Dr Murtaza Taj

Contact Details

Research Group: Multimedia and Vision Research Group

Supervisor: Dr Andrea Cavallaro

Working Area: "Object detection and tracking in audiovisual sensor networks"

Bio

I received my bachelors 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 sensor.

Awards

• 3rd poster prize at the Queen Mary Research Open Day 2008;
• grants from British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) to attend ICIP 2007, AVSS and ICDSC 2008;
• grant from Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to attend AVSS 2008 and ICDSC 2008;
• grant from Royal Academy of Engineers (RAE) to attend ICIP 2007;
• first ranked out of over 200 students in bachelors (2003).

Publications

Journals

• S. Karlsson, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Detection and tracking of humans and faces," EURASIP Journal On Image And Video Processing, vol. 2008, iss. 1, pp. 1–9, 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, iss. 4, pp. 503–513, 2008.
• E. Maggio, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Efficient multi-target visual tracking using Random Finite Sets," Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 18, iss. 8, pp. 1016–1027, 2008.

Conferences

• M. Taj and A. Cavallaro, "Audio-assisted trajectory estimation in non-overlapping multi-camera networks," in Proc. ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009,
• G. Kayumbi, P. Luigi Mazzeo, P. Spagnolo, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Distributed visual sensing for virtual top-view trajectory generation in football videos," in Proc. Proc. of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Niagara Falls, Canada, Niagara Falls, Ca, 2008,
• F. Daniyal, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Content-aware ranking of video segments," in Proc. Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2008,
• M. Taj and A. Cavallaro, "Object and scene-centric activity detection using state occupancy duration modelling," in Proc. Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2008,
• M. Taj, F. Daniyal, and A. Cavallaro, "Event analysis on TRECVid 2008 London Gatwick dataset," in Proc. Online Proc. of TREC Video Retrieval Workshop (TRECVID), Gaithersburg, MD,USA, 2008,
• A. Cavallaro, R. Chandrasekera, and M. Taj, "Hands-on experience in image processing: the automated lecture cameraman," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), 2007,
• H. Zhou, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Audiovisual tracking using STAC sensors," in Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras, Vienna, Austria, 2007,
• M. Bregonzio, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-modal particle filtering tracking using appearance, motion and audio likelihoods," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas (USA), 2007, pp. 16–19.
• N. Anjum, M. Taj, and A. Cavallaro, "Relative position estimation of non-overlapping cameras," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), 2007,
• M. Taj and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-camera scene analysis using an object-centric continuous distribution Hidden Markov Model," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas (USA), 2007, pp. 16–19.
• M. Taj, N. Anjum, and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-camera calibration and event recognition with outlier behaviour detection," in Proc. Int. Crime Science Conference (ICSC 2007), London, UK, 2007,
• M. Taj, E. Maggio, and A. Cavallaro, "Objective evaluation of pedestrian and vehicle tracking on the CLEAR surveillance dataset," in Proc. CLEAR, Springer LNCS, Baltimore, USA, 2007,
• M. Taj, E. Maggio, and A. Cavallaro, "Multi-feature graph-based object tracking," in Proc. Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships (CLEAR) Workshop, Southampton, UK, 2006, pp. 190–199.
• F. Shahid and M. Taj, "Media Player for I-Mode & J2ME/ I- Appli Enabled Mobile Phones," in Proc. Student Conference on Engineering Sciences and Technology (SCONEST), 2002,

Master Thesis

M. Taj, "Event Detection Solution for Enhanced Security and Safety in Public Transportation", September 2005
Supervisor: Dr. A. Cavallaro