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Harish Bhaskar Where ideas meet reality...

Profile A dynamic research scientist in computer vision and visual signal processing seeking a research and development career within related areas in a reputed organisation.

Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, Loughborough University, U.K., Jul. 2007 Worked on the thesis titled “An integrated block-based motion estimation framework for video applications. “, under the supervision of Dr. Helmut Bez and Prof. Paul Chung.

M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems, University of Exeter, U.K., Feb. 2004 Worked on the thesis titled “An Intelligent packet scheduler for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).”, under the supervision of Dr. Richard Everson. The project was co-sponsored by Motorola, U.K., and co-supervised by Dr. Mehdi Witwit and Dr. Jose Gil.

B.Tech. in Information Technology, University of Madras, INDIA, May. 2002 Worked on the thesis titled “Visualisation of 3D protein structures.“, under the supervision of Prof. S. Rajendran. The project was co-sponsored by Gemeiosys, INDIA, and co-supervised by Dr. Murali Alwar.

Interests Perceptual image processing

Multi-sensor fusion for healthcare surveillance

Behaviour analysis in crowded environments for situation awareness

Macro-/Micro- motion analysis for bio-medical applications

Quantum imaging

ADDRESSKhalifa UniversityP.O.Box 127788 Airport Road , Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)_________________________________

RESIDENCE+971(2) 6664660_________________________________

MOBILE+971 (55) 7074142_________________________________

EMAILharishbhasky@gmail.com_________________________________

WEBwww.harishbhaskar.com

Industrial Positions Chief Engineer, Samsung Electronics, INDIA, Jul. 2013 - Feb. 2014 Image Processing Engineer, AVR Automotive, U.K., (P/T), 2006Software Engineer, Michael J Consultants, U.K., (P/T), 2004

Affiliations Visual Signal Analysis and Processing (VSAP) Research Centre, 2011 - now A Khalifa University and University of Bristol, U.K, partnership.

Emirates Technology Innovation Centre (ETIC), 2014 - now An EARTH and Khalifa University, U.A.E. partnership.

Academic Positions Visiting Research Associate, University of Bristol, U.K., Jun. 2014 - now. Bristol Vision Institute, Supervised by Prof. David Bull

Assistant Professor, Khalifa University, U.A.E., Aug. 2009 - now. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Research Associate, University of Manchester, U.K., Sep. 2008 - Jul. 2009. MoBio project advised by Prof. Tim Cootes

Research Associate, Lancaster University, U.K., Mar. 2007 - Aug. 2008. DIFDTC MoD project advised by Dr. Lyudmila Mihaylova

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PROGRAMMING: C / C++JavaMATLAB_________________________________

LIBRARIES:OpenCVVXLVLFeat_________________________________

WEB TOOLS: PHP, HTML,ASPApache, MySQLWordpress, Joomla

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Funding 2014 - 2015 1. “Sensor fusion-based big data analytics for intelligent healthcare surveillance

system”, Khalifa University and Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KU-KAIST), Matching Fund, Co-Principle Investigator, AED. 354245.

2013 2. “Crowd Analysis in Surveillance Environments”, Khalifa University Internal Research

Fund (KUIRF), Principle Investigator, AED. 199250. 3. “Intelligent Multisensor Surveillance System for Elderly Care”, Khalifa University and

Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KU-KAIST), Joint Continuation Fund, Co-Principle Investigator, AED. 250000.

2012 4. “Autonomous Human Target Identification and Tracking using Multiple Cameras in

Crowded Environments”, Khalifa University Internal Research Fund (KUIRF), Principle Investigator, AED. 176354.

Administrative Roles 2012 - 2014: Recruitment committee member, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi. 2010 - 2012: Organizing Committee Member of NDISC, ICITST, and FlIP. 2009 - 2011: Resources Committee Member, Khalifa University Sharjah Campus 2004 - 2006: Organizing Manager of ICAPR and Summer School in Pattern Recognition through BCS & Pattern Analysis and Recognition (PAR) group.

Patents 2011 H.Bhaskar, Y.Iraqi, S.Al-Sharif, “Human eye controlled computer mouse interface.”, US Patent Pending, Application Number: 13339395, Dec. 2011.

Teaching Ph.D. Courses: Research Methods (Spring 2013) and Optimisation. M.Sc. Courses: Multimedia Processing (Spring 2015). Senior-level Courses: Image Processing (Spring 2014, Spring 2013), Digital Signal Processing, Programming Paradigms. Junior-level Courses: Data Communications (Fall 2014) and Internet Applications. Sophomore-level Courses: Linear Algebra. Freshman-level Courses: Calculus I, Calculus II and Introduction to Computer Organisation, Engineering Design. Assistantship: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Exeter, U.K., 2003 - 2005. Lab Demonstration in Agent Technology, Natural Language Processing and Image Processing.

Supervision Post-Doctoral Researchers: Dr. Artur Loza, 2012-2014 Ph.D. Studens: Mr. Buti Al Delail, 2015-2018 Mr. Essa Basaeed, 2011-2015. Mr. Khalfan Al-Marashada, 2012-2016. M.Sc. Students: Mr. Hamdan Al Shekalli, 2015-2016. Mr. Mohammed Sami, 2014-2015. Ms. Nour Abura’ed, 2015-2016. Research Assistants Ms. Raghad Baiad, 2014-2015. Undergraduate Students: Mr. Sultan Al-Sharif, 2011, Now in Abu Dhabi Police. Mr. Saeed AL-Mansoori, 2010, Now in EIAST. Internship Students (Past): Mr. Tao Zhoa, Ph.D. Intern from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014. Mr. Kartik Dwivedi, Undergraduate Intern from IIT Guwahati, 2013.

AWARDS_________________________________

ACADEMIC: 2002: B.Tech. Gold Medalist, Uni-versity Rank Holder_________________________________

SCIENTIFIC:VISAPP 2011: Best Paper AwardURC 2011: Best Paper AwardIEEE IS 2012: Best Paper Award

TALKS_________________________________

2014: “Micro-/Macro-Scale Crowd Modeling and Tracking in Sur-veillance Environments”, Dept. Of ACSE, University of Sheffield, U.K._________________________________

2010: “Object detection using graphical models.”, IEEE Seminar Series, Khalifa University, U.A.E._________________________________

2010: “Computers Acting Human.”, Technokidz@cis, Cambridge Inter-national Schools, Dubai, U.A.E._________________________________

2008: “Smart Environments.”, British Machine Vision Association, U.K._________________________________

2006: “Matlab Programming for AI Applications.”, Summer School on Pattern Recognition, Plymouth, U.K.

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Publications 2004 1. H.Bhaskar, R.M.Everson, M.Witwit, J.Gil, “Intelligent packet scheduler for general

packet radio server.”, IET Conference on Telecommunications Quality of Service, Vol. 1, pp. 43 - 47, Mar. 2004.

2005 2. S.Singh, H.Bhaskar,J.Tavare, G.Welsh, “Multiple particle tracking in live cell imaging

using Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) tagged videos.”, International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR), Springer LNCS, Vol. 3687, pp. 792 - 803, Oct. 2005.

2006 3. H.Bhaskar, R.L.Kingsland, S.Singh, J.Tavare, G.Welsh, “Multiple cell-particle

tracking based on multi-resolution block matching using genetic algorithm.”, IET Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP), Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, Jul. 2006.

4. H.Bhaskar, R.L.Kingsland, S.Singh, “Multi-resolution based motion estimation for object tracking using genetic algorithm.”, IET Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE), Vol. 1, pp. 583 - 588, Sep. 2006.

5. H.Bhaskar, S.Singh, D.C.Hoyle, “Machine learning in Bioinformatics: A brief review and recommendations for practitioners.”, Elsevier Journal of Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 1104 - 1125, Oct. 2006. (Impact Factor: 1.475)

2007 6. H.Bhaskar, S.Singh, “Live cell imaging - a computational perspective.”, Springer

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 195 - 212, Apr. 2007. (Impact Factor: 1.111)

7. H.Bhaskar, H.E.Bez, “Multi-resolution block matching motion estimation with deformation handling using genetic algorithms for object tracking applications.”, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vol. 2, pp. 169 - 174, May. 2007.

8. H.Bhaskar, H.E.Bez, “Novel block motion estimation for video stabilisation applications.”, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vol. 2, pp. 303 - 306, May. 2007.

9. H.Bhaskar, H.E.Bez, “A novel low level video indexing strategy based on block motion estimation.”, IET Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE), Jul. 2007.

10. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, S.Maskell, “Human Body Parts Detections Using Pictorial Structures and Evolutionary Algorithms.”, British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) Workshop on Vision, Video and Graphics (VVG), Sep. 2007.

11. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, S.Maskell, “An enhanced background subtraction technique using adaptive cluster density estimation.”, International workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions and Applications, Lecture notes in Informatics, 2007.

GOOGLE CITATION METRICS_________________________________

H-INDEX: 7 (All)7 (Since 2010)_________________________________

I-10 INDEX:4 (All)3 (Since 2010)_________________________________

CITATIONS:

199 (ALL)161 (Since 2010)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS_________________________________

IEEE: Member2009 - 2014_________________________________

IET:Member2009 - 2014_________________________________

BCS: Member2010 - 2013

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2008 12. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, S.Maskell, “Multiple Body Part Tracking using Probabilistic

Data Association Filter.”, NATO, Symposium on Sensors and Technology for Defence Against Terrorism, Apr. 2008

13. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, A.Achim, “Automatic Object Detection Based on Adaptive Background Subtraction Using Alpha Stable Distribution.”, IET Conference on Target Tracking and Data Fusion, Vol. 1, pp. 197-203, Apr. 2008.

14. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, S.Maskell, “Population based Particle Filtering”, IET Conference on Target Tracking and Data Fusion, pp. 31 - 38, Apr. 2008.

15. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, A.M.Payne, “Multi-Resolution Learning Vector Quantization Based Automatic Colour Clustering.”, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Vol. 1, pp. 1-6, Jul. 2008.

16. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, S.Maskell, “Human Body Parts Tracking Using Pictorial Structures and a Genetic Algorithm.”, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), Vol. 2, pp. 10-2-10-6, Sep. 2008.

2009 17. P. Tresadern, H.Bhaskar, S. Adhesina, T. Cootes, C. Taylor, “Combining local and

global shape models for Deformable Shape Matching.”, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pp. 1 - 12, Sep. 2009.

2010 18. H.Bhaskar, “A hybrid block based motion estimation framework for video

applications.”, International Conference on Advances and Emerging Trends in Computing Technologies, Jun. 2010.

19. H.Bhaskar, L. Mihaylova, “Combined Feature-Level Video Indexing Using Block-based Motion Estimation.”, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 1 - 8, Jul. 2010.

20. H.Bhaskar, N. Werghi, S. Al-Mansoori, “Combined Spatial and Transform Domain Analysis for Rectangle Detection.”, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 1 - 7, Jul. 2010.

21. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, A.Achim, “Video Foreground Detection Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Mixture Models.”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Volume: 20, No. 8, pp. 1133 - 1138 , Aug. 2010. (Impact Factor: 2.259)

22. N.Werghi, H.Boukadia , Y.Meguebli, H.Bhaskar, “Nose Detection and Face Extraction from 3D Raw Facial Surface Based on Mesh Quality Assessment.”, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), pp. 1161 - 1166, Nov. 2010.

2011 23. N.Werghi, H.Bhaskar, A.Malek, “Extraction and Alignment of Facial Regions for 3D

Facial Image-Based Recognition.”, IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), pp. 429 - 432, Feb. 2011.

24. H. Bhaskar, N.Werghi, “Comparing Hough and Radon Transform based Parallelogram Detection.”, IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), pp. 641 - 644, Feb. 2011.

25. N. Werghi, H.Bhaskar, Y.Meguebli, H.Boukadia , “The Spiral Facets: A Unified Framework for the Analysis and Description of 3D Facial Mesh Surfaces.”, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), pp. 30 - 39, Mar. 2011.

26. H.Bhaskar, N.Werghi, S. Al Mansoori, “Rectangular Empty Parking Space Detection Using SIFT Based Classification.”, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), pp. 214-220, Mar. 2011.

27. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, “Combined Data Association and Evolving Population Particle Filter for Multiple Articulated Target Tracking.”, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume, Article ID 642532, Jan. 2011. (Impact Factor: 0.66)

28. H.Bhaskar, “Coastline Detection Using Coupled Variational Level-Set Formulation.”, IET Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP), pp. 1 - 6, Nov. 2011.

2012 29. E.Basaeed, H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, “Beyond Pan-sharpening: Pixel-level Fusion in

Remote Sensing Applications.”, IEEE Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), pp. 139 - 144, Mar. 2012.

30. H.Bhaskar, “Integrated Human Target Detection, Identification and Tracking for Surveillance Applications.”, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), pp. 467 - 475, Sep. 2012.

2013 31. N. Werghi, H.Bhaskar, M.K.Naqbi, Y.Meguebli, H.Boukadia, “The Spiral Facets: A

compact 3D facial mesh surface representation and its applications.”, Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics, Theory and Applications, Springer LNCS, Volume 274, pp 203-224, 2013.

32. H.Bhaskar, L.Mihaylova, S.Maskell, “Articulated human body parts detection based on cluster background subtraction and foreground matching.”, Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing, Vol. 100, pp. 58 - 73, Jan. 2013. (Impact Factor: 2.005)

33. E. Basaeed, H. Bhaskar, M. Al-Mualla, “Comparative Analysis of Pan-sharpening Techniques on DubaiSat-1 images.”, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Vol. 1, pp. 227 - 234, Jul. 2013.

34. H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, “Spontaneous vs. Posed Facial Expression Analysis Using Deformable Feature Models and Aggregated Classifiers.”, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Jul. 2013.

35. E.Basaeed, H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, “A spectral water index based on visual bands.”, SPIE Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIX, Vol. 8892, Sep. 2013.

36. A.Loza, H.Bhaskar, M.Al-Mualla, “Fast algorithm for restoration of foggy images.”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Vol. 1, pp. 735 - 738, Dec. 2013.

37. K.Dwivedi, H.Bhaskar, A.Loza, “Variational articulated object tracking using particle filtering framework.”, International Conference on Digital Image Processing and Vision (ICDIP), pp. 89 - 100, Dec. 2013.

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2014 38. M.S.Zitouni, H.Saleh, H.Bhaskar, E. Salahat, M.Ismail, “A low-power 65-nm ASIC

design for background subtraction in system-on-Chip.”, IEEE Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), Nov. 2014.

39. H.Bhaskar, J.Dias, L.Seneviratne, M.Al-Mualla, “μ-UAV based dynamic target tracking for surveillance & exploration.”, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Springer LNCS, Series 8887, Part 1, pp. 445 - 456, Dec. 2014.

2015 40. 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. (Impact Factor: 0.758)

41. 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.

42. D.P.Dogra, A.Ahmed, R.D.Reddy, K.Subramanyam, H.Bhaskar, “Scene representation and anomalous activity detection using weighted region association graph.”, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Mar. 2015.

43. 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. April 2015. (Impact Factor: 1.058)

44. 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), Mar. 2015. Accepted.

45. 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), Mar. 2015. Accepted.

46. 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. Accepted.

47. 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. 2015. In Press. (Impact Factor: 2.209)

48. 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. Accepted.

49. 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. Accepted.

50. 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. Accepted.

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51. M.S.Zitouni, J.Dias, M.Al-Mualla, H.Bhaskar, “Advances and Trends in Visual Crowd Analysis: A Statistical Survey and Evaluation of Crowd Modelling.”, Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing,Feb. 2015. Under Revision. (Impact Factor: 2.005)

52. H.Bhaskar, D.La Torre, M.Al-Mualla, “Expression Quantified: An Intensity based Analysis of Prototypic Facial Expressions.”, Springer Book Chapter on Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis FDA 2015. Accepted.

Personal Nationality: INDIAN

Date of Birth: 10 MARCH 1981

Marital Status: MARRIED

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Service 2013 - now: Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (PRIS). 2003 - 2006: Editorial Manager of Springer Journal of Pattern Analysis and Applications (PAA). Reviewer for: IEEE Transactions on: Image Processing, Evolutionary Computation, Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IET Journal of: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Neurocomputing, etc.

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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES: 5th June 2011: “Virtual mouse, an invention to help the disabled.”, UAE Education in the Gulf News_________________________________23rd June 2010: “Changing the Face of Security.”, UAE Education in the Gulf News_________________________________4th May 2010: “Intelligent Parking Allocation System,”, Al Khaleej Newspaper article.

LANGUAGES_________________________________

ENGLISH: Fluent_________________________________

TAMIL:Fluent (Mother Tongue)_________________________________

HINDI :Intermediate