Dr. Awudu Karim

ICT Coordinator (DIS)

Contact info kawudu@ug.edu.gh

About

Dr. Awudu Karim, is a senior lecturer and course advisor at the Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana and additionally as a course instructor and examiner at the School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana. He also works as a part-time lecturer at the Accra City Campus of the University of Ghana.

He serves as a reviewer for a number of international journals such as Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications journal, IET Signal Processing journal, Asian Journal of Research in Computer Science, etc. He has co-authored many publications mainly on machine learning, natural language processing and image processing. 

Education

PhD in Computer Science and Technology 

Research Interest

Natural language processing 

Machine learning/deep learning 

AI in libraries 

Image processing and Computer vision. 

Other areas include data analysis, data mining, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, database design and web development.

Publications

Zhang, Baisong, Sujuan Hou, Awudu Karim, Jing Wang, Weikuan Jia, and Yuanjie Zheng (2023). Discriminative Semantic Feature Pyramid Network with Guided Anchoring for Logo Detection. (MDPI)Mathematics 11, no. 2: 481. https://doi.org/10.3390/math11020481

Sujuan Hou, Wenjie Liu, Awudu Karim, Zhixiang Jia, Weikuan Jia, Yuanjie Zheng (2023). Few-shot logo detection. IET Computer Vision, 17(5), 586-598. https://doi.org/10.1049/cvi2.12205

Cheng Baoyan, Duan Huichuan, Hou Sujuan, Karim Awudu, et al. (2021). An Effective Anchor-Free model with Transformer for Logo Detection; Efficient Logo Detection via Transformer. International Conference on Computer Information Science and Artificial Intelligence, CISAI 2021, pp. 198 – 206. DOI: 10.1109/CISAI54367.2021.00045

Ye Meng, Sujuan Hou, Jing Wang, Weikuan Jia, Yuanjie Zheng, Awudu Karim (2021). An adaptive representation algorithm for multi-scale logo detection. Displays, 70, 102090.  ISSN 0141-9382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2021.102090

Xingchao Yan, Sujuan Hou, Awudu Karim, Weikuan Jia (2021). RAFNet: RGB-D attention feature fusion network for indoor semantic segmentation, Displays, 70, 102082. ISSN 0141-9382. DOI: 10.1016/j.displa.2021.102082   

Wang Liping, Zhou Shangbo, Awudu Karim, Qi Ying, Lin Xiaoran. (2017). A novel image zooming method based on sparse representation of Weber’s law descriptor. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881416682699

Shangbo Zhou, Shufang Chen, Karim Awudu, et al. (2017). Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscope Based on Color Feature Vector. DEStech Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering. 10.12783/dtcse/aice-ncs2016/5629.

Liping Wang, Zhou Shangbo, Awudu Karim (2016). Super-resolution image reconstruction method using homotopy regularization. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (Multimedia Tools and Applications) pages 1-24, 12th Ed.

Liping Wang, Shangbo Zhou, Awudu Karim (2016). Image zooming technique based on the split Bregman iteration with fractional order variation regularization. International Arab journal of information technology, 13(6A): 944-950. (SCI: 000395967400029).

Awudu Karim, Shangbo Zhou, (2015). X-TREPAN: A multi class regression and adapted extraction of comprehensible decision tree in artificial neural networks. arXiv-CS, Cornell University. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1508.07551

Sujuan Hou, Shangbo Zhou, Ling Chen, Yong Feng, Awudu Karim (2015). Multi-label Learning with Label Relevance in Advertising Video. Neurocomputing volume 171, pages 932-948.

Hongbin Tang, Shangbo Zhou, Awudu Karim (2015). A bit-locking binary tree algorithm based on odd-even zone. International Conference on Mechatronics and Industrial Informatics (ICMII).

Awudu Karim et al (2012). Ant Intelligence Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Volume 312, pages 76-85.