Staff Profiles

Dr Nazre Batool

Ph.D.

Contact Details

Lecturer - Contract Type B
School of Computer Science
University of Galway
E: Nazre.Batool@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Dr. Nazre Batool is a permanent Lecturer (Above the Bar)/ Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway. Dr. Batool has substantial academic and industry research experience in image and sensor data analysis for applications in autonomous driving, medical imaging, and face analysis. She has collaborated with several hospitals and industries worldwide including Malaysia, France, Sweden, and Germany. Before joining the University of Galway, she was a Senior Engineer at the Autonomous Transport Solutions R&D department of Scania AB, Sweden, where she contributed towards the 3D scene perception software for Scania¿s autonomous trucks & buses. As an industry researcher, she also collaborated with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology within a 4 years' joint industry-academia research project funded by the Swedish government's Vinnova research grant.

Dr. Batool is a PhD Fulbright scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA (2014) with a 5-year Fulbright scholarship. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France, after receiving the INRIA-DPE postdoc fellowship. She also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University, Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, where she collaborated closely with the hospitals. She received her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University Technology Petronas, Malaysia and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

Dr. Batool is a Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Women in Engineering. She has served as IEEE Signal Processing Society Sweden chapter chair for two years. She is a recipient of 2016 IEEE R8 Clementina Saduwa Award for her note-worthy achievements in engineering and support of women.

Dr. Batool's research interests include computer vision, image processing, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and self-supervised machine learning with applications in autonomous systems, robotics and healthcare.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9vnLufQAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nazre-Batool

Research Interests

Dr. Batool's research interests include:

Computer Vision,
Digital Signal Processing,
Artificial Intelligence,
Self-supervised Machine Learning,
Pattern Recognition,
Multi-modal data analysis,

with applications to solve the problems arising in following areas:

Autonomous Systems,
Robotics,
Healthcare

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	'A survey on facial wrinkles detection and inpainting: datasets, methods, and challenges' Yap, Moi Hoon and Batool, Nazre and Ng, Choon-Ching and Rogers, Mike and Walker, Kevin (2021) 'A survey on facial wrinkles detection and inpainting: datasets, methods, and challenges'. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 5 (4):505-519 [Details]
	(2017)	'Estimation of trabecular bone thickness in gray scale: a validation study' Batool, Nazre and Chowdhury, Manish and Smedby, Örjan and Moreno, Rodrigo (2017) 'Estimation of trabecular bone thickness in gray scale: a validation study'. International Journal Of Computer Assisted Radiology And Surgery, 12 (Supplement 1) [Details]
	(2015)	'Fast detection of facial wrinkles based on Gabor features using image morphology and geometric constraints' Batool, Nazre and Chellappa, Rama (2015) 'Fast detection of facial wrinkles based on Gabor features using image morphology and geometric constraints'. Pattern Recognition, 48 (3):642-658 [Details]
	(2014)	'Detection and inpainting of facial wrinkles using texture orientation fields and Markov random field modeling' Batool, Nazre and Chellappa, Rama (2014) 'Detection and inpainting of facial wrinkles using texture orientation fields and Markov random field modeling'. IEEE transactions on image processing, 23 (9):3773-3788 [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2017)	'Multi-fiber reconstruction using probabilistic mixture models for diffusion MRI examinations of the brain' Shakya, Snehlata and Batool, Nazre and Özarslan, Evren and Knutsson, Hans (2017) 'Multi-fiber reconstruction using probabilistic mixture models for diffusion MRI examinations of the brain' In: Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization of Anisotropy. :283-308 Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer. [Details]
	(2016)	'Modeling of facial wrinkles for applications in computer vision' Batool, Nazre and Chellappa, Rama (2016) 'Modeling of facial wrinkles for applications in computer vision' In: Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis. :299-332 International Publishing: Springer. [Details]

Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	*Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision* Yang, Yi and Zhang, Qingwen and Li, Ci and Marta, Daniel Sim\~oes and Batool, Nazre and Folkesson, John (2024) Human-centric autonomous systems with llms for user command reasoning Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision , pp.988-994 [Details]
	(2024)	*2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)* Khoche, Ajinkya and Sánchez, Laura Pereira and Batool, Nazre and Mansouri, Sina Sharif and Jensfelt, Patric (2024) Towards Long-Range 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) , pp.2206-2212 [Details]
	(2024)	*2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)* Y. Yang, Q. Zhang, K. Ikemura, N. Batool and J. Folkesson (2024) Hard Cases Detection in Motion Prediction by Vision-Language Foundation Models 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) Jeju Island, Korea, , pp.2405-2412 [Details]
	(2023)	*2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)* Yang, Yi and Zhang, Qingwen and Gilles, Thomas and Batool, Nazre and Folkesson, John (2023) RMP: A Random Mask Pretrain Framework for Motion Prediction 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) , pp.3717-3723 [Details]
	(2019)	*Computer Vision--ECCV 2018 Workshops: Munich, Germany, September 8-14, 2018, Proceedings, Part IV 15* Yap, Moi Hoon and Alarifi, Jhan and Ng, Choon-Ching and Batool, Nazre and Walker, Kevin (2019) Automated facial wrinkles annotator Computer Vision--ECCV 2018 Workshops: Munich, Germany, September 8-14, 2018, Proceedings, Part IV 15 , pp.676-680 [Details]
	(2017)	*Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, September 7-8, 2017, Bremen, Germany* Shakya, Snehlata and Gu, Xuan and Batool, Nazre and Özarslan, Evren and Knutsson, Hans (2017) Multi-fiber Estimation and Tractography for Diffusion MRI using mixture of Non-central Wishart Distributions Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, September 7-8, 2017, Bremen, Germany , pp.1-5 [Details]
	(2016)	*2016 Sixth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA)* Batool, Nazre (2016) Detection and spatial analysis of hepatic steatosis in histopathology images using sparse linear models 2016 Sixth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) , pp.1-6 [Details]
	(2015)	*2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)* Batool, Nazre and Zerubia, Josiane (2015) Image-based evaluation of treatment responses of facial wrinkles using LDDMM registration and Gabor features 2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , pp.1747-1751 [Details]
	(2013)	*2013 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)* Batool, Nazre and Taheri, Sima and Chellappa, Rama (2013) Assessment of facial wrinkles as a soft biometrics 2013 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) , pp.1-7 [Details]
	(2012)	*2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)* Batool, Nazre and Chellappa, Rama (2012) A Markov point process model for wrinkles in human faces 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , pp.1809-1812 [Details]
	(2012)	*Computer Vision--ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations: Florence, Italy, October 7-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II 12* Batool, Nazre and Chellappa, Rama (2012) Modeling and detection of wrinkles in aging human faces using marked point processes Computer Vision--ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations: Florence, Italy, October 7-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II 12 , pp.178-188 [Details]

Teaching Interests

Computer Vision
Digital Image Processing
Digital Signal Processing
Probability & Statistics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Optimization
Algorithms

Modules Taught

Term/Year	Module Title	Module Code
2025	Deep Learning	CT5133
2025	Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence	CT5212
2025	Deep Learning - Online	CT5145
2024	Graphics & Image Processing	CT404