>> Biographical sketch (en
Français)Education and Experience:
Since June 2007, Dr. Amer is an associate professor with the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
From August 2002- May 2007, she was an assistant professor with the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
In 2002, Dr. Amer was with the INRS as a research associate.
From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Amer was with Siemens-AG/Munich and the Electrical Engineering Department, University Dortmund, as a research and development associate. There, she was involved in industrial projects on TV-signal
analysis and quality enhancement. Some patents and publications are a result of her work in these areas.
Aishy Amer received the Diplom degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) of the Université du Québec, Canada, in 2001.
Research:
Research interests of Dr. Amer include
Video Processing, Audio-Video Integration, Multimedia,
Real-Time Imaging, Video Surveillance, Advanced TV-Systems,
Video Analysis (Object Segmentation, Object Tracking, & Object Motion
Estimation), Video Quality Enhancement (Noise Reduction
and Estimation), Video Interpretation (Event and Semantic Detection).
She is particularly interested in applicable methods in video object segmentation
and video surveillance, where video processing techniques are
studied with emphasis to integration into a end-to-end video system.
Recognition:
Aishy Amer has five patents and over 60 publications.
One of her algorithms (on noise reduction) is implemented
in TV chip-sets of Siemens-AG, Munich, Germany.
She has a commercialized technology in the area of noise reduction, 2011.
She has a commercialized
technology in
"Intelligent Video
Surveillance" with Valeo Management L.P., Montreal, Canada, April
2006.
One of her projects "An Online System For Synchronized Processing of
Video and Audio Signals" won the 2nd prize in the MET 4th year
thesis/project award of a Canada-wide competition
organized by the University of Toronto, April 2006
(http://www.met.utoronto.ca/met/award.html).
Three of her final year undergraduate projects won "Honourable Mention Certificate" as
part of a final year project competition at the department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada.
During her Ph.D and Diplom studies, Dr. Amer received the INRS
(Quebec), the
ASAI (USA), and the KAAD (Germany) awards for international students.
Professional Activities:
Dr. Amer is a member of the IEEE, of the SPIE, and of the FKTG
(Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft the "Association for Television
and Cinema technology"), Germany.
Dr. Amer was an Associate Researcher at the Institute National
d'Optique (INO) in 2005.
She served as an Associate Editor for the Elsevier Journal for
Real-Time Imaging (RTI) from Oct. 2003 to Dec. 2005.
Dr. Amer served as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue On
Video Object Processing for Surveillance Applications, Elsevier Journal of
Real-Time Imaging, February 2005.
Dr. Amer served in the organizing committees for the IEEE
ICASSP 2004 and for the SPIE EI Real-Time Imaging 2004.
She served in the Technical Program Committees for the IEEE
ICIP 2004, 2005, 2006.
She served in the Technical Program Committees for the IEEE
Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance.
She acts as a Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and the Elsevier Journals
"Pattern Recognition Letters", "Real-Time Imaging".
She serves as a reviewer for several grant applications of the NSERC
(Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) and of
the NWO (Netherlands
organisation for scientific research) VIEW programme (Visual Interactive
Effective Worlds).
She has served as a session chair in various IEEE and
SPIE International Conferences.
Funding Sources:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies (NATEQ)
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Industrial sources
Concordia University:
Lab upgrade funds, faculty research development funds, Fine
Arts/Engineering seeds grants competition
