Seyed Ali Amirshahi

Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Short Bio

I am currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Prior to that I was a Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, NTNU and also a guest researcher at the Laboratoire de Traitement et Transport de l'Information (L2TI), Institute Galilée, University Paris 13.

My main field of work is on image and video quality assessment, human perception, color imaging, and computational aesthetics

Earlier I was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the computer vision group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) (Berkeley, California).

I finished my PhD at the Computer Vision Group at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) in March 2015. The title of my work was “Aesthetic Quality Assessment of Paintings” and was supervised by Prof. Joachim Denzler, and Prof. Chris Redies.

News

• I have been awarder an IKTPLUSS grant for the project “VQ4MedicS: Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement for Pre-Hospital Medical Services” with a total budget of around 1.5 million Euros. (20.08.2021)

• I will giving a focal talk at the London Imaging Meeting 2021 entitled “Deep Learning in Image Quality Assessment: Past, Present, and What Lies Ahead”. (15.06.2021)

• We have been awarded the Peder Sather Grant with Prof. B. Olshausen at UC Berkeley on the project entitled: “BERKELEY/NTNU A Large-Scale Subjective Dataset for Images and Videos Quality Assessment”.

• I have an open PhD position on Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement which you can find further information about and apply here.

• The “The Colourlab Contrast Enhanced Image Dataset (CCEID)” which was introduced in our paper “How do image quality metrics perform on contrast enhanced images?” can be downloaded from the Software and Data page in the Colourlab’s website or directly from here. (27.02.2020)

• We will organize a special session on “Underwater Image/Video Processing and Analysis” at the tenth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2020), 7-10 July 2020, Paris, France. The submission deadline is March 15. (27.02.2020)

• Our paper entitled “Comparing the chromatic contrast sensitivity in vertical and oblique orientations” received the third best poster award at the Color Imaging Conference (CIC27) in Paris. (25.10.2019)

• Two papers focused on contrast enhancement and contrast measure is accepted at the 8th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2019) in Rome. (11.09.2019)

• I would be starting a new position as an associated professor at the Computer Science Department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from December 2019. (31.08.2019)

• Our paper entitled “Comparing the chromatic contrast sensitivity in vertical and oblique orientations” is accepted at the Color Imaging Conference (CIC27) in Paris. (24.06.2019)

• We will organize a special session on “Contrast and its Role in Image and Video Quality Assessment” at the 8th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2019), 28-31 October 2019, Rome, Italy. The call is already out and you can find templates and submission guideline on the conference website. (24.05.2019)

• We are organizing a workshop on “Future Directions in Image Quality” held on 22/10/2019 at this years Color Imaging Conference (CIC27) in Paris with a great panel of speakers both from academia and industry. List of speakers, title of the talks, and primary schedule is already released. (22.05.2019)

• I will be giving a lecture on “Image Quality Assessment, Past, Current, and Future directions” at Huawei Future Device Summit 2019 next month held in Helsinki, Finland. (10.05.2019)

 Teaching

Over the years I have been involved in teaching different courses either as the main or guest lecturer.

• Software Engineering (Bachelor level, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2020, 2021

• Specialization in Video Processing (Master level, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2019

• Deep Learning for Visual Computing (Master level, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2019

• Image Quality Lab Session (Master level, Athens program) 2019

• Introduction to Research on Colour and Visual Computing (Master level, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2020, 2019

• Digital Image Processing (Master level, University of Paris 13), 2018

• Specialisation in Colour Imaging (Master level, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2018, 2017

• Computer Vision (Bachelor level, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2019, 2018