Yaser Yacoob
Associate Research Scientist
4242 Iribe Center
(301) 405-6720
(301) 405-6707
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Education:
Ph.D., University of Maryland (Computer Science)
Biography:
Yaser Yacoob is an associate research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
His research focuses on detection, tracking and recognition of face expressions, lip reading, body part tracking, modeling and recognition of human activities, augmented reality, human appearance analysis, motion analysis and image segmentation. Moreover, Yacoob developed interactive robots and demonstrated their potential for engaging humans in games and communication.
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Publications
2009
2009. Segmentation using appearance of mesostructure roughness. International journal of computer vision. 83(3):248-273.
2007
2007. Segmentation using Meta-texture Saliency. Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on. :1-8.
2006
2006. Employing the hand as an interface device. Journal of Multimedia. 1(7):18-29.
2006. Employing the Hand as an Interface Device. Journal of Multimedia. 1(7)
2006. Detection and analysis of hair. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 28(7):1164-1169.
2006. Parametric Hand Tracking for Recognition of Virtual Drawings. Computer Vision Systems, 2006 ICVS '06. IEEE International Conference on. :6-6.
2006. Segmentation of planar objects and their shadows in motion sequences. International journal of computer vision. 67(1):53-69.
2005
2005. Detection, analysis and matching of hair. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 1:741-748Vol.1-741-748Vol.1.
2003
2003. Exemplar-based tracking and recognition of arm gestures. Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2003. ISPA 2003. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on. 2:656-661Vol.2-656-661Vol.2.
2003. Learning dynamics for exemplar-based gesture recognition. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 1:I-571-I-578vol.1-I-571-I-578vol.1.
2002
2002. Smiling faces are better for face recognition. Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2002. Proceedings. :52-57.
2002. Embedded grammar tags: advancing natural language interaction on the Web. Intelligent Systems, IEEE. 17(1):48-53.
2001
2001. Attentive toys. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. 22:25-25.
2001. Gesture-Driven Control of Spaces and Objects in Collaborative Augmented Reality. GMD–Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH. :49-49.
2001. Facilitating semantic web search with embedded grammar tags. IJCAI Workshop on E-Business and Intelligent Web.
2000
2000. A probabilistic framework for rigid and non-rigid appearance based tracking and recognition. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Conference on. :491-498.
2000. Robustly estimating changes in image appearance. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 78(1):8-31.
2000. Learned models for estimation of rigid and articulated human motion from stationary or moving camera. International Journal of Computer Vision. 36(1):5-30.
2000. Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis. International Journal of Computer Vision. 36(3):171-193.
1999
1999. Tracking rigid motion using a compact-structure constraint. Computer Vision, 1999. The Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on. 1:198-205vol.1-198-205vol.1.
1999. Temporal multi-scale models for flow and acceleration. International Journal of Computer Vision. 32(2):147-163.
1999. Estimation of composite object and camera image motion. The Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 1999. 1:190-197vol.1-190-197vol.1.
1998
1998. A framework for modeling appearance change in image sequences. Computer Vision, 1998. Sixth International Conference on. :660-667.
1998. Parameterized modeling and recognition of activities. Computer Vision, 1998. Sixth International Conference on. :120-127.
1997
1997. Learning parameterized models of image motion. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. :561-567.
1997. Visual surveillance of human activity. Computer Vision—ACCV'98. :267-274.
1997. Temporal Multi-scale Models for Image Motion Estimation. Image Understanding Workshop: proceedings of a workshop held in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11-14, 1997. 1:135-135.
1996
1996. Computing 3-D head orientation from a monocular image sequence. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on. :242-247.
1996. Recognition of head gestures using hidden markov models. Pattern Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on. 3:461-465.
1996. Recognizing human facial expressions from long image sequences using optical flow. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 18(6):636-642.
1995
1995. Tracking and recognizing rigid and non-rigid facial motions using local parametric models of image motion. Computer Vision, 1995. Proceedings., Fifth International Conference on. :374-381.
1994
1994. Labeling of Human Face Components from Range Data. CVGIP: Image Understanding. 60(2):168-178.
1993
1993. Early vision processing using a multi-stage diffusion process. 1993 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1993. Proceedings CVPR '93. :41-46.
1992
1992. Ground and airborne localization over rough terrain using random environmental range-measurements. Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol. I. Conference A: Computer Vision and Applications, Proceedings., 11th IAPR International Conference on. :403-406.
1990
1990. Displaying voxel-based objects according to their qualitative shape synthesis. Proceedings of the 1st conference on Visualization'90. :51-58.
1989
1989. 3D object recognition via simulated particles diffusion. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1989. Proceedings CVPR '89. :442-449.