Ashkan Yazdani was born in Tehran, Iran, On April 3th, 1982. In July 2007, he received his M.sc. in Electrical Engineering (bioelectric) from the University of Tehran, Iran. His M.sc. Thesis focused on Electroencephalogram signal processing, Pattern recognition, fuzzy logic and biological computation. From September 2006 to October 2007, he worked as research assistant in Brain signal processing group in University of Tehran, where he worked on person identification using EEG signal processing, Brain Computer interfacing and also fMRI signal processing.
In December 2007, he joined the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG) at EPFL as a research assistant in Prof. Ebrahimi's group, working towards his PhD in the area of brain-computer interfacing. During his PhD, he was involved in various research projects and European networks of excellence (NoE) and he was representing MMSPG in several european projects. He was selected as the coordinator of one of the main IRPs in Petamedia NOE and he represented this NOE in several European exhibitions such as NEM summit and ICT. Among his other research activities, there is a one year collaboration project with European Space Agency (ESA) on curiosity cloning project and active involvement in VISNET 2 and Qualinet NOEs, where he worked on human face detection and Quality of Experience (QoE) in multimedia.
His research interests include but are not limited to multimedia/biomedical signal and image processing, brain computer interfacing, emotion and affect recognition, social networks, Cognitive neuroscience, subjective test design, QOE assessment, pattern recognition, fuzzy logic, neural networks and blind source separation.
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Conference Papers
2010
A. Yazdani, J.-M. Vesin, D. Izzo, C. Ampatzis and T. Ebrahimi
Implicit Retrieval Of Salient Images Using Brain Computer Interface
2010 Ieee International Conference On Image Processing, pp. 3169-3172, 2010.
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A. Yazdani, J.-M. Vesin, D. Izzo, C. Ampatzis and T. Ebrahimi
The Impact of Expertise on Brain Computer Interface Based Salient Image Retrieval
2010 Annual International Conference Of The Ieee Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (Embc), pp. 1646-1649, 2010.
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A. Yazdani, J.-M. Vesin, D. Izzo, c. Ampatzis and T. Ebrahimi
IMPLICIT RETRIEVAL OF SALIENT IMAGES USING BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010.
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A. Yazdani, J.-M. Vesin, D. Izzo, C. Ampatzis and T. Ebrahimi
The Impact of Expertise on Brain Computer Interface Based Salient Image Retrieval
Proceedings of 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 1646-1649, 2010.
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S. Koelstra, A. Yazdani, M. Soleymani, C. Muehl, J.-S. Lee, A. Nijholt, T. Pun, T. Ebrahimi and I. Patras
Single trial classification of EEG and peripheral physiological signals for recognition of emotions induced by music videos
Proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics, 2010.
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2009
D. Izzo, L. Rossini, M. Rucinski, C. Ampatzis, G. Healy, P. Wilkins, A. Smeaton, A. Yazdani and T. Ebrahimi
Curiosity Cloning: Neural Analysis of Scientific Knowledge
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2009, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space, 2009.
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A. Yazdani, J.-S. Lee and T. Ebrahimi
Implicit emotional tagging of multimedia using EEG signals and brain computer interface
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Workshop on Social Media, 2009.
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A. Yazdani, U. Hoffmann and T. Ebrahimi
Classification of EEG Signals Using Dempster Shafer Theory and a K-Nearest Neighbor Classiļ¬er
The 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, pp. 327-330, 2009.
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2008
A. Yazdani, A. Roodaki, S.H. Rezatofighi, K. Misaghian and S.K. Setarehdan
Fisher linear discriminant based person identification using visual evoked potentials
Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 2008),, pp. 1677 - 1680, 2008.
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A. Pourmorteza, S.H.R. Tofighi, A. Roodaki, A. Yazdani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh
Context-dependent Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels
Proceedings of 13th International CSI Computer Science, 2008.
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U. Hoffmann, J. Naruniec, A. Yazdani and T. Ebrahimi
Face Detection Using Discrete Gabor Jets And Color Information
Proceedings of SIGMAP 2008 - International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, pp. 76-83, 2008.
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U. Hoffmann, A. Yazdani, J.-M. Vesin and T. Ebrahimi
Bayesian Feature Selection Applied In a P300 Brain- Computer Interface
proceedings of 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008), 2008.
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2007
P. Ataee, A. Yazdani, S.K. Setarehdan and H. Ahmadi Noubari
Manifold Learning Applied on EEG Signal of the Epileptic Patients for Detection of Normal and Pre-Seizure States
Proceedings of 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,, pp. 5489 - 5492, 2007.
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A. Yazdani, P. Ataee, S.K. Setarehdan, C. Lucas and B. Nadjar Araabi
Neural, Fuzzy And Neurofuzzy Approach To Classification Of Normal And Alcoholic Electroencephalograms
Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, pp. 102 - 106, 2007.
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A. Yazdani, P. Ataee, S.K. Setarehdan and H. Ahmadi Noubar
Proposed Genetic Algorithm Based Method to Determine the Best Feature Vector and Window Length to Discriminate Pre-seizure and Normal EEG
Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, pp. 107 - 112, 2007.
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A. Yazdani and S.K. Setarehdan
Classification of EEG signals correlated with alcohol abusers
Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, pp. 1-4, 2007.
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Book Chapters
2009
A. Pourmorteza, S.H.R. Tofighi, A. Roodaki, A. Yazdani and H. Soltanian-Zadeh
Context-Dependent Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using Hidden Markov Models
in Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, Springer-Verlag, 2009.
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2008
U. Hoffmann, J. Naruniec, A. Yazdani and T. Ebrahimi
Face Detection Using Discrete Gabor Jets and a Probabilistic Model of Colored Image Patches
in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS series), : Springer-Verlag, 2008.
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Doctoral Assistant