Project Computer Science

Curriculum Vitae for

Dr. Sina Samangooei

**@***.*****.**.**

Personal Details

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of Southampton 2006 - 2010

Title: Semantic Biometrics

Supervisor: Prof. M. S. Nixon

Explored the ability of human understandable semantic descriptions towards improved

identification and retrieval of individuals in biometrics enabled surveillance

applications

Designed a system for efficient gathering and storage of semantic human descriptions

against arbitrary biometric sources, integrating the system with Southampton Biometric

Tunnel project while aiding in its development

Designed algorithms for effective fusion of semantic terms with automatic visual

components, displaying improved recognition of individuals when human semantic

descriptions are considered

Developed the first algorithms for the automatic semantic annotation of biometric data

sources, demonstrating the ability of such approaches when applied to both existing and

novel gait biometric datasets.

MEng Computer Science, First Class

University of Southampton 2002 - 2006

Dissertation

Content Based Image Comparison and Retrieval using Sketch Analysis. A full system, from

feature extraction to integration with existing web image sources, for retrieving images

using a quick sketch as the query.

Industrial Group Project

Obstruction management at Southampton Airport. A visualisation tool for management of

runway dimension re-declaration on event of obstructions. A simplified version of the

completed project formed the skeleton for a second year group project assigned to BSc

Computer Scientists that year.

Individual Research Project

A review of automatic annotation and semi-automatic annotation techniques in multimedia.

An exploration of the state of the art for annotation of music, images and videos. This

included fully automatic techniques as well as approaches where automatic techniques

assisted manual annotation

Selected modules/achievements:

Operating Systems producing a 32-Bit Real-time Operating System using C

Communications and Networks producing a HTTP web-server using Java

Interactive Entertainment Systems producing a fully playable computer game using

C++/OpenGL

A levels

Greenshaw High School 2000 - 2002

A level Maths (A), Physics (A), ICT (A). AS level Economics (B)

Research Interests

The development and application of novel approaches in Machine Learning and Computer

Vision to address the exploration and effective utilisation of Large Scale Multimedia

Corpa by humans, including: Multimedia retrieval through semantic and content based

queries; Automatic annotation of multimedia artifacts towards machine understanding of

scenes and objects; Human and Object recognition for applications in pervasive computing

and surveillance.

Professional Experience

Research FellowUniversity of Southampton2010 - present

Investigating scalable solutions for large-scale image retrieval tasks

Exploring robust techniques for automatic image understanding

Developing a suite of web services providing access to such algorithms for third party

application development

Research AssistantUniversity of Southampton2009 - 2010

Web developer on the Lifeguide research project

Assisted in the construction of community features of the lifeguideonline.org website

Developed several key components of jQTI, a Java implementation of the QTI

question/answer specification

Technical Research StaffUniversity of SouthamptonSummer 2005

Performed initial research on the EU funded eChase project

Created the first prototype of the Mediaengine portion of the eChase system

Wrote Java interface with backing C++ FVS content based image comparison algorithms

Wrote web service interface allowing FVS algorithm traversal of large image collections

and comparisons of collections with provided inputs

Technical StaffIT-Innovation Summer 2004

Joined final portions of the EU funded Sculpteur project

Improved the JSP Based interface

Created multiple front ends in CSS for the system to match designs used by project

partners (e.g. V&A Museum)

Skills

Technical Skills

Highly skilled programmer. Experience in Java (and other JVM lanauges including Groovy),

Python and C++ along with experience in Matlab, Ruby, Prolog and Scheme

Experienced database administrator, highly skilled in SQL with some experience with ORM

database models (e.g. SQLAlchemy)

Experienced web programmer. Confident in both server side programming (Grails, PHP, JSP

and Pylons) as well as client side scripting (javascript+jQuery, HTML and CSS)

Confident unix administrator. Experience using shell tools to maintain research and

production systems

Extensive experience with MS Windows (all versions), Mac OS (Tiger and Leopard) and many

Linux environmentsOther Positions of Responsibility

President of the Southampton University Circus Society, 2005

Co-organiser of the ISIS Postgraduate Conference 2008

Participation in Recent Research Projects

LivingKnowledge ( 4,900,000 EU/IST [FP7]

)

Research Fellow2010 - 2012

Currently employed 1/2 FTE on this project

LiveMemories ( 3,900,000 The autonomous province of Trentino, Italy

)

Research Fellow2010 - 2011

Currently employed 1/2 FTE on this project

Teaching Experience

Given guest lectures to 3rd year undergraduate students on the Multimedia systems

course in 2009 and 2010.

Some involvement in supervision of 3rd year undergraduate individual research projects

(IRP).

Teaching and Marking (since 2007) in 1st year computer science courses including Data

Structures and Algorithms.

Attended Teaching for Research Staff introductory course (2011)

Publications In Progress

Referees

Professor Mark S. Nixon

Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group, School of Electronics and Computer

Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ Phone: +44 (0)23 8059

3542 E-Mail: ***@***.*****.**.**

Professor Paul Lewis

Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science,

University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ Phone: +44 (0-23-805*-**** E-

Mail: ***@***.*****.**.**

Dr Gary Willis

Learning Societies Lab, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of

Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ Phone: +44 (0-23-805*-**** E-Mail:

***@***.*****.**.**

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