Education

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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

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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

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

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.

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".
• Research Contribution Award, University of Minnesota, June 1999.
• Rosemount Instrumentation Award, Rosemount Inc., May 1998.
• Matt Huber Award for Excellence in Transportation Research, CTS Research Conference, May 1997.

Publications

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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.