My Research Interests $

• Music Classification--Supported by ARC2009 Discovery Grant ($250,000)
• Video Analysis
  • Segmentation of Moving Objects from Image Sequence
  • Edge and Color Oriented Optical Flow Estimation Using Block Matching
• Texture Analysis
  • Texture Retrieval Using Rotation Invariant Gabor Texture Features
• Image Retrieval Based on Shape (Abstract Sketch)
  • Image Retrieval Based on Shape Using Generic Fourier Descriptor
  • Shape Representation and Description
  • Shape Retrieval Using Fourier Descriptor
• CSCW
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) on Internet
  • Coordination for Team Work Support
• OCR
  • Automatic Music Recognition
• Evaluation of Mathematics Teaching

HDR Supervisions_

• Dr Bee Yong Chua,---------------PhD Thesis: "Automatic Extraction of Perceptual Features and Categorization of Music Emotional Expression from Polyphonic Music Audio Signals". (2007)
• Dr Ying Liu,-----------------------PhD Thesis: "Region-Based Image Retrieval With High-Level Semantics". (2007) (thesis)
• Miss Melissa Lim------------------Honors Thesis: "Region-Based Shape Images Retrieval Using Concentric Circles / Area Sampling". (2005) (thesis)
• Ms Ishrat Jahan Sumana-----------Master Thesis: "Image Retrieval Using Discrete Curvelet Transform". (2008) (thesis)
• Dr MD Monirul Islam--------------PhD Thesis: "SIRBOT - Semantic Image Retrieval Based on Object Translation". (2009)
• Mr Atul Sajjanhar,-----------------PhD candidate on shape analysis and retrieval
• Mr Mohammad Shahiduzzaman----PhD candidate on semantic image segmentation