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Dr. Perera’s current research is in video image analysis including moving object detection, tracking, and object recognition to derive high-level understanding from video (e.g., via activity recognition). He is also interested in active vision, robust statistics and estimation, and image segmentation. Dr. Perera's research in video is focused on developing robust algorithms that can be applied to real-world data, and in particular on developing mechanisms to cope gracefully with failure.  

Dr. Perera received his B.S., B.S. (Hons), and M.S. degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining Kitware, Dr. Perera was at the Visualization and Computer Vision group at GE Global Research, where he was involved in a number of projects spanning aerial and ground video analysis, satellite and aerial image analysis, computer-aided detection in mammography, and iris biometrics.

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