Prof. Dr. Khalid Saeed visits SDA

saeedProf. Dr. Khalid Saeed (ResearchGate) from Bialystok University of Technology, Bialystok, Poland was visiting the SDA group on October 24, 2018.

Khalid Saeed is a full Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science at Bialystok University of Technology and Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. He was with AGH Krakow in 2008-2014.

Khalid Saeed received the BSc Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Baghdad University in 1976, the MSc and PhD Degrees from the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He was nominated by the President of Poland for the title of Professor in 2014. He received his DSc Degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He has published more than 200 publications – 23 edited books and 8 text and reference books. He supervised more than 110 MSc and 12 PhD theses. He received more than 20 academic awards. His areas of interest are Image Analysis and Processing, Biometrics and Computer Information Systems.

Prof. Jens Lehmann invited the speaker to the bi-weekly “SDA colloquium presentations”. 20-30 researchers and students from SDA attended. The goal of his visit was to exchange experience and ideas on biometrics applications in daily life, including face recognition, fingerprints, privacy and many more. Apart from presenting various use-cases where biometrics has helped scientists to get useful insights from image analysis and processing and row data, Prof. Dr. Saeed shared with our group future research problems and challenges related to this research area and gave a talk on “Biometrics in everyday life”.

As part of a national BMBF funded project, Prof. Saeed (BUT) is cooperating currently with Fraunhofer IAIS in the field of cognitive engineering, and as an outcome of this visit, we expect to strengthen our research collaboration networks with WUT and BUT, mainly on combining semantic knowledge and Ubiquitous Computing and its applications; Emotion Detection and Kansei Engineering.

Simultaneously, this talk was a continuous networking within EU H2020 LAMBDA project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics) and as part of this eventDr. Valentina Janev from the Institute “Mihajlo Pupin” (PUPIN) was attending the SDA meeting to investigate further networking with potential partners from Poland as well. Among other points, co-organizing coming conferences and writing joint-research papers have been discussed.