Research

Image/video analysis (including texture and shape analysis, segmentation, registration), multimedia databases and data mining (feature extraction, content based access, high dimensional indexing and similarity search), steganography (data hiding in images and video, and their detection), and signal/image processing for bio-informatics. 

Manjunath directs the NSF/ITR funded Bio-Image Informatics Center and was the Principal Investigator for the NSF/IGERT program on Interactive Digital Multimedia. He has published about 250 articles in various journals and peer reviewed conferences and his publications have been cited extensively.