Publications to Date

• Mores Prachyabrued, Timothy Roden, and Ryan G. Benton, "Procedural generation of stylized 2D maps", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2007), Salzburg, Austria, pp. 147-150, June 13-15, 2007.
• Biren Shah, Ryan Benton, Zonghuan Wu and Vijay Raghavan, "Automatic and Semi-automatic Techniques for Image Annotation", in Semantic-Based Visual Information Retrieval, Yu-Jin Zhang(ed.), Idea Group Publishing, pp. 112-134, 2007.
• Ryan G. Benton and Chee-Hung Henry Chu, "Camera Pose Estimation by an Artificial Neural Network", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong, pp. 604-611, October 3-6, 2006.
• Ryan Benton and Chee-Hung Henry Chu, "Soft Computing Approach to Steganalysis of Digital Images", IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, pp. 105-109, June 27-30, 2005.
• Surendra Karnatapu, Karthik Ramachandran, Zonghuan Wu, Biren Shah, Vijay V. Raghavan and Ryan Benton, "Estimating Size of Search Engines in an Uncooperative Environment", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems, Beijing, China, pp. 81-87, September 20, 2004.
• Ryan Benton, Miroslav Kubat, and Rasaiah Loganantharaj, "Meta-Classifiers and Selective Superiority", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 434-442, June 19-22, 2000.
• Rasaiah Loganantharaj and Ryan Benton, "Automatic Discovery of Clusters", Proceedings of the ISCA 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Denver, Colorado, pp. 45-48, June 24-26, 1999.
• N. Pissinou, R. Benton, B. Bhagyavati, and S. Kurkovsky, "A Roadmap to the Utilization of Intelligent Information Agents: Are Intelligent Agents the link between the Database and Artificial Intelligence Communities?", Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Knowledge & Data Engineering Exchange Workshop, Newport Beach, California, pp. 196-205, November 4, 1997.
• Ryan Benton, Afshin Ganjoo, Beth Lumetta, Daryl Spillman, and Jason Ring, "Adaptive Wavelet Transforms of Singular and Chaotic Signals", Proceedings of the SPIE Wavelet Applications III, Orlando, Florida, pp. 136-143, April 8-12, 1996.
• Ryan Benton, "Using Genetic Algorithms to Improve Interpretation of Satellite Data", Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson University, South Carolina, pp. 143-145, March 17-18, 1995.

Research Awards

• "Data Driven Prognostics", STTR project funded by Missile Defense Agency, contract N00174-03-C-0060. Principal Investigator: Ryan Benton. Co-PI: Chee-Hung Henry Chu. September 2003 - March 2004.
• "SBIR Phase I: Automated Image Annotation", funded by National Science Foundation.Principal Investigator: Ryan Benton.Co-PIs: Biren Shah and Vijay V. Raghavan. January 1, 2005 - June 30, 2005.
• "Automated Construction of 3-D Road Models from Right-Of-Way Video", funded by Louisiana Transportation Research Center.Principal Investigator: Ryan Benton.Co-PIs: Xiaoduan Sun and Chee-Hung Henry Chu. January 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009.