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Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, August 2002
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Master of Science in Computer Science
The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 1999
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Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, May 1997
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Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (with Honors)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, May 1994
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Baccalaureate, high-school diploma ( avec mention bien)
English Pioneer School of Ariana, Ariana, Tunisia, June 1990
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| Work Experience
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| Senior Research Scientist |
| Identix Incorporated, Jersey City, NJ. | | June 2002 - August 2003 |
| Identix is world-wide leader in biometrics technology, specializing in fingerprints and face recognition.
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| Graduate Research Assistant |
| Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. | | August 1997 - 2002 |
| Ph.D. dissertation, Advisor: Larry Davis, professor of Computer Science. Title: Gait as a Biometric for Person Identification in Video.
A project to identify people in video based on their walking gait. Part of DARPA's HumanID at a Distance project. Developed two different methods; a parametric method which uses the stride length and cadence, estimate based on the periodicity of walking and a calibrated camera; and a non-parametric method which uses the self-similarity plot as the classification feature. While neither method can identify any one person uniquely, we will show that by combining the features extracted by these two methods, we are able to achieve much more reasonable classification rates.
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| Visiting Researcher |
| Projet ORION, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France. | | April 2000 |
| Research Advisor: Monique Thonnat. Collaborated with the VSIS project team on a system for human activity understanding in video.
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| Summer Intern |
| Multimedia Communications Lab, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. | | June 1996 - August 1998 |
| Research Advisor: Gopal Sarma Pingali. Worked on a project for body-part segmentation and tracking of players in tennis video sequences.
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| Summer Intern |
| Future Systems Lab, HP Labs, Palo Alto CA. | | June 1996 - August 1996 |
| Research Advisor: Tomas Rokicki. Designed and implemented a system that automatically plans and generates simulations in a multi-factor environment. The goal is to minimize both the number of simulations and the effort expended by the researcher to characterize the response behavior of a system as a function of multiple control factors in the system.
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| Summer Intern |
| Transarc Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. | | June 1997 - August 1997 |
| Research Advisor: Mic Bowman. Maintained a tracing facility that collects Mosaic traces of World Wide Web document accesses made within the company's domain. Statistically analyzed these client traces in order to characterize user access patterns of Web documents. Such access patters are to be used in guiding the design of effective document caching, prefetching and replication methods.
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| Publications
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- C. BenAbdelkader, Gait as a Biometric for Person Identification in Video,
University of Maryland, College Park, 2002
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- C. BenAbdelkader and Paul Griffin, Comparing and Combining Depth and Texture Cues for Face Recognition, In Journal of Image and Vision Computing, 23 (3), 2005
- C. BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, and Larry Davis, Gait Recognition using Image Self-Similarity, Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2004
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| Refereed Conference Papers |
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- C. BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, and Larry Davis, Person Identification using Automatic Height and Stride Estimation, In ICPR 2002
- C. BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, and Larry Davis, View-invariant Estimation of Height and Stride for Gait Recognition, In Workshop on Biometric Authentication ECCV 2002
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- C. BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, and Larry Davis, Stride and Cadence as a Biometric in Automatic Person Identification and Verification, In Proceedings FGR 2002
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- C. BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, and Larry Davis, Motion-based Recognition of People in EigenGait Space, In Proceedings FGR 2002 (Zipped Postscript)
- C. BenAbdelkader and Larry Davis, Detection of People Carrying Objects : a Motion-based Recognition Approach, In Proceedings FGR 2002 (Zipped Postscript)
- C. BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, Harsh Nanda, and Larry Davis, EigenGait: Motion-based Recognition of People using Image Self-similarity, In Proceedings AVBPA 2001
- C. BenAbdelkader, Philippe Burlina and Larry Davis, Single Camera Multiplexing for Multi-Target Tracking, In Proceedings ICIAP 1999
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- C. BenAbdelkader, Philippe Burlina and Larry Davis, Single Camera Multiplexing for Multi-Target Tracking, In Advanced Video-based Surveillance Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 (Gzipped Postscript)
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- C. BenAbdelkader, Inferential Prefetching for the World Wide Web, Pennsylvania State University, 1997
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| Special Skills
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- Operating Systems: UNIX, Microsoft Windows
- Languages: C/C++/VC++, MATLAB, PERL, FORTRAN, HTML, LISP
- Spoken/written Languages: Arabic and English (fluent), French (reading)
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| Awards and Honors
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- Brush Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 1994 - 1995
- US AID Fellowship, 1990 - 1994
- College Honors (Dean's List in 8 out of 8 semesters), The Pennsylvania State University, 1990 - 1994
- Member since 1993 of the Honor Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
- Undergraduate Research Conference, Kalamazoo Michigan, April 1994
- President Freshman Award, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991
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