Doctoral thesis

Interactive Learning of Task-driven Visaul Attention Control,
School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran, 2009. Code (~ 43.6 M).

Book Chapters

1. Ali Borji,
   "A Synthetic Face Generation Toolbox for Face Perception Psychophysics Studies",
   ICVW 2008 (in ICVS 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5329, pp. 1423, 2008. Code and Data (~ 38 M)
2. Laurent Itti and Ali Borji,
   "Computational models: Bottom-up and top-down aspects",
   In: The Oxford Handbook of Attention, (A. C. Nobre, S. Kastner Ed.), pp. 1-20, 2013.
3. Laurent Itti and Ali Borji,
   "Computational models of attention",
   In: Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind (Fifth Edition), (M. S. Gazzaniga, R. B. Ivry, G. R. Mangun Ed.), pp. 1-10, 2014.

Journals

1. Ali Borji, Andreas lennartz, and Marc Pomplun,
   What do eyes reveal about the mind? Algorithmic inference of search targets from fixations,
   Journal of Neurocomputing, 2014.
2. Daniel Parks, Ali Borji, and Laurent Itti,
   Augmented saliency model using automatic 3D head pose detection and learned gaze following in natural scenes,
   Journal of Vision Research (Under review), 2014.
3. Ali Borji, Daniel Parks, and Laurent Itti,
   Complementary effects of gaze direction and early saliency in guiding fixations during free-viewing,
   Journal of Vision (Under review), 2014.
4. Ali Borji and Laurent Itti,
   Optimal Attentional Modulation of a Neural Population,
   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2014. Supplement. Code and Data (~ 8.6 M)
5. Ali Borji and Laurent Itti,
   Defending Yarbus: Eye movements reveal observers' task,
   Journal of Vision, 14(3):29, 1-21, 2014. Code and Data (~ 370 M)
6. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   What stands out in a scene? A study of human explicit saliency judgment,
   Vision Research, 2013. Data Exp1 (~ 300 K). Data Exp2 (~ 650 K). Judd Annotation JuddStimuli
7. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   Objects do not predict fixations better than early saliency; Reanalysis of Einhauser et al.'s data ,
   Journal of Vision, 2013. [Supplement]. Data (~ 280 M)
8. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   What/Where to Look Next? Modeling Top-down Visual Attention in Complex Interactive Environments ,
   IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, PART A-SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, 2013.
9. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   Quantitative Analysis of Human-Model Agreement in Visual Saliency Modeling: A Comparative Study ,
   IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2012. Synthetic Images (~ 64 M). Judd saliency dataset images and human fixations (~ 160 M).
10. Ali Borji and Laurent Itti,
    State-of-the-art in Visual Attention Modeling ,
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2013.
11. Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi,
    Cost-sensitive Learning of Top-down Modulation for Attentional Control ,
    Machine Vision and Applications, 22(1): 61-76, 2011.
12. Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Mandana Hamidi
    "Interactive Learning of Task-driven Object-based Visual Attention Control,"
    Image and Vision Computing, 28, 1130-1145, 2010. [poster]. Code (~ 40 K).
13. Mandana Hamidi, Ali Borji,
    "Invariance Analysis of Modified C2 Features, Case Study- HandWritten Digit Recognition,"
    Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 21 ,no. 6, 2010.
14. Ali Borji, Mandana Hamidi,
    "A New Approach to Global Optimization Motivated by Parliamentary Political Competitions,
    International Journal of Innovative computing, information & control, vol. 5, no. 6, 2009.
    
15. Ali Borji, Mandana Hamidi, Fariborz Mahmoodi
    "Robust Handwritten Character Recognition with Features Inspired by Visual Ventral Stream,",
    Neural Processing Letters, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 97- 111, 2008.
16. Ali Borji,
    " Heuristic Function Optimization Inspired by Social Competitive Behaviors ,",
    Journal of Applied Sciences, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 2105- 2111, 2008.
17. Ali Borji, Mandana Hamidi,
    "Optical Character Recognition Motivated by Primate Visual System,",
    Neural Network World. vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 433-445, 2007.

Conferences

1. Ali Borji and Laurent Itti,
   " Human vs. computer in scene and object recognition ",
   Supplement . High Res Poster . Low Res Poster.CVPR 2014.
2. Ali Borji and Laurent Itti,
   " Bayesian optimization explains human active search",
   NIPS 2013. Supplement . Poster . Gaussian Process Tutorial .
3. Ali Borji, Hamed R. Tavakoli, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   " Analysis of scores, datasets, and models in visual saliency prediction",
   ICCV 2013. [supplement]. Poster . Slides. Slides (.ppt). Code (~ 6.3 M). BibTex Entry.
4. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   " Salient Object Detection: A Benchmark",
   ECCV 2012. [supplement]. Code (~ 19 M). [poster]
5. Ali Borji, Simone Frintrop, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   " Adaptive Object Tracking by Learning Background Context,",
   [poster] CVPR 2012, Egocentric Vision workshop.
6. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   " An Object-based Bayesian Framework for Top-down Visual Attention,",
   AAAI 2012. [poster] Download code from the resources page.
7. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
   " Probabilistic Learning of Task-Specific Visual Attention,",
   IEEE CVPR 2012. [poster]. See the resources page.
8. Ali Borji and Laurent Itti,
   " Exploiting Local and Global Patch Rarities for Saliency Detection,",
   IEEE CVPR 2012. [poster] . Code (~ 24 M) . SalMaps [Judd dataset](~ 3.5 M). SalMaps [Bruce&Tsotsos dataset](~ 0.5 M)
9. Ali Borji,
   " Boosting Bottom-up and Top-down Visual Features for Saliency Detection,",
   IEEE CVPR 2012. [poster] . SalMaps [Judd dataset](~ 24.5 M). SalMaps using SVM [Judd dataset](~ 24.7 M). SalMaps [Bruce&Tsotsos dataset](~ 2 M). SalMaps [ASD dataset](~ 4 M). Code (~ 92 M)
   Erratum: JiaLi model scores 0.8041 (std=0.074) on Bruce dataset. Please note that there are several ways to calculate AUC score (classic AUC; Tatelr et al. (true positives vs. false positives); Judd AUC (true positives vs. salient region thresholding), and shuffled AUC). This might cause discrepencey in results. According to our experience using first two AUC types does not change rankings! while exact values change. Using the shuffled AUC score ranking changes, and in some cases dramatically. Here are some codes that you can calculate AUC scores: AUC Judd and Our AUC scores . See the supplement of Borji et al., JOV 2013.
   
10. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
    " Modeling the Influence of Action on Spatial Attention in Visual Interactive Environments,",
    IEEE ICRA 2012.
11. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, and Laurent Itti,
    " Computational Modeling of Top-down Visual Attention in Interactive Environments,",
    BMVC 2011. [poster]
12. Ali Borji, Laurent Itti,
    " Scene Classification with a Sparse Set of Salient Regions,",
    IEEE ICRA 2011.
13. Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi,
    " Simultaneous Learning of Spatial Visual Attention and Physical Actions,",
    IEEE IROS 2010, Taiwan.
14. Ali Borji and Simone Frintrop "Learning Context-based Feature Descriptors for Object Tracking,", IEEE HRI 2010, Osaka, Japan.
15. Mostafa Ajallooeian, Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Hadi Moradi, "Fast Hand Gesture Recognition based on Saliency Maps: An Application to Interactive Robotic Marionette Playing,", IEEE ROMAN 2009, Osaka, Japan.
16. Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi,
    " Learning Sequential Visual Attention Control through State Space Descritization,",
    IEEE ICRA 09, Kobe, Japan, May 2009.
17. Ali Borji, Mandana Hamidi,
    "Support Vector Machines for Persian Font recognition,",
    International Conference on Computer, Electrical, Systems Science, and Engineering (CESSE 2007), Prague, Czech Republic July 27-29, 2007.
18. Ali Borji, Mandana Hamidi, Masoud Eftekhari Moghadam,
    "CLPSO-based Fuzzy Color image Segmentation,",
    26th IEEE Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS07). San Diego, California, USA, June 24-27, 2007.
19. Ali Borji, Mandana Hamidi, Saeed Shiry Ghidary,
    "Persian Word Sense Disambiguation,",
    Proceeding of 15th Iranian Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ICEE 2007), 17 May 2007, Tehran, Iran.
20. Ali Borji,
    "Combining Heterogeneous Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection,",
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS, vol.4846, pp.254-260, 2007, ASIAN 2007.
21. Ali Borji, Mansour Zolghadri Jahromi,
    "A New Method for Query Refinement Using Genetic Programming,",
    roceeding of 9th international CSI computer conference (CSICC 2004), 13-15 June 2004, Tehran, Iran. [In Persian].

Abstracts

1. Ali Borji, Laurent Itti
   "Computer vision vs. human vision: What can be learned?,"
   FPIC 2014 (A CVPR 2014 workshop). High Res Poster . Low Res Poster .
2. Ali Borji, Laurent Itti
   "Predicting observers' task from their scanpaths on natural scenes,"
   VSS 2014
3. Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, Laurent Itti
   "Quantifying the relative influence of photographer bias and viewing strategy on scene viewing,"
   VSS 2011
4. Ali Borji, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi,
   "Learning Object-based Attention Control,"
   in NIPS 2008 workshop on Machine Learning Meets Human Learning.
5. Ali Borji,
   "A Synthetic Face Generation Toolbox for Face Perception Psychophysics Studies,"
   CNS 2008, BMC Neuroscience. USA.
6. Ali Borji, Behnaz Esmaeili, Zahra Basseda, Asiyeh Zadbood,
   "Using Sp-line Curves for Generating Synthetic Faces,"
   ECVP 2007, PERCEPION, vol 36, pp 145.
7. Zahra Basseda, Ali Borji, Behnaz Esmaeili, Asiyeh Zadbood,
   "Evaluating Temporal Dynamics of Different Facial Information in Face Perception,"
   ECVP 2007, PERCEPTION, vol 36, pp 144.
8. Armin Lak, Ali Borji,
   "Red is Retained Efficiently in Human Visual Working Memory,"
   ECVP 2006, 21- 25 August 2006, St-Petersburg, Russia. PERCEPTION 35: 105-105. S 2006.

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