DIGITAL INFORMATION

COMPUTATION & RETRIEVAL

Research Group

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA

CONTACT US

+603 8947 1769

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shyamala Doraisamy (Leader)Digital Information Computation &

Retrieval Research Group (DICR)Faculty of Computer Scienceand Information Technology

Universiti Putra Malaysia43400 UPM Serdang Selangor

MALAYSIA

shyamala@upm.edu.my

Members

Dr. Azreen AzmanPh.D., University of GlasgowTel.: +603 8947 1717 Email: azreenazman@upm.edu.my

Specialisation: Information Retrieval, Text Mining

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shyamala Doraisamy (Leader)Ph.D., Imperial College LondonTel.: +603 8947 1769 Email: shyamala@upm.edu.my

Specialisation: Speech and Audio Processing, Multimedia Analytics, Music Information Retrieval

Dr. Alfian Abdul HalinPh.D., Universiti Sains MalaysiaWebsite: h�ps://sites.google.com/site/alfianhalinTel.: +603 8947 1798 Email: alfian@ieee.org

Specialisation: Image and Audio Processing using Machine Learning, Pa�ern Recognition

Dr. Mas Rina MustaffaPh.D., Universiti Putra MalaysiaTel.: +603 8947 1726 Email: masrina@upm.edu.my

Specialisation: Multimedia Systems and Applications, Content-based Image Retrieval, Pa�ern Recognition, Image Processing

Nurul Amelina NasharuddinMaster of Comp. Science, Universiti Putra MalaysiaEmail: nurulamelina@upm.edu.my

Specialisation: Cross-lingual Information Retrieval, Multimedia Computing

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhamad Taufik AbdullahPh.D., Universiti Putra MalaysiaWebsite: h�p://profile.upm.edu.my/mta/profail.htmlTel.: +603 8947 1723 Email: mta@upm.edu.my

Specialisation: Information Retrieval, Multimedia Computing

Research Areas Information Retrieval; Intelligent Multimedia Data Processing, Analysis and Access; Multimodal Sentiment Analysis; Multimodal Interaction and Query Technologies; Natural Language Processing; Image and Video Processing and Sense-making; Speech and Audio Processing; Music and Computing; Web and Search Engine Technologies; Multimedia Analytics; and Emerging Trends in Multimedia Big Data.

Ongoing ProjectsEffective Content-based Fish Species Image Retrieval based on Enhanced Zernike-Moments-Local Directional Pa�ern (FRGS)Duration: 2016 – 2018, Project leader: Dr. Mas Rina

Aesthetics Energy of Image Color-based Point of Regard Estimation for Distance Independent Non-Intrusive Eye Gaze Tracking (FRGS)Duration: 2014 – 2017, Project leader: Dr. Alfian

An Effective Model to Predict Sentiment Influence within Social Media based on Information Foraging Theory (FRGS)Duration: 2015 - 2017, Project leader: Dr. Azreen

Feature-based Document Alignment Method for High Accuracy in Aligning Malay and English Comparable News Collection (FRGS)Duration: 2014 - 2017, Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhamad Taufik

Current advancements in digital technologies have caused an

explosion in the volume and diversity of document collections, which include

textual, image, audio and video. This has spurred widespread interest in

media-specific information retrieval and its related computational research.

The DICR research group focuses on

investigating techniques in managing large document collections, transforming data into computational representations

and devising strategies for optimal storage, processing, organisation, retrieval

and interaction with these digital document collections.

Zand, M., Doraisamy, S., Abdul Halin, A., Mustaffa, M.R. Ontology-Based Semantic Image Segmentation Using Mixture Models and Multiple CRFs, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 25(7), July 2016, pp. 3233-3248. (IF: 3.735).

Nematollahi, M.A., Al-Haddad, S.A.R., Doraisamy, S., Gamboa-Rosales, H. Speaker Frame Selection for Digital Speech Watermarking, National Academy Science Le�ers, Vol 39(3), June 2016, pp. 197-201. (IF: 0.345).

Abubacker, N.F., Azman, A., Doraisamy, S., Murad, M.A.A. An Integrated Method of Associative Classification and Neuro-fuzzy Approach for Effective Mammographic Classification, Neural Computing and Applications, April 2016, pp. 1-14. (IF: 1.492).

Zand., M., Doraisamy, S., Abdul Halin, A., Mustaffa, M.R. Visual and Semantic Context Modeling for Scene-centric Image Annotation, Multimedia Tools and Applications, April 2016, pp. 1-25. (IF: 1.410).

Mansourian, L., Abdullah, M.T., Abdullah, L.N., Mustaffa, M.R. A Salient Based Bag of Visual Words Model (SBBoVW): Improvements toward Difficult Object Recognition and Object Location in Image Retrieval, KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, Vol 10(2), February 2016, pp. 769-786. (IF: 0.365).

Selected Publications

Mustaffa, M.R., Norowi, N., Yee, S.M., Content-based Image Retrieval System for Marine Invertebrates, in Proc. 2016 Third International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP’16), Ha�en Hotel Melaka, Malaysia, 23-24 August 2016.Best Paper Award

Alshari, E.M., Azman, A., Mustapha, N., Doraisamy, S., Alksher, M. Prediction of Rating from Comment-based on Information Retrieval and Sentiment Analysis, in Proc. 2016 Third International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP’16), Ha�en Hotel Melaka, Malaysia, 23-24 August 2016.Best Paper Award

Recognitions