University of Essex                         

    Shoaib Ehsan

I am a Post Graduate Research Student in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex which is one of the leading research-intensive universities in UK. The university was ranked 9th in the RAE 2008. I am working under the supervision of Prof. Klaus D. McDonald-Maier and Dr. Adrian F. Clark in Embedded and Intelligent Systems (EIS) Research Group. I am also a member of VASE Lab. My research interests include image feature detection and description techniques, performance characterization of vision algorithms, vision processing architectures, hardware-software co-design and embedded systems.

                          Journal Publications

  1. Ehsan, S., Kanwal, N., Clark, A. F. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "An Algorithm for the Contextual Adaption of SURF Octave Selection with Good Matching Performance: Best Octaves," accepted for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (5-Year Impact Factor : 4.139). IEEE Xplore

  2. Ehsan, S., Kanwal, N., Clark, A. F. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Improved Repeatability Measures for Evaluating Performance of Feature Detectors," Electronics Letters, vol. 46, issue 14, pp. 998-1000, July 2010. (Also selected as a featured article out of 46 papers published in this Issue)

                          Conference Publications                               

  1. Ehsan, S., Clark, A. F., Cheung, W. M., Bais, A. M., Menzat, B. I., Kanwal, N. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Memory-Efficient Design Strategy for a Parallel Embedded Integral Image Computation Engine," accepted for the 15th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP), Dublin, Ireland, September 2011. 

  2. Kanwal, N., Ehsan, S., Bostanci, E. and Clark, A. F., "Evaluating the Angular Sensitivity of Corner Detectors," accepted for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces, and Measurement Systems (VECIMS), Ottawa, Canada, September 2011. 

  3. Kanwal, N., Ehsan, S., Bostanci, E. and Clark, A. F., "A Statistical Approach for Comparing the Performances of Corner Detectors," accepted for the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, August 2011. 

  4. Kanwal, N., Ehsan, S. and Clark, A. F., "Are Performance Differences of Interest Operators Statistically Significant?," accepted for the 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), Seville, Spain, August 2011. 

  5. Ehsan, S., Kanwal, N., Clark, A. F. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Measuring the Coverage of Interest Point Detectors," The 8th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, June 2011. (Winner of ICIAR Student Travel Grant; also received travel grant from the British Machine Vision Association) Springer LNCS 

  6. Ehsan, S., Kanwal, N., Bostanci, E., Clark, A. F. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Analysis of Interest Point Distribution in SURF Octaves," The 3rd International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV), Hong Kong, December 2010. 

  7. Bostanci, E., Kanwal, N., Ehsan, S. and Clark, A. F., "Tracking Methods for Augmented Reality," The 3rd International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV), Hong Kong, December 2010. 

  8. Ehsan, S. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Exploring Integral Image Word Length Reduction Techniques for SURF Detector," The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE), Dubai, UAE, December 2009. IEEE Xplore

  9. Ehsan, S., Clark, A. F. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Hardware Based Scale- and Rotation-Invariant Feature Extraction: A Retrospective Analysis and Future Directions," The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE), Dubai, UAE, December 2009. IEEE Xplore

  10. Ehsan, S., Clark, A. F. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "Novel Hardware Algorithms for Row-Parallel Integral Image Calculation," Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Melbourne, Australia, December 2009. IEEE Xplore

  11. Ehsan, S. and McDonald-Maier, K. D., "On-Board Vision Processing for Small UAVs: Time to Rethink Strategy," NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), California, USA, July 2009. IEEE Xplore

 

 

 

 

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