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ali abdulazeez mohammed baqer Qazzaz
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ali abdulazeez mohammed baqer Qazzaz

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About

B.SC. degree in computer science from University of Imam Jafar Al Sadeq @2010
. M.Sc.in computer science from the University of Babylon,science college, @ 2012,PhD in information technology in University of
2018@babylon,I.T. college

Research Interests

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Publications

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2026

A hybrid metaheuristic-GAN approach for automated low-dose CT image enhancement

AuthorsAli Abdulazeez Mohammed Baqer Qazzaz
JournalFranklin Open
Date2026-02-24
Abstract

Enhancing Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) images is a crucial task in medical imaging, aimed at mitigating the inherent noise and artifacts that compromise diagnostic accuracy while preserving the benefits of reduced patient radiation exposure. This research introduces a novel hybrid intelligence model that achieves a state-of-the-art enhancement by automating the complex design and optimization process of a deep learning model. The proposed methodology pioneers a unique cooperation between metaheuristics and deep generative networks; the model employs Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to intelligently search a multi-dimensional hyperparameter space, discovering the optimal learning rate, loss function weights, and a baseline CLAHE parameter for a custom Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). The GAN generator is a U-Net architecture that learns a residual correction, which is additively combined with the CLAHE-processed image to leverage the strengths of both classical and deep learning techniques. The framework was extensively trained for 200 epochs on 400 paired images from the public AAPM Low Dose CT Grand Challenge dataset. On an unseen test set, the final model demonstrated remarkable improvements, significantly increasing the Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) from approximately 0.8910 to 0.9306 and drastically reducing the perceptual LPIPS error from about 0.0948 to an exceptional 0.0442, while improving the NIQE score. By successfully bridging metaheuristic search with a sophisticated GAN architecture, this work presents a robust, automated, and highly effective approach that outperforms the baseline LDCT quality across key perceptual and structural metrics, providing a valuable blueprint for future high-fidelity medical image enhancement systems.

2026

Unifying Dual-Pyramid Structure and Y–G Channel Synergy for Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment

AuthorsAli Abdulazeez Mohammed Baqer Qazzaz, م. يوسف سامر المظفر
JournalAdvance Sustainable Science, Engineering and Technology
Date2026-01-15
Abstract

Standard metrics such as SSIM often overlook complex chromatic distortions, creating a gap between objective scores and human judgment. To address this, we present the Synergistic Structural Similarity Index (SSSI), a metric grounded in a novel dual-pyramid strategy that integrates Gaussian-blurred stability with direct subsampling sharpness. Our method departs from luminance-only analysis by employing an equal, synergistic partnership between the luminance (Y) and Green (G) channels, mirroring the eye's spectral sensitivity. On the KADID-10k dataset, SSSI achieves an SROCC of 0.7793. This represents a significant 4% performance gain over the standard SSIM baseline, demonstrating that integrating chromatic data with dual-scale structural analysis provides a more accurate proxy for human visual perception.

2025

StyleGAN2-Space Navigator Unsupervised Discovery of Semantic Directions for Controllable Face Synthesis

AuthorsAli Abdulazeez Mohammed Baqer Qazzaz, م. يوسف سامر المظفر
JournalInternational Conference on Informatics, Multimedia, Cyber and Information System (ICIMCIS)
Date2025-12-15
Abstract

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), especially StyleGAN2, produce very realistic artificial human faces, yet control over their output remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a technique for exploring the latent space of a pre-trained StyleGAN2 model, and it allows for the semantic control of facial features. The proposed methodology suggests applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) directly to the W+ latent space to perform unsupervised detection of the most significant variation directions. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses proved that the major components align with useful semantic features, including gender (Component 0), age (Component 5), and pose (Component 8). The efficiency of the proposed methodology is presented in StyleGAN2-Space Navigator, an interactive Gradio-based interface in which users can control these detected features in real time. The methodology also allows us to generate a potential semantically controlled synthetic dataset, which is considered a way to decrease bias in existing face datasets. This work provides a strong, reproducible method for controlling generative models, providing a strong way for more interpretable and steerable AI systems. K

2025

Generative adversarial network for intelligent haze removal from high quality images

AuthorsAli Abdulazeez Mohammed Baqer Qazzaz, Hayfaa T. Hussein , Shroouq J. Al-janabi , and Yousif Mudhafar
JournalInternational Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences (IJAAS)
Date2025-12-04
Abstract

The proposal utilizes a U-Net-based generator with self-attention and skipconnections to preserve spatial fidelity, and a PatchGAN discriminator to enforce local realism. At the heart of our contribution is a carefully weighted multi-component loss function that applies reconstruction, perceptual, edge, structural similarity (SSIM), and adversarial losses to optimize pixel-level accuracy and perceptual quality. We trained and evaluated our proposal on the large-scale real-world LMHaze dataset.

2021

عرض a novel proposed fusion method

Authorsali abdulazeez mohammed baqer qazza, abdulhussein abdulmohsona
Journal international research journal of computer science
Abstract

Search proposed new fusion method

2019

The Similarity of The Parts of Iris Texture

AuthorsAli Abdul Azeez Mohammed Baqer, Tawfiq A Al-Asadi
Journal JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
Abstract

In the proposed search, new technique for calculating the similarity among parts related to iris images for the selected person and among iris images will be suggested by dividing iris texture into pre decided number of parts and calculating some features of each one of these parts as a texture then calculating degree of similarity among specific part and all other parts of the same iris and with some irises in database according to some accepted rules. The proposed method divided iris texture into eight parts with (45 degrees) for each part, the features of GLCM algorithm will be calculated for parts of iris image then the distance or similarity between specific and required iris with other irises that will be stored in database will be calculated and finally, the similarity calculated between each part (with 45 degrees) of iris and parts of irises stored in database. The proposed system applied some suitable techniques for localized

2017

Fusion for Multiple Light Sources in Texture Mapping Object

AuthorsTawfiq A Al-Asadi, Ali Abdul Azeez Mohammed Baqer
Journal Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC)
Abstract

In this paper, fusion method using wavelet transform was used to calculate the effects of multiple sources of light to make the object look more realistic and more informative than the original parts which take the effect of each light source alone. The color value of any pixel in the object depends essentially on the color of the specific mapped texture as well as on the effect of the light sources that produce bright or dark pixels value depending on the distance between the pixel and light source and the direction of light rays. The proposed method merges the effect of multiple lights

2016

New Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Diffie-Hellman and Singular Value Decomposition

AuthorsNidhal Khdhair El Abbadi, Samer Thaaban Abaas, Ali Abd Alaziz
Journalmatrix
Abstract

With the fast progression of using images in many applications, it is important to protect the confidential image data from unauthorized access. In this paper we suggested a new way to encrypt image based on three main steps: the first one aims to scrambling the image values by using Fibonacci transform, while the second step focus on generating public and private key based on Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, these keys used to encrypt the diagonal matrix which created by Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) in third step. Decryption is the inverse process of encryption.

2015

Detection and segmentation of human face

AuthorsNidhal K El Abbadi, , Ali Abdul Azeez Qazzaz
JournalInternational Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
Abstract

. In this paper we introduced a new method for face detection and segmentation based on face color, we uses the YCbCr color space as a method to segment image to many regions. Gray level co-occurrence matrix used to extract the important features represent the skin, and then Tamura texture used to remove all the non skin blobs which is recognized as skin by GLCM. The proposed algorithm tested with many images and it was successfully recognize the images with faces from images without faces. The proposed algorithm has high efficient in detec9ted faces and segmented faces from the background.

2014

Public key steganography

AuthorsNesir Rasool Mahmood, Ali Abdul Azeez, Zahraa Nesir Rasool
JournalInternational Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract

In this paper, a new method will be introduced for hiding information in images by using a public key method for ciphering the text before hiding information as well as this public key will be used in determining the position where the information will be hidden by using the last position in finding the new position, symmetric key also will be used in hiding process for deciding the number of bits that will be used from each pixel in the image, the combination of steganography and cryptography provide much strong method for keeping information secured and undiscovered from unwanted persons

A REVIEW ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND QUALITY METRICS

Authorsعلي عبد العزيز محمد باقر
JournalTECHNICAL SCIENCE
Abstract

Performance evaluation and quality metrics is one of the most important parts of producing reliable searches with acceptable results according to real and effective features that will be extracted from the comparison between input and output data in some techniques or from input data only. Many metrics proposed during past years, each of them have its strong sides in some applications as well as some degrade sides in other applications. From other sides there are many various types of data, each of them has its strong metrics, so the metrics become very large scale groups of different gender. This paper presents some of the performance evaluation metrics and the famous usage of each one, as well as some advantages, disadvantages and important aspect of them. The methodology of this paper works by classifying these metrics according to some presented features such as single result to evaluate its accuracy or many results to select the best one of them, type of date where the common data usage in image processing is image while these data is text in encryption algorithms. Objective techniques for suggesting specific value for representing the quality of decided image have tried to attempted to weight the quantity of specific image according to comparison it with a reference image using a variety of accepted properties of the visual system of the human.

2022

Car Detection and Features Identification Based on YOLOV5

Authorsد.علي عبد العزيز
JournalInternational Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Date2022-02-02
Abstract

Due to the advancement in technology at last years and increasing in the number of cars in the roads, it is necessary to develop techniques and algorithms for detection cars and performing some related tasks like identification the type of each car in the image . This research perform three important tasks, the first one related to discovering the existence of car in the specific image, the second task related to the classification process of cars into pre decided classes, and the third one related to discovering the direction of the car into (front, rear and side) for the purpose of treatment the presence of several non-accepted actions in the street. The proposed system use the network YOLO-v5 algorithm for performing the proposed tasks, where the data acquired by using suitable camera for cars in the streets of Iraq country, which were pre-classified into five classes (personal cars, taxi cars, minibus cars, trucks, and tuk-tuk). The number of acquired images is (7500) images. The training was conducted in the environment of https://colab.research.google.com/, where the results after training on 100 EPOCH were Odds Ratio mAP @ 0.924.

2022

Embedding Data in Non-Important Gabor Ridges

Authorsد.علي عبد العزيز
Journal international journal of advance science.....
Date2022-02-28
Abstract

Hiding information either by steganography or watermarking operation is essential for computer science. It is used as a method for sending secure and important information. It has special features that even if this information is discovered, the third part cannot reconstruct the original information in any way, not famously and commonly nor difficultly and especially by using any technique or algorithm. There are many hiding techniques; each one of them used different paths to ensure standard properties such as optimizing security level, increasing the amount of embedding data, decreasing the ability to reconstruct hidden information by any unwanted part. Here in the following suggested technique, different quantities of bits are hidden in various pixels depending on some discovered constraints by using the famous Gabor filter then divided ridges part in a selected fingerprint image for the purpose of hiding relevant information into important and non-important pixels that laying out of ridges in final images after applying Gabor filter which consider not important regions in fingerprint image for discovering important features from the image. The pixels used in hiding information belong to finger ridges in pure fingerprint images but covert to white pixels (valley) in the matrix after applying the Gabor filter and in original white pixels in both matrices by using different techniques for each type of pixels. The imaging stage constructed after the suggested technique is good and identical to the pure image for the accepted degree as shown in used fidelity metrics (PSNR). It is similar to a pure fingerprint matrix as proved in these metrics for calculating the level of goodness of proposed algorithms. Our algorithm exploits existing pixels in fingerprint image with different levels of importance and avoids pixels with high importance for protected important features from non-deterministic varying.

Lectures

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News & Announcements

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News 2026-06-27

Master's Student Thesis Defense

Master's student Heba Ali Rashid defended her thesis under the supervision of Dr. Ali Abdul-Aziz, and the thesis was approved with a grade of Distinction.

News 2026-06-27

Member of a thesis defense committee

Master's student Ihab Maitham Al-Hakim's thesis was defended and approved with a grade of "Very Good."

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