Saad Ali

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Saad Ali is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Saad Ali has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Saad Ali's work include Human Pose and Action Recognition (10 papers), Video Analysis and Summarization (10 papers) and Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications (10 papers). Saad Ali is often cited by papers focused on Human Pose and Action Recognition (10 papers), Video Analysis and Summarization (10 papers) and Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications (10 papers). Saad Ali collaborates with scholars based in United States, Lebanon and France. Saad Ali's co-authors include Mubarak Shah, Jingen Liu, Omar Javed, Arslan Basharat, Mubarak Shah, Takeo Kanade, Mikel Rodríguez, Min Hu, Amir Tamrakar and Hui Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Saad Ali

36 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A 3-dimensional sift descriptor and its application to action recognition
    2007 1.1k citations Saad Ali, Mubarak Shah et al. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research profile →
  2. A Lagrangian Particle Dynamics Approach for Crowd Flow Segmentation and Stability Analysis
    2007 430 citations Saad Ali, Mubarak Shah Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Saad Ali United States 17 2.8k 1.4k 586 293 239 37 3.1k
Wu Liu China 32 2.9k 1.0× 750 0.5× 811 1.4× 224 0.8× 87 0.4× 139 3.5k
R. Venkatesh Babu India 31 3.2k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 256 0.4× 144 0.5× 117 0.5× 149 3.9k
Feng Zheng China 31 2.7k 1.0× 965 0.7× 524 0.9× 142 0.5× 67 0.3× 133 3.6k
I. Haritaoglu United States 15 2.9k 1.0× 630 0.5× 293 0.5× 216 0.7× 75 0.3× 34 3.1k
James Ferryman United Kingdom 26 1.8k 0.7× 661 0.5× 194 0.3× 118 0.4× 143 0.6× 112 2.3k
Weiming Hu China 18 2.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.2k 2.0× 378 1.3× 98 0.4× 43 3.2k
Hamed Pirsiavash United States 21 2.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 175 0.3× 159 0.5× 72 0.3× 54 2.8k
T.N. Tan United Kingdom 8 1.6k 0.6× 543 0.4× 450 0.8× 182 0.6× 61 0.3× 14 1.9k
Ramakant Nevatia United States 25 2.8k 1.0× 724 0.5× 272 0.5× 168 0.6× 263 1.1× 63 3.3k
Cuiling Lan China 27 4.1k 1.5× 2.0k 1.4× 1.8k 3.0× 715 2.4× 115 0.5× 62 5.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Saad Ali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saad Ali

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Saad Ali. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Saad Ali based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Saad Ali. Saad Ali is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Srinivasulu, Asadi, et al.. (2023). Prostate Cancer Prediction and Detection Using Hybrid CNN-Deep Learning Techniques. 8(3). 2 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad, Ali Usman, Saad Arif, & Marcus Liwicki. (2023). Bearing Fault Detection Scheme Using Machine Learning for Condition Monitoring Applications. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Gupta, Shivangi, et al.. (2020). Motion induced segmentation of stone fragments in ureteroscopy video. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 11315. 39–39. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad, et al.. (2015). Detection of freezing of gait for Parkinson’s disease patients with multi-sensor device and Gaussian neural networks. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. 8(3). 941–954. 29 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad, et al.. (2013). About detection and diagnosis of Freezing of Gait. 9. 117–120. 5 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad. (2013). Measuring Flow Complexity in Videos. 1097–1104. 14 indexed citations
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Cheng, Hui, Jingen Liu, Saad Ali, et al.. (2012). SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2012 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting.. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 14 indexed citations
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Tamrakar, Amir, Saad Ali, Qian Yu, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of low-level features and their combinations for complex event detection in open source videos. 4. 3681–3688. 98 indexed citations
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Moore, Brian E., Saad Ali, Ramin Mehran, & Mubarak Shah. (2011). Visual crowd surveillance through a hydrodynamics lens. Communications of the ACM. 54(12). 64–73. 38 indexed citations
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Cheng, Hui, Amir Tamrakar, Saad Ali, et al.. (2011). Team SRI-Sarnoff 's AURORA System @ TRECVID 2011. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 3 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad & Simon Lucey. (2010). Are Correlation Filters Useful for Human Action Recognition?. 2608–2611. 9 indexed citations
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Rodríguez, Mikel, Saad Ali, & Takeo Kanade. (2009). Tracking in unstructured crowded scenes. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1389–1396. 131 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad, Jieping Ye, A. Razdan, & Peter Wonka. (2008). Compressed Facade Displacement Maps. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 15(2). 262–273. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Jingen, Saad Ali, & Mubarak Shah. (2008). Recognizing human actions using multiple features. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1–8. 194 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad & Mubarak Shah. (2008). Human Action Recognition in Videos Using Kinematic Features and Multiple Instance Learning. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 32(2). 288–303. 314 indexed citations
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Hu, Min, Saad Ali, & Mubarak Shah. (2008). Learning motion patterns in crowded scenes using motion flow field. Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition. 1–5. 75 indexed citations
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Hu, Min, Saad Ali, & Mubarak Shah. (2008). Detecting global motion patterns in complex videos. Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition. 1–5. 57 indexed citations
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Ali, Saad & Mubarak Shah. (2007). A Lagrangian Particle Dynamics Approach for Crowd Flow Segmentation and Stability Analysis. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1–6. 430 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ali, Saad & Mubarak Shah. (2006). COCOA: tracking in aerial imagery. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 67 indexed citations

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