Faculty Profile
Dr. Murtaza Taj
Assistant Professor
Department Of Computer Science
Dr. Taj earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering and computer science from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom, in 2009 and 2005, respectively. He received his BE (IT) degree (with distinction) in Engineering from Hamdard University, Pakistan, in 2003. Currently, he is holding the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. His research interests are object detection and tracking using multimodal sensors. He has served as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and the International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing. He has also served as the Electronic Media Chair of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2007).
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| More for less: Insights into convolutional nets for 3D point cloud recognition | Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP | Shafiq U., Taj M., Ali M. | 2018 |
| 3D architectural modeling: Coarse-to-fine model fitting on point cloud | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series | Bajwa R., Gilani S.R., Taj M. | 2016 |
| Evaluation of Microsoft Kinect Sensor for Plant Health Monitoring | IFAC-PapersOnLine | Nasir A.K., Taj M., Khan M.F. | 2016 |
| 2D articulated human pose tracking: A hybrid approach | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014 | Hassan A., Taj M. | 2014 |
| Efficient 2D human pose estimation using mean-shift | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014 | Khalid A.R., Hassan A., Taj M. | 2014 |
| 2D human pose estimation and tracking in non-overlapping cameras | Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing: Theory and Applications of Networks of Sensors | Taj M. | 2014 |
| Simultaneous detection and tracking with multiple cameras | Studies in Computational Intelligence | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2013 |
| Interaction recognition in wide areas using audiovisual sensors | Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2012 |
| Distributed and decentralized multicamera tracking | IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2011 |
| Multi-view multi-object detection and tracking | Studies in Computational Intelligence | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2010 |
| Recognizing interactions in video | Studies in Computational Intelligence | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2010 |
| Content and task-based view selection from multiple video streams | Multimedia Tools and Applications | Daniyal F., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2010 |
| Multi-camera track-before-detect | 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, ICDSC 2009 | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2009 |
| Audio-assisted trajectory estimation in non-overlapping multi-camera networks | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2009 |
| Distributed visual sensing for virtual top-view trajectory generation in football videos | CIVR 2008 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval | Kayumbi G., Mazzeo P.L., Spagnolo P., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Content-aware ranking of video segments | 2008 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, ICDSC 2008 | Daniyal F., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Object and scene-centric activity detection using state occupancy duration modeling | Proceedings - IEEE 5th International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2008 | Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Target detection and tracking with heterogeneous sensors | IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing | Zhou H., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Efficient multitarget visual tracking using random finite sets | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | Maggio E., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Objective evaluation of pedestrian and vehicle tracking on the CLEAR surveillance dataset | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Taj M., Maggio E., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Detection and tracking of humans and faces | Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing | Karlsson S., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Event analysis on TRECVid 2008 London Gatwick dataset | 2008 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Notebook Papers | Taj M., Daniyal F., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |
| Audiovisual tracking using STAC sensors | 2007 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, ICDSC | Zhou H., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2007 |
| Multi-feature graph-based object tracking | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Taj M., Maggio E., Cavallaro A. | 2007 |
| Relative position estimation of non-overlapping cameras | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings | Anjum N., Taj M., Cavallaro A. | 2007 |
| Semester | Title | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Senior Project | 1801 |
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Master's Thesis | 1801 |
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Senior Project | 1801 |
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Independent Study | 1801 |
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1801 |
| Fall Semester 2018-19 | Computer Graphics | 1801 |
| Summer Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1703 |
| Summer Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1703 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Senior Project | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Senior Project | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Computer Vision | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Independent Study | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Master's Project | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Digital Image Processing | 1702 |
| Spring Semester 2017-18 | Computer Vision Fundamentals | 1702 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Senior Project | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Master's Thesis | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Senior Project | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Master's Project | 1701 |
| Fall Semester 2017-18 | Computer Graphics | 1701 |
| Summer Semester 2016-17 | Master's Thesis | 1603 |
| Summer Semester 2016-17 | Doctoral Thesis Research | 1603 |
| Summer Semester 2016-17 | Master's Project | 1603 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Directed Research Project | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Independent Study | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Independent Study | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Senior Project II | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Digital Image Processing | 1602 |
| Spring Semester 2016-17 | Computer Vision Fundamentals | 1602 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Senior Project I | 1601 |
| Fall Semester 2016-17 | Computer Graphics | 1601 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Computer Vision | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Independent Study | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Master's Thesis II | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Senior Project II | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Senior Project I | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Digital Image Processing | 1502 |
| Spring Semester 2015-16 | Computer Vision Fundamentals | 1502 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Master's Thesis I | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Senior Project I | 1501 |
| Fall Semester 2015-16 | Computer Graphics | 1501 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Independent Study | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Master's Thesis II | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Master's Thesis I | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project II | 1402 |
| Spring Semester 2014-15 | Digital Image Processing | 1402 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Master's Thesis I | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project II | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Senior Project I | 1401 |
| Fall Semester 2014-15 | Computer Graphics | 1401 |
- Past Courses
Semester Title Code Spring Semester 2013-14 Master's Thesis II 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Master's Thesis I 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Senior Project II 1302 Spring Semester 2013-14 Digital Image Processing 1302 Fall Semester 2013-14 Computational Problem Solving 1301 Fall Semester 2013-14 Master's Thesis I 1301 Fall Semester 2013-14 Senior Project I 1301 Fall Semester 2013-14 Computer Graphics 1301 Spring Semester 2012-13 Senior Project II 1202 Spring Semester 2012-13 Digital Image Processing 1202 Fall Semester 2012-13 Computational Problem Solving 1201 Fall Semester 2012-13 Senior Project I 1201 Fall Semester 2012-13 Computer Graphics 1201 Spring Semester 2011-12 Computational Problem Solving 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Independent Study 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Senior Project II 1102 Spring Semester 2011-12 Digital Image Processing 1102 Fall Semester 2011-12 Senior Project I 1101 Fall Semester 2011-12 Computer Graphics 1101 Spring Semester 2010-11 Computational Problem Solving 1002 Spring Semester 2010-11 Computational Problem Solving 1002