Osama Masoud
Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Sep 94 - Mar 00)
Ph.D. - Computer Science, March 2000, GPA:4.0
Areas: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
Thesis: "Tracking and Analysis of Articulated Motion with an Application to Human Motion"
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia (Sep 87 - Jun 94)
MS - Computer Science, June 1994. GPA: 4.0
Thesis: "An Integrated Stereo Algorithm based on Coarse-to-Fine Features and Intensity Values"
BS - Computer Science, January 1992. GPA: 3.82. Major GPA: 4.0
Work Experience
Research Associate
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
April 2003 - Present
Research Associate
Center for Transportation Studies - U of MN, Minneapolis, MN
July 2003 - Present
Director of Research and Development
Point Cloud, Inc. - Plymouth, MN
January 2000 - September 2001
Researched and designed vision and graphics algorithms. Lead a team of programmers
to develop software in 3D reconstruction, computer vision, and 3D graphics.
Post-Doctoral Associate
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
March 2000 - March 2003
Designed algorithms related to intelligent transportation systems.
Research Assistant
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
September 1994 - December 1999
Designed and implemented several real-time tracking and monitoring
projects related to intelligent transportation systems. Designed
algorithms for classification of human motion.
Technical Consultant
Arboon, Inc. - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
June 1994 - August 1994
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Provided and helped set up computerization and networking solutions for
different businesses.
System Analyst, Software Engineer
Perfect Solution Inc. - Khobar, Saudi Arabia
July 1992 - December 1992
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Developed custom business software using FoxPro for Windows.
Skills
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C, C++, Matlab, Java, FORTRAN, Assembler, Lisp, Pascal, Basic,
Prolog, SQL, FoxPro, Windows, Unix, Datacube, Matrox Genesis,
Intel Performance Libraries.
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Languages: Arabic, English.
Awards
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2001 Best Land Transportation Paper Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society for my journal paper titled "A novel method for tracking and counting
pedestrians in real-time using a single camera".
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Research Contribution Award, University of Minnesota, June 1999.
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Rosemount Instrumentation Award, Rosemount Inc., May 1998.
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Matt Huber Award for Excellence in Transportation Research, CTS Research
Conference, May 1997.
Publications
Journal
- B. Maurin, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, "Computer vision algorithms for
monitoring crowded scenes", to appear, IEEE Robotics &
Automation Magazine special issue on Robotic Technologies applied to
Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- H. Veeraraghavan, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, "Computer vision algorithms for
intersection monitoring", to appear, IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation System, vol. 4, no. 2,
pp. 78-89, Jun. 2003.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, "A
method for human action recognition", Image and Vision Computing,
vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 729-743, Aug. 2003.
- S. Gupte, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Detection and classification
of vehicles”, IEEE Trans. on
Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 37-47, Mar.
2002.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
“A novel method for tracking and counting pedestrians in real-time
using a single camera”, IEEE
Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1267-1278, Sep.
2001.
(Awarded the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Land Transportation Paper Award, March 2002)
- D. Perrin, O. Masoud, C. Smith, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
"Snakes for robotic grasping", ANALEKTA, 2001.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, E.
Kwon, “The use of computer vision in monitoring weaving
sections”, IEEE Trans. on
Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 18-25, Mar.
2001.
Conference
- D. Cao,
O. Masoud, D. Boley, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
"Online motion
classification using support vector machines", to appear, IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA2004, Apr.
2004.
- G. Gasser, N. Bird, O.
Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, "Human activities monitoring
at bus stops", to
appear, IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA2004, Apr. 2004.
- R. Bodor, B. Jackson, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, "Image-based reconstruction for
view-independent human motion recognition", in Proc. IEEE
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS2003,
pp 1548-1553, Las Vegas, Oct. 2003.
- E. Wahlstrom, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Vision-based methods for
driver monitoring”, in Proc. IEEE 6th International
Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 903-908,
Shanghai, China, Oct. 2003.
- P.E. Rybski, F. Zacharias,
J. F. Lett, O. Masoud, M. Gini,
N.P. Papanikolopoulos, "Building
topological maps with sensor-limited miniature mobile robots," in Proc.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA2003,
pp. 850-855, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 2003.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
"Recognizing human activities", in Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance AVSS2003,
pp. 157-162, Miami, FL, Jul. 2003.
- K. Stubbs, H. Arumugam, O. Masoud, C. McMillen, H. Veeraraghavan,
R. Janardan, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “A
real-time collision warning system for intersections”, in Proc. ITS America 13th Annual Meeting,
Minneapolis, MN, May 2003.
- H. Veeraraghavan, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Real-time tracking for
managing suburban intersections”, in Proc. IEEE 14th
International Conference on Digital Signal Processing Proceedings DSP2002,
vol. 2, pp.1023-1026, Greece, Jul. 2002.
- H. Veeraraghavan, O. Masoud, N.P., Papanikolopoulos, “Vision-based monitoring of
intersections”, in Proc. IEEE 5th
International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp.7-12, Singapore,
Sep. 2002.
- R.F.K. Martin, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
“Using intrinsic images for shadow handling”, in Proc. IEEE
5th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
pp.152-155, Singapore, Sep. 2002.
- B. Maurin, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Monitoring crowded traffic
scenes”, in Proc. IEEE 5th International Conference on
Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp.19-24, Singapore, Sep. 2002.
- B. Maurin, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Camera surveillance of
crowded traffic scenes”, in Proc.
ITS America 12th Annual Meeting, pp. 28, Long Beach, CA, Apr. 2002.
- S. Gupte, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Vision-based vehicle
classification”, in Proc. 3rd
Annual IEEE Conference on ITS, pp. 46-51, Dearborn, MI, Oct. 2000.
- D. Perrin, O. Masoud, C. Smith, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
“Using fast statistical dynamic contours for grasping occluding
contours”, in Proc. 8th IEEE
Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rio, Greece, Jul.
2000.
- S. Gupte, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Detection and classification
of vehicles”, in Proc. ITS
America Tenth Annual Meeting, pp. 14, Boston, MA, May 2000.
- D. Perrin, C. Smith, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
“Unknown object grasping using statistical pressure models”,
in Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA2000, vol. 2, pp. 1054-1059,
San Francisco, CA, Apr. 2000.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, E.
Kwon, “Vision-based monitoring of weaving sections”, in Proc. IEEE Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, pp. 770-775, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 1999.
- D. Perrin, O. Masoud, C. Smith, N.P Papanikolopoulos,
“Snakes for robotic grasping”, in Proc. European Control Conference, Aug. 1999.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
“Robust pedestrian tracking using a model-based approach”, in Proc. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston,
MA, pp. 338-343, Nov. 1997.
- O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos,
“A robust real-time multi-level model-based pedestrian tracking
system”, in Proc. ITS America
Seventh Annual Meeting, pp. 47, Jun. 1997.
- M.J. Sullivan, C.A. Richards, C.E. Smith, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos, “Pedestrian tracking from a
stationary camera using active deformable models”, in Proc. Intelligent Vehicles ’95, pp. 90-95, Detroit, MI, Sep. 1995.
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