Role
Dr Abdallah Naser is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University, where he is also a member of the Computational Intelligence and Applications (CIA) research group.
Career overview
Dr Abdallah Naser received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Cyprus International University with High Honour and his MSc in Information Security and Biometrics with Distinction from the University of Kent, UK. His PhD thesis is entitled “Privacy-preserving Human Behaviour Monitoring Through Thermal Vision”, which extends on his research output conducted as part of his PhD study at Nottingham Trent University.
Dr Abdallah Naser was granted a patent for inventing a new way to secure online accounts using concepts of pattern recognition from the Palestinian patent office. Furthermore, he has led and developed several technical solutions for different sectors.
Research areas
Dr Abdallah's current research focuses on computational intelligence, sensor signal processing, and image processing towards enabling privacy-preserving human-centred applications.
External activity
Regular Reviewer for the following journals
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- IEEE Sensors Journal
- IET Image Processing Journal
- Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Journal
- Springer Nature Technical Report
International Conference Activity
- Workshop Organiser - Human Behaviour Monitoring, Interpretation and Understanding (NOTION) at The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference. Corfu, Greece, 5-7 July, 2023.
- Workshop Organiser - Human Behaviour Monitoring, Interpretation and Understanding (NOTION) at The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference. Corfu, Greece, 29th June - 2nd July, 2022.
Research PhD Students Supervision
- Maria Drolence Mwanje
- Selwan Abdussalam
External Research Funding Dr Naser’s research has attracted over £10 million in both research funding projects and consultations. Details of the latest awarded project are below.
- Hybrid Cyber Range (HCR) project, supported by the UK’s six Electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNOs), £10.7M (Co-I, leading two significant work packages: Logging and Monitoring, and Assistive Safe AI).
Publications
Journals:
ZORRIASSATINE, F., NASER, A. and LOTFI, A., 2024. Gait anomaly detection with low cost and low resolution infrared sensor arrays. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN 1530-437X
MWANJE, M.D., KAIWARTYA, O. and NASER, A., 2024. Position verification in connected vehicles for cyber resilience using geofencing and fuzzy logic. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. ISSN 2687-7813
MWANJE, M.D., KAIWARTYA, O., ALJAIDI, M., CAO, Y., KUMAR, S., JHA, D.N., NASER, A. and LLORET, J., 2024. Cyber security analysis of connected vehicles. IET Intelligent Transport Systems. ISSN 1751-956X
BIRD, J.J., NASER, A. and LOTFI, A., 2023. Writer-independent signature verification; evaluation of robotic and generative adversarial attacks. Information Sciences, 633, pp. 170-181. ISSN 0020-0255
MOHMED, G., HEYNES, X., NASER, A., SUN, W., HARDY, K., GRUNDY, S. and LU, C., 2023. Modelling daily plant growth response to environmental conditions in Chinese solar greenhouse using Bayesian neural network. Scientific Reports, 13 (1): 4379. ISSN 2045-2322
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., MWANJE, M.D. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Privacy-preserving, thermal vision with human in the loop fall detection alert system. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. ISSN 2168-2291
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Multiple thermal sensor array fusion towards enabling privacy-preserving human monitoring applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Calibration of low-resolution thermal imaging for human monitoring applications. IEEE Sensors Letters. ISSN 2475-1472
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2021. Towards human distance estimation using a thermal sensor array. Neural Computing and Applications. ISSN 0941-0643
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2020. Adaptive thermal sensor array placement for human segmentation and occupancy estimation. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN 1530-437X
Conferences:
ZORRIASSATINE, F., BURTON, E., BOYD, J., NASER, A. and LOTFI, A., 2024. Cross-species insights: drawing lessons between bird lameness detection and human gait anomaly detection. In: PETRA '24: proceedings of the 17th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York City: ACM, 359 - 364. ISBN 9798400717604
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., POURABDOLLAH, A. and BIRD, J., 2023. Toward a holistic elderly-centred behaviour monitoring solution: achievements and opportunities. In: PETRA '23: 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York: ACM. ISBN 9798400700699
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Contactless sleep quality monitoring through thermal vision. In: PETRA '22: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 9781450396318
NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2021. A novel privacy-preserving approach for physical distancing measurement using thermal sensor array. In: The 14th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments PETRA 2021. Conference proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 81-85. ISBN 9781450387927
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., ZHONG, J. and HE, J., 2020. Heat-map based occupancy estimation using adaptive boosting. In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). IEEE. ISBN 9781728169330
NASER, A., LOTFI, A., ZHONG, J. and HE, J., 2020. Human activity of daily living recognition in presence of an animal pet using thermal sensor array. In: PETRA '20: Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781450377737