Publications …
Conference Papers

2007

F.Khalvati, H.R.Tizhoosh, M.Aagaader
Accelerating Image Processing Algorithms Based on the Reuse of Spatial Patterns
To be published in CCECE 2007.
Farhang Sahba, Hamid R. Tizhoosh and Magdy M.A. Salama
Application of Opposition-Based Reinforcement Learning in Image Segmentation
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2007), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007
Farzad Khalvati, Hamid R. Tizhoosh and Mark D. Aagaard
Opposition-Based Window Memoization for Morphological Algorithms
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing (CIISP 2007), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007
Hamid R. Tizhoosh and Alice R. Malisia
Applying Opposition-Based Ideas to the Ant Colony System
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2007), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007
Mario Ventresca and Hamid Tizhoosh
Simulated Annealing with Opposite Neighbors
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'07), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007, pp. 186-192.
Mario Ventresca and Hamid Tizhoosh
Opposite Transfer Functions and Backpropagation Through Time
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'07), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007, pp. 570-577.
Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Masoud Mahootchi and K. Ponnambalam
Opposition-Based Reinforcement Learning in the Management of Water Resources
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2007), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007
Shahryar Rahnamayan, Hamid R. Tizhoosh and Magdy M.A. Salama
Opposition-Based Differential Evolution (ODE) With Variable Jumping Rate
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'07), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007
Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Maryam Shokri and Mohamed S. Kamel
Opposition-Based Q(lambda) with Non-Markovian Update
To be published in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2007), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007

2006

S. Rahnamayan, H.R. Tizhoosh, M.M.A. Salama
Weighted Voting-Based Robust Image Thresholding
Proceedings of the 13the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct. 2006, pp. 1129-1132.
F.Sahba, H.R.Tizhoosh, M.Salama
Increasing Object recognition Rate Using Reinforced Segmentation
Proceedings of the 13the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct. 2006, pp. 781-784
E. Mohammadi, H.R.Tizhoosh
IRIS SEGMENTATION: DETECTING PUPIL, LIMBUS AND EYELIDS
Proceedings of the 13the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct. 2006, pp. 2453-2456
A.Malisia, H.R.Tizhoosh
Image Thresholding Using Ant Colony Optimization
Proceedings of the 13the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct. 2006, pp. 2409-2412
S. Rahnamayan, H.R. Tizhoosh, M.M.A. Salama
Image Thresholding Using Differential Evolution
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV-2006), Las Vegas, USA, June 2006, pp. 244-249.
Shokri, M., Tizhoosh, H.R., Kamel, M.
Opposition-Based Q(lambda) Algorithm
Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 646–653, 2006.
Ventresca, M., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Improving the Convergence of Backpropagation by Opposite Transfer Functions
Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 9527–9534, 2006.
Sahba, F., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Medical Image Segmentation
Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1238–1244, 2006.
Rahnamayan, S., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
Opposition-Based Differential Evolution Algorithms
Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 7363–7370, 2006.
Rahnamayan, S., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
Opposition-Based Differential Evolution for Optimization of Noisy Problems
Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, pp. 6756–6763, 2006.
M.Mahhotchi, H.R.Tizhoosh, Ponnuambalam
Reservoir Operation Optimization by Reinforcement Learning, in “Contemporary Modeling of Urban Water Systems” proceedings of International Conference on Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling
M.Shokri, H.R.Tizhoosh, M.Kamel
Reinforcement Learning for Personalizing Searched Images
I2LOR 2006 conference, Montreal, November 2006
Alice R. Malisia, Hamid R. Tizhoosh
IMAGE THRESHOLDING USING ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION
Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, June 7th-9th at Québec city.
S. Rahnamayan, H.R. Tizhoosh, M.M.A Salama
Opposite of Random Number Instead of Second Random Number
The 6th Annual MOPTA Conference, Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, Jul. 2006.
N. Mooman, H.R. Tizhoosh, O. Basir
On-line Multi-Agents Reinforcement Learning System: Learning Model System
ICDE 22

2005

H.R.Tizhoosh
Opposition-Based Learning: A New Scheme for Machine Intelligence
Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation - CIMCA’2005, Vienna - Austria, vol. I, pp. 695-701
H.R.Tizhoosh
Reinforcement Learning Based on Actions and Opposite Actions
ICGST International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML-05), Cairo, Egypt
S. Rahnamayan, H.R. Tizhoosh, M.M.A. Salama
Recognition of Subjective Objects Based on One Gold Sample
5th WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing (WSEAS SSIP’05), pp. 309-314
S. Rahnamayan, H.R. Tizhoosh, M.M.A. Salama
Robust Object Segmentation Using Genetic Optimization of Morphological Processing Chains
5th WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing (WSEAS SSIP’05), pp. 248-253
S. Rahnamayan, H.R. Tizhoosh, M.M.A. Salama
Optimization of Object Extraction Based on One User-Prepared Sample
5th Annual MOPTA, Conference Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications July 25-27, 2005 -University of Windsor, Windsor ON Canada
Mohammadi, E.M., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Pattern Analysis Using Zernike Moments IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 1574-1578, 17-19 MAY 2005
Ensafi, P., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Type-2 Fuzzy image enhancement
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition- ICIAR2005, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer LCNS), Toronto, Canada, Sep. 28-30 (2005)
Rahnamayan, S., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
Learning Image Filtering from a Gold Sample Based on Genetic Optimization of Morphological Processing
Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, Springer-Verlag (Vienna), Coimbra, Portugal (2005), pp. 478-481
Rahnamayan, S., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
Automated Snake Initialization for the Segmentation of the Prostate in Ultrasound Images
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition- ICIAR2005, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer LCNS), Toronto, Canada, Sep. 28-30 (2005), pp. 930-937
Sahba, F., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
Using Reinforcement Learning for Filter Fusion in Image Enhancement
The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, July 4-6, 2005, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sahba, F., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
Segmentation of Prostate Boundaries Using Regional Contrast Enhancement
The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 11-14, 2005, Genova, Italy.

2004

Shokri, M., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Q(lambda)-Based Image Thresholding
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2004, pp. 504-508
Sahba, F., Tizhoosh, H.R., Salama, M.M.A.
A new technique for adaptive fuzzy image enhancement for edge detection
The International Workshop om Multidisciplinary Image, Video and Audio Retrieval andMining, Sherbrooke, Canada, October 25-26, 2004

2003

Awad, J., Abdel-Galil, T.K., Salama, M.M.A., Fenster, A., Rizkalla, K., Downey, D.B., and Tizhoosh, H.R.
Prostate’s Boundary Detection in Transrectal Ultrasound Images Using Scanning Technique
IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2003), vol. 2, May 2003, pp. 11991202.
Shokri, M., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Using Reinforcement Learning for Image Thresholding
The Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 4-7, 2003, Montreal, vol.1, pp. 1231-1234
Sahba, F., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Filter Fusion for Image Enhancement Using Reinforcement Learning
The Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 4-7, vol. 2, 2003, Montreal, pp. 847-850
Song, J., Tizhoosh, H.R.
Fuzzy Anisotropic Diffusion: A Rule Based Approach
Proceedings of the 7thWorld Multiconference on Systemics, Cyebernetics and Informatics, July 27-30, 2003, Orlando, USA, pp. 241-246
Seong H.K., Tizhoosh, H.R., Kamel, M.
Choquet Integral-based Aggregation of Image Template Matching Algorithms
NAFIPS 2003, July 24-26, 2003, Chicago, pp. 143-148.

2002

Tizhoosh, H.R.
Fast Fuzzy Edge Detection
NAFIPS 2002, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, New Orleans, pp. 239-242
Tizhoosh, H.R.
Observer-Dependent Sharpening
ICIP 2002, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, USA

2001

Tizhoosh, H.R.
Observer-Dependent Image Enhancement. Proceeding of FUZZ-IEEE 2001, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 23-26

1999

Tizhoosh, H.R., Michaelis, B.
Image Enhancement Based on Fuzzy Aggregation techniques. Oroceedings of 16th IEEE IMTC'99, Venice, Italy, vol. 3, pp. 1813-1817
Tizhoosh, H.R.
An Universal Filter Based on Soft Computing Techniques
Proc. Of 4th Int. Workshop Neural Networks in Applications (NN'99), Magdeburg, Germany, 1999, pp. 219-224
Tizhoosh, H.R., Michaelis, B.
Subjectivity, Psychology and Fuzzy Techniques: A New Approach to Image Enhancement. NAFIPS'99, New York, USA

1998

Tizhoosh, H.R., Krell, G., Michaelis, B.
Lambda-Enhancement: Contrast adaptation based on Optimization of Image Fuzziness. FUZZ-IEEE'98, pp. 1548-1553, Alaska, USA
Tizhoosh, H.R., Michaelis, B.
Improvement of Image Quality Based on Subjective Evaluation and Fuzzy Aggregation techniques. EUFIT'98, Aachen, Germany, 1998, vol. 2, pp. 1325-1329
Tizhoosh, H.R.
Fuzzy Image Processing: Potentials and State of the Art
IIZUKA'98, 5th International Conference on Soft Computing, Iizuka, Japan, October 16-20, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 321-324
Tizhoosh, H.R. Krell, G., Michaelis, B.
A Hybrid Neuro Fuzzy System for Knowledge-Based Restoration of Electronic Portal Images in Radiation Therapy
IIZUKA'98, 5th International Conference on Soft Computing, Iizuka, Japan, October 16-20, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 341-344

1997

Tizhoosh, H.R., Krell, G., Michaelis, B.
Locally Adaptive Fuzzy Image Enhancement. In B. Reusch (Ed.), Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications. Proc. Of 5th Fuzzy Days'97, Dortmund, Germany, Springer, pp. 272-276
Tizhoosh, H.R., Krell, G., Michaelis, B.
On Fuzzy Image Enhancement of Megavoltage Images in Radiation Therapy. FUZZ-IEEE'97, Spain, 1399-1404
Tizhoosh, H.R., Krell, G., Michaelis, B.
Additive Fuzzy Enhancement and an Associative Memory for Feature Tracking in Radiation Therapy Images. ICIP'97, Santa Barara, USA, 398-401
Krell,G., Tizhoosh, H.R., Lilienblum, T., Michaelis, B.
Enhancement and Associative Restoration of Electonic Portal Images in Radiation Therapy. IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 1997, Maribor, Slovenien, 104-108
Krell,G., Tizhoosh, H.R., Lilienblum, T., Michaelis, B.
Fuzzy Image Enhancement and Associative Feature Matching in Radiotherapy. ICNN'97, Houston, USA, 1490-1495