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Dr Zahid Mehmood Jehangiri

Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, & Digital Image Processing
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (92)992-383591-5
 
Academics/ Degrees
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, North Dakota State University, NDSU, USA, 2015
  • MS, Hanyang University, South Korea, 2011
  • BS, COMSATS Institute of 'information Technology, Abbottabad, 2007
 
Journal Publications
1. R. Yousuf,Z. U. Rehman,K. Khan,Z. Mahmood Satellite Imagery-Based Cloud Classification Using Deep Learning, Remote Sensing, vol. 15, no. 23, 2023, 2023
2. Muhammad Ibrahim,Z. Mahmood,Amina Asif,M. Shahzad,Uzair Khan,Sumair Khan Towards Face Anti-Spoofing, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2023, pp. 1-17. , 2023
3. Z. Mahmood,Khurram Khan,M. Shahzad,Ahmad Fayyaz,Uzair Khan Enhanced detection and recognition system for vehicles and drivers using multi-scale retinex guided filter and machine learning, Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1-40, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023, 2023
4. Z. Mahmood,Uzair Khan Enhanced detection and recognition system for vehicles and drivers using multi-scale retinex guided filter and machine learning, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023, 2023
5. Umer Amin,Z. Mahmood,MI.Shehzad,Dr. Aamir Shahzad,M. Shahzad,Uzair Khan Automatic Fruits Freshness Classification Using CNN and Transfer Learning, Applied Sciences, pp. 1-17, 2023
6. Fahd Sultan,Z. Mahmood,Khurram Khan,Dr. Yasir Ali Shah,M. Shahzad,Uzair Khan Towards Automatic License Plate Recognition in Challenging Conditions, Applied Sciences, pp. 1-29, 2023, 2023
7. Annam Farid,Z. Mahmood,Farhan Hussain,Khurram Khan,M. Shahzad,Uzair Khan A Fast and Accurate Real-Time Vehicle Detection Method Using Deep Learning for Unconstrained Environments, Applied Sciences, pp. 1-30., 2023
8. S. A. Memon,M. Shahzad,Q. Javed,W. G. Kim,Z. Mahmood,Uzair Khan A Machine-Learning-Based Robust Classification Method for PV Panel Faults, Sensors, pp. 1-14, 2022
9. G. A. Shah,Uzair Khan,S. Khan,S. A. Memon,M. Shahzad,Z. Mahmood Improvement in the Tracking Performance of a Maneuvering Target in the Presence of Clutter, Sensors, pp. 1-18, 2022
10. M. Shahzad,N. Ullah,Z. Mahmood Optimization of On-Grid Hybrid Renewable Energy System: A Case Study on Azad Jammu and Kashmir, MDPI- Sustainability , 2022
11. Z. Mahmood,Uzair Khan,M. Shahzad Towards Automatic License Plate Detection, MDPI - Sensors, 2022
12. S.N.Khan,Z. Mahmood,Khurram Khan,Nazeer Muhammad Efficient Prediction Mode Decisions for Low Complexity MV-HEVC, IEEE Access, pp. 150234-150251., 2021
13. Muhammad Idrees,Xiaomin Qi,A. Zaib,Adnan Tariq,I.Ullah,Z. Mahmood Throughput Maximization in Clustered Cellular Networks by using Joint Resource Scheduling and Fractional Frequency Reuse aided Coordinated Multipoint, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021
14. Khurram Khan,Abid Imran,Hafiz Zia Ur Rehman,Adnan Fazil,Muhammad Zakwan,Z. Mahmood Performance Enhancement Method for Multiple License Plate Recognition in Challenging Environments, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2021
15. Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Muhammad Arif Shah,Saira Zainab,Ihsan Ullah,Z. Mahmood An Entropy Based Salient Edge Enhancement Using Fusion Process, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2020
16. Nazeer Muhammad,Z. Mahmood,Hira Khan,Nargis Bibi,Muhammad Usman,Naseer Ahmad,Shahid Nawaz Khan Frequency Component Vectorization for Image Dehazing, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, pp. 919-932, 2020
17. Uzair Khan,Ihsan Ullah,Z. Mahmood A split target detection and tracking algorithm for ballistic missile tracking during the re-entry phase, Defence Technology Journal-December 2019, 2019
18. Z. Mahmood,Nargis Bibi,Muhammad Usman,Uzair Khan,Nazeer Muhammad Mobile cloud based‑framework for sports applications, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 2019, 2019
19. Nadia Zeb,Sajjad Manzoor,Ihsan Ullah,Sumair Khan,Muhammad Assad,Z. Mahmood,Uzair Khan A Fixed-Lag Smoothing Interactive Multiple Model Tracking and Interception System for Maneuvering Target, IJST Transactions of Electrical Engineering, 2019
20. Dr. Aamir Shahzad,Dr. Ayaz Ali,Z. Mahmood Boosting the Face Recognition Performance of Ensemble Based LDA for Pose, Non-uniform Illuminations, and Low-Resolution Images, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 30 June 2019,, 2019
21. Shahid Nawaz Khan,S.N.Khan,Z. Mahmood,Nazeer Muhammad,Shabieh Farwa,Tanzila Saba,Shadan Khattak Early CU Depth Decision and Reference Picture Selection for Low Complexity MV-HEVC, MDPI Symmetry, pp. 1-25, 2019
22. Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Adnan Jehangir,Z. Mahmood Image denoising with norm weighted fusion estimators, Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2018
23. Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Iqbal Qasim,Adnan Jehangir,Z. Mahmood Digital watermarking using Hall property image decomposition method, Pattern Analysis and Applications, 5 October, 2018, 2018
24. Z. Mahmood,Nazeer Muhammad,S.Khattak,Osama Haneef Towards A Fully Automated Car Parking System, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 1 October, 2018, 2018
25. Z. Mahmood,Naseer Ahmed,Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Yasir M. Malik Human visual enhancement using Multi Scale Retinex, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, vol. 13, pp. 9-20., 2018
26. Z. Mahmood,Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Dr. Shoaib Azmat,MI.Shehzad,Tauseef Ali EAR: Enhanced Augmented Reality System for Sports Entertainment Applications, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 20 December, 2017, 2017
27. Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Abdul Wahab,Z. Mahmood Image de-noising with subband replacement and fusion process using bayes estimators,, Elsevier, Computers and Electrical Engineering, 23 September, 2018, 2017
28. Z. Mahmood Reversible integer wavelet transform for blind image hiding method, PLOS ONE, May 2017, 2017
29. Z. Mahmood,Nargis Bibi,Tauseef Ali,Nazeer Muhammad A REVIEW ON STATE-OF-THE-ART FACE RECOGNITION APPROACHES, FRACTALS, March 30, 2017, 2017
30. Dr. Shoaib Azmat,MI.Shehzad,Dr. Waheed Malik,Z. Mahmood,Dr. Yasir Ali Shah K-means based multiple objects tracking with long-term occlusion handling, IET Computer Vision, 2017
31. Nazeer Muhammad,Nargis Bibi,Z. Mahmood,Dai-Gyoung Kim Blind data hiding technique using the Fresnelet transform, SpringerPlus, DOI 10.1186/s40064-015-1534-1, 2016
32. Z. Mahmood,Samee U. Khan,Tauseef Ali Effects of pose and image resolution on automatic face recognition, IET Biometrics, pp. 111-119, 2016
33. Z. Mahmood,S.Khattak,Laiq Hasan,Tauseef Ali,Samee U. Khan Automatic player detection and identification for sports entertainment applications., Pattern Analysis and Applications (2015): 1-12., 2015
 
Conference Publications
1. Fatima,Z. Mahmood,Khurram Khan,Mir Yasir Unsupervised Vessel Segmentation Technique Using LTP and PCA, International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech), pp. 1-6, 2023, , 2023
2. Noshaba Khurshid,Z. Mahmood,Muhammad Ibrahim Syed,Khurram Khan Towards Automatic Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation in Retinal Images, Frontiers of Information Technology, pp. 1-6, , 2022
3. Zanib Qaiser,Z. Mahmood,Waqar Ahmad,Mir Yasir Umair Unsupervised Vessel Segmentation Method in Retinal Images, Frontiers of Information Technology, pp. 1-6., , 2022
4. Ali Murtaza,Z. Mahmood,Qamar Sarfraz,Syed Ahmed Afzal,Muhammad Ibrahim Syed ,Khurram Khan Towards Fully Automated Face Verification, , 2021
5. Misbah Kazmi,Fahd Sultan, Khurram Khan,Z. Mahmood Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation Using Local Ternary Pattern, , 2021
6. Sundas Masood,Muhammad Ibrahim,Khurram Khan,F. Fayyaz,Fahd Sultan,Z. Mahmood A Robust Method to Enhance Degraded Color Images Under Diverse Conditions, , 2020
7. Kashif Fareed,Fahd Sultan,Khurram Khan,Z. Mahmood A Robust Face Recognition Method for Expression and Pose Variant Images, , 2020
8. Fahad Khan,Ateeq Ur Rehman,Jawad Khan,Tariq Aziz,Rao Asif,Z. Mahmood Real-Time Health Monitoring System using Wireless Body Area Network, , 2020
9. Owais Ali,Nazeer Muhammad,Zainab Jadoon,Misbah Kazmi,Nayab Muzamil,Z. Mahmood A Comparative Study of Automatic Vessel Segmentation Algorithms, , 2020
10. Zainab Jadoon,Shaban Ahmad,Ammar Khan,Aqsa Imtiaz,Nazeer Muhammad,Z. Mahmood Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using ISODATA and High Boost Filter, , 2020
11. Ibrahim Syed,Mehreen Mubashir,Waqas Zeb,Aiman Tahir,Z. Mahmood An Empirical Study of Face Recognition for Occluded and Low-Resolution Images, , 2020
12. Waqar Ahmad,Zaineb Shah,Nazeer Muhammad,Waqas Zeb,Ijlal Hussain,Z. Mahmood A Comparative Study of CNN Based License Plate Recognition Algorithms, , 2020
13. Farhana Siddique,Talha Iqbal,Sheryar Mehmood Awan,Z. Mahmood,Gul Zameen Khan A Robust Segmentation of Blood Vessels in Retinal Images, , 2019
14. Arsalan Khan,Sheryar Mehmood Awan,Muhammad Arif,Z. Mahmood,Gul Zameen Khan A Robust Segmentation Free License Plate Recognition Method, , 2019
15. Hidayat Ullah,Mahmood Ul Haq,Shadan Khattak,Gul Zameen Khan,Z. Mahmood A Robust Face Recognition Method for Occluded and Low-Resolution Images, , 2019
16. Sheryar Mehmood Awan,Shadan Khattak,Gul Zameen Khan,Z. Mahmood A Robust Method to Locate License Plates under Diverse Conditions, , 2019
17. Ossama Haneef,Sana Maqbool,Farhana Siddique,Z. Mahmood,S.Khattak,Gul Zameen Khan Effects of Image Resolution on Automatic Face Detection, , 2019
18. Faizan Munawar,Uzair Khan,Dr. Aamir Shahzad,Mahmood Ul Haq,Z. Mahmood,S.Khattak,Gul Zameen Khan An Empirical Study of Image Resolution and Pose on Automatic Face Recognition, , 2019
19. Haleema Sadia,Fazal Azeem,Hidayat Ullah,Z. Mahmood,S.Khattak Color Image Enhancement using Multiscale Retinex with Guided Filter, , 2018
20. M.Arif,A.Majid,J. Saleem,Uzair Khan,Z. Mahmood Analysis of the high gain five port converter with ultra capacitor, battery, and asymmetric bipolar outputs for microgrid/HEV applications, , 2018
21. Gul Hameed Khan,Uzair Khan,Z. Mahmood A multi-target tracking and interception system in the surveillance area, , 2018
22. Muhammad Arif,A.Majid,J. Saleem,Fahad,Qamar Abbas,Naseer Khan,Z. Mahmood A Novel High Gain Bidirectional Multiport DC-DC Converter to Interface PV, Battery, and Ultracapacitor with Microgrid System, , 2017
23. Muhammad Arif,A.Majid,J. Saleem,Z. Mahmood,Uzair Khan,Muhammad Asad Analysis of the High Gain Five Port Converter with Ultra Capacitor, Battery, and Asymmetric Bipolar Outputs for Microgrid/HEV Applications, , 2017
24. Uzair Khan,S.Durrani,Z. Mahmood Ballistic missile tracking in the presence of clutter using multi-target tracking algorithm, , 2017
25. Z. Mahmood,M. Nazeer,M. Arif,I. shahzad,Fahad,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Uzair Khan,S. U. Khan Boosting the Accuracy of AdaBoost for Object Detection and Recognition, , 2016
26. Z. Mahmood,Samee U. Khan,S.Khattak,Laurance T. Yang,Tauseef Ali Automatic Vehicle Detection and Driver Identification Framework for Secure Vehicle Parking, , 2015
27. Z. Mahmood A parallel framework for object detection and recognition for secure vehicle parking, , 2015
28. Z. Mahmood Automatic vehicle detection and driver identification for security applications, , 2015
29. Z. Mahmood,S.Khattak, Tauseef Ali, Samee U Khan A Comparative Study of Baseline Algorithms of Face Recognition, , 2014
30. Z. Mahmood,Tauseef Ali,S.Khattak Automatic Player Detection and Recognition in Images Using AdaBoost, , 2012
 
 
Profile/Bio
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (December 2015 – Till date):

Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad.

Ph.D Scholar and Teaching Assistant (August 2013 –  December 2015):

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, USA.

Lecturer (July 2011 – August 2013): 

Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad.

MS Scholar and Teaching Assistant (August 2009  –  June 2011): 

Radio Frequency ID and Communication Lab, Hanyang University, South Korea.

Lab Engineer (February 2008  –  August 2009):

Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad.

 
Associations

  • Paper Review Committee Member, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
  • Paper Review Committee Member, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
  • Paper Review Committee Member, IET Biometrics.
  • Paper Review Committee Member, Pattern Analysis and Applications.
  • Paper Review Committee Member, The International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT).
  • Paper Review Committee Member, The International Conference on Informatics Engineering & Information Science (ICIEIS)
  • Member, Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
  • Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)

 
Research Interests

       ·         Object detection
·         Object recognition
·         Object tracking
·         Image processing

 
Awards

·  Received the Best Researcher Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus for the Year 2018. I was also awarded with the Research Productivity Award by Director COMSATS Abbottabad Campus for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 for distinguished contributions in the research.

·   Lead the Electrical Engineering Department team to prepare Self-Assessment Report (SAR) with the result of first ever Outcome Based Education (OBE) accreditation from Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) for the three engineering programs (computer, electronics, and power) of electrical engineering department at CUI Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.

·  Initiated and lead the team to shift the labs of electrical engineering department as per OBE standards at CUonline and prepared the OBE based course outlines of 4 subjects (Digital System Design, Probability Methods, and Electronics−I&II).

·       Received the HEC approved supervisor status. Supervised the completion of 1 Ph.D. Dissertation, 12 MS Theses, and Supervised 19 undergraduate Final Year Projects (FYP), with two projects lead to IEEE conference paper publications. Another project received the National Grassroot Information and Communication Technology Research Initiative (NGIRI) funding of 35000 PKR for the duration of one year from July 2019–July 2020.

·   Received the prestigious COMSATS Faculty Development program (FDP) scholarship award for PhD studies in North Dakota State University, USA from years 2013 – 2015.

·   Received the prestigious Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan scholarship award for MS studies in Hanyang University, South Korea in 2009. Also received the MS Scholarship from Hanyang University, South Korea from years 2009 – 2011.

·   Research collaborations have resulted in 50 publications, which include 23 Impact Factor Journals and 27 International Conference publications.

·    Served as the reviewer of top-tier journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Access, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IET Image Processing, IET Biometrics, and IET Computer Vision. Moreover, I am also an active Technical Program Committee member in IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) and IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET).

 
Students Supervised

Graduate Thesis (reverse chronological): A total of 13 Graduate Theses are listed in the reverse chronological order. All Thesis research works have been published in world renowned Journals/Conferences.

o   PhD Dissertation: 01, MS Thesis: 12.

PhD Dissertation

·  Shahid Nawaz Khan, “Fast Encoding Techniques for Multi-View High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC),” April 2022.

o   Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan Scholarship Recipient.

MS Thesis

·      Noshaba Khurshid, “An Automatic Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using Gabor Filter and Top-Hat Transform Based on Otsu’s Thresholding,” July 2021.

·  Kashif Fareed, “Effect of Pose and Expression Variation on Face Recognition,” July 2021.

·  Muhammad Ibrahim Syed, “A Low Complexity Deep Learning Based Anti-Face Spoofing Method,” January 2021.

o   COMSATS Merit Scholarship Recipient.

·    Bibi Misbah Kazmi, “Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using Local Ternary Patterns,” January 2021.

·   Zainab Jadoon, “Retinal Vessels Segmentation using ISODATA and High Boost Filter,” September 2020.

·     Sundas Masood, “A Robust Method to Enhance Color Images Under Diverse Conditions,” September 2020.

·  Farhana Siddique, “Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation using Hybrid Algorithm,” July 2019.

·    Arsalan Mehmood Khan, “A Robust Segmentation Free License Plate Recognition Method,” July 2019.

·         Hidayat Ullah, “A Robust Face Recognition Method for Occluded and Low-Resolution Images,” July 2019.

·         Sheryar Mahmood Awan, “Automatic Vehicle License Plate Detection using Faster R-CNN,” February 2019.

o   COMSATS Merit Scholarship Recipient.

·     Haleema Sadia, “Color Image Enhancement using Multiscale Retinex with Guided Filter,” February 2019.

·      *Mahmood Ul Haq, “Boosting the Performance of Ensemble Based LDA for Pose and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition on Low-Resolution Images,” July 2018.

o   Prime Minister Merit Scholarship Recipient.