Hafez Farazi, University of Bonn, Computer Science VI, Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Hafez Farazi

Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Software)
Master of Computer Sciences
Member of research staff in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group

Address:

  Hafez Farazi
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  Institut für Informatik VI
  Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8 ( visitor adress )
  Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 5 ( post adress )
  53115 Bonn

Tel: +49 (0) 228 73-54158
Fax: +49 (0) 228 73-4425

Email: farazi _A{T}_ ais.uni-bonn.de

Office: 0.058 (Soccer Lab)

Projects

FOR 2535 - Anticipating Human Behavior: http://for2535.cv-uni-bonn.de
igus Humanoid Open Platform and NimbRo-OP: http://www.nimbro.net/OP
Humanoid soccer robot research: http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/Humanoid

RoboCup Competition

Software releases

Frequency Domain Transformer Networks for Video Prediction: A PyTorch-based software for video prediction task.
Author: Hafez Farazi
Paper: Frequency Domain Transformer Networks for Video Prediction [PDF] [BIB]
URL: https://github.com/AIS-Bonn/FreqNet [URL]

Location Dependency in Video Prediction : A PyTorch-based software for learning location-dependent features in video prediction task.
Author: Hafez Farazi
Paper: Location Dependency in Video Prediction [PDF] [BIB]
URL: https://github.com/AIS-Bonn/LocDepVideoPrediction [URL]

igus Humanoid Open Platform ROS Software: A ROS-based software framework for the igus Humanoid Open Platform.
Authors: Team NimbRo
Paper: Child-sized 3D Printed igus Humanoid Open Platform [PDF] [BIB]
URL: https://github.com/AIS-Bonn/humanoid_op_ros [URL]

AHRS for RMG146 IMU sensor: ROS-based AHRS for RM-G146 on Beagle Bone Black Rev-C.
Authors: Hafez Farazi
URL: https://github.com/hfarazi/RMG146 [URL] [VIDEO]

Hardware releases

NimbRo-OP2 Hardware: CAD files for the NimbRo-OP2 hardware.
Authors: Team NimbRo
Paper: NimbRo-OP2: Grown-up 3D Printed Open Humanoid Platform for Research [PDF] [BIB]
URL: https://github.com/NimbRo/nimbro-op2 [URL]

igus Humanoid Open Platform Hardware: CAD files for the igus Humanoid Open Platform hardware.
Authors: igus GmbH (with input of team NimbRo)
Paper: Child-sized 3D Printed igus Humanoid Open Platform [PDF] [BIB]
URL: https://github.com/igusGmbH/HumanoidOpenPlatform [URL]

Teaching/Talks

Winter semester 2020/21

Lab Vision Systems: Cuda Vision – Learning Computer Vision on GPUs (MA-INF 4308)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Weekly, dates by agreement, IZ, 0.042 (Online)

Seminar Vision Systems (MA-INF 4208)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Block course after lecture period, IZ, 0.042 (Online)

Summer semester 2020

Winter semester 2019/20

Lab Vision Systems: Cuda Vision – Learning Computer Vision on GPUs (MA-INF 4308)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Weekly, dates by agreement, IZ, 0.042

Seminar Vision Systems (MA-INF 4208)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Block course after lecture period, IZ, 0.042

Summer semester 2019

Wintersemester 2018/19

Summer semester 2018

Lab Vision Systems: Cuda Vision – Learning Computer Vision on GPUs (MA-INF 4308)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Weekly, dates by agreement, IZ, 0.057

Seminar Vision Systems (MA-INF 4208)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Block course after lecture period, IZ, 0.057

Wintersemester 2017/18

Lab Vision Systems: Cuda Vision – Learning Computer Vision on GPUs (MA-INF 4308)
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, Hafez Farazi
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, I.28

April 2018 - The Taichung Industrial Park, Taichung, Taiwan

Deep Learning for Humanoid Perception [Slides]

ROS for Humanoid Robots [Slides]

8th March 2019 - Iranian Community Bonn (Kutsch) e.V.

Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence (in Farsi) [Slides]

Supervised Master Theses

2018

Azizi, Niloofar. Video Prediction Based on Temporal Hierarchies and Recurrent Neural Networks.

2016

Zhong, Yongfeng. Utilizing the Features of Field for Effcient Soccer Robot 6D Pose Localization.

Supervised Bachelor Theses

2020

Nogga, Jan. Video Prediction using Local Phase Differences.

Publications

2021

Hafez Farazi, Jan Nogga, and Sven Behnke:
Semantic Prediction: Which One Should Come First, Recognition or Prediction? [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]
In Proceedings of 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, October 2021.

Hafez Farazi, Jan Nogga, and Sven Behnke:
Local Frequency Domain Transformer Networks for Video Prediction [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]
In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), July 2021.

Arash Amini, Hafez Farazi, and Sven Behnke:
Real-time Pose Estimation from Images for Multiple Humanoid Robots [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]
In Proceedings of 24th RoboCup International Symposium, June 2021.
Finalist for Best Paper Award

2020

Hafez Farazi, and Sven Behnke:
Motion Segmentation using Frequency Domain Transformer Networks [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]
In Proceedings of 28th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, April 2020.

Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi, Diego Rodriguez, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Philipp Allgeuer, Andre Brandenburger, and Sven Behnke
NimbRo-OP2X: Affordable Adult-sized 3D-printed Open-Source Humanoid Robot for Research [PDF]
In Proceedings of International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR), to appear 2020.

2019

Hafez Farazi, and Sven Behnke:
Frequency Domain Transformer Networks for Video Prediction [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]
In Proceedings of 27th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, April 2019.

Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht, Philipp Allgeuer, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Diego Rodriguez, Andre Brandenburger, Mojtaba Hosseini, and Sven Behnke
NimbRo Robots Winning RoboCup 2018 Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competitions [PDF] [BIB]
In: RoboCup 2018: Robot World Cup XXII. LNCS 11374, pp 436-449. Springer, 2019.

Diego Rodriguez, Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Andre Brandenburger, Mojtaba Hosseini, Oleg Kosenko, Michael Schreiber, Marcel Missura, and Sven Behnke
RoboCup 2019 AdultSize Winner NimbRo: Deep Learning Perception, In-Walk Kick, Push Recovery, and Team Play Capabilities [PDF]
In: RoboCup 2019, Robot World Cup XXIII. LNCS 11531, pp. 631-645, Springer, 2019.

Diego Rodriguez, Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Andre Brandenburger, Mojtaba Hosseini and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo AdultSize Team Description Paper 2019 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
University of Bonn, Technical report, 2019.

Anna Kukleva*, Mohammad Asif Khan*, Hafez Farazi, and Sven Behnke
Utilizing Temporal Information in Deep Convolutional Network for Efficient Soccer Ball Detection and Tracking [PDF]
In Proceedings of 23rd RoboCup International Symposium, Sydney, Australia, June 2019.
*: Both authors contributed equally to this work.

2018

Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer, Grzegorz Ficht, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Diego Rodriguez, and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo AdultSize Team Description 2018 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
University of Bonn, Technical report, 2018.

Niloofar Azizi*, Hafez Farazi*, and Sven Behnke:
Location Dependency in Video Prediction [PDF] [BIB] [CODE]
In Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Rhodes, Greece, to appear October 2018.
*: Both authors contributed equally to this work.

Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi, Andre Brandenburger, Diego Rodriguez, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Philipp Allgeuer, Mojtaba Hosseini, and Sven Behnke::
NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-sized Open-source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot [PDF] [BIB]
In Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Beijing, China, November 2018. [CODE] [CAD]

Diego Rodriguez, Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Grzegorz Ficht, André Brandenburger, Johannes Kürsch and Sven Behnke:
Advanced Soccer Skills and Team Play of RoboCup 2017 TeenSize Winner NimbRo [PDF] [BIB]
RoboCup 2017: Robot World Cup XXI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2018.

Grzegorz Ficht, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi, Diego Rodriguez, André Brandenburger, Johannes Kürsch, Michael Schreiber and Sven Behnke:
Grown-up NimbRo Robots Winning RoboCup 2017 Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competitions [PDF] [BIB]
RoboCup 2017: Robot World Cup XXI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2018.

2017

Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke:
Online Visual Robot Tracking and Identification using Deep LSTM Networks [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, to appear September 2017. IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award.

Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer, Grzegorz Ficht, André Brandenburger, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Michael Schreiber and Sven Behnke:
RoboCup 2016 Humanoid TeenSize Winner NimbRo: Robust Visual Perception and Soccer Behaviors [PDF] [BIB]
RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9776, Springer, 2017.

Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo AdultSize Team Description 2017 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
University of Bonn, Technical report, 2017.

Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo TeenSize Team Description 2017 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
University of Bonn, Technical report, 2017.

Grzegorz Ficht, Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo-OP2: Grown-up 3D Printed Open Humanoid Platform for Research [PDF] [BIB] [CODE] [CAD] [VIDEO]
In proceedings of the 17th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, England, 2017.

Philipp Allgeuer, Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi, Michael Schreiber and Sven Behnke:
First International HARTING Open Source Prize Winner: The igus Humanoid Open Platform [PDF] [BIB]
RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9776, Springer, 2017.

2016

Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Visual Tracking and Identification for a Team of Homogeneous Humanoid Robots [PDF] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of 20th RoboCup International Symposium, Leipzig, Germany, to appear July 2016.

Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer, Grzegorz Ficht, and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo TeenSize Team Description 2016 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Leipzig, Germany, to appear June 2016.

Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht, Michael Schreiber and Sven Behnke:
The igus Humanoid Open Platform: A Child-sized 3D Printed Open-Source Robot for Research [PDF] [BIB]
German Journal on Artificial Intelligence (KI), volume 30, issue 3, 2016.

2015

Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer and Sven Behnke:
A Monocular Vision System for Playing Soccer in Low Color Information Environments [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, 2015.

Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi, Michael Schreiber and Sven Behnke:
Child-sized 3D Printed igus Humanoid Open Platform [PDF] [BIB] [PPT] [CODE] [CAD] [VIDEO]
In proceedings of the 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, 2015.

Vahid Mohammadi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Farhad Jafari, Hafez Farazi, Esfandiar Bamdad:
Baset Adult-Size Team Description 2015 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Hefei, China, to appear June 2015.

2014

Hafez Farazi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Vahid Mohammadi, Farhad Jafari, Donya Rahmati and Esfandiar Bamdad:
Baset Teen-Size Team Description 2014 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, to appear June 2014.

Hafez Farazi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Vahid Mohammadi, Farhad Jafari, Donya Rahmati and Esfandiar Bamdad:
Baset Kid-Size Team Description 2014 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, to appear June 2014.

2013

Hafez Farazi, Farzad Ahmadinejad, Farhad Maleki and ME Shiri:
Evolutionary approach for developing fast and stable offline humanoid walk [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In proceedings of the 3rd Joint Conference of AI & Robotics and 5th RoboCup Iran Open International Symposium (RIOS), Tehran, Iran, 2013.

Hafez Farazi, Mojtaba Karimi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Majid Jegarian, Donya Rahmati, Farzad Aghaeizadeh, Soroush Sadeghnejad and Saeed Shiry Ghidary:
AUTMan Kid-Size Team Description 2013 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Eindhoven, Netherland, to appear June 2013.

Farzad Ahmadinejad, Hafez Farazi and Saeed Shiry Ghidary:
A low-cost vision-based tracking system for position control of quadrotor robots [PDF] [BIB]
In proceedings of the First RSI/ISM International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), Tehran, Iran, 2013.

2012

Soroush Sadeghnejad, Saeed Salavati Dezfuli, Hafez Farazi, Farzad AhmadiNejad, Mojtaba Karimi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Majid Jegarian, Donya Rahmati, Saeed Shiry Ghidary and Mohsen Bahrami:
AUTMan Kid-Size Team Description 2012 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Mexico City, Mexico, to appear June 2012.

2011

Soroush Sadeghnejad, Ali TorabiParizi, Mahmoud Rahat, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Mohsen Malmir, Seyede Maryam Mousavi, Saeed Salavati Dezfuli, MohammadMahdi Nabi, Shayan Edalatmanesh, Hafez Farazi, Donya Rahmati, Faeze Ghorbankhani, Navid Fayaz, Rahman Barooj, Sohrab Asadzade Olghi, Saeed Shiry Ghidary and Mohsen Bahrami:
AUTMan Kid-Size Team Description 2011 [PDF] [BIB] [VIDEO]
In Proceedings of RoboCup Humanoid League Team Descriptions, Istanbul, Turkey, to appear June 2011.

Universität Bonn, Institute for Computer Science, Departments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI

Hafez Farazi

Projects

RoboCup Competition

RoboCup 2019 in Sydney (Australia)

RoboCup 2018 in Montreal (Canada)

RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya (Japan)

RoboCup 2016 in Leipzig (Germany)

RoboCup 2015 in Hefei (China)

RoboCup 2014 in João Pessoa (Brazil)

RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven (Netherlands)

RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City (Mexico)

RoboCup 2011 in Istanbul (Turkey)

Software releases

Hardware releases

Teaching/Talks

Winter semester 2020/21

Summer semester 2020

Winter semester 2019/20

Summer semester 2019

Wintersemester 2018/19

Summer semester 2018

Wintersemester 2017/18

April 2018 - The Taichung Industrial Park, Taichung, Taiwan

8th March 2019 - Iranian Community Bonn (Kutsch) e.V.

Supervised Master Theses

2018

2016

Supervised Bachelor Theses

2020

Publications

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011