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Dr. Alavikunhu Panthakkan

A Unit of University of Dubai

Dr. Alavikunhu Panthakkan

Dr. Alavikunhu Panthakkan
Email ID: apanthakkan@udv.ud.ac.ae
Contact Number: : +971 55 28 16 402
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/panthakkan/
Professional Summary
Dr. Alavikunhu Panthakkan is a dynamic research scientist in electronics engineering and image signal processing. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, copyright protection, authentication, medical image processing, video signal processing and artificial neural network He has 4 years’ experience in IT/Automation industry and 8 years’ experience in Colleges/University. He has published more than 25 papers in international conferences and journals. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), member of Institution of Engineers (India) (MIE) and member of Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED).
Consulting Niche – Areas of Expertise

  • Copyright Protection and Authentication
  • Medical Image Processing
  • Image Enhancement and Super-Resolution Imaging
  • Image Segmentation and Classification
  • Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence
Professional Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • Cisco Certified Voice Professional (CCVP)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS)
  • LABVIEW and MULTISIM – By National Instruments
  • CompTIA Linux– By New Horizons
Professional Body Membership

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  • Institution of Engineers (India) (MIE)
  • International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
  • International Association of Computer and Information Technology (IACSIT), Singapore
  • Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED)
List the Corporate Training / Workshops 

  • Machine Vision Course Workshop
  • Mobile Apps Development Workshop
  • MATLAB Programming Workshop
Professional Association with Any Research / Professional / Corporate body 

  •  Muhammed Bin Rashid Space Center Research Projects at University of Dubai MBRSC Research Lab
    o Building detection from Satellite Images using Region Properties and PCA
    o Water area detection from Satellite Images using Deeplearing Algorithms
List of Public Sectors or Private Companies/Corporate / Research Organizations in which you had been part of as employee / as Advisor / Consultant / Researcher  

  • Muhammed Bin Rashid Space Center
  • Innosoft Gulf, Dubai, they providing high-quality IT training in leading edge technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
  • Professional consultation to Startup company called “Fenbits Technology Solutions” for their research project titled “Unmanned Aquatic Robot”.
List of Different Countries / Regions 
India, UAEAcademic Positions:

  • Lecture, University of Dubai, Dubai, UAE, March 2016 -now.
    College of Engineering and IT Department.
  • Assistant Professor, Cochin College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala, India, Dec. 2015 –Dec 2016.
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  • Instructor, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Sharjah, UAE, Mar. 2008 – Sep. 2014.
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Industrial Positions:

  • Project Engineer, SIBCA Electronics, Abu Dhabi, UAE, May. 2006 – Jan. 2008.
  • Technical Consultant, Grey Technolabs, Cochin, India, Jun. 2004 – March 2006.
List your Top 10 Research Publications / White Papers

  • “Autonomous Building Detection Using Region Properties and PCA”, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Security (ICSPIS), Dubai, UAE, November 2018
  • “Detection of Water-Bodies Using Semantic Segmentation”, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Security (ICSPIS), Dubai, UAE, November 2018
  • “Automatic Vehicle Detection from Aerial Images using Cascaded Support Vector Machine and Gaussian Mixture Model”, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Security (ICSPIS), Dubai, UAE, November 2018
  • “Automatic palm trees detection from multispectral UAV data using template matching and circular Hough transform”, SPIE Remote Sensing, Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 2018
  • “Design and implementation of highly efficient digital watermarking prototype for securing copyright and authentication of satellite imagery”, SPIE Remote Sensing, Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 2018
  • “Medical Images Protection and Authentication using hybrid DWT-DCT and SHA256-MD5 Hash Functions”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems(ICECS2017), Batumi, Georgia, December 2017.
  • “A Reversible Watermarking Scheme for Ownership Protection and Authentication of Medical Images”, IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA2017), American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, Nov 2017.
  • “A New Reversible Watermarking Technique using Turbo Product Code and Adaptive Prediction Algorithm for Satellite Images”, IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST’17) – Beijing, China, October 2017.
  • “A New Hybrid Watermarking Algorithm for MRI Medical Images using DWT and Hash Functions”, 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’16), Orlando, FL, USA, August 2016.
  • “Colorization of gray scale using Discrete Cosine Transform and Artificial Neural Network”, IEEE Online International Conference on Green Engineering and Technologies (IC-GET), Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India, November 2015.
  • “Early Diagnosis and Detection of Cancer using Artificial Neural Network based Prediction Algorithm”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE), Vol. 4, Special Issue 1, June 2015.
  • “Robust Watermarking Technique based on DCT to Protect the Ownership of DubaiSat-1 Images against Attacks”, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), VOL.12 No.6, June 2012.
  • Published a printed book titled “Robust and Fragile Watermarking Techniques”, LAMBERT Academic Publishing