PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
K. Gao, H. AliAkbarpour, J. Fraser, K. Nouduri, F. Bunyak, R. Massaro, G. Seetharaman, and K. Palaniappan, "Local Feature Performance Evaluation for Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo Using Simulated City-Scale Aerial Imagery," in IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 [pdf].
K. Gao, H. AliAkbarpour, G. Seetharaman, and K. Palaniappan, "DCT-based Local Descriptor for Robust Matching and Feature Tracking in Wide Area Motion Imagery", IEEE Journal of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, doi 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3000762, 2021 [pdf].
R. Aktar, D. Kharismawat, K. Palaniappan, H. Aliakbarpour, F. Bunyak, A. E. Stapleton and T. Kazic, ”Robust Mosaicking of Maize Fields from Aerial Imagery”, Journal of Applications in Plant Sciences (APPS), 8(8), 2020 [pdf].
H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Parallax-Tolerant Aerial Image Georegistration and Efficient Camera Pose Refinement– Without Piecewise Homographies”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(8), 4618-4637, 2017 [pdf].
H. Aliakbarpour, J.F. Ferreira, V. B. S. Prasath, K. Palaniappan, G. Seetharaman and J Dias, ”A Probabilistic Framework for 3D Reconstruction Using Heterogeneous Sensors”, IEEE Sensors Journal,17, 9, 2640-2641, 2017.
H. Aliakbarpour, V. B. S. Prasath, K. Palaniappan, G. Seetharaman and J Dias, ”Heterogeneous Multi-View Information Fusion: Review of 3-D Reconstruction Methods and a New Registration with Uncertainty Modeling”, Journal of IEEE Access, 4, 8264-8285, 2016 [pdf].
H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Robust Camera Pose Refinement and Rapid SfM for Multi-view Aerial Imagery—Without RANSAC”, IEEE Journal of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(11), 2203-2207, 2015 [pdf].
H. Aliakbarpour, V. B. S. Prasath and J. Dias, ”On Optimal Multi-Sensor Network Configuration for 3D Registration”, Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 4, 293-314, 2015.
H. Aliakbarpour, O. Tahri and H. Araujo, ”Visual servoing of mobile robots using non-central catadioptric cameras”, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 1613–1622, 2014 [pdf].
H. Aliakbarpourand J. Dias, ”Three-dimensional reconstruction based on multiple virtual planes by using fusion-based camera network”, IET Journal of Computer Vision, 6(4), 355-369, 2012.
H. Aliakbarpour, L. Almeida, P. Menezes and J. Dias, ”Multi-sensor 3D Volumetric Reconstruction Using CUDA”, Journal of 3D Research, 2, 1-14, 2011.
M. H. Korayem, K. Khoshhal, and H. Aliakbarpour, ”Vision-based Simulation and Experiment for Performance Test of Robot”, Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 25(11-12), 1218-1231, 2005.
BOOK CHAPTERS
H. Aliakbarpour, K. Gao, R. Aktar, Steve Suddarth, K. Palaniappan, ”Structure from Motion and Mosaicking for High-Throughput Field-Scale Phenotyping”, High-throughput Crop Phenotyping, Springer-Nature on Advanced Concepts and strategies in Plant Sciences, 2021.
H. Aliakbarpour, G. Seetharaman, K. Palaniappan, ”Stabilization of Airborne Video Using Sensor Exterior Orientation with Analytical Homography Modeling”, Machine Vision and Navigation; Springer, 579-595, 2020 [pdf].
S. Yao, H. Yu, H. Aliakbarpour, G. Seetharaman, K. Palaniappan, ”EpiX: A 3D Measurement Tool for Heritage, Archeology, and Aerial hotogrammetry”, Heritage Preservation: A Computational Approach; Springer Singapore, , 47-66, 2018.
H. Aliakbarpour, K. Khoshhal, J. Quintas, K. Mekhnacha, J. Ros, M. Andersson and J. Dias; Editor: LuisM. Camarinha-Matos, ”HMM-Based Abnormal Behaviour Detection Using Heterogeneous Sensor Network”, Technological Innovation for Sustainability, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 349, 277-285, 2011.
H. Aliakbarpour, J. F. Ferreira, K. Khoshhal and J. Dias; Editors: L. Camarinha-Matos, P. Pereira and L. Ribeiro, ”A Novel Framework for Data Registration and Data Fusion in Presence of Multi-modal Sensors”, Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 314, 308-315, 2010.
K. Khoshhal, H. Aliakbarpour, J. Quintas, K. Mekhnacha, J. Ros and J. Dias; Editor: LuisM. Camarinha-Matos, ”LMA-based Human Behavior Analysis Using HMM”, Technological Innovation for Sustainability, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 349, 189-196, 2011.
M. H. Korayem, F. Heidari and H. Aliakbarpour; Editor: Low Kin Huat, ”Simulation and Experimental Tests of Robot Using Feature-Based and Position-Based Visual Servoing Approaches”, Industrial Robotics: Programming, Simulation and Applications, , 471-492, 2006.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCES
N. Al-Shakarji, Ke Gao, F. Bunyak, H. AliAkbarpour, E. Blasch, P. Narayaran, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan , ” Impact of Georegistration Accuracy on Wide Area Motion Imagery Object Detection and Tracking” in International Conference on Information Fusion, Sun City, South Africa, 2021 [pdf].
T. Brodeur, H. AliAkbarpour, and S. Suddarth, ”Point Cloud Object Segmentation Using Multi Elevation-Layer 2D Bounding-Boxes”, WAAMI Workshop International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 [pdf].
K. Nouduri, K. Gao, J. Fraser, S. Yao, H. AliAkbarpour, F. Bunyak and K. Palaniappan, ”Deep Realistic Novel View Generation for City-Scale Aerial Images” in International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2021 [pdf].
S. Yao, H. AliAkbarpour, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, ”City-Scale Point Cloud Stitching Using 2D/3D Registration for Large Geographical Coverage” in ICPR, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021 [pdf].
D. E. Kharismawati, H. AliAkbarpour, R. Aktar, F. Bunyak, K. Palaniappan, T. Kazic, "CorNet: Unsupervised Deep Homography Estimation on Agriculture Aerial Imagery", CVPPP Workshop, 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020 [pdf].
N. Al-Shakarji, E. Ufuktepe, F. Bunyak, H. AliAkbarpour, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, ”Semi-automatic System for Rapid Annotation of Moving Objects in Surveillance Videos using Deep Detection and Multi-object Tracking Techniques”, IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2020 [pdf].
D. Kavzak Ufuktepe, J. Collins, H. AliAkbarpour, P. Narayanan, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, ”Short-term video stabilization using ground plane segmentation for low altitude UAV object tracking”, SPIE, 2020 [pdf].
S. Yao, Y. Wang, H. AliAkbarpour, G. Seetharaman, R. Rao and K. Palaniappan, ”SMVNet: Deep Learning Architectures for Accurate and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis”, EEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2020 [pdf].
K. Nouduri, F. Bunyak, S. Yao, H. Aliakbarpour, S. Agarwal, R. Raghuveer and K. Palaniappan, "Deep Learning based Landmark Matching for Aerial Geolocalization", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020 [pdf].
E. Ufuktepe, V. Ramtekkar, K. Gao, N. Al-Shakarji, J. Fraser, H. AliAkbarpour, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, "pyTAG: Python-based Interactive Training Data Generation for Visual Tracking Algorithms", SPIE, 2020.
R. Aktar, V. H. Huxley, G. Guidoboni, H. AliAkbarpour, F. Bunyak, and K. Palaniappan, "Mosaicing of Dynamic Mesentery Video with Gradient Blending", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020 [pdf].
Ke Gao, Shizeng Yao, H. AliAkbarpour, S. Agarwal, G. Seetharaman, and K. Palaniappan, "Sensitivity of Multi-view 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction to Compression Quality and Image Feature Detectability", IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR), 2019 [pdf].
N. Al-Shakarji, F. Bunyak, H. AliAkbarpour, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, "Performance Evaluation of Semantic Video Compression using Multi-cue Object Detection", IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR), 2019 [pdf].
N. Al-Shakarji, F. Bunyak, H. Aliakbarpour, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, ”Multi-Cue Vehicle Detection for Semantic Video Compression in Georegistered Aerial Videos” in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)- Workshop, Long Beach, CA, 2019 [pdf].
E. Teters, H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Real-time geoprojection and stabilization on airborne GPU-enabled embedded systems” in SPIE 10645, Geospatial Informatics, Motion Imagery, and Network Analytics VIII, USA, 2018 .
K. Gao, H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Evaluation of feature matching in aerial imagery for structure-from motion and bundle adjustment” in SPIE 10645, Geospatial Informatics, Motion Imagery, and Network Analytics VIII, USA, 2018 .
R. Aktar, H. AliAkbarpour, F. Bunyak, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, "Performance Evaluation of Feature Descriptors for Aerial Imagery Mosaicking", IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR), USA, 2018.
R. Aktar, H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Geospatial content summarization of UAV aerial imagery using mosaicking” in SPIE 10645, Geospatial Informatics, Motion Imagery, and Network Analytics VIII, USA, 2018 .
S. Yao, H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”3D patch-based multi-view stereo for high-resolution imagery” in SPIE 10645, Geospatial Informatics, Motion Imagery, and Network Analytics VIII, USA, 2018 .
A. Akay, H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Camera Auto-calibration for Planar Aerial Imagery, Supported by Camera Metadata” in IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), USA, 2017 .
H. Aliakbarpour (shared first authorship), K. Palaniappan, M. Poostchi, R. Viguer, J. Fraser, F. Bunyak, A. Basharat, S. Suddarth, E. Blasch and G. Seetharaman, ”Moving Object Detection for Vehicle Tracking in Wide Area Motion Imagery Using 4D Filtering” in IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cancun- Mexico, December, 2016 [pdf].
R. Aktar, V. B. S. Prasath, H. Aliakbarpour, U. Sampathkumar, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Video haze removal and Poisson blending based mini-mosaics for wide area motion imagery.” in IEEE Conference on Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR), Washington DC, Oct, 2016 .
M. Poostchi, H. Aliakbarpour, R. Viguer, F. Bunyak , K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Semantic Depth Map Fusion for Moving Vehicle Detection in Aerial Video” in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)- Workshops, Las Vegas, June, 2016 [pdf].
S. Suddarth, M. Ebersviller, T. DeBenedictis, A. Kalman H. Aliakbarpour, ”SUPERNOVA-Beta / InFocus TechSat I” in 13th Annual CubeSat Developers’ Workshop, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2016 .
H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Fast Structure from Motion for Sequential and Wide Area Motion Imagery” in IEEE Inter. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)- Workshops , Santiago-Chile, December, 2015 .
R. Viguier, C.C. Lin, K. Swaminathan, S. Pankanti, A. Vega, A. Buyuktosunoglu, P. Bose, H. Aliakbarpour, F. Bunyak, K. Palaniappan and G. Seetharaman, ”Resilient Mobile Cognition: Algorithms,Innovations, and Architectures” in The 33rd IEEE Inter. Conf. on Computer Design (ICCD), New York City, October, 2015 .
R. Viguier, C.C. Lin, H. Aliakbarpour, F. Bunyak, S. Pankanti, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, ”Automatic Video Content Summarization Using Geospatial Mosaics of Aerial Imagery” in IEEE Inter. Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Miami, December, 2015 .
H. Aliakbarpour, V. B. S. Prasath, R. Viguier, R. Pelapur, M. Poostchi, G. Seetharaman and K. Palaniappan, ”Analyzing Effects of On-board Sensor Imprecision in WAMI Bundle Adjustment” in The 43rd IEEE Inter. Workshop on Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC, 2014 .
A. Gning, W. T. L. Teacy, R. V. Pelapur, H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan, G. Seetharaman, S. J. Julier, ”The effect of state dependent probability of detection in multitarget tracking applications” in Proc. SPIE 9089, Geospatial InfoFusion and Video Analytics IV; and Motion Imagery for ISR and Situational Awareness II, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014 .
H. Aliakbarpour, K. Palaniappan and J. Dias, ”Geometric exploration of virtual planes in a fusion-based 3D registration framework” in Proc. SPIE Conf. Geospatial InfoFusion III (Defense, Security and Sensing: Geo-registration and Uncertainty Handling in Geospatial Data, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2013 .
H. Aliakbarpour, O. Tahri and H. Araujo, ”Image-based Servoing of non-Holonomic Vehicles using non-Central Catadioptric Cameras” in Proc. IEEE 9th Inter. Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo), Poland, 2013 , pp. 54-59.
K. Khoshhal, L. Santos, H. Aliakbarpour and Jorge Dias, ”Parameterizing interpersonal behaviour with Laban movement analysis - A Bayesian approach” in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Providence, RI, USA, 2012 .
H. Aliakbarpour and J. Dias, ”Volumetric 3D Reconstruction without Planar Ground Assumption” in ICDSC’11, Fifth ACM / IEEE Inter. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Belgium, 2011 .
H. Aliakbarpour, J. Quintas, P. Freitas, C. Tsiourti, and J. Dias, ”Mobile Robot Cooperation with Infrastructure for Surveillance: Towards Cloud Robotics” in Proc. 14th Inter. Conf. of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS), Spain, 2011 .
H. Aliakbarpour and J. Dias, ”Inertial-Visual Fusion for Camera Network Calibration” in Proc. IEEE 9th Inter. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’2011), Portugal, 2011 .
H. Aliakbarpour and J. Dias, ”Multi-resolution Virtual Plane based 3D Reconstruction using Inertial-Visual Data Fusion” in Inter. Conf. on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2011), Algarve, Portugal, 2011 .
H. Aliakbarpour and J. Dias, ”IMU-aided 3D Reconstruction based on Multiple Virtual Planes” in Proc. of DICTA’10, Inter. Conf. on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (the Australian Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Society Conference), IEEE Press, Sydney, Australia, 2010.
M. Hofmann, M. Kaiser, H. Aliakbarpour and G. Rigoll, ”Fusion of Multi-Modal Sensors in a Voxel Occupancy Grid for Tracking and Behaviour Analysis” in Proc. of Inter. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2011), Delft, Netherlands, 2011 .
K. K. Roudposhti, H. Aliakbarpour, J. Quintas, M. Hofmann and J. Dias, ”Probabilistic LMA-based Human Motion Analysis by Conjugating Frequency and Spatial based Features” in Proc. of Inter. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2011), Delft, Netherlands, 2011.
J. Quintas, K. K. Roudposhti, H. Aliakbarpour, M. Hofmann and J. Dias, ”Using Concurrent Hidden Markov Models to Analyze Human Behaviors in a Smart Home Environment” in Proc. of Inter. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2011), Delft, Netherlands, 2011 .
H. Aliakbarpour and J. Dias, ”Human Silhouette Volume Reconstruction Using a Gravity-based Virtual Camera Network” in The 13th Inter. Conf. on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, UK, 2010 .
K. K. Roudposhti, H. Aliakbarpour, J. Quintas, P. Drews and J. Dias, ”Probabilistic LMA-based Classification of Human Behavior Understanding Using Power Spectrum Technique” in The 13th Inter. Conf. on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, UK, 2010 .
R. Menendez, J. Dias, J. Prado, H. Aliakbarpour and S. Gonzalez Andino, ”Geneva Brain computer Interface for robot steering in virtual and real environments” in 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM2010), Barcelona, Spain, 2010 .
H. Aliakbarpour, P. Nunez, J. Prado, K. K. Roudposhti and J. Dias, ”An Efficient Algorithm for Extrinsic Calibration between a 3D Laser Range Finder and a Stereo Camera for Surveillance” in 14th Inter. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009), Munich, Germany, 2009 .
D. R. Faria, H. Aliakbarpour and J. Dias, ”Grasping Movements Recognition in 3D Space using a Bayesian Approach” in 14th Inter. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009), Munich, Germany, 2009 .
R. Menendez, J. Dias, J. Prado, H. Aliakbarpour and S. Gonzalez Andino, ”Multiclass Brain Computer Interface Based On Visual Attention” in European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning, Bruges, Belgium, 2009 .
H. Aliakbarpour and H. Aliakbarpour, ”Controlling an Industrial Robot by Single Camera Using Feature based Approach” in Inter. conference on computational and information sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006 .
M. H. Korayem, K. Khoshhal and H. Aliakbarpour, ”Vision Based Robot Experiment: Measurement of path related characteristics” in Inter. conference on computational and information sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006 .
M. H. Korayem, M. R. Jahed Motlagh and H. Aliakbarpour, ”3P Robot Simulator and vision control” in The 2nd Iranian conference on Machine Vision Image Processing and Applications, K .N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran, 2003 .
BOOKS
H. Aliakbarpour, H. Aliakbarpour, H. Naseh, ”3D Reconstruction of Human/Object using a Network of Cameras and Inertial Sensors”, Scholar’s Press, ISBN-13: 978-3639510638, , 2013.
PATENTS
Flexible Multi-Camera Focal Plane: A Light-Field Dynamic Homography Approach. Pending US Patent (application no. 18/332,546), 2023.
Compressed Spatial Frequency Transform For Feature Tracking, Image Matching, Search, And Retrieval. Pending US Patent (application no. 18/300,182), 2023.
Method for fast camera pose refinement for wide area motion imagery. US Patent, US9959625B2, 2018.
Analytical Georegistration And Video Stabilization for Sequential Motion Imagery. US Provisional Patent, 62/675,390.