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I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Data Science in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, UK. I hold a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Sheffield (UK). On previous occasions I worked as a lecturer in Computing at University of Stirling and Sheffield Hallam University, a research associate at Heriot-Watt University, & the University of Sheffield and a systems engineer in ABB Ltd.

I'm conducting research in fundamental signal and image processing and its applications. My core research includes adaptive signal/image decomposition and model of computations for signal processing system design with applications in multimedia security and forensics, drone and satellite imagery, IoT enabled sensor signal processing and low power vision systems design on FPGAs.

I'm looking for bright candidates interested in PhD, internship, MSc and Honors project. Be in touch with me for further informaiton.

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Selected Publications All Publications»

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• IEEE ICASSP'21 "Decomposing textures using exponential analysis", Y. Hou, A. Cuyt, W. Lee and D. Bhowmik, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, Toronto, Canada, 2021.
• IEEE ICASSP'19 "Sentiment aware fake news detection on online social networks", O. Ajao, D. Bhowmik and S. Zargari, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, Brighton, UK, 2019 (nominated for best student paper award).
• ACM TRETS'18 "RIPL: A Parallel Image Processing Language for FPGAs", R. Stewart, K. Duncan, P. Garcia, G. Michaelson, D. Bhowmik and A. Wallace, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 7:1--7:24, Mar. 2018.
• IEEE DSP'17 "The Multimedia Blockchain: A Distributed and Tamper-Proof Media Transaction Framework", D. Bhowmik and T. Feng, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, IEEE, pp. 1-5, London, UK, 2017.
• IEEE TIP'16 "Quality Scalability Aware Watermarking for Visual Content", D. Bhowmik and C. Abhayaratne, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 25, Issue 11, pp. 5158-5172, Nov. 2016.

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Courses

• PG: CS8628 Image Informatics
• UG: CSC3831 Predictive Analytics Computer Vision & AI

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Professional Engagements

Leadership roles

• Director of Business Innovation and Skills (2023-) and member of the school executive board, School of Computing at Newcastle University.
• MSc Program Director (2019-22) for Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at University of Stirling.
• Cyber security research theme leader (2019-21): Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).
• Founder (2018-22): Stirling Vision and Image Processing (SVIP) research group.
• Co-chair (2018-22): JPEG international standardisation on Fake Media and Media Blockchain.

PhD Examiner

• Internal (2024): Newcastle University, UK.
• External (2021): University of Antwerp, Belgium.
• External (2021): University in Camerino, Italy.
• External (2021): University of Manchester, UK.
• External (2021): University of Glasgow, UK.
• Internal (2020): University of Stirling, UK.
• Internal (2019): University of Stirling, UK.
• External (2018): Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India.
• External (2015): Visvesvaraya Technological University, India.

Journal Editorial

• Lead Guest Editor: Special issue on Embedded Image Processing Systems Springer JSPS, 2022.
• Editorial Board: Elsevier Data in Brief (2018-20).
• Lead Guest Editor: Special issue on Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing for Cybersecurity Elsevier JISA, 2019.

Journal Review Publon profile »

• IEEE TIP, TIFS, TCSVT, TMM, ACCESS, TII, Sensors, TCS II,
• ACM TOMM,
• EURASIP JASP,
• Elsevier SP:IC, JISA, JVCIR,
• Springer JRTIP, JSPS, MS,
• IET CV &
• SPIE JEI.

Conference Program Committees / Reviewer

• IEEE VCIP: 2021 Organising Chair: Special session on Fake media in the age of artificial intelligence. [Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021)]
• IEEE ICASSP: 2019 Organising Chair: Special session on Signal processing for multimedia security, privacy and trust. [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing]
• IEEE ICIP: 2013 - current. [IEEE International Conference on Image Processing]
• IEEE DSP: 2017 Organising Chair: Special session on Multimedia Signal Processing for Cyber-security and Privacy. [IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing]

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Grants / Scholarships

Approaximate combined value: >GBP 2M.

• Innovate UK KTP [2023-25] KTP funding for INtelligent FOod Recognition And Monitoring For Patient Wellbeing (INFORM) - Phase II.
• PhD Studenship [2023-27] Funded by Airbus Defence and Space.
• PhD Studenship [2023-27] Funded by School of Computing, Newcastle University.
• PhD Studenship [2023-27] Jointly funded by STMicroelectronics, Edinburgh and EPSRC.
• DASA [2023-23] Neuromorphic Vision System.
• NERC [2022-22] UK Research and Innovation funding for ENergy-aware hEteRoGenEous compuTIng at sCale (ENERGETIC).
• Industry [2022-23] Scottish Enterprise green jobs industrial funding for INtelligent FOod Recognition And Monitoring For Patient Wellbeing (INFORM).
• RAEng [2021-23] Royal Academy of Engineering seed funding on Food, gender, enterprise: leveraging interdisciplinarity for sustainable small-scale fisheries .
• EU Horizon 2020 [2021-25] EU MSCA RISE funding for Exponential Analisys Empowering Innovation (EXPOWER).
• RAEng [2020-24] Royal Academy of Engineering GCRF funding on Multimodal Data Analysis For Monitoring Invasive Aquatic Weeds In India.
• PhD Studenship [2019-22] Jointly funded by STMicroelectronics, Edinburgh and University of Stirling.
• PhD Studenship [2019-23] Jointly funded by SRUC, Inverness and University of Stirling.
• SFC [2020-21] Smart Screenshot Organiser with PicoJar Ltd.
• SPARK [2020] Escalator equipment grant.
• Research contract [2020] Industrial collaborative research on Food Recognition with Computer Vision in collaboration with Falcon Foodservices Equipment.
• SPARK [2019-20] Pump priming research fund at University of Stirling to work on Novel Mathematical Methods For Improving Resolution of Earth Observation Data.
• Interface [2019-20] standard innovation voucher on Targeted Advertising with Computer Vision (TACV) in collaboration with Nomadix Media.
• Impact fellowship [2017-18] Low power machine vision system on FPGA, Sheffield Hallam University in collaboration with Alpha Data, Edinburgh.
• EPSRC [2016-17] Self-Embedding Watermarking for Media Copyright Protection (SeWMediaCoP), EPSRC Digital Catapult fellowship (Researcher in Residence Program).
• DHPA [2006-10] EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award at University of Sheffield for PhD study on Robust Watermarking for Scalable Coded Video Streaming || Supervisor: Dr Charith Abhayaratne.

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Team

• Postdoc Alexander Carmichael, based at SRUC, AI technique to classify histology and better diagnose Atlantic salmon gill health.
• Postdoc Dr James Rainey, Embedded Food Recognition (INFORM) Phase II.
• Ph.D. Yen Lau, Newcastle University, UK.
• Ph.D. George Paul, Newcastle University, UK.
• Ph.D. Matthew Chapman, Newcastle University, UK.
• Ph.D. Zachary Hui, Newcastle University, UK. (Co supervisor)
• Postdoc Dr James Rainey, Embedded Food Recognition (INFORM).
• Postdoc Dr Vahid Akbari, Multimodal Data Analysis For Monitoring Invasive Aquatic Weeds In India.
• Postdoc Teymoor Ali, ENergy-aware hEteRoGenEous compuTIng at sCale (ENERGETIC).
• Ph.D. Teymoor Ali, University of Stirling, UK. [Domain specific optimisations for real-time image processing on heterogeneous FPGA+CPU] (Submitted: 2023).
• Ph.D. Alexander Carmichael, University of Stirling, UK. [Improving animal health in marine ecosystem using data minning and signal/image processing] (Submitted: 2023).
• Ph.D. Ipshita Roy Chowdhury, University of Stirling, UK. [Modeling and predicting cyber hacking breaches] (Submitted: 2023).
• Visiting Ph.D. Sajjad Ahmed, University of Camerino, Italy. [Knowledge engineering to detect fake news in social networks] (Completed: 2022).
• Postdoc Dr Ken Reid, Novel Mathematical Methods For Improving Resolution of Earth Observation Data (Completed: 2019).
• Ph.D. Dr Oluwaseun Ajao, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. [Fake news detection on Twitter]. Current role: Lecturer in Computing at Sheffield Hallam University, UK (Completed: 2019).

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