About

I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft as part of the Turing team working on Copilot.

I obtained my PhD at University of Bonn, working under supervision of Prof. Juergen Gall on Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

I interned at Google Research during fall/winter 2020, working with Rodrigo Benenson and Vittorio Ferrari.

Publications

(Google Scholar)

Robust Action Segmentation from Timestamp Supervision

Yaser Souri*, Yazan Abu Farha*, Emad Bahrami*, Gianpiero Francesca, Juergen Gall

* equal contribution

BMVC 2022

arXiv | code | bibtex

@inproceedings{robust_seg2022,
	title        = {{Robust Action Segmentation from Timestamp Supervision}},
	author       = {Souri, Yaser and Abu Farha, Yazan and Bahrami, Emad and Francesca, Gianpiero and Gall, Juergen},
	year         = 2022,
	booktitle    = {{BMVC}}
}

FIFA: Fast Inference Approximation for Action Segmentation

Yaser Souri, Yazan Abu Farha, Fabien Despinoy, Gianpiero Francesca, Juergen Gall

GCPR 2021

arXiv | video presentation | supmat | code | bibtex

@inproceedings{fifa2021,
	title        = {{FIFA: Fast Inference Approximation for Action Segmentation}},
	author       = {Souri, Yaser and Abu Farha, Yazan and Despinoy, Fabien and Francesca, Gianpiero and Gall, Juergen},
	year         = 2021,
	booktitle    = {{GCPR}}
}

Fast Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation Using Mutual Consistency

Yaser Souri*, Mohsen Fayyaz*, Luca Minciullo, Gianpiero Francesca, Juergen Gall

* equal contribution

TPAMI 2021

arXiv | ieee | supmat | code | bibtex

@article{mucon2021,
	title        = {{Fast Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation Using Mutual Consistency}},
	author       = {Souri, Yaser and Fayyaz, Mohsen and Minciullo, Luca and Francesca, Gianpiero and Gall, Juergen},
	year         = 2021,
	journal      = {{PAMI}}
}

On Evaluating Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation Methods

Yaser Souri, Alexander Richard, Luca Minciullo, Juergen Gall

arXiv 2020

arXiv | code | bibtex

@inproceedings{act_seg_eval2020,
	title        = {{On Evaluating Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation Methods}},
	author       = {Souri, Yaser and Richard, Alexander and Minciullo, Luca and Gall, Juergen},
	year         = 2020,
	booktitle    = {{arXiv}}
}

Hierarchical Graph-RNNs for Action Detection of Multiple Activities

Sovan Biswas, Yaser Souri, Juergen Gall

ICIP 2019

pdf | ieee link | bibtex

@inproceedings{biswas2019,
	title        = {{Hierarchical Graph-RNNs for Action Detection of Multiple Activities}},
	author       = {Biswas, Sovan and Souri, Yaser and Gall, Juergen},
	year         = 2019,
	booktitle    = {{ICIP}}
}

What Object Should I Use? - Task Driven Object Detection

Johann Sawatzky*, Yaser Souri*, Christian Grund, Juergen Gall

* indicates equal contribution (alphabetically ordered)

CVPR 2019

arXiv | supmat | project | code | dataset | annotation tool | bibtex

@inproceedings{cocotasks2019,
	title        = {{What Object Should I Use? - Task Driven Object Detection}},
	author       = {Sawatzky, Johann and Souri, Yaser and Grund, Christian and Gall, Juergen},
	year         = 2019,
	booktitle    = {{CVPR}}
}

Deep Relative Attributes

Yaser Souri, Erfan Noury, Ehsan Adeli

ACCV 2016

arXiv | code | springer link | bibtex

@inproceedings{souri2016dra,
	title        = {{Deep Relative Attributes}},
	author       = {Souri, Yaser and Noury, Erfan and Adeli, Ehsan},
	year         = 2016,
	booktitle    = {{ACCV}}
}

Persian Handwritten Digit Recognition by Random Forest and Convolutional Neural Networks

Yasin Zamani, Yaser Souri, Hossein Rashidi, Shohreh Kasaei

Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP) 2015

pdf | ieee link | bibtex

@inproceedings{zamani2015phdr,
	title        = {{Persian Handwritten Digit Recognition by Random Forest and Convolutional Neural Networks}},
	author       = {Zamani, Yasin and Souri, Yaser and Rashidi, Hossein and Kasaei, Shohreh},
	year         = 2015,
	booktitle    = {{Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP) 2015}}
}

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Fast Bird Part Localization for Fine-Grained Categorization

Yaser Souri, Shohreh Kasaei

The Third Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC3) in conjunction with CVPR 2015

pdf | project | poster | code | bibtex

@inproceedings{souri2015fbp,
	title        = {{Fast Bird Part Localization for Fine-Grained Categorization}},
	author       = {Souri, Yaser and Kasaei, Shohreh},
	year         = 2015,
	booktitle    = {{CVPR Workshops}}
}

Education

Aug 2017 - Jun 2022

PhD. Computer Science

University of Bonn

Under supervision of Prof. J. Gall


Sep 2013 - Mar 2015

M.Sc. Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

Sharif University of Technology

Under supervision of Prof. Shohreh Kasaei and Dr. Erik Rodner

Thesis: Fine-grained image classification


Sep 2007 - Sep 2011

B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Software Engineering

Iran University of Science and Technology

Under supervision of Dr. Soryani and Dr. Rahmani

Thesis: Facial expression recognition

Community Service

Reviewer:

  • TMLR
  • IJCV
  • CVPR 2022
  • NeurIPS 2021 (Outstanding Reviewer Award), 2022
  • ICCV 2021
  • ICML 2020, 2021
  • Pattern Recognition
  • ECCV 2020
  • ICPR 2020

Organizer & Volunteer:

  • GCPR 2021
  • ICLR 2020