Ali Azarbayejani

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Phone: (617) 621 7578
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Ali Azarbayejani's doctoral research was on vision-based computational 3D geometry and underlying nonlinear probabilistic methods. In 1997, he founded Alchemy 3D Technology to develop technology and software based on his computer vision research and led the development of new markets in the film and video post-production industry for vision-based software. In 2002, he began consulting in software design and development and in 2003; he joined MERL with interests in technology, software, and business development.

Recent Projects:

Phase Unwrapping for Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Recent Publications:

Yu Okada, Chie Hirao, Takeshi Horiuchi, Yoshihisa Hara, Jonathan Yedidia, Ali Azarbayejani, Noboru Oishi, Masatada Furuhata, Nobuo Kumagai, Shouji Morioka, Yoshihiko Kato, "Highly Accurate DSM Reconstruction Using Ku-Band Airborne InSAR", IGARSS 2007, August 2007 (TR2007-064)

Recent Technical Reports:

TR2005-084 Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks