Shahriar Negahdaripour
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Miami
1251 Memorial Drive, #EB315
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Tel/Fax: 1.305.284.3352/4044
shahriar@miami.edu
http://snapper.eng.miami.edu/~uvil
EDUCATION TEACHING RESEARCH PROJECTS PUBLICATIONS EXPERIENCE HONORS SERVICE LANGUAGE OPPORTUNITIES
EDUCATION:
PhD; MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 87.
MSME; MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 80.
BSME; MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1979.
TEACHING:
Undergraduate: Signals and Systems, System Dynamics and Modeling, Control System Design, Int. to Engineering, Senior Design Projects, Marine Engineering Technology. Graduate: Robotics, Digital Image Processing (Fall'06), Computer Vision (Spring'07).
RESEARCH:
Main: (Underwater) Vision and Imaging.
RECENT PROJECTS:
1)"Sensing fusion for underwater scene recovery," BiNational Science Foundation, $106000, December'07- November'11 (Co-PI: with Yoav Schechner from Technion Israel Inst. Technology and Srinivasa Narasimhan from CMU).
3) "Investigation of Multiple-View 3-D Reconstruction Methods with FS Sonar Video Cameras,” ONR, $301,743, June'05- April'08 (PI).
4) "Investigation of structure from motion techniques for forward-scan sonar imagery,” SGER NSF, $100,000, May’05- October’07 (PI).
5) "3-D volumetric modeling of sea floor objects from ROV stereo video,” NOAA, $90226, May’04-April’07 (PI).
6) "Application of ROV-Based Video Technology to complement coral reef resource mapping and monitoring,” DoD SERDP, $1,451,657, March'03- June'07. (Co-PI; collaborative Project with RSMAS).
7) "Video analysis and mosaicing of DIDSON acoustic camera,” ONR, $228,735, June'03- October'06 (PI).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
1) S. Negahdaripour, H. Sekkati, H. Pirsiavash, "Opti-acoustic stereo imaging: On system calibration and 3-D target reconstruction,'' In press: IEEE Trans. Image Processing.
2) H. Zhang, S. Negahdaripour, ``Epiflow - A paradigm for spatio-temporal stereo tracking and disparity fusion,'' In press: Computer Vision Image Understanding.
3) H. Zhang, S. Negahdaripour, "Recursive EKF-based dual estimator for structure & motion from stereo for real-time applications,'' In review: IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering.
4) N. Gracias, M. Mahoor, S. Negahdaripour . A. Gleason, "Fast image blending using watersheds and graph cuts," In review: Image and Vision Computing (special issue on selected BMVC'06 papers).
5) S. Negahdaripour, ``Epipolar geometry of opti-acoustic stereo imaging,'' IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol 29(10), October, 2007.
6) D. Lirman, N.R. Gracias, B.E. Gintert, A.C.R. Gleason, R.P. Reid, S. Negahdaripour, P. Kramer, "Development and application of a video-based survey technology to document the status of coral reef communities," Environ. Monitor. Assessment, Vol 125, 2007.
7) H. Zhang, S. Negahdaripour, "Integrating BC GC models in dense stereo reconstruction with Markov random fields,'' Journal of Multimedia, December, 2006.
8) A.C.R. Gleason, D. Lirman, D. Williams, N.R. Gracias, B.E. Gintert, H. Madjidi, R.P. Reid, G.C. Boynton, S. Negahdaripour, M. Miller, P. Kramer, "Documenting hurricane impacts on coral reefs using two-dimensional video-mosaic technology,'' Marine Ecology, Vol 27, 2006.
9) H. Madjidi, S. Negahdaripour, ``On robustness and localization accuracy of optical flow computation for underwater color images,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol 104(1), October, 2006.
10) S. Negahdaripour, C. Barufaldi, A. Khamene, ``Integrated system for robust 6 DOF positioning utilizing new closed-form visual motion estimation methods over planar terrains,'' IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, Vol 31(3), July, 2006.
11) S. Negahdaripour, P. Firoozfam, ``An ROV stereovision system for ship hull inspection," IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, Vol 31(3), July, 2006.
12) H. Madjidi, S. Negahdaripour, ``Global alignment of sensor positions with noisy motion estimates,'' IEEE Trans. Robotics, Vol 21(6), December, 2005.
13) S. Negahdaripour, H. Madjidi, ``Stereovision system for ROV deployment in mapping of benthic habitats and seafloor structures,'' IEEE Journal Oceanic Engineering: Special Issue on Vision and Image Processing, Vol 28 (4), October, 2003.
14) A. Khamene, S. Negahdaripour, ``Motion and structure from multiple cues; Image motion, shading Flow, and stereo disparity,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol 90 (1), May, 2003.
15) X. Xu, S. Negahdaripour, ``Mosaic-based positioning and improved motion estimation methods for autonomous navigation,'' IEEE Journal Oceanic Engineering}, Vol 2 (1), January, 2002.
16) S. Zhang, S. Negahdaripour, ``3-D shape recovery of planar and curved surfaces from the shading in underwater images,'' IEEE Journal Oceanic Engineering, Vol 27(1), January, 2002.
EXPERIENCE:
Univ. of Miami - Professor (6/99-present), Associate Professor (8/91-6/99); University of Hawaii: Assistant Professor of EE (1/87-6/91), Personal Leave from UM (ME Dept, Spring 96); Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst: Sabbatical leave (Fall 97); Florida Atlantic University: Half-Time Leave from UM (Ocean Engineering Dept, Spring 98); University of Girona (Spain): Sabbatical leave (Dept. Electronics, Inform. and Automation, Fall'04);
HONORS:
Best Paper Award (IEEE BMG'07 Workshop on Beyond Multiple View Geometry held in conj. with CVPR'07, Minneapolis, MN, June, 2007); Siemens Corp. Best Paper Award (IEEE Int. Conference Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, July, 2003); Best Researcher Award (College of Engineering, 2004,2006); Best Published Paper Award (College of Engineering, 2004); NSF Initiation Grant (1989-1992).
LANGUAGE:
Farsi, (some French and Spanish)
OPPORTUNITIES:
Binocular stereo vision for real-time underwater object mapping; Applications of computer vision methodologies for acoustic video processing.
