Faculty Profile
Dr. Murtaza Taj
Assistant Professor
Computer Sciences
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).
- Journal Articles
- Article
Taj, M. .(1999). Efficient multitarget visual tracking using random finite sets . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Distributed and decentralized multicamera tracking . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Target detection and tracking with heterogeneous sensors . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Multi-camera track-before-detect . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Multi-feature graph-based object tracking . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Relative position estimation of non-overlapping cameras . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Content and task-based view selection from multiple video streams . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Distributed visual sensing for virtual top-view trajectory generation in football videos . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Multi-modal particle filtering tracking using appearance, motion and audio likelihoods . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Audio-assisted trajectory estimation in non-overlapping multi-camera networks . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Audiovisual tracking using STAC sensors . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Objective evaluation of pedestrian and vehicle tracking on the clear surveillance dataset . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Detection and tracking of humans and faces . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Multi-view multi-object detection and tracking . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Multi-camera scene analysis using an object-centric continuous distribution hidden markov model . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Object and scene-centric activity detection using state occupancy duration modeling . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Content-aware ranking of video segments . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Event analysis on TRECVid 2008 LondonGatwick dataset. . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Recognizing interactions in video . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Interaction recognition in wide areas using audiovisual sensors . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Hands-on experience in image processing: the automated lecture cameraman . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). 3D Architectural Modeling: Coarse-to-fine model fitting on point cloud . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). DYNAMICALLY TARGETED AD AUGMENTATION IN VIDEO . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Leveraging Smartphones to Monitor Attendance in Public Facilities . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Simultaneous Detection and Tracking with Multiple Cameras . ,
Taj, M. .(1999). Tracking interacting targets in multi-modal sensors . ,
- Article
- Books/ Book Chapters
- Book Section/chapter
Taj, M. .(2014). 2D Human Pose Estimation and Tracking in Non-overlapping Cameras . Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing , Springer International Publishing , pp. 261-281
- Book Section/chapter
- Conferences Proceedings
- Conference Papers
Taj, M. .(2015). 3D Architectural Modeling: Efficient RANSAC for n-gonal primitive fitting . Eurographics , ACM
Taj, M. .(2014). 2D articulated human pose tracking: A hybrid approach . IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing , IEEE
Taj, M. .(2014). Efficient 2D human pose estimation using mean-shift . IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing , IEEE
- Conference Papers
- Other research works
- Patent
Taj, M. .(2015). METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL IMAGING . , USPTO
Taj, M. INGRAIN: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY TARGETED AD AUGMENTATION IN VIDEO . , USPTO
- Patent
| Title | Semester | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Senior Project I | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Senior Project II | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Master's Thesis I | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Digital Image Processing | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Senior Project II | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Master's Thesis I | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Master's Thesis II | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Independent Study | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Computer Graphics | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Senior Project I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Master's Thesis I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Computer Vision Fundamentals | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Digital Image Processing | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Senior Project I | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Senior Project II | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Master's Thesis II | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Independent Study | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Computer Vision | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Computer Graphics | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Senior Project I | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Computer Vision Fundamentals | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Digital Image Processing | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Senior Project II | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Independent Study | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Independent Study | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Directed Research Project | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Doctoral Thesis Research | Summer Semester 2016-17 | 1603 |
| Computer Graphics | Fall Semester 2017-18 | 1701 |
- Past Courses
Title Semester Code Computational Problem Solving Spring Semester 2010-11 1002 Computational Problem Solving Spring Semester 2010-11 1002 Computer Graphics Fall Semester 2011-12 1101 Senior Project I Fall Semester 2011-12 1101 Digital Image Processing Spring Semester 2011-12 1102 Senior Project II Spring Semester 2011-12 1102 Independent Study Spring Semester 2011-12 1102 Computational Problem Solving Spring Semester 2011-12 1102 Computer Graphics Fall Semester 2012-13 1201 Senior Project I Fall Semester 2012-13 1201 Computational Problem Solving Fall Semester 2012-13 1201 Digital Image Processing Spring Semester 2012-13 1202 Senior Project II Spring Semester 2012-13 1202 Computer Graphics Fall Semester 2013-14 1301 Senior Project I Fall Semester 2013-14 1301 Master's Thesis I Fall Semester 2013-14 1301 Computational Problem Solving Fall Semester 2013-14 1301 Digital Image Processing Spring Semester 2013-14 1302 Senior Project II Spring Semester 2013-14 1302 Master's Thesis I Spring Semester 2013-14 1302 Master's Thesis II Spring Semester 2013-14 1302