Mohamed E. Hussein

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I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science in the University of Maryland at College Park. I have been doing research in computer vision since summer 2004, under the supervision of Dr. Larry Davis. I worked mainly on human detection and tracking, where I was co-supervised by Dr. Wael Abdelmageed. I also did some work on GPU computing, where I was co-supervised by Dr. Amitabh Varshney.

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Research Interests

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My current research interests can be roughly outlined as follows:

Image Understanding and Computer Vision

Detection of Articulating Objects

Tracking of Articulating Objects

Image Segmentation

Computer Graphics

General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU)

Contact Information

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Mailing Address:

1103 A.V.Williams Building,

College Park, MD 20742

Phone Number: (301) 405-8368

Projects

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Fast Min Cut A very efficient technique for the max flow/min cut algorithm that is widely used in computer vision. That project is still in progress.

Fast Human Detection A fast approach to human detection in which we adopt the usage of histograms of oriented gradients features and cascade of boosted weak learners. The plan is to make it work in real-time even for multiple scales. This work is still in progress.

Fast Human Tracking An approach for real time tracking of articulating objects, with focus on humans. To achieve real time performance, we developed a new simple appearance model that is efficient to update and compare to a target region.

Real-Time Human Detection, Tracking and Verification A multi-threaded real time system for human detection, tracking, and verification in moving camera platform videos.

Usage of Facial Expressions in Information Retrieval Systems A study of the feasibility of utilizing facial expressions, detected using computer vision and machine learning techniques, as a source of implicit feedback for information retrieval systems.

Autonomous Transport Protocol (ATP) A transport protocol over an enhanced peer-to-peer service (IBN).

Instance-Based Networks (IBN) An extended version of a generic Content-Based Network (CBN) that makes end points’ communication independent from their physical locations.

DHT over NICE An efficient object lookup service over NICE, which is a hierarchical peer to peer system designed for efficient multicasting

Publications

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Journal

Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode, “Instance-Based Networking: A Communication Paradigm for Mobile Applications,” ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Oct. 2003, Volume 7 Issue 4.

Conference

Papers

Wael Abd-Almageed, Mohamed Hussien and Larry Davis, “Tracking Articulating Objects from Ground Vehicles using Mixtures of Mixtures,” International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, China, Oct. 2006.

Mohamed Hussein, Wael Abd-Almageed, Yang Ran and Larry Davis, “A Real-Time System for Human Detection, Tracking and Verification in Uncontrolled Camera Motion Environment,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, NY, USA, Jan. 2006.

Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef , Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode, “ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol”, IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2003, Cairo, Egypt , Dec. 27-30, 2003.

Posters

Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef , Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode, “ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol,” The Eleventh International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2003, Atlanta, GA, USA, Nov. 4-7, 2003.

Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode, “IBN: A Communication Paradigm for Mobile Applications,” The Ninth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2003, San Diego, CA, USA, Sep. 14-19, 2003.

Unrefereed

Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef, Liviu Iftode, “ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol,” CS-TR 4483, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2003.

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Last updated on Fri Jun 29^th 2007