Yaser A. Sheikh
Assistant Research Professor
Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: myfirstname@cs.cmu.edu
Phone: (412) 268-1138
Office: EDSH (Smith Hall) 223
Doctoral Students
Ankur Datta (co-advised with Takeo Kanade)
Ijaz Akhter (co-advised with Sohaib Khan)
Eakta Jain (co-advised with Jessica Hodgins)
Hyun-Soo Park
Prospective Students: Please send me an email with your admission status, available funding, CV, and availability.
Sponsors
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Recent Publications |
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NEW! Background Subtraction for Freely Moving Cameras Yaser Sheikh, Omar Javed and Takeo Kanade IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009. |
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NEW! Matching Trajectories of Anatomical Landmarks under Viewpoint Anthropometric, and Temporal Transforms Alexei Gritai, Yaser Sheikh, Cen Rao, and Mubarak Shah International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2009. |
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NEW! In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion (oral) Ijaz Akhter, Yaser Sheikh, and Sohaib Khan IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009. |
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Nonrigid Structure from Motion in Trajectory Space (oral) Ijaz Akhter, Yaser Sheikh, Sohaib Khan, and Takeo Kanade Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2008. Matlab Code: [ url ] (includes dataset) Video: [ url ] |
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Trajectory Association Across Multiple Airborne Cameras Yaser Sheikh and Mubarak Shah IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2008. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2005. |
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Linear Motion Estimation for Articulated Planes Ankur Datta, Yaser Sheikh, and Takeo Kanade, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008 Matlab Code: [ zip ] Video: [ mov ] |
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Mode-seeking by Medoidshifts (oral) Yaser Sheikh, Erum Khan, and Takeo Kanade IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007. Matlab Code: [ zip ] (Isomap code from http://isomap.stanford.edu/) |
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On the Spacetime Geometry of Galilean Cameras Yaser Sheikh, Alexei Gritai, and Mubarak Shah, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. |
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Shape from Dynamic Textures for Planes Yaser Sheikh, Niels Haering, and Mubarak Shah IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006. |
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Background Modeling in Dynamic Scenes Yaser Sheikh and Mubarak Shah IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2005. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2005. Matlab Code: [ zip ] Data: [ url ] (includes "ground truthed" data) |
Research Focus
My research focuses on understanding real world scenes from cameras. Specifically, the following three themes span most of my work:
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Distributed Sensing: The proliferation of cameras in everyday life, first with camcorders and now with cellphone cameras, is introducing many interesting computational paradigms. How can we best understand the world with these hundreds of millions of cameras that see everything? I'm also leading the construction of the new Virtualizing Engine with Takeo Kanade.
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Dynamic Scene Analysis: The interaction, in video, of motion induced by moving cameras and and the motion induced by dynamic objects, in particular, intrigues me. I'm working on developing methods to reconstruct dynamic scenes from moving cameras.
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Human Activity Analysis: I am interested in inferring human intention from actions, exploring the tendency of people to behave similarly in similar situations. This research thread includes detection, tracking, and reconstructing people in images and video.