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College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Teaching areas

Digital video compression, Mobile application development, Programming I, Programming II, Data structures, Programming languages, Database systems, Statistics, Ethics for information technology

Research areas

Digital video coding and transcoding, video-based intelligent systems and machine learning

Education

PhD, Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, England, 2002
MSc, Software Engineering methods, University of Essex, England, 1998

Professional experience

Sabbatical leave at Queen Mary University London (QMUL). I have worked with the Multimedia and Vision research group
Visiting professor, Motorola Multimedia Research Labs, Chicago, IL, Summers of 2007 and 2008.
Visiting professor, Motorola Multimedia Research Labs, Basingstoke, UK, Summers of 2003, 2004 and 2006
Multimedia Research Engineer, Motorola Multimedia Research Labs, England, 2001-2002
Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, 1998-2001

Memberships

Senior member of the IEEE, Member of the Jordan Engineering Association.

Contact

tshanableh@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2506

Dr. Tamer Shanableh

Professor
PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, UK

Tamer Shanableh joined AUS in 2002. Previously, he worked as a senior research officer at the University of Essex from 1998 to 2001, and at Motorola UK Labs in 2001. He contributed to establishing the Error Resilient Simple Scalable Profile within ISO/IEC/MPEG-4. Dr. Shanableh spent the summers of 2003 to 2008 as a visiting professor at Motorola Multimedia Labs. In 2012 he worked as a visiting academic at the Multimedia and Computer Vision Lab at the University of London, UK. His research interests include digital video processing and pattern recognition.

Publications

T. Shanableh, ""Altering Split Decisions of Coding Units for Message Embedding in HEVC," Multimedia and Applications, Springer, 2017, DOI 10.1007/s11042-017-4787-6
A. Al-Tayyan, K. Assaleh and T. Shanableh, “Decision-Level Fusion for Single-View Gait Recognition with Various Carrying and Clothing Conditions,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 61, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2017.02.004, May, 2017
T. Shanableh, “Saliency detection in MPEG and HEVC video using intra-frame and inter-frame distances,” Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, 10(4), April, 2016
T. Shanableh, "A regression-based framework for estimating the objective quality of HEVC coding units and video frames," Signal Processing: Image Communication, 22-31, doi:10.1016/j.image.2015.02.008, 34(C), May, 2015
M. Qasmaimeh, A. Sagahyroon, and T. Shanableh, "FPGA-based Parallel Hardware Architecture for Real-Time Image Classification," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2015.2424077, 1(1), March, 2015
N. Tobaiz, T. Shanableh and K. Assaleh, "Glove-Based Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition in User-Dependent Mode," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine System, doi: 10.1109/THMS.2015.2406692, 45(4), August, 2015
E. Peixoto, T. Shanableh and E. Izquierdo, “H.264/AVC to HEVC Video Transcoder based on Dynamic Thresholding and Content Modeling, ” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 24(1), January, 2014
T. Shanableh, “Detection of frame deletion for digital video forensics,” Digital Investigation, Elsevier, 10(4), December 2013
T. Shanableh, E. Peixoto and E. Izquierdo, "MPEG-2 to HEVC video transcoding with content-based modeling," , IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 23(7), July, 2013
T. Shanableh and K. Assaleh, "H.264/AVC Motion Vector Concealment Solutions Using Online and Offline Polynomial Regression," Signal Image and Video Processing, Springer, doi: 10.1007/s11760-013-0489-3, May, 2013
K. Assaleh, T. Shanableh, and Y. Abu-Khail, "Group Method of Data Handling for Modeling Magnetorheological Dampers," Journal of Intelligent Control and Automation (ICA), no. 4, pp. 70-79, 2013.
T. Shanableh, “Matrix encoding for data hiding using multilayer video coding and transcoding solutions,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, Elsevier, 27(9), pp. 1025-1034, October, 2012
T. Shanableh, "Data Hiding in MPEG Video Files Using Multivariate Regression and Flexible Macroblock Ordering," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 7(2), pp.455-464, April, 2012
T. Shanableh, “Prediction of Structural Similarity Index of Compressed Video at a Macroblock Level,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 18(5), May, 2011.
T. Shanableh, “No-Reference PSNR Identification of MPEG Video Using Spectral Regression and Reduced Model Polynomial Networks,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 17(8), August, 2010
T. Shanableh, “Prediction of Structural Similarity Index of Compressed Video at a Macroblock Level,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 18(5), May, 2011.
T.Shanableh and K.Assaleh, “Feature modeling using polynomial classifiers and stepwise regression,” Neurocomputing (2010),doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2009.11.045
K. Assaleh and T. Shanableh, “Robust polynomial classifier using L1- norm minimization,” Applied Intelligence, DOI: 10.1007/s10489-009-0169-8, Feb, 2009.
T. Shanableh, T. May and F. Ishtiaq, “Error Resiliency Transcoding and Decoding Solutions Using Distributed Video Coding Techniques Signal Processing”, Journal of Signal processing: Image communications, (2008), doi:10.1016/j.image.2008.05.005.
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.
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.

Conference Presentations

M. Hassan, K. Assaleh and T. Shanableh, ?User-Dependent Sign Language Recognition Using Motion Detection,? Conference: 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Las Vegas, December, 2016
M. Tuffaha, T. Shanableh and K. Assaleh, ?Novel Feature Extraction and Classification Technique for Sensor-Based Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition,? ICONIP2015, neural information processing, volume 9492 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 290-299, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015
K. Assaleh, T. Shanableh, and S. Yehia, "Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing for Infrastructure Assessment," Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring 2015, San Diego, California, United States, March 8-12, 2015.
T. Shanableh, "Scalable Video Coding Using Hybrid DCT/Wavelets Architectures," Proc. of the 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2014) Kuching, Malaysia, November 3-6, 2014. Volume 8836 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
K. Assaleh, T. Shanableh, and K. Abuqaaud, "Combined Features for Face Recognition in Surveillance Conditions." Proc. of 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2014), Kuching, Malaysia, November 3-6, 2014. Volume 8836 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Peixoto, E., Macchiavello, B., Mintsu Hung E., Shanableh, T., & Izquierdo, E. (2013, September) An H.264/Avc to Hevc Video Transcoder Based on Mode Mapping. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Melbourne, Australia.
Assaleh, K., Shanableh, T., & Zourob, M. (2012, November) Low Complexity Classification System for Glove-Based Arabic Sign Language Recognition, Neural Information Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7665, 2012, pp 262-268, Doha, Qatar.
Assaleh, K., Qaddoumi, N.,Shanableh, T., & El-Jaber, M. (2011, March) A Novel Biometric via Hand Structure Using Near-Field Microwave Imaging. Proc. Of Ninth IEEE international conference on face and gesture recognition, FG11, CA, USA
Shanableh, T., Assaleh, K., Hajjaj, L., & Kabani, A., (2009, December) Gait Recognition System Tailored For Arab Costume of the Gulf Region. IEEE ISSPIT, Ajman, UAE.

Awards and Honors

Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah: A Novel Recognition System for Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition Using Sensor Gloves, 2014-2016
American University of Sharjah Provost’s Challenge Grant, 2011-2012. Title: Innovative Approach to Develop the Main Elements of a Bridge Management System in the United Arab Emirates.
Emirates Foundation Research Grant, Sep. 2009-Sep. 2011. Title: Robust Feature Extraction and Machine Learning Techniques for Automatic Arabic Sign Language Recognition
Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah,2003, 2005 and 2006.

Other creative/research

Patents: T. Shanableh, and F. Ishtiaq, “Macroblock Level No-Reference Objective Quality Estimation of Video ,” Patent number US 20100316131A1, Assignee: Motorola INC., publication date 16/December/2010.
T. Shanableh, S. Hsiang, and F. Ishtiaq, “Method and Apparatus for Encoding and Decoding Video,” Patent number US 2009/0268805A1, Assignee: Motorola INC., publication date 29/October/2009
T. May, F. Ishtiaq and T. Shanableh, “Method and apparatus for video signal processing,” Publication number US 2009/0086826A1, Publication date 2/April/2009
T. Shanableh, “Error resilience method for enhancement layer of scalable video bitstreams,” Patent international application number PCT/EP2003/001612, filing date 18/Feb/2003, publication date 29/Jul/2004.
J. Hare, C. Dolbear and T. Shanableh, “Scalable video transmissions,” Patent international application number PCT/EP2002/012323, international filing date 4/Nov/2002, publication date 25/Sept/2003.
T. Shanableh, M. Ghanbari and M. Nilson “Multi-layer video transcoding,” Patent no. GB0129609.4, December 2001

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