Dr Atif Bin Mansoor
Email Address
atif.mansoor@gmail.com
Contact Number
+ 923-33524-2272
Qualification
Bachelor of Engineering (NED University of Engineering &
Technology), Pakistan, 1990
MS (Computer Engineering) University of Engineering
& Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, 2005
PhD, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila,
Pakistan, 2011
Distinctions
Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postgraduate Studies, Ministry of
Science and Technology, Pakistan, 1994
Best Foreign Student Award, Hamburg University of
Technology, Germany, 1998
Talented Student Award 2004, Center for Advanced
Studies, University of Engg & Tech Taxila, Pakistan
Merit Scholarship for Indigenous PhD Program, Higher
Education Commission of Pakistan
Subjects Taught
Digital Image Processing
Signals and Systems
Analog and Digital Communications
Data Communication
Microprocessor and Microcontroller
Analysis and Design of Control Systems
Research Interests
Image Quality, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics, Wavelets and
Multi-resolution Signal Processing, Image and Multidimensional
Signal Processing, Computer Vision,
Invited Talks
“From Wavelet to Contourlet : Evolution and Applications’ School of
Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of
Western Australia, Perth, 20 February, 2009
http://web.csse.uwa.edu.au/research/seminars/past
“A Hybrid Image Quality Measure for Automatic Image Quality
Assessment" Gjøvik Color Imaging Symposium,The Norwegian
Color Research Laboratory, Gjøvik,Norway, 19 June, 2009
http://www.colorlab.no/events/gcis09
“Image Quality Measures; Subjective and Quantitative Evaluations”
International Conference on Machine Vision, ICMV 2010,
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 29-31December, 2010.
“Computational Challenges in Digital Image Processing”
Symposium on Emerging Massively Parallel Architectures and
Applications in Scientific Simulation,Research Center for Modeling
and Simulation (RCMS),National University of Sciences and
Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, 06 April, 2011.
Conference Presentations
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Dec. 13-16,
2010, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2009, June
15-18, 2009, Oslo, Norway
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology,
10 – 13 February, 2009, Victoria, Australia
IEEE International Conference on Audio, Language andImage
Processing, ICALIP 2008, July 7-9, 2008 Shanghai, China.
IEEE International Conference on Advances in Space Technology,
ICAST 2008, 29-30 November 2008 Islamabad, Pakistan.
Tenth National Aeronautical Conference, April 20-21, 2006, Risalpur,
Pakistan.
IEEE International Multi-topic Conference INMIC 2005, December
24-25, 2005 Karachi, Pakistan
Computer Literacy
C, C++ , UML , Java, Matlab, Verilog, HTML, XEMACS, EMACS,
Latex, Lyx, Open CV
Language Proficiency
English, German, Urdu, Punjabi
Journal Papers
1. Salah-ud-din, A B Mansoor, H Masood, M Mumtaz, Identification using Feature and
Score level Fusion of Palm and Finger Prints, Springer Signal Image and Video
Processing, Special Issue On Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends, volume 5,
number 3, September, 2011. ISSN: 1863-1703
Online http://www.springerlink.com/content/5753t1l7451l4159/
2. A B Mansoor, A Anwer, Subjective Evaluation Of Image Quality Measures For White
Noise And Gaussian Blur Distorted Images, Under Publication, The Imaging Science
Journal, ISSN: 1368-2199
3. A Hanif, A B Mansoor, T Ejaz, A new approach to Radionuclide Imaging using Compressed
Sensing, Under Publication, The Imaging Science Journal, ISSN: 1368-2199
4. A B Mansoor, H Masood, M Mumtaz, Shoab A Khan, A Feature level Multimodal
approach for Palmprint Identification using Directional Subband Energies, Journal of
Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2011,
Pages 159-171.
5. H Sarfraz, A B Mansoor, S Baqir, Development of Cost Effective PC-based High
Fidelity Infrared Signature Modeling of Transport Aircraft, Journal of Battlefield
Technology, Argos Press, Australia Pages 45-56, Vol. 12, No. 3, November 2009,
ISSN 1440-5113.
6. A B Mansoor , Image Quality Measures Talk – Gjovik Color Imaging Symposium
2009, Norway, Gabriele Simone Ed., Gjovik, ISSN 0806-3176, ISBN: 978-82-9131317-7, PP -2, June 2009.
7. A B Mansoor, H Ahmad, An Approach to Jet Engine Performance Evaluation using
Noise Identification and Classification, NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences, pages
17 – 25, ISSN 2070-9900, Vol. 2, No. 1, December, 2009.
8. H Aftab, A B Mansoor, M Asim, A new Hybrid Interpolation Approach for Single
Image Super Resolution of Aerial Images, NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences,
pages 73 – 77, ISSN 2070-9900, Vol. 2, No. 1, December, 2009.
9. A B Mansoor , Z Khan, S Khan, CRYPTO-STEG: A Hybrid Cryptology Steganography Approach for Improved Data Security, accepted Paper, Mehran
University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, ISSN 0254-7821.
10. A B Mansoor, H Masood, M Mumtaz, Shoab A Khan, Development and Evaluation of
Combined Wavelet Based Palmprint Identification System, Pakistan Journal of
Scientific & Industrial Research, Vol. 53, No. 4, July - August, 2010, PP 198 – 200,
ISSN 0030-9885.
11. T Shahid, A B Mansoor Copy-Move Forgery Detection Algorithm for Digital Images
and a New Accuracy Metric, Pg, 159 -161, International Journal of Recent Trends in
Engineering, Vol 2, No. 2, November 2009, Academy Publishers, Finland, ISSN
1797-9617.
12. R Mumtaz, M Mumtaz, A B MAnsoor, H Masood, Computer Aided Visual Inspection of
Aircraft Surfaces, International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume (6) : Issue (1) : 2012.
ISSN (Online) 1985-2304
Conference Papers
1. A B Mansoor, A Anwar, Subjective Evaluation Of Image Quality Measures For White
Noise Distorted Images, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Dec. 13-16,
2010, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
2. Salahudin, A B Mansoor, M Mumtaz, R Mumtaz, Bayesian Decision Fusion of Palm and
Finger Prints for Personal Identification, 3rd International Conference on Computational
Intelligence and Industrial Application (PACIIA), Wuhan, China, December 4-5, 2010.
3. M Ahsan, K Shafique, A B Mansoor, “Performance Comparison of Two Altitude-Control
Algorithms for a Fixed-Wing UAV”, International Conference on Measurement and
Control Engineering (ICMCE 2010), Chengdu, China. November 16-18, 2010.
4. A Hanif, A B Mansoor, T Ejaz, A Iterative Tomographic Image Reconstruction by
Compressive Sampling, ICIP 2010, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,
September 26-29, 2010, Hong Kong.
5. M Mumtaz, H Masood, A B Mansoor, A New Approach To Aircraft Surface Inspection
Based On Directional Energies Of Texture, International Conference on Pattern
Recognition, ICPR 2010, August 23-26, Istanbul, Turkey.
6. M Mumtaz, H Masood, A B Mansoor , S A Khan, S Shabbir, An Evaluation of Wavelet
Kernels for Palmprint based Recognition, VI Conference on Articulated Motion and
Deformable Objects, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. 7-9 July , 2010.
7. Salahudin, A B Mansoor, H Masood, M Mumtaz, Directional Energy based Feature level
Multimodal system using Palm and Fingerprints, First International Workshop on
Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-based Biometrics (ETCHB, 2010), in
conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010),
August 23-26, Istanbul, Turkey.
8. Z Khan, A B Mansoor, An analysis of quality factor on image steganalysis, Seventh
International Conference on Informatics and Systems, INFOS 2010, 28-30 March, 2010,
Cairo, Egypt.
9. H Masood, M Asim, M Mumtaz, A B Mansoor, Combined Contourlet and Nonsubsampled
Contourlet Transforms Based Approach for Personal Identification using
Palmprint, Digital Image Computing : Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2009, 1-3
December, 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
10. O saeed, A B Mansoor , M A A Butt, A Novel Contourlet Based Online Fingerprint
Identification, J. Fierrez et al. (Eds.): BioID MultiComm2009, LNCS 5707, pp. 308–317,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.
11. M Mumtaz, A B Mansoor , H Masood, Directional Energy Based Palmprint Identification
Using Non Subsampled Contourlet Transform, IEEE International Conference on Image
Processing, IEEE ICIP, November 7 -11, 2009, Cairo, Egypt.
12. A B Mansoor , Maaz Haider , Ajmal S. Mian , Shoab A. Khan, Hybrid Image Quality
Measure for Automatic Image Quality Assessment, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
5575, pp. 321 – 330, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
13. A B Mansoor, Ajmal S. Mian, Adil Khan, Shoab A. Khan, Fuzzy Morphology for Edge
Detection and Segmentation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4842, pp. 811–821,
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
14. Imran Khan, A B Mansoor, Real Time Eyes Tracking and Classification for Driver’s
Fatigue Detection, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5112, pp. 729-738, Springer
Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
15. A B Mansoor, Mustafa Mumtaz, Hassan Masood, M. Asif Afzal Butt, Shoab A. Khan
Personal Identification using Palmprint and Contourlet Transform, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 5359, pp. 521-530, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
16. Z Khan, A B Mansoor, An Evaluation of Wavelet Filters Performance for Steganalysis,
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control & Communication (IEEE IC4 2009), February 17-18, Karachi, Pakistan.
17. H Ahmad, A B Mansoor, Z Mahmood, Design and Development of an Automated
Acoustic based Jet Engine Performance Evaluator, IEEE International Conference on
Industrial Technology, 10 – 13 February, 2009, Victoria, Australia.
18. A B Mansoor, Z Khan, A Khan, S A Khan, Enhancement of Exudates for the diagnosis of
Diabetic Retinopathy using Fuzzy Morphology, IEEE International Multi-topic
Conference, INMIC 2008, 23-24 December, Karachi, Pakistan.
19. H Aftab, A B Mansoor, M Asim, A New Single Image Interpolation Technique For Super
Resolution, IEEE International Multi-topic Conference, INMIC 2008, 23-24 December,
Karachi, Pakistan.
20. F Ali, A B Mansoor, Computer Vision based Automatic Scoring of Shooting Targets,
IEEE International Multi-topic Conference, INMIC 2008, 23-24 December, Karachi,
Pakistan.
21. A B Mansoor, Z Khan, A Khan,An application of Fuzzy Morphology for enhancement of
Aerial Images, IEEE International Conference on Advances in Space Technology, ICAST
2008, 29-30 November 2008 Islamabad, Pakistan.
22. M A A Butt, H Masood, M Mumtaz, A B Mansoor, S A Khan, Palmprint Identification
Using Contourlet Transform, IEEE Second international conference on Biometrics Theory,
Application and Systems, September 29 – October 1, 2008, Washington DC, USA.
23. Z Khan, A B Mansoor, A New Hybrid DCT and Contourlet Transform based JPEG Image
Steganalysis Technique, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5575, pp 91-98, Springer
Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
24. Z Khan, A B Mansoor, Steganalysis of JPEG Images with Joint Transform Features, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, 5414, pp 965 – 975, Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Germany.
25. A B Mansoor, S A Khan, Contourlet Denoising of Natural Images, IEEE International
Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, ICALIP 2008, July 7-9, Shanghai,
China.
26. H Masood, M Mumtaz, A A Butt, A B Mansoor, S A Khan,Wavelet based Palmprint
Authentication System, IEEE International Symposium on Biometrics and Security
System, ISBAST 2008, Islamabad, Pakistan 23-24 April, 2008.
27. M A A Butt, A B Mansoor, S A Khan, Fingerprint Feature Extraction and Matching using
Contourlet Transform, The 5th International Workshop on Rough Sets and Hybrid
Intelligent Systems, Cairo, Egypt, March 29, 2008.
28. A B Mansoor, A Khan, S A Khan, Application of fuzzy Morphology for image analysis,
Twelfth International Conference on Aerospace Sciences & Aviation Technology, ASAT12, May 2007, Cairo, Egypt.
29. Awais Mansoor, A B Mansoor, A new approach to image enhancement using non-linear
filtering, Tenth National Aeronautical Conference, April 20-21, 2006, Risalpur, Pakistan.
30. Awais Mansoor, A B Mansoor, K A Khan, DCT based Face Recognition using RBF
Neural Network, Tenth National Aeronautical Conference, April 20-21, 2006, Risalpur,
Pakistan.
31. Awais Mansoor, A B Mansoor, On Image Compression using Digital Curvelet Transform,
IEEE International Multi-topic Conference INMIC 2005, December 24-25, 2005 Karachi,
Pakistan.
32. Awais Mansoor, A B Mansoor, Ismail Shah, Optimum Bit Detection of Quadrature
Amplitude Modulation in Self Correlated Gaussian Noise Channel, IEEE International
Multi-topic Conference INMIC 2005, December 24-25, 2005 Karachi, Pakistan.
33. Awais Mansoor, A B Mansoor Contourlet Based Fingerprint Matching, URSI Conference,
October 2005, Dehli, India.
34. Awais Mansoor, A B Mansoor , The Curvelet Transform For Digital Image Compression,
NCIP-2005, March 23-25, 2005, Bangalore, India.
35. Adil Amjad Sheikh, A B Mansoor, S A Khan, M Hayat Functional Verification of
Multiprocessor based System-on-Chip on Distributed Systems, IEEE International Multitopic
Conference, INMIC 2002, Dec 2002, Karachi, Pakistan.
Professional Activities
Organizer, IEEE ICET (IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies)
Islamabad, September 2005
Organizer, Tenth National Aeronautical Conference, Risalpur, Pakistan, April 2006
International Program Committee member, DATICS-IMECS'10, Hong Kong, 17-19 March,
2010.
International Program Committee member, ICIS 2010, The 3rd International Conference on
Information Sciences and Interaction Sciences, June 23-25, 2010, Chengdu, China
Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Reviewer, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier
Reviewer, International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2006, Montreal, Canada
Reviewer, International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, IBCAST
2009
Reviewer, International Conference on Information Sciences, signal processing and their
applications, ISSPA 2010, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia