Pranav Mantini, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher & Lecturer

University of Houston | Department of Computer Science

Pranav Mantini

About Me

My research spans Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Machine Learning. I design intelligent tools for public safety video systems, bridging theoretical research with robust, real-world deployment. My research addresses foundational challenges in person re-identification, anomaly detection, and neural network architectures. My work has been recognized with a U.S. Patent, best-paper awards, and significant federal grant funding.

Research Interests

  • Person Re-Identification & Face Recognition
  • Automated Video Surveillance & Anomaly Detection
  • Machine Learning Stability (Catastrophic Forgetting)
  • Image Quality Assessment (IQA)
  • Convolutional Quadratic Neural Networks (CQNN)
  • Semantic Segmentation

Selected Publications

Occlusion-aware appearance and shape learning for occluded cloth-changing person re-identification.
Vuong D Nguyen, Pranav Mantini, Shishir K Shah. Pattern Analysis and Applications '25
Recall-Based Knowledge Distillation for Data Distribution Based Catastrophic Forgetting in Semantic Segmentation.
Samiha Mirza, et al., Pranav Mantini. ICPR '25
Camera Tampering Detection using Generative Reference Model and Deep Learned Features.
P. Mantini, S.K. Shah. VISAPP '19 [Best Paper Award]
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