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Direction-I: Intelligent Environment and Applications

Direction-II: Intelligent Technology for Blind and Visual Impairment

Direction-III: Biomedical Informatics

Direction-IV: Network  and Information Security (NIS)

Direction-I: Intelligent Environment and Applications

Intelligent environment is any space where ubiquitous technology informs the learning process in an unobtrusive, social or collaborative manner. Thus an intelligent environment can be an aware room or building, capable of understanding something about the context of its inhabitants or workers. The objective and mission of the Intelligent Environment group is to use the technologies of computational intelligence and wireless sensor networks in order to solve some environmental-related problems; such as water and air pollution monitoring and alerting, as well as develop different smart environments that are automatically adjustable depending on users’ preferences. The research topics that are currently being carried out by the IE group are:

·        Smart Reading Environments (Intelligent Classroom)Intelligent Lighting system

·        Intelligent Water Quality Monitoring

·        Intelligent Air Quality Monitoring

Also there are some suggested topics for future research such as:

·        Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

·        Intelligent Environment for Tele-education

·        Intelligent Health monitoring

·        Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks

·        Intelligent traffic monitoring in vehicular WSN

 

Direction-II: Intelligent Technology for Blind and Visual Impairment

The Intelligent The Intelligent technology for blind and visual impaired people subgroup  at  the MIRL  focuses on the recent technology  including the computer vision, speech processing, e-learning,  image processing and object recognition in complex domains. The challenge of this group is to address these technologies in the broader context of Artificial Intelligence, and to integrate techniques from empirical evaluation and machine learning. Group goal is to use these techniques to develop computer vision systems whose behaviors are both reliable and understood.  Research points are:

-       Text to speech processing

-       Document management for blind and visual impairment people

-       Developing Games for blind and visual impairment people

-       Mobil applications for blind and visual impairment people

-       Automatic Sign Language (ASL) Recognition for  Deaf-Blind people

Direction-III: Biomedical Informatics

The Biomedical informatics  Group  mission  is to design computer-based decision aids and  develops decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery using computational  intelligence and image processing technologies.  Currently, members of  BI  group are conducting research in the following areas:

-       Bioinformatics

-       Medical image processing

                  Breast cancer analysis, (sonar, MRI, fMRI, CT)

                  Liver fibrosis and tumor analysis (biopsy, MRI, CT)

                  3D Dental image processing and visualization

Direction-IV: Network  and Information Security (NIS)

The network and information security  mission is to study and solve challenging security problems in networks and information  systems including watermarking, biometrics and cryptology. Currently, members of NIS group are conducting research in the following areas:

-       Image authentication

-       Cryptanalysis

-       Biometrics including face, fingerprint,  and iris print

-       Watermarking 

-       Digital Signatures

-       Security Issues in Social Networks