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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using 3D Residual Network for Spatio-temporal Analysis of Remote Sensing Data | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings | Bhimra M.A., Nazir U., Taj M. | 2019 |
| Point Cloud Segmentation Using Hierarchical Tree for Architectural Models | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings | Hassaan O., Shamail A., Butt Z., Taj M. | 2019 |
| Dimensionality reduction using discriminative autoencoders for remote sensing image retrieval | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Mohbat, Mukhtar T., Khurshid N., Taj M. | 2019 |
| 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 | 2014 | |
| Efficient 2D human pose estimation using mean-shift | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014 | 2014 | |
| 2D human pose estimation and tracking in non-overlapping cameras | Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing: Theory and Applications of Networks of Sensors | 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 | 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 | 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 | 2008 | |
| Event analysis on TRECVid 2008 London Gatwick dataset | 2008 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Notebook Papers | Taj M., Daniyal F., Cavallaro A. | 2008 |