PhD Candidate
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Computer Science
Email: roozbehm [at( cs.ucla.edu
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Roozbeh Mottaghi PhD Candidate University of California, Los Angeles Department of Computer Science Email: roozbehm [at( cs.ucla.edu |
| Education |
| 2008-now | PhD student, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Advisor: Alan L. Yuille (since 2009) |
| 2006-2008 | MSc, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. |
| 2003-2006 | MSc, Engineering Science (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. |
| 1999-2003 | BSc, Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. |
| News |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Submitted two papers to ICCV 2013. |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Our paper on complexity analysis of object part sharing got accepted for oral presentation at International Conference on Learning Representations. This is a new conference organized by Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, which has an interesting publication model. |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Submitted our paper on hybrid human-machine CRFs to International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). |
| Feb 24, 2013 | Two papers accepted to CVPR 2013. |
| Feb 22, 2013 | I will join Machine Learning and Perception group at Microsoft Research Cambridge as an intern in July 2013. |
| Publications (in reverse chronological order) |
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Complexity of Representation and Inference in Compositional Models with Part Sharing [pdf] [reviews] (Oral) Alan Yuille and Roozbeh Mottaghi To appear in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2013), Scottsdale, AZ, May, 2013. |
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Analyzing Semantic Segmentation Using Hybrid Human-Machine CRFs [pdf] [supp. material] Roozbeh Mottaghi, Sanja Fidler, Jian Yao, Raquel Urtasun, Devi Parikh IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), Portland, OR, June, 2013. |
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Bottom-up Segmentation for Top-down Detection [pdf] Sanja Fidler, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Alan Yuille, Raquel Urtasun IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), Portland, OR, June, 2013. |
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Augmenting Deformable Part Models with Irregular-shaped Object Patches [pdf] [supp. material] Roozbeh Mottaghi IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012), Providence, RI, June, 2012. |
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A Compositional Approach to Learning Part-based Models of Objects [pdf] Roozbeh Mottaghi, Ananth Ranganathan, and Alan Yuille Workshop on 3D Representation and Recognition, held with the International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV 2011), Barcelona, Spain, November 2011. The code for extraction of HOG Bundles is available here. |
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Graph-based Planning Using Local Information for Unknown Outdoor Environments [pdf] Jinhan Lee, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Charles Pippin, and Tucker Balch International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2009), Kobe, Japan, May 2009. |
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Place Recognition-based Fixed-lag Smoothing for Environments with Unreliable GPS [pdf] 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 |
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An Integrated Particle Filter and Potential Field Method Applied to Multi-Robot Target Tracking [pdf] Roozbeh Mottaghi, and Richard Vaughan Autonomous Robots Journal, 23(1):19-35, 2007. Related Video Clips: clip 1 and clip 2 |
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An Integrated Particle Filter & Potential Field Method for Cooperative Robot Target Tracking [pdf] Roozbeh Mottaghi and Richard Vaughan International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2006), Orlando, FL, May 2006. |
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An Overview of a Probabilistic Tracker for Multiple Cooperative Tracking Agents [pdf] Roozbeh Mottaghi and Shahram Payandeh International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2005), Seattle, WA, July 2005. |
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Coordination of Multiple Agents for Probabilistic Object Tracking [pdf] Roozbeh Mottaghi and Shahram Payandeh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Victoria, Canada, May 2005. |
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SharifCESR Small Size Robocup Team[pdf] 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. |
| Other Projects |
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Map of SFU TASC I buliding built by our Pioneer robot. Click on the image to enlarge. |
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The source code and the results for re-implementation of Online Selection of Discriminative Tracking Features by R. Collins et al. are available here. |
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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 |
| Winter 2010 | TA, Introduction to Computer Science I, UCLA |
| Fall 2009 | TA, Introduction to Computer Science I, UCLA |
| Fall 2008 | TA, Computer Network 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 |
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