RESEARCH INTERESTS:

1) Image and Video Processing: MPEG-21. Vision. Technologies and Strategy. Digital Item Declaration. Digital Item Identification. Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP). Rights Expression Language. Rights Data Dictionary. Digital Item Adaptation. Reference Software. File Format. MPEG-7. Development schedule. Description Definition Language. Perceptual Descriptions of the information in the content. Visual descriptors. Color descriptors. Texture descriptors. Shape descriptors. Motion descriptors. Evaluating the effectiveness of the MPEG-7 descriptors. MP7QF - Query format. Standards for scene description: VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), X3D (eXtensible 3D), SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), MPEG-4, Adobe Flash and Autodesk 3ds, SIFT.

2) Computer graphics: OPEN GL, Three-Dimensional Viewing, Rendering, Color theory, Java 2D and Java 3D packages, Maya, 3ds MAX, SOFTIMAGE

3) Medical imaging: Magnetic Resonance Images analysis, Segmentation, 3D reconstruction, Functional MRI, area and volume calculation.

4) Game design: Game play, Languages: LUA, XNA, Python, Game mathematics and physics, Sonics, Game generators: Blitz, I7, Game Factory, Inscape, Torque, Yoyo, Unity, Alice.

5) Multimedia Systems: Semantic web technology. Ontology. W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL), Resource Description Framework (RDF), Content based image retrieval (CBIR). Digital Libraries.

6) Data Base Systems: Models, SQL, Transaction management, Concurrency control techniques, Crash recovery techniques, Functional dependencies and normal forms, Security and authorization, Parallel and Distributed Databases, Web based Databases.

7) Information Retrieval and Data mining: Cross-language IR, Image and Multimedia IR (Speech retrieval), Music Retrieval, Parallel and Peer-to-Peer IR, Logic-based approaches to IR, Natural Language Processing techniques. Data preparation/cleansing, task identification. Association Rule mining, Classification - tree-based approaches, Neural Networks, Clustering basics, statistical approaches, Neural-net. Fuzzy Sets and Systems. Expert Systems.

8) Web technology: Web2.0 tools. Ajax, Web Map Server (WMS), Web Feature Server (WFS), Web Coverage Server (WCS), Geography Markup Language (GML), XML (Extensible Markup Language), RSS, RDF (Resource Description Framework), Web 2.0 mash-ups, Java Script, Java Applets, MySQL and PHP, PERL, ASP.Net. Electronic comers.