Baback Moghaddam

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research interests

Visual Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience

Advisor: Alex Pentland

Education

BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1989 (Magna Cum Laude)
MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1992 (Honors)
George Mason University

Experience

Research Instructor
Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (C3I)
George Mason University, 1992

Research Description

Research involves probabilistic visual learning for view-based object recognition, robust feature detection and the construction of attention maps for visual search. Current work is on automated face recognition (see my face recognition demo page for further details). Also interested in the inverse problem of mapping 2D views of a face to a 3D model and the analysis of facial and whole-body articulation.

Also involved in computational modeling of human judgements of facial attractiveness and our perception of "beauty". Ongoing "pet-project": Statistical Modeling of the "Beauty Subspace" Spanned by Christy Turlington's 2D-XYI Facial Manifold Morphology (see figure above). Alas, this line of research wouldn't fly as a real dissertation!

Publications

Beyond Eigenfaces: Probabilistic Matching for Face Recognition

Moghaddam B., Wahid W. and Pentland A.
International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, April 1998. (TR #443)

Probabilistic Visual Learning for Object Representation

Moghaddam B. and Pentland A.
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-19 (7), pp. 696-710, July 1997

A Bayesian Similarity Measure for Direct Image Matching

Moghaddam B., Nastar C. and Pentland A.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August 1996. (TR #393)

Bayesian Face Recognition Using Deformable Intensity Surfaces

Moghaddam B., Nastar C. and Pentland A.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, June 1996. (TR #371)

Active Face Tracking and Pose Estimation in an Interactive Room

Darrell T., Moghaddam B. and Pentland A.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, June 1996. (TR #356)

Generalized Image Matching: Statistical Learning of Physically-Based Deformations

Nastar C., Moghaddam B. and Pentland A.
Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, UK, April 1996. (TR #368)

Probabilistic Visual Learning for Object Detection

Moghaddam, B. and Pentland A.
International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, MA, June 1995. (TR #326)

A Subspace Method for Maximum Likelihood Target Detection

Moghaddam, B. and Pentland A.
International Conference on Image Processing, Washington DC, October 1995. (TR #335)

An Automatic System for Model-Based Coding of Faces

Moghaddam, B. and Pentland A.
IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1995. (TR #317)

View-Based and Modular Eigenspaces for Face Recognition

Pentland A., Moghaddam B., Starner T.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, July 1994. (TR #245)

Fractional Brownian Motion Models for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Scene Segmentation

Stewart C., Moghaddam B., Hintz K., Novak L.
Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 81, No. 10, October 1993.

A Comparison of Local Fractal Dimension Estimation Methods

Moghaddam B., Hintz K., Stewart C.
Pattern Recognition & Image Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1992.

Interests

Music, Art and Cinema

Birthplace

Tehran, Iran

A favorite book

"Ulysses", by James Joyce

Most wishes to have dinner with

William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac (at the same table)

Personal Web Page

Vismod Home Page