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Selected publications of the PRCCV reserach group in the areas of: Reconfigurable Computing, Power Aware Design, Medical Imaging, Face Recognition and Information Retrieval.
 
Reconfigurable Computing

  • A. Amira, "Power Management and Modeling on Reconfigurable Hardware for Imaging" The 2009 Emerging Technologies Retreat, Research and Business Opportunities Ahead (CMOSET), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 23-25, 2009.

  • A.N. Sazish, S.Chandrasekaranand A. Amira "Efficient Systolic Architecture and Power Modeling for Finite Ridglet Transform" The 5th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision , Kuyoto, Japan, 3rd October 2009

  • A.Ahmad and A. Amira "Efficient Reconfigurable Architectures for 3D Medical Image Compression" The IEEE Conference on Field Programmable Technology, FPT 2009, Sydney, 9-11 December 2009.

  • S. Chandrasekaran and A.Amira "High Performance FPGA Implementation of the Mersenne Twister" IEEE International Symposium on Design, Electronic, Test and Applications DELTA2008, 23-25 January 2008, Hong Kong.

  • S. Chandrasekaran, A.Amira, A .Bermak and M.Shi "Performance Enhanced Voltage Scaling in FPGAs" IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits ISIC 2007, 26-28 September, Singapore.

  • M.Shi, S. Chandrasekaran, A.Bermak and A.Amira "FPGA Based Run Time Reconfigurable Gas Discrimination System" Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits ISIC 2007, 26-28 September, Singapore.

  • M. Shi, A. Bermak, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Amira and S. Brahim-Belhouari, "A Committee Machine Gas Identification System Based on Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA" the IEEE Sensors Journal, April 2008.

  • S. Chandrasekaran, A. Amira A. Bermak and M. Shi "An Efficient VLSI Architecture and FPGA Implementation of the Finite Ridglet Transform" Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Vol 3, NO 3, pp 183-193, September 2008
  • A. Amira, S. Chandrasekaran and D. Skinner "A Fast Hybrid LSI Approach for Intelligent Information Retrieval" Proceedings of the 4th IET Visual Information Engineering 2007 Conference (VIE2007), London 25-27 July 2007.
  • A. Amira, F.Bensaali and S.Chandrasekaran "A General Framework for Efficient FPGA Implementation and Power Modelling of Image Processing Cores" Proceedings of the 4th IET Visual Information Engineering 2007 Conference (VIE2007), London 25-27 July 2007
  • I.S.Uzun and A.Amira "A Framework for FPGA based Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transforms Implementation" Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings- Volume 153, Issue 6, Dec. 2006 Page(s):721 - 734.
  • F.Bensaali and A.Amira "An FPGA Based Parallel Matrix Multiplier for 3D Affine Transformations" Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings- Volume 153, Issue 6, Dec. 2006 Page(s):739 - 746.
  • S.Minghua, A.Bermak, S.Chandrasekaran and A.Amira "An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Gaussian Mixture Models-Based Classifier Using Distributed Arithmetic" Proceedings ofthe 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), December 10-13, 2006, Nice, France.
  • I.S.Uzun and A.Amira "An FPGA-based Parametrisable System for High-Resolution Frequency Domain Image Filtering" Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp 895-921 (2005).
  • F.Bensaali and A.Amira "Accelerating Color Space Conversion on Reconfigurable Hardware" Image and Vision Computing, Vol 23, pp 935-942 (2005).
  • F.Bensaali, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "Accelerating Matrix Product on Reconfigurable Hardware for Image Processing Applications" IEE Proceedings on Circuits and Systems, Vol 152, No. 3, pp 236-246, June 2005.
  • I.S.Uzun and A.Amira "Real-Time 2-DWavelet Transform Implementation for HDTV Compression" Real-Time Imaging, Special Issue on Spectral Imaging II, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 151-165, April 2005
  • I.S. Uzun, A. Amira, A. Bouridane, "FPGA Implementations of Fast Fourier Transforms for Real- Time Signal and Image Processing" IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing Volume 152, Number 03, pp 283-296 - June 2005.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane, P. Milligan and A. Belatreche "Design of Efficient Architectures for Discrete Orthogonal Transforms Using a Bit Level Systolic Structures" IEE Proceedings on Computers and Digital Techniques, pp17-24, Vol. 149, No.1, January 2002
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane and P. Milligan "Accelerating Matrix Product on Reconfigurable Hardware for Signal Processing" Proceedings of the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic (FPL), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp101-111, Springer Verlag, August 2001, Belfast, UK.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane, P. Milligan and M. Roula "Novel FPGA Implementations of Walsh Hadamard Transforms for Signal Processing" IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, pp 377- 383,Vol. 148, No. 6, December 2001.
  • A.Amira, F. Bensaali, I.S. Uzun and A. AhmedSaid "Matrix Algorithm Cores Generator on Reconfigurable Hardware for Image Processing" Accepted for presentation at the 9th annual NASA International Conference on Programmable Logic Devices for Military and Aerospace applications MAPLD, Washington DC, USA, 26-28 September 2006.
  • S. Chandrasekaran, A.Amira and F.Bensaali "FPGA Implementation of Reduced Bit Plane Motion Estimation" The 8th annual NASA International Conference on Programmable Logic Devices for Military and Aerospace applications MAPLD, Washington DC, USA, September 2005.
  • I.S. Uzun and A. Amira "A Framework for FPGA based Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transforms Implementation" Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2005.4-8 September, Antalya, Turkey.
  • F.Bensaali, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "An Efficient Architecture for Color Space Conversion Using Distributed Arithmetic" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS04), Vancouver, pp 265-268, Canada, 23-26 May 2004. (Selected and republished at Celoxica's website. http://www.celoxica.com/techlib/).
  • A.AhmedSaid, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "Accelerating MUSIC Algorithm On Reconfigurable Hardware for Source Localisation" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS04), pp 369-372, Vancouver, Canada, 23-26 May 2004. (Selected and republished at Celoxica's website. http://www.celoxica.com/techlib/)
  • I.S.Uzun, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "An Efficient Architecture For 1-D Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transforms" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS04), pp697-700, Vancouver, Canada, 23-26 May 2004. (Selected and republished at Celoxica's website. http://www.celoxica.com/techlib/).
  • A.AhmedSaid and A.Amira "Accelerating SVD On Reconfigurable Hardware For Image Denoising" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.
  • I.S. Uzun and A. Amira "Design And FPGA Implementation of Non-Separable 2-D Biorthogonal Wavelet Transforms For Image/Video Coding" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.
  • M. A.Tahir, A. Bouridane, F.Kurugollu and A.Amira "Accelerating the Computation of GLCM and Haralick Texture Features on Reconfigurable Hardware" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004).
  • A.Amira and A.Bouridane "An FPGA based Accelerator for Discrete Hartley and Fast Hadamard Transforms" Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, December 27-30, 2003.
  • A.Ahmed, Said, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "Efficient Systolic Array for Singular Value and Eigenvalue Decomposition" Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, December 27-30, 2003.
  • M. A. Tahir, M. A. Roula, A. Bouridane, F. Kurugollu, and A. Amira "An FPGA based Coprocessor for Calculating Grey Level Co-Occurrence Matrix" Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, December 27-30, 2003.
  • I.S.Uzun, A.Amira and A.Bouridane, "A High-Speed/Low-Power Architecture For 1-D Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform" Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, December 27-30, 2003.
  • F.Bensaali, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "An FPGA Based Coprocessor for Large Matrix Product Implementation" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'03), pp 292 - 295, Tokyo, JAPAN, December 15-17, 2003.
  • F.Bensaali, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "An FPGA Based Coprocessor for 3D Affine Transformations" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'03), pp 288 - 291, Tokyo, JAPAN, December 15-17, 2003.
  • I.S.Uzun, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "FPGA Implementations of Fast Fourier Transforms for Real- Time Signal and Image Processing" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'03), pp 102 - 109, Tokyo, JAPAN, December 15-17, 2003. (Selected and republished at Celoxica's website. http://www.celoxica.com/techlib/)
  • A.AhmedSaid, A.Amira and A.Bouridane "Improved SVD Systolic Array and Implementation on FPGA" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT'03), pp 35 - 42, Tokyo, JAPAN, December 15-17, 2003.
  • A.Amira "An FPGA based System for Discrete Hartley Transforms" Proceedings of The IEE Visual Information Engineering VIE, pp 137-140, ISBN 0582967578, Surrey 7-9 July 2003, UK.
  • A. Amira and A.Bouridane "An FPGA Implementation of Discrete Hartley Transforms" Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications ISSPA, pp 625 - 628, 1-4 July 2003, Paris, FRANCE.
  • I.S.Uzun, A.Amira, A.Ahmedsaid and F.Bensaali "Towards a General Framework for an FPGAbased FFT Coprocessor" Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications ISSPA, pp 617 - 620, 1-4 July 2003, Paris, FRANCE.
  • A.Amira "An FPGA Based Parameterisable System For Discrete Hartley Transforms Implementation" Proceedings of The International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, II - pp 567-70 vol.3, 14-17 September, Barcelona, Spain.
  • A.Amira and F. Bensaali "An FPGA based Parametrisable System for Matrix Product Implementation" Proceedings of The IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation (SIPS2002), pp 75-79, October 1-18, 2002.
  • A.Amira and F.Bensaali "An FPGA based Coprocessor for Matrix Algorithms Implementation" Proceedings of The SPIE Regional Meeting On Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging, Opto Ireland, 5-6 September 2002.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane, M.Roula and F. Kurugollu "An FPGA Based Parametrisable System for Discrete Orthogonal Transforms Implementation" Proceedings of the XI European Signal Processing Conference, Vol I/III, pp 591-594, September 3-6, 2002 Toulouse, France.
  • A. Amira, A. Bouridane, P. Milligan and M.Roula "An FPGA Implementation of Walsh Hadamard Transforms for Signal Processing" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 7-11, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane and P. Milligan "An FPGA based Walsh Hadamard Transforms" Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Vol 2, 569 -572, May 6 - 9, 2001, Sydney, Australia.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane and P. Milligan "RCMAT: a Reconfigurable Coprocessor for Matrix Algorithms" Proceedings of the Ninth ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGA), pp 228, February 11-13, 2001, Monterey, California, USA.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane and P. Milligan "A Novel Architecture for Walsh Hadamard Transforms Using Distributed Arithmetic Principles" Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS'2K), Vol1, pp182-185, December 17-20, 2000, Beirut, LEBANON.
  • A.Amira, A. Bouridane, P. Milligan and P. Sage "A High Throughput FPGA Implementation of A Bit-Level Matrix Product" Proceedings of The IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation (SIPS), pp. 356-364, 11-13 October 2000, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
 
Power Aware Design

  • P. Meher, S.Chandrasekaran and A. Amira, "FPGA Realization of FIR Filters by Efficient and Flexible Systolization Using Distributed Arithmetic" IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, VOL. 56, no. 7, pp 3009-3012, July 2008.

  • A. Amira and S. Chandrasekaran "Power Modelling and Efficient FPGA Implementation of FHT for Signal Processing" IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems TVLSI, March, 2007.
  • F.Bensaali, A.Amira and S.Chandrasekaran "Power Modeling and Efficient FPGA Implementation of Color Space Conversion" Procedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), December 10-13, 2006, Nice, France.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A.Amira "Powering Down FPGAs: Design Optimisation and High Level Modeling" Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications FPL 2006, Madrid, August 28-30.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A. Amira "FPGA Implementation and Power Modeling of The Fast WALSH Transform" Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications FPL 2006, Madrid, August 28-30.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A. Amira "FPGA Implementation and Power Modeling of FWT for Pattern Recognition" The 9th annual NASA International Conference on Programmable Logic Devices for Military and Aerospace applications MAPLD, Washington DC, USA, 26-28 September 2006.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A. Amira "Multi-Level Parallelism for Power and Energy Aware Design Verified Using Novel Functional Level Power Analysis and Modelling (FLPAM)" The 9th annual NASA International Conference on Programmable Logic Devices for Military and Aerospace applications MAPLD, Washington DC, USA, 26-28 September 2006.
  • I.S. Uzun and A. Amira "Design and FPGA Implementation of Finite Ridgelet Transform" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 05), pp 5826-5829, Kobe, Japan 23-26 May 2005.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A.Amira "An Area Efficient Low Power Inner Product Computation for Discrete Orthogonal Transforms" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005). 11-14, September 2005, Genova, Italy.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A.Amira "High Speed / Low Power Architectures for the Finite Radon Transform" Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2005), Tampere, Finland, August 2005.
  • S. Chandrasekaran and A.Amira "High Speed Energy Efficient Architectures for Finite Ridgelet Transform" The 8th annual NASA International Conference on Programmable Logic Devices for Military and Aerospace applications MAPLD, Washington DC, USA, September 2005.
 
Medical Image Analysis
  • Mhd S. Sharif and A. Amira "An Intelligent System For PET Tumour Detection and Quantification" Accepted for publication at the The IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2009), Cairo, 07-11 Nov 2009
  • A.Amira, A.Chandrasekaran, D. Montgomery and I.S.Uzun "A Segmentation Concept for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Using Multiresolution Analysis" Accepted for publication in Neurocomputing, special issue on vision research, Volume 71, Issues 10-12, pp 1954-1965, June 2008
  • D.Montgomery, A. Amira and H.Zaidi "Oncological PET Volume Segmentation Using a Combined Multiscale and Statistical Model" Medical Physics. 34 (2), February 2007.
  • M. A. Tahir, A. Bouridane, F. Kurugollu, and A.Amira "A Novel Prostate Cancer Classification Technique Using Intermediate Memory Tabu Search" EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Volume No 14, pp 2241-2249, August 2005.
  • D. Montgomrey, A.Amira and F.Murtagh "An Automated Volumetric Segmentation System Combining Multiscale And Statistical Reasoning" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 05), pp 3789-3792, Kobe, Japan 23-26 May 2005.
  • D. Montgomrey, A.Amira and F.Murtagh "Automated Multiscale Segmentation of Volumetric Biomedical Imagery Based On A Markov Random Field Model" Opto Ireland, Imaging and Vision -6 April 2005.
  • D. Montgomrey, A.Amira, F.Murtagh "A Non-Separable Lifting Approach For 3D Image Compression" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), pp 137-140, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21.
  • A.Bouridane, K. Fouad, A.Amira, F.Kurougollu and S.Boussekta "A Very Low Bit-Rate Embedded Color Image Coding with SPIHT" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), pp689-692, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21.
  • D. Montgomery, F. Murtagh and A.Amira "A Wavelet based 3D Image Compression System" Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications ISSPA, pp 65 - 68, 1-4 July 2003, Paris, FRANCE.
  • M. Roula, A. Bouridane, F. Kurugollu and A. Amira "Multispectral based Classification of Nuclei in Prostatic Neoplasia" Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications ISSPA, pp 37 - 40, 1-4 July 2003, Paris, FRANCE.
  • M. Roula, J. Diamond, A. Bouridane, P. Miller and A.Amira "A Multispectral Computer Vision System for Automatic Grading of Prostatic Neoplasia" Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2002), 7-10 July 2002, Washington, USA.
  • M. Roula, A. Bouridane, F. Kurugollu and A.Amira "Unsupervised Segmentation Of Multispectral Images Using Edge Progression And Cost Function" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2002) New York, USA. 22-25 September 2002.
  • M. Roula, A. Bouridane, A.Amira, P. Sage and P. Milligan "A Novel Technique for an Unsupervised Texture Segmentation" Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp 58-61, October 7-10, 2001 Greece.
 
Biometrics
  • D. Bouchaffra and A.Amira "Structural Hidden Markov Models for Biometrics: Fusion of Face and Fingerprint" Pattern Recognition, Vol 41, Number 3, pp 852– 867, March 2008.
  • P.Nicholl and A.Amira "DWT/PCA Face Recognition using Automatic Coefficient Selection" IEEE International Symposium on Design, Electronic, Test and Applications DELTA2008, 23-25 January 2008, Hong Kong.
  • P. Nicholl, A. Amira and D. Bouchaffra "A Statistical Multiresolution Approach for Face Recognition using Structural Hidden Markov Models" EURASIP Journal in Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, Article ID 675787, 13 pages, 2008
  • P.Nicholl and A.Amira “DWT/PCA Face Recognition using Automatic Coefficient Selection” IEEE International Symposium on Design, Electronic, Test and Applications DELTA2008, January 23-25, Hong Kong.
  • P. Nicholl, A.Amira, D. Bouchaffra and R. Perott " Multiresolution Hybrid Approaches for Automated Face Recognition" Proceedings of the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, Edinburgh 5-8 August 2007.
  • A.Amira and Peter Farrell "An Automatic Face Recognition System Based on Wavelet Transforms" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 05), pp 6252-6255, Kobe, Japan 23-26 May 2005.
  • P.Nicholl, A.Amira and R.H.Perrott "An Automated Grid-Enabled Face Recognition System Using Hybrid Approaches" Proceedings of the EPSRC PREP05 Conference, Lancaster University, 30 March-1 April 2005, UK.
 
Information Retrieval
  • T. Jaber, A.Amira and P.Milligan "TDM Modelling and Evaluation of Different Domain Transforms for LSI Pattern Recognition" Neurocomputing (2009).
  • A.Amira and S.Mc Earlen "A Novel Hybrid Approach to LSI for Information Retrieval" Proceedings of the ICSIT2005, International Conference on Computer Systems and Information Technology, pp 259-266, Algiers 17-19 Jul 2005.
  • T. Jaber, A. Amira and P.Milligan "A Novel Approach for Lexical Noise Analysis and Measurement in Intelligent Information Retrieval" The International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2006, August 20-24 August 2006, Hong Kong.
  • T. Jaber, A. Amira and P.Milligan "Empirical Study of A Novel Approach to LSI for Text Categorisation" Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications ISSPA 2007, 12-15 Feb 2007, Sharjah, UAE.
  • T. Jaber, A.Amira and P.Milligan "Performance Evaluation of DCT and Wavelet Transform for LSI" Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS 2008, May 18-21, Seattle, USA.
  • A. Amira, S. Chandrasekaran and D. Skinner "A Fast Hybrid LSI Approach for Intelligent Information Retrieval" Proceedings of the 4th IET Visual Information Engineering 2007 Conference (VIE2007), London 25-27 July 2007.
 
 

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