The Mission of Intelligent Media Center (IMC) is to develop and maintain a number of various intelligent systems that can assist the social issues and cooperate in industrial projects. This Center mainly focuses on several basic fields of Intelligent Media researches as;
Based on these fields, we aspire to develop intelligent algorithms that perform significantly well during interactive and perception tasks for 1) Human motion analysis, body parts tracking, action recognition, behavior Understanding, pose estimation, life-log activity monitoring, gait recognition, Pedestrian detection, hand and figure detection; 2) Facial expression recognition, lips reading, eye-movements analysis, Facial masks, multi-face recognition, Gender/age classification; 3) Human-object recognition, Human-human interaction, object detection, surveillance systems, video codec, Scene semantics; 4) Wearable + Vision sensors, inertial sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetic sensors, digital cameras, Z-cams, bumblebee cams, stereo-cams; 5) Healthcare systems, Patient monitoring systems, Cyber-Physical systems, Stroke/Heart-attack/blood pressure detection systems based on IoT.
Academic Career
2013-2017 Research Associate (POST-DOCTORAL) of Computer Science & Engineering, POSTECH
2009-2013 Ph. D., Engineering Sciences, Kyung Hee University
2004-2006 M.S., Dept. of Computer Science, KNU National University
2000-2003 B.S., Iqra University, Karachi
Professional Career
Dr. Hafiz Ahmad Jalal (Hafiz, a Muslim who have completely memorized the Qur'an) is the Head of AU Intelligent Media Center. He is an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science, Air University, Islamabad. He has more than 17 years remarkable experience in teaching, research & development and industry funded projects. He worked with several foreigner companies such as Samsung-Techwin, Mobile security research Center and National Research Foundation of Korea. He has completed several R&D projects, published 140+ research articles in reputed journals/conferences, and edited multiple books. Currently, he is an Associate Editor/reviewers of more than 210 reputed journals such as IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier Neurocomputing, Technical Member of IEEE Access, Board Member of Computer-Aided Design, Applied Sciences, Journal of Universal Computer Science and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is currently Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) approved PhD supervisor.