Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami

 

Professor of Electrical Engineering/Signal Processing

 

Electronics Research Institute (ERI)

Sharif University of Technology (SUT)

 

Tel: 98-21-6616 4900, 98-21-6616 4901

Fax: 98-21-6603 0318

Email: ghaemmag@sharif.edu

 

Director, Electronics Research Institute

 

 

Education

 

PhD:

Signal Processing Research Center/Research Center for Speech, Audio, Image & Video Technology

School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, 1998.

 

MSc& BSc:

MSc: Communication Systems

BSc: Electronics

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran

 

 

Teaching (current)

 

Speech Processing, 25-159, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Information Hiding, 25-139, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

 

 

Research

 

Major Areas:

o   Signal Processing: Speech, Audio, Image, & Video Processing

o   Communications: Data Transmission, Secure Communications

o   Machine Intelligence and Deep Learning: Theories & Applications

o   Information Hiding/Forensics: Watermarking, Steganography, Steganalysis, Finger Printing

 

Large Research Projects Led:

o   Very Low Rate Speech Compression

o   Secure Speech Communication Systems

o   Speech Separation and Enhancement

o   Speech and Speaker Recognition/Verification

o   Image and Video Encryption Systems

o   Video Modeling and Event Recognition

o   Tampering Detection/Restoration of Image and Video

o   Steganalysis of Speech, Audio, Image, and Video

o   Well-Logging Systems, Open-Hole and Cased-Hole

o   Deep Learning Structural Analysis, Theoretical & Applied

o   Word Spotting of Persian Speech

 

 

 

Publications (2010+)

 

Journal papers

 

A machine learning framework for predicting entrapment efficiency in niosomal particles

F Kashani-Asadi-Jafari, A Aftab, S Ghaemmaghami

International Journal of Pharmaceutics 627, 2022.

 

Compound short-and long-term memory for memory augmented neural networks

A Bidokhti, S Ghaemmaghami

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 116, 2022.

 

Designing Low Coherent Measurement Matrix with Controlled Spectral Norm via an Efficient Approximation of ℓ∞-Norm

A Heshmati, S Amini, S Ghaemmaghami, F Marvasti

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022.

 

A Model for Detecting Targets and Classifying Pulses of 6-Antenna Radar Systems with Neural Networks Optimized by Genetic Algorithm

E Nasirzadeh, S Bayat, S Ghaemmaghami

Journal of Aeronautical Engineering 24 (2), 2022.

 

Non-Smooth Regularization: Improvement to Learning Framework through Extrapolation

S Amini, M Soltanian, M Sadeghi, S Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 70, 2022.

 

Recognition of Visual Events using Spatio-Temporal Information of the Video Signal

M Soltanian, S Ghaemmaghami

Signal and Data Processing 18 (1), 134-119, in Persian, 2021.

 

Towards improving robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial perturbations

S Amini, S Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 22 (7), 2020.

 

Error Correction in Pitch Detection using a Deep Learning Based Classification

M Khadem-hosseini, S Ghaemmaghami, A Abtahi, S Gazor, F Marvasti

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 28, 2020.

 

Spatio-Temporal VLAD Encoding of Visual Events using Temporal Ordering of the Mid-Level Deep Semantics

M. Soltanian, S. Amini, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 22 (7), 2020.

 

A New Framework to Train Autoencoders through Non-Smooth Regularization

S. Amini, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 67 (7), 2019.

 

Lowering Mutual Coherence between Receptive Fields in Convolutional Neural Networks

S. Amini, S. Ghaemmaghami

IET, Electronics Letters, 55 (6), 2019.

 

Median Filtering Forensics in Compressed Video

V. Amanipour, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 26 (2), 2019.

 

Hierarchy of Concepts, Aggregation of Pooling, and Concept-wise Normalization in CNN based Video Event Recognition

M. Soltanian, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 21 (1), 2019.

 

Detection of Median Filtering Manipulation in Compressed Image

V. Amanipour, S. Ghaemmaghami

Electronic and Cyber Defense, 7 (3), 121-129, in Persian, 2019.

 

Video-Tampering Detection and Content Reconstruction via Self-Embedding

V. Amanipour, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 67 (3), 2018.

 

A Universal Image Steganalysis System Based On Double Sparse Representation Classification (DSRC)

A. Jalali, H. Farsi, S. Ghaemmaghami

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1 (20), 2017.

 

A sparse representation-based wavelet domain speech steganography method

S. Ahani, S. Ghaemmaghami, ZJ. Wang

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) 23 (1), 2015.

 

Towards blind detection of low-rate spatial embedding in image steganalysis

F. Farhat, S. Ghaemmaghami

IET Image Processing 9 (1), 31-42, 2015.

 

Colour image steganography method based on sparse representation

S. Ahani, S. Ghaemmaghami

IET Image Processing 9 (6), 496-505, 2014.

 

Application of 3D-wavelet statistics to video analysis

M. Omidyeganeh, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

Multimedia tools and applications 65 (3), 441-465, 2013.

 

Group-based spatio-temporal video analysis and abstraction using wavelet parameters

M. Omidyeganeh, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

Signal, Image and Video Processing, 1-12, 2013.

 

A Low Complexity NSAF Algorithm

M. Rabiee, M. Ahmadian Attari, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Signal Processing Letters 19 (11), 716-719, 2012.

 

Video keyframe analysis using a segment-based statistical metric in a visually sensitive parametric space

M. Omidyeganeh, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 20 (10), 2730-2737, 2011.

 

Closure of Sets: A Statistically Hypersensitive System for Steganalysis of LSB Embedding

S. Khosravirad, T. Eghlidos, S. Ghaemmaghami

IET Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 379-389, 2011.

 

Improvement to Speech-Music Discrimination using Sinusoidal Model based Features

J. Shirazi, S. Ghaemmaghami

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 50 (2), 415-435, 2010.

 

Very Low Rate Scalable Speech Coding Through Classified Embedded Matrix Quantization

E. Jahangiri, S. Ghaemmaghami

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 480345, 2010.

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Conference Papers

 

Human Inspired Memory Module for Memory Augmented Neural Networks

A Bidokhti, S Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Intl Conference on Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence and Communications Technology (IAICT), 2022.

 

Multi-Head ReLU Implicit Neural Representation Networks

A Aftab, A Morsali, S Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Intl Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022.

 

Towards Robust Visual Transformer Networks via K-Sparse Attention

S Amini, S Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Intl Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022.

 

Light-SERNet: A lightweight fully convolutional neural network for speech emotion recognition

A Aftab, A Morsali, S Ghaemmaghami, B Champagne

IEEE Intl Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022.

 

Compressed Video Watermarking for Authentication and Reconstruction of the Audio Part

Z. Esmailbeig, S. Ghaemmaghami

Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC), 15th International ISC Conference on, 2018.

 

Tampering Detection and Restoration of Compressed Video

B. Azizian, S. Ghaemmaghami

Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC), 15th International ISC Conference on, 2018.

 

Video event recognition leveraging hierarchy of semantic concepts

M. Soltanian, S. Ghaemmaghami

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2017 Iranian Conference on, 1549-1553, 2017.

 

Blind consecutive extraction of multi-carrier spread spectrum data from digital images

M. Soltanian, S. Ghaemmaghami

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2017 Iranian Conference on, 1835-1839, 2017.

 

Towards higher detection accuracy in blind steganalysis of JPEG images

M. Zohourian, M. Heidari, S Ghaemmaghami, I. Gholampour

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2016 24th Iranian Conference on, 1860-1864, 2016.

 

Detection of regional copy/move forgery in MPEG videos using optical flow

A. Bidokhti, S. Ghaemmaghami

Artificial intelligence and signal processing (AISP), 2015 International Conference on, 2015.

 

A generalized multi-layer information hiding scheme using wet paper coding

A. Bidokhti, S. Ghaemmaghami

Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC), 2014 11th International ISC Conference on, 2014.

 

An efficient feature extraction methodology for blind image steganalysis using contourlet transform and Zernike moments

E. Shakeri, S. Ghaemmaghami

Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC), 2013 10th International ISC Conference on, 2013.

 

A Robust Wavelet-based Approach to Fingerprint Identification

M. Omidyeganeh, A. Javadtalab, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, 2012.

 

Statistical modeling of error resilient JPEG2000 decoding

M. Omidyeganeh, A. Javadtalab, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

TENCON 2011-2011 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 403-407, 2011.

 

Image steganalysis based on SVD and noise estimation: Improve sensitivity to spatial LSB embedding families

A. Diyanat, F. Farhat, S. Ghaemmaghami

TENCON 2011-2011 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 1266-1270, 2011.

 

LSB++: an improvement to LSB+ steganography

K. Ghazanfari, S. Ghaemmaghami, SR. Khosravi

TENCON 2011-2011 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 364-368, 2011.

 

Multi-dimensional correlation steganalysis

F. Farhat, A. Diyanat, S. Ghaemmaghami, MR. Aref

Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2011 IEEE 13th International Workshop, 2011.

 

Universal steganalysis based on local prediction error in wavelet Domain

A. Shojaei-Hashemi, M. Mehdipour-Ghazi, S. Ghaemmaghami

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2011.

 

Autoregressive Video Modeling Through 2D Wavelet Statistics

M. Omidyeganeh, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

6th Intl Conf. Intelligent Information Hiding and multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP), Oct. 2010.

 

Robust Digital Video Watermarking in an Orthogonal Parametric Space

M. Omidyeganeh, H. Khalilian, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

Proc. IEEE Region-10 Int'l Conf. (TENCON), pp. 2258-2263, Nov. 2010.

 

On Limits of Embedding in 3D Images based on 2D Watson’s Model

Z. Kavehvash, S. Ghaemmaghami

9th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW), pp. 293-304, Oct. 2010.

 

Image Steganography based on Sparse Decomposition in Wavelet Space

S. Ahani, S. Ghaemmaghami

Intl Conf. Information Theory and Information Security (ICITIS), Nov. 2010.

 

An Event based approach to Video Analysis and Keyframe Selection

M. Omidyeganeh, S. Ghaemmaghami, S. Shirmohammadi

IEEE workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS), pp.128-133, Oct. 2010.

 

Image Watermarking using Independent Component Analysis

A. Hajisami, S. Ghaemmaghami

Intl Symposium on Information Processing ISIP, Nov. pp. 363-367, 2010.

 

High Capacity Image Steganography in Wavelet Domain

S. Sarreshtedari, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), 2010.

 

Towards Genetic Feature Selection in Image Steganalysis

M. Ramezani, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), 2010.

 

Adaptive Image Steganography with Mod-4 Embedding using Image Contrast

M. Ramezani, S. Ghaemmaghami

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), pp. 1-4, 2010.

 

 

Students Supervised (2010+)

 

PhD Students

 

M.H. Sargazi-Moghadam

Structural enhancement of deep networks for robustness to adversarial attacks

 

A. Bidokhti

Design of memory structure in machine learning inspired by human learning system

 

S. Amini

Deep learning based on sparse coding for classification

 

M. Soltanian

Video Analysis based on Visual Events

 

V. Amanipour

Blind Detection of Processes Applied to Video via Action Effects Analysis

 

F. Farhat

Steganalysis of information hiding systems through an information-theoretic approach

 

S. Ahani

Steganography using sparse decomposition

 

M. Omidyeganeh

Parametric Analysis and Modeling of Video Signal

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MSc Students

 

A. Heshmati

Adversarial attack to deep learning networks via imperceptible sparse perturbation

 

A. Abdolrahimi

Dtection and localization of image manipulation

 

S. Khanehggeer

Gesture-based Anti-Spoofing Face Verification

 

V. Jebraeeli

Human identity recognition through gait and body motions analysis

 

A. Aghababaei Harandi

Deepfake Videos Detection through Deep Analysis of Artifacts of Still and Moving Images

 

A. Aftab

Speech emotion recognition using deep learning and time-frequency features

 

M.R. Peyghan

Speech Driven Talking Face Synthesis based on True Articulatory Gestures

 

M. Khadem Hosseini

Pitch Detection Using Deep Learning

 

H. Aghamohammadi

Phonetic Attributes Dependent Speaker Verification using Deep Learning

 

A.H. Keshavarz

Audio-visual speaker verification using identity based articulatory features

 

M.H. Sargazi Moghadam

Steganalysis of JPEG Images using Convolutional Neural Network

 

S.E. Hosseini

Speech enhancement using deep neural networks in non-stationary noise

 

M.R. Hajbabaei

Unconstrained Face Verification in Video

 

B. Azizian

Tampering Detection of Video and its Selective Reconstruction in compressed video

 

Z. Esmaeilbeig

Video Watermarking for Tampering Detection and Reconstruction of the Audio Part

 

A. Jalali

Image Steganalysis based on Sparse Representation

A. Bidokhti

Forgery detection of moving objects in digital video

 

M.R. Izadi Kharameh

Text-independent speaker verification based on phonetic evolution

 

S. Karimi

Structural and algorithmic analysis of machine learning in steganalysis based on feature space size and variants

 

M. Heidari

Analysis of Sensitivity of Features to Data Embedding in Blind Image Steganalysis

 

S.E. Delfani Abbariki

Automatic music signal classification through hierarchical clustering

 

E. Shakeri

Improve Performance of Higher Order Statistics in Spatial and Frequency Domains in Blind Image Steganalysis

 

M. Mohammadi

Steganalysis of audio signals based on discriminative features statistics

 

M.A. Karandish

Image Steganalysis Based on Feature Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms

 

A. Mohammadi

Image modeling using random field for steganalysis

 

M. Joneidi

Feature extraction and robust classification of images using sparse decomposition

 

H. Khaki

Speaker verification with incomplete multimodal speech data

 

H. Bakhshi Golestani

Model based watermarking of video

 

M. Zohourian

Blind image steganalysis through multiresolution analysis

 

H.R. Torkiyan

Optimization of feature selection for image steganalysis

 

A. Diyanat

Steganalysis of multimedia signals with entropic version of signal