Kiana Hajebi

I completed my PhD in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, under the supervision of Prof. Hong Zhang.

Research Interests

Computer Vision, ML, Robotics, AI

Image Coding/Retrieval, Nearest-Neighbor Search, SLAM

Publications

Google scholar

• • Kiana Hajebi, Hong Zhang, (2015), "Efficient Vector-Quantization in Visual SLAM using a Graph-Based Index", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).

  • Kiana Hajebi, Hong Zhang, (2014), "An Efficient Index for Visual Search in Appearance-based SLAM", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'14), Hong Kong, China, May 31-June 05. link

  • Kiana Hajebi, Hong Zhang, (2013), "Stopping Rules for Bag-of-Words Image Search and Its Application in Appearance-Based Localization", arXiv:1312.7414 [cs.CV]. pdf

  • Kiana Hajebi, Hong Zhang, (2013), "An Efficient Index for Visual Search in Appearance-based SLAM", arXiv:1309.7170 [cs.CV]. pdf

  • Kiana Hajebi, Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori, Hossein Shahbazi, Hong Zhang, (2011), "Fast Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Search with k-Nearest Neighbor Graph", in Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'11), Barcelona, Spain, July 16-22. pdf

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  • Kiana Hajebi and Hong Zhang, (2011), "Exploiting SLAM to Improve Feature Matching", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'11), Anchorage, Alaska, Oct 9-12.

  • Kiana Hajebi and John S. Zelek, (2008), "Structure from Infrared Stereo Images", in Proceedings of the 5th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV'08), Windsor, Canada, May 28-30.

  • Kiana Hajebi and John S. Zelek, (2007), "Infrared 3D Computer Vision for Mobile Robots", in Proceedings of the ICRA Workshop on Robotics in challenging and hazardous environments, Roma, Italy, April 10-14.

  • Kiana Hajebi and John S. Zelek, (2007), "Dense Surface from Infrared Stereo", in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'07), Austin, Texas, USA, Feb. 21-22.

  • Kiana Hajebi and John S. Zelek, (2006), "Sparse Disparity Map from Uncalibrated Infrared Stereo Images", in Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV'06), Quebec City, Canada, June 7-9.

  • Kiana Hajebi and John S. Zelek, (2005), "An Information Theoretic Based Stereo Matching System", in Proceedings of the Computational Vision in Neural and Machine Systems, York University, Toronto, Canada, June 15-18. (Poster)

  • John S. Zelek, Mark Holbein, Kiana Hajebi, Daniel C. Asmar and David Cheng, (2005), "IR depth from stereo for autonomous navigation", in Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Symposium: Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling and Testing XV1, Volume 5784, pp. 316-330, Orlando, Florida, USA, Mar. 30 - April 1.

  • Ehsan Fazl-Ersi, Kiana Hajebi, (2003), "Graph Matching for Face Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms", in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Vision Interface (VI'03), Halifax, Canada, June.

  • Ehsan Fazl-Ersi, Kiana Hajebi, (2003), "Face Recognition by Fiducial Point Analysis", in Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'03), Montreal, Canada, May.

Theses

• • Ph.D. thesis, "Efficient Visual Search in Appearance-based SLAM", Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2015

  • Master's thesis, "Structure from Infrared Stereo Images", Dept. of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2007