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I am currently Associate Professor in Computer Science in the department of Computer and Information Sciences where I am involved in the teaching of various modules in the areas of computer science and am carrying out research in computer vision and machine learning, image and video processing, biometrics and multimedia forensics, and medical image analysis. I joined the Queen's University of Belfast as a research student in 2004 and received the PhD degree from the School of Computer Science in 2007. I then held a research position in the Digital Media and Systems Research institute, University of Bradford for about two years before joining Northumbria University in 2010. A list of publications is available on my entry in Google Scholar and key publications can be found on Northumbria Research Link.
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- Source Camera Model Identification in Smartphone Videos Using Fused Features from Separated Noise Residuals, Farzadpour, Z., Ahmed, F., Khelifi, F. 4 Mar 2026, Seventeenth International Conference on Graphics and Image Processing, ICGIP 2025, Bellingham, US, SPIE
- Advanced deep learning and large language models: Comprehensive insights for cancer detection, Habchi, Y., Kheddar, H., Himeur, Y., Belouchrani, A., Serpedin, E., Khelifi, F., Chowdhury, M. 1 May 2025, In: Image and Vision Computing
- A novel recursive transformer-based U-Net architecture for enhanced multi-scale medical image segmentation, Li, S., Liu, X., Fu, M., Khelifi, F. 1 Sep 2025, In: Computers in Biology and Medicine
- Efficient Feature Points Detector for Full and Partial Palmprint Recognition, Khelifi, F., Almaghtuf, J., Bouridane, A. 4 Nov 2025, In: Knowledge-Based Systems
- PDC-ViT: source camera identification using pixel difference convolution and vision transformer, Elharrouss, O., Akbari, Y., Almaadeed, N., Al-Maadeed, S., Khelifi, F., Bouridane, A. 1 Mar 2025, In: Neural Computing and Applications
- Source Camera Model Identification in Smartphone Videos Using Fused Separated Noise Residual Features, Farzadpour, Z., Ahmed, F., Khelifi, F. 21 Aug 2025, SPIE--2025 17th International Conference on Graphics and Image Processing (ICGIP 2025), New York, US, ACM
- Enhanced Source Camera Identification Using Dual Pathway Processing and Spatial Attention Module, Zaimen, A., Oulefki, A., Khelifi, F., Rabie, T., Bouridane, A. 16 Dec 2024, 2024 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Piscataway, US, IEEE
- Exudate and drusen classification in retinal images using bagged colour vector angles and inter colour local binary patterns, Omar, M., Khelifi, F., Tahir, M. 1 May 2024, In: Multimedia Tools and Applications
- Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach using Fusion Layer for Source Camera Model Identification based on Video Taken by Smartphone, Akbari, Y., Almaadeed, S., Elharrouss, O., Ottakath, N., Khelifi, F. 15 Mar 2024, In: Expert Systems with Applications
- Medical Image Segmentation Based on Transformer and Spatial Recursive Convolution, Li, S., Liu, X., Khelifi, F. 11 Nov 2024, 2024 12th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), Piscataway, US, IEEE
- Ikechukwu Ikpeama Machine Learning Application for Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems Start Date: 01/03/2024
- Egallekanda Perera Efficient Keypoint-based palm-vein recognition Start Date: 28/01/2019 End Date: 01/05/2025
- Jyoti Jasekar Real-Time Rehabilitation Monitoring in Virtual Reality Using Vision-Based Human Pose Estimation Start Date: 01/10/2025
- Computing Science PhD September 01 2004
- Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2014
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