Committee of ICIEV2014* General Chair: Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad, U of Dhaka, BD Matthew Turk, U of California, Santa Barbara, USA Advisory Board: Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State U, USA Mohammad S. Alam, U of South Alabama, USA Nallanathan Arumugam, King's College London, UK Mohammed Atiquzzaman, U of Oklahoma, USA Oscar C. Au, Hong Kong U of Science and Tech, HK Rainer Bartz, Cologne U of Applied Sciences, Germany Horst Bischof, Graz U of Tech, Austria Kevin W. Bowyer, U of Notre Dame, USA Kim L. Boyer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, USA Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Jeff Cohn, U of Pittsburgh, USA Sven Dickinson, U of Toronto, Canada Richard Hartley, Australian National U, Australia Francisco Herrera, U of Granada, Spain Adrian Hilton, U of Surrey, UK Yoichi Hori, U of Tokyo, JP Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion U, USA Katsushi Ikeuchi, U of Tokyo, JP Abbas Jamalipour, U of Sydney, Australia Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State U, USA Kenichi Kanatani, Okayama U, JP Mohammad A. Karim, U of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo Metropolitan U, JP Reinhard Klette, U of Auckland, New Zealand Vladik Kreinovich, U of Texas at El Paso, USA C.-C. Jay Kuo, U of Southern California, USA Ki-Sub Lee, President, ICROS Brian C. Lovell, U of Queensland, Australia Majid Mirmehdi, U of Bristol, UK Thomas B. Moeslund, Aalborg U, Denmark King Ngi Ngan, Chinese U of Hong Kong, HK Anton Nijholt, U of Twente, Netherlands Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Inst, India Marimuthu Palaniswami, U of Melbourne, Australia Witold Pedrycz, U of Alberta, Canada Matti Pietikäinen, U of Oulu, Finland Ioannis Pitas, U of Thessaloniki, Greece Muhammad H. Rashid, U of West Florida, USA Kaushik Roy, Purdue U, USA Sudeep Sarkar, U of South Florida, USA Mubarak Shah, U of Central Florida, USA Sergios Theodoridis, U of Athens, Greece Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Bogdan M. 'Dan' Wilamowski, Auburn U, USA Jian-Bin Xu, Chinese U of Hong Kong, HK Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State U, USA Yasushi Yagi, Osaka U, JP Takeshi Yamakawa, Fuzzy Logic Systems Inst, JP Lotfi Zadeh, U of California, Berkeley, USA Qiangfu Zhao, Chair, IEEE Society on SMC, JP Chapter Technical Committee Program Chair: Syoji Kobashi, U of Hyogo, JP Program Co-Chair: Shahera Hossain, U of Asia Pacific, BD Track/Area Co-Chair: Abu Asaduzzaman, Wichita State U, USA Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Syed Kamrul Islam, U of Tennessee, USA M Tariqul Islam, UKM, Malaysia Md. Tawhidul Islam Khan, Saga U, JP Yuhki Kitazono, Kitakyushu National College of Tech, JP Shota Nakashima, Yamaguchi U, JP Kazi Muheymin Sakib, U of Dhaka, BD Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough U, UK Seiichi Serikawa, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Mahbubur Rahman Syed, Minnesota State U, USA Publication Co-Chair: MAS Kamal, Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc., JP International Program Committee: Maha Abdelhaq, UKM, Malaysia Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdulla, UKM, Malaysia Partha Pratim Acharjee, U of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Afzan Adam, UKM, Malaysia Shaik Rafi Ahamed, IIT Guwahati, India Afandi Bin Ahmad, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia Farruk Ahmed, Independent U of Bangladesh, BD Khawza Iftekhar Ahmed, United Intl U, BD Naveed Ahmed, U of Sharjah, UAE Nova Ahmed, North South U, BD Kazi Tanvir Ahmmed, Chittagong U, BD Lutfa Akter, BUET, BD Md. Shamim Akhter, American Intl U - Bangladesh, BD S.M. Mostafa Al-mamun, U of Dhaka, BD Md. Shafiul Alam, U of Dhaka, BD Rafael Alcala, U of Granada, Spain Mohammed Eunus Ali, BUET, BD Zulkarnain Md. Ali, UKM, Malaysia Raed Alsaqour, UKM, Malaysia Nowshad Amin, UKM, Malaysia Abbes Amira, U of West of Scotland, Scotland Yoshimitsu Aoki, Keio U, JP Shogo Arai, Tohoku U, JP Arnaldo Araujo, Federal U of Minas Gerais, Brasil Hidetaka Arimura, Kyushu U, JP Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois U, USA Cyrus Azarbod, Minnesota State U, USA Kevin Bailly, Pierre et Marie Curie U, France Valentina Emilia Balas, U of Arad, Romania Subhashis Banerjee, IIT Delhi, India Bobby Barua, Ahsanullah U of Science & Tech, BD Md. Khayrul Bashar, U of Tokyo, JP Anupam Basu, IIT Kharagpur, India Md. Zunaid Baten, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, USA Azeddine Beghdadi, Universite de Paris, France Jalel Ben-Othman, Universite de Paris, France Badr-Eddine Benkelfat, Telecom SudParis, France Maamar Bettayeb, U of Sharjah, UAE Bhargab B Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Inst, India Samit Bhattacharya, IIT Guwahati, India R. Bhattacharjee, IIT Guwahati, India Alauddin Bhuiyan, U of Melbourne, Australia M Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, BUET, BD Md. Moniruzzaman Bhuiyan, U of Dhaka, BD Manas Kamal Bhuyan, IIT Guwahati, India Boualem Boashash, Qatar U, Qatar P.K. Bora, IIT Guwahati, India Miguel Bordallo, U of Oulu, Finland Saida Bouakaz, U Claude Bernard Lyon, France Ahmed Boudissa, Panasonic, JP Alain Bretto, U of Caen, France Francesco Buccafurri, U of Reggio Calabria, Italy Anthony Centeno, U Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Chandan Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India Mang-tang Chan, City U of Hong Kong, HK Sanatan Chattopadhyay, U of Calcutta, India Ankit Chaudhary, U of Iowa, USA Jinjun Chen, U of Tech Sydney, Australia Nanguang Chen, National U of Singapore, Singapore Shu-Ching Chen, Florida Intl U, USA S-M Chen, National Taiwan U of Science and Tech, Taiwan Li Cheng, A*STAR Singapore, Singapore Shi Cheng, U of Nottingham Ningbo, China Shuai Cheng, City U of Hong Kong, HK Veronika Cheplygina, Delft U of Tech, Netherlands William SW Cheung, U of Hong Kong, HK Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort U, UK Minsu Cho, Seoul National U, Korea Ang Mei Choo, UKM, Malaysia BS Chowdhry, Mehran U of Engn & Tech, Pakistan Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury, IIT Kharagpur, India Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Kookmin U, Korea Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, Stony Brook U, USA Mohamed Dahmane, Universite de Montreal, Canada M.R. Daliri, Iran U of Science & Tech, Iran Wang Dan, CASIA, China Manohar Das, Oakland U, USA Soham De, U of Maryland, College Park, USA Carl James Debono, U of Malta, Malta Hasan Demirel, Eastern Mediterranean U, Turkey Ketan P. Detroja, IIT Hyderabad, India M. Ali Akber Dewan, U of Quebec, Canada Abhinav Dhall, Australian National U, Australia S. Dhar, U of Calcutta, India Motonori Doi, Osaka U, JP Andrzej Drygajlo, EPFL, Switzerland Mostafa El-Said, Grand Valley State U, USA Ashraf Elnagar, U of Sharjah, UAE Bin Fan, CASIA, China Giovanni Maria Farinella, U of Catania, Italy Omar Farooq, Aligarh Muslim U, India Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, BUET, BD Jan-Michael Frahm, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Takayuki Fujita, U of Hyogo, JP Juergen Gall, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ranjan Gangopadhyay, LNM Inst of Info Tech, India Ju Gao, U of Hong Kong, HK Margrit Gelautz, Vienna U of Tech, Austria David Geronimo, KTH Royal Inst of Tech, Sweden Supratip Ghose, U of Information Tech and Sciences, BD Sudip Ghosh, Bengal Engineering and Science U, India Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Seiichi Goshi, Kogakuin U, JP Pr Bernard Grabot, U of Toulouse, INP-ENIT, France Frans C. A. Groen, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands Jayavardhana Gubbi, U of Melbourne, Australia Phalguni Gupta, IIT Kharagpur, India Pietro H Guzzi, U Magna Gracia of Catanzaro, Italy Maki Habib, American U in Cairo, Egypt Abdenour Hadid, U of Oulu, Finland Udit Halder, U of Maryland, College Park, USA Riad I. Hammoud, BAE Systems, USA Chouaib Hamrouche, Rorze corporation, JP Mark Hansen, U of West of England, UK Lars Kai Hansen, Technical U of Denmark, Denmark A.K.M. Fazlul Haque, Daffodil Intl U, BD K.M. Azharul Hasan, KUET, BD M.M.A. Hashem, KUET, BD Kiyota Hashimoto, Osaka Prefecture U, JP Yutaka Hatakeyama, Kochi U, JP Toshiharu Hatanaka, Osaka U, JP Shuzi Hayase, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Ran He, CASIA, China Jing (Selena) He, Kennesaw State U, USA Kaoru Hirota, Tokyo Inst of Tech, JP Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw U of Tech, Poland A.K.M. Akhter Hossain, BUET, BD A.B.M. Aowlad Hossain, KUET, BD Alamgir Hossain, Northumbria U, UK M. Julius Hossain, European Molecular Biology Lab, Germany Mainul Hossain, Globalfoundries, U.S. Inc., USA Md. Faruque Hossain, KUET, BD Md. Foisal Hossain, KUET, BD Shazzad Hossain, North South U, BD Tasnia Hossain, Hamdard U Bangladesh, BD Wen Shang Hou, National Taiwan U, Taiwan Tamanna Howlader, U of Dhaka, BD Fay Huang, National Ilan U, Taiwan Yizhen Huang, U of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Edward Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic U, HK Fawnizu Hussin, U Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia Ashik Iftekhar, Nikon Corp., JP Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic U, USA Sazzad M.S. Imran, U of Dhaka, BD Hafiz Imtiaz, BUET, BD A.K.M. Muzahidul Islam, U Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Md. Shariful Islam, U of Dhaka, BD Raisul Islam, Stanford U, USA Syed K. Islam, U of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Zahidul Islam, Islamic U, BD Seigo Itou, U of Hyogo, JP Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National U, Australia Laszlo Attila Jeni, Carnegie Mellon U, USA P. Ji, Hong Kong Polytechnic U, HK Hairulliza Mohd. Judi, UKM, Malaysia Imran N Junejo, U of Sharjah, UAE Md. Ashfanoor Kabir, North Carolina State U, USA Md. Hasanul Kabir, Islamic U of Tech, BD Peyman Kabiri, Iran U of Science and Tech, Iran MAS Kamal, U of Tokyo, JP MR Kamaruddin, U Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Ibrahim Kamel, U of Sharjah, UAE S.M. Kamruzzaman, King Saud U, KSA Meina Kan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kensuke Kanda, U of Hyogo, JP Hamid Reza Karimi, U of Agder, Norway Sushanta Karmakar, IIT Guwahati, India Seiichiro Katsura, Keio U, JP Norihiko Kawai, Nara Inst of Science & Tech, JP Kazuhiko Kawamoto, Chiba U, JP Hiroharu Kawanaka, Mie U, JP Hideaki Kawano, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Shah Mostafa Khaled, U of Dhaka, BD Jamil Khan, U of Newcastle, Australia Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud U, KSA Zafar Ali Khan, IIT Hyderabad, India Ashish Khare, U of Allahabad, India Ong Soh Khim, National U of Singapore, Singapore Norbert Kikuchi, Google Inc., Switzerland Aditya Khosla, MIT, USA M Golam Kibria, U of Information Tech & Sciences, BD Hyoungseop Kim, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Nam Kim, Chungbuk National U, Korea Jinichi Kishigami, U Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Futoshi Kobayashi, Kobe U, JP Effrosyni Kokiopoulou, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shozo Komaki, U Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Shiro Kumano, NTT Comm. Science Lab, JP Ajay Kumar, Hong Kong Polytechnic U, HK V. Jagadeesh Kumar, IIT Madras, India Tufan Kumbasar, Istanbul Technical U, Turkey Malay K. Kundu, Indian Statistical Inst, India Young-Bin Kwon, Chung-Ang U, Korea Rodziah Latih, UKM, Malaysia Ed Lawson, Naval Research Lab., USA Chilwoo Lee, Chonnam National U, South Korea Soo Yeol Lee, Kyung Hee U, Korea Wookey Lee, Inha U, Korea Zhen Lei, CASIA, China Clement Leung, Hong Kong Baptist U, HK Yiu-Wing Leung, Hong Kong Baptist U, HK Fajie Li, Huaqiao U, China Stan Z. Li, CASIA, China Shengcai Liao, CASIA, China Francis C. C. Ling, U of Hong Kong, HK Kang Liu, Leibniz U of Hannover, Germany Kefei Liu, City U of Hong Kong, HK Meizhu Liu, U of Florida, USA Qingshan Liu, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey, USA Kazusuke Maenaka, U of Hyogo, JP Zainal Rasyid Mahayuddin, UKM, Malaysia Upal Mahbub, U of Maryland, College Park, USA Mohammad H. Mahoor, U of Denver, USA Dipankar Maity, U of Maryland, College Park,USA Nazatul Aini Abd Majid, UKM, Malaysia Venkata RR Mallela, Vasavi College of Engineering, India Khondaker Abdullah-Al-Mamun, U of Toronto, Canada Simone Marinai, U of Florence, Italy P Meesad, King Mongkut's U of Tech North Bangkok, Thailand Mohammad Matin, North South U, BD Radko Mesiar, Slovak U of Tech, Slovakia Rui Min, EURECOM, France Pabitra Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, India Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Osaka U, JP Mitsunori Mizumachi, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Toru Mizunami, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Umi Asma Mokhtar, UKM, Malaysia Mohammad Mostafa Monowar, King Abdul Aziz U, KSA M. Azizul Moqsud, Yamaguchi U, JP Jorge Morel, Kitami Inst of Tech, JP Masakazu Morimoto, U of Hyogo, JP Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiroshima U, JP S Mu, Hiroshima National College of Maritime Tech, JP Zurina Muda, UKM, Malaysia Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland Jayanta Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kharagpur, India Mohd Zamri Murah, UKM, Malaysia Koji Murai, Kobe U, JP Manzur Murshed, Monash U, Australia Kouki Nagamune, U of Fukui, JP Prashant Nair, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham U, India Takayoshi Nakai, Shizuoka U, JP Kenichi Nakashi, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Mohd Zakree Ahmad Nazri, UKM, Malaysia Vincent Ng, Hong Kong Polytechnic U, HK Duong-V. Nguyen, U of Siegen, Germany Michiharu Niimi, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Kei Ohnishi, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Hiroshi Ohtake, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP T Okazaki, Tokyo U of Marine Science and Tech, JP Khairuddin Omar, UKM, Malaysia Homayoon Oraizi, Iran U of Science and Tech, Iran Jayanta Pal, IIT Kharagpur, India Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Inst, India Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Inst, India Al-Sakib K Pathan, Intl Islamic U Malaysia, Malaysia Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary, Northwestern U, USA Ananda Paudel, Colorado State U, USA Manoranjan Paul, Charles Sturt U, Australia Irina Perfilieva, U of Ostrava, Czech Republic Massimo Piccardi, U of Tech, Sydney, Australia Anton Satria Prabuwono, UKM, Malaysia Andrea Prati, U luav di Venezia, Italy Chinthaka Premachand, Tokyo U of Science, JP Giovanni Puglisi, U of Catania, Italy Yaser Soliman Qudaih, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Faisal Z. Qureshi, U of Ontario Inst of Tech, Canada Fazle F. Rabbi, U of North Dakota, USA B. M. Azizur Rahman, City U London, UK Hafiz A. Rahman, North South U, BD Mashiur Rahman, A*STAR, Singapore Md Mahmudur Rahman, National Inst of Health, USA Md. Mosaddeque Rahman, BRAC U, BD Mohammad Rashedur Rahman, North South U, BD Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, U of Asia Pacific, BD Tauhidur Rahman, Cornell U, USA A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, BUET, BD Mamun Or Rashid, U of Dhaka, BD Mohammad Junaebur Rashid, U of Dhaka, BD M. A. Rashid, Massey U Auckland, New Zealand M. Abdur Razzak, Independent U, BD Md. Khalilur Rhaman, BRAC U, BD Qaim Mehdi Rizvi, SRMGPC, Lucknow, India Melika Roknsharifi, Siemens Healthcare, USA Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Inst, India Xiang Ruan, OMRON Corporation, JP G. Sahoo, Birla Inst of Tech - Mesra, India Ayumu Saitoh, U of Hyogo, JP Shihan Sajeed, U of Waterloo, Canada Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu U, JP Hooman Samani, National Taipei U, Taiwan Tahsina Farah Sanam, BUET, BD M. Iqbal Saripan, U Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Yoichi Sato, U of Tokyo, JP Björn Schuller, Tech U Munich, Germany Friedhelm Schwenker, U of Ulm, Germany Siddhartha Sen, IIT Kharagpur, India S Sengupta, U of Maryland, College Park, USA Sidi Mohammed Senouci, U of Bourgogne, France Parthasarathi Sensarma, IIT Kanpur, India Giuseppe Serra, U of Modena, Italy Ricky J. Sethi, U of California, Los Angeles, USA Shahriar Shahabuddin, U of Oulu, Finland Rifat Shahriyar, Australian National U, Australia Ling Shao, U of Sheffield, UK Tetsuya Shimamura, Saitama U, JP Syaimak Abdul Shukor, UKM, Malaysia Mei-Ling Shyu, U of Miami, USA Saima Siddiqui, MIT, USA Iftikhar U. Sikder, Cleveland State U, USA A. K. Sinha, IIT Kharagpur, India Bhabani P. Sinha, Indian Statistical Inst, India M. M. Sipon, U of Ulsan, Korea V.R. Singh, National Physical Laboratory, India Mohammad Sohel, Hostod, City U of New York, USA Xubo Song, Oregon Health and Science U, USA Stefano Squartini, U politecnica delle Marche, Italy Filippo Stanco, U di Catania, Italy Kamil Staszek, AGH U of Science and Tech, Poland Mst. Najnin Sultana, Daffodil Intl U, BD Elankovan A. Sundararajan, UKM, Malaysia Charles Surya, Hong Kong Polytechnic U, HK Noboru Takagi, Toyama Prefectural U, JP Takahiro Takeda, U of Hyogo, JP Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Kyushu U, JP Gang Tao, Virginia U, USA Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares, U of Porto, Portugal Mutsuhiro Terauchi, Hiroshima Intl U, JP S.T. Thiang, Petra Christian U, Indonesia Bernard Tiddeman, Aberystwyth U, Wales, UK Sabrina Tiun, UKM, Malaysia Md. Shahid Ullah, Islamic U of Tech, BD Michel Valstar, Imperial College London, UK Alessandro Vinciarelli, U of Glasgow, UK Dong-ning Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic U, HK Junzo Watada, Waseda U, JP Toshihiko Watanabe, Osaka Electro-Comm. U, JP Petra Wiederhold, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Qingzheng Xu, Xi'an Communication Inst, China Keiichi Yamada, Meijo U, JP Takaharu Yamazaki, Osaka U, JP Akira Yamawaki, Kyushu Inst of Tech, JP Feng Yaokai, Kyushu U, JP Xiaojing Ye, Georgia Tech., USA Wei-Chang Yeh, National Tsing Hua U, Taiwan Ke Yin, Georgia Inst of Tech, USA Hao Ying, Wayne State U, USA Juha Ylioinas, U of Oulu, Finland Jun Yoneyama, Aoyama Gakuin U, JP Takayuki Yumoto, U of Hyogo, JP Sherali Zeadally, U of Kentucky, USA Wei-Shi Zheng, Sun Yat-sen U, China Yan Zhou, U of Hong Kong, HK Qiang Zhu, U of Michigan, USA Abdullah Mohd Zin, UKM, Malaysia Ahmad Zubair, MIT, USA Ahmed Zubair, Rice U, USA Jovisa Zunic, U of Exeter, UK Local Arrangement Committee Advisory Board Chair: A A M S Arefin Siddique, U of Dhaka, BD Advisory Board Member: Jamilur Reza Choudhury, U of Asia Pacific, BD Mohammad Rezwan Khan, United Intl U, BD M Lutfar Rahman, Daffodil Intl U, BD Publicity Secretary: A.S.M. Solaiman, Oval Advertising Ltd., BD Finance & Registration Secretary: Hafiz Imtiaz, BUET, BD Upal Mahbub, U of Maryland, College Park, USA Local Arrangement Secretary: Mosabber Uddin Ahmed, U of Dhaka, BD S.M. Mostafa Al-mamun, U of Dhaka, BD Tahera Hossain, Drik ICT, BD Shah Mostafa Khaled, U of Dhaka, BD Zahid Hasan Mahmood, U of Dhaka, BD Mohammad Junaebur Rashid, U of Dhaka, BD Taif Hossain Rocky, Tesla Power Lab Limited, BD Tahsina Farah Sanam, BUET, BD Asheek Mohammad Shimul, U of Dhaka, BD Md. Shahadat Hasan Sohel, BUET, BD Technical Secretary: Mohin Mahtab, NTT Communication, JP *Updated committee, prior to the ICIEV2014.