Hadi AliAkbarpour - Artificial Perception for Intelligent Systems and

Hadi AliAkbarpour - Artificial Perception for Intelligent Systems and

Hadi AliAkbarpour
Address: Mobile Robotic Lab (MRL), Institute of Systems and Robotic (ISR), Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Polo II, University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, PORTUGAL.
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]
Web page: isr.uc.pt/~hadi
Educations
 University of Coimbra, Portugal.
 Degree: PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
 Dates: October 2007 - November 2012.
 Specialization: Automation and Robotics.
 Tehran Azad University, Science & Research branch, Iran.
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Degree: M.Sc. , Computer Engineering.
Dates: 1999-2002.
Specialization: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.
 Lahijan Azad University, Iran.
 Degree: Bachelor, Computer Engineering.
 Dates: 1995-1999.
 Specialization: Software Engineering.
Honors and Awards
 “Best Paper Award”
 DICTA-2010 Conference, (The main Australian conference on machine vision and pattern
recognition).
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First rank, at the M.Sc. nationwide entrance examination, 1999.
 Competitive Awarded PhD fellowship
 By: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Financed by the Ministry
of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal.
 Dates: November 2008 - October 2012.
 PhD scholarship
 By: BACS European project (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems, within the 6th
Framework Program of the European Commission).
 Dates: September 2007 - October 2008.
Employments
 Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR), Portugal.
 Position: Researcher.
 Dates: 2007-present.
 Azad University of Qazvin, Iran.
 Position: Faculty member
 Dates: 2002-2007, Iran.
 Ofogh Computer Co.
 Position: System analyzer and developer.
 Dates: 1999-2007.
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Research-oriented professional activities
 Memberships
 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).
 Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing.
 Organizing committee member and chair of Intelligent Space Monitoring (ISM) special session at
WIAMIS 2011 (the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services), Delft Technical University, The Netherlands.
 Co-chair in 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009), Germany.
 Internship at Probayes Research Company, Grenoble, France. July 2010.
 Involved projected:
 PROMETHEUS (European project on Prediction and interpretation of human behavior
based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous Sensors), 2007-2010.
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APSUBA (Active Perception for Scene Understanding and Behaviour Analysis), a
cooperative project between University of Coimbra (Portugal), University of Malaga
(Spain) and University of Extremadura (Spain). 2010 to present.
Brain Computer Interface: A cooperative project between Neuro-imaging Group of
Geneva University Hospital (Switzerland) and University of Coimbra (Portugal). 2007-
2009.
 Reviewer of following journals and international conferences:
 Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters.
 International Journal of Robotics and Automation.
 Journal of “Sensors” (MDPI).
 IROS 2012, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
 The 9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-2011)
 IROS 2010, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
 Committee member and reviewer of the 2nd Lahijan’s National Conference on Software
Engineering (LNCSE), 2012, Iran.
Publications
 Journals:
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Three-dimensional reconstruction based on multiple virtual planes by using fusionbased camera network. Hadi Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias. Journal of Computer Vision,
IET, vol.6, no.4, pp.355-369, July 2012.
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Multi-sensor 3D Volumetric Reconstruction Using CUDA. Hadi Aliakbarpour, Luis
Almeida, Paulo Menezes and Jorge Dias. Journal of 3D Research, Springer, vol 2, pp.114, 2011.10.1007/3DRes.04(2011)6, 2011.
Geometric Exploration of Inertial-planes for Multi-layer 3D Data Registration. Hadi
Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2012
(under review).
Vision-based Simulation and Experiment for Performance Test of Robot. M. H.
Korayem, K. Khoshhal, and Hadi Aliakbarpour. International Journal of Advanced
Manufacturing Technology. vol.25, No.11-12, Pages 1218-1231, 2005 .Springer-velag
London.
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 Book chapters:
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HMM-Based Abnormal Behaviour Detection Using Heterogeneous Sensor
Network. Aliakbarpour, H.; Khoshhal, K.; Quintas, J.; Mekhnacha, K.; Ros, J.;
Andersson, M. & Dias, J. Camarinha-Matos, L. (Ed.) Technological Innovation for
Sustainability, Springer Boston, 2011, 349, 277-285.
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HMM-based Abnormal Behavior Detection Using Heterogeneous Sensor Network. Hadi
Aliakbarpour, Kamrad Khoshhal, Joao Quintas, Kamel Mekhnacha, Julien Ros, Maria
Andersson and Jorge Dias, Technological Innovation for Sustainability, IFIP, Volume
349/2011, Springer.
 Conferences:
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Parameterizing Interpersonal Behavior with Laban Movement Analysis.
Kamrad Khoshhal, Luis Santos, Hadi Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias. Workshop on Socially
Intelligent Surveillance and Monitoring. The 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’12, June 2012, USA.
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Volumetric 3D Reconstruction without Planar Ground Assumption. Hadi Aliakbarpour
and Jorge Dias. ICDSC'11, Fifth ACM / IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Smart Cameras, August 22-25, 2011, Belgium.
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Mobile Robot Cooperation with Infrastructure for Surveillance: Towards Cloud
Robotics. Hadi Aliakbarpour, João Quintas, Paulo Freitas and Jorge Dias. Workshop on
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Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS) in the 14th International
Conference of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), September 2011,
Spain.
Inertial-Visual Fusion for Camera Network Calibration. Hadi Aliakbarpour and Jorge
Dias. IEEE 9th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’2011), July
2011, Portugal.
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Multi-resolution Virtual Plane based 3D Reconstruction using Inertial-Visual Data
Fusion.
Hadi Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias. International Conference on Computer
Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2011), 5-7
March 2011, Algarve, Portugal.
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IMU-aided 3D Reconstruction based on Multiple Virtual Planes. Hadi Aliakbarpour and
Jorge Dias. In the proceeding of DICTA'10, International Conference on Digital Image
Computing: Techniques and Applications (the Australian Pattern Recognition and
Computer Vision Society Conference), IEEE Press, 1–3 December 2010, Sydney,
Australia. "Best Runner-up Paper Award".
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Fusion of Multi-Modal Sensors in a Voxel Occupancy Grid for Tracking and Behaviour
Analysis. Martin Hofmann, Moritz Kaiser, Hadi Aliakbarpour and Gerhard Rigoll.
Proceeding of International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services (WIAMIS 2011), University of Delft, Netherlands.
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Probabilistic LMA-based Human Motion Analysis by Conjugating Frequency and Spatial
based Features. Kamrad Khoshhal Roudposhti, Hadi Aliakbarpour, Joao Quintas, Martin
Hofmann and Jorge Dias. Proceeding of International Workshop on Image Analysis for
Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2011), University of Delft, Netherlands
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LMA-based Human Behavior Analysis Using HMM. Kamrad Khoshhal, Hadi Aliakbarpour,
Joao Quintas, Kamel Mekhnacha, Julien Ros and Jorge Dias. DoCEIS 2011, Technological
Innovation for Sustainability, IFIP, Volume 349/2011, Springer.
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Using Concurrent Hidden Markov Models to Analyze Human Behaviors in a Smart
Home Environment. Joao Quintas, Kamrad Khoshhal Roudposhti, Hadi Aliakbarpour,
Martin Hofmann and Jorge Dias. Proceeding of International Workshop on Image
Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2011), University of Delft,
Netherlands.
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Human Silhouette Volume Reconstruction Using a Gravity-based Virtual Camera
Network. Hadi Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias. The 13th International Conference on
Information Fusion, 26-29 July 2010 EICC Edinburgh, UK.
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Probabilistic LMA-based Classification of Human Behavior Understanding Using Power
Spectrum Technique. Kamrad Khoshhal, Hadi Aliakbarpour, João Quintas, Paulo Drews
and Jorge Dias. The 13th International Conference on Information Fusion, 26-29 July
2010 EICC Edinburgh, UK.
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Geneva Brain computer Interface for robot steering in virtual and real environments.
Rolando Menendez, Jorge Dias, José Prado, Hadi Aliakbarpour and Sara Gonzalez
Andino. 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM2010),
June 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
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A Novel Framework for Data Registration and Data Fusion in Presence of Multi-modal
Sensors. Hadi Aliakbarpour, J. F. Ferreira, Kamrad Khoshhal and Jorge Dias -
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Proceedings of DoCEIS’10 – Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation, IFIP AICT
314/2010, Springer, pp 308-315.
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An Efficient Algorithm for Extrinsic Calibration between a 3D Laser Range Finder and a
Stereo Camera for Surveillance. Hadi Aliakbarpour, Pedro Nunez, Jose Prado, Kamrad
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Khoshhal, Jorge Dias. 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009),
Munich.
Grasping Movements Recognition in 3D Space using a Bayesian Approach. Diego R.
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Faria, Hadi Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias. 14th International Conference on Advanced
Robotics (ICAR 2009), Munich.
Multiclass Brain Computer Interface Based On Visual Attention. Rolando Menendez,
Jorge Dias, José Prado, Hadi Aliakbarpour and Sara Gonzalez. European Symposium on
Artificial Neural Networks Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning Bruges,
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Controlling an Industrial Robot by Single Camera Using Feature-based Approach.
Belgium 2009.
Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology volume 14, 2006, ISSN 13055313, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on computational and information sciences,
Prague, Czech Republic.
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Vision Based Robot Experiment: Measurement of path related characteristics. M. H.
Korayem, K. Khoshhal, and Hadi Aliakbarpour. Transactions on Engineering, Computing
and Technology volume 14. ISSN 1305-5313. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on
computational and information sciences, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic.
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3P Robot Simulator and vision control. M. H. Korayem, M. R. Jahed Motlagh and Hadi
Aliakbarpour. The second Iranian conference on Machine Vision Image Processing &
Applications, 2003, M.U.I.P, K .N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran.
Teaching Experiences
 Universities:
 Azad University of Qazvin, Iran, 2002-2007.
 Azad University of Lahijan, Iran, 2002-2003.
 Azad University of Garmsar, Iran , 2002-2003.
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Azad University of Tehran, Iran, 2000-2001.
Shaheed Rajaee Teacher Training University, Iran, 2000-2001.
courses:
Assembly and machine language
Database
C and Pascal programming languages
Electrical circuits
Skills
 Computer skills
 Programming languages: C++, Matlab, Visual C++, C#.Net, VB.Net, Visual Foxpro.
 GP-GPU and CUDA (parallel computing architecture).
 OpenCV Computer Vision Library.
 OpenGL and DirectX.
 Microsoft SQL Server.
 Languages
 English: Fluent
 Portuguese: Intermediate
 Persian (Farsi): Mother tongue
Research interests
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Computer vision
Computational human behavior interpretation (using e.g. probabilistic approaches)
Multi-modal data registration
Intelligent surveillance systems
Robotics
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