Alireza Fathi Ph.D. Student, Wall Lab, School of Interactive Computing College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Email:  afathi3 at gatech dot edu Education | Research | Services | Honors | Courses | Experience | Useful Links | Fun! | My Sister

Formal Bio: I am currently a Ph.D. student at GeorgiaTech working with Jim Rehg. I worked with Greg Mori during my Masters. I have closely worked with Jessica Hodgins, Frank Dellaert and John Krumm also in the past.

Informal Bio: I was born at 1984 in Tehran, Iran. I really love my country and I miss it so much. I am proud of my country's art, old history, and its kind and lovely nation. I am also missing Iranian Food so much. Get some food recipes here. I can cook Halva, Sho'le zard, Fereni, Fesenjoon, Kookoo Sabzi, Abgoosht, Ghormesabzi. The food and dessert recipes I wish to learn are Ashe reshte, Beryani, Naan Berenji, Baghlava, Ghottab.

01/21/2012: I am organizing a workshop in CVPR 2012 on Egocentric Vision.

11/17/2011: I have created a Facebook App for data collection, try it.

11/10/2011: Submitted an abstract to IMFAR 2012 (International Meeting For Autism Research) on using egocentric cameras for detecting joint attention patterns.

11/08/2011: I am a program committee member of AAAI 2012.

06/28/2011: Paper accepted to BMVC 2011: Combining Self Training and Active Learning for Video Segmentation (PDF, Abstract).

06/10/2011: Paper accepted to ICCV 2011: Understanding Egocentric Activities. PDF

02/14/2011: GeorgiaTech Egocentric Activities Dataset is released, get it here.

02/14/2011: Paper accepted to CVPR 2011: Learning to Recognize Objects in Egocentric Activities. PDF

10/28/2010: GTSAM is released. Being part of Frank Dellaert's group for a year, all of his students including myself and Frank developed a library of C++ classes that implement smoothing and mapping (SAM) in robotics and vision, using factor graphs and bayes networks (Link).

03/15/2010: GIScience paper accepted (PDF).

Alireza Fathi, Xiaofeng Ren, James M. Rehg, Learning to Recognize Objects in Egocentric Activities, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011. (PDF, Dataset)

Alireza Fathi, Ali Farhadi, James M. Rehg, Understanding Egocentric Activities, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011. (PDF, Dataset)

 

Image/Video Segmentation

Alireza Fathi, Maria Florina Balcan, Xiaofeng Ren, James M. Rehg, Combining Self Training and Active Learning for Video Segmentation, British machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011 (PDF, Abstract).

Action Recognition

Alireza Fathi, Greg Mori, Action Recognition by Learning Mid-level Motion Features, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008. (PDF, Bibtex)

 

Human Tracking

I have worked with Frank Dellaert on SLAM for a year and helped develop an open source toolkit which we called GTSAM. GTSAM is getting more complicated and better every day still. Also I did an internship with John Krumm at Microsoft Research in Redmond and we published a paper on detecting road intersections given GPS data.

Alireza Fathi, John Krumm, Detecting Road Intersections from GPS Traces, GIScience, 2010. (PDF)

Alireza Fathi, Alex Cunninghum, Balmanohar Paluri, Kai Ni and Frank Dellaert, EasySLAM, GVU Technical Report(GIT-GVU-10-03), 2010. (Link)

Frank Dellaert, Alireza Fathi, Alex Cunninghum, Balmanohar Paluri and Kai Ni, Local Exponential Maps: Towards Massively Distributed Multi-robot Mapping, GVU Technical Report(GIT-GVU-10-04), 2010. (Link)

Alireza Fathi, Simultaneous Recovery of Shape, Motion and Grouping by Applying Rank Constraints, Project Report!, 2010. (PDF, Poster)
 

• Partial Differential Equations for Image Procesing and Vision (Anthony Yezzi)
• Advanced Internet Computing (Ling Liu)
• Linear Optimization (Craig Tovey)
• Computational Data Analysis (Guy Lebanon)
• Behavior Imaging (Jim Rehg, Agata Rozga)
• Spectral Algorithms (Santosh Vempala)
• Numerical Optimization (Karen Liu)
• Theoretical Machine Learning (Maria Florina Balcan)
• Probabilistic Graphical Models (Jim Rehg)
• Computer Vision (Jim Rehg)
• Numerical Linear Algebra (Hongyuan Zha)
• 3D Reconstruction and Mapping in Computer Vision (Frank Dellaert)
• Computer Graphics (Jarek Rossignac)
• Introduction to Graduate Studies (Nick Feamster and Alex Gray)
• Formal Verification (Eugenia Ternovska)
• Robot Vision (Zenian Li)
• Autonomous Robots (Richard Vaughan)
• Algorithm Design (Joseph Peters)
• Discriminative Methods in Machine Learning (Anoop Sarkar)
• Illumination in Images and Video (Mark Drew)
• Recognition Problems in Computer Vision (Greg Mori)
• Computational Modeling for Sound Synthesis (Tamara Smyth)

Teaching Experience:

• Teaching Assistant of CMPT225 (Data Structures), Mrs. Maryam Aliyar, Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Summer 2008.
• Teaching Assistant of CMPT225 (Artificial Intelligence), Dr. Veronica Dahl, Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Summer 2008.
• Teaching Assistant of CMPT300 (Operating Systems 1), Mr. Brad Bart, Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2007.
• Teaching Assistant of CMPT275 (Software Engineering 1), Mrs. Anne Lavergne, Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2006.
• Teaching Assistant of Robotic Systems Course, Dr. L. Sharif, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006.
• Teaching Assistant of Computer Organization course, Dr. H. S. Azad, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006.
• Teaching Assistant of Computer Organization course, Dr. H. S. Azad, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2005.
• Teaching Assistant of Operating Systems course, Dr. M. Azmi, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2004.
• Teaching Assistant of Advanced Programming course, Mr. M. Saniee, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2003.

Research Experience:

• Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. James M. Rehg, Wall Lab, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-Now.
• Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Frank Dellaert, BORG Lab, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
• Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Greg Mori, Vision and Media Lab, Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 2006-2008.
• Undergraduate Research Assistantship with Dr. J. Habibi, AI & Robotics Lab, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, 2005.

Work Experience:

• Internship at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, Summer 2011 (My mentor was Jessica Hodgins and I had a very interesting project on which I am still working and will submit a paper to CVPR12 about it).
• Internship at Micorosoft Reseach, Redmond, Seattle, Summer 2009 (My mentor was John Krumm).
• Internship in KoolHausGames Co., Vancouver, Summer 2007.
• Team Leader and coach of Poseidon Rescue Simulation Team, A seven-member Rescue Simulation Team in Farzanegan (NODET) High School, 2005.
• Lecturer of C++ course, for elected students in Ministry of Education, Iran, 2005.
• Lecturer of PHP course, AICT center, Sharif University of Technology, 2003.

Languages:

• Farsi (native): Spoken by 82 million people native and 62 million as their second language, Indo-European
• English (good in writing, reading and speaking): Spoken by 400 million native and 1.4 billion as their second language, Indo-European
• Azeri (native): Spoken by about 33 million people, Turkic
• Arabic (good in writing, reading and translation): Spoken by 442 million native and 246 million non-native people, Afro-Asiatic
• I am considering learning Spanish currently.

Recent Hot Machine Learning Hammers used in Computer Vision, Alireza Fathi, 2011.

Fun

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