Upal Mahbub

Ph.D., Senior Member IEEE
Staff ML Engineer
Qualcomm, San Diego, California

I develop hardware-efficient deep learning algorithms for extended-reality (XR) usecases.

News

Sep 27, 2024 Early Career Distinguished Alumni Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland College Park, 2024. List of 2024 inductees here.
Jul 1, 2024 Co-edited book titled, “Computer Vision: Challenges, Trends and Opportunities” got published from CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group). Editors Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad., Upal Mahbub, Mathew Turk., Richard Hartley.. The book is available on CRC press’s site here. as well as on other platforms like Amazon..
Feb 20, 2024 Received “Outstanding Service Award” from the San Diego County Engineering Council. All past award winners listed here.
Feb 9, 2023 Exciting news! My children’s poetry book got published from Panjeree Publications Ltd. and now available in the Ekushey Bookfair in Bangladesh. Details here.. Really happy with the illustration and how the book turned out.
Jan 29, 2023 Serving as Chair of Computer Society for the IEEE San Diego Section this year. Looking forward to an exciting year!
Jun 26, 2022 Exciting news! Recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2022. List of the 100 outstanding reviewers of CVPR 2022 is here.
Apr 3, 2022 Added a tab for blog. Figuring out how to publish the website.
Apr 1, 2022 Added contents to publications, artworks and downloads tabs.
Mar 26, 2022 Started creating personal website.

Selected Publications

  1. Best Paper: UEMCON’16
    PATH: Person Authentication using Trace Histories
    Upal Mahbub, and Rama Chellappa
    In The 7th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE UEMCON) (Best Paper: UEMCON’16) , 2016
    PDF Website
  2. Google Collab: ICIP’16
    Partial face detection for continuous authentication
    Upal Mahbub, Vishal M Patel, Deepak Chandra, Brandon Barbello, and Rama Chellappa
    In 2016 IEEE international conference on Image processing (ICIP) (Google Collab: ICIP’16) , 2016
    PDF Website
  3. Book Chapter ’21
    Contactless human monitoring: challenges and future direction
    Upal Mahbub, Tauhidur Rahman, and Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad
    (Book Chapter ’21) , 2021
    PDF
  4. Book ’21
    Contactless Human Activity Analysis
    Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Upal Mahbub, and Tauhidur Rahman
    (Book ’21) , 2021
    Website
  5. CV4ARVR, ICCV ’21
    DIREG3D: DIrectly REGress 3D Hands from Multiple Cameras
    Ashar Ali, Upal Mahbub, Gökçe Dane, and Gerhard Reitmayr
    In Fifth Workshop on Computer Vision for AR/VR (CV4ARVR), ICCV (CV4ARVR, ICCV ’21) , 2021
    PDF Website