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 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 assistant professor in the College 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 since May 2000. His current research interests include digital image processing, computer vision, augmented reality, and their application in the field of 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 is 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.       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), 2004.

 

Journals listed in ISI Journal Citation Index:

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

2.      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.

3.      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.

4.      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.

5.      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.

6.      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.

7.      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.

 

Proceedings of International Refereed Conferences:

1.       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.

2.      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.

3.      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.

4.      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.

5.      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.

6.      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.

7.      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.

8.      Tamer Rabie and Demetri Terzopoulos, “Active Perception in Virtual Humans”, Proceedings of the thirteenth Canadian Vision Interface Conference (VI 2000), pp. 16-22, Montréal, Quebec, May 14-17, 2000.

9.      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.

10.  D. Terzopoulos, T. Rabie, and R. Grzeszczuk, “Perception and Learning in Artificial Animals”, Proc. of the 5th Int. Workshop on Artificial Life : Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE-96), pp. 346–353, Cambridge, May 1997.

11.   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.

12.   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.

13.   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.

 

Invited Talks

1.       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.

2.      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.

3.      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.

4.      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.

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

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

 

Acknowledgment of research work by Tamer Rabie

1.       “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

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

3.      “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.

4.      “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.

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