Vida Movahedi, Ph.D. School of Information and Communications Technology Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology 70 The Pond Road, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 3M6 T: (416) 491-5050 ext.33318 E: vida.movahedi@senecacollege.ca W: https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~vida.movahedi/ I. EDUCATION Ph.D. Computer Science, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Canada September 2006- April 2015 Ph.D. Dissertation: Automatic extraction of closed contours bounding salient objects: New algorithms and evaluation methods In this dissertation, a novel method for performance evaluation of object segmentation methods is proposed and shown to be most consistent with human judgements. In addition, an effective method for combining local and global cues for automatic extraction of closed contours bounding salient objects in natural images is proposed, showing considerably better performance than four other state-of-the-art contour grouping methods. Main components of research: Computer Vision, Image Segmentation, Contour Grouping using Gestalt cues Similarity measures for 2D shapes Machine Learning, Gaussian Mixture Models, Maximum Likelihood and MAP estimation, Regression, Kernel Density Estimation, K-means Clustering, Principal Component Analysis Other research focuses: Level Sets and Fast Marching methods, Pedestrian detection by detection of body parts (working with a summer student) M. Eng. Computer Engineering- Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran September 1996- November 1999 M. Eng. Thesis: Human face profile recognition In this thesis, various descriptors such as geometric measures, Fourier descriptors, and cosine transform descriptors are used in identification of a set of individuals from their side view images captured in various illuminations and sizes, reaching an identification rate of 81.34% comparable with many complex frontal view recognition methods. Main components of research: Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Classification and Identification, Fourier descriptors, Cosine and Hartley coefficients, Wavelet transform Other research focuses: Neural networks, Self-organizing maps, Graph theory B. Eng. Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran September 1992- August 1996 B. Eng. Thesis: Power plant design program setup In this thesis, data regarding power plant design was collected from different sources and organizations. This data was used for testing a software program recommending the type of power plant and its design parameters based on input data. Vida Movahedi, Ph.D.- Curriculum Vitae Page 1 of 6
II. EMPLOYMENT Research Post-Doctoral Fellow- IBM Canada and York University, Big Data Research, Analytics, and Information Network (BRAIN) April 2016- Present Delivery of multiple simultaneous qualities of services (QoS) for video multicasts Distributed Computing using IBM Platform Symphony Post-Doctoral Fellow- IBM Canada and York University, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data Driven Design (CIVDDD) June 2014- March 2016 Multimedia and Video Transcoding, High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), Design and implementation of a video coding/transcoding framework for adjustable quality of service and error resilience Distributed Computing using IBM Platform Symphony Implementation of Live streaming, Audio Synchronization, Multi-threaded Algorithms Cloud Computing, Deployment to Sharcnet and SOSCIP computing platforms Research Intern- Epson Canada, Edge Group June 2013- October 2013 Development and evaluation of algorithms for Object Detection and Pose Estimation Object Feature Detection 3D to 2D transformation, camera vs. image coordinates conversions Research Assistant- Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran September 1996- January 2005 Genetic Algorithms Data Clustering, Fuzzy k-means Shape-based Evolutionary Data Clustering Teaching Professor- Seneca College, School of Information and Communication Technology January 2016- Present Winter 2017: BTD210- Database Design Principles Fall 2016: BTD310- SQL Database Design Using Oracle Summer 2016: BTP200- The Object-Oriented Paradigm Using C++ Winter 2016: IPC144- Introduction to Programming Using C Course Director- York University, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering May 2010- December 2014 Fall 2014: CSE/MATH 1090- Introduction to Logic for Computer Science Fall 2012: CSE/MATH 1090- Introduction to Logic for Computer Science Winter 2012: CSE3401- Functional and Logic Programming Summer 2010: CSE3401- Functional and Logic Programming Teaching Assistant- York University, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering September 2006 August 2012 Vida Movahedi, Ph.D.- Curriculum Vitae Page 2 of 6
Tutorials for CSE/MATH 1090: Introduction to Logic for Computer Science (multiple times) Lab Tutorials for CSE 1720: Building Interactive Systems- Java programming Lab Tutorials for CSE/Math 1560: Introduction to Computing for Mathematics and Statisticsworking with Maple software Course Director- Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran September 2000-August 2003 Fall 2002: Artificial Intelligence Fall 2001: Artificial Intelligence Fall 2000: Artificial Intelligence Course Director- Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran September 2002-December 2002 Winter 2001: Computer Fundamentals and Pascal programming Instructor- Kaman Computer Technical School, Tehran, Iran January 1999- January 2005 Ministry-approved computer courses and certification, e.g. Computer Fundamentals, Programming (Visual Basics), Web design, Computer Graphics Kaman Fast-track courses (Fundamentals, Microsoft Certification, and Programming) Software Development Independent Software Developer, Toronto, Canada September 2005- December 2005 Development of POS (point of sale) software Restaurant Food Menu Selection and Ordering (on touch screens), Receipt and Billing, Accounting reports Software Project Manager- Kaman Computer Company, Tehran, Iran January 1999- January 2005 Leading and participating in the software development team, e.g. development of a web-based administration software for the Petroleum University of Technology, Iran, Training users of above administration software in several campuses Preparation of software proposals and bids, Delivery of software and presentation of demos Business Development Executive- Vardanis General Trade Inc., Toronto, Canada January 2006- April 2007 Company establishment and administration Import and Sales Owner and Manager- Kaman Computer Technical School, Tehran, Iran January 1999- January 2005 Establishment and Management Certified school by Ministry of Labour, Iran Vida Movahedi, Ph.D.- Curriculum Vitae Page 3 of 6
III. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY Publications (refereed) Movahedi, V., Asif. A., Chin, A., Amer, I., Hu, Z. and Hu., Y., A Novel Development Infrastructure for Scalable Video Coding/Transcoding Applications, Data Compression Conference (DCC2016), March 2016 (poster presentation). Movahedi, V. and Elder, J.H., Combining Local and Global Cues for Closed Contour Extraction, 24th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC13), September 2013 (selected for poster presentation). Movahedi, V. and Elder, J.H., Design and perceptual validation of performance metrics for object segmentation, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV) - CVPR workshops, June 2010 (selected for oral presentation)- cited 65 times [Google Scholar]. Movahedi, V. and Safabakhsh, R., Human face profile recognition using autocorrelation coefficients and geometric features, Proc. of the 5th Annual Intl Conf. of Computer Society of Iran (CSICC2000), 1: 1-10, 2000 (in Farsi) (selected for oral presentation). Movahedi, V. and Safabakhsh, R., Human face profile recognition using Fourier, cosine, and Hartley descriptors, Proc. of the 8th Iranian Conf. on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2000), 1: 294-303, 2000 (in Farsi) (selected for oral presentation). Conference Presentations Movahedi, V. and Asif A., Development Infrastructure for Video Transcoding Applications (DIVA), Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) Discovery, May 2015, Toronto, Ontario (Poster). Movahedi, V. and Elder, J.H., Combining Local and Global Cues for Closed Contour Extraction, Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (ONCWIC13), November 2013 (Poster presentation/ Best Poster Award). Movahedi, V. and Elder, J.H., Segmenting Salient Objects: How do we measure success?, CVR Conference 2009: International Conference on Vision in 3D Environments, June 2009, Toronto, Ontario (Poster). Movahedi, V., Estrada, F.J. and Elder, J.H., Global Cues for Multi-scale Probabilistic Grouping, 18th Annual Canadian Conf. on Intelligent Systems (AI/GI/CRV/IS 2008), May 2008, Windsor, Ontario (Poster). IV. Research Interests General interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Contour Grouping, Distributed and Cloud Computing, Video Compression, Interdisciplinary Research Specific interests: Object segmentation and detection Contour grouping and cue combination for saliency detection Understanding and prediction of movements in video sequences Understanding video feeds Using Computer Vision techniques to enrich video encoding Vida Movahedi, Ph.D.- Curriculum Vitae Page 4 of 6
V. Professional/ Volunteer Service 2015 Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding 2015 Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Image and Vision Computing 2014 Reviewer for Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters 2011-2012 Reviewer for IET Journal of Computer Vision 2015 Co-reviewer for the CASCON 2015 Conference 2014 Co-reviewer for the ECCV Conference 2011-2014 Co-reviewer for the CVPR Conference 2010 Co-reviewer for IEEE Journal of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2008-2014 Co-reviewer for NIPS Conference 2011-2012 VP Finance, Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Association (CSEGSA) VI. Grants, Awards and Professional Society Memberships Grants and Awards 2015 Awarded the SOSCIP PostDoc grant (Ontario Centre of Excellence Talent Edge), Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data Driven Design (CIVDDD), Toronto, Canada. 2008 Awarded the Precarn Inc. scholarship, Computer Science and Engineering Department, York University, Toronto, Canada. 1999 Award for being top (privileged) student of the year in Masters program, Department of Computer Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 1992 Award for being the 149th top student in the university entrance exam (among roughly one million participants), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 1985 Awarded entrance to the gifted program (Farzanegan Middle School), Tehran, Iran Memberships 2015 Applied for membership Ontario Society of Professional Engineers 2009-2011 Member of the IEEE Vida Movahedi, Ph.D.- Curriculum Vitae Page 5 of 6
VII. References Research Dr. Amir Asif, Ph.D., P.Eng. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dean, Faculty of Eng. & Computer Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University Dr. Aijun An, Ph.D. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University EV002.169, 1515 St. Catherine St. West, Rm. 2048, Lassonde Bldg., 4700 Keele Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 2W1 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 3060 Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 44298 Email: amir.asif@concordia.ca Email: aan@cse.yorku.ca http://www.concordia.ca/faculty/ http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~aan/ amir-asif.html and http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~asif/ Dr. James Elder, Ph.D., P.Eng. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Centre for Vision Research, York University Dr. Sven Dickinson, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Rm. 0003G, Lassonde Building Rm 283B, Pratt Building 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, 6 King s College Rd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 Canada M5S 3G4 Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 66475 Phone: (416) 978-3853 Email: jelder@yorku.ca Email: sven@cs.toronto.edu http://elderlab.yorku.ca/~elder/ http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sven/ Teaching Mary-Lynn Manton Chair, School of Information and Communication Technology, Seneca College Dr. George Tourlakis, Ph.D. Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University Rm. T2083, TEL Building Rm. 2051, Lassonde Building 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 Canada M3J 1P3 Phone: (416) 491-5050 ext. 33264 Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 66674 Email: mary-lynn.manton@senecacollege.ca Email: gt@cse.yorku.ca http://scs.senecac.on.ca/~mary-lynn. http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~gt/ manton Vida Movahedi, Ph.D.- Curriculum Vitae Page 6 of 6