Vida Movahedi
PhD Candidate
Email: vida@cse.yorku.ca
Tel: 416.736.2100 ext. 66117
Human and Computer Vision Laboratory (Elderlab)
Centre for Vision Research
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
York University

Teaching:

• Winter 2012- CSE 3401- Functional and Logic Programming
• Summer 2010- CSE 3401- Functional and Logic Programming

Research:

• Multiscale Contour Grouping
• Contour Mapping Measure- POCV2010
• Salient Object Dataset
• Contour Grouping (My Qualifying Exam)

Publications:

• Vida Movahedi and James H. Elder (2010), "Design and Perceptual Validation of Performance Measures for Salient Object Segmentation",
  in 7th IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV10) Paper -  Supplementary material
• Vida Movahedi and Reza Safabakhsh (2000), "Human Face Profile Recognition using Fourier, Cosine, and Hartley Descriptors",
  in Proc. of the 8th Iranian Conf. on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2000), 1: 294-303 (in Farsi). Paper -  English abstract
• Vida Movahedi and Reza Safabakhsh (2000), "Human Face Profile Recognition using Autocorrelation Coefficients and Geometric Features",
  in Proc. of the 5th Annual Int'l Conf. of Computer Society of Iran (CSICC'2000) 1: 1-10 (in Farsi). Paper -  English abstract

Conference Presentations:

• POCV10- "Design and Perceptual Validation of Performance Measures for Salient Object Segmentation",
  in 7th IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (San Francisco- June 2010) ppt
• Poster at CVR09- "Segmenting Salient Objects: How do we measure success?" at Centre for Vision Research CVR Conference (Toronto- June 2009) pdf
• Poster at IS08- "Global Cues for Multi-scale Probabilistic Grouping" at Intelligent Systems Collaborative - the 2008 AI/GI/CRV/IS Conference (Windsor- May 2008) pdf

Lab Presentations:
Fast Marching Algorithm (Feb. 2010) ppt
Minimal Paths Algorithm (Jan. 2010) ppt

Cyclic string-to-string correction (Oct. 2009) ppt
Contour grouping - Qualifying exam presentation (July 2009) ppt
Performance Evaluation of Grouping Algorithms (June 2009) ppt
Optimal Cycle- Reviewing the Ratio Contour Algorithm (January 2008) ppt

Grouping for symmetric closed boundaries (Sep. 2007) ppt
The Hungarian Algorithm (June 2007) ppt
Pictorial Query-By-Example (Mar. 2007) ppt or Pdf file
Splines (Jan. 2007) ppt

Principal Component Analysis (Dec. 2006) ppt
Genetic Algorithms (Nov. 2006) ppt
Huffman Coding (Oct. 2006) ppt