Muhammad Asad Ali   PhD Candidate Sato Lab, Institute of Industrial Science  Department of Information and Communication Engineering Graduate School of Information Science and Technology The University of Tokyo   Email:       asad [at] iis [dot] u-tokyo [dot] ac [dot] jp Mobile #: +81-80-3936-1982   Mathworks: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/26208 YouTube:    http://www.youtube.com/user/aasad82

Education

Publications

Thesis

Awards

Research Interests

Education                                                                                                                                                                         Back to Top

 

PhD Candidate                                                  University of Tokyo                                                                                            2010 - 

MS       Computer System Engineering               GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology                                             2006

BE        Software Engineering                            Army Public College of Management & Sciences                                                  2004

 

Publications                                                                                                                                                              Back to Top

Book Chapter

• Asad Ali, A. Khan, "Reversible Watermarking for 3D Cameras: Hiding Depth Maps", Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 231, page 495-521, Springer, October 2009.

Journal

• I. Usman, A. Khan, Asad Ali, Tae-Sun Choi, "Reversible Watermarking based on Intelligent Coefficient Selection and Integer Wavelet Transform", International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), vol. 5 , issue 12(A), December 2009.

• Asad Ali, S.A.M Gilani, N.A Memon, "Affine Invariant Contour Descriptors using Independent Component Analysis and Dyadic Wavelet Transform", Journal of Computing and Information Technology (JCIT), vol. 16, issue 3, page 169-181, September 2008.

• A. Chaudhry, A. Khan, Asad Ali, A.M. Mirza, "A Hybrid Image Restoration Approach: Using Fuzzy Punctual Kriging and Genetic Programming", International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology (IJIST), vol. 17, issue 4, page 224-231, John Wiley & Sons, December 2007.

Conference (selected listing)       

        Topic: Content Authentication of Medical Images

• N.A Memon, S.A.M Gilani, Asad Ali, "Watermarking of Chest CT Scan Medical Images for Content Authentication", IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 09), page 175-180, August 2009. [IEEE Xplore]

        Topic: Depth Map Hiding for 3D Cameras: Self Embedding in Images

• A. Khan, M.T. Mahmood, Asad Ali, I. Usman, Tae-Sun Choi, "Hiding Depth Map of an Object in its 2D Image: Reversible Watermarking for 3D Cameras", 27^th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 09), USA, January 2009. [IEEE CS]

• A. Khan, Asad Ali, M.T. Mahmood, I. Usman, Tae-Sun Choi, "Variable Threshold Based Reversible Watermarking: Hiding Depth Maps", 4^th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA 08), page 59-64, China, October 2008.  [IEEE Xplore]

        Topic: Affine Invariant Features for Object Recognition

• Asad Ali, S.A.M Gilani, N.A Memon, "Affine Normalized Invariant functionals using Independent Component Analysis", 10^th IEEE International Multi-topic Conference (INMIC 06), page 94-99, 2006.  [IEEE Xplore]

• Asad Ali, S.A.M Gilani, "Affine Normalized Invariant Feature Extraction using Multiscale Gabor Autoconvolution", 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 06), page 167-174, 2006.  [IEEE Xplore]

• Asad Ali, S.A.M Gilani, U. Shafique, "Affine Invariant Feature Extraction using a Combination of Radon and Wavelet Transforms", 2^nd Springer International Conference on Computer Information, System Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 06), page 93-97, USA, 2006.  [Springer Link]

• Asad Ali, S.A.M Gilani, "Affine Normalized Contour Invariants using Independent Component Analysis and Dyadic Wavelet Transform", 21^st  International Conference on Image and Vision Computing (IVCNZ 06), New Zealand, 2006.  [IVCNZ Web]

        Topic: Driving Assistance on Highways using Monocular Vision

• Asad Ali, S. Afghani, "Support Vectors a way to adapt for Lane Marker Tracking: A Step towards Intelligent Transportation Systems", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 05), page 151-156, 2005.  [IEEE Xplore]  [Demo Video]

• Asad Ali, S. Afghani, "Shadow Based On Road Vehicle Detection and Verification using Haar Wavelet Packet Transform", IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 05), 2005.  [IEEE Xplore]  [Demo Video 1] [Demo Video 2]

        Topic: Content Based Image Retrieval

• Asad Ali, A.S. Malik, S. Murtaza, "Content Based Image Retrieval Using Daubechies Wavelet Transform", 2^nd National Workshop on Trends in Information Technology (NWTIT), page 110-115, 2003. [Demo Video]

Thesis                                                                      Back to Top

MS

• Affine Invariant Feature Extraction for Pattern Recognition [Abstract] [Full Thesis]

              Description:    Objective was to perform viewpoint independent matching of objects in an image by extracting features that can resist perspective deformations.  

BE

• Vision for Safe Driving On Motorway (VISDOM) [Abstract] [Full Thesis]

        

              Description:     Objective was to assist drivers on highways by keeping track of lane changes, vehicles in front

                                      and road turns thus equipping drivers with pre-crash sensing tools using monocular vision.            

              

              YouTube Videos of Different Modules of Project: [Project Videos on YouTube Combined Link]

                                           "Vehicle Detection and Tracking 1"   

                                           "Vehicle Detection and Tracking 2"

                                           "Vehicle Lane Change Detection"

Awards                                                                                                             Back to Top

• 2^nd Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 06), November, 2006.

• 1^st Prize in GIKI Tech, Intra GIKI Technical Paper Writing Competition April 2005.

• Awarded with the highly competitive Government scholarship for MS studies at GIKI, 2004.

• 2nd Prize in All Pakistan Software Competition (SOFTCOM 03) held at GIKI, September, 2003.  [DAWN News article Cached]

Research Interests                                                          Back to Top

• Invariant feature extraction for pose independent object recognition

• Vision based Intelligent transportation systems

• Autonomous Navigation

• Image Segmentation

• Robotics

• Spectral Clustering

• Reversible Data Hiding

  
  

Other Activities                                                                       Back to Top                                       

• Reviewed Papers of IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics Part C: Applications & Reviews
• Reviewed Papers of Journal of Systems & Software (Elsevier Science) 
  

 

Last Updated: November 25, 2010