philippos
 Philippos Mordohai
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology

Office: Lieb 215
Phone Number: +1 201 216 5611
E-mail: mordohai_at_cs.stevens.edu




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 		GRANTS
  • DHS Exploratory Research: "Development of Volumetric Imaging Methods for Reliable Detection of Nuclear Materials", PI: L. Mihailescu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Stevens PI: P. Mordohai, 09/2010-08/2013.
  • Google Research Award: "Object Recognition in Large-Scale Scenes from Video and Point Cloud Streams", PI: P. Mordohai, co-PIs: G. Kamberov and G. Kamberova, 03/2010
  • NSF Robust Intelligence: "Organizing Recognition: the Uses of Perceptual Organization", PI: J. Oliensis, co-PI: P. Mordohai, 09/2009-09/2012
  • NSF Computing Research Infrastructure: "Flexible Mobile Platforms for Continuous Range and Imagery Collection", PI: G. Kamberov, co-PIs: P. Mordohai, G. Kamberova, H.Q. Dinh, J. Oliensis, 08/2009-07/2012
SERVICE
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Image and Vision Computing Journal (IVCJ)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) panelist, 2011
  • Chair of local organization of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission which was held in Chapel Hill between the 14th and 16th of June 2006. The symposium included 28 refereed oral presentations, 109 refereed posters, 6 keynote presentations by distinguished representatives from both academia and the industry and was attended by approximately 230 people.
  • Program chair of the Vision and Graphics Computing for Multimedia Communications workshop held in conjunction with ICME 2011.
  • General chair with Song Wang of the Seventh Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision held in conjunction with CVPR 2010.
  • Program chair of the Search in 3D and Video workshop held in conjunction with ICCV 2009.
  • Program chair of the Search in 3D workshop in held conjunction with CVPR 2008.
  • "Workshop czar" of the Sixth Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision in conjunction with CVPR 2008.
  • Member of the Interest Group on 3D Rendering, Processing and Communications of the IEEE Multimedia Communication Technical Committee.
  • Reviewer for the following journals:
    • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
    • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN)
    • IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -- Part B
    • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
    • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
    • Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal (CVIU)
    • Image and Vision Computing Journal (IVCJ)
    • Computer Graphics Forum
    • The Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
    • Machine Vision and Applications Journal (MVA)
    • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
    • Pattern Recognition Letters
    • Presence
    • EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing
    • The Visual Computer
    • Elsevier journal on Signal Processing
    • Elsevier journal on Computers & Geosciences
    • IEE Electronic Letters
    • International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
    • The Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Reviewer or program committee member of the following conferences and workshops:
    • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012
    • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012
    • Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2012
    • SIGGRAPH Asia, 2011
    • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011
    • Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2011
    • 3DTV Conference, 2011
    • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
    • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011
    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010
    • Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010
    • Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis (MPVA), 2010
    • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010
    • 3DTV Conference, 2010
    • International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010
    • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010
    • International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2010
    • International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP), 2010
    • Reconstruction and Modeling of Large-Scale 3D Virtual Environments (RMLE), 2010
    • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009
    • Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009
    • Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2009
    • Demo awards committee for CVPR 2009
    • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009
    • 3DTV Conference, 2009
    • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009
    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008
    • SIGGRAPH Asia, 2008
    • Fourth International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT), 2008
    • Technical Demonstrations of ACM Multimedia, 2008
    • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2008
    • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2008
    • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007
    • Virtual Representations and Modeling of Large-scale environments (VRML), 2007
    • Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2007
    • ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, 2007
    • International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007
    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2006
    • Fourth Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV), 2004

RESEARCH ADVISOR
  • Xiaoyan Hu (Ph.D.), 2009-
  • Sam Petrocelli (Ph.D.), 2011-
ALUMNI
  • Liefei (Lucy) Xu (Ph.D. co-advised with H. Quynh Dinh), ``Vector Field Analysis for Flow Pattern Detection and Video Analysis", 2011
  • Qiuxia Han (M.S.), 2009-2011
  • Konstantinos Batsos (M.S.), 2011
  • Morgan Baron (M.S. co-advised with G. Kamberov), 2011
  • Wei Jiang (M.S.), 2010
Ph.D. COMMITTEE MEMBER
  • Jun Yin, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Bart Luczynski, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Jianhua Yao, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Wajahat Gilani, Rutgers University, Newark
  • Yafeng Yin, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Matthew Burlick, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Viorel Dragnea, "Shape from Intensity Regions", Stevens Institute of Technology, May 2011
  • Yuhua Zheng, "Object Recognition and Tracking using Bio-inspired Neural Computation and Swarm Intelligence ", Stevens Institute of Technology, December 2010
  • Theodoros Kamakaris, "Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cellular Networks", Stevens Institute of Technology, April 2010
  • E. Scott Larsen, "Temporal Multi-View Reconstruction Using Enhanced Belief Propagation", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 2006
ADVISOR M.S. THESIS
  • Shivom Raval, "Performance Analysis of Web Servers", April 2009
UNDERGRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDY OR RESEARCH SUPERVISOR
  • Daniel Ready (senior), "Facial Expression Recognition", Spring 2010
  • Kirill Marants (sophomore), "3D Modeling of the S.C. Williams Library", Spring 2010
  • Orie Steele (sophomore), "The Music Chat-Bot", Summer 2009
  • Brittany Brandon (sophomore), "Object Detection in large-scale LIDAR Datasets", UPenn, Summer 2008
  • Zachary Bodnar (sophomore), "Object Detection in large-scale LIDAR Datasets", UPenn, Summer 2008
GRADUATE MENTOR FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
  • Altan Alparslan (junior), "3D Face Modeling", USC, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
  • Gurkan Gokul (junior), "3D Face Modeling", USC, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
  • Lily Cheng (freshman), "Development and Evaluation of Stereo Correspondence Methods with emphasis on Multi-Resolution Methods and Face Modeling", USC, Fall 2004-Summer 2005
  • Ammar Chinoy (junior), "Development and Evaluation of Stereo Correspondence Methods" USC, Summer 2004
AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS
  • Outstanding Reviewer award (1 of 25), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.
  • Best Reviewer award (1 of 51), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
  • Outstanding Reviewer award, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010.
  • Best Demo Award for "Real-Time Video-Based Reconstruction of Urban Environments" J.-M. Frahm, A. Akbarzadeh, P. Mordohai, B. Clipp, C. Engels, D. Gallup, P. Merrell, C. Salmi, S. Sinha, B. Talton, L. Wang, Q. Yang, H. Stewénius, H. Towles, G. Welch, R. Yang, D. Nistér and M. Pollefeys at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 2007.
  • Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2008 and 2010.
  • IMSC Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations 2003.
  • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 2001.
  • Member Phi-Kappa-Phi All-University Honor society, The University of Southern California Chapter, since 2000.
  • National Scholarship Foundation of Greece scholarship for having the best GPA in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1998.
  • National Scholarship Foundation of Greece scholarship for having a top 5 GPA in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1997.
  • Award of excellence in the Greek Mathematical Society Annual Student Contest, 1990, 1992 and 1993.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • I am the CS Department Seminar coordinator at Stevens since January, 2009. See the Computer Science Seminars page for a list of the most recent talks.
  • I co-organize the weekly computer vision reading group at Stevens. The list of presented papers can be found here.
  • I organized the weekly reading group on the analysis and processing of 3D data at UPenn (Fall 2007).
  • "Real-Time Video-Based Reconstruction of Urban Environments" demo by J.-M. Frahm, A. Akbarzadeh, P. Mordohai, B. Clipp, C. Engels, D. Gallup, P. Merrell, C. Salmi, S. Sinha, B. Talton, L. Wang, Q. Yang, H. Stewénius, H. Towles, G. Welch, R. Yang, D. Nistér and M. Pollefeys during the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 2007.
  • I organized the weekly Computer Vision meeting at UNC (Fall 2005 - Spring 2006).
  • I organized the quasi-weekly IRIS Vision Seminars (January 2001 - August 2004).
  • I presented the IMSC 3-D Face Modeling and Recognition demo (June 2000-June 2004).
  • "Face Modeling and Recognition" demo by P. Mordohai and G. Medioni at the International Conference on Computer Vision 2003, NSF Workshop on Robotics and Computer Vision 2003 and Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication 2003.
  • I trained assistants, organized and performed collection of face images of varying poses and expressions for 65 people in June 2001 and 105 people in October 2003.
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