"Time-Space Method and System for the Reduction of Video Noise". 61/993,884 (WO2015172235 A1). 2014/05/15.
Inventors: M. Rakhshanfar* and M. Amer
"System and Method for the Estimation of Different Types of Noise in Image and Video Signals".
61/993,469 (WO/2015/172234). 2014/05/15.
Inventors: M. Rakhshanfar* and M. Amer
"Systems and Methods to Assess Image Quality Based on the Entropy of Image Structure" in Provisional US Patent
Application No. 62/158,748, filed May 8, 2015. Inventors: M. Rakhshanfar* and M. Amer
Patents held in a partnership of `Siemens AG/Munich' and Dortmund University, Germany:
M.A. Amer, K. Jostschulte, H. Blume, M. Lück, and H. Schröder, (Spatio-Temporal) Method and Circuit for
Reducing Noise in TV or Video Signals, European Patent EP0868076, December 1998.
M.A. Amer and S. Reichert, (Morphological) Process for Detecting Edges in an Image Signal, World Patent
WO9811717A1, March 1998.
M.A. Amer, U. Bremer, and H. Schröder, (Object- and Motion-Based) Noise Reduction Process for Image Signals,
World Patent WO9811718A1, March 1998.
M.A. Amer, K. Jostschulte, H. Blume, and H. Schröder, (Subband-based) Method and Circuit for Noise Reduction
in Video Signals, European Patent EP0772348, May 1997.
Naeem Abbasi*, Jacques Athow*, and M. A. Amer, "Modified Stable
Euler-Number Algorithm Implementation for Real-Time Image Binarization",
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, accepted on 23-10-2012.
Hanif Azhar* and M. A. Amer, "Classification Of Surveillance Video
Objects Using Chaotic Series", IET Image Processing, Volume 6, Issue 7, October 2012, p.
919-931.
M. Ghazal* and M.A. Amer, "Homogeneity Localization Using Particle
Filters with Application to
Noise Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, July 2011.
Impact Factor: 3.315 (2008).
M. Ghazal*, C. Vazquez*, and M.A. Amer, "Real-time Vandalism Detection By Monitoring Object
Activities",
Springer Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Feb. 2011, pp. 1-27 Impact Factor:
0.626 (2009)
K. Ryan*, M.A. Amer, and L. Gagnon, Spatiotemporal Region Enhancement andMerging for Unsupervised
Object Segmentation, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol. 2009, Article ID 797052,
13 pages, 2009. Impact Factor: new open-access Journal
Carlos Vazquez*, Mohammed Ghazal*, and M. A. Amer, “Feature-Based Detection and Correction of
Occlusions and Split of Video Objectsâ€, Springer Journal on Signal, Image and Video Processing, vol.
3, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 13-25. Impact Factor: new Journal
Bin Qi*, Mohamed Ghazal*, A. Amer, â€Robust Global Motion Estimation Oriented to Video Object
Segmentationâ€, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, volume 17, Issue 6, June 2008, pp. 958 - 967
2008. Impact Factor: 2.428 (2005)/ 3.315 (2008)
Mohammed Ghazal*, A. Amer, and Ali Ghrayeb, “Structure-Oriented Multi-Directional Wiener
Filter for Denoising of Image and Video Signalsâ€, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, vol. 18, no. 12, 2008, pp. 1797-1802. Impact Factor: 3.022 (2005)/ 2.951 (2008)
Mohamed Ghazal*, A. Amer, Ali Ghrayeb, â€A Fast Directional Sigma Filter for Noise Reduction
in Digital TV Signalsâ€, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1500-1507,
November 2007. Impact Factor: 0.600 (2005)/ 0.985 (2008)
Mohamed Ghazal*, A. Amer, Ali Ghrayeb, â€A Real-Time Technique for Spatio-Temporal Video
Noise Estimationâ€, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no.12,
pp. 1690-1699, December 2007. Impact Factor: 3.022 (2005)/ 2.951 (2008)
A. Amer and Eric Dubois, â€Fast and Reliable Structure-Oriented Video Noise Estimationâ€, IEEE
Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 113-118.
Impact Factor: 3.022 (2005) / 2.951 (2008)
A. Amer and C. Regazzoni, â€Introduction to the special issue on video object processing for
surveillance
applicationsâ€, Real-Time Imaging, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2005, pp. 167-171. Impact Factor:
0.708 (2005)
A. Amer, â€Voting-based Simultaneous Tracking of Multiple Video Objectsâ€, IEEE Trans. on
Circuits
and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 11, November 2005, pp. 1448-1462. Impact Factor:
3.022 (2005) / 2.951 (2008)
A. Amer, Eric Dubois, and Amar Mitiche, â€Rule-based real-time detection of context-independent
events in video shotsâ€, Elsevier Journal for Real-Time Imaging, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2005, pp. 244-256.
Impact Factor: 0.708 (2005)
A. Amer, â€Binary Morphological operations for effective low-cost boundary detectionâ€, Int.
Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), vol. 17, No. 2, March 2003, pp.
201-213. Impact Factor: 0.638 (2005)/ 0.660 (2008)
Klaus Jostschulte, A. Amer, M. Schu, and Hartmut Schr¨oder, â€Perception-Adaptive Temporal
TV Noise Reduction Using Contour Preserving Prefilter Techniquesâ€, IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics
(TCE), vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 1091-1096, Aug. 1998. Impact Factor: 0.600 (2005) / 0.985 (2008)
REFEREED CONFERENCE
PAPERS:
J. Valognes* and M. Amer, "Ranking of Visual Trackers Using Robust Error Norms," ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 9546-9550, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446305.
Goutam Yelluru Gopal*, Maria A. Amer; "Separable Self and Mixed Attention Transformers for Efficient Object Tracking ", IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024, pp. 6708-6717 . https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2024/html/Gopal_Separable_Self_and_Mixed_Attention_Transformers_for_Efficient_Object_Tracking_WACV_2024_paper.html
Mark Ofori-Oduro*, Maria Amer; "Defending Object Detection Models Against Image Distortions", IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024, pp. 3854-3863. https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2024/html/Ofori-Oduro_Defending_Object_Detection_Models_Against_Image_Distortions_WACV_2024_paper.html
Goutam Yelluru Gopal* and Maria Amer, "Mobile Vision Transformer-based Visual Object Tracking", British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC),
20-24 November 2023, Aberdeen, UK. (Accepted August 21, 2023).
(A top CV publication venue.)
Amin Ansarian* and Maria Amer. (2021). REALISTIC AUGMENTATION FOR EFFECTIVE 2D HUMAN
POSE ESTIMATION UNDER OCCLUSION. 28th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
(IEEE ICIP 2021), Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
Mark Ofori-Oduro* and Maria Amer. (2020). DATA AUGMENTATION USING ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS FOR NOISE-ROBUST CNN MODELS. 27th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu
Dahbi, United Arab Emirates.
Tarek Ghoniemy* and Maria Amer. (2020). OPTIMIZATION USING ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS APPLIED TO OBJECT TRACKING AND
SEGMENTATION. 27th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP),
Abu Dahbi, United Arab Emirates.
RELIABLE TEMPORALLY CONSISTENT FEATURE ADAPTATION FOR VISUAL OBJECT TRACKING. Goutam Yelluru Gopal* and Maria A. Amer, 27th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Processing
(ICIP), Abu Dahbi, United Arab Emirates, 2020/10.
DATA AUGMENTATION USING ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS FOR NOISE-ROBUST CNN MODELS. Mark Ofori-Oduro* and Maria Amer, 27th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu
Dahbi, United Arab Emirates, 2020/10
OPTIMIZATION USING ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS APPLIED TO OBJECT TRACKING AND SEGMENTATION. Tarek Ghoniemy* and Maria Amer, 27th IEEE Intern. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP),
Abu Dahbi, United Arab Emirates, 2020/10
Goutam Yelluru Gopal* and Maria A. Amer. "Dynamic Channel Pruning for Correlation Filter based Object Tracking", 45th IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona,
Spain, May 2020.
Tarek Ghoniemy* and Maria Amer. "DRIFT DETECTION AND CORRECTION POST-TRACKING", 45th IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2020.
Kumara Ratnayake and Maria A. Amer, "Drift Detection Using SVM in Structured Object Tracking", 16th International Conference on Image Analysis
and Recognition (ICIAR), Waterloo, ON, Canada, Springer LNCS 11663, pp. 67-76, August 27-29, 2019.
Kumara Ratnayake and Maria A. Amer, "Motion-Augmented Inference and Joint Kernels in Structured Learning for Object Tracking", 16th International Conference on Image Analysis
and Recognition (ICIAR), Waterloo, ON, Canada, Springer LNCS 11663, pp. 45-54, August 27-29, 2019.
Julien Valognes, Niloufar Salehi Dastjerdi, and Maria Amer,"Augmenting Reality of Tracked Video
Objects Using Homography and Keypoints", 16th International Conference on Image Analysis
and Recognition (ICIAR), Waterloo, ON, Canada, Springer LNCS 11663., pp. 237-245, August 27-29, 2019.
Saeid Vosoughi* and Maria A. Amer, DEEP 3D HUMAN POSE ESTIMATION UNDER PARTIAL BODY PRESENCE, ICIP 2018.
Ratnayake K*. and Amer M.A. (2015). Object tracking with adaptive motion modeling of particle filterand
support vector machines. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Quebec City, (1140 - 1144), Conference Date: 2015/9
Rakhshanfar M.* and Amer M.A. (2015). No-reference image quality assessment for removal of processed and unprocessed noise. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Quebec City, Canada
(2179 - 2183), Conference Date: 2015/9
Rackshanfar M, Amer A. (2014). Homogeneity Classification for Signal-Dependent Noise Estimation in Images. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, paris, France (4271 - 4275), Conference Date: 2014/10
Rackshanfar M, Amer A. (2014). Motion Blur Resistant Method for Temporal Video Denoising. IEEE Interna-tional Conference on Image Processing, Paris, France (2694 - 2698), Conference Date: 2014/10
H. Azhar* and M.A. Amer, â€High Dimensional versus Low Dimensional Chaos in MPEG-7 Feature Binding
for Object Classificationâ€, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Image and Signal Processing, Editors:
A. Elmoataz, O. Lezoray, F. Nouboud, D. Mammass, and J. Meunier, 2010, Volume 6134/2010, Pages
315-323, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-13680-1
N. Abbasi, J. Athow, M.A. Amer,'REAL-TIME FPGA ARCHITECTURE OF MODIFIED STABLE EULER-NUMBER ALGORITHM
FOR IMAGE BINARIZATION', ICIP 2009, (accepted).
Hanif Azhar* and M.A. Amer, ``Chaos and MPEG-7 based feature
vector for video object classification'', IEEE Int. Conference on Image
Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, October 2008, pp. 1724-1727.
Daniel Jean-Baptiste*, Hanif Azhar*, M.A. Amer, "MPEG-7
Descriptor Integration for On-line Video Surveillance Interface", IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007), October 2007, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, (accepted).
KUMARA RATNAYAKE, M.A. AMER, "SEQUENTIAL, IRREGULAR AND COMPLEX
OBJECT CONTOUR TRACING ON FPGA", IEEE Int. Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007
(accepted).
Mohammed Ghazal, M.A. Amer, "Total occlusion correction using
invariant wavelet features",
IEEE Int. Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007 (accepted).
Chang Su, M.A. Amer, "Topological-stabilization Based Threshold
Quantization For Robust Change Detection", IEEE Int. Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007
(accepted).
Mohamed El-Helaly, M.A. Amer, "SYNCHRONIZATION OF
PROCESSED
AUDIO-VIDEO SIGNALS USING TIME-STAMPS", IEEE Int. Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007
(accepted).
Mohammed Ghazal*, Carlos Vazquez, M.A. Amer, "Real-time
Automatic Detection of Vandalism in Video Sequences", IEEE International Conference
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007), October 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, (accepted).
Kumara Ratnayake*, M.A. Amer, "A Real-Time Implementation of Chaotic
Contour Tracing and Filling of Video Objects on Reconfigurable Hardware",
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007), October 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, (accepted).
Kumara Ratnayake and M.A. Amer, "An FPGA Architecture of Stable-Sorting on a Large Data Volume:
Application to Video Signals", 41st
IEEE Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 2007, (accepted).
Chang Su and M.A. Amer, 'A COLORBASED
GRAYLEVEL COMPENSATION ALGORITHM FOR FAST CHANGE DETECTION',
IEEE International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
April 15-20, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. I-1089-1092.
Mohammed Ghazal, Chang Su, and M.A. Amer, 'MOTION AND REGION
DETECTION FOR EFFECTIVE RECURSIVE TEMPORAL NOISE REDUCTION', IEEE International Conference On
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 15-20, 2007, Honolulu,
Hawaii, USA, pp. I-677-680.
Hanif Azhar and M.A. Amer, 'Chaos-Synchronization Based Representation of Objects and Events From MPEG-7 Low-Level Descriptors', IEEE
Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, April 1-5, 2007, Honolulu, Hawai USA, (accepted).
Firas Achkar and M.A. Amer, 'Hysteresis-based selective Gaussian
mixture models for real-time background maintenance', IS&T/SPIE Symposium
on Electronic
Imaging, Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, January
2007, San Jose, CA, US
(accepted).
Carlos Vazquez, Mohammed Ghazal, M.A. Amer, 'Occlusion and split
detection and correction for object tracking in surveillance applications',
IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Conference on Visual
Communications and Image Processing, January 2007, San Jose, CA, US
(accepted).
Hanif Azhar and M.A. Amer, 'Chaotic Synchronization of MPEG-7
Descriptors for Interpretation in Surveillance Video', IEEE
International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), December 2006,
San Diego, California, USA, pp. 356-362, ISBN:0769527469.
D. Ostheimer, S. Lemay, D. Mayisela, P. Dagba, M. Ghazal, A.
Amer, "A modular distributed video
surveillance system over
IP", in Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 2006,
pp. 1001-1004.
M.A. Amer and S. Reichert, A Multilevel Method for Robust Object Segmentation in Video Sequences, in Proc.
9th Aachener Symposium on Signal Theory, ISBN 3-923219-10-5, pp. 43-46, Aachen, Germany, March 1997, (in German).
M.A. Amer, Decision by Qualitative Goals using Fuzzy Systems, in Technical Report 450 on
Fuzzy Logik und Approximatives Schliessen , pp. 138-156, Computer Science Department, Dortmund University,
Dortmund, Germany, Feb. 1992, (student prize, in German).
M.A. Amer and Mohamed ElHilaly, 'An online system for synchronized
processing of video and audio signals', 4th Toronto-Montreal Computer
Vision Workshop, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Ottawa,
ON, Canada, May 2006. http://www.site.uottawa.ca/research/viva/WTM06.htm
M.A. Amer and H. Blume, Postprocessing of MPEG-2 Decoded Image Signals,
in Proc. Europ. Workshop on Focus Project `Multimedia', Technology Center of the `Deutsche Telekom AG', Darmstadt,
Germany, Oct. 1996, (in German).
M.A. Amer, State of the Art in Video Noise Reduction, `Siemens AG/Munich' Workshop on Featurebox-2000, Lengries,
Germany, May 1995, (in German).
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