RESEARCH

Research Interests

Dr. Khabou's research is mainly in the areas of pattern recognition and digital image processing. His research interests include automatic target recognition, handwriting recognition, human face detection/recognition, artificial neural networks, mathematical morphology, regularization theory, entropy optimization, and fuzzy logic.

Research Experience

Dr. Khabou worked on many funded research projects including the following:

Eigenvalue-based Features for Shape Recognition (2007-2009)
(Sponsor: Sultan Quaboos University Postgraduate Studies and Research)

System for Indexing and Retrieving Historical Documents (Summer 06)
(Sponsor: UWF Summer Research Award)

Human Face Detection Using Morphological Neural Nets (5/05-3/06)
(Sponsor: UWF 2005 Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Award)

Automatic Detection of Human Faces in Visual Scenes (Summer 03)
(Sponsor: UWF Summer Research Grant)

Remote Acquisition Storage System (RASS) (6/00-12/00)
(Sponsor: NASA Langley Research Center)

Mine Detection and Neutralization (1/97-1/99)
(Sponsor: Army Research Office)

Application of Fuzzy Logic to Automatic Target Recognition (1/96-12/98)
(Sponsor: Office of Naval Research)

Image Algebra-Based Local Feature Extraction and Detection of Occluded Vehicles (3/95-8/97)
(Sponsor: Eglin Air Force Base)

Pattern Recognition via Fuzzy Morphological Networks (6/93-5/94)
(Sponsor: University of Missouri Research Board)

Handwriting Recognition (12/91-9/93)
(Sponsor: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan)