Academic Timeline


Ph.D. (2005-2008) University of Toronto, Toronto Automatic Camera Control for Capturing Collaborative Meetings
M.S. (2003-2005) University of Toronto, Toronto Browsing Archived Meeting Audio and Time-Synchronized Data
B.Tech. (1999-2003) IIT, Bombay Motion Segmentation Using Spanning Trees and Graph Cuts

Refereed Conference Publications

Wu, M., Ranjan, A., Truong, K. (2009). An Exploration of Social Requirements for Exercise Group Formation (4 pages) to appear in Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 [bibtex]

Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J. P., Balakrishnan, R. (2008). Improving Meeting Capture by Applying Television Production Principles with Audio and Motion Detection (10 pages) in Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 [bibtex]

Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J. P., Balakrishnan, R. (2007). Dynamic Shared Visual Spaces: Experimenting with Automatic Camera Control in a Remote Repair Task (10 pages) in Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 [bibtex]

Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J. P., Balakrishnan, R. (2006). An Exploratory Analysis of Partner Action and Camera Control in a Video-Mediated Collaborative Task (10 pages) in Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2006 [bibtex] (Awarded Honorable Mention paper)

Ranjan, A., Balakrishnan, R., Chignell, M. (2006). Searching in Audio: The Utility of Transcripts, Dichotic Presentation, and Time-compression (10 pages) in Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 [bibtex]

Malik, S., Ranjan, A., Balakrishnan, R. (2005). Interacting with Large Displays from a Distance with Vision-Tracked Multi-Finger Gestural Input (10 pages) in Proceedings of ACM UIST 2005 [bibtex]. (Invited to a "Best of UIST" reprise session in ACM SIGGRAPH 2006)

Tsang, S., Balakrishnan, R., Singh, K., Ranjan, A.. (2004). A Suggestive Interface for Image Guided 3D Sketching (8 pages) in Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 [bibtex]

Non-Refereed Papers, Presentations, and Talks


Ranjan, A. , Birnholtz, J. P., Balakrishnan, R., Improving Meeting Capture by Applying Television Production Principles with Audio and Motion Detection, ACM SIGCHI, 2008, Florence .
Ranjan, A. , Birnholtz, J. P., Balakrishnan, R., Dynamic Shared Visual Spaces: Experimenting with Automatic Camera Control in a Remote Repair Task, ACM SIGCHI, 2007, San Jose .
Ranjan, A. , Birnholtz, J. P., Balakrishnan, R., An Exploratory Analysis of Partner Action and Camera Control in a Video-Mediated Collaborative Task, ACM CSCW, 2006, Banff .
Ranjan, A. , Balakrishnan, R., Chignell, M., Searching in Audio: The Utility of Transcripts, Dichotic Presentation, and Time-compression, ACM SIGCHI, 2006, Montreal .
Birnholtz, J. P., Ranjan, A., Balakrishnan, R., Using Motion Tracking to Provide Dynamic Shared Visual Spaces in Collaboration Environments, Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments (WACE), 2006, Geneva.
Malik, S., Ranjan, A., Balakrishnan, R., Interacting with Large Displays from a Distance with Vision-Tracked Multi-Finger Gestural Input, UIST Reprise, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2006, Boston .
Chandran, S., Ranjan, A., Combining Spanning Trees and Normalized Cuts for Internet Retrieval, Internet Imaging V at IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2003, San Jose.
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