Hossein Mobahi


Research Scientist
Google Research
Mountain View, CA
hmobahi AT csail DOT mit DOT edu

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Publications


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  • Homotopy Analysis for Tensor PCA

Anima Anandkumar, Yuan Deng, Rong Ge, Hossein Mobahi (authors ordered alphabetically). Conference On Learning Theory (COLT), July 2017.
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  • Training Recurrent Neural Networks by Diffusion

Hossein Mobahi, arXiv:1601.04114 [cs.LG], January 2016.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [arXiv]
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  • A Theory of Local Matching: SIFT and Beyond

Hossein Mobahi, Stefano Soatto, arXiv:1601.05116 [cs.CV], January 2016.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [arXiv]
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  • Closed Form for some Gaussian Convolutions

Hossein Mobahi, arXiv: submit/1477966 [math.GM], February 2016.
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  • Learning With a Wasserstein Loss

Charlie Frogner, Chiyuan Zhang, Hossein Mobahi, Mauricio Araya-Polo, Tomaso Poggio. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.
[PDF] [Supplement] [BibTeX] [Project Page]
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  • The Aperture Problem for Refractive Motion

Tianfan Xue, Hossein Mobahi, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015).
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  • A Theoretical Analysis of Optimization by Gaussian Continuation (Oral Presentation)

Hossein Mobahi, John W. Fisher III, 29th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15).
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  • On the Link Between Gaussian Homotopy Continuation and Convex Envelopes

Hossein Mobahi, John W. Fisher III, Energy Minimization Method in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR 2015).
[PDF] [BibTeX] [MIT News]
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  • Coarse-to-Fine Minimization of Some Common Nonconvexities

Hossein Mobahi, John W. Fisher III, Energy Minimization Method in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR 2015).
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  • A Bayesian State-space Approach for Damage Detection and Classification

Zoran Dzunic, Justin Chen, Hossein Mobahi, Oral Buyukozturk, John W. Fisher III, IMAC XXXIII A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015.
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  • A Compositional Model for Low-Dimensional Image Set Representation

Hossein Mobahi, Ce Liu, William T. Freeman, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014).
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Video MPG(57MB)]
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  • Seeing through the Blur

Hossein Mobahi, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Yi Ma, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012).
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Project Page]
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  • Toward a Practical Face Recognition System: Robust Alignment and Illumination by Sparse Representation

Andrew Wagner, John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Zihan Zhou, Hossein Mobahi, Yi Ma, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34(2): 372-386 (2012).
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  • Deep Learning via Semi-Supervised Embedding

Jason Weston, Frederic Ratle, Hossein Mobahi, Ronan Collobert, In Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, pp. 639-655, Sep. 2012.
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  • Optimization by Gaussian Smoothing with Application to Geometric Alignment

Hossein Mobahi, PhD Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2012.
[PDF (13MB)] [Slides (25MB)] [BibTeX]
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  • Segmentation of Natural Images by Texture and Boundary Compression

Hossein Mobahi, Shankar R. Rao, Allen Y. Yang, S. Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 95 (1), pp. 86-98, Oct. 2011.
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  • Holistic 3D Reconstruction of Urban Structures from Low-rank Textures

Hossein Mobahi, Zihan Zhou, Allen Yang, Yi Ma, 3D Representation and Recognition Workshop, ICCV 2011, pp. 593-600.
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  • Learning Topology of Curves with Application to Clustering

Hossein Mobahi, Shankar R. Rao, Yi Ma, AAAI Fall Symposium 2009 on Manifold Learning.
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  • Natural Image Segmentation with Adaptive Texture and Boundary Encoding

Shankar R. Rao, Hossein Mobahi, Allen Y. Yang, S. Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma, Asian Conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV'09), pp. 135--146, Best Student Paper Award (Sang Uk Lee Award).
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  • Face Recognition with Contiguous Occlusion using Markov Random Fields

Zihan Zhou, Andrew Wagner, Hossein Mobahi, John Wright, Yi Ma, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'09).
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  • Deep Learning from Temporal Coherence in Video

Hossein Mobahi, Ronan Collobert, Jason Weston, Int. Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'09), pp. 737-744, Monreal, Canada.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Dataset] [Slides] [Video Lecture]
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  • Deep Learning Via Semi-Supervised Embedding

Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert, F. Ratle, Hossein Mobahi, Pavel Kuksa, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Int. Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'09), Workshop on Learning Feature Hierarchies.
[Slides] [BibTeX] [Video Lecture]
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  • Data-Driven Image Completion by Image Patch Subspaces

Hossein Mobahi, Shankar R. Rao, Yi Ma, 27th Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, May 2009.
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  • A Biologically Inspired Method for Conceptual Imitation using Reinforcement Learning

Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 155-183, Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2007.
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  • Swarm Contours: A fast self-organization approach for snake initialization

Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Complexity, Vol 12, Issue 1, pp. 41-52, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Oct. 2006.
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  • HCI Applications for Aiding Children with Mental Disorders

Hossein Mobahi, Karrie G. Karahalios, ACM Crossroads, Special Issue on Human-Computer Interaction, Issue 12.2, Winter 2005, pp. 8--12
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  • Swarm Contours: An ALife approach to image processing

Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, 5th Symposium of Understanding Complex Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May (2005). Best Student Paper Award.
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  • Concept Oriented Imitation

Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA05), pp. 1495-1500.
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  • Fast initialization of active contours: towards practical visual interfaces for human-robot interaction

Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS 2004), pp. 546- 551.
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  • Temporal Resolution in Coevolution: Towards Creating the Molecules of Life in Silico

Hossein Mobahi, Caro Lucas, Workshop on Applied Optimization (WAO 2004), Institute for Numerical Mathematics Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany.
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  • Peak Stick RBF Network for Online System Identification

Hossein Mobahi, Farrokh Sharifi Janabi, Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN04), pp. 2105--2111.
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  • Fuzzy Perception, Emotion and Expression for Interactive Robots

Hossein Mobahi, Shahin Ansari, IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetic (SMCC03), Volume 4, pp. 3918--3923.
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