Dr. Hussain Dawood

Academic Positions Held:

• Associate Professor College of Computing, Horizon University College Sharjah, UAE, January to date.
• Associate Professor Department of Information Engineering Technology, National Skills University Islamabad, Pakistan, August 2023 to December.
• Associate Professor at Department of Information Engineering Technology, National Skills University Islamabad, Pakistan, June 2022 to June 2023.
• Visiting Professor at School of Engineering and Computing Informatics, Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Spring 2021.
• Associate Professor at Department of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Sep 2020 to June 27, 2022.
• Assistant Professor at Department of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Feb 1 2019 to Sep 2020.
• Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Oct 9 2016 to Jan 2019.
• Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan 7 July 2015 to Oct 8, 2016.
• Research Associate at Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Sep 2009 to June 2015.

Administrative Positions Held:

• In charge, Information and Communication Technology, National Skills University Islamabad, Pakistan, Sep 2022 to June 2023.
• Chairperson, Department of Information Engineering Technology, National Skills University Islamabad, Pakistan, August 2022 to June 2023.

• Alassafi, M.O., Alshdadi, A.A., Dawood, H., Mehboob, R., Altalbe, A.A., Alghamdi, R., Dawood, H. and Hussain, C.S., King Abdulaziz University, 2021. Liveness detection in fingerprint-based biometric systems. U.S. Patent 11,068,693

• Banjar, Ameen, Hussain Dawood, Ali Javed, and Bushra Zeb. “Sports video summarization using acoustic symmetric ternary codes and SVM.” Applied Acoustics (2024): 216, pp. 109795.
• Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “An Encoded Histogram of Ridge Bifurcations and Contours for fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection” Pattern Recognition (2023): 143, pp.109782.
• Ameen Banjar, Hussain Dawood, Ali Javed, and Farman Hassan “Fall Event Detection using the Mean Absolute Deviated Local Ternary Patterns and BiLSTM.” Applied Acoustics (2022): 192, pp. 108725.
• Hussain Dawood, Sajid Saleem, Farman Hassan, and Ali Javed “A Robust Voice Spoofing Detection System using Novel CLS-LBP Features and LSTM.” Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (2022): 34(9), pp. 7300-7312.
• Hussain Dawood, Ali daud, Hassan Dawood, and Marium Azhar “Reduction of random-valued impulse noise by using multi-structured textons.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2022): 81(11): pp. 15303-15331.
• Rubab Mehboob, Ali Javed, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “Histogram of Low-level Visual Features for Salient Feature Extraction.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2022): 47 (8): pp. 10589-10604.
• Faqir Muhammad, Muhammad Riaz, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “On best linear and Bayesian linear predictor in calibration.” Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (2022): 51(11), pp. 3669-3693.
• Bilquees, Samina, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Nadeem Majeed, Ali Javed, and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. “Noise Resilient Local Gradient Orientation for Content-Based Image Retrieval.” International Journal of Optics (2021): pp. 1-19.
• Mehmood, Anam, Ishtiaq Rasool Khan, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “A non-uniform quantization scheme for visualization of CT images.” Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering: MBE (2021): 18 (4): pp. 4311-4326.
• Muhammad Waqar, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Nadeem Majeed, Ameen Banjar, Riad Alharbey “An Efficient SMOTE-Based Deep Learning Model for Heart Attack Prediction.” Scientific Programming, (2021): pp. 1-12.
• Saqib Umer, Hassan Dawood, Muhammad Haroon Yousef, Hussain Dawood and Haseeb Ahmad “Efficient foreground object segmentation from video by Probability Weighted Moments.” Optik (2021): 229: pp. 166251.
• Ameen Banjar, Zohair Ahmed, Ali Daud, Hussain Dawood, and Rabeeh Abbasi “Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for Polarity Estimation of Customer Reviews on Twitter.” CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua (2021): 67(2): pp. 2203-2225.
• Usman Saeed, Khalid Masood and Hussain Dawood “Illumination Normalization Techniques for Makeup Invariant Face Recognition.” Computers and Electrical Engineering (2021):89: pp 10692.
• Toheed, Abeer, Ali Javed, Aun Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ahmed S. Alfakeeh “An Automated Framework for Advertisement Detection and Removal from Sports Videos using Audio-Visual Cues.” Frontiers of Computer Science (2021): 15(2), pp. 152313.
• Maleeha Javed, Hassan Dawood, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Ameen Banjar, Riad Alharbey, and Hussain Dawood “Density-Based Clustering for Content and Color Adaptive Tone Mapping.” Mobile Information Systems. (2020): pp. 8846033.
• Alshdadi Abdulrahman, Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, Madini O. Alassafi, Rayed Alghamdi, and Hussain Dawood “Exploiting Level 1 and Level 3 features of fingerprints for liveness detection.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2020) 61: 102039.
• Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, Guo Ping, Rashid Mehmood, Ali Daud, Abdullah Alamri, and Jalal S. Alowibdi “Probability Weighted Moments Regularization based Blind Image De-blurring.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020):79(7): pp.4483-4498.
• Jing Xu, Peng Wu, Yuehui Chen, Qiangfang Meng, Hussain Dawood, and Hassan Dawood “A Hierarchical Integration Deep Flexible NeuralForest Framework for Cancer Subtype Classification by Integrating Multi-Omics Data.” BMC bioinformatics (2019): 20(1): pp 1-11.
• Saba Sultan, Ali Javed, Syed Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ali Kashif Bashir “A Hybrid Egocentric Video Summarization Method to Improve the Healthcare for Alzheimer Patients.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (2019): 10 (10): pp 4197–4206.
• Syeda Rida-e-Fatima, Ali Javed, Ameen Banjar, Aun Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Abdullah Alamri “A Multi-Layer Dual Attention Deep Learning Model with Refined Word Embeddings for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: pp.114795-114807
• Hussain Dawood, Monagi H. Alkinani, Ahmad Raza, Hassan Dawood, Rubab Mehboob, and Sidra Shabbir “Correlated Microstructure Descriptor for image retrieval.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: 55206- 55228.
• Marium Azhar, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Gulraiz Iqbal Choudhary, Ali Kashif Bashir, and Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary. “Detail-preserving switching algorithm for the removal of random-valued impulse noise.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (2019): 10 (10): pp.3925-3945.
• Malik Khizar Hayat, Ali Daud, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi, Ameen Banjar, Yukun Bao, Hussain Dawood “Towards Deep Learning Prospects: Insights for Social Media Analytics.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: pp. 36958-36979.
• Jing Xu, Peng Wu, Yuehui Chen, Qingfang Meng, Hussain Dawood and Muhammad Murtaza Khan, “A novel deep flexible neural forest model for classification of cancer subtypes based on gene expression data.” IEEE ACCESS (2019): 7: pp.22086-22095.
• Hassan Dawood, Munsif Iqbal, Marium Azhar, Haseeb Ahmad, Hussain Dawood, Zahid Mehmood, and Jalal S Alowibdi “Texture-preserving denoising method for the removal of random-valued impulse noise in gray-scale images.” Optical Engineering (2019): 58(2): pp. 023103.
• Hussain Dawood, Sidra Shabbir, Hassan Dawood, Nadeem Majeed, Ahmad Raza, and Rubab Mehboob. “Sparsely encoded distinctive visual features for object recognition.” Journal of Electronic Imaging (2018): 27(6): pp. 063035.
• Humaira Ghafoor, Ali Javed, Aun Irtaza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ameen Banjar. “Egocentric Video Summarization based on People Interaction using Deep Learning.” Mathematical Problems in Engineering (2018).
• Sidra Shabbir, Nadeem Majeed, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood and Xiu Bingxin. “Integrating local patches of Weber orientation with sparse distribution method for object recognition.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2019):44(4): pp. 3603-3618.
• Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Muhammad Ilyas, Ping Guo and Ameen Banjar. “Live fingerprint detection using magnitude of perceived spatial stimuli and local phase information” Journal of Electronic Imaging (2018): 27(5): p.053038.
• Ahmad Raza, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Sidra Shabbir, Rubab Mehboob and Ameen Banjar. “Correlated Primary Visual Texton Histogram Features for Content Base Image
  Retrieval.” IEEE ACCESS (2018): 6: pp.46595-46616.
• Zahid Mehmood, Muhammad Rashid, Amjad Rehman, Tanzila Saba, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “Effect of complementary visual words versus complementary features on clustering for effective content-based image search.” Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, (2018):35(5): pp. 5421-5434.
• Marium Azhar, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “Texture-oriented image denoising technique for the removal of random-valued impulse noise.” Journal of Electronic Imaging (2018): 27(3), pp.033028.
• Raza Ahmad, Tabassam Nawaz, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood. “Square texton histogram features for image retrieval.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2018): 78(3): pp.2719–2746.
• Mehmood Rashid, Saeed El-Ashram, Rongfang Bie, Hussain Dawood and Anton Kos “Clustering by fast search and merge of local density peaks for gene expression microarray data.” Scientific Reports Nature (2017): 7: pp. 45602.
• Haseeb Ahmad, Ali Daud, Licheng Wang, Haibo Hong, Hussain Dawood and Yixian Yang “Prediction of Rising Stars in the Game of Cricket.” IEEE Access (2017): 5: pp. 4104-4124.
• Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo “Generalization of Impulse noise removal.” The International Arab Journal of Information Technology (2017): 14(5): pp.698-706.
• Mehmood Rashid, Bie Rongfang, Jia Libin, Hussain Dawood, and Sun Yunchun, “Adaptive cutoff distance: Clustering by fast search and find of density peaks.” Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2016): 31 (5): pp. 2619-2628.
• Rongfang Bie, Mehmood Rashid, Shanshan Ruan, Sun Yunchuan, and Hussain Dawood “Adaptive fuzzy clustering by fast search and find of density peaks.” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2016): 20 (5): pp.785-793.
• Mehmood Rashid, Maqbool Uddin Shaikh, Rongfang Bie, Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, “IoT Enabled Secure Service Oriented Web Warehouse Architecture” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2015): 19 (7): pp. 1157-1167.
• Ali Daud, Faqir Muhammad, Hassan, Dawood, and Hussain, Dawood. “Ranking cricket teams.” Information Processing & Management (2015): 51(2): 62-73.
• Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Removal of High-Intensity Impulse Noise by Weber’s Law Noise Identifier.” Pattern Recognition Letters: (2014): 49: pp.121-130.
• Dawood Hassan, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Removal of random-valued impulse noise by local statistics.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2014): 74(24): pp.11485-11498

• Daniyal Nazir, Hassan Dawood, Ammar Mohsin Butt, and Hussain Dawood “EUIEF: Enhancement of Underexposed Images via Exposure Fusion.” 2021 Mohammad Ali Jinnah University International Conference on Computing (MAJICC).
• Fatima Zohra, Ali Javed, and Hussain Dawood “Survival Rate Prediction Model of Cardio Vascular Disease Patients by Quantifying the Risk Profile using SVM.” International Conference on Computer and Information Sciencee (ICCIS, 2020).
• Ali Daud, Tehmina Amjad, Hussain Dawood, and Sajjad Hussain Chauhdary “Topic Sensitive Ranking of Authors.” International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, (ICCIS, 2020).
• Anam Mehmood, Ishtiaq Rasool Khan, Hassan Dawood, and Hussain Dawood “Enhancement of CT images for visualization.” ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Posters
• Rehan Mehmood Yousaf, Hafiz Adnan Habib, Hussain Dawood, and Sidra Shafiq. “A Comparative Study of Various Edge Detection Methods.” International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS, 2018).
• Huzaifa Rashid, Nauman Zafar, Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Hassan Dawood and Hussain Dawood. “Single Image Dehazing using CNN.” International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI, 2018).
• Xu Jing, Peng Wu, Yuehui Chen, Hussain Dawood, and Dong Wang. “The Wide and Deep Flexible Neural Tree and Its Ensemble in Predicting Long Non-coding RNA Subcellular Localization.” International Conference on Intelligent Computing, pp. 515-525. Springer, Cham, 2018. (ICIC, 2018)
• Ruan Shanshan, Rashid Mehmood, Jalal Alowibdi, Hussain Dawood and Ali Daud “An adaptive method for clustering by fast search-and-find of density peaks.” International Conference World Wide Web 2017. (WWW 2017)
• Ali Daud, Naif Aljohani, Rabeeh Abbasi, Zahid Rafique, Hussain Dawood and Khaled Alyoubi “Finding Rising Stars in Co-Author Networks via Weighted Mutual Influence.” International Conference World Wide Web 2017. (WWW 2017)
• Dawood Hassan, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “A Hybrid Image Feature Descriptor for Classification.” International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS, 2015).
• Mehmood Rashid, Hussain Dawood, Rongfang Bie, and Haseeb Ahmed. “Fuzzy incremental clustering by fast search and find of density peaks.” International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI, 2015).
• Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Removal of Random-valued Impulse noise by Khalimsky grid.” Asia Pacific Conference on Multimedia and Broadcasting (APMediaCast, 2015).
• Shiqiang Li, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Comparison of Linear Dimensionality Reduction Methods in Image Annotation.” International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI, 2015).
• Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Texture Image Classification with Improved Weber Local Descriptor.” International conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. Springer International Publishing (ICAISC, 2014).
• Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Global matching to enhance the strength of local intensity order pattern feature descriptor.” Advances in Neural Networks–ISNN 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (ISNN, 2013).
• Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Efficient Texture Classification Using Short-Time Fourier Transform with Spatial Pyramid Matching.” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC, 2013).
• Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Combining the contrast information with WLD for texture classification.” International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE, 2012).
• Hussain Dawood, Hassan Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Combining the contrast information with LPQ for texture classification.” International Conference on Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT, 2012).
• Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, and Ping Guo. “Improved Arabic Word Classification using Spatial Pyramid Matching Method” 26th International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ, 2011).