Karim T. Abou-Moustafa

Component Analysis Laboratory
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University


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[Short Vita]

As of September 2011, I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. I am a member of the Component Analysis Lab. where I am working on component analysis methods for unsupervised learning. I finished my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Dec. 2011 from the Centre of Intelligent Machines at McGill University, Montréal, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Frank Ferrie.

[Research]

I am broadly interested in the design and analysis of learning algorithms for pattern analysis and recognition.

Research Interests

Machine Learning: Algorithms for classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction, discriminant analysis, metric and manifold learning. Component analysis methods, kernel methods, generative/discriminative models, information Theory (and its geometric counterpart), and optimization.

Applications: Video Analysis, Peptide Detection and Modeling, Document Analysis & Recognition, Offline/Online Handwriting Recognition.

[Publications]

Refereed Publications

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa and Frank Ferrie,
    "A Framework for Hypothesis Learning Over Sets of Vectors",
    Proc. of ACM's SIGKDD 9th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, 2011.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa, Mohak Shah, Fernando De La Torre, and Frank Ferrie,
    "Relaxed Exponential Kernels for Unsupervised Learning",
    LNCS 6835, Pattern Recognition, Proc. of the 33rd DAGM Symposium, pp. 184 - 195, Springer, 2011.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa, Fernando De La Torre, and Frank Ferrie,
    "Designing a Metric for the Difference Between Two Gaussian Densities",
    Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; J. Angeles, B. Boulet, J. Clark, J. Kovecses and K. Siddiqi (Eds.),
    Vol. 83, pp. 57 - 70, Springer, Dec. 2010.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa, Fernando De La Torre, and Frank Ferrie,
    "Pareto Discriminant Analysis",
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 3602 - 3609, 2010.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]   Check it here!

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa and Frank Ferrie,
    "Regularized Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Metric for Query-based Learning",
    IEEE Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), pp. 183 - 193, 2008.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa and Frank Ferrie,
    "Local Metric Learning on Manifolds with Applications to Query-based Operations",
    LNCS 5342, Proc. of the IAPR Int. Workshop on Structural, Syntactic, Statistical Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR),
    pp. 872 - 838, Springer, 2008.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa and Frank Ferrie,
    "Fast and Regularized Local Metric for Query-based Operations",
    IEEE Proc. of the 19th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa and Frank Ferrie,
    "The Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Metric",
    LNCS 4713, Pattern Recognition, Proc. of the 29th DAGM Symposium, pp. 335 - 344, Springer, 2007.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa, Mohamed Cheriet, and Ching Suen,
    "Classification of Time-Series Data Using a Generative/Discriminative Hybrid",
    IEEE Proc. of the 9th Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR), pp. 51 - 56, 2004.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa, Mohamed Cheriet, and Ching Suen,
    "A Generative-Discriminative Hybrid for Sequential Data Classification",
    IEEE Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 5, pp. 805 - 808, 2004.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

  • Karim Abou-Moustafa, Mohamed Cheriet, and CHing Suen,
    "On The Structure of Hidden Markov Models",
    Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 25, pp. 923 - 931, June 2004.
    [BibTeX] [PDF]

Theses

  • Karim T. Abou-Moustafa, "Metric Learning Revisited",
    Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2011.

  • Karim T. Abou-Moustafa, "A Generative-Discriminative Framework for Time-Series Data Classification",
    Masters Thesis, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2004.

[Awards]

  • FQRNT Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011 - 2013.

    From "Le Fonds Quebecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies" (FQRNT).

  • FQRNT - REPARTI Scholarship for International Training, 2009.

    From "Le Fonds Quebecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies" (FQRNT), and "Le Regroupement strategique pour l'etude des Environnments Partages Intelligents" (REPARTI).

  • PRECARN Student Scholarship, 2004.

    From The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) and PRECARN Incorporated.

[Activities]

Paper Reviewing

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).

[Contact Information]

Mailing Address

The Robotics Institute, EDSH 113
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A

Office : Smith Hall (EDSH) 113

Phone : +1 412-268-3260