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Ramesh Jain

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|fields = Control theory
Computer vision
Artificial intelligence
Multimedia
Digital health

|workplaces = Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
University of Hamburg
University of Texas, Austin
Wayne State University
University of Michigan
University of California, San Diego
Georgia Tech
University of California, Irvine
National University of Singapore
Stanford University

|alma_mater = Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur

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|known_for = Dynamic vision, multimedia computing, navigational approach to health, food computing

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Ramesh Chandra Jain (born 8 June 1949) is a scientist and entrepreneur in the field of information and computer science. He is a Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.

Education

He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and has a Ph.D. in electronics engineering (1975) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.{{cite web |title=Ramesh Chandra Jain |url=https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5477 |website=Faculty Profile System |publisher=UC Irvine |access-date=16 November 2022}}

Career

Ramesh Jain has been a researcher, an entrepreneur, and an educator. His activities have been mostly in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and using these to build real world systems, particularly to enhance health and societal well-being.{{Cite web |title=Dr Ramesh Jain - A fine blend of science and humane thought |url=https://www.thehitavada.com/Encyc/2021/12/17/Dr-Ramesh-Jain-A-fine-blend-of-science-and-humane-thought.html |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=www.thehitavada.com |language=en}}

Jain joined IIT Kharagpur as a faculty member in 1972. {{Cite journal |last1=Jain |first1=Ramesh |last2=Riegler |first2=Michael |date=2017-12-08 |title=An interview with Prof. Ramesh Jain |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173058.3173065 |journal=SIGMultimedia Rec. |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=7:1 |doi=10.1145/3173058.3173065}} In 1976 he went to Germany to join Prof. H. H. Nagel’s group in computer vision at University of Hamurg, He moved to USA in 1978.{{Cite web |title=Meeting Prof. H.-H. Nagel – Ramesh Jain |url=https://ngs.ics.uci.edu/meeting-prof-h-h-nagel/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=ngs.ics.uci.edu}}  In 1987, Jain became the founding director of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at the University of Michigan, where he began his work on multimedia computing, computer vision, and AI. {{Cite web |title=Celebrating 30 Years of AI at Michigan (1988 – 2018) |url=https://ai.engin.umich.edu/2018/12/13/celebrating-30-years-of-ai-at-michigan-1988-2018/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Artificial Intelligence Lab logo |language=en-US}}His work in these areas helped shape the development of AI-driven health technologies and contributed to foundational research in computer science.{{Cite web |last=Mriegler {{!}} |date=2017-08-29 |title=An interview with Prof. Ramesh Jain – ACM SIGMM Records |url=https://records.sigmm.org/2017/08/29/an-interview-with-ramesh-jain/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |language=en-US}}

He served as Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia.{{Cite web |last1=Sciences |first1=UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer |last2=Karen |date=2023-05-17 |title=ACM Honors Ramesh Jain with Distinguished Service Award |url=https://ics.uci.edu/2023/05/17/acm-honors-ramesh-jain-with-distinguished-service-award/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences |language=en-US}}

He served in academic positions at many universities. He served as a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego; in each case he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems labs. He served as Farmer Professor at Georgia Tech from 2002 to 2004. In 2005 he was named the first Bren Professor in Information and Computer Science for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.{{cite web|url=http://ngs.ics.uci.edu/about.php|title=Ramesh Jain faculty page|work=Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences|publisher=University of California, Irvine|accessdate=28 August 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130828232224/http://ngs.ics.uci.edu/about.php|archive-date=28 August 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and the Machine Vision and Applications journal. He still serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Society for Optics and Photonics Technology (SPIE). He has published over 400 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.

= <sup>Entrepreneurship</sup> =

He founded or co-founded multiple startup companies including Imageware, Virage, Praja,{{cite news |date=20 September 2002 |title=TIBCO acquires Praja Inc |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2002/09/20/stories/2002092002120700.htm |accessdate=28 August 2013 |work=The Hindu Business Line}} and Seraja. Virage is considered the first company to address photo and video management applications that have become central to human experience in digital world.

Notable among them is Personicle.org, an open-source platform for personalized health management, and HealthUnity.org, which promotes open data for health research. {{Cite web |last=XavorNew |date=2021-07-12 |title=The Personicle: A glimpse into your future |url=https://www.xavor.com/blog/the-personicle-a-glimpse-into-your-future/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Xavor Corporation |language=en-US}}

Research

His research interests started in cybernetic systems. That interest brought him to research in pattern recognition, computer vision. and artificial intelligence. He was the coauthor of the first computer vision paper addressing analysis of real video sequence of a traffic scene.R. Jain, D. Militzer and H. Nagel, "Separating a Stationary Form from Non-stationary Scene Components in a Sequence of Real World TV Frames,” Proceedings of IJCAI 77, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 612-618. 1977 After working on several aspects of computer vision systems and coauthoring a text book in machine vision,R. Jain, R. Kasturi, and B. Schunck, Machine Vision, (a textbook), McGraw Hill, April 1995 he realized that to solve hard computer vision problem one must include all other available information from other signals and contextual sources. This realization resulted in his becoming active in developing multimedia computing systems. His contributions to developing visual information management systems influenced many researchers.Arnold Smeulders, Marcel Worring, Simone Santini, Amarnath Gupta, and Ramesh Jain “Image Databases at the end of the Early Years” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 23(1), January 2001 He also participated in developing concept of immersive as well as multiple perspective interactive videos, to use multiple video cameras to build three dimensional video where a person can decide what they want to experience.S. Moezzi, A. Katkere, D. Kuramura, and R. Jain, “An Emerging Medium, Interactive Three-Dimensional Digital Video,” IEEE MultiMedia, June 1996 His research in multimedia computing convinced him that experiences are central human knowledge acquisition and use,Ramesh Jain, “Experiential Computing”, in Communications of Association for Computing Machinery, July 2003 resulting in his interest in 'experiential computing' Since 2012, he has been engaged in developing a navigational approach to guide people in their lifestyle for achieving their personal health goals.Nitish Nag, Ramesh C. Jain:

A Navigational Approach to Health: Actionable Guidance for Improved Quality of Life. IEEE Computer 52(4): 12-20 (2019) Since food is one of the most important component of human lifestyle and is so central to all aspects of human society, he is working with several international researchers in the area of food computing Weiqing Min, Shuqiang Jiang, Linhu Liu, Yong Rui, Ramesh Jain, A Survey on Food Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, 52(5):1-36, September, 2019

His early work in multimedia computing and AI helped lay the groundwork for the integration of these technologies into health applications, particularly in terms of data processing and user interaction.{{Cite web |title=Ramesh Jain: "Social Life Networks" |url=https://www-prod.media.mit.edu/events/ramesh-jain-social-life-networks/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=MIT Media Lab}}

Jain’s work in experiential computing focuses on the idea of creating systems that adapt to individual users’ needs and behaviors. {{Cite web |date=2024-03-28 |title=UC Irvine's AI-powered conversational health agent is ready for developers |url=https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/uc-irvines-ai-powered-conversational-health-agent-ready-developers |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Healthcare IT News |language=en}}

Jain’s vision for personalized healthcare revolves around integrating data from various sources (e.g., wearable sensors, genetic data, environmental information) to create individualized health models.{{Cite web |title=Institute on a mission to join technology and preventive health – UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing |url=https://nursing.uci.edu/2021/01/09/institute-for-future-health/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |language=en-US}} At the UCI Institute for Future Health, Jain’s team works on developing systems for continuous health monitoring that provide actionable insights to users in real-time, ultimately helping individuals optimize their lifestyles to maintain good health.{{Cite web |title=UCI Institute for Future Health to harness technology to build personalized health model |url=https://uctechnews.ucop.edu/uci-institute-for-future-health-to-harness-technology-to-build-personalized-health-model/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=UC Tech News |language=en-US}}

= Personal Health Navigator =

Jain is perhaps best known for leading the development of the Personal Health Navigator, an innovative application that combines lifestyle, environmental, and health data to provide personalized advice for improving health. {{Cite news |last=Zylius |first=Steve |title=UCI Institute for Future Health to harness technology to build personalized health model |url=https://news.uci.edu/2021/02/04/uci-institute-for-future-health-to-harness-technology-to-build-personalized-health-model/ |work=UCI IRVINE}}The Personal Health Navigator is designed to be used on mobile phones, offering users continuous guidance to optimize their health, manage chronic conditions, and achieve health goals.{{Cite web |last=RamaOnHealthcare |date=2022-08-10 |title=Q&A: Ramesh Jain, Entrepreneur, Researcher, and Teacher, Author of Lifeblood of Health is Data |url=https://ramaonhealthcare.com/qa-ramesh-jain-entrepreneur-researcher-and-teacher-author-of-lifeblood-of-health-is-data/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=RamaOnHealthcare |language=en-US}} This project has gained international recognition, and its standards are being adopted globally by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).{{Cite web |title=Zepp Health Advances Towards Integrative Multi-Modal Personal Health Navigation System with Generative AI Technology Solutions |url=https://www.huami.com/blog/zepp-health-advances-towards-integrative-multi-modal-personal-health-navigation-system-with-generative-ai-technology-solutions |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.huami.com |language=en}}

Views and advocacy

Jain is an advocate for the future of personalized, tech-driven healthcare. {{Cite web |title=HAHT-IUS 2024 Workshop |url=https://cse.iith.ac.in/hahtius-2024/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=cse.iith.ac.in}}He believes that traditional healthcare systems, which rely heavily on hospitals and clinics, should evolve toward more personalized and accessible models that allow individuals to take control of their health on a daily basis. His vision involves leveraging AI, machine learning, and real-time data to monitor health continuously, making it possible for individuals to optimize their lifestyle and avoid health issues before they require medical intervention.

Recognition and awards

= Fellowships =

Awards

  • ACM Distinguished Service Award (2022) for his leadership in establishing SIGMultiMedia{{Cite web |title=Ramesh C Jain |url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/jain_1702455 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}}
  • ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award{{Cite web |title=SIGMM Technical Achievement Award {{!}} ACM SIGMM - the Special Interest Group on Multimedia |url=http://www.sigmm.org/Awards/award_taa |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=www.sigmm.org}}
  • IEEE TCMC Impact Award for pioneering contributions to multimedia computing{{Cite web |title=IEEE TCMC Award Recipients |url=https://tc.computer.org/tcmc/tcmcawardsrecipients/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing |language=en-US}}
  • IEEE Meritorious Service Award for his dedication to the field of computing

Selected publications

=Journals=

  • {{cite journal |last1=Jain |first1=R. |last2=Worring |first2=M. |last3=Santini |first3=S. |last4=Gupta |first4=A. |last5=Smeulders |first5=A.W.M. |title=Content-based image retrieval at the end of the early years |journal=IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |date=2000 |volume=22 |issue=12 |pages=1349–1380 |doi=10.1109/34.895972 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3193201}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Jain |first1=Ramesh |last2=Sebe |first2=Nicu |last3=Djeraba |first3=Chabane |last4=Lew |first4=Michael S. |title=Content-based multimedia information retrieval: State of the art and challenges |journal=ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. |date=1 February 2006 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1145/1126004.1126005 |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1126004.1126005}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Ramesh |last2=Pandey |first2=Vaibhav |last3=Putzel |first3=Preston J. |last4=Bhimaraju |first4=Hari |last5=Krishnan |first5=Srikanth |last6=Nag |first6=Nitish |chapter=Cross-Modal Health State Estimation |title=Proceedings of the 26th ACM international conference on Multimedia |date=15 October 2018 |pages=1993–2002 |doi=10.1145/3240508.3241913 |pmid=31131378 |pmc=6530992 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327134630 |arxiv=1808.06462 |isbn=978-1-4503-5665-7 }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Antani |first1=Sameer |last2=Kasturi |first2=Rangachar |last3=Jain |first3=Ramesh |title=A survey on the use of pattern recognition methods for abstraction, indexing and retrieval of images and video |journal=Pattern Recognition |date=1 April 2002 |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=945–965 |doi=10.1016/S0031-3203(01)00086-3 |bibcode=2002PatRe..35..945A |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031320301000863 |issn=0031-3203}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Coleman |first1=E. North |last2=Jain |first2=Ramesh |title=Obtaining 3-dimensional shape of textured and specular surfaces using four-source photometry |journal=Computer Graphics and Image Processing |date=1 April 1982 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=309–328 |doi=10.1016/0146-664X(82)90001-6 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0146664X82900016 |issn=0146-664X}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Hampapur |first1=A. |last2=Weymouth |first2=T. |last3=Jain |first3=R. |chapter=Digital video segmentation |title=Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia - MULTIMEDIA '94 |date=15 October 1994 |pages=357–364 |doi=10.1145/192593.192699|isbn=0-89791-686-7 }}

Books

  • {{cite book |last1=Jalali |first1=Laleh |last2=Jain |first2=Ramesh |title=Event mining for explanatory modeling |date=2021 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1450384827 }}
  • {{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Amarnath |last2=Jain |first2=Ramesh |title=Managing Event Information |date=2011 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |location=Cham |isbn=9783031018824 |pages=127 |edition=1st 2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYdyEAAAQBAJ}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Ramesh |last2=Grosky |first2=William I |last3=Mehrortra |first3=Rajiv |title=The handbook of multimedia information management |date=1997 |publisher=Prentice Hall PTR |location=Upper Saddle River, NJ |isbn=9780132073257 |page=499 |url=https://www.biblio.com/book/handbook-multimedia-information-management-william-i/d/1337893293?srsltid=AfmBOopXA1G4FPoEkMRRAQ-DdkE4UdrKSY3eUrUcG42nrgPbpnMFmGnu}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Ramesh |last2=Jain |first2=Anil K. |title=Analysis and Interpretation of Range Images |date=1990 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4612-3360-2 |pages=1–31 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-3360-2_1 |language=en |chapter=Report: 1988 NSF Range Image Understanding Workshop|doi=10.1007/978-1-4612-3360-2_1 }}
  • {{cite book |last1=Shah |first1=Mubarak |title=Motion-Based Recognition |date=1997 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |location=Dordrecht |isbn=9780792346180 |pages=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXGoTjniP-MC}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Ramesh |last2=Kasturi |first2=Rangachar |last3=Schunck |first3=Brian K. |title=Machine vision |date=1995 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |isbn=0-07-032018-7}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Smeulders |first1=Arnold |last2=Jain |first2=Ramesh |title=Image Databases and Multi-Media Search |date=1998 |isbn=978-981-4496-67-4 |pages=328 |doi=10.1142/3656 |url=https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3656?srsltid=AfmBOooMFHaOEBzIgu7YQtKsvq-jiaa4ZWwDPRItWQxDc1W_tbHxzT9c#t=aboutBook}}

References

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060715181429/http://press.gartner.com/research/fellows/asset_57507_1176.jsp Interview] with Gartner
  • [http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0512/p75-column-cooper-2.pdf Ramesh talks about Eventweb ]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050108220810/http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/westermann/mediaether.pdf Paper on Context-Aware Multimedia Experiences]
  • [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/j/Jain:Ramesh.html Publications by Ramesh Jain]
  • [http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0512/p75-column-cooper-2.pdf Ramesh talks about Eventweb ]
  • [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jain/NGSS2006/Lecture1%20-%20Search%20Past%20present%20Future%20060325.ppt Presentation on Next Generation Search by Ramesh Jain ]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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