Ph.D. Alumna
Currently at: GestureTek R&D, Ottawa, Canada.
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E-Mail: atid -at- ieee -dot- org
Research Group: Machine Vision Group, Centre for Digital Video Processing
University: School of Computing, Dublin City University
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 2003.
Research Area: Computer Vision, Object Tracking, Gesture Recognition, Movement Neuroscience
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1997.
Research Area: Robotics Vision, Parallel Processing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. 1994.
Research Interests:
- Computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing
- Machine learning and probabilistic inference
- Robotics vision, active vision, and stereo imaging
- Cognition, vision, and perception
- Intelligent and expert systems
- Human-computer interaction
- Computer integrated manufacturing
- Random signal processing
- Movement neuroscience
Publications:
Patents
Atid Shamaie, "Tracking Bimanual Movements", US Patent No. 7,379,563; issued May 27, 2008.
Atid Shamaie, "Detecting and Tracking Objects in Images", US Patent Application 20060188849; January 6, 2006.
Atid Shamaie, "Tracking Bimanual Movements (Recognition of Bimanual Movements)", US Patent Application 11/932,766; October 2007.
Atid Shamaie and Francis MacDougall, "Enhanced Input Using Flashing Electromagnetic Radiation", US Patent Application 12/032,496; February 2008..
Atid Shamaie, "Enhanced Single-Sensor Position Detection", US Patent Application 12/035,616; February 2008.
Atid Shamaie, "Rejecting Out-of-Vocabulary Words (with Hidden Markov Models)", US Provisional Patent Application 60/956,784; August 2007.
Refereed Journals
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Hand Tracking in Bimanual Movements", Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 23, Issue 13, pp. 1131-1149, Nov. 2005.
Saba Sharifi, Martin Crane, Atid Shamaie, and Heather Ruskin, "Random Matrix Theory for Portfolio Optimization: A Stability Approach", Physica A, Elsevier, No. 353, pp. 629-643, 2004.
A. Shamaie, S.M. Fakhraie and B. Benhabib, "A New Transformation Technique for Accurate Estimation of Partly Occluded Ellipse Parameters," International Journal of Scientia Iranica, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 43-50, January 1999.
Book Chapters
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, A Dynamic Model for Real-time Tracking of Hands in Bimanual Movements, Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2004 .
Research Magazines
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Learning and Understanding Bimanual Movements", ERCIM News, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, No. 55, October 2003.
Atid Shamaie, Wu Hai, and Alistair Sutherland, "Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Computer Interaction," ERCIM News, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, No. 46, July 2001.
Conferences and Workshops
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Bayesian Fusion of Hidden Markov Models for Understanding Bimanual Movements", The 6th IEEE Int'l Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Seoul, Korea, May 17-19, 2004.
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "A Dynamic Model for Real-time Tracking of Hands in Bimanual Movements", 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction, Genova, Italy, 15-17 April 2003.
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Accurate Recognition of Large Number of Hand Gestures," 2nd Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 13-15 February 2003.
Saba Sharifi, Atid Shamaie, and Martin Crane, "Noise in the Correlation Matrix: A Simulation Approach," 23rd Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, Mullingar, Ireland, May 2003.
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Graph-based Matching of Occluded Hand Gestures," IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR 2001), Washington DC, USA, 10-12 October 2001.
Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Classification of Coarticulated and Partly Occluded Hand Gestures," Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2001), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 5-7 September 2001.
A. Shamaie, S.M. Fakhraie and B. Benhabib, "Accurate Estimation of Partly-Occluded Ellipse Parameters," 5th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 1997.
Theses
Ph.D.
Atid Shamaie, Hand Tracking and Bimanual Movement Understanding, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, September 2003.
M.Sc.
Atid Shamaie, Parallel Processing Techniques in Accurate Estimation of Partly-occluded Ellipse Parameters in CIM Environments, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, September 1997.