Tamer Shanableh, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2002

Address:
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: L022–G
Office: + (971) 6 515 2506
Fax: + (971) 6 515 2979
E-mail:tshanableh@aus.edu

Research Interests

The general area of digital video processing which includes digital video compression, video transcoding, error resiliency/concealment and video-based intelligent systems.

Biography

Tamer Shanableh earned his MSc degree, with distinction, in software engineering methods from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, in 1998, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2002. From 1998 to 2001, he was a senior research officer with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. During his stay at Essex, he collaborated with BTexact (formerly British Telecom Research Labs) on inventing heterogeneous multilayer video transcoders. He joined Motorola UK Research Labs in Basingstoke in October 2001 as an application research engineer. During his affiliation with Motorola, Dr. Shanableh contributed to establishing a new profile within the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 committee known as the Error Resilient Simple Scalable Profile. Dr. Shanableh joined AUS in Fall 2002. Dr. Shanableh spent the summers of 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007 as a visiting professor at Motorola Labs in the UK and the US.

Selected Publications

Journals

1. T. Shanableh and K. Assaleh, “Telescopic Vector Composition and polar accumulated motion residuals for feature extraction in Arabic Sign Language recognition,” EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, accepted for publication.
2. T. Shanableh, K. Assaleh and M. AL–Rousan, “Spatio–Temporal feature extraction techniques for isolated Arabic sign language recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B, 37(3), June 2007.
3. T. Shanableh, “Combining Visual MPEG Tools in the Context of Video Adaptability,” EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication,21(2), February 2006.
4. T. Shanableh and G. Reid, “Syntax friendly and syntax amendment approaches to error resiliency in the MPEG-4 simple scalable profile,” Signal processing: Image communications, 20(5), June, 2005.
5. T. Shanableh, “Embedded SNR multilayer video transcoding with MPEG-2 compliancy,” IEE electronics letters, 41(5), 21- 22, March 2005
6. T. Shanableh and M. Ghanbari, “Multilayer Transcoding with format portability for multicasting of single-layered video,” IEEE transactions on multimedia, 7(1), 1-15, February, 2005.
7. T. Shanableh, “Temporal domain multiple video descriptors using motion-compensated temporal filtering,” IEE Electronics Letters, 41(1), 18-19, January, 2005.
8. T. Shanableh, “Pros and cons of fine granular scalability based MPEG-2 compressed-domain processing,” IEE Proceeding Vision, Image & Signal Processing, 151(6), 480-486, December, 2004
   
9. T. Shanableh,“Hybrid M-JPEG/MPEG-2 video streamsusing MPEG-2 compliant spatial scalability,” IEE Electronics Letters, 39(23), 1644-1646, November, 2003
10. T. Shanableh and M. Ghanbari, “Hybrid DCT/pixel domain architecture for heterogeneous video transcoding,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, 18(8), 601-620, September, 2003
    
11. [11] T. Shanableh and M. Ghanbari,“Loss Concealment using B-pictures Motion Information,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 5(2), 257- 266, June, 2003.
12. T. Shanableh and M. Ghanbari, “The Importance of the Bi-directionally Predicted Pictures in Video Streaming. IEEE Transactions on Video Technology,” 11(3), 402-414, March 2001.
13. T. Shanableh and M. Ghanbari, “Heterogeneous Video Transcoding Into Lower Spatio Temporal Resolutions With Different Encoding Formats,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2(2), 101-111, June 2000.
    

Conferences

1. Shanableh, T., Assaleh, K.(2007, Nov)  Time Sensitive And Non-Time Sensitive Feature Extractions for Arabic Sign Language Recognition. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication, ICSPC07, Dubai, UAE.
2. Shanableh, T., Assaleh, K.(2007, Nov)  Arabic sign language recognition in user-independent mode. International Conference on Intelligent & Advanced Systems, ICIAS2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
3. Shanableh, T., Assaleh, K.(2007, Feb)  Video-based feature extraction techniques for isolated Arabic sign language recognition. IEEE ISSPA07, Sharjah, UAE.
4. Shanableh, T., Assaleh, K..(2007, April)  Two tier feature extractions for recognition of isolated Arabic sign language using fisher’s linear discriminants. IEEE ICASSP’07, Hawaii, USA.
5. Shanableh, T. (2006, Feb) Cutting across visual MPEG standards for video scalability. Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, And Applications, SPPRA’06, Innsbruck, Austria
6. Assaleh, K.., Shanableh, T., & Hajjaj, H.  (2006, April) Online Video-Based Handwritten Arabic Alphabet Recognition. Third AUS International Symposium on Mechatronics, AUS-ISM’06, Sharjah, UAE
7. Shanableh, T., & May, T. (2005, May) Error sensitivity testing for the MC-EZBC scalable wavelet video coder. IEEE ISCAS’05, Kobe, Japan.
8. Shanableh, T., & Hobson, P., & Reid, G., & Teh, J. (July 2003) Amending the syntax of MPEG-4 simple scalable profile to include error resilience tools. Proc. IEE VIE’03, Surry, England
9. Shanableh, T., & Ghanbari, M. (2001, October) Transcoding Architectures for DCT-Domain Heterogeneous Video Transcoding. IEEE ICIP'01. Greece.
10. Shanableh, T., & Ghanbari, M. (2000, September) Backward Tracking of B-pictures Bidirectional Motion for Interframe Concealment of Anchor Pictures. IEEE ICIP'00. Vancouver
11. Shanableh, T., & Ghanbari, M. (2000, June) Heterogeneous Video Transcoding to Lower spatial Resolutions and Different Formats. IEEE ICASSP'00. Istanbul, Turkey.
12. Shanableh, T., & Ghanbari, M. (2000, May) Interframe Error Concealment for Bursty Packet Losses in IP Environments Proc. Packet video’00. Italy.
13. Shanableh, T., & Ghanbari, M. (1999, April) Heterogeneous Video Transcoding MPEG-1,2 to H.263. Proc. of Packet Video'99. New York.

Conference tutorials

1. T. Shanableh, "Codec Level Anatomy of Video Transcoding," IET Visual Information Engineering 2007, VIE2007, London, UK, July 2007.

Contributions to ISO/IEC MPEG-4 International Standard

1. T. Shanableh, J. Teh and T. May. “An Analysis of the Bit Error Sensitivity of the MC-EZBC Bitstream.” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG2003/ M10027, Brisbane, Australia, October 2003.
2. T. Shanableh and P. Hobson. “A Proposal for Syntax Amendment To Use the Error Resilience Tools in the MPEG-4 Simple Scalable Profile.” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG2002/m9719, March 2002.
3. P. Hobson and T. Shanableh. “Request of Use of Error Resilience Tools with MPEG-4 Simple Scalable Profile.” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG2001/m7651, November 2001.

Selected Patent Disclosures

1. T. Shanableh. “Improving the Quality of Scalable Video Enhancement Layers Transmitted Over Error-prone Networks by the Use of Data Partitioning and Reversible Variable Length Codes.” Patent no. CM00881P, March 2002.
2. T. Shanableh. “Improving the Quality of Scalable Video Enhancement Layers Transmitted Over Error-prone Networks by Adding the ref_select_code to the Header Extension Code.” Patent no. CM00880P, March 2002.
3. T. Shanableh, M. Ghanbari and M. Nilson “Multi-layer Video Transcoding.” Patent no. GB0129609.4, December 2001