Profile
Dr. Yeasin is an Associate Professor
of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, adjunct faculty
member of Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics Program, and an affiliated
member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) at The University of
Memphis. He is a senior member of IEEE and received his B.Sc. degree in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and
Technology (Erstwhile, Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Khulna), Bangladesh
in 1989, M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University
of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree
in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay,
India in 1998.
Dr. Yeasin made significant contributions in the
research and development of real-time computer vision solutions for academic
research and commercial applications. He has been involved with several
technological innovations, including classifying gender, age group, ethnicity
and emotion, face detection, recognition of human activities in video, and
speech-gesture enabled sophisticated natural human-computer interfaces. Some of
his research on facial image analysis and hand gesture recognition is used in
developing several commercial products by the Videomining Inc. He introduced
the idea of co-analysis of signal and sense using prosodic relationship between
verbal and non-verbal modalities, sophisticated method of mining the multimodal
feature space for the analysis and application of multimodal co-articulation. The
co-analyses of multimodal articulations will help to obtain a deeper
understanding of (a) how the nucleus of an utterance and a visual prosody
interact to render the semantic meaning of the utterance and (b) how the
synchronization with other modalities affects the production of multimodal
co-articulation. These discoveries will facilitate the design and development
of a perceptual interface for Meta-Tutor. This will also enable the development
of collaborative environments for agent- human communication, and assistive
technologies for the elderly and disabled.
Dr. Yeasin leads the Computer Vision,
Perception and Image Analysis (CVPIA) laboratory. Main thrust of research in
the CVPIA lab is in the general areas of computer vision, data mining,
bio-informatics/computational biology, pattern recognition and human computer
interfaces (HCI). The common underlying theme is (i) semantic integration and
mining of large heterogeneous data, (ii) robust analysis and modeling of all
possible types of signals (text, speech, images, video, time series and gene
expressions etc.), and (iii) use service oriented architecture in providing
services, and sharing databases and results. Major topics of research include
(but are not limited to):
(i)
Co-analysis of signal
and sense
and the interplay between the complementary modalities and the prosodic
manifestations of their synchronization to develop novel algorithms for the
recognition of gestures, facial expressions, emotions, dialog acts (DAs), behavior-based
biometrics, and their applications in developing Meta-Tutor agents.
(ii)
Co-design and Integration
of hardware and software for perceptual human-machine interfaces and mobility
assistance for people who are blind or visually impaired. Towards this end a Reconfigured
Mobile Android Phone (R-MAP) was developed to provide reading out-loud service
to the visually impaired.
(iii)
Developing
efficient and scalable algorithms for distributed data and graph mining, and
their application to knowledge discovery from heterogeneous data. Also of interest,
is to develop service oriented architecture to provide Web services in emerging
areas like epigenetic and genome wide study.
(iv)
Sensor networks for monitoring large
areas such as trails of drug smugglers.
(v)
Image analysis and computer vision solutions for biomedical
applications (medical informatics and modeling and evaluation of surgical
skill) and robust analysis of human motion for creating articulated
models of human body parts.
(vi)
Music therapy! Just like to do scale-space
analysis of brain signals as a hobby.
For more information please contact Mohammed Yeasin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of EECE Ring Professor for Engineering
Email:
myeasin@memphis.edu
Phone: 901 678 4078
URL:
cvpia.memphis.edu/myeasin
Service
- International Science Publisher - Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence - Since March 2006
- IEEE - Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) - Reviewer of refereed journal - 2002-2005
- IEEE - Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) - Reviewer of refereed journal - 2002-2005
- Machine Vision and Applications - Guest Editor: Special issue on Modeling, Analysis, and Synthesis of Human Motion - 2002
- IEEE - Transactions on System man and cybernetics (IEEE SMC Part B) - Reviewer of refereed journal - 2002-2006
- Reviewer of refereed journal - Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) - 2004
- Reviewer of refereed journal - Journal of Pattern Recognition - 2003
- Reviewer of refereed journal - International Journal of Modeling and Simulation - 2004
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