MS in Computer Science, Columbia University, NY, USA
MS in Journalism, Columbia University, NY, USA
BS in Computer Science and Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Biography
I am a Core Faculty Member at North South University, Bangladesh and formerly a Teaching Fellow at the Computer Science Department in Columbia University in the City of New York. I completed my Dual M.S. in computer science and journalism in 2016 with distinction from Columbia. I graduated summa cum laude in B.S. in Computer Science from North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012. After that I worked at Computer Vision and Cybernetics Group, Bangladesh (http://www.cvcrbd.org/researchers). My interdisciplinary research works are based on digital image processing, machine learning, fuzzy logic, neural networks and data mining. My previous research works have appeared in numerous prestigious conferences and journals, namely, IEEE’s 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), ACM’s 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), to mention a few. In 2015, I co-authored a book chapter on hospital surveillance data analysis in Springer’s ’Intelligent Information and Database Systems’. The story of post-2015 can be found in my publication and funding list below my bio.
My present research is based on real time triangulation of mass calamities using NASA’s satellite imagery and also perception of visual data by artificial intelligence. A more ambitious research I have undertaken is detecting and classifying violent action in surveillance and cell phone videos.
I was also the recipient of the Genius Hunt Competition held by ACM in 2011 for my work in Bengali speech recognition.
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Research Areas
Research Interests
- Digital Image Processing
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Visual Data Mining
- Streaming Data
- Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Systems
- Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Computational Journalism
- Intelligent User Interfaces
Teaching
- CSE 173 Discrete Mathematics
- CSE 215 Programming Language II
- CSE 311 Database Systems
- CSE 311L Database Systems Lab
- CSE 445 Machine Learning
- CSE 465 Pattern Recognition and Neural Network
- CSE 573 Theory of Fuzzy Systems
- EEE 521 Neural and Fuzzy Systems
- EEE 565 Pattern Recognition
- CSE 467 Digital Image Processing
- EEE 660 Computer Vision Systems
Selected Publications
Journals
- Adnan Firoze, Tousif Osman, Shahreen Shahjahan Psyche, Tonmoay Deb, Rashedur M Rahman, “A synthetic approach to estimate cognitive aesthetic of framed images and improvements taking human’s psychology into account,” Journal of Information and Telecommunication – Taylor & Francis. V(4,3), 2018
- Adnan Firoze, Tonmoay Deb, Rashedur M Rahman, “Deep Learning and Data Balancing Approaches in Mining Hospital Surveillance Data,” Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, 2018
- Adnan Firoze, Rashedur M Rahman, “Critical condition classification of patients from ICCDR, B hospital surveillance data,” International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2017
- Adnan Firoze, M. Shamsul Arifin, Rashedur M. Rahman, “Bangla User Adaptive Word Speech Recognition – Approaches and Comparisons,” International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA), 2013
- Adnan Firoze, Rashedur M. Rahman, “Mining ICDDR, B Hospital Surveillance Data and Exhibiting Strategies for Balancing Large Unbalanced Datasets,” International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), 2015
Conference Papers
- Adnan Firoze, Aziz Arman, Tonmoay Deb, “Machine Cognition of Violence in Videos using Novel Outlier-Resistant VLAD,” The 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE ICMLA'18), 2018
- Adnan Firoze, Tonmoay Deb, “Face Recognition Time Reduction Based on Partitioned Faces without Compromising Accuracy and a Review of state-of-the-art Face Recognition Approaches,” Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Image and Graphics Processing (ACM), 2018
- Shamsul Arifin, Adnan Firoze, M. Ashraful Amin, Hong Yan, “Dermatological Disease Diagnosis using Color-skin Images,” International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2012
- Adnan Firoze, M. Shamsul Arifin, Ryana Quadir, Rashedur M. Rahman, “BANGLA Isolated Word Speech Recognition,” International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) , 2011
Book Chapters
- Adnan Firoze, Shahreen Shahjahan Psyche, Tonmoay Deb, Tousif Osman, Rashedur M Rahman, “Differential Color Harmony: A robust approach for extracting Harmonic Color features and perceive aesthetics in a large dataset,” International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (ICBDCC'18). Springer., 2018
- Adnan Firoze, Tousif Osman, Shahreen Shahjahan Psyche, Rashedur M Rahman, “Scoring Photographic Rule of Thirds in a Large MIRFLICKR Dataset: A Showdown Between Machine Perception and Human Perception of Image Aesthetics,” Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10751), 2018
- Adnan Firoze, Rashedur M Rahman, “Mining ICDDR, B Hospital Surveillance Data Using Locally Linear Embedding Based SMOTE Algorithm and Multilayer Perceptron,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), 2015
Research Projects & Grants
- University Research grant for the fiscal year 2016-17, North South University for the research “Can Artificial Intelligence evaluate Beauty?”
- Using NASA Satellite Imagery to Triangulate Fires and Other Calamities in Real Time (supported by The Tow Center, Columbia Journalism School)
- Research grant from Columbia Journalism School to predict and analyze US Presidential Election candidates from multiple news outlets
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) system to recognize real-time bengali utterances (appeared in a conference, a journal and was runner-up at ACM Genius Hunt)
- Dermatological Disease Diagnosis using Color Skin Images
- BANGLA Isolated Word Speech Recognition
- TravelBD – a web based application integrating Google Maps API to promote tourism in Bangladesh
- Spoti.SPOT – a novel Spotify search engine
- Real time triangulation of mass calamities using NASA’s satellite imagery