Mansour Jamzad, PhD                                       

Assistant Professor

Head of AI group

Department of Computer Engineering                                   

Sharif University of Technology

Azadi Ave. Tehran, Iran

                                                                                                

Email: Jamzad@sharif.edu               

Tel: 98-21- 616 4618

Fax: 98-21-601 9246

 

 

1. Educational Background

B.Sc.in Applied Math and Operation Research

School of Planning and Computer Application, Tehran, Iran

 

MSc in Computer Science

McGill University, School of computer science, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

Ph.D. in Electrical (Computer) Engineering

Waseda University, Department of Electronics and Communication, Tokyo, Japan

 

2. Working Experience

      2.1. “Post doctorate researcher”, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 1989-1990

      2.2. “Visiting Researcher”, Tokyo metropolitan institute of gerontology, Tokyo, Japan,   

              1991-1994

      2.3. “Visiting Researcher”, Research and development corporation of Japan (JRDC),1991

 

3. Courses Taught

     Courses taught in Sharif University of Technology,

     Department of Computer Engineering, since 1995.

 

     3.1. Digital Image Processing,  graduate course

     3.2. Machine Vision,                      “

 

     3.3. Computer Graphics,          undergraduate course

     3.4. Data Structure,                        “

     3.5. Computer Science I,                “

     3.6. Pascal Programming,               “

 

     Courses taught in Japan

     1. FORTRAN Programming, in Aviation Safety College, Department of Electronics,

         Tokyo, 1992-1995

   

     2. Electronic Lab (Use of A/D, D/A converters in designing electronic circuits), in

         Chiba University, Department of Computer Science. Chiba, 1992-1994

4. Research Activities

     4. 1. Design and construction of soccer player robots (RoboCup)

             Started since October 1988.

             In this research students form Departments of Computer Engineering and

             Mechanical Engineering of Sharif University of Technology are actively involved.

 

            This research work has achieved the following international awards:

          

            a- First place in World RoboCup-99 in Stockholm, Sweden

            b- First place in European RoboCup-2000 in Amsterdam, Holland

            c. Third place in World RoboCup-2000 in Melbourne, Australia.

            d. Engineering Challenging Award for the research paper on Robot Vision

                presented in the RoboCup Symposium in Seattle, USA, Sept.2001

                www.robocup.org, www.sharif.ac.ir

 

     4.2. Real time machine vision system, for automatic detection of ceramic

            tiles defects.

           

     4.3. Design and construction of an Intelligent Robot:

            This project started on April 2001, in which I and a group of 6 students from

            department of computer engineering and mechanical engineering constructed a

            robot that is equipped with a CCD camera, a control board, a pneumatic

            controlled arm mechanism and some devices for saving different type of items in

            its body.

            This robot participated in the 2nd Iranian Robotic contest in Oct 2001 and took

            The first position among 39 robots participated.

            This robot participated in Japanese RoboFesta competitions in November ‏‏2001. 

 

     4.4. Machine vision systems for road traffic control.

          

     4. 5. Watermarking and Image Hiding

            

 

5. Book Translation:

    Translation of  “ Foundation of Computer Science”  by Aho and Ullman.

    The translated book is titled :

مباني علم کامپيوتر (جلد اول)    موئسسه انتشارات علمي دانشگاه صنعتي شریِف  1381

 

 

6. Publications in Refereed Journals

6.1. Jamzad M, Uchiyama A,

     “A preprocessing algorithm for error-free image compression”,

       Medical Image Technology (Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology),

       Vol.4. No.4. pp.368-374, Dec 1986

 

6.2.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Murata H,

      “A compression method for radionuclied images”,

        Medical Image Technology (Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology),

       Vol.5. No.1. pp.41-48, Mar. 1987

 

6.3.   Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Murata H, 

      “Analysis of Thallium-201 myocardial SPECT images using fuzzy set theory”,

        Annuals of Nuclear Medicine (The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine),

        Vol.2, No.2, pp.63-71, Dec 1988

 

6.4.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A,

      “Two methods for medical image compression”

        Frontiers of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, Vol.2, No.2, pp 63-71, Dec.1988

 

6.5.  Jamzad M, Murata H, Takao M, Toyama H, Uchiyama A,

       “A new washout rate display method for detection of endocardial and precardial 

         abnormality using Tl SPECT”,

         Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, Vol.20,No.2, pp.75-79, USA, June 1992.

 

6.6. Jamzad M, Ishii K, Toyama H, Senda M,

      “A human friendly reporting and database system for brain PET analysis”,

        Annals of Nuclear Medicine (Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine),

        Vol.10, No.1, pp.99-104, Feb.1996

 

6.7.    Jamzad M, Foroughnasirai A, Kazemi M, Ghorbani R, Chiniforushan E, Chitsaz H,

        et al,   “ARVAND, A Soccer Player Robot”, 

        AI Magazine, Vol. 21, No.3, pp 47-51, Fall 2000

 

6.8.    Jamzad M, Foroughnasirai A, Kazemi M, Ghorbani R, Chiniforushan E, Chitsaz H,

        et al, “Middle Sized Soccer Robots: ARVAND*”,

        Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III,

        pp 61-73, Springer 2000

        * RoboCup 99 Middle size Champion team paper

 

6.9.  Jamzad M, Sadjad BS, Mirrokni VS, Kazemi M, Chitsaz H , et al,

       “A Fast Vision System for Middle size Robots in RoboCup”,

         Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: RoboCup-2001: Robot Soccer World

         Cup V, Springer 2002

         This paper has been awarded the “Engineering Challenge Award” in RoboCup

         Symposium, Seattle, USA, 2001

 

6.10.  Jamzad M, Sadjad BS, Mirrokni VS, Kazemi M, Chitsaz H, et al,

         “Fast object detection in Middle-size RoboCup”,

          AI Magazine, Vol. 23, No.1, pp 64-65, Fall 2002

 

7. Publications in Conferences

 

7.1.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, 

      “An algorithm for image compression and reconstruction”,

        Medical Imaging technology (The Japanese society of medical imaging technology),

        Vol.4, No.2, pp.175-176, The 5th MIT and 3rd ACS/PHD Symposia, Tokyo,

        July 1986

 

7.2.   Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, 

       “Experimental results of a preprocessing algorithm for medical image compression”,

         Proceedings of the 26th conference of Japanese society of Medical Electronics and

         Biomedical Engineering, pp.391, Tokyo, April 1987

 

7.3.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A,  

      “A method for medical image compression”,

        Technical report of the Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Eng.

        Vol.MBE87, No.40, pp.49-56, Sapporo, Japan, July 1987

 

7.4.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Murata H,  

      “A probabilistic approach for myocardial image (SPECT) analysis”,

        The Japanese journal of nuclear medicine, Vol.24, No.8, pp.1167

        The 27th Symposium on nuclear medicine, Nagasaki, Japan, August 1987

 

7.5. Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Murata H,

      “A probabilistic analysis of Thallium myocardial SPECT images”,

        Physics in medicine and biology, Vol.33, Supplement 1., pp.104.

        Proceedings of the world congress on medical physics and biomedical engineering.

        San Antonio, USA, August 1988.

 

7.6.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Murata H,

      “A new display method for washout rate in myocardial Thallium SPECT images”.

        The Japanese journal of nuclear medicine, The 29th symposium on nuclear

        Medicine, Otsu Shi, Japan, October 19-21, 1989

 

7.7. Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Murata H,

       “A new washout rate display method for detection of sub-endocardial infarction by

         Thallium-201 SPECT”. 5th congress-world federation of nuclear medicine and

         biology, Montreal, Canada, August 26-31, 1990

 

7.8.  Jamzad M, Uchiyama A, Toyama H, Ishii K, Senda M,

      “Applying fuzzy logic to a clinical report and retrieval system for PET study”,

        31nd symposium of Japanese society of nuclear medicine, pp.884,

        Matsumama, Japan, Oct. 23-25, 1991

 

7.9.  Jamzad M, Toyama H, Ishii K, Senda M,

       “A knowledge-base oriented clinical report and retrieval system for PET studies”,

        32nd symposium of Japanese society of nuclear medicine, pp.820,

        Yokohama, Japan, September 24-26, 1992

 

7.10. Jamzad M, Toyama H, Ishii K, Senda M,

        “A database and report writing system for brain PET analysis”,

          34th symposium of Japanese society of nuclear medicine, pp.712.

          Sapporo, Japan, Sept.28-30, 1994

 

7.11.    Jamzad M, Foroughnasirai A, Kazemi M, Ghorbani R, Chiniforushan E, Chitsaz H,

          et al.  “Design and construction of soccer robots” (Paper in Persian),

          Proceedings of the 4th annual international CSI (Computer Society of Iran)

          computer conference (CSICC’98), pp.194-204, Tehran, Iran, 26-28, Jan, 1999

 

7.12.    Seyed Razavi M, Jamzad M,

“ واضح سازی , شناسائی و شمارش کرومزومها در تصا ویر میکروسکپی “

         “Enhancement, identification and counting of chromosomes in microscopic

           images”,

          Proceedings of the 4th annual international CSI (Computer Society of Iran)

          Computer Conference (CSICC’99), pp.60-66, Tehran, Iran, 7-9 March, 2000

 

7.13.    Afrasiyabian A, Jamzad M,

“ تشخیص عیوب سطح کاشی های سرامیکی در یک سیستم بینائی ماشین بلا درنگ  “

        “Ceramic tiles surface defect detection in a real time machine vision system”,

         Proceedings of the 6th annual international CSI (Computer Society of Iran)

         Computer Conference (CSICC’99), pp.23-33, Isfahan, Iran, 21-22, Feb ,2001

 

7.14.  Jamzad M, Ebrahimi Moghadam M,

        “Vision based localization system for a mobile robot in RoboCup Environment”

          Proceedings of the International conference on Imaging science, system, and

          Technology, CISST,2001, Vol.1 pp 114-119,

          Los Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, ‏2001.

 

7.15. Ghaemi P, Piruzabadi S,M.P, Jamzad M,

         “Observing last components in long time simulation of single fiber action potential”

           Proceedings of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference.

           Vienna, Austria, November 4-7, 1999.

 

7.16. Hadjiaghai M, Jamzad M,

        “Simple, fast and robust self-localization in environments similar to the RoboCup

          Environment”.

          Proceedings of 18th International conference on CAD/CAM, robotics and future

          factories, pp.515-522, Porto, Portugal, July 3-5, 2002

 

7.17. Jamzad M, Ebrahimi Moghadaam M,

        “Extracting brain paranchayma and lateral ventricle in MR images by morphological

          methods”,

          Proceedings of 2nd IASTED International conference on Visualization, Imaging and

          Image processing (VIIP 2002), pp.377-380, September 9-12, 2002.

 

7.18. Jamzad M, Chinforushan E, Sadjad S.B,

        “Object detection in changing environment of middle size RoboCup and some

         applications”,

         Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,

         pp. 807-810, Vancouver, Canada, October 27-30, 2002.

 

7.19. Jamzad M, Hadjkhodabakhshi A, Mirrokni V,

        “An omni-directional vision system for localization and object detection in middle

          size RoboCup”,

          Proceedings of IASTED International conference on Applied Modeling and

          Simulation (AMS 2002), Cambridge, MA, USA, November 4-6, 2002.

 

7.20. Rad R, Jamzad M,

           “نظارت بر ترافیک با کمک پردازش تصویر  “ 

        “Road traffic surveillance using Image processing methods”,

          Proceedings of 2nd Iranian conference on Machine vision and Image processing,

          pp. 197-204, Tehran, Iran, February 13-15, ‏‏2003.

 

7.21. Tabaie Bafrui M,  Jamzad M,

         یک روش مبتنی بر پردازش تصویر برای شمارش تعداد خود روها "“

          “An image processing based method for measuring the Number of Vehicles”,

          Proceedings of 2nd Iranian conference on Machine vision and Image processing,

          pp. 181-188, Tehran, Iran, February 13-15, ‏‏2003.

 

7.22. Bahrani M, Jamzad M,

         “شناسائی علایم راهنمائی و رانندگی با استفاده از شبکه های عصبی “

        “Road traffic sign recognition using neural networks”,

          Proceedings of 2nd Iranian conference on Machine vision and Image processing,

          pp. 220-228, Tehran, Iran, February 13-15, ‏‏2003.

 

7.23  Jamzad M, Keighobadi Lamjiri A,

       “Towards an Intelligent vision system for mobile robots in RoboCup environment”,

         Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control,

         Houston, TX, USA, October 5-8, 2003.

 

7.24.   Jamzad M, Keighobadi Lamjiri A,

         "An Efficient Need-based Vision system in Variable Illumination Environment

         of Middle Size RoboCup",   RoboCup 2003: The International RoboCup

          Symposium, Padua, Italy, July 10-11, 2003

 

7.25.  Yaghmaie F, Jamzad M,

       “A robust watermarking method for color images using Naïve-Bayes classifier”,

         Proceedings of IASTED International conference on Signal and

         Image Processing (SIM 2003), Hawaii, USA, August 8-12, 2003.

7.26    Rad R, Jamzad M,

“Vehicle Tracking and Classification in Highways Using Region and Boundary Extraction”,

 Proceedings of IASTED International conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image

 Processing ~VIIP 2003~, Benalmadena, September 8-10, 2003.

 

7.27    Ebrahimi Moghaddam M, Jamzad M,

“Robust estimation of Motion Blur Parameters”,

Proceedings of 5the International conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR),

Calcutta, India, Dec, 10-13, 2003

 

7.28. Tabaie M, Jamzad M,

         “A real-time window based machine vision system for counting number of vehicles on a

           street line”,

           Proceedings of 9th Annual computer society of Iran computer conference.

           pp.112-116,  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Feb 17-19, 2004

 

7.29. Saniee M, Jamzad M, Habibi J,

         “A real-time collision warning system based on TLC computation”,

           Proceedings of 9th Annual computer society of Iran computer conference.

           pp.176-180,  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Feb 17-19, 2004

 

7.30. Rezaie A, Jamzad M,

         “   حذ ف نویز ضربه ای تصویر به کمک یک روش فازی خود انطباق و خود سازما نده  “       

             Proceedings of 9th Annual computer society of Iran computer conference.

           pp.146-153,  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Feb 17-19, 2004

 

7.31  Saniee M, Jamzad M, Habibi J,

         “A real-time robust algorithm for calibration of Time to Lane Crossing”

         To appear in 5th IFAC symposium on intelligent autonomous vehicles, IAV 2004,

         Lisbon, Portugal, 5-7 July 2004.

 

 

 

8. Other Publications

8.1.  Jamzad M, Ebrahimi Moghadam M,

       “ تفکیک اتوماتیک بافتهای مغز از استخوان “

     “Automatic extraction of brain tissue in brain MRI images”,

        Research proceedings, Sharif University of Technology, Department of computer

        Eng. pp.37-43, 1997

 

8.2. Jamzad M, Foroughnasirai A, Kazemi M, Ghorbani R, Chiniforushan E, Chitsaz H, et al, 

       “  طراحی و ساخت روباتهای فوتبالیست “

        “Design and construction of a soccer robot”,

        Research proceedings, Sharif University of Technology, Department of computer

        Eng. pp.45-60, 1998

 

8.3.            Jamzad M, Ebrahimi Moghaddam M,

        “ مغز PET, MRI  تطبیق اتوماتیک تصاویر  “

       “Automatic registration of brain PET and MRI images”,

        Research proceedings, Sharif University of Technology, Department of computer

        Eng. pp.61-70, 1999

 

8.4.    Jamzad M, Shadravan I, Dehgan A, Afrasiyabian A,

       “  طراحی و ساخت یک سیستم بینائی ماشین برای اشیائ متحرک  “

       “Design and construction of a machine vision system for moving objects”,

         Research proceedings, Sharif University of Technology, Department of computer

         Eng. pp.41-52, 2000

 

8.5.     Jamzad M, Shadravan I, Dehgan A, Afrasiyabian A,