Dr. Abu Sufian

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Dr. Abu Sufian
Assistant Professor
College of Computer Science
drabu.sufian@uaqu.ac.ae

  • Biography

    Dr. Abu Sufian is an Assistant Professor at the College of Computer Science, Umm Al Quwain University, UAE. He also holds the position of Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) at the University of Gour Banga, India, where he is currently on leave. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISASI), contributing to the EU-funded Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project from 2023 to 2025.

    He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Visva-Bharati University, India, in 2022, a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) in 2010, and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Mathematics in 2007. He has more than 15 years of academic experience, including over 10 years as a full-time Assistant Professor at the university level.

    His research interests include computer vision, deep learning, generative artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and media forensics, with particular emphasis on AI fairness, bias mitigation, and explainability. He has authored more than 55 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences, including Pattern Recognition, Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Access, ICCV, and ECCV. According to the information provided, his research has received over 3,200 Google Scholar citations and 1,850 Scopus citations.

    Dr. Abu Sufian is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He also serves as one of the Program Chairs of the annual International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics (CICBA), an international conference held in different locations around the world.

    Terminal Degree

    Ph.D. in Computer Science, Visva-Bharati University, India, 2022.

  • Academic Publications

    Journal Publications

    • Abu Sufian, Anirudha Ghosh, Debaditya Barman, Cosimo Distante, Marco Leo, and Farhana Sultana. (2026). "DemoFace: A Demographic Pixelated Face Biometric Image-Text Embedding Dataset with Fairness Baselines." Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, Vol. 175, Article 113091. View Publication
    • Ekram Alam, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, and Marco Leo. (2026). "A Pose Landmark-Based Lightweight Human Fall-Detection Framework Using Spatiotemporal Features." Information, MDPI, Vol. 17, Article 976. View Publication
    • Puja Bhakta, Debaditya Barman, Taniya Chatterjee, Mili Ghosh, Rahul Karmakar, Abu Sufian, Marco Leo, and Cosimo Distante. (2026). "NAMSA: A Non-dominated Archived Multi-objective Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Detecting Influencers in Social Networks." IEEE Access, Vol. 14. View Publication
    • Mohammed Al-Naeem, MM Hafizur Rahman, Anuradha Banerjee, and Abu Sufian. (2025). "BSM-DND: Bias and Sensitivity-Aware Multilingual Deepfake News Detection Using Bloom Filters and Recurrent Feature Elimination." IEEE Access, Vol. 13. View Publication
    • MDS Momin, Abu Sufian, Debaditya Barman, Marco Leo, Cosimo Distante, and Naser Damer. (2025). "Explainable Deepfake Detection Across Different Modalities: An Overview of Methods and Challenges." Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 163, Article 105738. View Publication
    • Anirudha Ghosh, Deabditya Barman, Abu Sufian, and Ibrahim A. Hameed. (2024). "Advancing Optical Character Recognition for Low-Resource Scripts: A Siamese Meta-Learning Approach with PSN Framework." IEEE Access, Vol. 12. View Publication
    • Ekram Alam, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, Marco Leo, and Ibrahim A. Hameed. (2024). "GMDCSA-24: A Dataset for Human Fall Detection in Videos." Data in Brief, Elsevier, Vol. 57, Article 110892. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, and MMH Rahman. (2023). "Minus HELLO: HELLO Devoid Protocols for Energy Preservation in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks." Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 26, Article 100852. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Sachin Kumar Gupta, Parul Gupta, Abu Sufian, Ashutosh Srivastava, and Manoj Kumar. (2023). "UAV-IoT collaboration: Energy and Time-saving Task Scheduling Scheme." International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, Vol. 36(14), e5555. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, Ashutosh Srivastava, Sachin Kumar Gupta, Saru Kumari, and Sachin Kumar. (2023). "An Energy and Time-Saving Task Scheduling Algorithm for UAV-IoT Collaborative System." Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier, Vol. 101, Article 104875. View Publication
    • Subhankar Ghosh, Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, Sachin Kumar Gupta, S. H. Alsamhi, and Abdu Saif. (2023). "Efficient Selfish Node Detection using SVM in IoT-MANET Environment." Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Wiley, Vol. 34(12), e4858. View Publication
    • M. Al-Naeem, M. H. Rahman, Anuradha Banerjee, and Abu Sufian. (2023). "Support Vector Machine-based Energy-efficient Management of UAV Locations for Aerial Monitoring of Crops Over Large Agriculture Lands." Sustainability, MDPI, Vol. 15(8), Article 6421. View Publication
    • M. H. Rahman, M. Al-Naeem, Anuradha Banerjee, and Abu Sufian. (2023). "EETO-GA: Energy Efficient Trajectory Optimization of UAV-IoT Collaborative System using Genetic Algorithm." Applied Sciences, MDPI, Vol. 13(4), Article 2535. View Publication
    • Md Sarfaraz Momin, Abu Sufian, Debaditya Barman, Paramartha Dutta, Mianxiong Dong, and Marco Leo. (2022). "In-home Older Adults' Activity Pattern Monitoring using Depth Sensors: A Review." Sensors, MDPI, Vol. 22(23), Article 9067. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anirudha Ghosh, Avijit Naskar, Farhana Sultana, Jaya Sil, and MMH Rahman. (2022). "BDNet: Bengali Handwritten Numeral Digit Recognition based on Densely Connected Convolutional Neural Networks." Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier, Vol. 34, Issue 6, Part A. View Publication
    • Ekram Alam, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, and Marco Leo. (2022). "Vision-based Human Fall Detection Systems using Deep Learning: A Review." Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier, Vol. 146, Article 105626. View Publication
    • Subhankar Ghosh, Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, and Sachin Kumar Gupta. (2022). "Autoregressive Moving Average based Anycast with Support Vector Machine Clustering in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks." Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Wiley, Vol. 33(4), e4432. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee and Abu Sufian. (2021). "Smart-Green-Mult (SGM): Overhear from Topological Kingpins in Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks." Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, Vol. 12, pp. 387–404. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, Krishna Keshob Paul, and Sachin Kumar Gupta. (2021). "EDTP: Energy and Delay Optimized Trajectory Planning for UAV-IoT Environment." Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 202, Article 108623. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, Ali Safaa Sadiq, and Seyedali Mirjalili. (2021). "Minimum Energy Transmission Forest based Geocast in Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks." Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Wiley, Vol. 32(9), e4253. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anirudha Ghosh, Ali Safaa Sadiq, and Florentin Smarandache. (2020). "A Survey on Deep Transfer Learning to Edge Computing for Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, Vol. 108, Article 101830. View Publication
    • Farhana Sultana, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2020). "Evolution of Image Segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Network: A Survey." Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 201–202, Article 106062. View Publication
    • M. M. Hafizur Rahman, Mohammed Al-Naeem, Mohammed N. M. Ali, and Abu Sufian. (2020). "TFBN: A Cost Effective High-Performance Hierarchical Interconnection Network." Applied Sciences, MDPI, Vol. 10(22), Article 8252. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anuradha Banerjee, and Paramartha Dutta. (2019). "Energy and Velocity based Tree Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks." Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, Vol. 107, No. 4, pp. 2191–2209. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Paramartha Dutta, and Abu Sufian. (2019). "Movement Guided Management of Topology (MGMT) with Balanced Load in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks." International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, Vol. 11, pp. 149–158. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anuradha Banerjee, and Paramartha Dutta. (2018). "Cheat-Proof Communication through Cluster Head (C3H) in Mobile Ad Hoc Network." Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Vol. 26(3), pp. 1513–1526. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2018). "EMR-PL: Energy-efficient Multipath Routing based on Link Life Prediction in Ad-hoc Networks." Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 39(1), pp. 285–301. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Paramartha Dutta, and Abu Sufian. (2018). "Fuzzy-controlled energy-efficient single hop clustering scheme with (FESC) in ad hoc networks." International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, Vol. 10, pp. 313–327. View Publication

    Conference Publications

    • Ranjan Singha, Mili Ghosh, and Abu Sufian. (2026). "Intelligent Performance Evaluation of Bangla Audio Deepfake Detection under Network-Induced Audio Degradation." In 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics (CICBA-2026), Malda, India, September 10–12, 2026. Proceedings planned for Springer Nature CCIS Series. Conference Website
    • Abu Sufian, Cosimo Distante, Marco Leo, and Hanan Salam. (2025). "T2IBias: Uncovering Societal Bias Encoded in the Latent Space of Text-to-Image Generative Models." In First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Responsible AI for Value Creation (REPAI 2025), Copenhagen, Denmark, December 1, 2025. Proceedings in Springer LNCS. View Publication
    • Ranjan Ghosh, Mili Ghosh, and Abu Sufian. (2025). "Bangla Deepfake Audio Detection Using Prosodic and Spectral Features." In International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering (ICMLDE 2025), Dehradun, India, November 6–8, 2025. Proceedings in Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. View Publication
    • Anirudha Ghosh, Debaditya Barman, Abu Sufian, Megha Mandal, Cosimo Distante, and Marco Leo. (2025). "FairVitDMD: Fairness Assessment of Foundational Vision Transformers for Deep Manipulation Detection." In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI 2025), NIT Rourkela, India, October 12–13, 2025. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anirudha Ghosh, Debaditya Barman, Marco Leo, and Cosimo Distante. (2025). "DemoBias: An Empirical Study to Trace Demographic Biases in Vision Foundation Models." In 13th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2025), Munich, Germany, April 24–25, 2025. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Marco Leo, Cosimo Distante, Anirudha Ghosh, and Debaditya Barman. (2024). "Can Vision Transformers with ResNet's Global Features Fairly Authenticate Demographic Faces?" Presented at ICPR 2024 Workshop: FAIRBIO—Fairness in Biometric Systems, Kolkata, India. Proceedings in Springer LNCS. View Publication
    • Anuradha Banerjee, Abu Sufian, and Marco Leo. (2024). "Machine Learning Approaches for Analyzing Physiological Data in Remote Patient Monitoring." In ECCV 2024 Workshop: Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics, Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024. Proceedings in Springer LNCS. View Publication
    • Farhana Sultana, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2023). "d-RIMNet: RIMNet with Depthwise Separable Convolutional Layer for Retinal OCTA Image Segmentation." In International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics (ICCTE-2023), University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India, November 23–25, 2023. Proceedings in Springer CCIS Series. View Publication
    • Ekram Alam, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, and Marco Leo. (2023). "Human Fall Detection using Transfer Learning-based 3D CNN." In International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics (ICCTE-2023), University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India, November 23–25, 2023. Proceedings in Springer CCIS Series. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anirudha Ghosh, Debaditya Barman, Marco Leo, Cosimo Distante, and Baihua Li. (2023). "FewFaceNet: A Lightweight Few-Shot Learning-based Incremental Face Authentication for Edge Cameras." In ICCV 2023 Workshop: Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics, Paris, France, October 2–6, 2023. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Ekram Alam, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, and Marco Leo. (2023). "Real-Time Human Fall Detection using a Lightweight Pose Estimation Technique." In 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics (CICBA 2023), Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, India, January 27–28, 2023. Proceedings in Springer CCIS Series. View Publication
    • Farhana Sultana, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2022). "RIMNet: Image Magnification Networks with Residual Block for Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation." In IEEE TENSYMP 2022, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, July 1–3, 2022. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Farhana Sultana, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2022). "Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy Lesion Segmentation in UW-OCTA Images using Transfer Learning." In MICCAI 2022 Grand Challenge: DRAC22, Singapore, September 18–22, 2022. Proceedings in Springer LNCS. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Changsheng You, and Mianxiong Dong. (2021). "A Deep Transfer Learning-based Edge Computing Method for Home Health Monitoring." In 55th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Johns Hopkins University, USA, March 24–26, 2021. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Ekram Alam, Abu Sufian, Akhil Kumar Das, Arijit Bhattacharya, Md Firoj Ali, and MM Hafizur Rahman. (2021). "Leveraging Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A Review." In 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT), Muscat, Oman, December 21–23, 2021. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anuradha Banerjee, and Paramartha Dutta. (2020). "HFAIR: Hello Devoid Optimized Version of FAIR Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks." In Intelligence Enabled Research: DoSIER, August 12–13, 2020. Proceedings in Springer AISC Series. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anuradha Banerjee, and Paramartha Dutta. (2020). "A Tree Multicast Routing Based on Fuzzy Mathematics in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks." In International Conference on Computer Communication and Internet of Things (ICCCIoT), Tripura University, Agartala, India. Proceedings in Springer LNNS Series. View Publication
    • Farhana Sultana, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2018). "Advancements in Image Classification using Convolutional Neural Network." In 4th International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Anuradha Banerjee, and Paramartha Dutta. (2017). "FSNRP: Fuzzy-controlled Priority Scheduling of Non-real Time Data Packets in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks." In 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Bhubaneswar, India, December 17–20, 2017. Proceedings in IEEE Xplore. View Publication

    Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

    • Krishna K. Paul, Jishnu D. Roy, Sourav Sarkar, Sena K. Barai, Abu Sufian, Sachin K. Gupta, and Ashutosh Srivastava. (2022). "Smart Agriculture Using UAV and Deep Learning: A Systematic Review." In Internet of Things, 1st Edition, Taylor & Francis, Chapter 1, pp. 1–16. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Ekram Alam, Anirudha Ghosh, Farhana Sultana, Debashis De, and Mianxiong Dong. (2021). "Deep Learning in Computer Vision through Mobile Edge Computing for IoT." In Mobile Edge Computing, Springer, Chapter 18, pp. 443–471. View Publication
    • Farhana Sultana, Abu Sufian, and Paramartha Dutta. (2020). "A Review of Object Detection Models based on Convolutional Neural Network." In Intelligent Computing: Image Processing Based Applications, Springer, Chapter 1, pp. 1–16. View Publication
    • Abu Sufian, Dharm Singh Jat, and Anuradha Banerjee. (2020). "Insights of Artificial Intelligence to Stop Spread of COVID-19." In Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Against COVID-19: Innovation Vision and Approach, Springer, Chapter 11, pp. 177–190. View Publication
    • Anirudha Ghosh, Abu Sufian, Farhana Sultana, Amlan Chakrabarti, and Debashis De. (2020). "Fundamental Concepts of Convolutional Neural Network." In Recent Trends and Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, Springer, Chapter 36, pp. 519–567. View Publication

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