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Selected Journal Publications:

K. Tarmissi, A. Ben Hamza "Multivariate kernel diffusion for surface denoising,'' Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 191-201, June 2011.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya "Video watermarking using wavelet transform and tensor algebra,'' Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 233-245, June 2010.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya "Watermarking 3D models using spectral mesh compression,'' Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 375-389, December 2009.

  Ying Zhang, A. Ben Hamza  "Vertex-based diffusion for 3D mesh denoising," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1036-1045, April 2007.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya "Improved image watermarking scheme using fast Hadamard and discrete wavelet transforms,'' Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 033020.1-033020.9, July 2007.

A. Ben Hamza, David J. Brady  "Reconstruction of reflectance spectra using robust non-negative matrix factorization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 3637-3642, September 2006.

A. Ben Hamza, Hamid Krim  "Geodesic matching of triangulated surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 2249- 2258, August 2006.

A. Ben Hamza  "A nonextensive information-theoretic measure for image edge detection," Journal of  Electronic Imaging, vol. 15, no.1, pp. 13011.1-13011.8, March 2006.

John Burchett, M. Shankar, A. Ben Hamza, B.D. Guenther, N.  Pitsianis, David J. Brady  "Lightweight biometric detection system for human classification using pyroelectric infrared detectors," Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 13, pp. 3031-3037, May 2006.

A. Ben Hamza,  Yun He, Hamid Krim, Alan Willsky  "A multiscale approach to pixel-level image fusion," Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 12, no.2, pp. 135-146, 2005.

A. Ben Hamza,  Hamid Krim, Josiane Zerubia  "A nonlinear entropic variational model for  image filtering," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 16, pp. 2408-2422, November 2004.

Yun He,  A. Ben Hamza,  Hamid Krim  "A generalized divergence measure for robust image registration," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 1211-1220, May 2003.

A. Ben Hamza, Hamid Krim, Gozde Unal  "Unifying probabilistic and variational estimation," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 37-47, September 2002.

A. Ben Hamza,  Hamid Krim  "Image denoising: a nonLinear robust statistical approach," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 3045-3054, December 2001.

Selected Conference Publications:

E. Elsheh, A. Ben Hamza  "Robust approaches to 3D object secret sharing,'' Proc. International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6111, pp. 326-335, 2010.

W. Wan, J. Bentahar, A. Ben Hamza  "Modeling and verifying agent-based communities of web services,'' Proc. International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems -- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6097, pp. 418-427, 2010.

M. Khader, A. Ben Hamza  "Multimodality image alignment using information-theoretic approach,'' Proc. International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6112, pp. 30-39, 2010.

W. Mohamed, A. Ben Hamza, K. Gharaibeh  "Graph-theoretic image alignment using topological features,'' Proc. International Symposium on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6026, pp. 199-209, 2010.

W. Mohamed, A. Ben Hamza  "Nonextensive entropic image registration,'' Proc. International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5627, pp. 116-125, 2009.

K. Tarmissi, A. Ben Hamza  "Geometric mesh denoising via multivariate kernel diffusion,'' Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5496, pp. 23-33, 2009.

K. Tarmissi, A. Ben Hamza  "Feature-preserving kernel diffusion for surface denoising,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, 2009.

W. Mohamed, Y. Zhang, A. Ben Hamza, N. Bouguila  "Stochastic optimization approach for entropic image alignment,'' Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, 2008.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya, "Robust 3D watermarking using eigendecomposition and nonnegative matrix factorization,'' Proc. International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5112, pp. 253-262, 2008.

N. Bouguila, J.H. Wang, A. Ben Hamza  "A Bayesian approach for software quality prediction,'' Proc. IEEE International Symposium on on Intelligent Systems, Varna, Bulgaria, 2008.

Y. Luo, T. Bergander, A. Ben Hamza  "Software reliability growth modelling using a weighted Laplace test statistic,'' Proc. IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Beijing, China, 2007.

T. Bergander, Y. Luo, A. Ben Hamza  "Software defects prediction using operating characteristic curves,'' Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work, Las Vegas, USA, 2007.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya, "MPEG video watermarking using tensor singular value decomposition,'' Proc. International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4633, pp. 772-783, 2007.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya "Spectral graph-theoretic approach to 3D mesh watermarking,'' Proc. ACM Graphics Interface Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2007.

E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, P. Bhattacharya "A robust block-based image watermarking scheme using fast Hadamard transform and singular value decomposition,'' Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, 2006.

M. Ghaderpanah, A. Ben Hamza "A nonnegative matrix factorization scheme for digital image watermarking,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Toronto, Canada, 2006.

M. Aguilera, A. Ben Hamza "An information-theoretic approach to georegistration of digital elevation maps,'' Proc. IEEE Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Quebec City, Canada, 2006.

A. Ben Hamza, H. Krim  "Probabilistic shape descriptor for triangulated surfaces,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Italy, 2005.

A. Ben Hamza "Entropic smoothing of 3D volumetric medical images,'' Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, USA, 2005.

A. Gunduz, A. Ben Hamza, H. Krim, and D.V. Zenkov  "Topology coding via distance function based Reeb graphs,'' Proc. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Belgium, 2004.

A. Ben Hamza,  H. Krim "Image registration and segmentation by maximizing the Jensen-Renyi divergence", Proc. International Conference Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2683, pp. 147-163, 2003.

 A. Ben Hamza,  H. Krim  "Geodesic object representation and recognition", Proc. International Conference Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2886, pp. 378-387, 2003.

A. Ben Hamza, H. Krim  "Jensen-Renyi divergence measure: theoretical and computational perspectives,'' Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Japan, 2003.

A. Ben Hamza, H. Krim  "A topological skeleton of illuminated manifolds,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Spain, 2003.

A. Ben Hamza, H. Krim  "A topological variational model for image singularities,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, 2002.

B.R. Lee, A. Ben Hamza, H. Krim  "An active contour model for image segmentation: a variational perspective,'' Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.