Image Processing and Computer Vision

Group Heads

  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Naveed Iqbal Rao
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Asif Masood

Members

  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Fahim Arif
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Imran Siddiqi
  • Lec. Rabia Khan
  • Research Assoc. Kashif Siraj
  • Research Asst. Hussain Kazmi
  • Research Asst. Umair Bin Ali
  • Mr. Gohar Hussain, Asst. System Admn.

Research Students

  • 4 x PhD Research thesis completed
  • 20 x MS Research thesis Completed
  • A Number of UG Design Projects

Research Projects

  • Object Tracking (Product being used at NDC, NESCOM)
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicle
  • Glacier Segmentation
  • UAV Image Analysis
  • Orthorectification & Mosaicing
  • Image Segmentation and Analysis
  • Urdu OCR System, Fat curve model for representation of Arabic/Urdu characters
  • Traffic Safety – Monitoring and Control, Congestion Detection, Flow Optimization

Research Collaborations

  • University of Central Florida, USA
  • Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
  • GET Lab of Paderborn University, Germany
  • Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation, NUST
  • Military College of Engineers, NUST
  • National Transport Research Centre, NHA Islamabad
  • IGIST University, Korea has offered a seat for fully funded MS/PhD in the area of Image Processing

Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

  • International Conference on Machine Vision in December 2007
  • Workshop on Machine Vision in October 2008
  • Workshop on Computational Modeling of Robotic Vision in December 2008
  • MATLAB Training Tutorials in May 2009
  • Video Lecture on “New Approaches to Modeling & Control of Complex Dynamics” by Professor Adrian Treuille in October 2009
  • Video Lecture on “Computational Thinking” by Dr. Jeannette Wing in April 2010

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

  • R. Malik, A. Masood, (2009), “Fingerprint Enhancement and Reconstruction”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5755: Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications, pp. 660–669, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
  • H. Naeem, A. Masood, M. Hussain, S.A. Khan, (2009), “A Semi-Automated Dynamic approach to Threat Evaluation and Optimal Defensive Resource Allocation”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5754: Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications. pp. 8–17 , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
  • M.I. Khan, J. Ahmed, A. Ali, A. Masood, (2009), “Robust Edge-Enhanced Fragment Based Normalized Correlation Tracking in Cluttered and Occluded Imagery”, accepted for publication in International Symposium on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Jeju Island, Korea.

Refereed Journals

  • H. Naeem, A. Masood, (2010), “An optimal dynamic threat evaluation and weapon scheduling technique”, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier Science. (In Press)
  • S.I. Gilani, M. Younas, A. Masood, (2010), “Gender Estimation of Two Dimensional Frontal Facial Images”, GESTS International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 59, no. 2, pp.--- (accepted for publication).
  • M.I. Khan, J. Ahmed, A. Ali, A. Masood, (2009), “Robust Edge-Enhanced Fragment Based Normalized Correlation Tracking in Cluttered and Occluded Imagery”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, vol. 12, pp. 25-34.
  • M. Zafar, A. Masood, (2009), “Interactive English to Urdu Machine Translation using Example-Based Approach”, International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, vol 1, no. 3, pp. 276-283.
  • H. Naeem, A. Masood, M. Hussain, S.A. Khan, (2009), “A Novel Two-Stage Dynamic Decision Support based Optimal Threat Evaluation and Defensive Resource Scheduling Algorithm for Multi Air-borne threats”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 159-166.
  • A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, (2009), Capturing outlines of 2D objects with Bézier cubic approximation, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 704-712, Elsevier Science.
  • A.M. Siddiqui, A. Masood, M. Saleem, (2009), A locally constrained radial basis function for registration and warping of images, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 377 – 390, Elsevier Science.
  • Z.Gilani and N.I. Rao, “Fast Block Clustering Based Optimized Adaptive Mediod Shift”, LNCS Vol 5702/2009, page 435-443, Sep 09.
  • A. Masood, (2008), Optimized polygonal approximation by dominant point deletion, Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 227 – 239, Elsevier Science.
  • M. Rizwan, M. Ilyas, A. Masood, I. Towhata, (2008), An Approach to Digitize Analog Form of Accelerograms Recorded at Tarbela – Pakistan, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 328 – 332, Elsevier Science.
  • A. Masood, M. Sarfraz, S.A. Haq, (2008), An efficient technique for capturing 2D Objects, Computers and Graphics, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 93 – 104, Elsevier Science.
  • A. Masood, (2008), Dominant point detection by reverse polygonization of digital curves, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 702-715, Elsevier Science.
  • M. Rizwan, M. Ilyas, A. Masood, (2008), Design Spectrums Based On Earthquakes Recorded at Tarbela, Mehran University Research Journal Of Engineering & Technology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 199-212.
  • A. Masood, (2008), A growing Bezier curve for efficient curve approximation, Nust Journal of Engineering and Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-11.

Refereed Conferences

  • Zulqarnain Gilani and Naveed Iqbal Rao, “A Clustering Based Automated Glacier Segmentation Scheme Using Digital Elevation Model”, InProc IEEE DICTA 2009, pages 277-284, 1-3 Dec 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Rabia Khan, Naveed Iqbal Rao, Abdul Ghafoor, Paper titled "A Novel Texture Based Blind Audio in Image Watermarking Scheme using Wavelet Transform" accepted at International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE 2009), IEEE, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Rabia Khan, Naveed Iqbal Rao, Abdul Ghafoor, Paper titled "A Blind Image Adaptive Watermarking Scheme for Audio using Wavelet Transform" accepted at International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2009), IEEE, Bangkok, Thailand
  • F. Ahmad, A. Masood, (2009), “A publicly verifiable low cost signcryption scheme ensuring confidentiality”, Accepted for publication in 2nd International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing, Wuhan, China.
  • U. Ahmed, A. Masood, (2009), “Host based Intrusion Detection using RBF neural networks” 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • H. Naeem, A. Masood, (2009), “Novel Two-Stage Dynamic Decision Support based Optimal Threat Evaluation and Defensive Resource Scheduling Algorithm for Multi Air-borne threats” proc. 29th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, England.
  • A. Masood, R. Hussain, (2009), “Fat Curve Model for Representation of Urdu/Arabic Fonts” proc. 2009 Northeast American Society of Engineering Education Conference, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
  • A. Masood, K. Zareef, (2009), “Image Mosaicing using an Efficient Correlation Algorithm”, accepted for publication in the proc. 4th International Conference Geometric Modelling and Imaging, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Bilal, M, Naveed I Rao, Intisar R., Sarmad M, Farhan T, "A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) using Fractional Fourier Transform with Time Domain Normalization and Heuristic Weight Adjustment", ICSP,08, October 2008.
  • Amina Asghar, M, Naveed I Rao, "Color Image Segmentation Using Multilevel Clustering Approach", accepted in DICTA2008, IEEE Computer Society, December 2008, Canberra, Australia.
  • Amina Asghar, M, Naveed I Rao, "Semantics Sensitive Segmentation and Annotation of Natural Images", accepted in SITIS2008, IEEE Computer Society, Nov/Dec 2008, Bali, Indonesia
  • Saarah Ahmed, M, Naveed I Rao, Abdul Ghafoor, Ahmed Muqeem Sherry, "Face Super-Resolution Using Direct Locality Preserving Projections", accepted in ICACTE2008, IEEE Computer Society, December 20-22, 2008, Phuket Island, Thailand

Contact

Asst. Prof. Dr. Asif Masood - amasood@mcs.edu.pk