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Dr. Muhammad Arif

 

Principal Engineer (Associate Professor)

Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences,

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and

Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

My research areas include Biometrics, Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Intelligent monitoring.

Biometrics

The research field of biometrics is evolving at a faster pace due to the availability of large computational resources at cheaper price. It can be applied to a variety of areas including forensics as well as civilian applications like ATMs, smart cards, computers, helping aids for the disabled persons etc. Biometrics is the science of identifying or verifying a person on the basis of his physical and behavioral features which may include his fingerprints, iris, face, voice, walking gait, hand geometry, signatures etc. I am exploring new algorithms to obtain high accuracy of classifications.

  

Intelligent Pattern Recognition

I am doing research in computational intelligence using neural networks and genetic algorithms in various applications related to pattern recognition. Areas of applications include character recognition and biomedical signals. We are applying various pattern recognition techniques in heart rate variability analysis to classify the diseases. I am also looking forward to do research in brain activity analysis.

Intelligent Monitoring

Walking gait stability of a person becomes more and more important as he grew old. Young persons can easily compensate various internal as well external perturbations that can cause instability in the human walking gait but due to less muscular strength and other medical factors, senior citizens becomes more prone to fall Hence it is very important to monitor the walking stability of senior citizens. I am doing research in analyzing the walking stability of senior citizens in collaboration with the Tohoku University, Japan.