JBC 2010 – Myosin Motors Drive Long Range Alignment of Actin Filaments
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JBC 2010 – Myosin Motors Drive Long Range Alignment of Actin Filaments

Tariq Butt, Tabish Mufti, Ahmad Humayun, Peter B. Rosenthal, Sohaib Khan, Shahid Khan, Justin E. Molloy Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol 285, No 7, Feb 12, 2010  Abstract The bulk alignment of actin filament sliding movement, powered by randomly oriented myosin molecules, has been observed and studied using an in vitro motility assay. The well…

ICIP 2009 – Early Termination Algorithms for Adaboost Based Detectors
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ICIP 2009 – Early Termination Algorithms for Adaboost Based Detectors

Arif Mahmood, Sohaib Khan 16th International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, Nov 7-10, 2009 Abstract In this paper we propose an early termination algorithm for speeding up the detection phase of the Adaboost based de- tectors. In the basic algorithm, at a specific search location, the AdaBoost ensemble response is computed as monotonic decreasing…

BMVC 2009 – VillageFinder: Segmentation of Nucleated Villages in Satellite Imagery
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BMVC 2009 – VillageFinder: Segmentation of Nucleated Villages in Satellite Imagery

Kashif Murtaza, Sohaib Khan, Nasir Rajpoot British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2009 Abstract Geo-spatial data on village locations, their size, population and other parameters is scarcely available to decision makers in many developing countries. In this paper, we demonstrate an automatic “crawler” which can segment nucleated villages from satellite imagery freely available in public…

CVPR 2009 – In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion
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CVPR 2009 – In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion

Ijaz Akhter, Yaser Sheikh, Sohaib Khan IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009 (Oral, 4.1% acceptance rate) Abstract In factorization approaches to nonrigid structure from motion, the 3D shape of a deforming object is usually modeled as a linear combination of a small number of basis shapes. The original approach to simultaneously…

MTA 2009 – Content and Task-Based View Selection from Multiple Video Streams
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MTA 2009 – Content and Task-Based View Selection from Multiple Video Streams

Fahad Daniyal, Murtaza Taj, Andrea Cavallaro Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2009 Abstract We present a content-aware multi-camera selection technique that uses object and frame-level features. First objects are detected using a color-based change detector. Next trajectory information for each object is generated using multi-frame graph matching. Finally, multiple features including size and location are used…

NIPS 2008 – Nonrigid Structure from Motion in Trajectory Space
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NIPS 2008 – Nonrigid Structure from Motion in Trajectory Space

Ijaz Akhter, Yaser Sheikh, Sohaib Khan, Takeo Kanade 22nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS, Dec 2008 (Best Student Paper Nomination, ORAL, 2.7% acceptance rate)  Abstract Existing approaches to nonrigid structure from motion assume that the instantaneous 3D shape of a deforming object is a linear combination of basis shapes, which have to…

ICIP 2008 – Exploiting Local Auto-Correlation Function for Fast Video-to-Reference Image Alignment
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ICIP 2008 – Exploiting Local Auto-Correlation Function for Fast Video-to-Reference Image Alignment

Arif Mahmood, Sohaib Khan 15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2008 Abstract Digital images of natural scenes are usually characterized by strong spatial correlation between adjacent pixels which has been successfully exploited in the coding of still and moving pictures. In this work we show that the strong spatial correlation of natural images…

JSTSP 2008 – Target detection and tracking with heterogeneous sensors
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JSTSP 2008 – Target detection and tracking with heterogeneous sensors

Huiyu Zhou, Murtaza Taj, Andrea Cavallaro IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2008 Abstract We present a multimodal detection and tracking algorithm for sensors composed of a camera mounted between two microphones. Target localization is performed on color-based change detection in the video modality and on Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) estimation between…

TCSVT 2008 – Efficient Multi-Target Visual Tracking Using Random Finite Sets
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TCSVT 2008 – Efficient Multi-Target Visual Tracking Using Random Finite Sets

Emilio Maggio, Murtaza Taj, Andrea Cavallaro IEEE Transaction on Circuits System and Video Technology, 2008 Abstract We propose a filtering framework for multi-target tracking that is based on the Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filter and data association using graph matching. This framework can be combined with any object detectors that generate positional and dimensional information of…

EURASIP 2008 – Detection and Tracking of Humans and Faces
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EURASIP 2008 – Detection and Tracking of Humans and Faces

Stefan Karlsson, Murtaza Taj, Andrea Cavallaro EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2008 Abstract We present a video analysis framework that integrates prior knowledge in object tracking to automatically detect humans and faces, and can be used to generate abstract representations of video (key-objects and object trajectories). The analysis framework is based on the fusion…