 | PhD Student. Supervisor: Dr. Volker. Research Group: Document Recognition. E-mail: maa897@cs.bham.ac.uk. Phone: 00447788709389 Address: School of Computer science. University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK |
Current Research
Table Recognition in Scientific Documents: Over the last decade much research has been done on Document Recognition primarily focusing on the correct extraction and analysis of text. In comparison only little work has been devoted to the recognition of tables despite the fact that as tables are ubiquitous in all types of documents . In scientific documents, tables are widely used to present experimental results or statistical data in a condensed manner. However, many current applications have little support for table recognition. The difficulty of automatically extracting tables from untagged documents, the lack of a universal table metadata specification, and the limitation of the existing ranking schemes make table recognition a challenging problem. This research focuses in particular on the recognition of tables in scientific documents such as math papers, which usually have quite complex and diverse compositions. We will undertake a thorough study on the spatial and logical structure of tables in documents from a range of scientific disciplines and develop adequate recognition techniques to deal with them. The interested is to be not only on the structure, but also on the content of tables which can contain often mathematical expression and equations. These pose problems already the symbol recognition phase since there is a large, non-standard character set with a variety of font styles and a range of font sizes to be considered.
Research interests
Public and Secret Key Cryptography.
Creating methods of Secret Key Steganography.
Designing robust and secure systems that encode documents.
Teaching and work Experience
Since the late of 2004, I had been working as an associated lecturer for several institutes(All are located in Libya) include Africa Institute, Almehn Alshamla Institute, and Garyouni University..etc. In the academic year of 2005/2006, I was appointed as assistant lecturer at Garyounis University. From 2006 to 2008, I became the Head of Software Engineering Department at IT faculty-Garyounis University.Currently, I am doing my Phd at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham,UK.
