Hassan Akbari
About
I’m a 4th-year PhD candidate in DVMM Lab, Columbia University, under supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. My areas of interest include Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Modality Bridging, Visual Reasoning, and Multimodal Understanding
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I am looking for a student to work on cutting-edge computer vision projects during Spring 2020 semester. A 3-point research course would be credited. Please send me your CV if interested.
Publications
[4] GAIA – A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System
Tongtao Zhang, Ananya Subburathinam, Ge Shi, Lifu Huang, Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Manling Li, Boliang Zhang, Qingyun Wang, Spencer Whitehead, Heng Ji, Alireza Zareian, Hassan Akbari, Brian Chen, Ruiqi Zhong, Steven Shao, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown, Dongyu Li, Xin Huang, Xujun Peng, Ryan Gabbard, Marjorie Freedman, Ali Sadeghian, Mayank Kejriwal, Ram Nevatia, Pedro Szekely, Ali Sadeghian and Daisy Zhe Wang
Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC), 2018
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[5] A robust FCM algorithm for image segmentation based on spatial information and total variation
Hassan Akbari, Hamed Mohebbi Kalkhoran and Emad Fatemizadeh
IEEE 9th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, 2015, Best paper award
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[6] FCM-based image segmentation with bias field and intensity inhomogeneity correction
Hassan Akbari, Hamed Mohebbi Kalkhoran and Emad Fatemizadeh
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 2015
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[7] Fetal ECG extraction usingπTucker decomposition
Hassan Akbari, Mohammad B. Shamsollahi and Ronald Phlypo
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2015
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News
01/02/20: I accepted research internship offer from Facebook for Fall 2020
01/02/20: I accepted research internship offer from Google for Summer 2020
12/4/19: Our work on modality bridging named as Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2019
10/29/19: Our team won the 1st place in AIDA Knowledge Graph Construction Challenge
10/02/19: Featured in Columbia Engineering for our achievement on Decoding the Brain
09/26/19: We won the NYC Media Lab’s Grand Prize for our work on Decoding the Brain to Intelligible Speech
03/07/19: Dr. Francis Collins, director of NIH, covered our paper on reconstructing speech from the human brain using AI at NIH Director’s blog.
03/02/19: Our paper on image-phrase grounding got accepted in CVPR 2019
03/01/19: My work on modality bridging featured exclusively in FRANKFURTER ALLGMEINE ZEITUNG (FAZ), the second highest circulated newspaper in Germany
01/30/19: Our work on speech reconstruction from the brain featured in more than 100 news and science outlets
01/29/19: I accepted research internship offer from Microsoft for Summer 2019
Eat Healthy, Live Healthy
“You are what you seek”, Rumi
“You are what you eat”, Science
I’m a big advocate of active lifestyle accompanied by a healthy diet!
I regularly do sports, including bouldering and volleyball, while following a healthy diet