Dr. Sud Sudirman BEng (Hons) PhD
Senior Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader at Liverpool John Moores University
Room 727, James Parsons Building Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
Tel: 01512312632
Email: s.sudirman@ljmu.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/cmp/
As an academic member of staff in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Sud is
responsible for delivering a number of modules at all levels of Bachelor and Master degree
programmes. His teaching interests include Computer Game Technology and Programming,
Computer Graphics Programming, Computer Animation, Game Console Programming and Artificial
Intelligence.
As an academic programme leader, his duties include overseeing the overall teaching and learning
process within the programmes, planning the development of the programmes, and acting as a
liaison between the school and relevant industries. In addition, Sud has also been appointed as an
external examiner to oversee academic programmes on other academic institutions.
Sud is also active in conducting research within the school. His research interests include Image
Compression and Retrieval, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence in Games
and Digital Watermarking. He is a member of technical committee for several regional and
international conferences and has reviewed a number of scientific papers for conferences and
journals since 2003.
Experience
September 2004 – Present
Programme Leader of Computer Games Technology Course
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
August 2002 – Present
Senior Lecturer in Computing
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
September 2009 – September 2011
Programme Leader of Computer Animation and Visualisation Course
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
September 1999 – August 2000
Research Assistant and Part-Time Teaching Assistant
School of Computer Science
Leeds University
September 1998 – August 1999
Research Assistant and Seasonal Lecturer
School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Derby
September 1996 – May 1997
Student Intern
Aurora Forging Ltd, Sheffield
Education
PhD, Computer Science
University of Nottingham (2003)
PhD Dissertation is titled "Colour Image Coding, Indexing and Retrieval using Binary Space
Partitioning Tree".
BEng,, Control Systems Engineering with First Class Honours
The University of Sheffield (1998)
The Farnell Project Student (Best final year project in Automatic Control Systems Engineering)
The Mappin Medal in Automatic Control Systems Engineering (Best graduating student in Automatic
Control Systems Engineering)
A-Levels
Tresham Institute, Kettering (1994)
Subjects: Maths (A), Physics (A) and Chemistry (A)
List of Publications
Khan, I., and Sudirman, S., "Analysis of the Performance of Eigenfaces Technique in Recognizing NonCaucasian Faces", International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol.2(4), pp. 3750, 2012
C.Song, S. Sudirman and M.Merabti, “A Robust Region-Adaptive Dual Image Watermarking
Technique”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, pp. 535-548, vol. 23, no.3,
2012
C.Song, S. Sudirman and M.Merabti, “Region-Adaptive Watermarking System and its Application”,
IEEE Conference in Developments in e-Systems Engineering, Dec, 2011
C.Song, S. Sudirman and M.Merabti, “Region Adaptive Digital Image Watermarking System Using
DWT-SVD Algorithm”, Proc 12th of PostGraduate Network Symposium, June, 2011.
Haseeb Ur Rahman, Madjid Merabti, David Llewellyn-Jones, Sud Sudirman, "Memory Threads:
Organizing Digital Memories to Organize Social P2P Networks", 12th Annual Postgraduate
Symposium on Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet 2011),
Liverpool, UK, 27-28 June 2011
Ur Rahman, Haseeb; Merabti, Madjid; Llewellyn-Jones, David; Sudirman, Sud; , "An entity-based
social peer-to-peer network for digital life memories," Computer Networks and Information
Technology (ICCNIT), 2011 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.13-19, 11-13 July 2011
Haseeb Ur Rahman, Madjid Merabti, David Llewellyn-Jones, Sud Sudirman, "Investigating Sharing in
Memory for Life Systems", The 11th Annual Conference on the Convergence of Telecommunications,
Networking & Broadcasting (PGNet 2010), Liverpool, UK, 21-22 June 2010.
Chunlin Song, Sud Sudirman, Madjid Merabti, David Llewellyn-Jones, "Analysis of Digital Image
Watermark Attacks", 6th IEEE International Workshop on Digital Rights Management, Satellite
Workshop of 7th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2010), Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA, 13th January, 2010.
Sudirman, S.; Al-Jumeily, D.; , "Copyright Protection of Digital Images Using High Order Polynomial
Watermarking," Developments in eSystems Engineering (DESE), 2009 Second International
Conference on, vol., no., pp.173-180, 14-16 Dec. 2009
S. Sudirman, “High order polynomial signature embedding in wavelet transform domain for robust
digital image watermarking”, Proc. 5th IASTED European Conference on Internet and Multimedia
Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2009), Cambridge, UK, July 2009, pp. 1-6
C. Song, S. Sudirman and M. Merabti, “Recent advances and classification of watermarking
techniques in digital images”, Proc. 10th PGNet, Liverpool, UK, 2009
A. Ismail, M. Merabti, D. Llewellyn-Jones, S. Sudirman, “A Peer-to-peer Digital Human Life Memory
Store for Sharing Serendipitous Moments”, (book chapter of) Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing,
Chapman & Hall/CRC Studies in Informatics Series, CRC Press, Edited by Qing Li, Timothy K. Shih,
2009, pp. 262-281
D. Llewellyn-Jones, A. Ismail, S. Sudirman, M. Merabti, “Personal Sensor Networks Enriching Personal
Digital Memories”, 2nd Whole Body Interaction Workshop, HCI2008, Liverpool, UK, 1 September
2008.
A. Ismail, M. Merabti, D. Llewellyn-Jones, S. Sudirman, “A Framework for Sharing and Storing
Serendipity Moments in Human Life Memory”, The First IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media
Computing (U-Media 2008), Lanzhou University, China, 15-16 July 2008.
A. Ismail, M. Merabti, D. Llewellyn-Jones, S. Sudirman, “Sharing and Storing Serendipity Moments in
Human Life Memory”, 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of
Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet 2008), Liverpool, UK, 23-34 June 2008.
G.Qiu and S. Sudirman, “Adapting Indexing Features to Scene Structures for Relevant Image
Retrieval”, Proc. Visual Information Engineering, pp. 306-309, 2003.
G. Qiu and S. Sudirman, “A binary color vision framework for content-based image indexing”, In
Recent Advances in Visual Information Systems, S-K Chang et. al. (Eds.), pp. 50 – 60, Springer, LNCS
2314, March 2002
G. Qiu and S. Sudirman, “Retrieving Landscape Images Using Scene Structural Matrix”, Proc. IEEE
Second Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, pp. 921-926, 2001
G. Qiu and S. Sudirman, “Scene structural matrix for image indexing and retrieval”, Proc. IEEE Fourth
Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 85 -90, 2001
G. Qiu and S. Sudirman, “Spectral and spatial invariant image retrieval using scene structural matrix”,
Proc. British Machine Vision Conference, vol. 2, pp. 373 - 382, 2001
G. Qiu and S. Sudirman, “Color image coding, indexing and retrieval using binary space partitioning
tree”, Proc. IEEE Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 682 - 685, 2001
G. Qiu and S. Sudirman, “Representation and Retrieval of Color Image Using Binary Space
Partitioning Tree”, Proc. Eight Color Image Conference, pp.195 - 201, 2000
S. Sudirman and G. Qiu, “Colour image representation using BSP tree”, Proc. International
Conference on Color in Graphics and Image Processing, pp. 135-140, 2000