Syed Zain Masood
Biography
Syed Zain Masood holds a PhD in Computer Science, with emphasis in the field of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, from University of Central Florida (UCF). He has expertise pertaining to action/gesture recognition, object detection, shadow detection/removal, face recognition and computational photography. Most of his PhD work is focused on recognizing actions in complex scenes as well as achieving a balance between accuracy and latency for action recognition for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) environments. He is one of the co-founders of a startup company called Sighthound, Inc. that deals with intelligent surveillance software for residential use. He heads the research department and is focused on tasks like object detection, face detection and recognition, tracking, etc.
Abstract
Abstract : Exploring the Trade-off Between Accuracy and Observational Latency in Action Recognition