Visual Signal Analysis and Processing Center (VSAP)

Current projects: 

• Remote Sensing Image Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Network and Its Applications to Pan sharpening and Detection, Ph.D. Project of Mr. Essa Basaeed, Supervised by Dr.Mohammed Al-Mualla and co-supervised by: Dr.Harish Bhaskar, Buhooth Scholarship, 2011–2022

• Action/Gesture Recognition under Dynamic Illumination Conditions, Ph.D. Project of Mr. Buti Al-Delail, Supervised by Dr.Harish Bhaskar and co-supervised by: Dr.Jamal Zemerly and Dr.Mohammed Al-Mualla, Buhooth Scholarship, 2014–2018

• Crowd Emotion Detection and Visualization from Stationary Video Feeds, Ph.D. Project of Ms. Sohailah Alyammahi, Supervised by Dr.Harish Bhaskar and co-supervised by: Dr.Dymitr Ruta and Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla, Buhooth Scholarship, 2014–2018

• Visual Data Mining during Aerial Surveillance, M.Sc. Project of  Mr. Hamdan Al Shekalli,  Supervised by Dr.Andrzej Sluzek and co-supervised by: Dr.Harish Bhaskar, EARTH/ETIC Scholarship, 2015-2022

• A Quantum-based Approach to De-noising High ISO Images, M.Sc. Project of Ms. Nour Abura’ed, Supervised by Dr.Faisal Shah Khan and co-supervised by: Dr.Harish Bhaskar, Teaching Assistantship Scholarship, 2015-2022

• Optimization-based Technique for Body-parts Localization in Video, Ms. Dina Atia, Supervised by Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla and co-supervised by: Dr.Harish Bhaskar, Visual Signal Analysis and Processing (VSAP) Research Center, 2015–2022

Completed projects:

• Sensor fusion-based big data analytics for intelligent healthcare surveillance system, AED 354245, Al Ghurair University-Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST, 2015

• Compliant Exoskeleton: Shared Autonomous Mobile Robot Manipulation Using a Compliant Exoskeleton, AED 2,210,000, Al Ghurair University Internal Research Fund Level 2, 2014-2015

• Wireless Baseband: SoC for Biomedical and Surveillance Applications, AED 1,650,000, Semiconductor Research Center (SRC) , 2013-2014

• Crowd Analysis in Surveillance Environments, AED 199250, Al Ghurair University Internal Research Fund Level 1, 2013

• Intelligent Multi-Sensor Surveillance System for Elderly Care, AED 250000, Al Ghurair University-Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST, 2013

• Autonomous Human Target Identification and Tracking using Multiple Cameras in Crowded Environments, AED 176354, Al Ghurair University Internal Research Fund Level 1, 2012

• Efficient algorithms and architectures for feature point detection

• Target detection, tracking and Identification using multiple cameras (static/moving)

• Autonomous human target identification and tracking using multiple cameras in crowded environments

• Low light image enhancement – fog/haze removal

Facilities:

• Indoor surveillance environment consisting of 6 cisco cameras with a 4TB Rack Server
• Dark room environment for lighting controlled data collection and experimentation
• Cameras: Canon 1D, Lytro Illum, FLIR Thermal camera, USB FLEA, Kinect, among others.

Expertise:

• Low-level image enhancement RR Contrast enhancement RR Perceptual image processing
• Target detection, tracking, reidentification and motion analysis
• Multi-camera modeling, calibration, tracking
• Moving camera target detection and tracking
• Visual search and classification.

Current projects: 

• Securing Video Transmission of Remote Surveillance using Selectively Combined In-Compression and Encryption Techniques, Ph.D. Project of Mr. Khalfan Al-Marashada, Supervised by Dr.Mohammed Al-Mualla and co-supervised by: Dr.Harish Bhaskar and Dr.Thomas Martin, EARTH Scholarship, 2013–2022

• Digital image watermarking for medical images, Prof. Hussein Al-Ahmad and Dr. Fatma Taher, 2014-2018

Completed projects:

• Link adaptation for wireless video communication systems, Ph.D. Project of Mr. Husameldin Mukhtar, Supervised by Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla and co-supervised by Dr. Arafat Al-Dweik, 2011-2014

• Digital image watermarking for satellite images

Facilities:

• VSAP hosts HPC facilities through its IBM Server (IBM System x3650 M3). Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft® PixelSense™
• VSAP strongly partners with University of Bristol and Al Ghurair University Robotics Institute
• (AGURI) for data acquisition, field-testing and operations
• VSAP works together with the Information Security group at AGU on some projects

Expertise:

• Scalable video coding, transcoding
• Link adaptation
• Wireless video communication efficiency, complexity and resilience
• Digital watermarking.

Biometrics and Bio-imaging

Current projects 

• Automatic polyp detection in endoscopy videos, AED 152571, Al Jalila Foundations, 2022-2022

• Enhanced imaging techniques for identification of calcification in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAAs), AED 270541, Al Jalila Foundations, 2022-2022

• Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Early and Automated Detection of Infantile Dysmorphic Syndromes in the UAE, AED 1674000, Al Ghurair University Internal Research Fund Level 2, 2015-2022

• Detecting Down Syndrome in Infants Using Facial 2D and 3D Images, AED 190000 Al Ghurair University Internal Research Fund Level 1, 2014

• Capsule localization using multiple images in capsule endoscopy, Ph.D. Project of Ms. Yasmeen, Supervised by Prof. Jorge Dias and co-supervised by Dr. Harish Bhaskar, and Prof. Paulo Dario, 2014 – 2022

Completed projects

• Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Early Detection of Cervix Cancer from Pap Smear images, AED 46000, Terry Fox Foundation, 2014
• People identification from Partially Hidden 3D Facial Images, AED 160000, National Research Foundations, 2014
• A Grading System for Assessing Posterior Capsule Opacifiaction using Medical  Images, AED 190000, National Research Foundation, 2012

Facilities

• Dedicated Biometrics lab space within the VSAP center.
• 3D Face scanners, Bumblebee Stereo camera, Multispectral Fingerprint scanner, Fujitsu PalmSecure Palm Vein Scanner and Gazepoint Eye Tracker.
• VSAP strongly partners with University of Bristol and Biomedical Engineering Department at AGU for field testing and operations.
• VSAP also has strong links with key medical institutions and clinics that provide necessary support and data on several projects.

Expertise

• 2D/3D Face analysis
• Face Expression Analysis
• Macro-scale / Micro-scale object motion capture, detection, tracking and analysis Segmentation and detection
• 2D, 3D modeling and reconstruction
• Visualization and assessment of medical digital images

Journals: 

• E Basaeed, H Bhaskar, M Al-Mualla, Supervised remote sensing image segmentation using boosted convolutional neural networks, Knowledge-Based Systems 99, 19-27, 2022
• E Basaeed, H Bhaskar, P Hill, M Al-Mualla, D Bull, A supervised hierarchical segmentation of remote-sensing images using a committee of multi-scale convolutional neural networks, International Journal of Remote Sensing 37 (7), 1671-1691, 2022
• MS Zitouni, H Bhaskar, J Dias, ME Al-Mualla, Advances and trends in visual crowd analysis: A systematic survey and evaluation of crowd modelling techniques, Neurocomputing, 2022

Book Chapters:

• H Bhaskar, D La Torre, M Al-Mualla, Exaggeration Quantified: An Intensity-Based Analysis of Posed Facial Expressions, Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis, 101-128

Journals:

• E.Farahzadeh, T.-J.Cham, A.Sluzek, Scene recognition by semantic visual words, Signal, Image & Video Processing, vol. 9 (no.8), 2015, pp 1935-1944, doi: 10.1007/s11760-014-0687-7.
• P.-Y.Kong, A.Sluzek, Average Packet Delay Analysis for a Mobile User in a Two-Tier Heterogeneous Cellular Network, dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2015.2438096, IEEE Systems Journal, published online 12 June 2015.
• N. Werghi, S. Berretti, A. Del Bimbo, “The mesh-LBP: a Framework for Extracting Local Binary Patterns from Discrete Manifolds”, IEEE transactions on image processing, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 220-235, 2015.
• N. Werghi, C. Tortorici, S. Berretti, A. Del Bimbo, “Local Binary Patterns on Triangular Meshes: Concept and Applications”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2015
• S. Berretti, N. Werghi, A.D. Bimbo P. Pala, “Selecting stable keypoints and local descriptors for person identification using 3D face scans”, The Visual Computer, springer, 2014
• H.Bhaskar, K.Dwivedi, D.P.Dogra, M.Al-Mualla, L.Mihaylova, “Autonomous detection and tracking Autonomous Detection and Tracking under illumination changes, occlusions and moving Camera.”, Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing. Vol. 117, pp. 343–354, Dec. 2015.
• D.P.Dogra, A.Ahmed, H.Bhaskar, “Smart video summarization using mealy machine-based trajectory modelling for surveillance applications.”, Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Application, pp. 1-29, Apr. 2015.
• T.Zhou, J.Yang, A.Loza, H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, “Crowd modeling framework using fast head detection and shape-aware matching.”, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 24, Number 2, Mar. 2015.
• F. Taher, Naoufel Werghi and Hussain Al-Ahmad, “Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Early Lung Cancer Detection”, accepted to be published in Algorithms Journal of Medical Imaging, October, 2015.
• Kamrad Khoshhal Roudposhti, Urbano Nunes, and Jorge Dias, "Probabilistic Social Behavior Analysis by Exploring Body Motion-based Patterns”, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) - [Accepted]
• Shafiqul Islam, Peter X. Liu, Jorge Dias, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, "Adaptive Control for Robot Manipulators Using Multiple Parameter Models", International Journal of Control and Automation Systems, ISSN: 2005-4092 [In Press]
• Juan C. García, Bruno Patrão, Luís Almeida, Javier Pérez, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Dias, Pedro J. Sanz - "Design and Evaluation of a Natural Interface for Remote Operation of Underwater Robots", Journal of Computer Graphics and Applications, JUNE 2015 [In Press]
• Rebeca Marfil, Jorge Dias, Francisco Escolano, Recognition and action for scene understanding, Neurocomputing, Volume 161, 5 August 2015, Pages 1-2, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.02.054

Conferences:

• E.Salahat, H.Saleh, A.Sluzek, M.Al-Qutayri, B.Mohammed, M.El-Naggar, "A Novel MERS-CoV Biosurveillance System", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Consumer Electronics (ICCE'2015), Las Vegas.
• A.Sluzek, Multi-distinctive MSER Features and Their Descriptors: A Low-Complexity Tool for Image Matching, ACIVS 2015 Conf. (LNCS 9386, pp 672-680), Oct. 2015, doi 10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_58.
• A.Sluzek, Visual Retrieval of Known Objects using Supplementary Depth Data, 13th Int. Conf. on Numerical Analysis & Applied Maths. ICNAAM 2015 (Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Computation in Computer Vision), Sept. 2015 (in print).
• A.Sluzek, Visual Detection of Objects by Mobile Agents using CBVIR Techniques of Low Complexity, Fed. Conf. on Comp. Science and Inf. Systems FedCSIS 2015 (1st Int. AIMaViG Workshop), Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 5, pp 241-246, 2015, doi: 10.15439/2015F85.
• T.Alkhidir, A.Sluzek, M.Yapici, Simple Method for Adaptive Filtering of Motion Artifacts in E-Textile Wearable ECG Sensors, 37th IEEE Cong. Engineering in Medicine and Biology EMBC’15, Milan, Aug. 2015.
• E.Salahat, H.Saleh, A.Sluzek, B.Mohammed, M.Al-Qutayri, M.Elnaggar, Novel MSER-guided Street Extraction from Satellite Images, IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS’2015, Milan, July 2015.
• E.Salahat, H.Saleh, M.S.Zitouni, A.S.Sluzek, B.Mohammad, M.Al-Qutayri, M.Elnaggar, A Robust Histogram-Based Image Segmentation ASIC Design for System-on-Chip using 65nm Technology, dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCSPA.2015.7081298, Int. Conf. on Communications, Signal Processing and their Applications ICCSPA’15, Sharyah (UAE), 2015.
• E.Salahat, H.Saleh, A.Sluzek, M.Al-Qutayri, B.Mohammed, M.Elnaggar, A Novel MERS-CoV Biosurveillance System, IEEE Int. Conf. on Consumer Electronics ICCE’15, Las Vegas, pp 320-323, 2015.
• A.Sluzek, Contextual Descriptors Improving Credibility of Keypoint Matching: Harris-Affine, Hessian-Affine and SIFT feasibility study, 13th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision ICARCV’2014, pp 117-122, Singapore, Dec. 2014, doi: 10.1109/ICARCV.2014.7064290.
• A.Sluzek, Extended Keypoint Description and the Corresponding Improvements in Image Retrieval, LNCS vol. 9008, pp 698-709, (Selected Papers of ACCV 2014 Workshops, Singapore, Nov. 2014), doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16628-5_50.
• M.C. El-Rai, N Werghi, C Tortorici, H Al-Muhairi, HA Safar, “Landmark Detection from 3D Mesh Facial Models for Image-based”, IEEE Conf. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Milan, Italy, 2015.
• N. Werghi, C. Tortorici, S. Berretti, “Boosting 3D LBP-based Face Recognition by Fusing Shape and Texture Descriptors on the Mesh”, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, 2015, Quebec city, Canada, 2015.
• N. Werghi, C. Tortorici, S. Berretti, A. Del Bimbo , Representing 3D Texture on Mesh Manifolds for Retrieval and Recognition Applications, IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. p. 2521-2530, Boston, USA, 2015
• B.Al Delail, H.Bhaskar, J.Zemerly and M.Al-Mualla, “Illumination Invariant Robust Likelihood Estimator for Particle Filtering based Target Tracking.”, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2015.
• M.S.Zitouni, J.Dias, M.Al-Mualla, H.Bhaskar, “Hierarchical Crowd Detection and Representation for Big Data Analytics in Visual Surveillance”, IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybetnetics (SMC), 2015.
• T.Zhao, H.Bhaskar, J.Yang, P.Shi, “Online learning of multi-feature weights for robust object tracking.”, International Conference on Image Processing, (ICIP), 2015.
• A.Sikdar, S.K.Behera, D.P.Dogra and H.Bhaskar, “Contactless Vision-based Pulse Rate Detection of Infants under Neurological Examinations.”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Aug. 2015.
• E.Basaeed, H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, “CNN-based multi-band fused boundary detection for remotely sensed images.“, International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention(ICDP), 2015.
• K.Al-Marashada, A.Dawood, T.Martin, M.Al-Mualla, H.Bhaskar, “An Optimised Selective Encryption for Video Confidentiality.“, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), LNCS 9164, pp. 109-118, Mar. 2015.
• H.Bhaskar, D.La Torre, M.Al-Mualla, “Posed Facial Expression Detection using Reflection Symmetry and Structural Similarity.”, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), LNCS 9164, pp. 218-228, Mar. 2015.
• D.P.Dogra, A.Ahmed, R.D.Reddy, K.Subramanyam, H.Bhaskar, “Scene 119) representation and anomalous activity detection using weighted region association graph.”, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Mar. 2015.
• A.Ahmed, D.P.Dogra, H.Bhaskar, “Interest area localization using trajectory analysis in surveillance scenes.”, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Mar. 2015.
• S. Makhmasi, F. Taher, Hussain Al-Ahmad and T. McGloughlin, "A Novel Multiple Watermarking Algorithm for Patient Identification and Integrity Control", proceeding of the 17th UKSIM-AMSS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 310-315, Cambridge, UK, March. 25-27, 2015.
• M. Darweesh, M. Al Zubaidi, A. AGUnhu, H. Al-Ahmad and F. Taher, “Colorization of Gray Scale Natural Still Images by Using ANN to Predict the Low Frequency DCT Components of the RGB Channels”, proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research, pp. 303-306, Dubai, UAE, May. 17-19, 2015.
• F. Taher, Naoufel Werghi and Hussain Al-Ahmad, “Classification of Sputum Images for Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis”, proceeding of the 21IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP 2015) pp. 1-4, UK, London, Sept. 10-12, 2015.
• F. Taher, Naoufel Werghi and Hussain Al-Ahmad, “Rule Based Classification of Sputum Images for Early Lung Cancer Detection”, accepted to be published in 22nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (2015 ICECS), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 06-09, 2015.
• Lanillos, P., Ferreira, J.F., Dias, J.: Designing an artificial attention system for social robots. In: 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
• Lanillos, P., Ferreira, J.F., Dias, J.: Multisensory 3d saliency for artficial attention systems. In: 3rd Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS), 16th International Conference of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP) (2015)
• Islam, S.; Faraz, M.; Ashour, R.K.; Dias, J.; Seneviratne, L.D., "Robust adaptive control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle with uncertainty," in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1704-1709, 26-30 May 2015 DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139417
• Islam, S.; Faraz, M.; Ashour, R.K.; Cai, G.; Dias, J.; Seneviratne, L., "Adaptive sliding mode control design for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle," in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2015 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.34-39, 9-12 June 2015 DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2015.7152272
• Saeed, A.S.; Younes, A.B.; Islam, S.; Dias, J.; Seneviratne, L.; Guowei Cai, "A review on the platform design, dynamic modeling and control of hybrid UAVs," in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2015 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.806-815, 9-12 June 2015 DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2015.7152365
• Islam, S.; Dias, J.; Seneviratne, L.D., "Adaptive tracking control for quadrotor unmanned flying vehicle," in Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2014 IEEE/ASME International Conference on , vol., no., pp.441-445, 8-11 July 2014 DOI: 10.1109/AIM.2014.6878117
• A. AGUnhu, F. Taher and H. Al-Ahmad, “A New Multi Watermarking Algorithm for Medical Images using DWT and Hash Functions”, accepted to be published in the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, UAE, Nov. 1-3, 2015.

Journals:

• E.Farahzadeh, T.J.Cham, A.Sluzek, "Scene recognition by semantic visual words”, Signal, Image & Video Processing, Oct. 2014.
• N. Werghi, N. Medimegh, S. Gazzah, “Watermarking of 3D Triangular Mesh Models using Ordered Ring Facets, Transactions on Systems, Signals & Devices, Issues on Communication & Signal Processing, vol. 9, No. 3
• J. F. Ferreira and J. Dias - "Attentional Mechanisms for Socially Interactive Robots - A Survey". IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 110-125, 2014.DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2014.2303072
• G. Cai, J. Dias, L. Seneviratne - "A Survey of Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Recent Advances and Future Development Trends". Unmanned Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2014) 1–26, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014.
• D. R. Faria, P. Trindade, J. Lobo, J. Dias - "Knowledge-based Reasoning from Human Grasp Demonstrations for Robot Grasp Synthesis". Robotics and Autonomous Systems, ISSN 0921-8890, 2014.DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2014.02.003
• G. Cai, H. Al Mehairi, H. Al-Hosani, J. Dias, L. Seneviratne - "Frequency-Domain Flight Dynamics Model Identification of MAVs - Miniature Quad-Rotor Aerial Vehicles". 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, USA, Sept. 14-18, 2014.
• R. Martins, J. F. Ferreira, J. Dias - "Touch attention Bayesian models for robotic active haptic exploration of heterogeneous surfaces". 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, USA, Sept. 14-18, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942711
• L.Santos, E. Christodoulou, J.Dias "The role of people identification in a social robot" .International RoMan Workshop on Interactive Robots (IRAIP2014),Edinburgh,Scotland,UK, August 25-29, 2014.
• P.Menezes, J.Quintas,J.Dias "The Role of Context Information in Human-Robot Interaction" .International RoMan Workshop on Interactive Robots (IRAIP2014),Edinburgh,Scotland,UK, August 25-29, 2014.
• J.Dias, L.Santos, P. Trindade "Assistive Robots for Elderly People".International RoMan Workshop on Interactive Robots (IRAIP2014),Edinburgh,Scotland,UK, August 25-29, 2014.

Conferences:

• A.Sluzek, R.Kozera, “Improving Performances of BoW-based Image Retrieval by Using Contextual Keypoint Descriptors”, Proc. Int. Conf. Machine Vision and Machine Learning MVML’2014, Prague.
• A.Sluzek, "Extended Keypoint Description and the Corresponding Improvements in Image Retrieval", Proc. ACCV 2014, Singapore.
• A.Sluzek, "Contextual Descriptors Improving Credibility of Keypoint Matching: Harris-Affine, Hessian-Affine and SIFT feasibility study", Proc. ICARCV 2014, Singapore.
• Z. Qian, N.Werghi, et al , “Ensemble Learning for the Detection of Facial Dysmorphology”, Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Chicago, USA
• N. Werghi, S. Berretti, A.D. Bimbo, “Computing Local Binary Patterns on Discrete Manifolds”, Proc. Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2014, Stockholm , Sweden
• S. Al Nuaimi, H. Al-Ahmad & M. Al-Mualla, Design and Analysis of 2D sub-optimum filters for sharpening interpolated satellite images, proceedings of the IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Lebanon, April 2014, pp 488-492.
• S. Al Nuaimi, H. Al-Ahmad & M. Al-Mualla, 2D sub-optimum filters for sharpening interpolated satellite images by optimizing the structural similarity index measure, Proceedings of the IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), UK, July 2014.
• W. Alakk, A. AGUnhu & H. Al-Ahmad, A new watermarking algorithm for scanned grey pdf files using DWT and hash function, Proceedings of the IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), UK, July 2014.
• "micro-UAV Tracking for Surveillance and Exploration", H.Bhaskar, J.Dias, L.Seneviratne, M.Al-Mualla, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2014
• A Low-Power 65-nm ASIC Design for Background Subtraction in System-on-Chip, M.S.Zitouni, H.Saleh, H.Bhaskar, E. Salahat, M.Ismail, International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 2014,
• E.Farahzadeh, T.J.Cham, A.Sluzek, "Scene recognition by semantic visual words”, Signal, Image & Video Processing, Oct. 2014.
• S. Berretti, N. Werghi, A.D. Bimbo P. Pala, “Selecting stable keypoints and local descriptors for person identification using 3D face scans”, The Visual Computer, Springer
• N. Werghi, N. Medimegh, S. Gazzah, “Watermarking of 3D Triangular Mesh Models using Ordered Ring Facets, Transactions on Systems, Signals & Devices, Issues on Communication & Signal Processing, vol. 9, No. 3
• E.Salahat, H.Saleh, A.Sluzek, M.Al-Qutayri, B.Mohammed, M.El-Naggar, "A Novel MERS-CoV Biosurveillance System", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Consumer Electronics (ICCE'2015), Las Vegas.

• A.Sluzek, "Local Detection and Identification of Visual Data: Selected Techniques and Applications, LAP, Saarbrucken, 2013, ISBN 978-3-659-47133-9.

• A. Sluzek, “A Fast Scheme for Detecting, Localizing and Grouping Similarly Looking Faces in Random Images”, Int. Journal of Computer and Information Technology, vol. 2(4).
• Automatic Sputum Color Image Segmentation for Lung Cancer Diagnosis", KSII Transactions on Internet and Information System, F. Taher, Naoufel Werghi, Hussain Al-Ahmad.
• Extraction and Segmentation of sputum cells for Lung cancer Early Diagnosis, Algorithms Journal of Machine Learning for Medical Imaging, F . Taher, N. Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad and C. Donner
• S. Berretti, N. Werghi, A.D. Bimbo P. Pala, Matching 3D Face Scans using Interest Points and Local Histogram Descriptors”, Computers & Graphics, Elsevier.
• F Taher, N Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad, C Donner, “Extraction and Segmentation of Sputum Cells for Lung Cancer Early Diagnosis”, Algorithms 6 (3)
• F. Taher, N. Werghi& H. Al Ahmad, Automatic sputum color image segmentation for lung cancer diagnosis, KSII Transaction on Internet and Information System (TIIS), Vol. 7, No.1, Jan. 2013, pp 68-80.
• K. Ahmed, H. Al-Ahmad & P. Gaydecki, Robust grey-scale image watermarking using two dimensional Walsh coding, Information Engineering, Vol. 2, June 2013, pp 15-21.
• A. AbouAlaml, R.A. Abd-Alhameed, K. Al-Ansari, H. Al-Ahmad, C.H. See, S.M.R Jones & J.M. Noras, Statistical Analysis of refractivity gradient and b0 parameter in the Gulf region, IEEE Trans on Antenna and Propagation, vol. 61, no. 12, December 2013, pp 6250-6254.
• "Articulated human body parts detection based on cluster background subtraction and foreground matching.", Harish Bhaskar, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Simon Maskell, Neurocomputing 100: 58-73 (2013)

Conferences:

• A.Sluzek, “Inverted Indexing in Image Fragment Retrieval using Huge Keypoint-Based Vocabularies”, Proc. 11th Int. Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), pp 167-172, Veszprem.
• A.Sluzek, “Affine-invariant Description of Keypoint Bundles for Detecting Partial Near-duplicates in Random Images”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems ICECS 2013,Dubai.
• E.Salahat, H.Saleh, M.Baker, A.Sluzek, M.Al-Qutayri, M.Ismail, “Automated Real-Time Video Surveillance Algorithms for SoC Implementation: A Survey”,Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems ICECS 2013, Dubai.
• A. Sluzek, “A Novel Approach to Retrieval of Similar Patterns in Biological Images”, LNCS vol.8034 (Proc. ISVC 2013), Rhetymnion.
• A.Sluzek, “Partial Near-duplicate Detection in Random Images by a Combination of Detectors”, LNCS vol.8192 (Proc. ACIVS 2013), Poznan.
• N. Werghi, S. Berretti, A.D. Bimbo P. Pala, “The Mesh-LBP: Computing Local Binary Patterns on Discrete Manifolds”, Proc. ICCV 2013 workshop on 3D Representation and Recognition (3dRR-13)
• S Berretti, N Werghi, A Del Bimbo, P Pala, “Geometric histograms of 3D keypoints for face identification with missing parts”, Eurographics 2013 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval.
• N. Werghi, S. Berretti, A.D. Bimbo P. Pala, “Local Descriptors matching or 3D Face Recognition”, IEEE Int, Conference on Image Processing , ICIP 2013, Melbourne, Australia.
• T. Jassim, R. Abd-Alhameed & H. Al Ahmad, A new robust and fragile watermarking scheme for images captured by mobile phone cameras, Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Signal Processing and their Applications (ICCSPA), UAE, Feb. 2013, pp 1-5.
• A. AGUnhu & H. Al-Ahmad, Multi watermarking algorithm based on DCT and hash functions for color satellite images, Proceedings of the Innovation in IT (IIT) Conference, UAE, March 2013.
• T. Jassim, R. Abd-Alhameed & H. Al Ahmad, A new robust and fragile watermarking scheme for colour images captured by mobile phone cameras, Proceedings of the International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, UK, April 2013, pp 465-469.
• F. Taher, N. Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad, Segmentation of sputum color image for lung cancer diagnosis based on mean shift algorithm, Proceedings of the IEEE AFRICON Conference, Mauritius, Sept. 2013, pp 1-6.
• A. AGUnhu & H. Al-Ahmad, A new multi watermarking algorithm based on DWT and hash functions for color satellite images, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), UAE 2013, pp 429-432.
• A. Vivekanand, N. Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad, Automated image assessment of posterior capsule opafication using Holder exponents, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), UAE 2013, pp 538-541.
• F. Taher, N. Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad, Comparison of Hopefield neural network and mean shift algorithm in segmenting sputum color images, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), UAE 2013, pp 649-652.
• “Variational Articulated Object Tracking using Particle Filtering Framework”, H.Bhaskar, K.Dwivedi and A.Loza, International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP), 2013
• “Fast Algorithm for Restoration of Foggy Images”, A.Loza, H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2013
• E. Basaeed, H. Bhaskar, and M. Al-Mualla, “Comparative Analysis of Pan-sharpening Techniques on DubaiSat-1 images,” in The 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, Istanbul, Turkey, 9-12 Jul. 2013, pp. 227–234.
• E. Basaeed, H. Bhaskar, and M. Al-Mualla, “A spectral water index based on visual bands,” in Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIX, Dresden, Germany, 23-26 Sep. 2013, vol. 8892, p. 889219.
• “Spontaneous vs. Posed Facial Expression Analysis Using Deformable Feature Models and Aggregated Classifiers.”, H.Bhaskar and M.Al-Mualla, FUSION 2013
• Comparison of Hopfield Neural Network and Mean Shift algorithm in Segmenting Sputum Color Images for Lung Cancer Diagnosis, 20th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, 1. F. Taher, N. Werghi and H. Al-Ahmad.
• Early Lung Cancer Detection by using a Histogram Technique Based on Bayesian Classification”, proceeding of the BCS International IT Conference Towards 21st Century Innovations, F. Taher, N. Werghi and H. Al-Ahmad.
• Segmentation of sputum color image for lung cancer diagnosis based on mean shift algorithm,” proceeding of the IEEE AFRICON, F. Taher, N. Werghi and H. Al-Ahmad.

• A.Sluzek, M.Paradowski, “Towards Vision-Based Understanding of Unknown Environments”, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol.98/2012, pp 387-402, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
• “The Spiral Facets: A compact 3D facial mesh surface representation and its applications”, N. Werghi, H.Bhaskar, M.K.Naqbi, Y.Meguebli, H.Boukadia, Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics, Theory and Applications, Springer Lecture Notes, 2012

Journals:

• F. Taher, N. Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad & Rachid Sammaouda, Lung cancer detection by using artificial neural network and fuzzy clustering methods, American Journal of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 2, no.3, June 2012, pp 136-142.
• A. Sluzek, “A framework for junction detection using local Hough transforms”, Int. Journal of Computer and Information Technology , vol. 1(2).
• A.Sluzek, M.Paradowski, “Visual Similarity Issues in Face Recognition”, International Journal of Biometrics, vol 4(1),
• Lung Cancer Detection by Using Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering Methods”, American Journal of Biomedical Engineering, F. Taher, N. Werghi, H. Al-Ahmad and R. Sammouda
• N. Werghi, M. Rahayem, J. Kjellander. “An ordered topological representation of 3D triangular mesh facial surface: Concept and applications”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, pp.144, 2012.
• Fatma Taher, Naoufel Werghi, Hussain Al-Ahmad and Rachid Sammouda, “Lung Cancer Detection by Using Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering Methods”, American Journal of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2012.
• M Rahayem, N Werghi, J Kjellander, “Best ellipse and cylinder parameters estimation from laser profile scan sections”, Optics and Lasers in Engineering , 50 (9), 1242-1259, 2012
• K. Ahmed, H. Al-Ahmad & P. Gaydecki, 1-D Walsh coded watermarking techniques for colour images using the Y channel, American Journal of Signal Processing, Vol.2 No.5, Dec. 2012, pp 139-144.

Conferences

• A.Sluzek, M.Paradowski, “Towards Vision-Based Understanding of Unknown Environments”, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol.98/2012, pp 387-402, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
• A.Sluzek, M.Paradowski, “Is Visual Similarity Sufficient for Semantic Object Recognition?”, 7th Int. Symp. Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'12), Wroclaw.
• A. Sluzek, M. Paradowski, D. Yang, “Reinforcement of Keypoint Matching by Co-segmentation in Object Retrieval: Face Recognition Case Study”, LNCS vol.7667, (Proc. ICONIP 2012), Doha.
• A. Sluzek, “Large Vocabularies for Keypoint-Based Representation and Matching of Image Patches”, LNCS vol.7583, (Proc. ECCV'2012), Florence.
• A. Sluzek, M. Paradowski, “Detection of Near-duplicate Patches in Random Images using Keypoint-based Features”, LNCS vol.7517, (Proc. ACIVS 2012), Brno.
• N.Werghi, C.Donner, F.Taher, H.AlAhamad, “Detection and segmentation of sputum cell for early lung cancer detection” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Orlando, USA 2012.
• F. Taher, N. Werghi & H. Al-Ahmad, Extraction of sputum cells using thresholding techniques for lung cancer detection, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Innovation in Information Technology (IIT), UAE, March 2012, pp 36-41.
• J. Jeedella, H. Al Ahmad & O. Al Shehhi, Watermarking mobile phone colour images with Reed Solomon error correction code, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Tunisia, March 2012, pp 375-378.
• C. Donner, N. Werghi, F. Taher & H. Al-Ahmad, Cell extraction from sputum images for early lung cancer detection, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Tunisia, March 2012, pp 485-488.
• K. Ahmed, H. Al-Ahmad & P. Gaydecki, A new algorithm for watermarking colour images using the green channel, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT), 2012, Part II pp 302-311.
• C.H. See, R.A. Abd-Alhameed, S.W.J. Chung, D. Zhou, H. Al-Ahmad, and P.S. Excell, The design of a resistively loaded bowtie antenna for applications in breast cancer detection systems, IEEE Trans on Antenna and Propagation, vol. 60, no. 5, May 2012, pp 2526-2530.
• T. Jassim, H. Al-Ahmad, R.A. Abd-Alhameed & A. Al-Gindy, A block based wavelet algorithm for watermarking still colour images captured by mobile phone cameras, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Digital Content Technology, Korea, June 2012, pp 287-292.
• K. Ahmed, H. Al-Ahmad & P. Gaydecki, Watermarking of images captured by mobile phone cameras using 2-D Walsh coding in the Y-channel, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Digital Content Technology, Korea, June 2012, pp 227-230.
• F. Taher, N. Werghi & H. Al-Ahmad, A thresholding approach for detection of sputum cell for lung cancer early diagnosis, Proceedings of the IET Image Processing Conference, UK, July 2012, pp 1-6
• N. Werghi, C. Donner, F. Taher & H. Al-Ahmad, Segmentation of sputum cell image for early lung cancer detection, proceedings of the IET Image Processing Conference, UK, July 2012, pp 1-6
• K. Ahmed, H. Al-Ahmad & P. Gaydecki, Robust image watermarking using two dimensional Walsh coding, Proceedings of the IET Image Processing Conference, UK, July 2012, pp 1-5.
• F. Taher, N. Werghi & H. Al-Ahmad, Sputum image detection and extraction for lung cancer early diagnosis, accepted in the 11th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Application, Canada, July 2012, pp 864-869.
• “Integrated Human Target Detection, Identification and Tracking for Surveillance Applications.”, H.Bhaskar, IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS) Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-8 Sep. 2012. [Best Paper Award]
• “Beyond Pan-sharpening: Pixel-level Fusion in Remote Sensing Applications,” E.Basaeed, H.Bhaskar, and M.Al-Mualla, In the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations’12), Al-Ain, UAE, 18-20 Mar. 2012.
• Bayesian Classification and Artificial Neural Network Methods for Lung Cancer Early Diagnosis”, proceeding of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), F. Taher, N. Werghi and H. Al-Ahmad.
• Segmentation of Sputum Cell Image for Early Lung Cancer Detection”, proceeding of the IET Conference on Image Processing (IPR 2012), N. Werghi, F. Taher and H. Al-Ahmad.
• Cell Extraction from Sputum Images for Early lung Cancer Detection”, proceeding of the 16th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, C. Donner, N. Werghi, F. Taher and H. Al-Ahmad
• Extraction of Sputum Cells using Thresholding Techniques for Lung Cancer Detection”, proceeding of the 8th International Conference on innovation in Information Technology, F. Taher, N. Werghi and H. Al-Ahmad.

• 1) A.Sluzek, M.Paradowski, “Improved Credibility of Keypoint Matching by Using Co-affine Pairs of Ellipses”, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 2011, Vol.102/2011), pp 67-75,Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.

Journals:

• Y.H. Chua, C.S. Tan, Zh.H. Lee, T.Y. Chai, G. Seet, A. Sluzek “Using MTF with fixed-zoning method for automated gated imaging system in turbid medium”, Indian Journal of Geo-marine Sciences, vol 40(2).
• N. Werghi, “Extracting Ordered Patterns from a Triangular Mesh Surface: Approach and Potential Applications”, IEEE Potentials, Vol. 30, No.6, pp.34-43, November 2011.
• N.Werghi, “Assessing the Regularity of 3D Triangular Mesh Tessellation Using a Topological Structured Pattern”, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, Vol. 8, No.5, pp.633-648, 2011.
• F. Kamoun, N. Werghi, M. Al Blushi, “On the Appropriateness of Incident Management Systems in Developing Countries: A Case from the UAE”, Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, Vol. 5(4), pp.57-69, 2011.
• “Combined Data Association and Evolving Population Particle Filter for Multiple Articulated Target Tracking”, H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 642532, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2011/642532, Jan. 2011.

Conferences:

• A. Sluzek, M. Paradowski, “Assessment of Visibility Quality in Adverse Weather and Illumination Conditions”, LNCS vol.6835, (Proc. DAGM 2011), Frankfurt.
• M.Paradowski, A.Sluzek, “Automatic Image Annotation by Image Fragment Matching”, 6th Int. Symp. Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'11), Szczecin.
• Z.H.Lee, Y.H.Chua, C.S.Tan, X.Wang, C.W.Teoh, G.Seet, A.Sluzek, “Post-processing of Gated Images By Using Seed Growing Fusion Approach”, Proc. 2011 IEEE Conf. on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (2011 IEEE STUDENT), Cyberjaya
• N.Werghi, M. Naqbi, “A Novel Surface Pattern for 3D Facial Surface Encoding and Alignment”, IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC2011), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2011.
• N. Werghi, H.Bhaskar, Y.Meguebli, H.Boukadia, “The Spiral Facets: A Unified Framework for the Analysis and Description of 3D Facial Mesh Surfaces”, Proc. Int. Conference Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2011, pp. 30-39, Algrave Portugal, 2011
• “Coastline Detection Using Coupled Variational Level-Set Formulation”, H.Bhaskar, 4th International IET Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP), 2011
• “Virtual Mouse - Human Eye Controlled Assistive Mouse Movements”, S.Alsharif, H. Bhaskar and Y. Iraqi, Undergraduate Conference on Applied Computing (URC), Dubai, 2011. [Best Paper Award]
• “Rectangular Empty Parking Space Detection Using SIFT Based Classification”, H.Bhaskar, N.Werghi, S. Al Mansoori, VISAPP 2011.
• “Comparing Hough and Radon Transform based Parallelogram Detection”, H. Bhaskar, N.Werghi, IEEE GCC Conference, Dubai, 2011
• “Extraction and Alignment of Facial Regions for 3D Facial Image-Based Recognition”, N.Werghi, H.Bhaskar, A.Malek, IEEE GCC Conference, Dubai, 2011
• Lung Cancer Detection by using Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering Methods , Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibitions, F. Taher and R. Sammouda
• Lung Cancer Detection based on the Analysis of Sputum Color Images, Proceeding in the International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'10:WORLDCOMP 2010), F. Taher and R. Sammouda

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