Datasets

• 3D-Pain: Synthetic faces with pain expressions
• SynPAIN: A Synthetic Dataset of Pain and Non-Pain Facial Expressions
• CARE-PD (a large multi-Site harmonized dataset of parkinsonian movements - coming soon)
• PD-GaM and GAITGen datasets (real and synthetic parkinsonian gait - coming soon)
• The Only Connect Wall Dataset
• The Toronto older adults gait archive (TOAGA): video and 3D inertial motion capture data of older adults' walking
• Toronto NeuroFace Dataset: A New Dataset for Facial Motion Analysis in Individuals with Neurological Disorders
• Toronto Rehab Stroke Pose Dataset
• Parkinson's Pose Estimation Dataset (featured on Kaggle Datasets)

Papers

Selected Recent Publications: (see my Google Scholar profile for a complete list)

• J. Rajabi, S. Mehraban, S. Sadat, and B. Taati. Token Perturbation Guidance for Diffusion Models. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2025.
• V. Adeli, I. Klabučar, J. Rajabi, B. Filtjens, S. Mehraban, D. Wang, T.-H. Hoang, M. N. Do, H. Seo, C. Muller, D. B. Coelho, C. E. N. de Oliveira, P. Ginis, M. Gilat, A. Nieuwboer, J. Spildooren, J. L. Mckay, H. Kwon, G. Clifford, C. D. Esper, S. A. Factor, I. Genias, A. Dadashzadeh, L. C. Shum, A. L. Whone, M. Mirmehdi, A. Iaboni, and B. Taati. Care-PD: A Multi-Site Anonymized Clinical Dataset for Parkinson's Disease Gait Assessment. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2025.
• A. Kazerouni, S. Mehraban, M. Brudno, and B. Taati. LIFT: Latent Implicit Functions for Task-and Data-Agnostic Encoding. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2025.
• A. Hosseini, A. Kazerouni, S. Akhavan, M. Brudno, and B. Taati. SUM: Saliency Unification through Mamba for Visual Attention Modeling. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (oral), Feb 2025.
• S. Mehraban, V. Adeli, and B. Taati. MotionAGFormer: Enhancing 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Transformer-GCNFormer Network. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jan 2024. [link]
• V. Adeli, N. Korhani, A. Sabo, S. Mehdizadeh, A. Mansfield, A. Flint, A. Iaboni, and B. Taati. Ambient monitoring of gait and machine learning models for dynamic and short-term falls risk assessment in people with dementia. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Apr 2023. [link]
• S. Alavi Naeini, R. Saqur, M. Saeidi, J. Giorgi, and B. Taati. Large Language Models are Fixated by Red Herrings: Exploring Creative Problem Solving and Einstellung Effect using the Only Connect Wall Dataset. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2023.
• A. Sabo, S. Mehdizadeh, A. Iaboni, and B. Taati. Estimating Parkinsonism Severity in Natural Gait Videos of Older Adults with Dementia. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 2288-2298, May 2022. [link][pre-print]
• S. Akbarian, N. Montazeri, A. Yadollahi, and B. Taati. Noncontact Sleep Monitoring with Infrared Video Data to Estimate Sleep Apnea Severity and Distinguish Between Positional and Nonpositional Sleep Apnea: Model Development and Experimental Validation. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Vol 23, No 11, Nov 2021. [link]
• H. Wei, F. Rudzicz, D. Fleet, T. Grantcharov, and B. Taati. Intraoperative Adverse Event Detection in Laparoscopic Surgery: Stabilized Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Network with Focal-Uncertainty Loss. Proceedings of the 6th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, PMLR 149:283-307, 2021. [link]
• S. Rezaei, A. Moturu, S. Zhao, K. M. Prkachin, T. Hadjistavropoulos, and B. Taati. UnobtrusivePain Monitoring in Older Adults with Dementia using Pairwise and Contrastive Training. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Dec 2020. [link][preprint]
• A. Bandini, S. Rezaei, D. Guarin, M. Kulkarni, D. Lim, M. Boulos, L. Zinman, Y. Yunusova, and B. Taati. A New Dataset for Facial Motion Analysis in Individuals with Neurological Disorders. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), 2020. [link]
• S. Mehdizadeh, A. Sabo, K.-D. Ng, A. Mansfield, A. J. Flint, B. Taati, A. Iaboni. Predicting shortterm risk of falls in a high risk group with dementia. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), 2020. [link]
• A. Sabo, S. Mehdizadeh, K-D. Ng, A. Iaboni, B. Taati. Assessment of Parkinsonian Gait in Older Adults with Dementia via Human Pose Tracking in Video Data. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER), 2020. [link]
• K-D. Ng, S. Mehdizadeh, A. Iaboni, A. Mansfield, A. Flint, and B. Taati. Measuring Gait Variables Using Computer Vision to Assess Mobility and Fall Risk in Older Adults with Dementia. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (IEEE JTEHM), Vol. 8, No. 1, Dec 2020. [link]
• S. Akbarian, N. Montazeri, A. Yadollahi, and B. Taati. Distinguishing Obstructive vs. Central Sleep Apnea Events in Infrared Video. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Vol. 22, No. 5, May 2020. [link]
• M. H. Li, T. A. Mestre, S. H. Fox, and B. Taati. Vision-Based Assessment of Parkinsonism and Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia with Deep Learning Pose Estimation. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 15, No.97, Nov 2018 [link]
• M. H. Li, T. A. Mestre, S. H. Fox, and B. Taati. Automated assessment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia: Evaluating the responsiveness of video-based features. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Vol. 53, pp 42-45, Aug 2018. [link]