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Biography

Hassan's research interests are in the areas of video compression, video transmission and compressed sensing. His PhD research developed resource allocation schemes for the transmission of scalable video content over bandwidth constrained wireless networks. His postdoctoral work developed adaptive sparse recovery algorithms for correlated signals from compressive measurements.
Recent News & Events
- NEWS MERL presenting 13 papers and an industry talk at ICASSP 2020
  Date: May 4, 2020 - May 8, 2020
  Where: Virtual Barcelona
  MERL Contacts: Karl Berntorp; Petros Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Niko Moritz; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern; Siheng Chen
  Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
  Brief
  - MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
    
    Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, array processing, and parameter estimation. Videos for all talks are available on MERL's YouTube channel, with corresponding links in the references below.
    
    This year again, MERL is a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the Student Job Fair; please join us to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
    
    ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year. Originally planned to be held in Barcelona, Spain, ICASSP has moved to a fully virtual setting due to the COVID-19 crisis, with free registration for participants not covering a paper.
- NEWS MERL presenting 16 papers at ICASSP 2019
  Date: May 12, 2019 - May 17, 2019
  Where: Brighton, UK
  MERL Contacts: Petros Boufounos; Anoop Cherian; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Hassan Mansour; Tim Marks; Niko Moritz; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
  Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
  Brief
  - MERL researchers will be presenting 16 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held in Brighton, UK from May 12-17, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, and parameter estimation. MERL is also a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the student career luncheon; please join us at the lunch to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
    
    ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year.
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MERL Publications
- Xu, X., Dhifallah, O., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., Orlik, P.V., "Robust 3D Tomographic Imaging of the Iononspheric Electron Density", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), July 2020.
  BibTeX TR2020-113 PDF
  - @inproceedings{Xu2020jul,
  - author = {Xu, Xiaojian and Dhifallah, Oussama and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T. and Orlik, Philip V.},
  - title = {Robust 3D Tomographic Imaging of the Iononspheric Electron Density},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)},
  - year = 2020,
  - month = jul,
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-113}
  - }
- Xia, Y., Wang, P., Berntorp, K., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., Orlik, P.V., "Extended Object Tracking Using Hierarchical Truncation Model With Partial-View Measurements", IEEE Sensor Array & Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), June 2020.
  BibTeX TR2020-069 PDF
  - @inproceedings{Xia2020jun,
  - author = {Xia, Yuxuan and Wang, Pu and Berntorp, Karl and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T. and Orlik, Philip V.},
  - title = {Extended Object Tracking Using Hierarchical Truncation Model With Partial-View Measurements},
  - booktitle = {IEEE Sensor Array & Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)},
  - year = 2020,
  - month = jun,
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-069}
  - }
- Kadu, A., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "High-Contrast Limited-Angle Reflection Tomography", arXiv, May 2020.
  BibTeX arXiv
  - @article{Kadu2020may,
  - author = {Kadu, Ajinkya and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
  - title = {High-Contrast Limited-Angle Reflection Tomography},
  - journal = {arXiv},
  - year = 2020,
  - month = may,
  - url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02903}
  - }
- Xie, Y., Liu, D., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "Robust Parameter Estimation of Contaminated Damped Exponentials", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053507, April 2020, pp. 5500-5504.
  BibTeX TR2020-052 PDF Video
  - @inproceedings{Xie2020apr,
  - author = {Xie, Youye and Liu, Dehong and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
  - title = {Robust Parameter Estimation of Contaminated Damped Exponentials},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  - year = 2020,
  - pages = {5500--5504},
  - month = apr,
  - publisher = {IEEE},
  - doi = {10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053507},
  - issn = {2379-190X},
  - isbn = {978-1-5090-6631-5},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-052}
  - }
- Al-Shabili, A., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "Learning Plug-and-Play Proximal Quasi-Newton Denoisers", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054537, April 2020, pp. 8896-8900.
  BibTeX TR2020-045 PDF Video
  - @inproceedings{Al-Shabili2020apr,
  - author = {Al-Shabili, Abdullah and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
  - title = {Learning Plug-and-Play Proximal Quasi-Newton Denoisers},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  - year = 2020,
  - pages = {8896--8900},
  - month = apr,
  - publisher = {IEEE},
  - doi = {10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054537},
  - issn = {2379-190X},
  - isbn = {978-1-5090-6631-5},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-045}
  - }
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Other Publications
- H. Mansour, F. Herrmann and O. Yilmaz, "Improved wavefield reconstruction from randomized sampling via weighted one-norm minimization", to appear in Geophysics, 2013.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:Geo13,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Herrmann, F. and Yilmaz, O.},
  - title = {Improved wavefield reconstruction from randomized sampling via weighted one-norm minimization},
  - journal = {to appear in Geophysics},
  - year = 2013
  - }
- Z. Mai, H. Mansour, P. Nasiopoulos and R. Ward, "Visually Favorable Tone-Mapping with High Compression Performance in Bit-Depth Scalable Video Coding", 2013.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:HDR2,
  - author = {Mai, Z. and Mansour, H. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Ward, R.},
  - title = {Visually Favorable Tone-Mapping with High Compression Performance in Bit-Depth Scalable Video Coding},
  - year = 2013,
  - note = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia}
  - }
- H. Mansour, H. Wason, T. T.Y. Lin and F. Herrmann, "Randomized marine acquisition with compressive sampling matrices", Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 648-662, 2012.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:GP12,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Wason, H. and Lin, T. T.Y. and Herrmann, F.},
  - title = {Randomized marine acquisition with compressive sampling matrices},
  - journal = {Geophysical Prospecting},
  - year = 2012,
  - volume = 60,
  - number = 4,
  - pages = {648--662}
  - }
- H. Mansour and O. Yilmaz, "Support driven reweighted l1 minimization", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2012.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:ICASSP12a,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Yilmaz, O.},
  - title = {Support driven reweighted l1 minimization},
  - booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  - year = 2012,
  - month = mar
  - }
- H. Mansour and O. Yilmaz, "Adaptive compressed sensing for video acquisition", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2012.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:ICASSP12b,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Yilmaz, O.},
  - title = {Adaptive compressed sensing for video acquisition},
  - booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  - year = 2012,
  - month = mar
  - }
- H. Mansour, "Beyond l1-norm minimization for sparse signal recovery", IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Aug. 2012, pp. 337-340.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:WSPGL1,
  - author = {Mansour, H.},
  - title = {Beyond l1-norm minimization for sparse signal recovery},
  - booktitle = {IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP)},
  - year = 2012,
  - pages = {337--340},
  - month = {Aug.}
  - }
- H. Mansour, H. Wason, T. T.Y. Lin and F. Herrmann, "A compressive sensing perspective on simultaneous marine acquisition", Proc of the 12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society (CISBGF), August 2011.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:SBGF11,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Wason, H. and Lin, T. T.Y. and Herrmann, F.},
  - title = {A compressive sensing perspective on simultaneous marine acquisition},
  - booktitle = {Proc of the 12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society (CISBGF)},
  - year = 2011,
  - month = aug
  - }
- H. Mansour and O. Yilmaz, "Weighted l1 minimization with multiple weighting sets", Proc. of the SPIE, Wavelets and Sparsity XIV, August 2011, pp. 13 pages.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:SPIE11,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Yilmaz, O.},
  - title = {Weighted l1 minimization with multiple weighting sets},
  - booktitle = {Proc. of the SPIE, Wavelets and Sparsity XIV},
  - year = 2011,
  - pages = {13 pages},
  - month = aug,
  - note = {(invited)}
  - }
- Z. Mai, H. Mansour, R. Mantiuk, P. Nasiopoulos, R. Ward and W. Heidrich, "Optimizing a Tone Curve for Backward-Compatible High Dynamic Range Image / Video Compression", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, pp. 1558-1571, June 2011.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:TIP11,
  - author = {Mai, Z. and Mansour, H. and Mantiuk, R. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Ward, R. and Heidrich, W.},
  - title = {Optimizing a Tone Curve for Backward-Compatible High Dynamic Range Image / Video Compression},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
  - year = 2011,
  - volume = 20,
  - pages = {1558--1571},
  - month = {June}
  - }
- M. Friedlander, H. Mansour, R. Saab and O. Yilmaz, "Recovering Compressively Sampled Signals Using Partial Support Information", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 1, January 2011.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:TIT12,
  - author = {Friedlander, M. and Mansour, H. and Saab, R. and Yilmaz, O.},
  - title = {Recovering Compressively Sampled Signals Using Partial Support Information},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
  - year = 2011,
  - volume = 58,
  - number = 1,
  - month = jan
  - }
- H. Mansour, P. Nasiopoulos and V. Krishnamurthy, "Rate and distortion modeling of CGS coded scalable video content", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 165 - 180, April 2011.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:TMM11,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Krishnamurthy, V.},
  - title = {Rate and distortion modeling of CGS coded scalable video content},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
  - year = 2011,
  - volume = 13,
  - number = 2,
  - pages = {165 -- 180},
  - month = apr
  - }
- H. Mansour, R. Saab, P. Nasiopoulos and R. Ward, "Color Image Desaturation Using Sparse Reconstruction", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2010, pp. 778-781.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:ICASSP10,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Saab, R. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Ward, R.},
  - title = {Color Image Desaturation Using Sparse Reconstruction},
  - booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  - year = 2010,
  - pages = {778--781},
  - month = mar
  - }
- Z. Mai, H. Mansour, P. Nasiopoulos and R. Ward, "Visually favorable tone-mapping with high compression performance", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2010, pp. 1285-1288.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:ICIP10a,
  - author = {Mai, Z. and Mansour, H. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Ward, R.},
  - title = {Visually favorable tone-mapping with high compression performance},
  - booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  - year = 2010,
  - pages = {1285--1288},
  - month = sep
  - }
- N. Sun, H. Mansour and R. Ward, "HDR image construction from multi-exposed stereo LDR images", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2010, pp. 2973-2976.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{Mansour:ICIP10b,
  - author = {Sun, N. and Mansour, H. and Ward, R.},
  - title = {HDR image construction from multi-exposed stereo LDR images},
  - booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  - year = 2010,
  - pages = {2973--2976},
  - month = sep
  - }
- H. Mansour, Y. P. Fallah, P. Nasiopoulos and V. Krishnamurthy, "Dynamic Resource Allocation for MGS H.264/AVC Video Transmission Over Link-Adaptive Networks", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 1478-1491, Dec. 2009.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:TMM09,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Fallah, Y. P. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Krishnamurthy, V.},
  - title = {Dynamic Resource Allocation for MGS H.264/AVC Video Transmission Over Link-Adaptive Networks},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
  - year = 2009,
  - volume = 11,
  - number = 8,
  - pages = {1478--1491},
  - month = {Dec.}
  - }
- Y. P. Fallah, H. Mansour, S. Khan, P. Nasiopoulos and H. Alnuweiri, "A Link Adaptation Scheme for Efficient Transmission of H.264 Scalable Video Over Multirate WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 18, pp. 875-887, July 2008.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:TCSVT08,
  - author = {Fallah, Y. P. and Mansour, H. and Khan, S. and Nasiopoulos, P. and Alnuweiri, H.},
  - title = {A Link Adaptation Scheme for Efficient Transmission of H.264 Scalable Video Over Multirate WLANs},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
  - year = 2008,
  - volume = 18,
  - pages = {875--887},
  - month = {July}
  - }
- H. Mansour, V. Krishnamurthy and P. Nasiopoulos, "Channel Aware Multiuser Scalable Video Streaming Over Lossy Under-Provisioned Channels: Modeling and Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp. 1366-1381, Nov. 2008.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{Mansour:TMM08,
  - author = {Mansour, H. and Krishnamurthy, V. and Nasiopoulos, P.},
  - title = {Channel Aware Multiuser Scalable Video Streaming Over Lossy Under-Provisioned Channels: Modeling and Analysis},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
  - year = 2008,
  - volume = 10,
  - number = 7,
  - pages = {1366--1381},
  - month = {Nov.}
  - }
- H. Mansour, "Modeling of Scalable Video Content for Multi-user Wireless Transmission".
  BibTeX
  - @Other{Mansour:PhD,
  - author = {Mansour, H.},
  - title = {Modeling of Scalable Video Content for Multi-user Wireless Transmission},
  - note = { Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2005}
  - }
Software Downloads
- Robust Online Subspace Estimation and Tracking Algorithm
Videos
MERL Issued Patents
- Title: "System and Method for Fused Radar Imaging Under Position Ambiguity of Antennas"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Liu, Dehong; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Boufounos, Petros T.
  Patent No.: 10,677,915
  Issue Date: Jun 9, 2020
- Title: "PARSITY ENFORCING NEURAL NETWORK"
  Inventors: Kamilov, Ulugbek; Mansour, Hassan; Liu, Dehong
  Patent No.: 10,657,446
  Issue Date: May 19, 2020
- Title: "System and Method for Determining Structure of Material"
  Inventors: Kamilov, Ulugbek; Liu, Dehong; Mansour, Hassan
  Patent No.: 10,571,408
  Issue Date: Feb 25, 2020
- Title: "Systems and Methods for Multi-Spectral Image Super-Resolution"
  Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Wen, Bihan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.
  Patent No.: 10,482,576
  Issue Date: Nov 19, 2019
- Title: "Systems and Methods of Fusing Multi-angle View HD Images Based on Epipolar Geometry and Matrix Completion"
  Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Taguchi, Yuichi; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 10,212,410
  Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019
- Title: "Methods and Systems for Predicting Flow of Crowds from Limited Observations"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Benosman, Mouhacine; Huroyan, Vahan
  Patent No.: 10,210,398
  Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019
- Title: "System and Method for Through-the-Wall-Radar-Imaging using Total-Variation Denoising"
  Inventors: Handa, Hiroyuki; Mansour, Hassan; Liu, Dehong; Kamilov, Ulugbek
  Patent No.: 9,971,019
  Issue Date: May 15, 2018
- Title: "Method and System for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek
  Patent No.: 9,915,730
  Issue Date: Mar 13, 2018
- Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,892,520
  Issue Date: Feb 13, 2018
- Title: "Method for Segmenting and Tracking Content in Videos Using Low-Dimensional Subspaces and Sparse Vectors"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Jiang, Xin
  Patent No.: 9,697,614
  Issue Date: Jul 4, 2017
- Title: "Depth-Weighted Group-Wise Principal Component Analysis for Video Foreground/Background Separation"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,679,387
  Issue Date: Jun 13, 2017
- Title: "Method for Extracting Low-Rank Descriptors from Images and Videos for Querying, Classification, and Object Detection"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Rane, Shantanu D.; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,639,761
  Issue Date: May 2, 2017
- Title: "Method for Estimating Parameters of a Graph Spectral Filter Using Training Data"
  Inventors: Wang, Yongzhe; Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony; Ortega, Antonio
  Patent No.: 9,619,755
  Issue Date: Apr 11, 2017
- Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,600,896
  Issue Date: Mar 21, 2017
- Title: "Method for Graph Based Processing of Signals"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Kniazev, Andrei; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,600,865
  Issue Date: Mar 21, 2017
- Title: "Method and System for Reconstructing Sampled Signals"
  Inventors: Kniazev, Andrei; Gadde, Akshay; Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Waters, Richard C.
  Patent No.: 9,510,787
  Issue Date: Dec 6, 2016
- Title: "Method and System for Segmenting an Image Based on Motion Vanishing Points"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Kao, Jiun-Yu; Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,430,840
  Issue Date: Aug 30, 2016
- Title: "Method and System for Through-the-Wall Imaging using Sparse Inversion for Blind Multi-Path Elimination"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan
  Patent No.: 9,335,408
  Issue Date: May 10, 2016
- Title: "Method and System for Through-the-Wall Imaging using Compressive Sensing and MIMO Antenna Arrays"
  Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Li, Li; Liu, Dehong; Mansour, Hassan; Sahinoglu, Zafer
  Patent No.: 9,261,592
  Issue Date: Feb 16, 2016
- Title: "Method for Video Background Subtraction Using Factorized Matrix Completion"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,247,139
  Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016
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