PUBLICATIONS
This page contains a list of my publications along with camera ready pdfs and links to published versions.
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ü Conference Papers and Workshops:
1) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi and Y. Zhang, “ML4CO: Is GCNN All You Need? Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
Produce Strong Baselines For Combinatorial Optimization Problems, If Tuned and Trained Properly, on Appropriate
Data,” Proceedings of the ML4CO (Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization) Competition, NeurIPS 2021.
2) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Y. Zhang, “Repaint: Improving the Generalization of Down-Stream Visual Tasks by
Generating Multiple Instances of Training Examples,” British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2021.
3) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, X. Kang, Y. Zhang, “Model Composition: Can Multiple Neural Networks Be Combined into a
Single Network Using Only Unlabeled Data?” British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2021.
4) M. Akbari, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, and Y. Zhang, “EBJR: Energy-Based Joint Reasoning for Adaptive Inference,”
British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2021.
5) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, N. Vedula, J. Pei, F. Xia, L. Wang, and Y. Zhang, “Auto-Split: a general framework of
collaborative edge-cloud AI,” Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data
Mining, KDD 2021 (Acceptance rate <20%).
6) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, “Knowledge distillation for low-power object detection: A simple technique and its
extensions for training compact models using unlabeled data,” IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2021.
7) R. Rammamonjison, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, X. Kang, X. Bai, and Yong Zhang, “SimROD: A simple adaptation
method for robust object detection,” Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision,
ICCV 2021 oral (Acc. rate <3%).
8) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Ehsan M. Kermani, Yuri Moiseyenko, Lanjun Wang, Yong Zhang, and Jiebo Luo, “A Neural Network
Architecture for Real-Time Facial Attributes Recognition on Low-Power Edge Devices” Third ACM/IEEE Symposium on
Edge Computing (SEC-ArchEdge Workshop) 2018 Seattle, USA.
9) Ehsan M. Kermani, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Yong Zhang, Yuri Moiseyenko, Lanjun Wang, and Jiebo Luo, “An efficient cloud-
edge framework for computer vision applications,” Third ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC-ArchEdge
Workshop) 2018 Seattle, USA.
10) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, M. T. Pourazad, and Panos Nasiopoulos, “Visual saliency aided High Dynamic Range
(HDR) video quality metrics,” International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016.
11) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Y. Dong, M. T. Pourazad, and Panos Nasiopoulos, “A Learning Based Visual Saliency Fusion Model
For High Dynamic Range Video (LBVS-HDR),” 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2015.
12) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Effect of eye dominance on the perception of stereoscopic 3D
video,” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, Oct. 2014, Paris, France.
13) M. Azimi, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Y. Dong, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Evaluating the performance of existing full-
reference quality metrics on High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video content,” ICMSP 2014: XII International Conference on
Multimedia Signal Processing, Nov. 2014, Venice, Italy.
14) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Compression of high dynamic range video using the
HEVC and H. 264/AVC standards,” 2014 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability,
Security and Robustness (QShine), Rhodes Island, Greece, Aug. 2014 (invited paper).
15) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “A study on the relationship between the depth map quality and
the overall 3D video quality of experience,” International 3DTV Conference: Vision Beyond Depth, Oct. 2013, Scotland, UK.
16) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Effect of High Frame Rates on 3D video quality of experience,”
32nd International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE, Jan. 2014, Las Vegas, US.
17) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “3D video quality metric for 3D video compression,” 11th IEEE
IVMSP Workshop: 3D Image/Video Technologies and Applications, June 2013, Seoul, Korea.
18) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “3D video quality metric for mobile applications,” 38th
International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP, May 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
19) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “HV3D: human visual system based 3D video quality metric,”
2013 IEEE Workshop on Future Communications and Multimedia Systems, March 2013, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada.
20) S. Imani, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Cheraghi, “A random matrix approach to wide band spectrum sensing: unknown noise
variance case,” 21st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE 2013, Mashhad, Iran.
21) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “A human visual system based 3D video quality metric,” 2nd
International Conference on 3D Imaging, IC3D, Dec. 2012, Belgium.
22) S. Imani, A. Banitalebi, M. Kamarei, “Adaptive sub-optimal energy detection based wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive
radios,” 1st International Conference on Electrical, Control and Computer Engineering, INECCE, Pahang, Malaysia, June, 2011.
23) A. Banitalebi, S. Nader-Esfahani and A. Nasiri Avanaki, “Robust LSB watermarking optimized for local structural similarity,”
19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE, Tehran, Iran, May, 2011.
24) S. Imani, A. Banitalebi, M. Kamarei, “Using weighted multilevel wavelet decomposition for wideband spectrum sensing in
cognitive radios,” 19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE, Tehran, Iran, May, 2011.
25) A. Banitalebi, and S. Nader-Esfahani, “Exploring the distributed video coding in a quality assessment context,” 5th International
Symposium on Telecommunications, IST, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2010.
26) A. Banitalebi, S. Nader-Esfahani and A. Nasiri Avanaki, “A perceptual based motion compensation technique for video coding,”
6th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, MVIP 2010, Isfahan, Iran, Oct. 2010.
27) A. Banitalebi, M. Moosaei, G. A. Hossein-Zadeh, “An investigation on the usage of image quality assessment in visual speech
recognition,” 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, CISP 2010, China, 2010.
28) A. Banitalebi, S. K. Setarehdan, G. A. Hossein-Zadeh, “A technique based on chaos for brain computer interfacing,” 14th
International CSI Conference (CSICC2009), Tehran, Iran, Oct. 2009.
29) A. Banitalebi, G. A. Hossein-Zadeh, “On the Variability of Chaos Indices in Sleep EEG Signals,” 15th Iranian International
Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Mashhad, Iran, Feb. 2009.
ü Journal Papers:
1) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi and Panos Nasiopoulos, “Saliency Inspired Quality Assessment of Stereoscopic 3D Video,” Springer
Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s11042-018-5837-4.
2) M. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, J. Abouei, and K. N. Plataniotis, “Face recognition using a new compressive
sampling-based feature extraction method,” Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2017, doi: 10.1007/s11042-017-
5007-0.
3) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, “Introducing a public Stereoscopic 3D High Dynamic Range (SHDR) video database,” 3D Res (2017), 8:
3. doi:10.1007/s13319-017-0115-1.
4) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and Panos Nasiopoulos, “A Learning-Based Visual Saliency prediction model for
stereoscopic 3D video (LBVS-3D),” Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2016, DOI 10.1007/s11042-016-4155-y.
5) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, E. Nasiopoulos, M. T. Pourazad, and Panos Nasiopoulos, “Benchmark three-dimensional eye-tracking
dataset for visual saliency prediction on stereoscopic three-dimensional video,” SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 25, issue 1,
013008, doi:10.1117/1.JEI.25.1.013008, 2016.
6) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M.T. Pourazad, and Panos Nasiopoulos, “An efficient human visual system based quality metric for 3D
video,” Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75(8), 4187-4215, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-015-2466-z.
7) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M.T. Pourazad, and Panos Nasiopoulos, “The effect of frame rate on 3D video quality and bitrate,”
Springer Journal of 3D Research, vol. 6:1, pp. 5-34, March 2015, DOI 10.1007/s13319-014-0034-3.
8) H. R. Tohidypour, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, “Speech frame recognition based on less shift sensitive wavelet filter banks,” Springer
Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing, June, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11760-015-0787-z.
9) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Banitalebi Dehkordi, and J. Abouei, “An improvement technique based on structural similarity
thresholding for digital watermarking,” Hindawi Journal of Advances in Computer Engineering, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 580697.
10) M. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, “Music genre classification using spectral analysis and sparse representation of
the signals,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer, June 2013, DOI: 10.1007/s11265-013-0797-4.
11) A. Banitalebi, and H. R. Tohidypour, “Exploring the distributed video coding in a quality assessment context,” American Journal of
Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 17-23, 2011.
ü Standard Contributions:
1) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, Y. Dong, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Quality assessment of High Dynamic Range
(HDR) video content using existing full-reference metrics,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M34661, Strasburg, France, Oct.
2014.
2) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “A human visual system based 3D video quality metric,”
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M27745, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2013.
3) A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Saliency-Aided HDR Quality Metrics,” ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. m37317, Oct. 2015, Geneva, Switzerland.
ü Doctoral Thesis:
A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, “3D Video Quality Assessment,” Doctoral Thesis, University of British Columbia, Canada 2015.