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Contact
information
Address:
School
of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS (United Kingdom)
Office: room CS438
Tel: +44 20 7882 5259
Fax: +44 20 7882 7997
Email: murtaza.taj@elec.qmul.ac.uk
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Bio
I
received my bachelor degree (with distinction) in Engineering from
Hamdard University, Pakistan, in 2003. I received the MSc degree (with
distinction) in digital signal processing from Queen Mary, University of
London, United Kingdom, in 2005. Since 2005, I am a research student and
assistant tutor at the Electronic Engineering department of Queen Mary,
University of London. My thesis supervisor is Dr. Andrea Cavallaro. My
research interests are object detection and tracking using multimodal
sensors.
Awards
Best
student prize for securing first place in bachelors
Publications
Book
chapter
M. Taj, A. Cavallaro.
"Recognizing interactions in video", in Intelligent Multimedia
Analysis for Security Applications, Springer Verlag GmbH, awaiting
publication, 2009.
Journal papers
F. Daniyal, M. Taj and A.
Cavallaro. "Content and task-based view selection from multiple
video streams". Multimedia Tools and Applications, awaiting
publication, 2009.
E.
Maggio, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Efficient multi-target visual
tracking using random finite sets," IEEE Transactions on Circuits
System and Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1016-1027, August 2008
H. Zhou, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Target detection and tracking
with heterogeneous sensors," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in
Signal Processing (J-STSP), vol.2, no.4, pp.503-513, August 2008.
S.
Karlsson, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro, "Detection and tracking of humans
and faces", EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol. 2008,
no. 1, pp. 1-9, 2008.
Conference papers
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro,
"Multi-camera track-before-detect", in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int.
Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras, Como, IT, 30 August - 02 September
2009.
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro,
"Audio-assisted trajectory estimation in non-overlapping
multi-camera networks", in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, TW, 19-24 April 2009.
F.
Daniyal, M. Taj and A. Cavallaro, "Content-aware ranking of video
segments," Proc of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Smart Camera (ICDSC 2008),pp 1-9, 7-11 September 2008
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro, "Object and scene-centric activity
detection using state occupancy duration modeling," in Proc. of IEEE
Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Santa Fe, NM,
USA, 1-3 September 2008.
H.
Zhou, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Audiovisual tracking using STAC
sensors," Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras,
Vienna, Austria, September 25-28, 2007.
M. Taj
and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-camera scene analysis using an
object-centric continuous distribution Hidden Markov Model," in
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San
Antonio, Texas (USA), September 2007
M.
Bregonzio, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-modal particle filtering
tracking using appearance, motion and audio likelihoods," in Proc.
of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio,
Texas (USA), September 2007
M.
Taj, E. Maggio, and A. Cavallaro, "Objective evaluation of
pedestrian and vehicle tracking on the clear surveillance dataset," in
CLEAR, Springer LNCS (to appear), Baltimore, USA, May 2007.
N.
Anjum, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro, "Relative position estimation of
non-overlapping cameras" Proc. of IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), April
15-20, 2007. [pdf]
A.
Cavallaro, R. Chandrasekera, M. Taj, "Hands-on experience in image
processing: the automated lecture cameraman" Proc. of IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu
(USA), April 15-20, 2007.
M.
Taj, E. Maggio and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-feature graph-based object
tracking", in Proc. of Classification of Events, Activities and
Relationships (CLEAR) Workshop, Springer LNCS 4122, Southampton, UK,
April, 2006, pp. 190-199. [pdf]
F.
Shahid and M. Taj, "Media Player for I-Mode & J2ME/ I- Appli Enabled
Mobile Phones", Student Conference on Engineering Sciences and
Technology (SCONEST), Karachi, Pakistan, August, 2002.
Master
Thesis
M.
Taj, "Event Detection Solution for Enhanced Security and Safety in
Public Transportation", September 2005
Supervisor: Dr. A. Cavallaro
Miscellanea
M. Taj, F. Daniyal, and A.
Cavallaro, "Event analysis on TRECVid 2008 London Gatwick
dataset", in TREC Video Retrieval Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA,
17-18 November 2008.
M. Taj, N. Anjum, A. Cavallaro, “Multi-camera
calibration and event recognition with outlier behaviour detection”,
International Crime Science Conference (ICSC 2007), London (UK), 16-17
July 2007
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