My Research

Research Summary [pdf]

Recent Research

• Non-Parametric Model for Background Subtraction.
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• Result Video Clips (in AVI and/or MPEG formats)
• Publications:
1. Ahmed Elgammal, David Harwood, Larry Davis “Non-parametric Model for Background Subtraction” IEEE ICCV99 Frame Rate Workshop. IEEE 7^th International Conference on Computer Vision. Kerkyra, Greece, September 1999. [URL] [PDF]
2. Ahmed Elgammal, David Harwood, Larry Davis “Non-parametric Model for Background Subtraction” 6th European Conference on Computer Vision. Dublin, Ireland, June/July 2000. [PDF]
• Segmenting People In Groups
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• Result Video Clips (in AVI and/or MPEG formats)
• Publications:
1. Ahmed Elgammal and Larry S. Davis, “Probabilistic Framework for Segmenting People Under Occlusion”, The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada July 9-12, 2001 [PDF], [PS]
• Appearance-Based Tracking
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• Efficient Kernel Density Estimation using Fast Gauss Transform
• Publications:
1. Ahmed Elgammal, Ramani Duraiswami and Larry S. Davis, “Efficient Computation of Kernel Density Estimation using Fast Gauss Transform with Applications for Segmentation and Tracking”, Second International Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision, with The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada July 13, 2001.

Previous Research

• Document Analysis and Recognition

• Publications:

1. Ahmed Elgammal and Mohamed A. Ismail, “Techniques for Language Identification for Hybrid Arabic-English Document Images”, Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. September 10-13, 2001.
2. Ahmed Elgammal and Mohamed A. Ismail, “A Graph-Based Segmentation and Feature-extraction Framework for Arabic Text Recognition”, Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. September 10-13, 2001.
• Face Detection
• Publications:
1. Mohamed Abdelmoteleb and Ahmed Elgammal, “Face Detection in Complex Environment from Color Images”, IEEE 6^th International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan, October 1999