Research

Biomedical image/signal processing; image/video processing and compression; speech processing; parallel processing and cluster computing.

Application

Reliability of heart rate estimation from noisy ECG signals; Enhancement of cardiac Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images; Error-resilient video coding; Combined source-channel coding for transmission of images/video over wireless channels; Speaker recognition and verification in noisy environments; Compression of medical data for transmission and storage.

Activities

Program Committee Member:

• IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-based Systems, November 29-December 4, 2009, Morocco.
• IEEE Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems June 22, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, February 5-8, 2009, Lisbon Portugal.
• IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE): Communications and Networking Symposium, May 3-6, 2009, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
• IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE): Signal and Multimedia Processing Symposium, May 3-6, 2009, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
• IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal
• SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging

Journal Articles

J. Gilchrist, and A. Cuhadar (2008), “Parallel lossless data compression based using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform,” International Journal on Web and Grid Services 4(1): 117-135, 2008.

X. Pan, A. H. Banihashemi and A. Cuhadar. Progressive Transmission of Images over Fading Channels Using Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 3627-3635, December 2006.

Conference Publications

J. Zhu and A. Cuhadar, “Error Resilient Multiple Description Video Coding with 3-D

SPIHT”, accepted for publication to IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, August 23-26*, 2009, Victoria, B.C., Canada

W. Dai, A. Cuhadar and P. Liu. Robot Tracking using Vision and Laser Sensors, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp. 169-174, August 23-26, 2008, Washington DC, U.S.A.

A. El-Solh, A. Cuhadar and R. Goubran. Evaluation of Speech Enhancement Techniques for Speaker Identification in Noisy Environments, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia: Workshop on Multimedia Audio and Speech Processing, pp. 235 -239, December 10-12, 2007, Taichung, Taiwan.

J. Gilchrist and A. Cuhadar. Parallel Lossless Data Compression Based on the Burrows Wheeler Transform, (best student paper award), IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, pp.877-884, May 21-23, 2007, Ontario, Canada.

F. Arif, M. Akbar, A. Cuhadar and A. Wu, “Enhancing Pixel Projection Method of Geometric Correction of Satellite Imagery with Wavelet Based Resampling Algorithm” 5^th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT 2007), July 12-15, 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA.

K. Wang and A. Cuhadar. Unbalanced 3-D tree structure for region-based coding of volumetric medical images, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, pp. 3286-3289, August 31-September 3, 2006, New York, USA