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Selected Publications (Google Scholar)

Assessing the Quality of Actions
Hamed Pirsiavash, Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014.
[PDF] [code+dataset]

Inferring the Why in Images
Hamed Pirsiavash*, Carl Vondrick*, Antonio Torralba *equal contribution
arXiv 2014.
[PDF] [project page]

Acquiring Visual Classifiers from Human Imagination
Carl Vondrick, Hamed Pirsiavash, Aude Oliva, Antonio Torralba
arXiv 2014.
[PDF] [project page]
[Press coverage: Technology Review]

Parsing Videos of Actions with Segmental Grammars
Hamed Pirsiavash, Deva Ramanan
International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2014. (oral presentation)
[PDF] [slides PPT (80MB)]
[Press coverage: NBC News, WIRED-UK, GIGAOM, ScienceDaily, Technology Review, MIT News]

Are All Training Examples Equally Valuable?
Agata Lapedriza, Hamed Pirsiavash, Zoya Bylinskii, Antonio Torralba
arXiv 2014.
[PDF]

Parsing IKEA Objects: Fine Pose Estimation
Joseph Lim, Hamed Pirsiavash, Antonio Torralba
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2013.
[PDF] [data]

Detecting Activities of Daily Living in First-person Camera Views
Hamed Pirsiavash, Deva Ramanan
International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012. (oral presentation)
[PDF] [slides PPT (53MB)] [poster PDF] [code+dataset]

Steerable Part Models
Hamed Pirsiavash, Deva Ramanan
International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012.
[PDF] [slides PPT] [poster PDF]

Globally-Optimal Greedy Algorithms for Tracking a Variable Number of Objects
Hamed Pirsiavash, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011.
[PDF] [code]

A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Event Recognition in Surveillance Video
Sangmin Oh et al.
International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011.
[PDF] [project page]

TalkMiner: A Lecture Webcast Search Engine
John Adcock, Matthew Cooper, Laurent Denoue, Hamed Pirsiavash, Lawrence Rowe
ACM Multimedia 2010.
[PDF] [www.talkminer.com]

Bilinear Classifiers for Visual Recognition
Hamed Pirsiavash, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009). (spotlight presentation)
[PDF] [slides PPT] [slides PDF] [poster PDF]

Opti-Acoustic Stereo Imaging: On System Calibration and 3-D Target Reconstruction
Shahriar Negahdaripour, Hicham Sekkati, Hamed Pirsiavash,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 18, Issue 6, Jun 2009, PP: 1203-1214.
[PDF]

Towards Environment-to-Environment (E2E) Multimedia Communication Systems
Vivek Singh, Hamed Pirsiavash, Ish Rishabh, Ramesh Jain
Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, Springer Netherlands, Vol 44, Num 3, pp 361-388, May 2009.
[PDF]

Opti-Acoustic Stereo Imaging, System Calibration and 3-D Reconstruction
Shahriar Negahdaripour, Hicham Sekkati, Hamed Pirsiavash
Workshops of CVPR 2007 - Beyond Multiview Geometry.(Best Paper Award)
[PDF]

Other Publications

Data Handling Displays
Maxim Lazarov, Hamed Pirsiavash, Behzad Sa jadi, Uddipan Mukherjee, Aditi Ma jumder
Workshops of CVPR 2009 - 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (Procams 2009).
[PDF]

Personal Photo Album Summarization
Pinaki Sinha, Hamed Pirsiavash, Ramesh Jain
ACM Multimedia 2009 - Grand Challenge.
[PDF]

Shared Visualization Spaces for Environment to Environment Communication
Hamed Pirsiavash, Vivek Singh, Aditi Majumder, Ramesh Jain
NSF Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology 2009.
[PDF]

Towards Environment-toEnvironment (E2E) Multimedia Communication Systems
Vivek Singh, Hamed Pirsiavash, Ish Rishabh, Ramesh Jain
Workshops of ACM Multimedia 2008 - Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience.
[PDF]

Environment to environment (E2E) communication systems for collaborative work
Ish Rishabh, Vivek Kumar Singh, Hamed Pirsiavash, Ramesh Jain
Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) 2008.
[PDF]

Integration of motion cues in optical and sonar video imaging for 3-D positioning
Shahriar Negahdaripour, Hamed Pirsiavash, Hicham Sekkati
Workshops of CVPR 2007 - Workshop on Towards Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation, and Surface Reconstruction from Images.
[PDF]

Robust Content-based Video Watermarking Exploiting Motion Entropy Masking Effect
Amir Houmansadr, Hamed Pirsiavash, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami
International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications 2006.
[PDF]

An Efficient Parameter Selection Criterion for Image Denoising
Hamed Pirsiavash, Shohreh Kasaei, Farokh Marvasti
5th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology 2005.
[PDF]

An Iterative Approach for Reconstruction of Arbitrary Sparsely Sampled Magnetic Resonance Images
Hamed Pirsiavash, Mohammad Soleymani, Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh
The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2005.
[PDF]

A Robust Free Size OCR for Omni-font Persian/Arabic Printed Document using MLP/SVM
Hamed Pirsiavash, Ramin Mehran, Farbod Razzazi
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3773, pp. 601-610, Springer Verlag, Nov. 2005.
[PDF]

A Front-end OCR for Omni-font Per- sian/Arabic Cursive Printed Documents
Ramin Mehran, Hamed Pirsiavash, Farbod Razzazi
Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applica- tions (DICTA) 2005.
[PDF]

Design and Implementation of a Hierarchical Classifier for Isolated Handwritten Persian/Arabic Characters
Hamed Pirsiavash, Farbod Razzazi
International Conference on Signal Processing, 2003.