Background

Imran has background education in Electrical engineering with current focus on camera technology and hardware processing platform to perform research in the area real-time video processing systems. The application area is the visual sensor networks, in which smart cameras in the context of wireless sensor networks to acquire visual data, process the data at the sensor node to extract essential information prior to wireless communication. The focus of Imran’s research is on investigation and development of methods for low-energy and programmable architectures of wireless smart cameras.

Imran received his Master in Electrical Engineering from Linköping University, Sweden in 2007 and PhD in Electronics Design from Mid Sweden University, Sweden in 2013.

Area of interest

· Investigation of energy efficient and reconfigurable architectures for wireless Smart Camera Node.

· Vision tasks partitioning on HW/SW platforms and analyzing effect in moving functionality from one platform to other.

· Light weight image and video coding for resource constrained platforms.

Publications

Articles in journals Conference papers Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries Licentiate theses, comprehensive summaries Reports

Articles in journals

Imran, M. , Shahzad, K. , Ahmad, N. , O'Nils, M. , Lawal, N. & Oelmann, B. (2014). Energy Efficient SRAM FPGA based Wireless Vision Sensor Node: SENTIOF‐CAM. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology (Print), vol. 24: 12, pp. 2132-2143.

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , O'Nils, M. , Lawal, N. & Waheed, M. A. (2014). Complexity Analysis of Vision Functions for Comparison of Wireless Smart Cameras. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , pp. Art. no. 710685

Malik, A. W. , Thörnberg, B. , Imran, M. & Lawal, N. (2014). Hardware Architecture for Real-time  Computation of Image Component Feature Descriptors on a FPGA. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , pp. Art. no. 815378

Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , Imran, M. & O'Nils, M. (2013). The effect of packets relaying on the implementation issues of the visual sensor node. Electronics and Electrical Engineering, vol. 19: 10, pp. 155-161.

Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Ahmad, N. & O'Nils, M. (2013). Bi-Level Video Codec for Machine Vision Embedded Applications. ELEKTRONIKA IR ELEKTROTECHNIKA, vol. 19: 8, pp. 93-96.

Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Ahmad, N. & O'Nils, M. (2013). Efficient Data Reduction Techniques for Remote Applications of a Wireless Visual Sensor Network. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 10, pp. Art. no. 240

Ahmad, N. , Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Lawal, N. & O'Nils, M. (2013). Modeling and Verification of a Heterogeneous Sky Surveillance Visual Sensor Network. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , pp. Art. id. 490489

Imran, M. , Ahmad, N. , Khursheed, K. , Malik, A. W. , Lawal, N. & O’Nils, M. (2013). Implementation of Wireless Vision Sensor Node With a Lightweight Bi-Level Video Coding. IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 3: 2, pp. 198-209.

Ahmad, N. , Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Lawal, N. & O'Nils, M. (2013). Model, placement optimization and verification of a sky surveillance visual sensor network. International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC), vol. 3: 3, pp. 125-135.

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Malik, A. W. , Ahmad, N. , O'Nils, M. , Lawal, N. & Thörnberg, B. (2012). Architecture Exploration Based on Tasks Partitioning Between Hardware, Software and Locality for a Wireless Vision Sensor Node. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, vol. 3: 2, pp. 58-71.

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Lawal, N. , O'Nils, M. & Ahmad, N. (2012). Implementation of wireless Vision Sensor Node for Characterization of Particles in Fluids. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology (Print), vol. 22: 11, pp. 1634-1643.

Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Ahmad, N. & O'Nils, M. (). Analysis of change coding for data reduction in wireless visual sensor network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics,

Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , Imran, M. & O'Nils, M. (). Performance analysis of bi-level image compression methods for machine vision embedded applications. IEEE Sensors Journal,

Conference papers

Imran, M. , O'Nils, M. , Kardeby, V. & Munir, H. (2015). STC-CAM1, IR-visual based smart camera system. In ICDSC '15 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras.

Imran, M. , O'Nils, M. , Munir, H. & Thörnberg, B. (2015). Low complexity FPGA based background subtraction technique for thermal imagery. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart CamerasPages 1-6.

Imran, M. , O’Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2014). Energy Driven Selection and Hardware Implementation of Bi-Level Image Compression. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras. ACM :

Imran, M. , O’Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2014). Demo: SRAM FPGA based Wireless Smart Camera: SENTIOF-CAM. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras.

Ahmad, N. , Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Lawal, N. & O'Nils, M. (2013). Solution space exploration of volumetric surveillance using a general taxonomy. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. (Proceedings of SPIE). pp. Art. no. 871317-

Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , Imran, M. & O'Nils, M. (2013). Binary video codec for data reduction in wireless visual sensor networks. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. (Proceedings of SPIE). pp. Art. no. 86560L-

Imran, M. , Ahmad, N. , Khursheed, K. , O’Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2013). Low Complexity Background Subtraction for Wireless Vision Sensor Node. In Proceedings - 16th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2013.. pp. 681--688.

Imran, M. , Benkrid, K. , Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , O’Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2013). Analysis and Characterization of Embedded Vision Systems for Taxonomy Formulation. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. USA : (Proceedings of SPIE). pp. Art. no. 86560J-

Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Ahmad, N. & O'Nils, M. (2012). Selection of bi-level image compression method for reduction of communication energy in wireless visual sensor networks. In SPIE : Proc. SPIE 8437, 84370M (2012).

Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , Imran, M. & O'Nils, M. (2012). Detecting and Coding Region of Interests in Bi-Level Images for Data Reduction in Wireless Visual Sensor Network. In Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on.. pp. 705--712.

Ahmad, N. , Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Lawal, N. & O'Nils, M. (2012). Cost Optimization of a Sky Surveillance Visual Sensor Network. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Belgium : (Proceedings of SPIE). pp. Art. no. 84370U-

Malik, A. W. , Thörnberg, B. , Meng, X. & Imran, M. (2012). Real-Time machine vision system using FPGA and soft-core processor. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.. pp. Art. no. 84370Z-

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , Malik, A. W. , O'Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2012). Complexity Analysis of Vision Functions for implementation of Wireless Smart Cameras using System Taxonomy. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Belgium : (Proceedings of SPIE). pp. Art. no. 84370C-

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , Ahmad, N. , O'Nils, M. , Lawal, N. & Waheed, M. A. (2012). Architecture of Wireless Visual Sensor Node with Region of Interest Coding. In Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application, NESEA 2012.. pp. Art. no. 6474029-

Ahmad, N. , Lawal, N. , O'Nils, M. , Oelmann, B. , Imran, M. & Khursheed, K. (2011). Model and placement optimization of a sky surveillance visual sensor network. In Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, BWCCA 2011.. pp. 357--362.

Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , Malik, A. W. , O'Nils, M. , Lawal, N. & Thörnberg, B. (2011). Exploration of tasks partitioning between hardware software and locality for a wireless camera based vision sensor node. In Proceedings - 6th International Symposium on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, PARELEC 2011.. pp. 127--132.

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , O’ Nills, M. & Gustafsson, O. (2010). On the number representation in sub-expression sharing. In International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, ICSES'10 - Conference Proceeding 2010,.. pp. 17--20.

Imran, M. , Khursheed, K. , O’ Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2010). Exploration of Target Architecture for aWireless Camera Based Sensor Node. In 28th Norchip Conference, NORCHIP 2010.. pp. 1--4.

Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. , O'Nils, M. & Lawal, N. (2010). Exploration of Local and Central Processing for a Wireless Camera Based Sensor Node. In International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, ICSES'10 - Conference Proceeding 2010, Article number 5595231.. pp. 147--150.

Gustafsson, O. , Khursheed, K. , Imran, M. & Wanhammar, L. (2010). Generalized overlapping digit patterns for multi-dimensional sub-expression sharing. In 1st International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems, ICGCS 2010.. pp. 65--68.

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Imran, M. (2013). Energy Efficient and Programmable Architecture for Wireless Vision Sensor Node. Dis. (Comprehensive summary) Sundsvall : Mid Sweden University, 2013 (Mid Sweden University doctoral thesis : 167)

Licentiate theses, comprehensive summaries

Imran, M. (2011). Investigation of Architectures for Wireless Visual Sensor Nodes. Lic. (Comprehensive summary) Sundsvall : Mid Sweden University, 2011 (Mid Sweden University licentiate thesis : 66)

Reports

Imran, M. (2011). Analysis of Vision systems and Taxonomy Formulation : An abstract model for generalization. Sundsvall : Mid Sweden University (Research report in electronics 1)