Atid Shamaie

I’m a research engineer at GestureTek R&D working on new interactive systems using computer vision.

I’m fascinated by the way the central nervous system coordinates body movements. My research benefits from both neuroscience and conceptual bases of these coordinations. My main focus is tracking and recognition of hand and body movements for human-computer interaction.

I have invented the multi-touch Illuminate surface computing which is being used in many products including Illuminate Table and some custom projects.

I earned my BSc in computer engineering from the University of Esfahan, and MSc from the University of Tehran. I joined the Centre for Digital Video Processing at Dublin City University in 2000 where I did my PhD in human-computer interaction.

	Illuminate Multitouch Table -  One of the first commercially available multi-touch tables in the world. Here are some news coverage and videos of the Illuminate table: Seeper - News coverage, video Deutche Telecom Video NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - News coverage To view more cases please see here Ontario Global Traders Bronze Award 2008 for Illuminate Surface Computing
	Serendipity Table World largest interactive multi-touch table at the Eureka Tower in Melbourne, Australia News coverage - video Digital Signage Interactive Technology Award 2008 for Serendipity Table
	New York City Visitor Center Interactive tables with object tracking and recognition to provide information for tourists and visitors. News coverage, USA Today, video DSE Gold Apex award 2010 for NYC Interactive Tables
	Space Fantasy - Universal Studios Japan Multi-user hand tracking interactive tunnel at the Space Fantasy in Osaka, Japan News coverage, InPark Magazine, video
	Power Plant in Iceland Multi-touch interactive wall at a power plant in Iceland. News coverage, video

Publications & Patents

Patents

Atid Shamaie, "Detecting and Tracking Objects in Images", US Patent No. 7,574,020; issued August 11, 2009.

Atid Shamaie, "Tracking Bimanual Movements", US Patent No. 7,379,563; issued May 27, 2008.

Atid Shamaie, "Rejecting Out-of-Vocabulary Words (with Hidden Markov Models)", US Patent Application 20090052785; February 2009.

Atid Shamaie, "Tracking Bimanual Movements (Recognition of Bimanual Movements)", US Patent Application No. 20080219502; September 2008.

Atid Shamaie, "Enhanced Single-Sensor Position Detection", US Patent Application 20080208517; August 2008.

Atid Shamaie and Francis MacDougall, "Enhanced Input Using Flashing Electromagnetic Radiation", US Patent Application 20080205701; August 2008.

Atid Shamaie and Francis MacDougall, "Gesture-based Mobile Interaction", US Patent Application 20090051648; February 2009.

Journals

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Hand Tracking in Bimanual Movements", Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 23, Issue 13, pp. 1131-1149, Nov. 2005.

Saba Sharifi, Martin Crane, Atid Shamaie, and Heather Ruskin, "Random Matrix Theory for Portfolio Optimization: A Stability Approach", Physica A, Elsevier, No. 353, pp. 629-643, 2004.

Atid Shamaie, S.Mehdi Fakhraie and Beno Benhabib, "A New Transformation Technique for Accurate Estimation of Partly Occluded Ellipse Parameters", Journal of Scientia Iranica, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 43-50, January 1999.

Book Article

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, “A Dynamic Model for Real-time Tracking of Hands in Bimanual Movements”, Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer-Verlag, 2004.

Research Magazines

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Learning and Understanding Bimanual Movements", ERCIM News, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, No. 55, October 2003.

Atid Shamaie, Wu Hai, and Alistair Sutherland, "Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Computer Interaction", ERCIM News, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, No. 46, July 2001.

Proceedings

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Bayesian Fusion of Hidden Markov Models for Understanding Bimanual Movements", The 6th IEEE Int'l Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Seoul, Korea, 17-19 May 2004.

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "A Dynamic Model for Real-time Tracking of Hands in Bimanual Movements", 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction, Genova, Italy, 15-17 April 2003.

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Accurate Recognition of Large Number of Hand Gestures", 2nd Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 13-15 February 2003.

Saba Sharifi, Atid Shamaie, and Martin Crane, "Noise in the Correlation Matrix: A Simulation Approach", 23rd Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, Mullingar, Ireland, May 2003.

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Graph-based Matching of Occluded Hand Gestures", IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR 2001), Washington DC, USA, 10-12 October 2001.

Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, "Classification of Co-articulated and Partly Occluded Hand Gestures", Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2001), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 5-7 September 2001.

Atid Shamaie, S.Mehdi Fakhraie and Beno Benhabib, "Accurate Estimation of Partly-Occluded Ellipse Parameters", 5th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 1997.