no code implementations • 9 Feb 2024 • Shervin Minaee, Tomas Mikolov, Narjes Nikzad, Meysam Chenaghlu, Richard Socher, Xavier Amatriain, Jianfeng Gao
Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn a lot of attention due to their strong performance on a wide range of natural language tasks, since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Ligong Han, Jian Ren, Hsin-Ying Lee, Francesco Barbieri, Kyle Olszewski, Shervin Minaee, Dimitris Metaxas, Sergey Tulyakov
In addition, our model can extract visual information as suggested by the text prompt, e. g., "an object in image one is moving northeast", and generate corresponding videos.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2022 • Shervin Minaee, Xiaodan Liang, Shuicheng Yan
Augmented reality (AR) is one of the relatively old, yet trending areas in the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics with numerous applications in several areas, from gaming and entertainment, to education and healthcare.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2021 • Shervin Minaee, Ping Luo, Zhe Lin, Kevin Bowyer
In this work, we provide a detailed overview of some of the most representative deep learning based face detection methods by grouping them into a few major categories, and present their core architectural designs and accuracies on popular benchmarks.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2020 • Amirali Abdolrashidi, Mehdi Minaei, Elham Azimi, Shervin Minaee
We train our model in a multi-task learning fashion, and augment the feature embedding of the age classifier, with the predicted gender, and show that doing so can further increase the accuracy of age prediction.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2020 • Shakib Yazdani, Shervin Minaee, Rahele Kafieh, Narges Saeedizadeh, Milan Sonka
We also provide a visualization of the attention maps of the model for several test images, and show that our model is attending to the infected regions as intended.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2020 • Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Narjes Nikzad-Khasmakhi, Shervin Minaee
We used universal sentence encoder in order to derive the semantic representation and the similarity of tweets.
1 code implementation • 24 Jul 2020 • Narges Saeedizadeh, Shervin Minaee, Rahele Kafieh, Shakib Yazdani, Milan Sonka
Through experimental results on a relatively large-scale CT segmentation dataset of around 900 images, we show that adding this new regularization term leads to 2\% gain on overall segmentation performance compared to the U-Net model.
1 code implementation • 20 Apr 2020 • Shervin Minaee, Rahele Kafieh, Milan Sonka, Shakib Yazdani, Ghazaleh Jamalipour Soufi
In this work, we propose a model based on sentence Transformer to detect the main topics of Tweets in recent months.
2 code implementations • 6 Apr 2020 • Shervin Minaee, Nal Kalchbrenner, Erik Cambria, Narjes Nikzad, Meysam Chenaghlu, Jianfeng Gao
Deep learning based models have surpassed classical machine learning based approaches in various text classification tasks, including sentiment analysis, news categorization, question answering, and natural language inference.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2020 • Shervin Minaee, Mehdi Minaei, Amirali Abdolrashidi
We apply this framework to a popular palmprint databases, and generate images which look very realistic, and similar to the samples in this database.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2020 • Ehsan Kazemi, Shervin Minaee, Moran Feldman, Amin Karbasi
In this paper, we propose scalable methods for maximizing a regularized submodular function $f = g - \ell$ expressed as the difference between a monotone submodular function $g$ and a modular function $\ell$.
2 code implementations • 15 Jan 2020 • Shervin Minaee, Yuri Boykov, Fatih Porikli, Antonio Plaza, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Demetri Terzopoulos
Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many others.
1 code implementation • 30 Nov 2019 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi, Hang Su, Mohammed Bennamoun, David Zhang
Deep learning-based models have been very successful in achieving state-of-the-art results in many of the computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing tasks in the last few years.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2019 • Ali Sadeghian, Shervin Minaee, Ioannis Partalas, Xinxin Li, Daisy Zhe Wang, Brooke Cowan
We propose a neural network architecture for learning vector representations of hotels.
no code implementations • 17 Sep 2019 • Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani, Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) performs low-rank and sparse decomposition and accomplishes such a task when the background is stationary and the foreground is dynamic and relatively small.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2019 • Shervin Minaee, Elham Azimi, Amirali Abdolrashidi
Fingerprint recognition has been utilized for cellphone authentication, airport security and beyond.
1 code implementation • 22 Jul 2019 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
Iris recognition has been an active research area during last few decades, because of its wide applications in security, from airports to homeland security border control.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2019 • Shervin Minaee, Elham Azimi, Amirali Abdolrashidi
With the popularity of social networks, and e-commerce websites, sentiment analysis has become a more active area of research in the past few years.
3 code implementations • 4 Feb 2019 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
In recent years, several works proposed an end-to-end framework for facial expression recognition, using deep learning models.
Ranked #1 on Facial Expression Recognition (FER) on FERG
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER) +1
no code implementations • 25 Dec 2018 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
Through experimental results, we show that the generated fingerprint images have a good diversity, and are able to capture different parts of the prior distribution.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2018 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
Generating iris images which look realistic is both an interesting and challenging problem.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2018 • Harsh Nilesh Pathak, Xinxin Li, Shervin Minaee, Brooke Cowan
At Expedia Group, we were tasked with generating images of at least 2000px for display on the website, four times greater than the sizes typically reported in the literature.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2018 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang, Alp Aygar, Sohae Chung, Xiuyuan Wang, Yvonne W. Lui, Els Fieremans, Steven Flanagan, Joseph Rath
Unlike most of previous works, which use hand-crafted features extracted from different parts of brain for MTBI classification, we employ feature learning algorithms to learn more discriminative representation for this task.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2018 • Shervin Minaee, Imed Bouazizi, Prakash Kolan, Hossein Najafzadeh
Personalized advertisement is a crucial task for many of the online businesses and video broadcasters.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2018 • Shervin Minaee
In this dissertation, we focus on the extraction of text and graphics in mixed-content images, and design novel approaches for various aspects of this problem.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2018 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang, Anna Choromanska, Sohae Chung, Xiuyuan Wang, Els Fieremans, Steven Flanagan, Joseph Rath, Yvonne W. Lui
Mild traumatic brain injury is a growing public health problem with an estimated incidence of over 1. 7 million people annually in US.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Siyun Wang, Yao Wang, Sohae Chung, Xiuyuan Wang, Els Fieremans, Steven Flanagan, Joseph Rath, Yvonne W. Lui
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a growing public health problem with an estimated incidence of one million people annually in US.
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang, Sohae Chung, Xiuyuan Wang, Els Fieremans, Steven Flanagan, Joseph Rath, Yvonne W. Lui
While diffusion MRI has been extremely promising in the study of MTBI, identifying patients with recent MTBI remains a challenge.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Zhu Liu
We first train this model on a large-scale public question-answering database, and then fine-tune it to transfer to the customer-care chat data.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Text extraction is an important problem in image processing with applications from optical character recognition to autonomous driving.
no code implementations • 25 Apr 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Signal decomposition is a classical problem in signal processing, which aims to separate an observed signal into two or more components each with its own property.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Subspace learning is an important problem, which has many applications in image and video processing.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2017 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi, Yao Wang
Different features have been used to perform iris recognition in the past.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2016 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Sparse decomposition has been widely used for different applications, such as source separation, image classification and image denoising.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2016 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
This paper considers how to separate text and/or graphics from smooth background in screen content and mixed content images and proposes an algorithm to perform this segmentation task.
no code implementations • 30 Jul 2016 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi, Yao Wang
Face recognition has been an active research area in the past few decades.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2016 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
This paper considers how to separate text and/or graphics from smooth background in screen content and mixed document images and proposes two approaches to perform this segmentation task.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2016 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Many algorithms have been proposed for palmprint recognition in the past, majority of them being based on features extracted from the transform domain.
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2016 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Sparse decomposition has been widely used for different applications, such as source separation, image classification, image denoising and more.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2015 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi, Yao Wang
In this paper, sparse decomposition is used for image segmentation.
no code implementations • 11 Sep 2015 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
Different features and algorithms have been used for fingerprint recognition in the past.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2015 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi, Yao Wang
Iris recognition has drawn a lot of attention since the mid-twentieth century.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2015 • Shervin Minaee, Yao Wang
The proposed method is designed based on the assumption that the background part of the image is smoothly varying and can be represented by a linear combination of a few smoothly varying basis functions, while the foreground text and graphics create sharp discontinuity and cannot be modeled by this smooth representation.
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2014 • Shervin Minaee, Haoping Yu, Yao Wang
Background/foreground segmentation has a lot of applications in image and video processing.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2014 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
Biometric-based identification has drawn a lot of attention in the recent years.
no code implementations • 28 Aug 2014 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
In order to utilize identification to the best extent, we need robust and fast algorithms and systems to process the data.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2014 • Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi
Palmprint is one of the most useful physiological biometrics that can be used as a powerful means in personal recognition systems.
no code implementations • 27 Dec 2011 • Sina Akbari Mistani, Shervin Minaee, Emad Fatemizadeh
Personal identification problem has been a major field of research in recent years.
2 code implementations • 18 Dec 2011 • Shervin Minaee, Mehran Fotouhi, Babak Hossein Khalaj
The next step is detection of touching and overlapping chromosomes, and the final step is separation of such chromosomes.