Imran Muhammad

Publications

Journals

1. “Exploration of preprocessing architectures for field-programmable gate array-based thermal-visual smart camera”, M. Imran, B. Rinner, S. Zand, M. O’Nils,  Journal of. Electronic Imaging, 2016.

2. “Energy Efficient SRAM FPGA based Wireless Vision Sensor Node: SENTIOF-CAM”, M. Imran, K. Shahzad, N. Ahmad, M. O’Nils, N. Lawal and B. Oelmann. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. pp, no. 99, 2014.

3. “Complexity Analysis of Vision Functions for Comparison of Wireless Smart Cameras,” M. Imran, K. Khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. O’Nils, N. Lawal, and M. A. Waheed, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, Article ID 710685, 15 pages, 2014.

4. “Hardware Architecture for Real-time  Computation of Image Component Feature Descriptors on a FPGA”, A. W. Malik, B. Thörnberg, M. Imran and N. Lawal,  International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, Article ID 815378, 14 pages, 2014.

5. “Implementation of Wireless Vision Sensor Node with a lightweight bi-level Video Coding”, M. Imran, N. Ahmed, K. Khursheed, M. A. Waheed, N. Lawal and M. O’Nils, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 198-209, June 2013.

6. “Implementation of Wireless Vision Sensor Node for Characterization of Particles in Fluids”, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, N. Lawal, M. O'Nils, and N. Ahmad,   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 22, pp. 1634 – 1643, 2012.

7. "Architecture Exploration Based on Tasks Partitioning Between Hardware, Software and Locality for a Wireless Vision Sensor Node ", M. Imran, K. Khursheed, M. A. Waheed, N. Ahmad, M. O'Nils, N. Lawal, and B.  Thörnberg, Intl. Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, vol. 3(2), pp. 58-71, 2012.

8. Architecture of Wireless Vision Sensor Node with Region of Interest Coding M.Imran, K. khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. O'Nils, N. Lawal and M. A. Waheed. International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems, May 2013. Invited/Extended version of conference paper 2.

9. “Efficient Data Reduction Techniques for Remote Applications Of Wireless Visual Sensor Network”, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, N. Ahmad, and M. O'Nils, Accepted in: Intl. Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013.

10. “Model, Placement Optimization and Verification of a sky surveillance visual sensor network”, N. Ahmad, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, N. Lawal, M. O’Nils, and B. Oelmann, Intl. Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, 2013.

11.  “Modelling and Verification of a Heterogeneous Sky Surveillance Visual Sensor Network,” N. Ahmad, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, N. Lawal, M. O’Nils, International Journal of Recent Advances in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks, Hindawi Publications, 2013.

 

Conferences

1. “Low complexity FPGA based background subtraction technique for thermal imagery”, M. Imran, M. O'Nils, H. Munir, and B. Thörnberg. 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC '15) 2015. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

2. “Energy Driven Selection and Hardware Implementation of Bi-Level Image Compression”, M. Imran, M. O’Nils, N. Lawal and K. Shahzad, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venezia, ITALY, Nov. 2014.

3. “Low Complexity Background Subtraction for Wireless Vision Sensor Node”, M. Imran, N. Ahmad, K. Khursheed, M. O'Nils and N. Lawal. 16TH Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Spain, Sept 4-6, 2013.

4. “Architecture of Wireless Visual Sensor Node with Region of Interest Coding”, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. O'Nils, N. Lawal, M. A. Waheed, 3rd IEEE Intl. Conf. on: Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application, UK, Dec. 2012.

5. “Analysis and characterization of embedded vision systems for taxonomy formulation”, M. Imran, K. Benkrid, K. Khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. A. Waheed, M. O'Nils, N. Lawal, SPIE Real-Time Image and Video Processing, USA, Feb. 2013.

6. “Complexity analysis of vision functions for implementation of wireless smart cameras using system taxonomy”, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. A. Waheed, M. O'Nils, and N. Lawal, Proc. of SPIE, Real-Time Image and Video Processing, Belgium, April 2012.

7. “Exploration of Target Architecture for a Wireless Camera Based Sensor Node”, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, M. O’ Nils and N. Lawal, Proc. of the IEEE Norchip Conf., Finland, Nov. 2010. 

8. “On the number representation in sub-expression sharing”, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, Mattias O’ Nills and O. Gustafsson, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Signal Elec. System, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2010.

9. “Exploration of Tasks Partitioning between Hardware Software and Locality for a Wireless Camera Based Vision Sensor Node”, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, Mattias O’ Nills and Najeem Lawal, Proc. 6th Intl. Symp. on Parallel Comp. in Electrical Engineering, UK, April 2011.

10.  “Exploration of Local and Central Processing for a Wireless Camera Based Sensor Node”, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, Mattias O’ Nils and Najeem Lawal, IEEE Int. Conf. Signal Elec. System, Poland, Sept. 2010.

11. “Detecting and coding region of interests in bi-level images for data reduction in Wireless Visual Sensor Network”, N. Ahmad, Naeem, M. Imran, M. O'Nils, Mattias, IEEE 8th Intl. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Spain, 2012. 

12. “Solution space exploration of vision surveillance systems using a general taxonomy”, N. Ahmad, M. Imran, K. Khursheed, N. Lawal, M. O'Nils, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications X, USA, May 2013.

13.  “Binary video codec for data reduction in wireless visual sensor networks”, K. Khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. Imran, M. O'Nils, SPIE Real-Time Image and Video Processing, USA, Feb. 2013.

14.  “Selection of bilevel image compression methods for reduction of communication energy in wireless visual sensor networks”, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, N. Ahmad, and M. O'Nils, Proc. of SPIE, Real-Time Image and Video Processing, Belgium, April 2012.

15.  “Real-time machine vision system using FPGA and soft-core processor”, M. A. Waheed, B. Thörnberg, X. Meng, M. Imran, Proc. of SPIE, Real-Time Image and Video Processing, Belgium, April 2012.

16. “Cost optimization of a sky surveillance visual sensor network”, N. Ahmad, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, N. Lawal, and M. O'Nils, Proc. of SPIE, Real-Time Image and Video Processing, Belgium, April 2012.

17. “Model and Placement Optimization of a Sky Surveillance Visual Sensor Network”, N. Ahmad, N. Lawal, M. O’Nils, B. Oelmann, M. Imran and K. Khursheed, Intl Conf. on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, Spain, Oct. 2011.

18. “Generalized overlapping digit patterns for multi-dimensional sub-expression sharing”, Gustafsson, K. Khursheed, M. Imran and L. Wanhammar, IEEE Int. Conf. Green Circuits System, China, June 2010.

19. “The Effect of Packets Relaying on the Implementation Issues of the Visual Sensor Node”, K. Khursheed, N. Ahmad, M. Imran, M. O'Nils, Periodical journal “Electronics and Electrical Engineering, June, 2013.

20. “Bi-Level Video Codec for Machine Vision Embedded Applications”, K. Khursheed, M. Imran, N. Ahmad, M. O'Nils, periodical journal Electronics and Electrical Engineering, June, 2013.

 

Research Reports

1. “Analysis of Vision systems and Taxonomy Formulation: An abstract model for generalization”, M. Imran, Research report in electronics 1, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, 2011.

Demos

1. STC-CAM1, IR-visual based smart camera system. 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC '15) 2015. M. Imran, M. O'Nils, V.Kardeby, and H. Munir. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 

2. Demo: SRAM FPGA based Wireless Smart Camera: SENTIOF-CAM.M. Imran, M. O'Nils, and N. Lawal. International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC '14) 2014. ACM, New York, NY, USA

Doctoral Thesis

Imran, M. (2013). Energy Efficient and ProgrammableArchitecture for Wireless Vision Sensor Node”. (Doctoral dissertation). Sundsvall: Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O’ Nills, (Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Sweden)

Opponent: Prof. Bernhard, Rinner, (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)

 

Licentiate Thesis

Imran, M. (2011). “Investigation of Architectures for Wireless Visual Sensor Nodes”, (Licentiate of Technology) Division of Electronic Design, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Supervisor: Mattias O’Nils, Prefect/Professor, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Opponent: Khaled Benkrid, Associate Professor, The University of Edinburgh, UK.

Master Thesis

Imran, M. K, Khursheed. (2009) , “MIMO Multiplierless FIR System”, (Master Thesis )Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden,.

Supervisor: Oscar Gustaffson, Associate Professor, Linköping University, Sweden