Innovations in Computer Vision and Data Classification

Dr. Arfan Ghani is working as an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at the American University of Ras al Khaimah, UAE. He gained academic qualifications and experience working in UK institutions including Ulster, Coventry, and Newcastle. His industrial research and development experience includes working at Intel Research, University of Cambridge and Vitesse Semiconductors Denmark. Arfan has over 18 years of applied research experience. He has published in leading journals and conferences and secured substantial collaborative funding from EPSRC, EU, Innovate UK, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the German Aerospace Centre. He serves as an Associate Editor of Elsevier Neurocomputing, Guest Editor, Technical Programme Committee member for several IEEE/IET conferences and a keynote speaker. He has received several awards including the best paper and winner from the European Neural Network Society in 2007. Arfan is a member of IET, a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellowof the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

Introduction.- Accelerating the classification of pandemic data using reconfigurable hardware (FPGA) and machine learning.- Computer vision based automated diagnosis for skin cancer detection.- Design and development of an integrated analytics platform for environmental data classification.- Design and development of multimodal healthcare data sensing and classification using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).- Low-power analogue design with Spiking Neural Networks (SNN).- Full custom design of a sustainable, low-power environmental monitoring node.- Real-time performance analysis of Maximum-Power-Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm for energy conversion on hardware platform (FPGA).- Computer-vision based real data generation for object classification.- Conclusion.