Aysegul Cuhadar Ph.D., (University of Essex, UK), P.Eng. Assistant Professor

Email: cuhadar@sce.carleton.ca Tel: +1 613 520-2600 ext. 1938 Fax: +1 613 520-5727 Office: Minto Centre, Room 7036

Research Interests:

General areas of interest: signal/image processing, parallel processing

• Image/video processing and compression
• Biomedical image/signal processing
• Speaker verification/identification, voice authentication
• High-performance computing

Interested in graduate studies in the field of biomedical signal processing and image processing/compression? Please contact me to discuss the details.

Graduate Students:

Completed

S. Siddiqui (M.Sc. in ISS)

N. Chadha (M.Sc.)

S. Tasdoken (M.A.Sc. "Multi-region multi-quality coding schemes for medical image compression", University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work)

G. Green (M.A.Sc. "Wavelet-based denoising of cardiac PET data" )

X. Pan (M.A.Sc. co-supervisor Prof. A. Banihashemi "Robust image transmission with rate-compatible low-density parity-check codes over noisy channels")

K. Wang (M.A.Sc. "Region-based three-dimensional wavelet transform coding")

A. El-Solh (M.A.Sc. co-supervisor P. R. Goubran "Evaluation of speech enhancement techniques for speaker recognition in noisy environments")

J. Gilchrist (M.A.Sc. "Parallel lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler transform")

A. Iyaniwura (M.A.Sc. co-supervisor Prof. C. Joslin “Optical motion capture for performance-based facial animation” )

W. Dai (M.A.Sc. co-supervisor Prof. P. Liu “A person tracking robot system using vision and laser sensor data fusion” )

In progress

J. Zhou (Ph.D. “Multi-description video coding”)

N. Foubert (M.A.Sc. co-supervisor Prof R. Goubran “Mobility analysis of elderly patients with a bed-placed pressure pad” )

A. G. Saeidi (M.A.Sc. co-supervisor Prof. P. Payeur “Estimating human limb motion from video sequences” )

G. Ji (M.A.Sc. “Automatic identification of reliable heart rates from ECG waveforms”)

Undergraduate design project topics offered for 2007-2008:

• Text-to-speech synthesis system
• Speaker identification/verification
• Speech enhancement
• Biometrics for user authentication: voice authentication, face recognition
• Content-based image retrieval for image databases
• Biomedical signal/image processing: denoising, segmentation of microcalcifications in mammograms

Courses:

SYSC 1102 C++ Programming (Foundations of Systems Programming)

SYSC 2002 Data Structures and Algorithms

SYSC 4507 Architecture of Computer Systems

SYSC 5704 Elements of Computer Systems

BIOM 5202 Wavelet Applications in Biomedical Image Processing