Razieh Kaviani Baghbaderani

About Razieh Kaviani Baghbaderani

I am a Senior Research Engineer in the filed of computer vision at Samsung, where I work…

Experience

1. Senior Research Engineer

   Samsung Semiconductor

   Jul 2022 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Developed a spatio-temporal Transformer for salient person detection in video, improving accuracy by 12% and computational efficiency by 40% over comparable models; resulted in a patent filing.(PyTorch, Transformer models, attention mechanisms, video understanding)- Leveraged vision–language models (VLMs) for large-scale pseudo-label generation in saliency detection, integrating object tracking to ensure temporal consistency across video frames.(Self-supervised learning, large-scale data labeling, temporal modeling)- Integrated face detection, multi-object tracking, and hysteresis-based focus control into saliency pipelines, enabling cinematic focus transitions in Samsung Galaxy Portrait Video mode.(OpenCV, real-time video processing, embedded AI)- Designed CNN- and LSTM-based models for skeleton-based static and dynamic hand gesture recognition, contributing to two patent filings.(Deep learning, action recognition, sequence modeling)- Enhanced real-time XR pipeline performance by integrating gesture recognition with MediaPipe hand pose estimation, applying diverse data augmentation and post-processing techniques.(Augmented Reality, computer vision optimization, edge AI)- Created a StyleGAN-based image inpainting algorithm and explored Transformer and diffusion-based approaches to improve semantic consistency and fine-detail restoration for high-resolution images; led to a patent.(Generative AI, GANs, diffusion models, image restoration)- Curated and preprocessed large-scale datasets, including data discovery, cleaning, annotation, and augmentation, to produce high-quality ground truth labels for training and evaluation.(Data engineering, dataset curation, annotation pipelines)

Education

• Sharif University of Technology

  Master of Science (M.Sc.)

  2012 — 2014

• Isfahan University of Technology

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

  2008 — 2012

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  2018 — 2022