Welcome  to Somayeh Danafar’s home page

 

About me:

 I got my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, and the Master degree of Neural and Behavioral Sciences in International Max Planck Research School, Tübingen University, Germany. I am doing my PhD under supervision of Prof. Schmidhuber at IDSIA. I am highly interested to continue my researches in Machine learning with focus on kernel-based methods for Dimensionality Reduction.

 

Teaching Assistant: Intelligent Systems , Fall 2010 , University of Lugano (USI).

Reviewer: J. of Evolutionary Computation (JEC), 2010, and the Int. Joint Conf. of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011.

 

Thesis and Publications:

 

· Neural Basis of Category Learning, Master Thesis, Somayeh Danafar, Uta Noppeney, Dominik Janzing, in Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany,2009.

· Novel Kernel-Based Recognizers of Human Actions, Somayeh Danafar, Alessandro Giusti, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, PDF .

· Characteristic Kernels on Structured Domains Excel in Robotics and Human Action Recognition, Somayeh Danafar, Arthur Gretton, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. LNCS, Springer, pp.264-279, ECML10, PDF.

· Eye Detection based on SVD transforms, Somayeh Danafar, Leila Taghavi Sheikh and Alireza Tavakoli Targhi, 2004. published in International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology ,Volume 16, Issue 5, pages 222-229, 2007.

· Action Recognition for Surveillance Applications Using Optic Flow and SVM, Somayeh Danafar & Niloofar Gheissari ,In  proceedings of 8 ^thAsian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2007, Tokyo, Japan.

· Cognitive- functional modeling of an Intelligent Tutoring System (GLITS system), Shahla Tabatabai, Somayeh Danafar, In proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 2007), Las Vegas, USA.

· Cognitive- functional modeling of an Intelligent Tutoring System (GLITS system), Shahla Tabatabai, Somayeh Danafar, In proceedings of 11^th International CSI (Computer Society of Iran) Computer Conference (CICC) 2006, pp 223-230.

· A new approach for edge detection based on Fuzzy rules, Somayeh Danafar, Leila Taghavi Sheikh, Amir Masud Eftekhari Moghadam, Accepted in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI2006), Las Vegas, USA.

 

 

 

To contact me:

Somayeh@idsia.ch