Photo of Dr Manoranjan Paul Dr Manoranjan Paul

PhD Monash

Manoranjan Paul received the B.Sc.Eng. (hons.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1997 and the PhD degree from Monash University, Australia in 2005. He has 12 years research experience in image and video related fields and 10 years teaching experience in the field of Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology as an Assistant Professor, Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer.

Now, Dr. Paul is an Associate Director, Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS) and Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University. 

He joined the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh as a Lecturer in 1997 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2000. He has worked as a Research Fellow in the University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra, Australia in 2005~2006, Monash University, Australia in 2006~2009, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2009~2011. Now he is a Faculty Member at the School of Computing and Mathematics of Charles Sturt University, Australia and Associate Director of Centre for Research in complex Systems. He is a video coding expert. His major research interests are in the fields of image/video coding/compression, computer vision, and EEG signals. He has published more than 60 fully refereed international journals, book chapters, and conference articles. Dr. Paul regularly published in the top ranked journals such as IEEE Transactions on image processing, IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, and IEEE Transactions on multimedia which are the top ranked journals in the fields of image processing, video technology, and multimedia respectively. Dr Paul is a full member of the IEEE ('03) and ACS ('05).

Dr. Paul obtained an ARC (Australian Research council) discovery grant on “Multiview Video coding,” $315,000 for 2013-2015 with Professor Manzur Murshed. Dr. Paul organized a special session on "New video coding technologies" in the IEEE ISCAS-2010. He is an invited keynote speaker on "Vision friendly video coding towards the next generation video coding standard H.265/HPVC" in the IEEE ICCIT-2010. He is an Editor of International Journal of Engineering and Industries (IJEI) and International Journal of Soft Computing, Mathematics and Control (IJSCMC). He is also a Guest Editor for four special issues of Journal of Multimedia from 2008 to 2013. He is a program committee member of 17 International conferences. He obtained more than $800,000 competitive grants including ARC DP project, Australian-China Science Research fund, and ARC Research Network grants. He has supervised 10 PhD/DIT, one Masters, and 7 undergraduate students.

Research Interest: Video coding, Image Processing, Computer Vision, EEG signal processing, and Eye tracking technology. For detailed information regarding research please visit his personal website: http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~rpaul/.

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Teaching Responsibilities

  • ITC369: Computer Vision
  • ITC713: Advanced Readings in Information Technology
  • ITC200 Database Administration
  • ITC206 Programming in Java 1
  • ITC262 Operating Systems
  • ITC313 Programming in Java 2
  • ITC421 Programming in Java 1 for Postgraduate Students 

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Grants

  • Manzur Murshed and Manoranjan Paul, “Multiview Video Coding using Cuboid Data Compression”, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, $315,000, 2013~2015 (External Grant).
  • Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Terry Bossomaier, and Zahid Islam, “Abnormal event detection”, Charles Sturt University Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG), 2012, $43,000.
  • Junbin Gao, Terry Bossomaier, Manoranjan Paul, Michael Antolovich, and Paul Kwan, “WAREIGS: Wavelet-Network-Based Augmented-Reality-Enhanced Image-Guided Surgery,” Australia-China Science Research Fund (ACSRF), 2012, $38,000 (External Grant).
  • Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Manoranjan Paul, and Jim Tulip, “Efficient Algorithms for Nuclear Norm Minimization,” Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2012-2013, $12,702.
  • Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, and Jim Tulip, “Eye controlled video coding,” Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2012-2013, $12,929.
  • Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael, and Terry Bossomaier, “Mentoring support for obtaining grant,” Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2011, $9,902.
  • Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael, and Terry Bossomaier, “Project Funding,” Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2011, $4,600.
  • Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Manoranjan Paul, Jim Tulip and David Tien, “Visiting Fellow,” Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2011, $14,036.
  • Manoranjan Paul, “Charles Sturt University Seed Grant 2011”, 2011, $4,620.
  • Manoranjan Paul, “A Real-Time Human Behaviour Recognition Framework for Video Surveillance,” Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University Early Career Grant, 2008, $20,000 (Top ranked project but could not obtained due to CI’s institution move).
  • Manoranjan Paul and Weisi Lin, “Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) project,” Nanyang Technological University, 2009, 4× $3600 = $14,400.
  • Weisi Lin and Manoranjan Paul, “Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) project,” Nanyang Technological University, 2010, 2× $3600 = $7,200.
  • Manoranjan Paul, Manzur Murshed, and Xiaofang Zhou, “Video Signal Processing and Communication Taskforce Grant,” ARC (Australian Research Council) Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2007, $25,000 (External Grant).
  • Manoranjan Paul and Heng Tao, “First Australian Video Conference (AusVideo) Grant,” ARC (Australian Research Council) Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2007, $10,000 (External Grant).
  • Manoranjan Paul, “EII workshop Travel Grant,” (Australian Research Council) Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2006-08, $6,000 (External Grant).
  • Manoranjan Paul, “Gippsland Linkage and Discovery Initiative Scheme”, Monash University, 2008, $5,000.
  • Manoranjan Paul, “Publication Time Release Scheme (PTRS),” Monash University, Gippsland Campus, 2008, $2,500.
  • Manoranjan Paul, “National & International Conference Travel Grant Scheme (NICTGS),” Monash University, Gippsland Campus, 2008, $2,000.
  • Manoranjan Paul, “National Conference Travel Grant Scheme,” Monash University, Clayton Campus, 2008, $700.
  • Manoranjan Paul, “Higher Study Grants,” Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, 2001, TK. 200,000.

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Research Focus
  • Low Bit Rate Video Coding: We have developed pattern-based video coding techniques which outperform the existing video coding standard H.264/AVC by compressing video up to 25% while maintaining the same video quality at low bit rates. Contributions are published in IEEE TCSVT 2005, IEEE SPL 2007, and IEEE TIP 2011.
  • Optimal Video Compression Plan: All existing video coding standards developed so far deem video as a sequence of natural frames (formed in the XY plane), and treat spatial redundancy (redundancy along X and Y directions) and temporal redundancy along T (direction) differently and separately. We investigate into a new compression redundancy reduction) method for video in which the frames are allowed to be formed in a non-XY plane. We are to exploit fuller extent of video redundancy, and propose an adaptive optimal compression plane (OCP) determination process to be used as a preprocessing step prior to any standard video coding scheme. The new coding method improves the performance of the video coding, for a number of coding methods (inclusive of lossless and near-lossless Motion JPEG-LS, Motion JPEG, Motion JPG2K, H.264 intra-only profile and H.264) and videos with different visual content. Contributions are published in IEEE TIP 2011 and DICTA2011.
  • Low Complexity Video Coding: We have developed a number of techniques which reduce the computational complexity up to 70% of the existing video coding standard H.264/AVC while maintaining the same rate-distortion performance. Significant contributions are published in IEEE TMM 2009, IEEE TIP 2011.
  • Image Decomposition and Just Noticeable Distortion (JND): We can differentiate edge and texture regions from an image. We can also measure just noticeable distortion (JND) in an image or video where human could not recognize the change. Contributions are published in IEEE TCSVT 2010, ICME 2010.
  • Occlusion handling: In this research we have separated object and background and then successfully handled occlusion problem for motion estimation and motion compensation. Contributions are published in IEEE TIP 2010 and IEEE TCSVT 2011.
  • Video & Image: Coding, Compression, Processing, Registration, Decomposition, etc.
  • Computer Vision: Object Detection, Background Modelling, Visual Attention, Surveillance, etc.
  • Eye Tracking: Region of Interest, Advertisement, Input Devices, etc

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Professional Activities

Associate Director, Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS):
ARC (Australian Research Council) Assessor:

  •  ARC Discovery Project

  •  ARC Future Fellowship

Journal Editor:

Keynote Speaker:

Session Chair/PC member:

Dr. Paul has organized a special session on “New video coding technologies” in IEEE ISCAS 2010. He was a program committee (PC) member of more than 15 IEEE International conferences and session chair for 5 IEEE International conferences. He has organized a number of workshops including ARC EII early career workshops, video/image processing workshops.

 
International Journal Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1

  • IEEE Communication Letter

  • IEEE Signal Processing Letter

  • International Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

  • IET Image Processing

  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications

Memberships:

  • IEEE

  • IEEE Signal Processing Society

  • IEEE Communication Society

  • Australian Computer Society (ACS)

  • Australian Research Council Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII)

Seminar presentation at different International Conferences such as:

  • DICTA 2013, Australia (Tutorial Speaker)

  • IEEE ICIP-2013, Australia

  • IEEE ICCIT 2012, Bangladesh
  • IEEE ICASSP-2012, Japan
  • IEEE DICTA 2011, Australia
  • IEEE ICCIT-2010 (Keynote Speaker and Session Chair), Bangladesh
  • IEEE ICIP-2010, Hong Kong
  • IEEE ISCAS-2010 (Session Chair and Special Session Organizer), France
  • IEEE ICIP-2008, USA
  • IEEE MMSP-2008, Australia
  • IEEE ICIS-2007 (Session Chair), Australia
  • ICCIT-2006, Bangladesh
  • MMM-2007, Singapore
  • IEEE ICASSP-2004, USA
  • IEEE ICME-2004, USA
  • Post IT-2004, Australia
  • ICAPR -2003, India
  • IEEE ICCIT-2003, Bangladesh

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Publications

Book Chapters:

  • M. Paul, and W. Lin (2013), “Vision friendly video coding,” a book chapter on “Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks ,” edited by Ce Zhu and Yuenan Li, publisher: CRC PRESS of the Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, 2013.

  • M. Paul, and M. Murshed (2008), “Pattern based video coding,” a book chapter for the book “Handbook of Research on Modern Systems Analysis and Design Technologies and Applications”, edited by Mahbubur Rahman Syed and Sharifun Nessa Syed, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, published by Idea Group, pp. 469 – 483,  2008.

Journal Publications:

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2013), “McFIS: A Golden Frame for Hierarchical B-Picture based Video Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 2.489), provisionally accepted (under second review), JCR Ranked Q1.

  • Z. Parvez and M. Paul, (2013), “Features Extraction and Classification of Ictal and Interictal EEG Signals using Different Transformation Techniques,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.676), provisionally accepted (under second review), CORE A*, JCR Ranked Q1.

  • Z. Parvez and M. Paul (2013), "Efficient EEG Signal Classification using IMF Bandwidth and DCT Frequency," IET Signal Processing, provisionally accepted (under second review, JCR 5 years Impact Factor 0.70, JCR Ranked Q3, CORE Rank B.

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2013), “Pattern based Video Coding with Dynamic Background Modeling,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.074), 2013, JCR Ranked Q3.

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2013), “Video Coding with Dynamic Background Modelling," provisionally accepted, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.074), 2013, JCR Ranked Q3.

  • M. Paul (2012), "Efficient Video Coding using Optimal Compression Plane and Background Modelling," IET Image Processing Journal, in press, 2012, JCR 5 years Impact Factor 0.90, JCR Ranked Q3, CORE Rank B.

  • M. Paul and Manzur Murshed (2012), "Efficient Pattern Index Coding Using Syndrome Coding and Side Information," Int. Journal of Engineering and Industries, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-12, 2012. ISSN: 2093-5765.

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2011) “Direct Intermode Selection for H.264 Video Coding using Phase Correlation,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 4.646), vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 461 – 473, 2011. CORE Ranked A*, JCR Ranked Q1. Citation [13].

  • A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, and F. Zhang (2011), “Optimal Compression Plane Determination for Video Coding,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 4.646), vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 2788-2799, 2011. CORE Ranked A*, JCR Ranked Q1. Citation [3].

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2011), “Explore and model better I-frame for video coding,” IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 4.385), vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1242-1254, 2011. CORE A, JCR Ranked Q1. Citation [5].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2011), "Video Coding Using Arbitrarily Shaped Block Partitions in Globally Optimal Perspective," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.074), 2011, 2011:16, doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2011-16. JCR Ranked Q2. Citation [3].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2010), “Video Coding focusing on block partitioning and occlusions,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 4.646), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 691-701, March, 2010. CORE Ranked A*, JCR Ranked Q1. Citation [8].

  • A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, and F. Zhang (2010), “Just Noticeable Difference for Image Pixels with Decomposition Model,” IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 4.385), vol 20, no.11, pp. 1648 - 1652, 2010. CORE A, JCR Ranked Q1. Citation [18].

  • M. Paul, M. Frater, and J. Arnold (2009), “An efficient Mode Selection Prior to the Actual Encoding for H.264/AVC Encoder,” IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 581-588, June, 2009 (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 2.932). CORE Ranked A, JCR Ranked Q1. Citation [13].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2007), “An Optimal Content-based Pattern Generation algorithm,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 904-907, December, 2007 (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.528). CORE Ranked A, JCR Ranked Q2. Citation [4].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2007), “Efficient H.264/AVC video encoder where Pattern is Used as Extra Mode for Wide Range of Video Coding,” Computer Science, Springer, 2007. Citation [2].

Conference Publications: 

  • Manoranjan Paul, Christopher Evans, Manzur Murshed (2013), "Disparity-adjusted 3D multi-view video coding with dynamic background modelling," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, in press, 2013, CORE Rank B.

  • Zavid Parvez and M. Paul (2013), “Classification of Ictal and Interictal EEG Signals,” 10th IASTED International conference on Biomedical Engineering, 2013. CORE Rank A.

  • Zavid Parvez and M. Paul (2012), “Features Extraction and Classification for Ictal and Interictal EEG Signals using EMD and DCT,” IEEE International conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE ICCIT-12), 2012. Acceptance rate 25%.

  • M. Paul, Junbin Gao, and Michael Antolovich (2012), “Multi-view video compression using dynamic background frame and 3D motion estimation,” IEEE International conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE ICCIT-12), 2012. Acceptance rate 25%.

  • Junbin Gao, M. Paul, and Jun Liu (2012), “The Image Matting Method with Zero-One Regularization,” IEEE International conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME-12), 2012. Acceptance rate 15%

  • M. Paul, Junbin Gao, and Michael Antolovich (2012), “3D MOTION ESTIMATION FOR 3D VIDEO CODING,” IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP-12), 2012, Acceptance rate 44%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [1].

  • M. Paul and W. Lin (2011), “Efficient Video Coding Considering a Video as 3D Data Cube,” IEEE International conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (IEEE DICTA-11), Accepted for oral presentation, 2011, CORE Ranked B.

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2011), “McFIS in hierarchical bipredictive picture-based video coding for referencing the stable area in a scene,” IEEE International conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP-11), 2011, accepted for oral presentation, oral acceptance rate 14%, CORE Ranked B.

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2010), “Pattern based video coding with uncovered background,” IEEE International conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP-10), pp. 2065-2068, 2010, Acceptance Rate 44%, CORE Ranked B.

  • A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, and F. Zhang (2010), “Enhanced just noticeable difference (JND) estimation with image decomposition for separating edge and textured regions,” IEEE Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP-10), pp. 317 – 320, 2010, Acceptance Rate 44%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [3].

  • Z. Gu, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, B. –S. Lee, and M. Paul (2010), “Two dimensional singular value decomposition (2D-SVD) based video coding,” IEEE International conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP-10), pp. 181 – 184, 2010, Acceptance Rate 44%, CORE Ranked B.

  • C. Deng, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, B. –S. Lee, and M. Paul (2010), “Comparison between H.264/AVC and motion JPEG2000 for super-high definition video coding,” IEEE International conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP-10), pp. 2037 – 2040,  Acceptance Rate 44%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [3].

  • A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, and F. Zhang (2010), “Optimal compression plane (OCP)– A new framework for H.264 video coding,” IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME-10), pp. 456 - 461, 2010, accepted for oral presentation, oral acceptance rate 15%, CORE Ranked B.

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2010), “McFIS: better I-frame for video coding,” IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal processing (IEEE ISCAS-10), pp. 2171-2174, 2010, accepted for oral presentation, oral acceptance rate 14%, 2010, CORE Ranked B. Citation [3].

  • M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2010), “Video coding using the most common frame in scene,” IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal processing (IEEE ICASSP-10), pp. 734–737, 2010 , accepted for oral presentation, oral acceptance rate 14%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [7].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2009), “A novel pattern identification scheme using distributed video concept,” IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal processing (IEEE ICASSP-09), pp. 729-732, 2009, accepted for oral presentation, oral acceptance rate 14%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [2].

  • Haque, M., M. Murshed, and M. Paul (2008), “Improved Gaussian Mixtures for Robust Object Detection by Adaptive Multi-Background Generation,” IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (IEEE ICPR-08), pp. 1-4, 2008, accepted for oral presentation, oral acceptance rate 14%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [17].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2008), “Threshold-free pattern-based low bit rate video coding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP-08), pp. 1584-1587, 2008, Acceptance rate: 45%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [2].

  • Haque, M., M. Murshed, and M. Paul (2008), “A Hybrid Object Detection Technique from Dynamic Background Using Gaussian Mixture Models,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP-08), pp. 915-920, 2008, Acceptance rate: 55%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [8].

  • Haque, M., M. Murshed, and M. Paul (2008), “On Stable Dynamic Background Generation Technique using Gaussian Mixture Models for Robust Object Detection,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (IEEE AVSS-08), 2008, pp. 41-48, 2008. Acceptance rate: 40%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [12].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2008), “Optimal Arbitrary Shaped Pattern-based Video Coding,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP-08), pp. 206-211, 2008, Acceptance rate:55%, CORE Ranked B.  Citation [3].

  • M. Paul and G. Sorwar (2008), “An efficient Video Coding using Phase-matched Error from Phase Correlation Information,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP-08), pp. 378-382, 2008, Acceptance rate: 55%, CORE Ranked B. Citation [3].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2007), “Impact of clustering techniques on content-based pattern generation algorithm for low bit rate video coding,” IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (IEEE-ICIS-07), pp. 320-325, 2007.

  • M. Paul and G. Sorwar (2007), “Encoding and Decoding Techniques for Medical Video Signal Transmission and Viewing,” IEEE conference on Computer and Information Science (IEEE-ICIS-07), pp. 750-755, 2007. Citation [1].

  • M. Paul and M. Murshed (2007), “Pattern based residual coding for H.264 encoder,” IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: New Generation, (IEEE-ITNG-07), pp. 214-218, 2007.

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