Journal Papers
  • "Segmentation of Natural Images by Texture and Boundary Compression"
    Hossein Mobahi, Shankar R. Rao, Allen Y. Yang, S. Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 95 (1), pp. 86-98, Oct. 2011. [PDF] [BibTeX] [Project Page].


  • "Toward a Practical Face Recognition System: Robust Alignment and Illumination by Sparse Representation"
    Andrew Wagner, John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Zihan Zhou, Hossein Mobahi, Yi Ma, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34(2): 372-386 (2012). [PDF] [BibTeX] [Project Page].


  • "A Biologically Inspired Method for Conceptual Imitation using Reinforcement Learning"
    Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 155-183, Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2007. [URL] [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Swarm Contours: A fast self-organization approach for snake initialization"
    Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Complexity, Vol 12, Issue 1, pp. 41-52, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Oct. 2006. [URL] [PDF]. [BibTeX]


    • Refereed Conference & Workshop Papers
  • "Seeing through the Blur"
    Hossein Mobahi, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Yi Ma, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012). [PDF]. [BibTeX] [Project Page].


  • "Holistic 3D Reconstruction of Urban Structures from Low-rank Textures"
    Hossein Mobahi, Zihan Zhou, Allen Yang, Yi Ma, 3D Representation and Recognition Workshop, ICCV 2011, pp. 593-600. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Learning Topology of Curves with Application to Clustering"
    Hossein Mobahi, Shankar R. Rao, Yi Ma, AAAI Fall Symposium 2009 on Manifold Learning. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Natural Image Segmentation with Adaptive Texture and Boundary Encoding"
    Shankar R. Rao, Hossein Mobahi, Allen Y. Yang, S. Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma, Asian Conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV'09), pp. 135--146, Best Student Paper Award (Sang Uk Lee Award). [PDF] [BibTeX] [Project Page].


  • "Face Recognition with Contiguous Occlusion using Markov Random Fields"
    Zihan Zhou, Andrew Wagner, Hossein Mobahi, John Wright, Yi Ma, Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'09). [PDF] [BibTeX] [Project Page].


  • "Deep Learning from Temporal Coherence in Video"
    Hossein Mobahi, Ronan Collobert, Jason Weston, Int. Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'09), pp. 737-744, Monreal, Canada. [PDF] [BibTeX] [Dataset] [Slides] [Video Lecture].


  • "Deep Learning Via Semi-Supervised Embedding"
    Jason Weston, Ronan Collobert, F. Ratle, Hossein Mobahi, Pavel Kuksa, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Int. Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'09), Workshop on Learning Feature Hierarchies. [Slides] [BibTeX] [Video Lecture].


  • Data-Driven Image Completion by Image Patch Subspaces"
    Hossein Mobahi, Shankar R. Rao, Yi Ma, 27th Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, May 2009. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Swarm Contours: An ALife approach to image processing"
    Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, 5th Symposium of Understanding Complex Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May (2005). Best Student Paper Award.


  • "Concept Oriented Imitation",
    Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA05), pp. 1495-1500. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Fast initialization of active contours: towards practical visual interfaces for human-robot interaction"
    Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS 2004), pp. 546- 551. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Temporal Resolution in Coevolution: Towards Creating the Molecules of Life in Silico"
    Hossein Mobahi, Caro Lucas, Workshop on Applied Optimization (WAO 2004), Institute for Numerical Mathematics Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Peak Stick RBF Network for Online System Identification"
    Hossein Mobahi, Farrokh Sharifi Janabi, Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN04), pp. 2105--2111. [PDF] [BibTeX] [MPEGS].


  • "Fuzzy Perception, Emotion and Expression for Interactive Robots"
    Hossein Mobahi, Shahin Ansari, IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetic (SMCC03), Volume 4, pp. 3918--3923. [PDF]. [BibTeX]


  • "Shape Representation"
    Hossein Mobahi, 1st International Seminar on Graphs, Combinatorics & Computational Algorithms, Amir Kabir University, Tehran, Iran, 2001. [Scanned PDF] [OCRed (may have errors) PDF].


    • Technical Reports
  • "Gaussian Smoothing and Asymptotic Convexity"
    Hossein Mobahi, Yi Ma, Technical Report UILU-ENG-12-2201 (DC-254), UIUC, March 2012 [PDF]. [BibTeX] [Project Page].


    • Magazines
  • "HCI Applications for Aiding Children with Mental Disorders"
    Hossein Mobahi, Karrie G. Karahalios, ACM Crossroads, Special Issue on Human-Computer Interaction, Issue 12.2, Winter 2005, pp. 8--12 [URL]. [BibTeX]


    • Theses