Sadjad A. Esfeden
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Sadjad Asghari Esfeden

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Research Interests

Video Analysis, Robotics, Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Sep. 2013 – May 2018

  • M.Sc., Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Sep. 2013 – May 2015

  • B.Sc., Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Sep. 2008 – Jul. 2013

Publications

  • S. Asghari-Esfeden, G. Strenge, K. Lockwood, Y. Bicer, T. Imbiriba, M. Furmanek, M. Yarossi, E. Tunik, T. Padir, and D. Erdogmus, “Real-Time Object Localization for Human-Robot Handover, ” PETRA, 2023 (under review).

  • K. Lockwood, Y. Bicer, S. Asghari-Esfeden, T. Zhu, M. Furmanek, M. Mangalam, G. Strenge, T. Imbiriba, M. Yarossi, T. Padir, D. Erdogmus, and E. Tunik, “Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover, ” PETRA, 2022 (Best Student Paper Award).

  • Sadjad Asghari-Esfeden, Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, “Dynamic Motion Representation for Human Action Recognition,” WACV, 2020.

  • Mengran Gou, Xikang Zhang, Angels Rates-Borras, Sadjad Asghari-Esfeden, Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, “Person Re-identification in Appearance Impaired Scenarios,” British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2016.

  • M. Soleymani, S. Asghari-Esfeden, Y. Fu, M. Pantic, “Analysis of EEG Signals and Facial Expressions for Continuous Emotion Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2016 (Best Paper Award of 2016-17).

  • M. Soleymani, S. Asghari-Esfeden, M. Pantic, Y. Fu, “Continuous Emotion Detection Using EEG Signals and Facial Expressions,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2014 (Oral presentation).

Professional Services

  • Reviewer:
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
    IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
    IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS)
    IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD)
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    Information Fusion
    Internation Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
    International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos (ICPR-FFER)
    Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
    Neurocomputing (NEUCOM)
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
    IEEE Access

  • Leadership experiences:
    Secretary of Northeastern ECE Ph.D. Student Association (NEPSA), June 2017 - May 2018
    President of Northeastern ECE Ph.D. Student Association (NEPSA), May 2016 - May 2017
    President of Iranian Student Association of Northeastern University (ISAN), Sep. 2014 - Oct. 2015
    Organizer of the 2nd Seminar of “Models of Computation and Computational Models”, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 2012
    Organizer (secretary) of ECE Representative Council, Representative of Computer Engineering students in the School of ECE, Sep. 2010 - Nov. 2011

Professional Memberships

  • IEEE

  • CV-Foundation

  • ACM

Miscellaneous

  • I like running, hiking, rock climbing, and skiing. Feel free to follow me on Strava!

  • I also like reading about finance, history, and self-help. You can find my Goodreads account here.

  • I occasionally write blog posts on Medium, and I barely tweet!

  • I do videography and photography for fun while traveling, follow my Instagram for drone and 360 footage!