Research Interests
- Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition
- Intelligent Transportation Systems, Intersection Safety Analysis
- Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Fault Injection, Fault Tolerant System Design
2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Associate Editor
2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Associate Editor, Publication Chair
2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Chair: Active and Passive Safety Session
Best IEEE ITSS Award (2016, Second Prize)
College of Engineering, UNLV, Best Dissertation Award (2016, Second Prize)
Listen to my interview with ITS Podcast (January 2017)
Research Assistant:
Vehicle & pedestrian detection using motion and appearance
Vision-based vehicle & pedestrian tracking at intersection
Vision-based safety analysis at intersections
Fast FPGA-based edge detection methods
Hardware-based fault injection tool for embedded processors
Publications [Google Scholar Citations]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Trajectory Prediction of Vehicles Turning at Intersections Using Deep Neural Networks," Revised for Machine Vision an Applications, 2018. [pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Traffic Phase Inference Using Traffic Cameras," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2017), pp. 1565-1570, 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Investigation of Safety Analysis Methods Using Computer Vision Techniques," Journal of Electronic Imaging, 26(5), Jun, 2017.
B. Morris, M. S. Shirazi, "Intersection Monitoring Using Computer Vision Techniques for Capacity, Delay, and Safety Analysis", Book Chapter of "Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems", RP Loce, R Bala, M. Trivedi, John Wiley and Sons, May, 2017.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Looking at Intersections, A Survey of Intersection Monitoring, Behavior and Safety Analysis of Recent Studies " IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 18(1), January, 2017.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-based Pedestrian Behavior Analysis at Intersections," Journal of Electronic Imaging, 25(5), March, 2016.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-Based Turning Movement Monitoring: Count, Speed & Waiting Time Estimation," IEEE Intelligent Transportation Magazine, 8(1), pp. 23-34, January, 2016.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-Based Vehicle and Pedestrian Tracking of Intersection Videos," International Journal of Artificial Intelligent Tools, 25(5), October, 2016.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-based Pedestrian Monitoring at Intersections Including Behavior and Crossing Count," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2016), pp. 1022-1027, 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Safety Quantification of Intersections Using Computer Vision Techniques," International Symposium in Visual Computing (ISVC 2015), pp. 725-761, December, 2015, Las Vegas, USA. [pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-based Vehicle Counting with High Accuracy for Highways with Perspective View," International Symposium in Visual Computing (ISVC 2015), pp. 809-818, December, 2015, Las Vegas, USA.[pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-based Vehicle Queue Analysis at Junctions," IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2015), pp. 1-6, August, 2015, Karlsruhe, Germany.[pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "A Typical Video-based Framework for Counting, Behavior and Safety Analysis at Intersections," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2015), pp. 1264-1269, June, 2015, Seoul, Korea.[pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Observing Behaviors at Intersections: A Review of Recent Studies & Developments," IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2015), pp. 1258-1263, June, 2015, Seoul, Korea.[pdf][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. T. Morris, "Fast Edge Detection Architecture using Different Levels of Parallelism on a FPGA," International Journal of Computer Applications, (IJCA 2015),Vol. 113, No. 13, pp. 1-8, March, 2015.[pdf][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Contextual Combination of Appearance and Motion for Intersection Videos with Vehicles and Pedestrians ," International Symposium in Visual Computing, (ISVC 2014), pp. 708-717, October, 2014, Las Vegas, USA.[pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Vision-Based Turning Movement Counting at Intersections by Cooperating Zone and Trajectory Comparison Modules," Proceeding of the IEEE 17th international conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (ITSC 2014), pp. 3100-3105, October, 2014, Qindao, China.[pdf][Description][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, "Fast Sobel Edge Detection Using Parallel Pipeline-based Architecture on FPGA," Poster competition, The 3rd Graduate Celebration of the Howard R. Hugh College of Engineering, April, 2013, UNLV, Las Vegas, USA.[pdf]
M. S. Shirazi, B. Morris, H. Selvaraj, "Fast FPGA-based fault injection tool for embedded processors," 14th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, (ISQED 2013),pp. 476-480, March, 2013, Santa Clara, USA.[pdf][BibTex]
M. S. Shirazi, S. G. Miremadi, “FPGA-based Fault Injection into Synthesizable Verilog HDL Models,” 2th international conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement, (SSIRI 2008),pp. 143-149, July, 2008, Yokohama, Japan.[pdf][BibTex]
N. Mehdizadeh, M. S. Shirazi, S. G. Miremadi, “Analyzing Fault Effects in 32-bit OpenRISC 1200 Microprocessor,” 3th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2008),pp. 648-652, May, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.[pdf][BibTex]
M. Dehbashi, V. Lari, S. G. Miremadi, M. S. Shirazi, “Fault Effects in FlexRay-Based Networks with Hybrid Technology ,” 3th international conference on availability, reliability and security (ARES 2008),pp. 491-496, May, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.[pdf][BibTex]