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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ferda Ofli is affiliated with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science, with notable contributions in subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Global and Planetary Change, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work covers a range of topics, prominently:

  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Ferda Ofli has published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SIGSPATIAL Special

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Using AI and Social Media Multimodal Content for Disaster Response and Management: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions," 2020, Information Processing & Management
  • "GeoCoV19," 2020, SIGSPATIAL Special
  • "Analysis of Social Media Data using Multimodal Deep Learning for Disaster Response," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "MEDIC: a multi-task learning dataset for disaster image classification," 2022, Neural Computing and Applications

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Muhammad Imran
  • Firoj Alam
  • Umair Qazi
  • Muhammad Ali Imran
  • Md Tanvirul Alam

In 2018, Ferda Ofli was recognized as an ACM Senior Member.

Best Publications

  • Berkeley MHAD: A comprehensive Multimodal Human Action Database

    F. Ofli;R. Chaudhry;G. Kurillo;R. Vidal

  • Accuracy and robustness of Kinect pose estimation in the context of coaching of elderly population

    Stepan Obdrzalek;Gregorij Kurillo;Ferda Ofli;Ruzena Bajcsy

  • Learning Cross-Modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images

    Amaia Salvador;Nicholas Hynes;Yusuf Aytar;Javier Marin

  • Sequence of the Most Informative Joints (SMIJ): A new representation for human skeletal action recognition

    Ferda Ofli;Rizwan Chaudhry;Gregorij Kurillo;Rene Vidal

  • Sequence of the most informative joints (SMIJ)

    Ferda Ofli;Rizwan Chaudhry;Gregorij Kurillo;René Vidal

  • CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters

    Firoj Alam;Ferda Ofli;Muhammad Imran

  • Recipe1M+: A Dataset for Learning Cross-Modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images

    Javier Marin;Aritro Biswas;Ferda Ofli;Nicholas Hynes

  • Sleep Quality Prediction From Wearable Data Using Deep Learning

    Aarti Sathyanarayana;Shafiq Joty;Luis Fernandez-Luque;Ferda Ofli

  • Evaluation of Pose Tracking Accuracy in the First and Second Generations of Microsoft Kinect

    Qifei Wang;Gregorij Kurillo;Ferda Ofli;Ruzena Bajcsy

  • Bio-inspired Dynamic 3D Discriminative Skeletal Features for Human Action Recognition

    Rizwan Chaudhry;Ferda Ofli;Gregorij Kurillo;Ruzena Bajcsy

  • Damage Assessment from Social Media Imagery Data During Disasters

    Dat T. Nguyen;Ferda Ofli;Muhammad Imran;Prasenjit Mitra

  • Combining Human Computing and Machine Learning to Make Sense of Big (Aerial) Data for Disaster Response.

    Ferda Ofli;Patrick Meier;Muhammad Imran;Carlos Castillo

  • Using AI and Social Media Multimodal Content for Disaster Response and Management: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

    Muhammad Imran;Ferda Ofli;Doina Caragea;Antonio Torralba

  • Processing Social Media Images by Combining Human and Machine Computing during Crises

    Firoj Alam;Ferda Ofli;Muhammad Imran

  • Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Exercise Coaching System for Older Adults: Lessons Learned

    Ferda Ofli;Gregorij Kurillo;Stepan Obdrzalek;Ruzena Bajcsy

  • Image4Act: Online Social Media Image Processing for Disaster Response

    Firoj Alam;Muhammad Imran;Ferda Ofli

  • Descriptive and visual summaries of disaster events using artificial intelligence techniques: case studies of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

    Firoj Alam;Ferda Ofli;Muhammad Imran

  • Impact of Physical Activity on Sleep: A Deep Learning Based Exploration.

    Aarti Sathyanarayana;Shafiq R. Joty;Luis Fernández-Luque;Ferda Ofli

  • GeoCoV19: a dataset of hundreds of millions of multilingual COVID-19 tweets with location information

    Umair Qazi;Muhammad Imran;Ferda Ofli

  • Face-to-BMI: Using Computer Vision to Infer Body Mass Index on Social Media

    Enes Kocabey;Mustafa Camurcu;Ferda Ofli;Yusuf Aytar

  • Analysis of Social Media Data using Multimodal Deep Learning for Disaster Response

    Ferda Ofli;Firoj Alam;Muhammad Imran

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingmar Weber
Ingmar Weber Saarland University
A.M. Tekalp
A.M. Tekalp Koç University
Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Bajcsy University of California, Berkeley
Jaideep Srivastava
Jaideep Srivastava University of Minnesota
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Qatar Computing Research Institute
René Vidal
René Vidal University of Pennsylvania
Sanjay Chawla
Sanjay Chawla Qatar Computing Research Institute
Shafiq Joty
Shafiq Joty Salesforce (United States)
Misha Pavel
Misha Pavel Northeastern University

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