EducationNewsPublicationsThesesOther ProjectsTeaching
Roozbeh Mottaghi
 
PhD Student
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Computer Science
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing

3551 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA
Phone: (404) 247-9975
roozbehm [at( cs.ucla.edu
My research interest is to develope robust and fast computer vision methods for embedded systems, especially for smart cellphones. I work under Deborah Estrin.

Education

2008-now    PhD student, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Advisor: Deborah Estrin.  
2006-2008    MSc, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Advisors: Tucker Balch and Frank Dellaert.  
2003-2006    MSc, Engineering Science (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Advisor: Richard Vaughan.  
1999-2003    BSc (with honor), Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. 

News

Jan 7, 2009    Our paper on graph-based planning got accepted to ICRA 2009.  

Publications   (in reverse chronological order)

Graph-based Planning Using Local Information for Unknown Outdoor Environments
Jinhan Lee, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Charles Pippin, and Tucker Balch
accepted to International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2009), Kobe, Japan.
Place Recognition-based Fixed-lag Smoothing for Environments with Unreliable GPS
Roozbeh Mottaghi, Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, Richard Roberts, and Frank Dellaert
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2008), Pasadena, CA, May 2008.
Related Video Clip
An Integrated Particle Filter and Potential Field Method Applied to Multi-Robot Target Tracking
Roozbeh Mottaghi, and Richard Vaughan
Autonomous Robots Journal, 23(1):19-35, 2007.
Related Video Clips: clip 1 and clip 2
An Integrated Particle Filter & Potential Field Method for Cooperative Robot Target Tracking
Roozbeh Mottaghi and Richard Vaughan
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2006), Orlando, FL, May 2006.
An Overview of a Probabilistic Tracker for Multiple Cooperative Tracking Agents
Roozbeh Mottaghi and Shahram Payandeh
International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2005), Seattle, WA, July 2005.
Coordination of Multiple Agents for Probabilistic Object Tracking
Roozbeh Mottaghi and Shahram Payandeh
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Victoria, Canada, May 2005.
SharifCESR Small Size Robocup Team
Mohammad T. Manzuri, Hamid R. Chitsaz, Reza Ghorbani, Pooya Karimian, Alireza Mirazi, Mehran Motamed, Roozbeh Mottaghi and Payam Sabzmeydani
A. Birk, S. Coradeschi and S. Tadokoro editors
Robocup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2377, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.

Theses

  Cooperative Target Tracking with Multiple Mobile Robots
Roozbeh Mottaghi
MASc Thesis, Simon Fraser University, April 2006.
  Reconfigurable Implementation of a Moving Object Detection Algorithm for Small Size Soccer Playing Robots
Roozbeh Mottaghi
BSc Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, June 2003.

Other Projects


Map of SFU TASC I buliding built by our Pioneer robot. Click on the image to enlarge.

The source code and the results for re-implementation of Online Selection of Discriminative Tracking Features by R. Collins et al. are available here.

I worked on the Small Size Soccer-playing robots project as an undergraduate research assistant. Photos: Seattle, USA 2001 competitions and Fukuoka, Japan 2002 competitions

Teaching

Fall 2008    TA, Computer Netwrok Fundamentals, UCLA 
Fall 2005    TA, Computer Architecture, Simon Fraser University 
Spring 2001    TA, Assembly Language & System Programming, Sharif University of Technology  
Spring 2001    TA, Pascal Programming, Sharif University of Technology  

EducationNewsPublicationsThesesOther ProjectsTeaching