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DISFA Database will be released in Summer 2012!

 

 

Biography

Dr. Mahoor received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology with the highest honor in 1996 and the M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from Sharif University of technology, Tehran in 1998. He joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami, Florida in 2003 where he received his Ph.D. in Nov. 2007.  As an outstanding graduate student he was granted the Eliahu & Joyce Jury Award in 2007 at the University of Miami. He then worked as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Miami where he received the Marino Autism Research Institute award for his research on facial expressions analysis of children with Autism. Dr. Mahoor joined the University of Denver, Colorado in Fall 2008 where he is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Research Interests

Theory:

• Computer vision
• Image processing
• Pattern recognition
• Sparse representation and compressive sensing
• Optimization
• Algorithm development
• Data fusion
• Active Appearance/Shape Models

Application:

• Facial expressions modeling and recognition
• Humanoid robots for therapeutic applications
• Biometric systems (Face, Ear, and Dental)
• Human activity recognition
• Image blending/mosaicing and stabilization
• Medical image processing
• Biomedical signal processing and body sensor network

 

Selected Publications

• Mahoor, M. H., Zhou, M., Veon, K. L., Mavadati, S. M., & Cohn, J. F. (2011). Facial action recognition with sparse representation. In the proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG011), Santa Barbra CA, March 2011.
   
• M. H. Mahoor, S. Cadavid, D. S. Messinger, and J. F. Cohn, "A Framework for Automated Measurement of the Intensity of Non-Posed Facial Action Units", 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis (CVPR4HB), Miami Beach, June 25, 2009.
• M. H. Mahoor and M. Abdel-Mottaleb, “A Multi-modal Approach for Face Recognition Based on Ridge Images and Attributed Relational Graph”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.431- 440, Sept. 2008 .
• A-Nasser Ansari, M. Abdel-Mottaleb and M. H. Mahoor, “A Multimodal Approach for 3D Face Modeling and Recognition using 3D Deformable Facial Mask,” Machine Vision and Applications Journal, in press, 2008.
• N. Gracias, M. H. Mahoor, S. Negahdaripour, A. Gleason and, “Fast Image Blending using Watersheds and Graph Cuts,” Journal of Image and Vision Computing, in press, 2008.
• M. Abdel-Mottaleb and M. H. Mahoor, “Algorithm for Assessing the Quality of Facial Images,” IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM), Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 10-17, May 2007.
•  H. Mahoor and M. Abdel-Mottaleb, “3D Face Recognition based on:   Ridge Image and Hausdorff Distance”, IEEE International Conference on Image    Processing, ICIP07, Sept. 2007, San Antonio, TX.
• A. Ansari, M. Abdel-Mottaleb, and M. H. Mahoor, “3D Face Mesh Modeling From Range Images for 3D Face Recognition”, accepted in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP07, Sep. 2007, San Antonio, TX. 
• N. Gracias, S. Negahdaripour, A. Gleason and M. H. Mahoor, “Fast Image Blending using Watersheds and Graph Cuts,” In the Proceeding of British Machine Vision Conference 2006 (BMVC06), Edinburgh, September 2006.
• M. H. Mahoor and M. Abdel-Mottaleb, “Facial Features Extraction in Color Images Using Enhanced Active Shape Model,” In the proceeding of the 7th IEEE international conference of AFGR, Southampton, UK 2006.
• M. H. Mahoor and M. Abdel-Mottaleb, “Classification and Numbering of Teeth in Bitewing Dental Images,” Journal of Pattern Recognition, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 577-586, April 2005.

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