Engineering Electrical

Mohamed R. Amer

**** ****** *********** ******, ********* OR97331-5501 USA,

(Cell)+1-541-***-****, (Email) *****@****.****.***, (Website) http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/amer/

Objective I am looking for an internship in Computer Vision with focus on video analysis

and activity recognition.

Education Ph.D. candidate at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduate Research Assistant

09/15/2009 to current, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Expected graduation date: 12/2013

M.S. at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant

09/15/2009 to 06/15/2011 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Thesis: Mining optimal features for recognizing and localizing group activities in

videos.

Teach / Grade / Hold help sessions for:

ECE473 Microprocessor System Design.

ECE352 Signals and Systems II.

ENGR202 Circuit analysis.

B.S. at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

06/26/2008 to 09/05/2009 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

09/16/2004 to 06/15/2008 Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Communications, Signals and Systems.

Senior Design Project: Tele-Robotic Arm Controller

Experience Research Intern at SONY Digital Image Lab

06/28/2011 to 09/17/2011, SONY USRC, San Jose, California, USA

2D to 3D conversion.

Stereo Matching using Hierarchical Belief Propagation.

INRIA Vision Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School

07/26/2010 to 07/30/2010, INRIA, Grenoble, France

Research Intern at ViewPlus Technologies

04/15/2009 to 09/15/2009 ViewPlus Tech, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

06/15/2010 to 09/15/2010 ViewPlus Tech, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Develop a real time hand tracking system using a webcam in C.

Field Intern at Khalda/Apache Petroleum Company

06/15/2006 to 07/15/2006, Khalda, Marsa-Matrouh, Egypt

Setup communication systems at rigs (Microwave/Satellite receivers).

Mohamed R. Amer

1148 Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis OR97331-5501 USA, +1-541-***-****, *****@****.****.***

Publications Investigate activity recognition in videos, funded by:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

o Cost-Sensitive Top-down/Bottom-up Inference for Multiscale Activity

Recognition, Mohamed R. Amer, Dan Xie, Mingtian Zhao, Sinisa Todorovic,

and Song-Chun Zhu (ECCV2012) Oral presentation

National Science Foundation (NSF)

1. Recognizing Alternative Spatiotemporal Structures of Human Activities,

Mohamed R. Amer and Sinisa Todorovic (CVPR2012)

2. A Chains Model for Localizing Participants of Group Activities in Videos,

Mohamed R. Amer and Sinisa Todorovic (ICCV2011)

3. PEL-CNF: Probabilistic Event Logic Conjunctive Normal Form for Video

Interpretation, Joe Selman, Mohamed Amer, Alan Fern, and Sinisa

Todorovic (ICCV2011-SIG11 Workshop)

4. Fine-grained Categorization of Events in Underwater Videos by Tracking

Fish, Mohamed Amer, Emil Bilgazyev, Sinisa Todorovic, Shishir Shah,

Ioannis Kakadiaris, and Lorenzo Ciannelli (ICCV2011-VECTAR Workshop)

5. Multiobject Tracking as Maximum-Weight Independent Set, William Brendel,

Mohamed R. Amer, and Sinisa Todorovic (CVPR 2011) Oral presentation

Investigate depth layering in an image:

Independent funding:

o Monocular Estimation of 2.1D Sketch, Mohamed R. Amer, Raviv Raich,

Sinisa Todorovic (ICIP 2010)

Awards EECS Research Assistantship 09/15/2009 to current

Graduate school travel grant 11/15/2011

Best poster award (INRIA) 07/27/2010

EECS Teaching Assistantship 09/15/2009 to 06/15/2010

McDaniel Engineering Scholarship 09/15/2009 to 06/15/2010

International Cultural Scholarship 09/15/2008 to 06/15/2009

Relevant CS531 Artificial Intelligence

CS533 Reinforcement Learning

Graduate

CS534 Machine Learning

Classes

CS539 Intro to Bayesian Networks

CS556 Computer Vision

CS559 Advanced Topics in Computer Vision

ECE550 Control Theory

ECE560 Stochastic Signals & Systems

ECE565 Estimation, Filtering & Detection

ECE566 Information Theory

Programming Languages: C/C++, Embedded C, and Matlab.

Skills Libraries: OpenCV, and W eka.

Interests Flying single engine planes, playing guitar, and travelling.

References References are available on request.

Mohamed R. Amer

1148 Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis OR97331-5501 USA, +1-541-***-****, *****@****.****.***

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