Kenny Davila @ kdavila.com



Welcome to my personal page. I am Kenny Mauricio Davila Castellanos. I got my Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. My research overlaps multiple fields such as Document Analysis and Recognition, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Information Retrieval. My recent research topics include extraction, classification and recognition of charts as well as retrieval of math formulas from documents and videos. I also have some interest in the broader fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics.

I did my post-doctorate at the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) - University at Buffalo under the supervision of Venu Govindaraju and Srirangaraj Setlur . Previously, I worked at the Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (DPRL) under the supervision of Dr. Richard Zanibbi

I am currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing of the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) of DePaul University. I previously worked as "Docente Investigador" at Universidad Tecnologica Centroamerica


Contact:

E-mail 1: kdavilac at depaul.edu

E-mail 2: kxd7282 at rit.edu

LinkedIn: Kenny Davila


Publications

Google Scholar: Citations

  1. K. Davila, F. Xu, J. Molina, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Synthetic Data Generation for Semantic Segmentation of Lecture Videos". International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2022). Springer.

  2. S. Castelar, L.A. Banegas, D.A. Mendoza, J.C. Soto, K. Davila. "Automated Honduran Banknote Image Classification using Machine Learning". Central America and Panama Convention (CONCAPAN 2022). IEEE.

  3. K. Davila, F. Xu, S. Ahmed, D.A. Mendoza, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "ICPR 2022: Challenge on Harvesting Raw Tables from Infographics (CHART-Infographics)". International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022). IEEE

  4. K.W. Lee, N. Sankaran, D. Mohan, K. Davila, D. Fedorishin, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Bayesian Personalized-Wardrobe Model (BP-WM) for Long-Term Person Re-Identification". International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2021). IEEE.

  5. K. Davila, F. Xu, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "FCN-LectureNet: Extractive Summarization of Whiteboard and Chalkboard Lecture Videos". IEEE Access (Access). Volume 9. (Jul. 2021). IEEE.

  6. Y. Diaz, G. Nishizawa, B. Mansouri, K. Davila, R. Zanibbi. "The MathDeck Formula Editor: Interactive Formula Entry Combining LaTeX, Structure Editing, and Search". Extended Abstracts of Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021). ACM.

  7. K. Davila, C. Tensmeyer, S. Shekhar, H. Singh, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "ICPR 2020-competition on harvesting raw tables from infographics". International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops (ICPR-W 2020). Springer.

  8. S. Ahmed, K. Davila, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Equation Attention Relationship Network (EARN): A Geometric Deep Metric Framework for Learning Similar Math Expression Embedding". International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020). IEEE.

  9. B.U. Kota, A. Stone, K. Davila, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Automated Whiteboard Lecture Video Summarization by Content Region Detection and Representation". International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020). IEEE.

  10. F. Xu, K. Davila, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Skeleton-based methods for speaker action classification on lecture videos". International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops (ICPR-W 2020). Springer.

  11. K. Davila, S. Setlur, D. Doermann, B.U. Kota, V. Govindaraju. "Chart Mining: A Survey of Methods for Automated Chart Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Volume 43, Issue 11 (Nov. 2021).

  12. F. Xu, K. Davila, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Content Extraction from Lecture Video via Speaker Action Classification Based on Pose Information". International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019). (BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD)

  13. K. Davila, B.U. Kota, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju, C. Tensmeyer, S. Shekhar, R. Chaudhry. "ICDAR 2019 Competition on Harvesting Raw Tables from Infographics (CHART-Infographics)". International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019).

  14. M. Mahdavi, M. Condon, K. Davila, R. Zanibbi. "LPGA: Line-of-sight parsing with graph-based attention for math formula recognition". International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019).

  15. B.U. Kota, S. Ahmed, A. Stone, K. Davila, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Summarizing Lecture Videos by Key Handwritten Content Regions". Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2019). (BEST PAPER AWARD)

  16. B.U. Kota, K. Davila, A. Stone, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Generalized framework for summarization of fixed-camera lecture videos by detecting and binarizing handwritten content". International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Volume 22, Issue 3. (Sept. 2019).

  17. K. Davila, R. Joshi, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju, R. Zanibbi. "Tangent-V: Math Formula Image Search Using Line-of-Sight Graphs". In Proc. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019).

  18. K. Davila, R. Zanibbi. "Visual Search Engine for Handwritten and Typeset Math in Lecture Videos and LATEX Notes". In Proc. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018). IEEE. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

  19. B.U. Kota, K. Davila, A. Stone, S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju. "Automated Detection of Handwritten Whiteboard Content in Lecture Videos for Summarization". In Proc. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018). IEEE.

  20. Ph.D. Dissertation: Symbolic and Visual Retrieval of Mathematical Notation using Formula Graph Symbol Pair Matching and Structural Alignment

  21. K. Davila, R. Zanibbi. "Whiteboard Video Summarization via Spatio-Temporal Conflict Minimization". In Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017). IEEE.

  22. K. Davila, R. Zanibbi. "Layout and Semantics: Combining Representations for Mathematical Formula Search". In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017). ACM.

  23. K. Davila, R. Zanibbi, A. Kane, FW Tompa. "Tangent-3 at the NTCIR-12 MathIR Task". Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-12). 2016.

  24. R. Zanibbi, A. Aizawa, M. Kohlhase, I. Ounis, G. Topic, K. Davila. "NTCIR-12 MathIR Task Overview.". Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-12). 2016.

  25. K. Davila. "Appearance-Based Retrieval of Mathematical Notation in Documents and Lecture Videos". In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016). ACM.

  26. R. Zanibbi, K. Davila, A. Kane, F.W. Tompa. "Multi-Stage Math Formula Search: Using Appearance-Based Similarity Metrics at Scale". In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016) . ACM.

  27. H. Chatbri, K. Davila, K. Kameyama and R. Zanibbi. "Shape matching using keypoints extracted from both the foreground and the background of binary images". In International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2015). IEEE.

  28. K. Davila, S. Ludi and R. Zanibbi. "Using Off-line Features and Synthetic Data for On-line Handwritten Math Symbol Recognition". 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014). IEEE.

  29. K. Davila, A. Agarwal, R. Gaborski, R. Zanibbi and S. Ludi. "AccessMath: Indexing and Retrieving Video Segments Containing Math Expressions Based on Visual Similarity". In IEEE Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIPW 2013). IEEE.

  30. M.Sc. Project Report: Math Expression Retrieval Implemented Through Sketches (Updated: May 9, 2013)