Visual Image Processing Research Lab

Advancing computer vision, medical imaging, remote sensing, and bioinformatics.

About

The Visual Image Processing Lab (VIP Lab) explores the fundamental mechanisms of how visual information is perceived, processed, analyzed, stored, and recalled, aiming to bridge human visual cognition with computational intelligence. Our research focuses on intelligent behavior understanding, vision-based decision support systems, and biomedical image computing for enhanced diagnostic insight. The lab also emphasizes developing advanced visual information protection methods, including data hiding and multimedia security, to ensure data integrity and confidentiality. Through interdisciplinary innovation, VIP Lab strives to become a leading research center in visual perception and computational imaging, driving the next generation of intelligent, secure, and interpretable vision-based systems for real-world and societal advancement.

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Awards & Achievements

  • Award: Received the IEEE Region 10 Best Paper Award at TENSYMP 2020
    Received the IEEE Region 10 Best Paper Award at TENSYMP 2020
  • Award: Received the EEE (BD Section) Best Paper Award at SPICSCON 2019
    Received the EEE (BD Section) Best Paper Award at SPICSCON 2019
  • Award: Received the OPTIK (Elsevier) appreciation in October 2018 for the contribution in reviewing
    Received the OPTIK (Elsevier) appreciation in October 2018 for the contribution in reviewing
  • Award: Received the 3rd prize of the Best Paper Award at the 20th ICCIT 2017
    Received the 3rd prize of the Best Paper Award at the 20th ICCIT 2017
  • Award: EICT 2017 Best Paper Award was received at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Khulna
    EICT 2017 Best Paper Award was received at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Khulna
  • Award: Best presenter at the 20th ICCIT 2017
    Best presenter at the 20th ICCIT 2017

Ongoing Research Projects

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  • 2025 Comparative Insight of Scalable Graph Based Spatial Domain Discovery From Stereo-Seq and Slide-Seq Data
    To systematically evaluate the performance and scalability of leading GNN-based spatial transcriptomics (ST) models—STAGATE, GraphST, and SEDR—on high-density next-generation datasets such as Stereo-seq and Slide-seq, and to identify their limitations in modeling complex spatial structures.
  • 2025 Ensemble Based Graph Attention Auto-Encoder Architecture For Unsupervised Spatial Clustering
    To overcome the limitation of fixed spatial neighborhood scales in existing spatial transcriptomics (ST) models by developing En-STAGATE, an ensemble framework that integrates multiple spatial graphs across varying neighborhood radii to capture both local and global tissue structures for improved domain identification.
  • 2025 Proximity Enhanced Multi-Modal Graph Based Spatial Transcriptomics Clustering
    To address the over-smoothing and spatial bias in current spatial transcriptomics (ST) models by developing GraphST++, a multi-modal framework that integrates spatial, gene expression, and histological features for constructing biologically faithful tissue graphs.
  • 2025 Transformer Enhanced Graph Based Spatial Domain Identification
    To overcome the limitation of existing graph-based spatial transcriptomics (ST) models in capturing long-range spatial dependencies by developing STAGATE++, a hybrid GAT–Transformer architecture that jointly learns local and global tissue representations.
  • 2025 UAPNet: Uncertainty Augmented Pyramid Vision Transformer Network With Efficient Channel Filtering for Polyp Segmentation
    To mitigate feature redundancy in deep networks, we integrate the Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module with the PVT encoder and augment it with an Uncertainty Augmented Context Attention (UACA) mechanism.

Lab Team

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Principal Investigator

Hussain Nyeem

PhD in Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing | Professor (Associate) at Military Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Hiding, Medical AI, eHealth
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Assistant Principal Investigator

Md. Abdul Wahed

Master of Science in Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering | Assistant Professor at Military Institute of Science and Technology
Data Hiding, Digital Image Processing, Machine Learning
Research Assistant

Tareque Bashar Ovi

Lecturer, Military Institute of Science and Technology
Research Assistant

Nomaiya Bashree

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Graduate Student

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Military Institute of Science and Technology
Computer Vision, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Remote Sensing, Satellite Images, Explainable AI