Mirlabs
Alex Pappachen James
Alex Pappachen James
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management- Kerala (IIITM-K), Trivandrum
Regular Member
Personal Web Site:
Main page: http://www.mirlabs.net/global/index.php?c=main&a=person&id=750
Short Biography
A. P. James is currently a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala. He is the chief investigator of center for applied machine intelligence and pattern analysis at IIITM.  He is an alumnus of Griffith University-Australia, completing a PhD (2 years) in the area of hardware friendly image recognition algorithm. He has research and industry experience in the area of signal integrity, VLSI circuits and systems for image processing, memory based networks and pattern recognition algorithms. His recent work reflects novel and difficult to implement hardware based solutions to problems involving imaging applications. He has been a reviewer and author to high quality journals such as IEEE SPL, Pattern Recognition, Electronics Lettrs., IEEE TIP, IEEE TSCM:B, The Computer Journal, IEEE TEC  etc. He has served as Editorial board member of several international journals including currently serving as Editorial board member of Information Fusion Journal, Elsevier. He is also serving as the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition, and International Journal of Machine Intelligence and Sensory Signal Processing. He is a member of several science and engineering societies, including member of IEEE Computer, Circuits and Systems and Computational Intelligence societies. His current research interest include Pattern recognition, Medical Informatics, Object tracking, Memory Networks, Information Fusion systems, Clustering, Classification, Feature Selection, Re-configurable circuits, HTM,  switches and memory arrays.
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
  • A. P. James and S. Dimitrijev, Nearest Neighbor Classifier Based on Nearest Feature DecisionsThe Computer Journal, 2012 (H Index: 31, Impact factor: 1.32SCImago Journal Rank:Q1, ERA:A*)      DOWNLOAD 
  • A. P. James, A.K. Maan, Improving feature selection algorithms using normalised feature histogramsIET Electronics letters, Vol 47, Issue 8, 2011 

    (H Index: 98, Impact factor: 1.01, SCImago Journal Rank:Q1, ERA:A)

  • A. P. James, S. Dimitrijev, Inter-image outliers and their application to image classificationPattern Recognition,Vol 43, Issue 12, 2010.

    (H Index: 92, Impact factor: 2.60SCImago Journal Rank:Q1, ERA:A*)

      DOWNLOAD
  • A. P. James, S. Dimitrijev, Face recognition using local binary decisionsIEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 15 2008, p 821 - 824 (H Index: 64, Impact factor: 1.15, SCImago Journal Rank:Q1, ERA:A)DOWNLOAD
  • A. P. James, S. DimitrijevA cognitive resistive memory networkIET Electronics LettersVol 46, Issue 10, 2010, p. 677-678 (H Index: 98, Impact factor: 1.01, SCImago Journal Rank:Q1, ERA:A)DOWNLOAD
List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
2010 Program committee member: IPCV’10, International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/ipcv10
2011 Program committee member: International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, Portugal http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/imagapp/imagapp2011.html
2011 Program committee member: DST National Workshop on Medical Image Computing, IIITMK, India https://sites.google.com/site/nwmic011/
2012 Program committee member: International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Italy visapp.visigrapp.org
2012 Program committee member: International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics, Chennai, India http://www.icacci-conference.org/isiipc.html
2012 Program Chair: International Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP 2012), 3 - 5 August 2012, Chennai, India http://www.icacci-conference.org/prip2012.html
2012 Scientific committee: International Conference on Computer Science and Applied Computing, Vienna, Austria 6-7 September 2012 http://www.vienna-conference.com/ 

1. Editor in Chief, International Journal of Machine Intelligence and Sensory Signal Processing
2. Editor in Chief, International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition
3. Information Fusion: Special issue 2012 on Medical image computing 
4. Information Fusion
5. Journal of Computer Science and Systems Biology 
6. Journal of Computer Science and Information Security
7. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems