Faisal Bashir
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Objective
Education
Work Experience
Computer Vision and Image Analysis
Contractor
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs,
Advisor: Dr.
Fatih Porikli http://www.merl.com/people/?user=fatih
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Developed
a C++-based cross platform application to draw trajectories of objects in
complex activity scenarios for 3-D rendering
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Implemented
a Performance Evaluation Platform for comparing results of object
trackers in comparison to given Ground Truth
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Working
on Video Segmentation in MPEG-compressed video bitstreams using Mean-Shift
Analysis
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Working
on Background Estimation for Object Tracking in PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom)
cameras
Off-site Part-Time Intern
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs,
Advisor: Dr. Kadir Peker
http://www.merl.com/people/?user=peker
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Added
the functionality of Adaptive Fast Playback and logging user feedback for user
studies in 'Video Summarization Tool' developed at MERL during
internship
Summer Intern
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs,
Advisors: Dr. Kadir Peker, Dr. Ajay Divakaran http://www.merl.com/people/?user=ajayd
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Developed
a 'Video Summarization Tool' in Visual C++ using DirectX and OpenCV for
enhanced browsing of video content
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Developed
a Talk Importance Demo to adaptively change playback rate based on Audio-Visual
importance
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Developed
a Video visualization system that
plays video and updates scatter plots in synchronization for clustering
visualization
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Implemented
video clustering based on Viola-Jones
Face Detector results using Spectral
Clustering and BiClustering
Research Assistant
Multimedia Systems Lab, UIC,
Co-Advised by:
Prof. Dr. Ashfaq Khokhar http://ece.uic.edu/Faculty/khokhar.html
Prof. Dr. Dan Schonfeld http://ece.uic.edu/Faculty/schonfeld.html
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Worked
on Motion pattern Indexing & Retrieval from Video Databases
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Developed
an object trajectory based video retrieval module Motion-Search to
model, search and classify objects based on their motion patterns
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Current
research direction is Multi-agent Activity
Classification using Tensor Decomposition methods as well as Stochastic
Modeling for Video Surveillance applications
Systems Engineer
Delta Indus Systems,
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Worked
on implementation aspects of VisionMasterTM , a structured
light pattern based non-contact optical system for 3-D solder-paste height
measurement used in SMT (Surface Mount Technology) printed circuit
boards
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Headed
the early research on Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system to mark
faulty PCBs based on machine vision using robust image registration and alignment.
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Optimized
key image processing modules in the product VisionMasterTM using MMX
instruction set
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Built
embedded software to interface a USB device using EZ-USB microcontrollers
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Built
an IEEE-1394 (FireWire) digital camera API via a user-mode Win32 DLL to
interface the frame grabbing engine
Relevant Course Work
Digital
Signal Processing II, Digital
Image Processing,
Image
Analysis and Machine Vision I, Image
Analysis and Machine Vision II,
Optimal
and Adaptive Filtering, Communication
and Signal Processing,
Random
Signal Analysis, Advanced
Digital Communications,
Computer
Algorithms I, OOP for Computer
Engineers using Java,
Query
Processing in Database Systems, Linear
Algebra II,
Technical Skills
Libraries: MFC,
Intel OpenCV, MS DirectX SDK, STL, OpenGL
Multimedia
Standards: Implemented
JPEG, Strong knowledge of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
Projects
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Developed
a DirectX-based video processing
demo using Intel’s IPL and OpenCV. The demo can handle streaming
from any camera or movie source in any format (AVI, MPEG). Available at: http://multimedia.ece.uic.edu/~faisal/projects.html
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Implemented
an Image processing demo that interfaces to webcam for live streaming video
capture using Video for Windows API
and IPL . Available at: http://multimedia.ece.uic.edu/~faisal/projects.html
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Implemented
the core part of a multimedia search system using Java, to index the multimedia content based on their associated
descriptions in html files. The indexes are populated in an online MySQL database. A modified version of
the TextToOnto library has been used
for choosing significant terms from text corpus and computing their metrics of
significance
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Studied
the domain of ontology construction and devised an algorithm based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to
construct ontology from structured textual data from a given database schema
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Built
an Audio Search Module to index and
retrieve non-speech audio based on similarity with a query sound in Matlab
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Implemented
a Face Detection and Recognition
system from images in Matlab using EigenFaces
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Implemented
JPEG compressor and de-compressor in
C and successfully tested on TI’s 133-MHz 1-GFLOPs DSP TMS320C6701 EVM for still images
Publications
Book Chapters
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Shashank
Khanvilkar, Faisal I. Bashir, Dan Schonfeld, Ashfaq Khokhar, “Multimedia Networks and Communications”, Sec. 4, Chapter 7 in ‘The Electrical
Engineering Handbook’, ed. Wai Chen. Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-170960-4. Oct.
2004.
Journals
Conferences
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Faisal
I. Bashir, Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, “A
Hybrid System for Affine invariant trajectory retrieval”, 6th
ACM SIGMM Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Oct. 15-16, 2004. New
York.
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Faisal
Bashir, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, “Automatic
Object Trajectory-Based Motion Recognition using Gaussian Mixture Models”, IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), July. 6 - July 8, 2005.
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Wei
Qu, Faisal Bashir, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, “A
Motion Trajectory Based Video Retrieval System Using Parallel Adaptive Self
Organizing Maps”, International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, July 31 - Aug. 4, 2005. Montreal, Canada.
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Faisal
Bashir, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, “HMM-Based
Motion Recognition System using Segmented PCA”,
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), Sept. 11 - Sept.
14, 2005. Genova, Italy.
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Kadir
A. Peker, Faisal I. Bashir, “Content-Based Video Summarization using
Spectral Clustering”, International Workshop VLBV05,
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Xiang
Ma, Faisal Bashir, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, “Tensor-Based Multiple Object
Trajectory Indexing and Retrieval”, submitted to IEEE International Conference
on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006),
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Xiang
Ma, Faisal Bashir, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, “Multiple Object Trajectory
Indexing and Retrieval using PARAFAC”, submitted to IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006),
Patents
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Kadir A. Peker, Faisal
Research Interests
Content-based Multimedia Indexing and retrieval, Machine
learning, Multidimensional (image, video) and statistical signal processing, Computer
vision for Video Surveillance and Consumer Applications.
Awards/Activities
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Provost
Award for Graduate Research, Spring 2005
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Treasurer
- UIC Squash League
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National
Talent Scholarship for College Studies 1995-2000
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Bronze
Medal for 3rd position in College Entrance Examination, 1994
Work Status
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Permanent
Resident
References
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Ashfaq
Khokhar Professor, ECE and CS,
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Dan
Schonfeld Associate Professor,
ECE,
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Rashid
Ansari Professor, ECE,
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Fatih
Porikli Member Technical
Staff, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.
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Kadir
A. Peker Member Technical
Staff, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.
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Ajay
Divakaran Senior Team Leader,
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.
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Zhihui
Chen Software Development
Engineer, Microsoft Corporation.
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Cheng
Chang Software Development
Engineer, Microsoft Corporation.