Murali Subbarao

Biography

Dr. Muralidhara (Murali) Subbarao is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University. His teaching and research interests are Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, and 3D Medical Imaging. He is the inventor of several techniques in 3D medical imaging. He is also the inventor of the Depth-from-Defocus technique that uses arbitrarily defocused images (without requirement of any focused image) for three-dimensional shape recovery. He obtained a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an M.S. and a Ph.D., both in Computer Science, from the University of Maryland at College Park. He has been a Principal Investigator of research grants from both industry and the National Science Foundation. He has authored one book, published over 50 papers in professional journals and conferences, and is the sole-inventor on 9 U.S. patents with 4 of them licensed to industry. Over a dozen students have completed their Ph.D. theses under his supervision. He was a principal member and the Chief Computer Scientist of a start-up company for online image management in 2000-2001.

Research Interest

Computer vision; image processing