Dr Golam Sorwar BSc(BUET), MSc(UKM), PhD(Monash) I am a lecturer with the School of Commerce and Management (Multimedia and Information Technology discipline) at the Coffs Harbour Campus of Southern Cross University. I received BSc Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1994 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh, MSc Degree in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Eng. in 1998 from National University of Malaysia, Malaysia, and PhD Degree in Information Technology from Monash University, Australia in 2003. My main area of teaching is in the areas of computer communication and networks, multimedia resource development and application programming. My major research interests are in the fields of multimedia signal processing and communication, electronic health and telemedicine applications, sensor networks and artificial intelligence. I have published more than 40 peer-reviewed internal /national journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. I am a member of IEEE, USA; ACS, Australia and IEB, Bangladesh. I
Journal articles
Robust object segmentation using split-and-merge (with A BM Faruquzzaman, Nafize Rabbani Paiker, Jahidul Arafat, and M Ameer Ali), International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (2009)
In spite of simplicity and effectiveness in segmenting homogeneous regions in an image, Split-and-Merge (SM)...
Finding significant points for parametric curve generation techniques (with Mohammed Riazur Rahman and M Ameer Ali), IETECH Journal of Advanced Computations (2008)
A fully adaptive distance-dependent thresholding search (FADTS) algorithm for performance-management motion estimation (with Manzur Murshed and Laurence S. Dooley), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2007)
Trading off computational complexity and quality is an important performance constraint for real time application...
Filtering of block motion vectors for use in motion-based video indexing and retrieval (with Manzur Murshed and Laurence S. Dooley), IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (2005)
Though block-based motion estimation techniques are primarily designed for video coding applications, they are increasingly...
DCT based texture classification using soft computing approach (with Ajith Abraham), Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (2004)
Classification of texture patterns is one of the most important problems in pattern recognition. In...
Book chapters
Performance scalable motion estimation for video coding: an overview of current status and a promising approach (with M Murshed), Multimedia networking and coding (2012)
Motion estimation is one of the major bottlenecks in real-time performance scalable video coding applications...
Electronic medical prescription: an overview of current status and issues (with San Murugesan), Biomedical knowledge management: infrastructures and processes for e-health systems (2010)
Even today most medical prescriptions are typically handwritten or printed on paper and hand-delivered to...
Conference publications
Generation of Bangla text from universal networking language expression (with Md. Nawab Yousuf Ali, Shaikh Muhammad Muhammad Allayear, and M Ameer Ameer Ali), 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Processing & Computing (2012)
This paper presents a work on generating Bangla sentences from an interlingua representation called Universal...
Smart-TV based integrated e-health monitoring system with agent technology (with Raqibul Hasan), 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (2012)
An ageing population is now the leading concern for
higher healthcare costs due to more cases...
Dynamic trust model for reliable transactions in multi-agent systems (with Anupam Das and Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam), Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (2011)
Most network applications such as pervasive computing, grid computing, P2P etc. can be viewed as...
Advance telemedicine system using 3G cullular networks and agent technology (with M Ameer Ali), Proceedings of Advances in Information and Communication Technology: Internationa Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Conference (2010)
The world’s ageing population and prevalence of chronic diseases have lead to high demand for...