DR. MOATAZ M. ABDELWAHAB
Assistant Professor, ECE Program.School of Electronics, Communications and Computing. EJUST, Alexandria, Egypt
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2003-2007) Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, USA. “Novel Facial Image Recognition Techniques Employing Principal Component Analysis”. M.S.E.E (1999- 2001), Alexandria University, Egypt, “Wide band wire antennas”. B.S.E.E. (1994-1999), Alexandria University, Egypt.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2013 - present, Assistant Professor, School of Electronics, Communications and Computing, Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology.
Feb 2009 – June 2013, Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Information Technology / Center of Informatics Science, Nile University, Egypt
Jan 2008 to Jan. 2009, Adjunct Faculty / Post Doc., School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/ Computer Vision Research Center, University of Central, Florida.
Jan 2003 to Dec. 2007, Research Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central, Florida.
Jan 2003 to Dec. 2007, Teaching Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central, Florida.
Sept. 1999 to Dec. 2002, Teaching Assistant, Alexandria Institute of Engineering and Technology,/ Research Assistant, Alexandria University, Egypt
FUNDED RESEARCH & GRANTS
1) (PI) “Vehicle detection and tracking in very crowded scenes employing quadrotors ”, ITIDA, ITAC, 130,000, July 2014- July 2015.
2) (PI) “Human Activity Recognition in images and challenging Videos “, Microsoft, Egypt (CMIC), 120,000, July 2011- July 2012.
3) (PI) “Human Activity Recognition in Videos “, Microsoft, Egypt (CMIC), 100,000, July 2010- July 2011. 4) (Co-PI) “TraffiSense: An Integrated Visual Sensing System for Advanced Traffic Management”, ITIDA, ITAC, Advanced Research Projects (ARP), 1000,000, October 2010- October 2012.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1) Best paper award in 13th IAPR MVA, Japan, 2013.
2) Best student paper award (2ND place) in the 49th IEEE MWSCAS (2006) 3) Graduate Research Fellowship, UCF. (2006)
4) Best paper award (Signal processing track) ICENCO. (2006) 5) Electrical Engineering Department PhD Fellowship, UCF. (2003)
PATENT
Wasfy B. Mikhael, and Moataz Abdelwahab, “Recognition and Classification Based on Principal Component Analysis in the Transform Domain”, US Patent- 7,724,960 May 2010.
BOOK CHAPTER
Issa Batarseh and Moataz M. Abdelwahab. Ebook++ / Quizme: An Interactive Learning Tool for Circuit Analysis, 2008.
PUBLICATIONS
1) Ehab H. El-Shazly, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Ahmed Medhat and Mohammed S. Sayed, “A Novel Algorithm with FPGA Implementation for Action and Gesture Recognition Employing Spatiotemporal Gradient in the Transform Domain”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, October 2014.
2) Mohamed A. Abdelwahab, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, “Human action recognition based on two-view optical flow in the transformed domain” The 57th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’14),Texas A&M, Texas, August 2014.
3) Omnia Samy , Moataz M. Abdelwahab, “Real-Time 2DHoG-2DPCA Algorithm for Hand Gesture Recognition” The 17th ICIAP2013, Naples, Italy, September 2013 (oral acceptance rate 8%).
4) Fadwa Fawzy, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Human Activity Recognition in videos using 2DHOOF-2DPCA Contour Based Optical flow” The 56th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’13), Ohio State University USA, August 2013.
5) Sara Atito, Ahmed Mamdouh , and Moataz M. Abdelwahab, “Vehicles detection and tracking in videos for very crowded scenes” The 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2013), Kyoto, Japan, May 2013. (Best paper award)
6) Islam. Yousry, , Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Simultaneous Face Detection and Recognition System” The 55th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’12), Idaho, USA, August 2012.
7) Ramy Chehata , Wasfy B. Mikhael, and Moataz M. Abdelwahab “Performance Evaluation of the Transform Domain Diagonal Principal Component Analysis for Facial Recognition under different
pre-processing conditions "” The 55th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’12), Idaho, USA, August 2012.
8) M. A. Naiel, , Moataz M. Abdelwahab, M. El-Saban and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Simultaneous Human Detection and Action Recognition Employing 2DPCA-HOG” The 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’11), Seoul, Korea, August 2011.
9) M. A. Naiel, , Moataz M. Abdelwahab, M. El-Saban and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Highly Efficient Human Action Recognition using compact 2DPCA-based descriptors in the Spatial and Transform domains"” The 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’11), Seoul, Korea, August 2011.
10) M. A. Naiel, , Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and M. El-Saban. Multi-view human action recognition system employing 2DPCA”, IEEE WACV 2011, Kona, Hawaii, pp. 270- 275, Jan. 2011.
11) M. Naiel, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Human Action recognition employing TD2DPCA and VQ” The 53th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’10), Seattle, USA, August 2010.
12) M. Naiel, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Human Action recognition employing PCA and VQ in the spatio-temporal domain “ The 8th International IEEE-NEWCAS Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2010.
13) Mohamed Azzam, Tarek Khalil , Mahmoud Allam , Moataz M. Abdelwahab, “ICT and Education … Towards an effective context of Technology utilization” The 19th International conference on management of technology, Cairo, Egypt, March 2010.
14) Moataz M. Abdelwahab and M. Naiel, “Parallel Structure system employing PCA and VQ for Human Action and target recognition “ Work shop on Ubiquitous computing technologies and applications , Nile University, Egypt, October 2009.
15) Feras Batarseh, Moataz M. Abdelwahab and Issa Batarseh. “QuizMe- An Interactive Learning Tool with Application to Electrical Circuits,” American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Annual Conference, Georgia, April 5-7, 2009.
16) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael , “ Parallel Structure System Employing PCA and VQ in the Transform Domain for Facial Recognition,” The 51th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’08), Knoxville, Tennessee, August 2008.
17) Wasfy B. Mikhael, Pradeep Ragothaman and Moataz M. Abdelwahab “Nontraditional Signal Processing Techniques Employing Linear Transforms , ” The 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’07), Montreal, Canada, August 2007.
18) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Efficient Feature Representation Employing PCA and VQ in the Transform Domain for Facial Recognition,” The 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’07), Montreal, Canada, August 2007
19) Wasfy B. Mikhael, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Pradeep Ragothaman “Novel Transform Domain Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Techniques and Some Applications: Facial and Automatic Target Recognition,” 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computer, Nikolaos, Crete Island, Greece, July 26-28, 2007.
20) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Computationally Efficient Transform–Domain Two- Dimensional Principal Component Analysis Algorithm for Facial Recognition,” The 2nd International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO’06), Cairo, Egypt, December 2006. (Best paper award (Signal processing track)).
21) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Recognition of Noisy Facial Images Employing Transform –Domain Two- Dimensional Principal Component Analysis,” The 49th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’06), San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 2006. (2nd Best Student paper award (302 papers))
22) Wasfy B. Mikhael, Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Manal M. Abdelwahab, “Intelligent Signal Processing Applied to Recognition and Classification of One and Multidimensional Signals,” 10th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, pp. 292-296, July 2006, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece.
23) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “A Novel Facial Recognition Technique Employing Karhunen-Loeve Transform,” The 12th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, (ISAS’06), Vol.5, pp.217- 220, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 16-19, 2006.
24) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, Manal M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “Several Structures and Techniques for the Accurate Classification and Recognition of Signals,” WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 970-976, July 2006.
25) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “A New Fast Facial Recognition Algorithm Applicable to Large Databases,” The 4th International IEEE-NEWCAS Conference, pp. 193-196, June 18-21, 2006, Gatineau, Canada
26) Wasfy B. Mikhael, and Moataz M. Abdelwahab, “A Recognition and Classification Algorithm with Improved Accuracy, Storage, and Computational Properties with Application to Face Recognition,” WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.1, Issue 3, pp. 439-445, December 2005.
27) Moataz M. Abdelwahab, and Wasfy B. Mikhael, “An Efficient Frequency Domain Algorithm For Face Recognition Based On Two-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis,” 4th WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Control, and Signal Processing (ICECS’05), pp.240-244, Miami, Florida, USA, November 17-19, 2005.
28) Kamchouchi, H.M.; Abdel Wahab, M.M., “Cross-element log-periodic dipole fed planar reflector antenna,” Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Radio Science Conference, 2002. (NRSC 2002), 19-21 March 2002, Alexandria, Egypt Page(s):101 – 108.
29) Kamchouchi, H.M.; Abdel Wahab, M.M., “log-periodic Corner reflector antenna, ” Proceedings of the International Conference in Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, (ICEAA 2001) , pp.142-146 ,Torino, Italy.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
IEEE MWSCAS Steering Committee Member.
Graduate Faculty Scholar, College of Graduate Studies at UCF Technical Reviewer for
1. IEEE MWSCAS, 2. IEEE NEWCAS, 3. Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers
4. WSEAS Journal of signal processing, 5. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 6. IEEE ICIP, 7. IIITEC, 8. IAMOT
Conference Session Chairman:
1. IEEE MWSCAS 2014, 2. IEEE MWSCAS 2013, 3. IEEE MWSCAS 2010, 4. IAMOT 2010
STUDENTS SUPERVISIONS Master Theses Supervised
1) Mohamed Naiel, “Human Activity Recognition in Videos”, Graduation date: August 2010. (Obtained PhD Fellowship at Concordia University).
2) Fadwa Mohamed, "Human Activity recognition in Images and Challenging Videos". 2013
3) Sara Atito, “Novel Algorithm for sensitivity analysis and object detection and tracking ”, 2014 (Obtained PhD Fellowship at TUB , Germany).
4) Islam Yousry, "Facial detection and Recognition in Images ". 2014
Member Ph.D. Committees
Member MSc.. Committees
1. Waleed Mohmed AbdelMoula ,"Automatic Segmentation of Choroidal Neuvascularization in Fundus Fluoresein Angiograms ", MSc. , Graduation, Fall 2011.
2. Mohamed Elsayed, "Body And Visual Sensor Fusion for GAIT Impairment Analysis in Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems", MSc. ,Graduation, Fall 2011.
3. Mohamed Samir Elbaz, “Right Ventricle Segmentation using Active Shape Model with Inter-profile modelling ", MSc. ,Graduation, Fall 2011.
4. Reda Elhakim ,"Sensor Explorer: 3D Monitoring and Visualization Framework for wireless sensor network ", MSc. , Graduation, Spring 2012
5. Mohamed M. Elzahar ,"A GPU-Accelerated Semi-Supervised Learning –Based Framework for improved shadow removal in vision based monitoring systems ", MSc. , Graduation, Fall 2012
6. Yarah Ismail ,"A Bi-Level Traffic Survey method based on cellular phones networks ", MSc. , Graduation, Spring 2013.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Have taught 7 different courses at the graduate and undergraduate level at EJUST, NU and UCF, Introduced new Courses for Image Processing, Computer vision and signals and systems
I. Graduate Level:
1) Digital Image processing (@ EJUST) 2) Computer Vision (@NU)
3) Operational Amplifiers (@UCF) II. Undergraduate Level:
1) Digital Signal Processing Fundamentals (@UCF) 2) Signals and Systems (@NU)
3) Electric Circuits (@UCF)
4) Electric Circuits Fundamentals for Engineering (@UCF)
LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT
1) Image and video Processing Research Lab (@EJUST) 2) Computer Vision Research Lab (@NU)