2022

1. Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, and Ik Hyun Lee. "Optic disc localization in fundus images through accumulated directional and radial blur analysis." Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 98 (2022): 102058.

2. Ali, Usman, Ik Hyun Lee, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "Robust regularization for single image dehazing." Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences (2022).

3. Ali, Usman, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "Energy minimization for image focus volume in shape from focus." Pattern Recognition 126 (2022): 108559.

4. Ashiq, Fahad, Muhammad Asif, Maaz Bin Ahmad, Sadia Zafar, Khalid Masood, Toqeer Mahmood, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, and Ik Hyun Lee. "CNN-based object recognition and tracking system to assist visually impaired people." IEEE Access 10 (2022): 14819-14834.

5. Ali, Usman, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "Improving defocus blur measures using robust regularization." ICT Express (2021).

6. Mahmood, Muhammad Tariq. "Defocus Blur Segmentation Using Genetic Programming and Adaptive Threshold." CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA 70.3 (2022): 4867-4882.

7. Ali, Usman, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "Defocus Blur Segmentation Using Local Binary Patterns with Adaptive Threshold." CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA 71, no. 1 (2022): 1597-1611.

2021

1. Khan, Awais, Ali Javed, Aun Irtaza, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "A Robust Approach for Blur and Sharp Regions’ Detection Using Multisequential Deviated Patterns." International Journal of Optics 2021 (2021).

2. Khan, Ayesha, Ali Javed, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Hamza Arif Khan, and Ik Hyun Lee. "Directional Magnitude Local Hexadecimal Patterns: A Novel Texture Feature Descriptor for Content-Based Image Retrieval." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 135608-135629.

3. Usman Ali and M. T. Mahmood, "Robust Focus Volume Regularization in Shape from Focus," in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2021.3100268.

4. Usman Ali, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood (2021). Depth Hypotheses Fusion through 3D Weighted Least Squares in Shape from Focus. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S1431927621000106

5. Usman Ali, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "Depth enhancement through correlation‐based guided filtering in shape from focus." Microscopy Research and Technique (2021).

6. Usman Ali, Ik Hyun Lee, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, Guided image filtering in shape-from-focus: A comparative analysis, Pattern Recognition, Volume 111, 2021, 107670,

2020

1. S. Albahli, N. Nida, A. Irtaza, M. H. Yousaf and M. T. Mahmood, "Melanoma Lesion Detection and Segmentation Using YOLOv4-DarkNet and Active Contour," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 198403-198414, 2020

2. Aqsa Rasheed, Bushra Zafar, Amina Rasheed, Nouman Ali, Muhammad Sajid, Saadat Hanif Dar, Usman Habib, Tehmina Shehryar, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, "Fabric Defect Detection Using Computer Vision Techniques: A Comprehensive Review", Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2020, Article ID 8189403, 24 pages, 2020.

3. Mahmood, M.T., and Ik Hyun Lee. "Multi-Modal Registration Using a Block-Wise Coarse-to-Fine Approach." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 78044-78053.

4. Usman Ali, and Mahmood, M.T. "3D Shape Recovery by Aggregating 3D Wavelet Transform-Based Image Focus Volumes Through 3D Weighted Least Squares." Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 62.1 (2020): 54-72.

5. Mahmood, M.T. and Lee, I.H., 2020. Shape from focus based on 3D structure tensor using optical microscopy. Microscopy research and technique, 83(1), pp.48-55, 2020

2019

1. Mahmood, M.T., and Ik Hyun Lee. "A Reliable Distribution Quality Measure in Image Registration." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 119367-119374.

2. Nazir, T., Irtaza, A., Shabbir, Z., Javed, A., Akram, U. & Mahmood, M. T. Diabetic retinopathy detection through novel tetragonal local octa patterns and extreme learning machines. Artificial intelligence in medicine 99, 101695, 2019

3. Mahmood, M. T. & Lee, I. H. Well-Distributed Feature Extraction for Image Registration Using Histogram Matching. Applied Sciences 9, 3487, 2019

4. Usman Ali, Pruks, V. & Mahmood, M. T. Image focus volume regularization for shape from focus through 3D weighted least squares. Information Sciences, 489, 155–166, 2019

5. Asif, M., Ali, I., Malik, M. S. A., Chaudary, M. H., Tayyaba, S. & Mahmood, M. T. Annotation of Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Extractions of Nonfunctional Requirements, and Measurement of Their Tradeoff. IEEE Access 7, 36164–36176, 2019

6. Sajid, M., Iqbal Ratyal, N., Ali, N., Zafar, B., Dar, S. H., Mahmood, M. T. & Joo, Y. B. The impact of asymmetric left and asymmetric right face images on accurate age estimation. Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2019

7. Mahmood, M. T. Cross-scale focus measure aggregation in depth recovery of microscopic objects. Microscopy research and technique 82, 872–877, 2019

8. Javed, A., Irtaza, A., Khaliq, Y., Malik, H. & Mahmood, M. T. Replay and key-events detection for sports video summarization using confined elliptical local ternary patterns and extreme learning machine. Applied Intelligence, 1–19, 2019

9. Minhas, R. A., Javed, A., Irtaza, A., Mahmood, M. T. & Joo, Y. B. Shot Classification of Field Sports Videos Using AlexNet Convolutional Neural Network. Applied Sciences 9, 483, 2019

10. Nida, N., Irtaza, A., Javed, A., Yousaf, M. H. & Mahmood, M. T. Melanoma lesion detection and segmentation using deep region based convolutional neural network and fuzzy C-means clustering. International journal of medical informatics 124, 37–48, 2019

11. Javed, A., Irtaza, A., Malik, H., Mahmood, M. T. & Adnan, S. Multimodal framework based on audio-visual features for summarisation of cricket videos. IET Image Processing 13, 615–622, 2019

2018

1. Kim, H.-J., Mahmood, M.T. & Choi, T.-S. An efficient neural network for shape from focus with weight passing method. Applied Sciences 8, 1648, 2018

2. Adnan, S. M., Irtaza, A., Aziz, S., Ullah, M. O., Javed, A. & Mahmood, M. T. Fall detection through acoustic local ternary patterns. Applied Acoustics 140, 296–300, 2018

3. Mehmood, Z., Gul, N., Altaf, M., Mahmood, T., Saba, T., Rehman, A. & Mahmood, M. T. Scene search based on the adapted triangular regions and soft clustering to improve the effectiveness of the visual-bag-of-words model. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 2018, 48

4. Usman Ali & Mahmood, M. Analysis of Blur Measure Operators for Single Image Blur Segmentation. Applied Sciences 8, 807, 2018

5. Jabeen S, Mehmood Z, Mahmood T, Saba T, Rehman A, Mahmood MT (2018) An effective content-based image retrieval technique for image visuals representation based on the bag-of-visual-words model. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194526.

6. Irtaza, A.; Adnan, S.M.; Ahmed, K.T.; Jaffar, A.; Khan, A.; Javed, A.; Mahmood, M.T. An Ensemble Based Evolutionary Approach to the Class Imbalance Problem with Applications in CBIR. Appl. Sci. 2018, 8, 495.

2017

1. Ik Hyun Lee, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, Adaptive outlier elimination in image registration using genetic programming, Information Sciences, Volume 421,2017, Pages 204-217.

2. Toqeer Mahmood, Aun Irtaza, Zahid Mehmood, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, Copy–move forgery detection through stationary wavelets and local binary pattern variance for forensic analysis in digital images, Forensic Science International, Volume 279, 2017, Pages 8-21,

3. Kim, W.; Khan, G.F.; Wood, J.; Mahmood, M.T. Employee Engagement for Sustainable Organizations: Keyword Analysis Using Social Network Analysis and Burst Detection Approach. Sustainability 2016, 8, 631.

4. Toqeer Mahmood, Tabassam Nawaz, Aun Irtaza, Rehan Ashraf, Mohsin Shah, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood "Copy-move Forgery Detection Technique for Forensic Analysis in Digital Images, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2016, Article ID 8713202, 13 pages.

5. Mahmood, M. T., Chu, Y.-H., & Choi, Y.-K. Rician noise reduction in magnetic resonance images using adaptive non-local mean and guided image filtering. Optical Review, (2016) 23(3), pp 460-469

2015

1. Ik Hyun Lee; Mahmood, M.T., "Robust Registration of Cloudy Satellite Images Using Two-Step Segmentation," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, (2015) 12(5), pp.1121-1125.

2. Ik-Hyun Lee, M.T. Mahmood and Tae-Sun Choi. “Robust Focus Measure Operator Using Adaptive Log-Polar Mapping for Three-Dimensional Shape Recovery”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, (2015) 21, pp 442-458.

3. Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Saba Mumtaz, Yasar Ayaz, Osman Hasan, Mannan Saeed Muhammad and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, “Triangular Geometrized Sampling Heuristics for Fast Optimal Motion Planning,” International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (2015) DOI: 10.5772/59763

4. Ashraf, R.; Bashir, K.; Irtaza, A.; Mahmood, M.T. “Content Based Image Retrieval Using Embedded Neural Networks with Bandletized Regions.” Entropy (2015), 17, 3552-3580.

2014

1. M. T. Mahmood, Letter: Guided filtering of image focus volume for 3D shape recovery of microscopic objects, Microscopy Research and Technique, (2014), 77 (12), 1097-0029

2. M. Sharif, M. A. Jaffar, and M. T. Mahmood, Optimal composite morphological supervised filter for image denoising using genetic programming: Application to magnetic resonance images, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (2014), 31, 78-89.

3. M. T. Mahmood, A. Majid and T.-S. Choi. "Image focus volume enhancement in shape from focus systems." The Imaging Science Journal. Volume 62, Issue 4 (2014), pp. 217-227.

4. Lee, I.-H., M. T. Mahmood, S.-O. Shim and T.-S. Choi "Optimizing image focus for 3D shape recovery through genetic algorithm." Multimedia Tools and Applications (2014), 71(1): 247-262.

5. Irtaza, A., M. A. Jaffar and M. T. Mahmood "Semantic Image Retrieval in a Grid Computing Environment Using Support Vector Machines." The Computer Journal (2014), 57(2): 205-216

2013

1. Sharif, M .; Jaffar, M. A.; Mahmood, M. T.; Rician noise reduction by combining mathematical morphological operators through genetic programming, Optical Review, (2013) 20(4), 289-292.

2. Mahmood, M. T., MRT letter: A total variation based method for 3D shape recovery of microscopic objects through image focus, Microscopy Research and Technique, (2013) 76(9), 877- 881.

3. Lee, I.-H.; Mahmood, M. T.; Choi, T.-S. Robust Depth Estimation and Image Fusion Based on Optimal Area Selection. Sensors (2013), 13, 11636-11652.

4. Mahmood, M. T., S.-O. Shim, S. Alshomrani and T.-S. Choi (2013). "Depth from image focus methods for micro-manufacturing." The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 67(5-8): 1701-1709.

5. M. T. Mahmood, Abdul Majid, Jongwoo Han, Young Kyu Choi, Genetic programming based blind image deconvolution for surveillancesystems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (2013), 26(3), 1115-1123.

6. Ikhyun Lee, M. T. Mahmood, Tae-Sun Choi, Adaptive window selection for 3D shape recovery from image focus, Optics & Laser Technology, 2013, 45, Pages 21-31.

2012

1. Asifullah Khan, Sana Ambreen Malik, Asad Ali, Rafiullah Chamlawi, Mutawarra Hussain, M. T. Mahmood, Imran Usman, Intelligent reversible watermarking and authentication: Hiding depth map information for 3D cameras, Information Sciences, 2012, 216(20), Pages 155-175.

2. Mahmood M.T., and Choi T. S., Nonlinear Approach for Enhancement of Image Focus Volume in Shape From Focus, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2012, 21(5), 2866-2873.

3. Majid A., Lee C., Mahmood M. T., and Choi T.S., "Impulse Noise Filtering based on Noise-free pixels Using Genetic Programming, Knowledge and Information Systems", 2012, 32(3), pp 505-526.

4. Seong-O Shim, Mahmood M. T., Choi T.S., "Searching Surface Orientation of Microscopic Objects for Accurate 3D Shape Recovery", Microscopy Research and Technique , 2012, 75(5) 561-565.

2011

1. Mahmood M.T., Majid A., and Choi T. S., Optimal depth estimation by combining focus measures using genetic programming. Information Sciences, 2011, 181(7), 1249-1263.

2010

1. Majid A., Mahmood M.T., and Choi T. S., Optimal composite depth function for 3D shape recovery of microscopic objects. Microscopy Research and Technique, 2010. 73(7) 657-661.

2. Mahmood M.T. and Choi T. S., Focus measure based on the energy of high-frequency components in the S transform. Optics Letters, 2010. 35(8), 1272-1274.

3. Mahmood M.T. and Choi T. S., 3D shape recovery from image focus using kernel regression in eigenspace. Image and Vision Computing, 2010. 28(4), 634-643.

4. Khan A., Mahmood M.T., and Choi T. S., A nonlinear transform based three-dimensional shape recovery from image focus International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2010. 24(5), 719-736.

2009

1. Mahmood M.T., Khan A., and Choi T. S., Approximating 3D Shape through Bezier curve and moments in discrete cosine transform. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2009. 5(10), 2947-2957.

2. Mahmood M.T., Shim S.O., and Choi T. S., Shape from focus using principal component analysis in discrete wavelet transform. Optical Engineering, 2009. 48, 057203.

2008

1. Mahmood M.T., Choi W.J., and Choi T. S., PCA-based method for 3D shape recovery of microscopic objects from image focus using discrete cosine transform. Microscopy Research and Technique, 2008. 71(12), 897-907.

1. F. Mahmood, M. T. Mahmood and J. Iqbal, "3-D shape recovery from image focus using no-reference sharpness metric based on inherent sharpness," 2017 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Jeju, 2017, pp. 295-300.

2. A. Irtaza, S. M. Adnan, S. Aziz, A. Javed, M. O. Ullah and M. T. Mahmood, "A framework for fall detection of elderly people by analyzing environmental sounds through acoustic local ternary patterns," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Banff, AB, 2017, pp. 1558-1563.

3. Seokchol Hong and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, Gaussian Pyramid based Image Focus Volume Enhancement in Shape from Focus, KSII The 12th Asia Pacific International Conference on Information Science and Technology(APIC-IST) 2017.

4. A. Javed, K. B. Bajwa, H. Malik, A. Irtaza and M. T. Mahmood, "A hybrid approach for summarization of cricket videos," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia), Seoul, 2016, pp. 1-4.

5. Zain Shabbir , Absar Ullah Khan, Aun Irtaza , Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, “A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Gender Recognition from Face Images with Embedded Bandlets” Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, (2015) Volume 9119 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 626-637.

6. Kaleem, M.; Mahmood, M.T., "Combining Focus Measures through Genetic Algorithm for Shape from Focus," International Conference on Information Science and Applications, pp.1-4, 6-9 May 2014.

7. Hassan, M.A.; Malik, A.S.; Nicolas, W.; Faye, I.; Mahmood, M.T., "Mixture of Gaussian based background modelling for crowd tracking using multiple cameras," 5th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems pp.1-4, June 2014.

8. Hassan, M.A.; Malik, A.S.; Nicolas, W.; Faye, I.; Rasheed, W.; Nordin, N.; Mahmood, M.T., "Foreground extraction for real-time crowd analytics in surveillance system," The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, vol., no., pp.1-2, 22-25.

9. Mahmood M. T.,, Y.K Choi, and S. Seongo, "Estimating Shape From Focus by Gaussian Process Regression, "IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Seoul, Korea, 14-17 Oct. 2012.

10. Mahmood M. T., S. Jeong, J. Han, and Y.K Choi, Genetic Programming based Blind Image Deconvolution for Surveillance Systems, Proceedings of the FTRA AIM International Conference on Advanced IT, engineering and Management Feb. 2012, pp. 127-128.

11. Mahmood M. T.,, S. Seongo, and C. Tae-Sun, "Depth and image focus enhancement for digital cameras,"IEEE 15th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2011, pp. 50-53.

12. Mahmood, M.T., Ikhyun Lee, Wook-Jin Choi, Tae-Sun Choi, "A Non-Linear Approach for Depth From Focus for Digital Cameras,” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2011.

13. Majid, A., Mahmood, M. T, "A novel technique for removal of high density impulse noise from digital images," IEEE 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2010, Oct. 2010.

14. Abdul Majid, Mahmood, M.T., Tae-Sun Choi, " A novel noise-free pixels based Impulse noise Filtering” Image Processing (ICIP), 17th IEEE International Conference on , Hong Kong , 26-29 Sep. 2010.

15. Seong-O Shim, Mahmood, M. T., and Tae-Sun Choi, “Kernel Regression Based 3D Shape Recovery”, The Korea Institute of Information, Electronics and Communication Technology (KIIECT) spring conference, May 2010, Seoul Korea.

16. Mahmood, M.T.; Tae-Sun Choi, " Shape from Focus using Kernel Regression,” Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on , Cairo, 7-12 Nov. 2009.

17. Mahmood, M. T., Choi, T., "Estimating best focused points through similarity matrix" in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXII, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7443 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2009) 74432C.

18. Muhammad, M.S., Mahamood, M.T., Choi, T.-S. "Approximating 3D shape using Bezier surface," (2009) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, art. no. 4959693, pp. 753-756.

19. Khan, A.; Mahmood, M.T.; Ali, A.; Usman, I.; Tae-Sun Choi, "Hiding depth map of an object in its 2D image: Reversible watermarking for 3D cameras," Consumer Electronics, 2009. ICCE '09. Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-2, 10-14 Jan. 2009

20. Mahmood, M.T.; Seong-O Shim; Khan, A.; Tae-Sun Choi, "Accurate depth approximation through Bezier-Bernstein polynomial for 3D cameras," Consumer Electronics, 2009. ICCE '09. Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-2, 10-14 Jan. 2009.

21. Mahmood, M.T.; Tae-Sun Choi, "A feature analysis approach to estimate 3D Shape from Image Focus," Image Processing, 2008. ICIP 2008. 15th IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.3216-3219, 12-15 Oct. 2008.

22. Mahmood, M. T., Shim, S., Choi, T., "Wavelet and PCA-based approach for 3D shape recovery from image focus" in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXI, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7073 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2008) 70731S.

23. Lee, I., Mahmood, M. T., Choi, T., "Optimization of focus measure using genetic algorithm" in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXI, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7073 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2008) 70731T.

24. Shim, S., Malik, A. S., Mahmood, M. T., Choi, T., "Estimation of depth map based on focus adjustment" in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXI, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7073 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2008) 707320.

25. Mahmood, M. T., Asifullah Khan, and Tae-Sun Choi, “Approximating 3D Shape through Bezier Curve and Moments in Discrete Cosine Transform,” International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics (ISII2008) Dec. 12-13, 2008, Kumamoto, Japan.

26. Mahmood, M.T.; Khan, A.; Tae-Sun Choi, "A Transformed Domain based Novel Focus Measure for 3D Shape Recovery," Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, 2008. MESA 2008. IEEE/ASME International Conference on , vol., no., pp.53-58, 12-15 Oct. 2008

27. Khan, A.; Ali, A.; Mahmood, M.T.; Usman, I.; Choi, T.-S., "Variable Threshold Based Reversible Watermarking: Hiding Depth Maps," Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, 2008. MESA 2008. IEEE/ASME International Conference on, vol., no., pp.59-64, 12-15 Oct. 2008.

28. Mahmood, M.T., Choi, W.-J., Choi, T.-S. “DCT and PCA based method for shape from focus,” (2008) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 5073 LNCS (PART 2), pp. 1025-1034.

2020

1. Ik-hyun Lee, Mahmood, M. T., Tae-Sun Choi, “A New Focus Measure Using Principal Component Analysis”, Proceedings of IEEK (Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea) Summer Conference, Seoul, Korea, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1007-1008, 2008.

2. Ik-Hyun Lee, Mahmood, M. T., Aamir Saeed Malik, Tae-Sun Choi, "Improved shape from focus using PCA”, Proceedings of the 2007 Korea Signal Processing Conference, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 182, Daegu, South Korea, 13 October, 2007.