Talks, Seminars

Presentations Research Symposiums

Title: Embedding a New Conjugate Gradient Vector Field to Augment Image Features and Enhance Machine Learning Classification, INFUS 2025, 29-31 July, Istanbul, Turkey, FrancPetrus-Nihi, Sirakov, N.M

Title: Image Features and Image Dataset Augmentation for Skin Lesions Machine Learning Classification, MCO 2025, 4-6 June; Metz, FrancPetrus-Nihi, E.F., Akther, R., Sirakov, N.M

Title: CNN for Efficient Objects Classification with Embedded Vector Fields, ICCIDA2023, July 21-22,2023, Oluwaseyi Igbasanmi, Nikolay M. Sirakov, and Adam Bowden, Best Paper Award
Title: Calculation of the Clifford Algebra Multivector Coefficients, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, Jan 04-07, 2023, 8:45 -9AM, Mutlu Akar, Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov.
Title: A New CNN-Vector Field for Accurate Melanoma Diagnosis, TAMU students research Pathway symposium, Galveston, March 02, 2022, 1pm-3pm, Oluwaseyi Igbasanmi, advisor Nikolay Sirakov,
Title: 2D Heat Equation to Model Emphysema Distribution in Lungs, TAMU students research Pathway symposium, Galveston, March 02, 2022, 1pm-3pm, Md Ahiduzzaman, Guadalupe Baeza, Nikolay Sirakov, and Arie Nakhmani,
Title: Vector Fields Under Plane Scaling and Translation, March 31 - April 2, 2022, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas , Oluwaseyi Igbasanmi, Adam Bowden, Nikolay M. Sirakov.
Title: Prediction of Bradycardia Episodes in Very Preterm Infants, PAS 2022, Colm P Travers¹, MD, Arie Nakhmani², PhD, Pravinkumar G Kandhare², PhD, Nikolay M Sirakov³, PhD, Deborah Laney¹, RN, MSN, Waldemar A Carlo¹, MD, Namasivayam Ambalavanan¹, MD,
Title: Investigating Deep Euler-Lagrange-Poisson Segmentation Learning For Image Segmentation, Texas section meeting MAA, March 28-30, 2019, Texas
Title: Poisson Equation Solution and Its Gradient Vector Field to Geometric Features Extraction, at the International Conference of Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, December 12-14, 2018, Dublin, Ireland, talk of 30 min.
Title: Multi-Target Trajectory Tracking of Cells,” Southern Biomedical Eng. Conf. – 35^th Annual Meeting Feb. 22-24, 2019, University of Southern Mississippi
Title: Image Related Properties of the Euler-Lagrange and Poisson PDEs, Plenary Speaker, ICAAMM2018, Istanbul Turkey, July 20-24, 2018.

Title: Inscribing Convex Polygons in Star-Shaped Objects, 18^th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, 19-22 June 2017, Provdiv, Bulgaria.

Title: Shape Matching for Rigid Objects by Aligning Sequences Based on Boundary Change Points, 18^th Inter. Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, 19-22 June 2017, Provdiv, Bulgaria.

Title: Improvements in ELPAC Segmentation and Applications”, 96th Annual Meeting Texas Section MAA –04/01/2017, Texas A&M U Commerce.

Title: Mathematical Concepts with Image Analysis Applications, Nov. 12-13, 2016, Invited Speaker at Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference (organized annually since 1974), University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Title: “Identification of Partially Occluded Firearms Through Partonomy”, Invited Talk, ADSA14, May 10‐11, 2016, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts, organized by ALERT Center of Excellence, Department of Homeland Security, Attendance only by invitation

Title: New Accurate Automated Melanoma Diagnosing Systems, IEEE ICHI2015, Dallas, Oct. 22, 2015.
Title: Identification of Partially Occluded Firearms Through Partonomy, Invited Speaker: SPIE 2015, Defense Security and Sensing, Automatic Target Recognition, Baltimore, April 22, 2015.
Title: Investigations into the Noise and Multiple Region Segmentation Abilities of Euler-Lagrange Poisson Active Contour, 9th Int. Conf. on Differential Eq. and Dynamic Systems, Special Session: Appl. of DE and DS to Science and Industry, May 14, 2015, speaker A. Dowden.
Title: Optimal Set Of Features For Accurate Skin Cancer Diagnosis, IEEE ICIP 2014, International Conference of Image Processing 2014, IEEE ICIP2014, Paris, October 28-30, 2014;
Title: Tracking Partially Occluded Objects With Centripetal Active Contour, 16th Inter. Workshop Combinatorial Image Analysis 2014, IWCIA2014, Brno-Czech Republic, May 20-30, 2014,
Title: From Shape to Threat: Exploiting the Convergence Between Visual and Conceptual Organization for Weapon Identification and Threat Assessment, SPIE "Defense, Security and Sensing", April 30, 2013, Baltimore, MD, INVITED SPEAKER
Title: Skin Lesion Feature Vector Space With A Metric To Model Geometric Structures Of Malignancy, 15th Int. Workshop Combinatorial Image Analysis, UT Austin, Nov. 28-30, 2012.
Title: Local and Global Fuzzy Gaussian Distribution Energy Minimization of a Convex Active Contour Model, 15th Int. Workshop on Combin. Image Analysis, UT at Austin, 28-30, 2012.
Title: Mathematical Concepts with Image Analysis Applications, November 02-04, 2012, Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Dept. of Mathematics, INVITED SPEAKER.
Title: Weapon Ontology Annotation Using Boundary Describing Sequences, IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 22-24, 2012
Title: Automatic Boundary Detection And Symmetry Calculation In Dermoscopy
Images of Skin Lesions, IEEE ICIP2011, Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 11-14, 2011.
Title: Integration of low level and ontology derived features for automatic weapon recognition and identification, Automatic Target Recognition XXI, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Orlando, Florida, April 2011.
Title: Automatic Object Identification Using Visual Low Level Feature Extraction and Ontological Knowledge, SDPS’2010- Society for Design and Process Science, Dallas, Texas, June 2010.
Title: Tracking Neutrophil Cells by Active Contours with Coherence and Boundary Improvement Filter, IEEE SSIAI2010, Austin, Texas, May 24, 2010.
Title: An Active Vector Field for Boundary Extraction of Objects with Complex Geometric, SPPRA 2010, Austria, Innsbruck, Friday, February 19, 2010.
Title: An Integral Active Contour Model for Convex Hull and Boundary Extraction, International symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, Nov. 30-Dec. 02, 2009.
Title: Shape’s Related 3D Objects Indexing and Image Database Organization, IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 25, 2008.
Title: Monotonic Vector Forces and Green’s Theorem For Automatic Area Calculation, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, Sep. 16-18,2007.
Title: Content Based Search in Web Archives, World Congress in Applied Computing – Internet Computing 2007, Las Vegas, June 25-28, 2007.
Title: Automatic Concavity’s Area Calculation Using Active Contours and Increasing Flow. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta Georgia, Oct. 08-11,2006.
Title: Multiple Surfaces Reconstruction from 2D Sections Using an Increasing 2D Vector Flow, The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, June 26-29,2006
Title: A New Automatic Concavity Extraction Model, IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Processing and Analysis, Denver, Colorado, March 26-28,2006.
Title: Heat Equation to 3D Image Segmentation, The 9th World Multi-Conference on SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, WMSCI 2005, Orlando, USA , July 10-13, 2005.
Title: A New Active Convex Hull Model for Image Database’s Search Space Partitioning, 2005 World Congress in Applied Computing - VISION'05, Las Vegas, June 20-23, 2005.

RESEARCH SEMINARS

Title: Classification of Objects with Embedded Singularities, Math Department Colloquium. November 29, 2023, 3:30PM-4:30PM.

Title: About some wonders made with Mathematics, AIM, TAMUC, March 24, 2023, 11am-12pm, Nikolay M. Sirakov, Oluwaseyi Igbasanmi,
Title: Biomedical Image Features Extraction and Classification with Vector Fields Driven Active Contours and Neural Networks, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. at University of Alabama at Birmingham – Tea Time Seminar –Invited Talk - Feb. 19, 2021, 11AM-12:50PM,
Title: Image Features Extraction and Classification Studies with my Research Students, Math Club Meeting, TAMUC, April 07, 2021, 6PM-7PM.
Title: About Some Wonders Made by Mathematic, Math Club February 13, 2020, 6PM – 7PMTitle: About Some Wonders Made by Mathematic, Adventure in Mathematics, Feb. 14, 1PM-2PM
Title: Skin Lesion Features Extraction and Classification with SVM in Clifford Algebra Sub-Spaces, with Neural Networks, University of Paris 13 , L2TI Lab, Invited Seminar, 07.24.2019, 12PM-1:30PM.
Title: Support Vector Machine Skin Lesion Classification in Clifford Algebra Subspaces, Math Department Colloquia, October 31, 2018, talk by Dr. Mutlu Akar, Dr. N.M.Sirakov
Title: What Links Computer, Science, Engineering and Medicine? The Answer and an Example – 02/02/2018, TAMUC, Math Club, Invited Talk.
Title: Poison Equation Generated Vector Fields on Images for the Purpose of Segmentation, Ontology Group seminar, Sept. 17, 2015.
Title: Handling Noise And Multiple Region Segmentation With A Euler – Lagrange Poisson Active Contour, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Monday February 16, 2015, Given by Adam under my supervision and participation in the talk.
Title: New Automated Melanoma Detection Rules, Invited Lecture at Baylor University Medical Center –Cancer Center–Skin Tumor Seminar (Skin Tumor Board): November 19, 2014, 7AM.
Title: Partial Differential Equations and Active Contour Models. Seminar at Department of Mathematics, TAMUC, November 04, 2013,
Title: What You Can Do With a Mathematics Degree? – Math Club Meeting, Jan. 27, 2012
Title: About Visit Experience and Ideas on Identification, Matching and Tracking, Mathematical Colloquia Dept. of Mathematics, Nov. 30, 2011, 3:30PM-4:30PM.
Title: Mathematical Concepts with Image Analysis Applications, November 18, 2011, 1PM -2PM, Invited Speker, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Dept. of Mathematics.
Title: About Visit Experience and Ideas on Identification, Matching and Tracking, Mathematical Colloquia Dept. of Mathematics, Nov. 30, 2011, 3:30PM-4:30PM.
Title: New Family of Active Contours with Image Enhancement & Region Matching, Math Department Colloquium, TAMUC, Nov. 23, 2010, 3:30PM-4:30PM.
Invited Speker at UT Arlington, Applied Mathematics Seminar-Department of Mathematics at UT Arlington, March 06, 2009, 2:30, Pickard Hall, Room304, Title: The Exact Solution of the Active Convex Hull Model And Its Application to Image Segmentation, attended by both Math and CS Faculty, Ph.D. and Master Students,
Title: The Active Convex Hull Model Its Level Set Presentation and Exact Solution. Math Colloquium on November 13, 2008, 3PM-4PM;
Invited Seminar: Regular Seminar Dept of Physics TAMUC- September 27,2007, 4PM-5PM, Room 127, Science Build., Title: Image Databases to Science. Methods for Features Extraction.
Invited Speker at UT Arlington, Applied Math Seminar, Dept of Mathematics, Feb. 02,2007-2:30, Room 304, Title: About An Edge Where Mathematics and Computer Science Meet;
REU seminar on June 06, 2007, Title: Enhancement and Features Extraction from Surface Images.
Title: Image Database Management and Indexing, Brain, Computation and Mind Seminar, Dept. of CS, December 08,2006, Science Building 355.
Title: Level Set Formulation of the Heat Differential Equation, Applications to Content Based Image Retrieval, Dept of Mathematics and CS, Jour 129, May 05,2006, 12-1:30PM.
Title: Introduction to Mathematica, and its Applications; An Application of Derivatives and Interpolation to 2D and 3D objects modeling, Image Evaluation and Retrieval; TAMUC, Undergraduate Research Program, June 07-08,2005,
Title: Digital Image Databases and 3D Visualization Applications to Science and Industry, TAMU-Commerce, Department of Chemistry, February 10,2005.
Title: A New Image-Region’s Active Convex Hull Model For Content Based Image Retrieval, TAMU-Commerce, Dept Math and Dept of CSIS, Sept. 30.2004.
Title: Over Some Open 2D/3D Shape Features Extraction and Matching Problems, TAMU-Commerce, Dept CSIS, Sept. 29.2004.
Title: An Introduction to Digital Image Databases and Content-Based Image Retrieval, TAMU-Commerce, Depts. of Math, CSIS, Sept. 16.2004.

While at NAU, 2001-2004

Title: Heat Equation and Gradient Flow to Capture an Image Object in a Dynamic Image Database. NAU- Department of Math and Statistics, Regular Seminar, USA, 04/02/2003.
Title: Images interpolation and Image database querying. Active Contours. Northern Arizona University- Department of Math and Statistics, Regular Seminar, USA, 11/26/2002.
Title: Shape matching of words in Digitized Renaissance Books. Smooth Reconstruction and Visualization of Multiple 3D Objects in Case of Shortage Input Data. Computer Science Dept.-Eastern Michigan University, USA, 04/01/2002.
Title: Surfaces Construction Using Regularities and Sequences of Observation, Northern Arizona University- Department of Math and Statistics, Regular Seminar, USA, 03/19/2002.
Title: Over optimal surface reconstruction methods, Applied Math Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics- Northern Arizona University, USA, 01/23/2002.
Title: Math and Statistics to Image Processing and Objects Reconstruction. An Example Approach, NAU- Department of Math and Statistics, Regular Seminar, USA, 10/23/2001.

In Europe:

Title: 3D reconstruction and visualization of human tibia for prosthesis design, IM-BAS,Bulgaria, 2001.
Title: A software system, developed by Visual ++C, for shape matching of words in digitized Renaissance books. Meeting of the International project DEBORA, IST–Lisbon, Portugal, fall 2000.
Title: 3D surface modeling, reconstruction and visualization of multiple complex subsurface objects - ore bodies, ore types, groundwater units. CVRM-IST–Lisbon, Portugal, 1998-2000.
Title: Shape matching of Renaissance Words using regularities and finite numerical sequences. General meeting of the International project DEBORA, Attended by the members of RFV-INSA, Lyon, France, Comp. Sc. Dep. - University of Lancaster-UK, CVRM-IST, December 1999.
Title: Virtual Multimedia Library – architecture, contents, INSA-Lyon, Laboratorie de Reconnaisance de Formes et Vision (RFV), France, June 1999.
Title: Over some problems of Image to Text/Text to Image transfer system, the Group of Prof. Dr. Liming Chen- Ecole Central de Lyon, software developing Company –SGBI- Lyon, France,June 1999.
Title: Solving of 3D modeling, visualization and recognition problems using series of plane sections, Technical University of Dresden – Institute of Acoustics, Germany, September 1997.
Title: Regularities and finite numerical sequences to 3D objects representation, shape reconstruction and visualization, CIMPA Institute “Virtual Reality”- Nice, France – June 1995.
Title: Objects recognition by single view, CVRM-IST– Lisbon, Portugal, June 1994.
Title: New effective method and software tool to 2D/3D objects comparing, CVRM-IST,Portugal, 1994.
Title: 3D Objects Recognition Method to Robot Orientation and Control in Nuclear Reactors,CVRM-IST, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1993.
Title: Recognition of shape from finite series of plane figures. NATO Advanced Study Institute “Shape in Pictures”, Driebergen, the Netherlands, 1992.
Title: Application of regular structures and identification sets to 3D objects recognition in robotics, International Lab of Artificial Intelligence- Slovak Academy of Sciences- Bratislava, October 1990.
Title: Application of FORTH language to robot’s local motion control;
Title: An aspect graph based effective approach for 3D objects and scenes description to robot orientation in a global scene. Polish Academy of Sciences-Institute of Biocybernetics and Bioengineering, 1987-1989.

Dr. Nikolay M. Sirakov

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Dr. Nikolay M. Sirakov

Talks, Seminars

Presentations Research Symposiums