Nasir M. Rajpoot, PhD

Associate Professor
Signal and Image Processing (SIP) Group
Medical Informatics and Medical Image Computing (MiMIC) Group
Room CS.234
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Albert Einstein

Research Interests

- Texture analysis (WaveTex, Phase Gradients)
- Biomedical image analysis (Computational Histopathology)
- Shape Analysis
- Wavelet representations (Planelets, Polar cosine transform)
- Coding and denoising (TIWP3D Video Denoising, CZQ/SRWP Image Coding)
- Data compression (FP)

Publications

Teaching

- CS132: Computer Organisation and Architecture
- CS403: Multimedia Processing, Communications and Storage
- CS313: Mobile Robotics ( see Rob, the DCS mobile robot) Not being offered during 2008-09
- CS310: 3rd year project
- CS407: 4th year group project

Office Hours for Term 2 (2008-09): 12.00-14.00 on Thursdays.

Current Graduate Students

- Irfan Butt (MSc candidate, Image denoising)
- Khalid Masood (PhD candidate, Human colon biopsy classification)
- Adnan Osmani (MRes candidate, Glandular segmentation in colon histology images)
- Hammad Qureshi (PhD candidate, Brain tumor classification)

Former Graduate Students

- Zhen Yao (Directional edge and texture representations for image processing), Ph.D. (2007)
- Abdul Majid Awan (Stack-run adaptive wavelet image compression), M.S. (2003)

Call for Papers

Special issue on New Advances in Video-based Gait Analysis and Applications: Challenges and Solutions,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics

Professional Activities/Affiliations

- Co-presenter, MICCAI'2008 Tutorial on Histopathology Imaging, New York (USA), September 2008
- Co-organiser, ISBI'2008 Special Session on Computational Histopathology, Paris (France), May 2008
- Co-chair, 18th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'2007), University of Warwick (UK), September 2007

- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2009): MICCAI'2009, BMVC'2009, ICIP'2009, ISBI'2009, ICASSP'2009, BTAS'2009
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2008): MICCAI'2008, BMVC'2008, ICIP'2008, MIUA'2008
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2007): BMVC'2007, ICIP'2007, MIUA'2007, ICMV'2007
- Member, Programme/Review Committee (2006): MICCAI'2006, ICIP'2006, MIUA'2006, DEST'2007
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions IP, MI, CSVT, SP, SPL, SMC, NN
- Reviewer, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, IET Electronic Letters, IEE Proceedings VISP, SPIE Optical Engineering

- Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Member, British Machine Vision Association (BMVA)

Contact Information

Tel#: +44 (24) 7657 3795
Fax#: +44 (24) 7657 3024
email:

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