Mohammed Bennamoun

Mohammed Bennamoun received his PhD from Queen's University, Canada/ Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia in the area of Computer Vision. He has been a full Professor and the Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at the University of Western Australia (UWA) since 2007. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at CSSE, a Senior Lecturer at QUT, and a Lecturer at Queen’s. He was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in 2006. He was also a Visiting Professor at several other institutions including CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Telecom Lille1, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Bourgogne and University of Paris 13. He is the co-author of the book “Object Recognition: Fundamentals and Case Studies” published by Springer-Verlag. He published over 140 journal and conference publications, and served as a guest editor for several special issues in international journals. His areas of interest include control theory, robotics, obstacle avoidance, object recognition, artificial neural networks, signal/image processing, and computer vision, and lately, in the development of tools for combining text and image analysis.

Publications

Sparse Representation for View-Based Face Recognition
Imran Naseem, Imran Naseem, Roberto Togneri, Roberto Togneri, Mohammed Bennamoun. © 2011. 14 pages.
In this chapter, the authors discuss the problem of face recognition using sparse representation classification (SRC). The SRC classifier has recently emerged as one of the...
Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances
Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun. © 2011. 358 pages.
Ontologies form an indispensable part of the Semantic Web standard stack. While the Semantic Web is still our vision into the future, ontologies have already found a myriad of...