Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Akbar Sheikh Akbari
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Dr Akbar Sheikh Akbari is a Senior Lecturer in School of Computing, Creative Technologies & Engineering at Leeds Beckett University. He has a BSc (Hons), MSc (distinction) and PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. After completing his PhD at Strathclyde University, he joined Bristol University to work on an EPSRC project in stereo/multi-view video processing. He continued his career in industry, working on real-time embedded video analytics systems. He then joined Staffordshire University as a Senior Research Officer/Lecturer in Electronic Engineering and later as the director of research centre for Applied Design for Business unit at Gloucestershire University. He has published more than 50 international journal and conference papers. He is supervising five PhD students and a as number of students have been graduated under his supervision.
Akbar has successfully supervised six PhD students in the UK and examined 8 PhD candidates from the Universities of Strathclyde, De Montfort University, London Metropolitan, University of South Wales and Anna University-Chennai.
Dr Sheikh Akbari is the academic supervisor for the following KTP project: Omega Security Systems / Leeds Beckett University, “Research, develop and implement a scalable and modular system which monitors and analyses individual behavioural patterns and movements in a range of environments”, Funder: innovate UK, 24 months, £122,040.
Current Teaching
- BEng (Hons) Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Food Technology
- BEng (Hons) Engineering Management (top-up)
- MEng Robotics and Automation
- MEng Computer Science
- MSc Advanced Engineering Management
- PhD Supervision
Research Interests
Dr Sheikh Akbari's main areas of research are: signal processing, Hyperspectral image processing, source camera identification, image/video forgery, image hashing, biometric identification techniques, e.g. iris recognition, assisted living technologies, behaviour analysis, compressive sensing, Camera tracking using retro-reflective materials, online camera calibration, standard and non-standard Image/video codecs, e.g. H.264 and HEVC, multi-view image/video processing, video analytics and real-time embedded systems, colour constancy (white balancing) techniques, resolution enhancement (super-resolution) methods, edge detection in low SNR environments, medical image processing and computer vision.
Selected Outputs
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Schirmer PA; Mporas I; Sheikh-Akbari A (2021) Identification of TV channel watching from smart meter data using energy disaggregation.
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Schirmer P; Mporas I; Sheikh Akbari A (2021) Identification of TV Channel Watching from Smart Meter Data Using Energy Disaggregation. Energies, 14 (9), pp. 2485-2485.
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Yalsavar M; Karimaghaee P; Sheikh Akbari A; Shukla P; Setoodeh P (2021) Support Vector Machine and Its Difficulties From Control Field of View. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
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A. Al-Suhail1 G; Al-Majeed S; H. Subber S; Sheikh Akbari A (2020) An Adaptive Fuzzy based FEC Algorithm for Robust Video Transmission over Wireless Networks. International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems
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Schirmer P; Mporas I; Sheikh Akbari A (2020) Energy Disaggregation using Two-Stage Fusion of Binary Device Detectors. Energies
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Alexander Schirmer P; Mporas I; Sheikh Akbari A (2020) Robust Energy Disaggregation using Appliance-Specific Temporal Contextual Information. Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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Hussain MDA; Sheikh Akbari A; Abbot-Halpin E (2019) Color Constancy for Uniform and Non-uniform Illuminant Using Image Texture. IEEE Access, 7 pp. 72964-72978.
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Hussain M; Sheikh Akbari A; Mporas I (2019) Colour Constancy for Image of Non-Uniformly Lit Scenes. MDPI Sensors, 19 (10),
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Mallik B; Sheikh Akbari A; Kor A (2018) HEVC based Mixed-Resolution Stereo Video Codec. IEEE Access, 6
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Hussain MA; Sheikh Akbari A (2018) Color Constancy Adjustment using Sub-blocks of the Image. IEEE Access, 6 pp. 46617-46629.
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Mallik B; Sheikh Akbari A; Kor AL (2018) Mixed-Resolution HEVC based multiview video codec for low bitrate transmission. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78 (6), pp. 6701-6720.
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Hussain MDA; Sheikh Akbari A (2018) Color Constancy Algorithm for Mixed-illuminant Scene Images. IEEE Access, 6 pp. 8964-8976.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Sheikh Akbari A; Buggy T (2015) DCT image codec using variance of sub-regions. DE GRUYTER OPEN: Open Computer Science, 5 (1), pp. 13-21.
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Sheikh Akbari A; Bagheri Zadeh P; Buggy T; Soraghan J (2012) Multiresolution, perceptual and vector quantization based video codec. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 58 (3), pp. 569-583.
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Sheikh Akbari A; Bagheri Zadeh P (2012) Compressive sampling and wavelet-based multi-view image compression scheme. Electronics Letters, 48 (22), pp. 1403-1403.
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Anantrasirichai N; Canagarajah NC; Redmill DW; Akbari AS; Bull DR (2011) Colour volumetric compression for realistic view synthesis applications. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 53 (1), pp. 25-51.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Sheikh Akbari A; Buggy T; Soraghan J (2010) Multiresolution HVS and statistically based image coding scheme. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 49 (2), pp. 347-370.
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Bouyagoub S; Sheikh Akbari A; Bull D; Canagarajah N (2010) Impact of camera separation on performance of H.264/AVC-based stereoscopic video codec. Electronics Letters, 46 (5), pp. 345-345.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Buggy T; Sheikh Akbari A (2008) Statistical, DCT and vector quantisation-based video codec. IET Image Processing, 2 (3), pp. 107-107.
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Akbari AS; Soraghan JJ (2005) Multiscale fuzzy reasoning (MFR) for automatic object extraction. Pattern Recognition Letters, 26 (1), pp. 77-81.
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Sheikh Akbari A; Soraghan JJ (2003) Fuzzy-based multiscale edge detection. Electronics Letters, 39 (1), pp. 30-30.
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Sheikh Akbari A; Soraghan JJ (2003) Adaptive joint subband vector quantisation codec for handheld videophone applications. Electronics Letters, 39 (14), pp. 1044-1044.
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Naronglerdrit P; Mporas I; Sheikh Akbari A (2021) COVID-19 Detection from Chest X-Rays using Transfer Learning with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Kose U; Gupta D; Hugo C. de Albuquerque V; Khanna A ed. Data Science for COVID-19. Elsevier,
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Zarachoff M; Sheikh Akbari A; Monekosso DN (2019) Single Image Ear Recognition Using Wavelet-Based Multi-Band PCA. In: 27th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2019, 2 September 2019 - 6 September 2019.
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Mallik B; Sheikh Akbari A; Hussain M; Kor AL (2017) A Mixed resolution based High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). In: The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP 2017), 4 December 2017 - 5 December 2017, London: Savoy Place.
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Soobhany AR; Sheikh Akbari A; Schreuders ZC (2017) Reinforced source camera identification using non-decimated wavelet transform. In: IET International Conference on Biomedical Image and Signal Processing, 13 May 2017 - 14 May 2017, Wuhan, China.
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Hussain MA; Sheikh Akbari A; Mallik B (2017) Colour Constancy For Non‐Uniform Illuminant using Image Textures. In: IET International Conference on Biomedical and Signal Processing, 13 May 2017 - 14 May 2017, Wuhan China.
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Zadeh PB; Buggy T; Soraghan JJ; Akbari AS (In press) A Novel Multiresolution Perceptual and Statistically Based Image Coding Scheme. In: International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT'06). IEEE.
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Zarachoff M; Sheikh Akbari A; Monekosso D (2021) Ear Recognition using Chainlet based Multi-Band SVM. In: IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 24 August 2021 - 26 August 2021, Virtual.
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Yalsavar M; Karimaghaee P; Sheikh Akbari A; Dehmeshki J; Khooban M-H; Al-Majeed S (2020) Sliding Mode Control based Support Vector Machine RBF Kernel Parameter Optimization. In: IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems & Techniques, 9 December 2019 - 10 December 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE. IEEE.
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Ghaffari A; Zarachoff M; Sheikh Akbari A; Shaghouei E (2019) Intensity Separation based Iris Recognition Method using Curvelets and PCA. In: The 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing - MECO'2019, 10 June 2019 - 14 June 2019, Montenegro, Budva. IEEE.
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Zarachoff M; Sheikh Akbari A; Monekosso D (2019) Single Image Ear Recognition Using Wavelet-Based Multi-Band PCA. In: 27th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2019, 2 September 2019 - 6 September 2019, A Coruña, Spain.
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Halidu MK; Bagheri-Zadeh P; Sheikh-Akbari A; Behringer R (2019) PCA in the context of Face Recognition with the Image Enlargement Techniques. In: MECO 2019 : The 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, 10 June 2019 - 15 July 2019, Budva, Montenegro, Montenegro.
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Hussain M; Sheikh Akbari A (2018) Colour Constancy for Image of Non-Uniformly Lit Scenes. In: IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2018), 16 October 2018 - 18 October 2018, Kraków, Poland,. IEEE.
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Zarachoff M; Sheikh Akbari A; Monekosso D (2018) 2D Multi-Band PCA and its Application for Ear Recognition. In: IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2018), 16 October 2018 - 18 October 2018, Kraków, Poland. IEEE.
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Zarachoff M; Sheikh Akbari A; Monekosso D (2018) Application of Single Image Super-Resolution in Human Ear Recognition Using Eigenvalues. In: IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2018), 16 October 2018 - 18 October 2018, Kraków, Poland. IEEE.
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Hussain MA; Sheikh Akbari A (2018) True colour retrieval from multiple illuminant scene’s image. In: IET ISP 2017 eds. The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP 2017), 4 December 2017 - 5 December 2017, Savoy Place, London/UK.
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Mallik B; Sheikh Akbari A; Kor A (2018) MIXED-RESOLUTION HEVC BASED MULTIVIEW VIDEO CODEC. In: 3DTV-CON 2017, 7 June 2017 - 9 June 2017, Copenhagen. IEEE.
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Bruhanth Mallik; Sheikh Akbari A; Ah-Lian Kor (2018) HEVC based Mixed-resolution Stereo Video Coding for Low Bitrate Transmission. In: IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 18 October 2017 - 20 October 2017, Beijing/China. Beijin/china: IEEE.
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Mallik B; Sheikh Akbari A (2017) HEVC based Multi-View Video Codec using Frame Interleaving technique. In: 9th international conference on developments in esystems engineering, 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016, Liverpool and Leeds, UK. IEEE.
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Akmol Hussain MD; Sheikh Akbari A (2017) Max-RGB based Colour Constancy using the Sub-blocks of the Image. In: 9th international conference on developments in esystems engineering, 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016, Liverpool and Leeds, England.
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Akmol Hussain MD; Sheikh Akbari A; Ghaffari A (2017) Colour Constancy using K-means Clustering Algorithm. In: 9th international conference on developments in esystems engineering, 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016, Liverpool and Leeds, England.
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Ghaffari A; Hosseinian Far A; Sheikh Akbari A (2017) Iris Biometrics Recognition in Security Management. In: Chang V; Ramachandran M; Walters R; Wills G eds. Enterprise Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10131. Springer, Cham, SpringerLink.
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Soobhany AR; Sheikh Akbari A; Schreuders ZC (2017) Source Camera Identification using Non-decimated Wavelet Transform. In: 11th International Conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability, 17 January 2017 - 20 January 2017, London. Springer Verlag (Germany).
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Akmol Hussain MD; Sheikh Akbari A; Mallik B (2016) Colour Constancy using Sub-blocks of the Image. In: 10th International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, ICSES 2016,, 5 September 2016 - 7 September 2016, Kraków, Poland.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Sheikh Akbari A (2015) Evaluation of Wavelet Transform Families in Image Resolution Enhancement. In: The 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing, 1 December 2015 - 2 December 2015, IET London: Savoy Place, UK. The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET.
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Sheikh Akbari A; Bagheri Zadeh P; Behringer R (2015) Iris segmentation using a non-decimated wavelet transform. In: The 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing, IET, 1 December 2015 - 2 December 2015, IET London: Savoy Place, UK. The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET.
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Mallik B; Sheikh Akbari AKBAR; Bagheri Zadeh P (2015) HEVC based Stereo Video codec. In: The 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing, IET, 1 December 2015 - 2 December 2015, IET London: Savoy Place, UK. The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET.
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Sheikh Akbari A; Bagheri Zadeh P (2015) Wavelet based image enlargement technique. In: 10th International Conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability, 15 September 2015 - 17 September 2015, London, England. Springer Verlag (Germany).
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Akbari AS; Zadeh PB; Cocharan E; Soraghan J (2015) Wavelet-based video codec using human visual system coefficients for 3G mobiles.
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Fayeda S; Youssefa S; El-Helw A; Sheikh Akbari A; Patwary M; Moniri M (2014) Comparative Analysis on the Competitiveness of Conventional and Compressive Sensing-based Query Processing. In: Mastorakis N; Psarris K; Vachtsevanos G; Dondon P; Mladenov V; Bulucea A; Rudas I; Martin O eds. 18th International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC 2014), 17 July 2014 - 21 July 2014, Santorini, Greece.
http://www.europment.org/library/2014/santorini/bypaper/COMPUTERS/COMPUTERS1-37.pdf
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Akbari AS; Zadeh PB (2013) Disparity compensated view filtering wavelet and compressive sampling based multi-view image codec.
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Said H; Akbari AS (2013) H.264/AVC based multi-view video codec using the statistics of block matching.
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Said H; Akbari AS; Moniri M (2013) An adaptive reference frame re-ordering algorithm for H.264/AVC based multi-view video codec.
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Alharbe N; Atkins AS; Akbari AS (2013) Application of ZigBee and RFID Technologies in Healthcare in Conjunction with the Internet of Things. In: International Conference, 2 December 2013 - 4 December 2013. ACM Press.
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Zadeh PB; Akbari AS (2012) Image resolution enhancement using multi-wavelet and cycle-spinning. In: 2012 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 3 September 2012 - 5 September 2012. IEEE.
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Akbari AS; Said H; Moniri M (2012) Effect of inter-camera angles on the performance of an H.264/AVC based multi-view video codec. In: 2012 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 7 May 2012 - 9 May 2012. IEEE.
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Akbari S; Ahmed KI; Zadeh PB; Moniri M (2012) Multi-resolution, perceptual and compressive sampling based image codec. In: IET Conference on Image Processing (IPR 2012). IET.
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Akbari AS; Zadeh PB; Moniri M (2011) Stereo image representation using compressive sensing. In: 2011 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON 2011), 16 May 2011 - 18 May 2011. IEEE.
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Bouyagoub S; Akbari AS; Bull DR; Canagarajah N (2010) Impact of Camera Separation on the Performance of an H.264/AVC based Stereoscopic Video Codec. In: Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications. ACTAPRESS.
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Zadeh PB; Buggy T; Akbari AS (2008) Multiresolution statistical and vector quantization based video codec.
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Akbari AS; Canagarajah N; Redmill D; Bull D (2008) Disparity Compensated View Filtering Wavelet Based Multiview Image Code Using Lagrangian Optimization. In: 2008 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, 28 May 2008 - 30 May 2008. IEEE.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Buggy T; Sheikh Akbari A (2008) A Progressive Statistical and Discrete Cosine Transform based Image codec. In: The 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2008), Portugal.
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(2008) PROGRESSIVE DCT BASED IMAGE CODEC USING STATISTICAL PARAMETERS. In: International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 22 January 2008 - 25 January 2008. SciTePress - Science and and Technology Publications.
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Akbari AS; Canagarajah N; Redmill D; Bull D (2007) Muliresolution, adaptive vector quantization and perceptual based multiview image codec.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Buggy T; Sheikh Akbari A; Soraghan JJ (2007) A novel statistical and DCT based image encoder.
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Anantrasirichai N; Canagarajah CN; Redmill DW; Akbari AS (2007) Volumetric Reconstruction with Compressed Data. In: 2007 First ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, 25 September 2007 - 28 September 2007. IEEE.
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Zadeh PB; Buggy T; Akbari AS (2007) Multi-scale, Perceptual and Vector Quanitzation Based Video Codec. In: Second International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, ICDT 2007, 1 July 2007 - 5 July 2007. IEEE.
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Akbari AS; Canagarajah N; Redmill D; Bull D; Agrafiotis D (2007) A Novel H.264/AVC Based Multi-View Video Coding Scheme. In: 2007 3DTV Conference, 7 May 2007 - 9 May 2007. IEEE.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Buggy T; Sheikh Akbari A; Soraghan JJ (2006) Progressive multiresolution perceptual and statistically based image codec.
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Sheikh Akbari A; Buggy T; Soraghan J (2006) Progressive Multi-resolution HVS and Statistically Based Image Codec. In: Sixth International Conference On Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP2006).
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Sheikh Akbari A; Cochran E; Soraghan J (2005) A Novel Progressive Image Coding Scheme for Handheld Videophone Applications. In: The Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2005 (IMVIP 2005).
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Bagheri Zadeh P; Sheikh Akbari A; Soraghan J (2005) A Novel Unequal Error Protection Scheme for Low Bit-Rate Mobile Video Transmission. In: Ninth Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2005 (IMVIP 2005).
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Anantrasirichai N; Canagarajah CN; Bull DR (2005) Multi-view image coding with wavelet lifting and in-band disparity compensation. In: rnational Conference on Image Processing, 14 September 2005. IEEE.
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Akbari AS (2002) Fuzzy, Weighted-Offset, Multiscale Edge Detection for automatic echocardiographic LV boundary extraction. In: IEE Seminar Medical Applications of Signal Processing. IEE.
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Zadeh PB; Akbari AS; Buggy T (2012) Wavelet Based Image Compression Techniques.
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Soobhany AR; Sheikh Akbari A; Schreuders ZC (2018) Image Linkage Application: User Guide.