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Professor Dr. Syed Arif Kamal
Project Director, the NGDS Pilot Project; HEC-Approved PhD Supervisor
Program Coördinator, the Early Talent Research Participation Program

MS (Indiana, Bloomington, USA); MA (Johns Hopkins, USA); PhD; Member, AIAA (USA), IBRO (France)

Member, Expert Panel (Mathematics), National Curriculum Council, Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan
Convener, National Curriculum Revision Committee (Mathematics), Higher Education Commission
Member, Senate, Academic Council, Board of Faculty, Board of Studies; Ex-Chairman

Professor, Department of Mathematics
UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI

Office: Room No. 6, Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi, University Road
Paper Mail: University of Karachi, Post Office Box No. 8406, Karachi 75270 (Pakistan)
Homepage: http://ngds-ku.org/kamal • e-mail: kamal(at the rate of)ngds-ku.org
Telephones: (92 21) 926 1300-6 ext. 2293 (secretary), ext. 2380 (direct)

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Journal Papers

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Giving interview to Dawn TV Network
(October 31, 2007)

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2. Journal Papers

2005

J27: A Systematic Way to Express the
Equations of Straight Line in Terms of
Their Direction Ratios
Work done at: UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI, University
Road, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Kamal SA, Naseeruddin, Karachi University Journal of
Science 33(1&2), 2005, 71-72
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The equations of straight line are generally given as
the intersection of two planes. A systematic way to express the straight-line equations in terms of their
direction ratios is presented. Paper PDF

2004

J26: An Investigation of Growth Profiles of the Pakistani Children
Work done at: UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI, University Road, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Kamal SA, Firdous S, Alam SJ, International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology 1(4), 2004, 709-717
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The NGDS (National Growth and Developmental Standards for the Pakistani Children) Pilot Project was initiated
in 1998 to establish Pakistan-based anthropometrical-data library and growth charts, to formulate mathematical models, which predict growth parameters, to write softwares, which generate detailed growth profiles and to develop inexpensive anthropometry instruments from local resources, which could be employed in obtaining anthropometric measurements of Pakistani rural and slum-area children. Standing and sitting heights, shoulder widths, weights and mid-upper-arm circumferences are measured on over 2000 healthy children. Mathematical procedure/software was developed, which takes as input heights and weights of biological parents, and those
of child at 2 successive occasions, 6 months apart. The output is a detailed growth profile indicating stunting
and wasting (if present), overweight/underweight conditions, height velocity, rate of weight gain/loss and biomass index (comparison of all three with references). Failure to grow may be the first indication of a major underlying problem. The authors recommend growth monitoring and analysis of all 4-10 year old children using
this software. Paper PDF

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3. Conference Papers

2008

C68: Pattern Recognition using Moiré Fringe Topography and Rasterstereography
Work done at: UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI, UniversityRoad, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Kamal SA, International Symposium on Biometrics and Security Technologies (IEEE ISBAST 2008), Bahria Uni-versity, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2008, p 14
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Moiré fringe topography and rasterstereography are 3-D optical imaging techniques, which provide height and curvature maps of the subject or the object under study. These are non-contact and non-invasive techniques, which project moiré and raster grids on the body. The distorted grids contain height and curvature information, which may be recovered using image-processing algorithms. These techniques are being applied to face recogni-tion. The information may be stored in the database and not easily accessible to ordinary citizen. Hence, the chances of fake pictures or fabricated patterns are minimized. Techniques are developed to project, simulta-neously, moiré and raster grids and analyze height and curvature information, separately, using selective optical filtering, which could be used to record height and curvature patterns during a certain action, e. g., uttering a standard word. Edge-based algorithms, combined with moiré contours and raster patterns, allow study of face movements through changing height and curvature maps. A multiple-level screening of suspects using these technologies is proposed. Paper PDF

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