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Sarah Ostadabbas

12 accepted papers

2026

MoReGen: Multi-Agent Motion-Reasoning Engine for Code-based Text-to-Video Synthesis

CVPR 2026

While text-to-video (T2V) generation has achieved remarkable progress in photorealism, generating intent-aligned videos that faithfully obey physics principles remains a core challenge. In this work, we systematically study Newtonian motion-controlled text-to-video generation and evaluation, emphasi

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2026

Position: Video LLMs Must Not Ignore the Pixel Dynamics in Plain Sight

ICML 2026poster

The essence of video lies in pixel dynamics: motion, state transitions, and the flow of visual information across frames. Video Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for video understanding in computer vision, sophisticated multimodal reasoning over complex, long-for…

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2026

UniTrack: Differentiable Graph Representation Learning for Multi-Object Tracking

ICLR 2026poster

We present UniTrack, a plug-and-play graph-theoretic loss function designed to significantly enhance multi-object tracking (MOT) performance by directly optimizing tracking-specific objectives through unified differentiable learning. Unlike prior graph-based MOT methods that redesign tracking archit…

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2025

More Than Meets the Eye: Enhancing Multi-Object Tracking Even with Prolonged Occlusions

ICML 2025poster

This paper introduces MOTE (MOre Than meets the Eye), a novel multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithm designed to address the challenges of tracking occluded objects. By integrating deformable detection transformers with a custom disocclusion matrix, MOTE significantly enhances the ability to track ob…

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2023

An Evaluation Platform to Scope Performance of Synthetic Environments in Autonomous Ground Vehicles Simulation

ICASSP 2023accepted

Evaluating autonomous ground vehicles requires evaluating their mobility performance. Since autonomous vehicles are envisioned to make decisions in a variety of situations and environments too diverse to practically assess with only physical testing, their development, and evaluation will necessaril…

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2021

Deep Markov Factor Analysis: Towards Concurrent Temporal and Spatial Analysis of fMRI Data

NeurIPS 2021poster

Factor analysis methods have been widely used in neuroimaging to transfer high dimensional imaging data into low dimensional, ideally interpretable representations. However, most of these methods overlook the highly nonlinear and complex temporal dynamics of neural processes when factorizing their i…

2021

Deep Switching Auto-Regressive Factorization: Application to Time Series Forecasting

AAAI 2021technical

We introduce deep switching auto-regressive factorization (DSARF), a deep generative model for spatio-temporal data with the capability to unravel recurring patterns in the data and perform robust short- and long-term predictions. Similar to other factor analysis methods, DSARF approximates high dim…

2020

G-LBM:Generative Low-dimensional Background Model Estimation from Video Sequences

ECCV 2020poster

In this paper, we propose a computationally tractable and theoretically supported non-linear low-dimensional generative model to represent real-world data in the presence of noise and sparse outliers. The non-linear low-dimensional manifold discovery of data is done through describing a joint distri…

2017

Decoding emotional experiences through physiological signal processing

ICASSP 2017accepted

All modern emotion theoretical views assume a role for peripheral physiological changes during emotional experiences. In this paper, we explored the correlation between autonomically-mediated changes in multimodal bodily signals and discrete emotional states. In order to fully exploit the informatio…

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