Mohamed-Yahia Dabbagh, PEng

Mohamed-Yahia Dabbagh is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

His research interests include digital signal processing, image processing and video processing. Dr. Dabbagh developed VLSI multiprocessor implementation of high demanding computational algorithms in the areas of Communication Systems, Computer Vision, and Control Systems. He is also looking into the development of algorithms in video motion estimation, video segmentation, and pattern recognition and classification. Dr. Dabbagh published several articles with IEEE and other organizations regarding video and image processing systems.

• Digital Signal Processing, Image and Video Processing

• 1989, Doctorate PhD, North Carolina State University, United States
• 1981, Master's MSE, University of Michigan, United States
• 1976, Bachelor's BSE, University of Aleppo, Syria

• P.Eng. (Professional Engineers of Ontario)

• ECE 140 - Linear Circuits
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ECE 207 - Signals and Systems
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

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• Dabbagh, Mohamed-Yahia and Alexander, Winser E, Multiprocessor implementation of 2-D denominator-separable digital filters for real-time processing, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 872, 1989
• Dabbagh, MY and Alexander, WE, Frequency domain implementation of block state space 2-D digital filters, Proc. 31st Midwest Symp. on Circ. and Syst, , 1988
• Verma, Rohit and Dabbagh, Mohamed-Yahia, Binary pattern based edge detection for motion estimation in H. 264/AVC, Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2013 26th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on, 1, 2013
• Verma, Rohit and Dabbagh, Mohamed-Yahia, Fast facial expression recognition based on local binary patterns, Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2013 26th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on, 1, 2013
• Tsuei, Danny Teng-Hsiang and Dabbagh, Mohamed-Yahia and Sachdev, Manoj, Multiprocessor FPGA implementation of a 2D digital filter, Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011 24th Canadian Conference on, 000630, 2011