Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1969, University of Aston in Birmingham, U. K.

M.S. Electrical Engineering 1967, Polytechnic Inst. of New York

D.MIT. Instrumentation and Control, 1962, Madras Institute of Technology

B.Sc. Mathematics, 1959 University of Bombay

Research Interests:

Pattern Recognition, Handwriting Analysis and Recognition, Document Recognition,

Image Processing, Machine Vision, Design of Control Systems

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:

Senior Member, IEEE,  Professional Engineer (Ontario)

Honors and awards:

Distinguished Faculty Award 1988, Michigan Association of Governing Boards

Distinguished Research Award, University of Michigan - Dearborn 1994

Proc. of IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Oct. 14 - 16, 96, Malvern, PA. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

Number of years  at UM-D:          15 years

Other related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:

1969 -1985 Faculty Member, Dept. of Electrical Eng., University of Windsor, Canada

1976 - 1977 Associate Professor, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia DF, Brazil

1963 -1966 Scientific Officer, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, India.

Consulting:
 

States in which registered:

Professional Engineer, Province of Ontario, Canada

M. Devghan, K. Faez, M. Ahmadi and M. Shridhar, “Handwritten Farsi (Arabic) Word Recognition: A Holistic Approach Using Hidden Markov Models,” Pattern Recognition Journal, Vol. 34 (2001) pp 1057-1065.

M. Devghan, K. Faez, M. Ahmadi and M. Shridhar, “Off-Line Unconstrained Farsi Handwritten Word Recognition Using Fuzzy Vector Quantization and Hidden Markov Models,” Accepted for publication in Pattern Recognition Letters August 30, 2000

M. Shridhar, J. Miller, G. Houle, “Recognition of License Plate Images: A Feasibility Study,”, Proceedings of Intl. Conf. Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sept 1999

M. Shridhar, G. Houle, “Postal Services,” Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1999.

R. Safari, N. Narasimhamurthi, M. Shridhar, M. Ahmadi, "Document Registration using projective geometry," IEEE Trans. Image Proc. Vol. 6, No. 9, Sept. 1997, pp. 1337 - 1341 - Brief

M. Okada, M. Shridhar, "Extraction of user entered components from a personal bank check using morphological subtraction," Intl. J. Patt. Recog. & AI, Vol. 11, No. 5, (1997), pp. 699 - 715

S. Liang, M. Ahmadi, M. Shridhar, "Segmentation of Handwritten Interference Marks Using Multiple Directional Stroke Planes and Reformalized Morphological Approach," IEEE Trans. Image Proc. Vol. 6, No. 7, Aug. 1997, pp.1195 - 1201 - Brief

J. Cao, M. Ahmadi, M. Shridhar, "A Hierarchical Neural Network Architecture for Handwritten Numeral Recognition," Pat. Recognition, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 289 - 294, 97

Houle, G., Aragon, D., Smith, R., Shridhar, M., Kimura, F. "A Multi-Layer Corroboration-Based Check Reader," Proc. of IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Oct. 14 - 16, 96, Malvern, PA. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

R. Safari, N. Narasimhamurthi, M. Shridhar, M. Ahmadi, "Form Registration: A Computer Vision Approach,", Fourth Intl. Conf. On Doc. Anal. and Rec., Aug. 1997, Germany.

M. Shridhar, G. Houle, F. Kimura, "Handwritten Word Recognition Using Lexicon Free and Lexicon Directed Word Recognition Algorithms," Fourth Intl. Conf. On Doc. Anal. and Rec., Aug. 1997, Germany.

F. Kimura, N. Kayahara, Y. Miyake, M. Shridhar, "Machine and Human Recognition of Segmented Characters from Handwritten Words," Fourth Intl. Conf. On Doc. Anal. and Rec., Aug. 1997, Germany.

J. Cao, M. Ahmadi, M. Shridhar, "Handwritten Numeral and Machine Printed Multiple Font Character Recognition Using Neural Network," J. Circuits, Computers and Systems Vol. 6, No. 6 (1996) pp. 569 - 580

Yi Lu and M. Shridhar, "Character Segmentation in Handwritten Words," J. of Pattern Recognition, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 77 - 96, Jan. 1996.

A. Nosratinia, M. Ahmadi, G. A. Jullien, M. Shridhar, "High-swing, high-drive CMOS buffer," IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol. 142, No. 2, pp. 109-112, April 1995

J. W. V. Miller and M. Shridhar, "Methods for Illumination-Invariant Image Processing," to be published in Advances in Image Processing and Machine Vision, Jorge Sanz, Ed., Springer-Verlag (1995).

J. Cao, M. Ahmadi, M. Shridhar, "Recognition of Handwritten Numerals with Multiple Features and Multi-Stage Classifiers", Pattern Recognition Journal Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 153-160, 1995

S. Liang, M. Ahmadi, M. Shridhar, " A Morphological Approach to Text String Extraction From Regular Periodic Overlapping Text-Background Images", CVGIP: Graphic Models and Image Processing, Vo. 56, No. 5, pp. 402-413, 1994

S. Liang, M. Ahmadi, M. Shridhar, "Segmentation of Touching Characters in Printed Documents", Pattern Recognition Journal, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 825 - 840, 1994

F. Kimura, S. Tsuruoka, Y. Miyake, M. Shridhar, "A Lexicon Directed Algorithm for Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Words", IEICE Trans. Information and Systems (Special Issue on Document Analysis and Recognition), Vol. E77-D, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 785 - 793 (Japan)

Khasnabish, M. Ahmadi, M. Hlynka, M. Shridhar, "Trading Nodal Storage Capacity with Incremental Transmission Capacity", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 1147-1150, August 1993.