Tamer_2005_smallTamer Rabie (S’89-M’99-SM’03) received the M.Sc. degree in adaptive image restoration in 1993 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Calgary in Canada, and the Ph.D. degree in active computer vision applied to dynamic virtual environments in January 1999 from the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada, where, in collaboration with world-renowned computer scientist Professor Demetri Terzopoulos, they pioneered the Animat Vision Paradigm, widely cited today in the virtual vision literature. During the period from May 1998 to September 1998 Dr. Rabie held a five-month software engineer contract with the visualization and image processing group at ISG Technologies Inc. in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he was involved in a critical project to develop image quality enhancements for leading edge volume rendering servers for the medical imaging industry. From October 1998 to December 1999 he held a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto where he was involved in further research and development of the Animat Vision project.  From January 2000 to August 2001 he held an assistant professor appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He is presently an associate professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at the UAE University since August 2001. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Centre, conducting collaborative research work in active computer vision-based traffic surveillance and control. His current research interests include digital image processing, computer vision, image/speech watermarking, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Dr. Rabie has published papers in ITS, image processing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Rabie is a reviewer for the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), and has been appointed as a member of the technical committee on computer vision and the technical committee on image processing since September 2001. He has also served as an area chair and reviewer for the 6th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2005), and was a member of the advisory and program committee for the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR). Dr. Rabie is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and has active membership in the IEEE Signal Processing and Computer Societies. He is also a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) Association in Toronto, Canada.

 

 

Research Publications

Chapters in Books

1.       Tamer Rabie, “Data Secrecy: An FFT Approach”, in Advanced Techniques in Multimedia Watermarking: Image, Video and Audio Applications, IGI Global, Chapter 2, April 2010.

2.      Gasser Auda, Tamer Rabie, Ahmed El-Rabbany, Amer Shalaby, and Baher Abdulhai, “An Active-Vision Intelligent Traffic Monitoring System”, in Recent Research Developments in Pattern Recognition, vol. 4, Chapter 1, pp. 1-13, Transworld Research Network (ISBN: 81-7895-157-6), November 2004.

Refereed Journals and Conferences

3.      Tamer Rabie, Hashir K. Kidwai, Fadi N. Sibai “Massive video surveillance parallelization on the Cell broadband engine processor”, Special issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development on "Technologies From Emerging Markets", vol. 54, No. 6, Paper 11, Nov./Dec. 2010 (Impact Factor: 3.72)

4.      Hashir Karim Kidwai, Fadi N. Sibai, Tamer Rabie, “Performance and Scalability Analysis of Image Processing Applications on the IBM Cell BE Simulator”, Journal of Communication and Computer, David Publishing Company, USA, Volume 6, No.3 (Serial No.52), pp. 1-8, ISSN 1548-7709, USA, Mar. 2009.

5.      Hashir Karim Kidwai, Fadi N. Sibai, Tamer Rabie, “Parallelization and Performance Evaluation of an Edge Detection Algorithm on a Streaming Multi-Core Engine”, Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), IGI Global (Disseminator of Knowledge Since 1988), Hershey PA 17033-1240 USA, vol.2, No. 4, pp. 82-92, October-December 2009.

6.      Hashir Kidwai, Tamer Rabie, Fadi Sibai,“Parallel Video Processing Performance Evaluation on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine Processor”, Special Issue on Grid and Parallel Computing, International Journal of Computer Science and Applications, ÓTechnomathematics Research Foundation, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 13 – 25, 2009.

7.      Tamer Rabie, Hashir Kidwai, Fadi Sibai, “Parallel video surveillance on the multi-core Cell broadband engine”, International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2009 (CSO 2009), International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational Sciences (ACCS 2009), Sanya, Hainan Island, China, Volume 1, pp. 85 – 89, 24-26 April, 2009.

8.      Nikolaos Mavridis, Chandan Datta, Shervin Emami, Chiraz BenAbdelkader, Andry Tanoto, Tamer Rabie, “FaceBots: social robots utilizing facebook”, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2009), pp. 195-196, La Jolla, California, March 10-13, 2009.

9.      Nikolaos Mavridis, Chandan Datta, Shervin Emami, Andry Tanoto, Chiraz BenAbdelkader, Tamer Rabie, “FaceBots: robots utilizing and publishing social information in facebook” Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2009), pp. 273-274, La Jolla, California, March 10-13, 2009.

10.  Hashir Kidwai, F. N. Sibai, and T. Rabie, “Simulating Image Resizing on the IBM Cell Simulator,” 3rd IEEE International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’09), Sharjah, UAE, Jan. 2009.

11.   Hashir Kidwai, F. N. Sibai, and T. Rabie, “Video Processing using Optical Flow Estimation on the Cell BE Simulator,” 3rd IEEE International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’09), Sharjah, UAE, Jan. 2009.

12.   Hashir Kidwai, F. N. Sibai, and T. Rabie, “Highly Parallel Image Processing on the STI  Cell,” 2009 IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Systems and Application (AICCSA’09), Rabat, Morocco,  May 2009.

13.   Driss Guerchi, Harmain Harmain, Tamer Rabie, Emad Mohamed, “Speech Secrecy: An FFT-based Approach”, Special Issue on Evolving Computer Science Applications, International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lebanon, vol. 3, No. 2, April 2008.

14.   M. Boulmalf, Tamer Rabie, K. Shuaib, A. Lakas, and H. Elsayed, " Performance Evaluation Study of an Indoor IEEE 802.11g", International Journal of Value Chain Management, Switzerland, vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 109-118, 2008.

15.   Hashir Kidwai, F. N. Sibai, and T. Rabie, “Parallel Edge Detection on the Multi-core Cell Broadband Engine,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT2008), pp. 92-96, Al-Ain, December 2008.

16.   Hashir Kidwai, F. N. Sibai, and T. Rabie, “Simulating Image Processing Applications on the IBM Cell Simulator,” Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Sciences (ICM08), Vol. I, pp. 278-287, Al Ain, UAE, March 2008.

17.  Hashir Kidwai, F. N. Sibai, and T. Rabie, “Image Magnification and Reduction Using High Order Filtering on the Cell Broadband Engine,” Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD’08), Amman, Jordan, July 2008. 

18.   Tamer Rabie, “Frequency-Domain Data Hiding Based on the Matryoshka Principle”, Special Issue on Advances in Video Processing and Security Analysis for Multimedia Communications, International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, Switzerland, vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 298–312, 2007.

19.   Zouheir Trabelsi, Hesham El-Sayed, Lilia Frikha and Tamer Rabie, “A Novel Covert Channel Based on the IP Header Record Route Option”, International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, Switzerland, vol. 1, No. 4, 2007.

20.  Tamer Rabie and Driss Guerchi, “Magnitude Spectrum Speech Hiding”, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSPC07), Dubai, UAE, November 24-27, 2007.

21.   Driss Guerchi, Tamer Rabie, and Abdelrhani Louzi, “Voicing-Based Codebook in Low-Rate Wideband CELP Coding”, Proceedings of the eighth Interspeech conference - tenth biennial EUROSPEECH conference  (Interspeech2007), Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007.

22.  Driss Guerchi, Tamer Rabie, "Narrowband CELP Hiding by Wideband Speech", The Ninth IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 20-22, 2007.

23.  Tamer Rabie, “A Novel Compression Technique for Super Resolution Color Photography”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT2006), pp. 1-5, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, UAE, November 19-21, 2006.

24.  Zouheir Trabelsi, Hesham El-Sayed, Lilia Frikha and Tamer Rabie, “Traceroute Based IP Channel for Sending Hidden Short Messages”, Advances in Information and Computer Security, First International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2006), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 427 – 442, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, October 23-24, 2006.

25.  M. Boulmalf, T. Rabie, K. Shuaib, H. Elsayed, and A. Lakas, “Performance  Characterization of IEEE 802.11g in an Office Environment”, Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems 2006  (EMCIS2006), Costa Blanca, Spain, pp. 1-7, July 6-7, 2006.

26.  Tamer Rabie, “Robust Color Video Denoising”, Proc. of the 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), pp. 792-798, Dubai/Sharjah, UAE, March 8-11, 2006.

27.  Tamer Rabie, “Robust Estimation Approach for Blind Denoising”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, Issue 11, pp. 1755-1765, November 2005.

28.  Tamer Rabie, Baher Abdulhai, Amer Shalaby, and Ahmed El-Rabbany, “Mobile Active-Vision Traffic Surveillance System for Urban Networks”, special issue on Computing and Information Technologies in Transportation Systems, International Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CACAIE), vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 231-241, July 2005.

29.  Tamer Rabie, “Adaptive Hybrid Mean and Median Filtering of High-ISO Long-Exposure Sensor Noise for Digital Photography”, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 264-277, April 2004.

30.  Tamer Rabie, “Hybrid Mean Adaptive Center Weighted Median Filter for Color Sensor Denoising”, Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS 2004), pp. 321-326, Seoul, Korea, November 18-19, 2004.

31.   Tamer Rabie, “Artificial Vision Systems for Dynamic Virtual Environments”, Proc. of the IEEE International Workshop on HAptic Virtual Environments and their Applications (HAVE 2002), pp. 85-90, Ottawa, Canada, November 17-18, 2002.

32.  Tamer Rabie, Amer Shalaby, Baher Abdulhai, and Ahmed El-Rabbany, “Mobile Vision-based Vehicle Tracking and Traffic Control”, Proc. of the IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2002), pp. 13-18, Singapore, September 3-6, 2002.

33.  Tamer Rabie, Gasser  Auda, Ahmed El-Rabbany, Amer Shalaby, and Baher Abdulhai, "Active-Vision-based Traffic Surveillance and Control," Proc. of  the Fourteenth Canadian Vision Interface Conference (VI 2001), pp. 87-93, Ottawa, Canada, June 7-9, 2001.

34.  Tamer Rabie and Demetri Terzopoulos, “Modeling Active Vision Systems for Dynamic Simulated Environments”, IASTED International Symposium on Modeling and Simulation (MS'2001), pp. 34-41, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, May 16-18, 2001.

35.  Tamer Rabie, Gasser  Auda, Ahmed El-Rabbany, Amer Shalaby, and Baher Abdulhai, “An Innovative Active-Vision-Based Approach for Traffic Surveillance and Control”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology, Cairo, Egypt, January 3-5, 2001.

36.  Tamer Rabie and Demetri Terzopoulos, “Active Perception in Virtual Humans”, Proceedings of the thirteenth Canadian Vision Interface Conference (VI '2000), Montréal, Quebec, May 14-17, 2000.

37.  Tamer Rabie and Demetri Terzopoulos, “Stereo and Color Analysis for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance”, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '98), pp. 245-252, Santa Barbara, California, June 23-25, 1998.

38.  Demetri Terzopoulos and Tamer Rabie, “Animat Vision: Active Vision in Artificial Animals”, Videre: Journal of Computer Vision Research, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 2-19, Fall 1997.

39.  Tamer Rabie and Demetri Terzopoulos, “Motion and Color Analysis for Animat Perception”, Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '96), pp. 1090-1097, Portland, Oregon, August 4-8, 1996.

40.  Demetri Terzopoulos, Tamer Rabie, and Radek Grzeszczuk, “Perception and Learning in Artificial Animals”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALife V), pp. 313-320, Nara, Japan, May 16-18, 1996.

41.   Demetri Terzopoulos and Tamer Rabie, “Animat Vision: Active Vision in Artificial Animals”, Proceedings of IEEE Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV '95), pp. 801-808, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 20-23, 1995.

42.  Tamer Rabie, Raj M. Rangayyan, and Raman B. Paranjape, “Adaptive-Neighborhood Image Deblurring”, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 368-378, October 1994.

43.  Tamer Rabie, Raman B. Paranjape, and Raj M. Rangayyan, “An Iterative Method for Blind Deconvolution”, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 245-250, July 1994.

44.  Raman B. Paranjape, Tamer Rabie, and Raj M. Rangayyan, “Image Restoration by Adaptive-Neighborhood Noise Subtraction”, Applied Optics, vol. 33, No. 14, pp. 2861-2869, May 1994.

 

Acknowledgment of research work by Tamer Rabie

1.        “UAE laboratory will help develop robots”, Microsoft Research Award coverage in Gulf News (Major UAE Newspaper), April 2008, http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/04/25/10208339.html

2.        “Perceptive Agents and Systems in Virtual Reality”, D. Terzopoulos,  Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software, ACM Press New York, NY, USA, 2003 - portal.acm.org

3.        “Animated Artificial Fishes”, Arthur Ed LeBouthillier, The Robot Builder, 12(2), February 2000, pp. 1-3.

4.        “Visual modeling for computer animation: Graphics with a vision”, D. Terzopoulos, Computer Graphics, 33(4), November, 1999, pp. 42-45. Special issue on Applications of Computer Vision to Computer Graphics.

5.        “Modeling living systems for computer vision”, (invited paper) D. Terzopoulos, Proc. 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'95), Montreal, QC, August, 1995, pp. 1003-1013.

6.        “Fishes of the Silicon Sea”, G. Levinson, Editor, The World and I, 10(6), June, 1995, pp. 222-229.

 

Invited Talks

1.       Tamer Rabie, “Robust Estimation Approach for Blind Color Video Denoising”, The Seventh Annual U.A.E. University Research Conference, pp. 81-87, Al-Ain, U.A.E., April 22-24, 2006. (Received the UAEU Research Affairs Best Paper Award for this work).

2.      Tamer Rabie, “Adaptive Median Filtering of CCD Sensor Noise”, The Sixth Annual U.A.E. University Research Conference, pp. 72-81, Al-Ain, U.A.E., April 24-26, 2005.

3.      Tamer Rabie, “Modeling Computer Vision Systems in Virtual and Real-World Environments”, Live Demonstration Presented at the GITEX 2003 UAEU Booth, Dubai, October 19 - 23, 2003.

4.      Tamer Rabie, “Animat Vision: Modeling Computer Vision Systems in Artificial Animals”, Invited talk at the National University of Singapore, Computer Science Department, September 4, 2002, 2.30pm - 4.00pm, in conjunction with the ITSC 2002 conference held during this period in Singapore.

5.      Tamer Rabie, “Animat Vision: Modeling Computer Vision Systems in Artificial Animals”, Invited talk at the IEEE Computer Society Chapter for UAE University, Al-Ain Intercontinental Hotel, June 5, 2002.

6.      Tamer Rabie, “Active Vision in Dynamic Virtual Environments”, Invited talk at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, N.J., February 1999.

7.      Tamer Rabie, “Animat Vision”, Invited talk at ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, February 1998.