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Brief Biography
Dr. Kedar A. Patwardhan was born in Pune, India in May 1980. He received his BE. (First class, with distinction) in Instrumentation and Control, from the Govt. College of Engineering, Pune, India, in 2001. He earned his M.S. in Electrical Eng. (with a minor in Mathematics) from the University of Minnesota in 2004, and completed his a Ph.D., in the area of Image Processing and Computer Vision, under the guidance of Prof. Guillermo Sapiro. He is currently working on problems in Ultrasound image analysis as a Computer Vision Scientist with GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY.
Dr. Patwardhan's research on Video Inpainting was highlighted in "Scientific American" (Oct. 06) and his manuscript on foreground detection in videos was the April '08 featured paper in IEEE-TPAMI. He has also been a reviewer for several esteemed Journals such as ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. & Machine Intell., IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Pacific Graphics, ICASSP 2009, etc. He was a member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE ICME 2007. His affiliations include full membership of Sigma-Xi and IEEE.