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Lebanon
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
41
Citations
9157
World Ranking
8690
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Lebanon Leader Award
  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to perception-based visual processing, image and video communications, and digital filtering

Overview

Lina J. Karam is affiliated with the Lebanese American University in Lebanon and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science. Their research primarily spans artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, electrical and electronic engineering, and computer networks and communications.

Their scholarly output covers several specific topics, including adversarial robustness in machine learning, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, anomaly detection techniques and applications, image processing techniques and applications, advanced neural network applications, and energy efficient wireless sensor networks.

Key recent publications by Lina J. Karam include the following papers:

  • Frequency-Tuned Universal Adversarial Attacks on Texture Recognition, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Locally Adaptive Statistical Background Modeling With Deep Learning-Based False Positive Rejection for Defect Detection in Semiconductor Units, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing
  • Traceability for nuclear medicine: the status of primary radioactivity standards, 2022, Metrologia
  • It GAN Do Better: GAN-Based Detection of Objects on Images With Varying Quality, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Frequency-Tuned Universal Adversarial Attacks, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing
  • Metrologia

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Yingpeng Deng
  • Jayantha Katupitiya
  • Vicente Milanés
  • Ioannis Pitas
  • Jieping Ye

Lina J. Karam was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions related to perception-based visual processing, image and video communications, and digital filtering.

Best Publications

  • A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on the Notion of Just Noticeable Blur (JNB)

    R. Ferzli;L.J. Karam

  • Understanding how image quality affects deep neural networks

    Samuel Dodge;Lina Karam

  • Objective Video Quality Assessment Methods: A Classification, Review, and Performance Comparison

    Shyamprasad Chikkerur;Vijay Sundaram;Martin Reisslein;Lina J Karam

  • A No-Reference Image Blur Metric Based on the Cumulative Probability of Blur Detection (CPBD)

    N. D. Narvekar;L. J. Karam

  • A Study and Comparison of Human and Deep Learning Recognition Performance under Visual Distortions

    Samuel Dodge;Lina Karam

  • Morphological text extraction from images

    Y.M.Y. Hasan;L.J. Karam

  • Complex Chebyshev approximation for FIR filter design

    L.J. Karam;J.H. McClellan

  • A no-reference perceptual image sharpness metric based on a cumulative probability of blur detection

    Niranjan D. Narvekar;Lina J. Karam

  • A Distributed Canny Edge Detector: Algorithm and FPGA Implementation

    Qian Xu;Srenivas Varadarajan;Chaitali Chakrabarti;Lina J. Karam

  • JPEG2000 encoding with perceptual distortion control

    Zhen Liu;L.J. Karam;A.B. Watson

  • Adaptive image coding with perceptual distortion control

    I. Hontsch;L.J. Karam

  • Trends in multicore DSP platforms

    L.J. Karam;I. AlKamal;A. Gatherer;G.A. Frantz

  • Locally adaptive perceptual image coding

    I. Hontsch;L.J. Karam

  • DeepCorrect: Correcting DNN Models Against Image Distortions

    Tejas S. Borkar;Lina J. Karam

  • The compression of color images based on a 2-dimensional discrete wavelet transform yielding a perceptually lossless image

    Tinku Acharya;Lina J. Karam;Francescomaria Marino

  • A no-reference perceptual image sharpness metric based on saliency-weighted foveal pooling

    N.G. Sadaka;L.J. Karam;R. Ferzli;G.P. Abousleman

  • Echtzeitalgorithmen und architektur zur kodierung von mit einem dwt-basierten verfahren komprimierten bildern

    Tinku Acharya;Lina J Karam;Francescomaria Marino

  • No-reference objective wavelet based noise immune image sharpness metric

    R. Ferzli;L.J. Karam

  • Spatially-Varying Blur Detection Based on Multiscale Fused and Sorted Transform Coefficients of Gradient Magnitudes

    S. Alireza Golestaneh;Lina J. Karam

  • A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on Just-Noticeable Blur and Probability Summation

    R. Ferzli;L.J. Karam

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Reisslein
Martin Reisslein Arizona State University
James H. McClellan
James H. McClellan Georgia Institute of Technology
Touradj Ebrahimi
Touradj Ebrahimi École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chaitali Chakrabarti
Chaitali Chakrabarti Arizona State University
Brian L. Evans
Brian L. Evans The University of Texas at Austin
Andrew B. Watson
Andrew B. Watson Apple (United States)
Tinku Acharya
Tinku Acharya Intel (United States)
Dinei Florencio
Dinei Florencio Microsoft (United States)
Yu Cao
Yu Cao University of Minnesota
Andreas Spanias
Andreas Spanias Arizona State University

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