene and Object Recognition
- Human Activity Recognition
- UAV Video Analysis
- Video Registration
- Video Categorization and Segmentation
- 3D reconstruction
- Content-based Video Retrieval