
Dr Ehsan Abbasnejad
Senior Lecturer
Australian Institute for Machine Learning - Operations
Division of Research and Innovation
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD, but is currently at capacity - email supervisor to discuss availability.
My research focuses on various aspects of machine learning and computer vision. For more details see my home page: https://ehsanabb.github.io/
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2022 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide 2022 - ongoing Future Making Fellow Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) -
Certifications
Date Title Institution name Country 2015 PhD Australian National University Australia -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Parvaneh, A., Abbasnejad, E., Wu, Q., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2022). Show, price and negotiate: a hierarchical attention recurrent visual negotiator. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 24, 1426-1434.
2022 Parvaneh, A., Abbasnejad, E., Teney, D., Haffari, R., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, J. Q. (2022). Active Learning by Feature Mixing. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022-June, 12227-12236.
Scopus12022 Doan, B. G., Xue, M., Ma, S., Abbasnejad, E., & Ranasinghe, D. C. (2022). TnT Attacks! Universal Naturalistic Adversarial Patches Against Deep Neural Network Systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 17, 3816-3830.
2022 Xu, H. M., Liu, L., & Abbasnejad, E. (2022). Progressive Class Semantic Matching for Semi-supervised Text Classification. NAACL 2022 - 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference, 3003-3013. 2022 Teney, D., Peyrard, M., & Abbasnejad, E. (2022). Predicting Is Not Understanding: Recognizing and Addressing Underspecification in Machine Learning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13683 LNCS, 458-476.
2021 Ghassemzadeh, S., Gonzalez Perdomo, M., Haghighi, M., & Abbasnejad, M. (2021). A data-driven reservoir simulation for natural gas reservoirs. Neural Computing and Applications, 33(18), 11777-11798.
Scopus5 WoS52021 Neshat, M., Nezhad, M. M., Abbasnejad, E., Mirjalili, S., Tjernberg, L. B., Astiaso Garcia, D., . . . Wagner, M. (2021). A deep learning-based evolutionary model for short-term wind speed forecasting: A case study of the Lillgrund offshore wind farm. Energy Conversion and Management, 236, 1-25.
Scopus63 WoS542021 Teney, D., Abbasnejad, E., Lucey, S., & Hengel, A. V. D. (2021). Evading the Simplicity Bias: Training a Diverse Set of Models Discovers Solutions with Superior OOD Generalization.. CoRR, abs/2105.05612, 16740-16751.
Scopus12021 Neshat, M., Nezhad, M. M., Abbasnejad, E., Mirjalili, S., Groppi, D., Heydari, A., . . . Wagner, M. (2021). Wind turbine power output prediction using a new hybrid neuro-evolutionary method. Energy, 229, 120617-1-120617-24.
Scopus43 WoS372020 Teney, D., Kafle, K., Shrestha, R., Abbasnejad, E., Kanan, C., & Hengel, A. V. D. (2020). On the Value of Out-of-Distribution Testing: An Example of Goodhart's Law.. CoRR, abs/2005.09241. 2020 Abbasnejad, M. E., Shi, Q., van den Hengel, A., & Liu, L. (2020). GADE: A Generative Adversarial Approach to Density Estimation and its Applications. International Journal of Computer Vision, 128(10-11), 2731-2743.
Scopus22019 Neshat, M., Abbasnejad, E., Shi, Q., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2019). Adaptive Neuro-Surrogate-Based Optimisation Method for Wave Energy Converters Placement Optimisation.. CoRR, abs/1907.03076. 2017 Abbasnejad, M., Shi, Q., Abbasnejad, I., Hengel, A., & Dick, A. (2017). Bayesian Conditional Generative Adverserial Networks.. CoRR, abs/1706.05477. 2017 Khoshkbarforoushha, A., Ranjan, R., Gaire, R., Abbasnejad, E., Wang, L., & Zomaya, A. Y. (2017). Distribution Based Workload Modelling of Continuous Queries in Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 5(1), 120-133.
Scopus342013 Halin, A. A., Rajeswari, M., & Abbasnejad, M. (2013). Soccer event detection via collaborative multimodal feature analysis and candidate ranking. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 10(5).
Scopus152013 Sadeghi, A., Ismail, A., Ahmad, A., & Abbasnejad, M. (2013). A note on solving the fuzzy Sylvester matrix equation. Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications, 15(1), 10-22.
Scopus1 WoS12012 Abbasnejad, M., Ramachandram, D., & Mandava, R. (2012). A survey of the state of the art in learning the kernels. Knowledge and Information Systems, 31(2), 193-221.
Scopus33 WoS282011 Abbasnejad, M., Ramachandram, D., & Mandava, R. (2011). An unsupervised approach to learn the kernel functions: From global influence to local similarity. Neural Computing and Applications, 20(5), 703-715.
Scopus2 WoS22011 Sadeghi, A., Abbasbandy, S., & Abbasnejad, M. (2011). The common solution of the pair of fuzzy matrix equations. World Applied Sciences Journal, 15(2), 232-238.
Scopus52011 Abbasnejad, M., Halin, A., Manshor, N., & Rajeswari, M. (2011). Automatic image annotation using mixtures of the exponential family. Journal of Convergence Information Technology, 6(11), 115-122.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2022 Kazemi Moghaddam, M., Abbasnejad, E., Wu, Q., Qinfeng Shi, J., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2022). ForeSI: Success-Aware Visual Navigation Agent. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2022) (pp. 3401-3410). Online: IEEE.
2022 Askarian, N., Abbasnejad, E., Zukerman, I., Buntine, W., & Haffari, G. (2022). Inductive Biases for Low Data VQA: A Data Augmentation Approach. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, WACVW 2022 (pp. 231-240). Online: IEEE.
Scopus12021 Teney, D., Abbasnejad, E., & van den Hengel, A. (2021). Unshuffling Data for Improved Generalization in Visual Question Answering. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021) Vol. abs/2002.11894 (pp. 1397-1407). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE.
Scopus42021 Askarian, N., Abbasnejad, E., Zukerman, I., Buntine, W., & Haffari, G. (2021). Curriculum Learning Effectively Improves Low Data VQA. In ALTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 19th Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association Vol. 19 (pp. 22-33). Virtual Workshop: ACL Anthology. 2021 Zhang, M., Su, S. W., Pan, S., Chang, X., Abbasnejad, M. E., & Haffari, R. (2021). iDARTS: Differentiable Architecture Search with Stochastic Implicit Gradients. In M. Meila, & T. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR Vol. 139 (pp. 12557-12566). USA: PMLR. 2021 Nassar, I., Herath, S., Abbasnejad, E., Buntine, W., & Haffari, G. (2021). All Labels Are Not Created Equal: Enhancing Semi-supervision via Label Grouping and Co-training. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp. 7237-7246). online: IEEE.
Scopus122021 Felix Alves, R., Repasky, B., Hodge, S., Zolfaghari, R., Abbasnejad, E., & Sherrah, J. (2021). Cross-Modal Visual Question Answering for Remote Sensing Data. In DICTA 2021 - 2021 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (pp. 1-9). online: IEEE.
Scopus12021 Kazemi Moghaddam, M., Wu, Q., Abbasnejad, E., & Shi, J. (2021). Optimistic Agent: Accurate Graph-Based Value Estimation for More Successful Visual Navigation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021) (pp. 3732-3741). online: IEEE.
Scopus7 WoS62020 Doan, B. G., Abbasnejad, M., & Ranasinghe, D. C. (2020). Februus: Input Purification Defense Against Trojan Attacks on Deep Neural Network Systems. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 2020 (pp. 897-912). online: ACM.
Scopus35 WoS262020 Teney, D., Kafle, K., Shrestha, R., Abbasnejad, E., Kanan, C., & Hengel, A. V. D. (2020). On the Value of Out-of-Distribution Testing: An Example of Goodhart's Law. In H. Larochelle, M. Ranzato, R. Hadsell, M. F. Balcan, & H. Lin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeruIPS 2020) Vol. abs/2005.09241 (pp. 1-11). San Francisco, CA, United States: Morgan Kaufmann.
Scopus202020 Abbasnejad, M., Teney, D., Parvaneh, A., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2020). Counterfactual Vision and Language Learning.. In 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp. 10041-10051). online: IEEE.
Scopus392020 Ghassemzadeh, S., Perdomo, M. G., Abbasnejad, E., & Haghighi, M. (2020). Modelling hydraulically fractured tight gas reservoirs with an artificial intelligence (AI)-based simulator, deep net simulator (DNS). In 1st EAGE Digitalization Conference and Exhibition. online: EAGE.
Scopus12020 Abbasnejad, M., Abbasnejad, I., Wu, Q., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2020). Gold seeker: Information gain from policy distributions for goal-oriented vision-and-langauge reasoning. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 13447-13456). online: IEEE.
Scopus22020 Teney, D., Abbasnejad, M., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2020). Learning what makes a difference from counterfactual examples and gradient supervision. In A. Vedaldi, H. Bischof, T. Brox, & J. -M. Frahm (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCV 2020), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 12355 (pp. 580-599). Switzerland: Springer.
Scopus192020 Parvaneh, A., Abbasnejad, M., Teney, D., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2020). Counterfactual Vision-and-Language Navigation: Unravelling the Unseen.. In H. Larochelle, M. Ranzato, R. Hadsell, M. -F. Balcan, & H. -T. Lin (Eds.), NeurIPS Vol. 2020-December (pp. 1-12). virtual online: NIPS.
Scopus72019 Abbasnejad, M. E., Shi, Q., Van Den Hengel, A., & Liu, L. (2019). A Generative Adversarial Density Estimator.. In CVPR (pp. 10782-10791). online: Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE. 2019 Manchin, A., Abbasnejad, E., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2019). Reinforcement learning with attention that works: a self-supervised approach. In T. Gedeon, K. W. Wong, & M. Lee (Eds.), Neural Information Processing: 26th International Conference, ICONIP 2019. Proceedings, Part V Vol. 1143 CCIS (pp. 223-230). Switzerland: Springer.
Scopus18 WoS142019 Abbasnejad, M. E., Shi, Q., Van Den Hengel, A., & Liu, L. (2019). A generative adversarial density estimator. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vol. 2019-June (pp. 10774-10783). online: IEEE.
Scopus10 WoS42019 Abbasnejad, E., Wu, Q., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2019). What's to know? uncertainty as a guide to asking goal-oriented questions. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vol. 2019-June (pp. 4150-4159). online: IEEE.
Scopus12 WoS62019 Abdi, M., Lim, C., Mohamed, S., Nahavandi, S., Abbasnejad, E., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2019). Discriminative clustering of high-dimensional data using generative modeling. In 2018 IEEE 61st International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) Vol. 2018-August (pp. 799-802). Windsor, Canada: IEEE.
2019 Neshat, M., Abbasnejad, E., Shi, Q., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2019). Adaptive neuro-surrogate-based optimisation method for wave energy converters placement optimisation. In T. Gedeon, K. W. Wong, & M. Lee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2019), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Neural Information Processing Proceedings, Part II) Vol. 11954 (pp. 353-366). Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Scopus18 WoS142019 Ehsan Abbasnejad, M., Dick, A., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2019). Active learning from noisy tagged images. In British Machine Vision Conference 2018, BMVC 2018. 2019 Abdi, M., Abbasnejad, E., Lim, C. P., & Nahavandi, S. (2019). 3D hand pose estimation using simulation and partial-supervision with a shared latent space. In British Machine Vision Conference 2018, BMVC 2018 (pp. 16 pages). Online: British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition.
Scopus52018 Abbasnejad, M. E., Dick, A. R., Shi, Q., & Hengel, A. V. D. (2018). Active learning from noisy tagged images. In Proceedings of BMVC 2018 and Workshops (pp. 1-13). Newcastle upon Tyne: BMVA Press. 2018 Abedin Varamin, A., Abbasnejad, E., Shi, Q., Ranasinghe, D., & Rezatofighi, H. (2018). Deep Auto-Set: A Deep Auto-Encoder-Set Network for Activity Recognition Using Wearables. In MobiQuitous (pp. 1-8). online: ACM.
Scopus21 WoS152017 Rezatofighi, S., Kumar, V., Milan, A., Abbasnejad, E., Dick, A., & Reid, I. (2017). DeepSetNet: Predicting sets with deep neural networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017) Vol. 2017 (pp. 5257-5266). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Scopus20 WoS172017 Abbasnejad, M., Dick, A., & van den Hengel, A. (2017). Infinite variational autoencoder for semi-supervised learning. In Proceedings: 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vol. 2017-January (pp. 781-790). Honolulu: IEEE.
Scopus41 WoS212017 Niculescu-Mizil, A., & Abbasnejad, E. (2017). Label filters for large scale multilabel classification. In PMLR: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research Vol. 54 (pp. 1448-1457). Brookline, MA: Microtome Publishing.
Scopus152015 Abbasnejad, E., Domke, J., & Sanner, S. (2015). Loss-calibrated Monte Carlo action selection. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5 (pp. 3447-3453).
Scopus52015 Afshar, H. M., Sanner, S., & Abbasnejad, E. (2015). Linear-time Gibbs sampling in piecewise graphical models. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5 (pp. 3461-3467).
Scopus22013 Abbasnejad, E., Sanner, S., Bonilla, E. V., & Poupart, P. (2013). Learning community-based preferences via Dirichlet Process mixtures of Gaussian Processes. In IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1213-1219).
Scopus232013 Abbasnejad, M., Bonilla, E., & Sanner, S. (2013). Decision-theoretic sparsification for Gaussian process preference learning. In H. Blockeel, K. Kersting, S. Nijssen, & F. Zelezný (Eds.), Machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases, Proceedings, Part II Vol. 8189 LNAI (pp. 515-530). Prague, Czech Republic: Springer.
2013 Abbasnejad, M. (2013). Decision-theoretic approximations for machine learning. In IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 3201-3202). 2012 Sanner, S., & Abbasnejad, E. (2012). Symbolic variable elimination for discrete and continuous graphical models. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 3 (pp. 1954-1960).
Scopus132012 Noel, J., Sanner, S., Tran, K. N., Christen, P., Xie, L., Bonilla, E. V., . . . Penna, N. D. (2012). New objective functions for social collaborative filtering. In WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 859-868). ACM.
Scopus532009 Abbasnejad, M. E., Ramachandram, D., & Mandava, R. (2009). Optimizing kernel functions using transfer learning from unlabeled data. In 2009 2nd International Conference on Machine Vision, ICMV 2009 (pp. 111-117). Dubai, U ARAB EMIRATES: IEEE COMPUTER SOC.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Co-Supervisor Causality and Deep Reinforcement Learning on Financial Trading. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Haiyao Cao 2021 Co-Supervisor Unsupervised Deep Geometry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Xueqian Li 2021 Co-Supervisor Task-Based Mapping of Human Kinematics to Robot Arm Kinematics Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Mohamed Khalil Jabri 2021 Co-Supervisor Data efficient learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yuhao Lin 2021 Co-Supervisor Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Callum John Sagar Lindquist 2020 Co-Supervisor Development and validation of an integrated gait recognition system with a deep-learning architecture. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Kayne Andrew Duncanson 2020 Co-Supervisor Symbolic and Subsymbolic Information Processing in Machine Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Boris Repasky 2020 Principal Supervisor Domain generalisation in Reinforcement Learning Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Adrian John Orenstein 2019 Co-Supervisor Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Stock Prediction Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jinan Zou 2019 Co-Supervisor Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Quoc Viet Vo -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2019 - 2021 Co-Supervisor A Novel Approach to Reservoir Simulation Using Supervised Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Shahdad Ghassemzadeh 2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Interactive Vision and Language Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Amin Parvaneh 2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Towards Robust Deep Neural Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gia Bao Doan
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