1. S. Hassan, M. S. Sayed, M. I. Abdalla, and M. A. Rashwan, “Detection of breast cancer mass using MSER detector and features matching,” accepted for publication in Multimedia Tools and Applications, February 2019.

2. O. M. Saad, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “Automatic Discrimination of Earthquakes and Quarry Blasts Using Wavelet Filter Bank and Support Vector Machine,” Journal of Seismology, December 2018.

3. O. M. Saad, K. Inoue, A. Shalaby, L. Samy, and M. S. Sayed, “Automatic arrival time detection for earthquakes based on stacked denoising autoencoder,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 15, issue 11, pp. 1687 – 1691, November 2018.

4. A. M. El-Mohandes, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “Efficient Low Power Digital Baseband Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 Narrow-Band Physical Layer,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 26, issue 11, pp. 2372 – 2385, November 2018.

5. O. M. Saad, A. Shalaby, L. Samy, and M. S. Sayed, “Automatic arrival time detection for earthquakes based on Modified Laplacian of Gaussian filter,” Computers & Geosciences, vol. 113, pp. 43 – 53, April 2018.

6. M. Abdelrasoul, M. S. Sayed, and V. Goulart, “Diagonal Based Fast Intra Mode Decision Algorithm for HEVC”, IET Image Processing Journal, vol. 11, issue 10, pp. 888 – 898, October 2017.

7. A. Medhat, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, " Towards an FPGA-based HEVC Encoder: A Low-Complexity Rate Distortion Scheme for AMVP,” in Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 36, issue 10, pp. 4207–4226, October 2017.

8. M. Abdelrasoul, M. S. Sayed, and V. Goulart, “Real-time unified architecture for forward/inverse discrete cosine transform in high efficiency video coding”, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems Journal, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 381 – 387, July 2017.

9. A. Medhat, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, M. Elsabrouty, and F. Mehdipour, "Adaptive Low-Complexity Motion Estimation Algorithm for High Efficiency Video Coding Encoder,” IET Image Processing Journal, vol. 10, issue 6, p. 438 – 447, June 2016.

10. M. A. Mousa, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “An Efficient Algorithm for Arabic Optical Font Recognition Using Scale Invariant Detector,” Springer International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 263-270, September 2015.

11. M. S. Sayed and J. Delva, “An Efficient Intensity Correction Algorithm for High Definition Video Surveillance Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 21, issue 11, pp. 1622-1630, March 2011.

12. M. S. Sayed, W. Badawy, and G. Jullien, “Interpolation-Free Fractional-Pixel Motion Estimation Algorithms with Efficient Hardware Implementation,” Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Oct. 2010.

13. M. Sayed, W. Badawy, and G. Jullien, “Towards an H.264/AVC HW/SW Integrated Solution: An Efficient VBSME Architecture,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 55, issue 9, pp. 912-916, Sept. 2008.

14. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “An Affine Based Algorithm and SIMD Architecture for Video Compression with Low Bit-rate Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, issue 4, pp. 457-471, April 2006.

15. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Computational Memory Architecture for MPEG-4 Applications with Mobile Devices,” The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Special Issue on Digital and Computational video, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 35-42, Jan. 2006.

16. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Computational RAM (C-RAM) Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-Based Video Motion Tracking: Part I Motion Estimation,” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers JCSC, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1203-1215, Dec. 2004.

17. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Computational RAM (C-RAM) Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-Based Video Motion Tracking: Part II Motion Compensation,” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers JCSC, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1217-1231, Dec. 2004.

18. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Novel Low Power Embedded Memory Architecture for MPEG-4 Applications with Mobile Devices,” IEEE Canadian Journal on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 171-175, Oct. 2002.

1. O. M. Saad, A. Shalaby, K. Inoue, and M. S. Sayed, “Hardware Friendly Algorithm for Earthquakes Discrimination Based on Wavelet Filter Bank and Support Vector Machine,” in proc. of the International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computations (JAC-ECC 2018), Alexandria, Egypt, 16-18 December, 2018.

2. S. A. Abdelrahman, M. M. Abdelwahab, and M. S. Sayed, “Malignancy Classification of Lung Nodule Based on Accumulated Multi Planar Views and Canonical Correlation Analysis,” in proc. of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2018), Taichung, Taiwan, 10-12 December 2018.

3. E. M. Ibrahim, E. Badry, A. M. Abdelsalam, I. L. Abdalla, M. S. Sayed, and H. Shalaby, “Neural Networks Based Fractional Pixel Motion Estimation for HEVC,” in proc. of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2018), Taichung, Taiwan, 10-12 December 2018.

4. A. H. Bondok, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “A Low Power Packet Detection Algorithm for FM-UWB PHY for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN,” in proc. of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2018), Bordeaux, France, 9-12 December 2018.

5. O. M. Saad, K. Inoue, A. Shalaby, L. Samy, and M. S. Sayed, “Autoencoder based Features Extraction for Automatic Classification of Earthquakes and Explosions,” in proc. of the 17th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2018), Singapore, 6-8 June, 2018.

6. B. Mohamed, A. Elsayed, O. Amin, E. Khafagy, M. Abdelrasoul, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “High-Level Synthesis Hardware Implementation and Verification of HEVC DCT on SoC-FPGA," in proc. of the 13th International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), Cairo, Egypt, 27-28 December, 2017.

7. A. A. Hamdi, M. S. Sayed, M. M.Fouad, M. M. Hadhoud, “Unsupervised Patterned Fabric Defect Detection using Texture Filtering and K-Means clustering,” in proc. of the International Conference on Innovative Trends in Computer Engineering, Aswan, Egypt, 19 – 21 February, 2018.

8. N. Elsawy, M. S. Sayed, and F. Farag, “Selective Energy-Based Histogram Equalization for Mammograms,” in proc. of the International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Alexandria, Egypt, 18 – 20 December, 2017.

9. R. A. Elsayed, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Dimensionality Reduction of Histogram of Oriented Gradients,” in proc. of the International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Alexandria, Egypt, 18 – 20 December, 2017.

10. R. A. Elsayed, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “Hybrid Method based on Multi-Feature Descriptor for Static Sign Language Recognition,” in proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, Cairo, Egypt, 5 – 7 December, 2017.

11. A. A. Hamdi, M. S. Sayed, M. M. Fouad, M. M. Hadhoud, “Patterned Fabric Defect Detection System Using Near Infrared Imaging,” in proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, Cairo, Egypt, 5 – 7 December, 2017.

12. A. Ali, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, M. Abo-Zahhad, “Low Power HBC PHY Baseband Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN,” in proc. 29th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Beirut, Lebanon, 10–13 December 2017.

13. O. M. Saad, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, “Automatic Arrival Time Detection for Earthquakes Based on Logarithmic Transformation,” in proc. 29th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Beirut, Lebanon, 10–13 December 2017.

14. E. Badry, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, “A Hardware Friendly Fractional-Pixel Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on Adaptive Weighted Model,” in proc. 29th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Beirut, Lebanon, 10–13 December 2017.

15. E. Badry, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, “Fast Fractional-Pixel Motion Estimation using Lagrangian-Based Error Surface Interpolation,” in proc. 5th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Montreal, Canada, November 14–16, 2017.

16. A. H. Bondok, A. M. El-Mohandes, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “A Low Complexity UWB PHY Baseband Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN,” in proc. 30th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference, Munich, Germany, September 5-8, 2017.

17. O. M. Saad, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “Automatic Arrival Time Detection for Earthquakes Based on Fuzzy Possibilistic C-Means Clustering Algorithm,” in Proc. 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), Istanbul, Turkey, June 19-22, 2017.

18. M. S. Sayed, “Robust Fabric Defect Detection Algorithm Using Entropy Filtering And Minimum Error Thresholding,” in Proc. IEEE 59th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 16-19, 2016.

19. A. M. Abdelsalam and M. S. Sayed, “Real-Time Defects Detection System for Orange Citrus Fruits Using Multi-Spectral Imaging,” in Proc. IEEE 59th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 16-19, 2016.

20. A. Diefy, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “Low Cost Luma Interpolation Filter for Motion Compensation in HEVC,” in Proc. IEEE 59th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 16-19, 2016.

21. M. Abdelrasoul, M. S. Sayed, and V. Goulart, “Scalable Integer DCT Architecture for HEVC Encoder,” in Proc. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., July 11-13, 2016.

22. S. El Gendy, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, “Low Cost VLSI Architecture for Sample Adaptive Offset Encoder in HEVC,” in Proc. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., July 11-13, 2016.

23. A. A. Hamdi, M. S. Sayed, M. M. Fouad, M. M. Hadhoud, “Fully Automated Approach for Patterned Fabric Defect Detection,” in Proc. 4th International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Cairo, Egypt, May 31st – June 2nd, 2016.

24. A. Diefy, A. Shalaby and M. S. Sayed, "Efficient Architectures for HEVC Luma Interpolation Filter," in Proc. IEEE 27th international conference on microelectronics (ICM 2015), Casablanca, Morocco, December 20-23, 2015.

25. A. M. El-Mohandes, A. Shalaby and M. S. Sayed, "Robust Low Power NB PHY Baseband Transceiver for IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN," in Proc. IEEE 27th international conference on microelectronics (ICM 2015), Casablanca, Morocco, December 20-23, 2015.

26. A. Kilany, M. Abdelrasoul, A. Shalaby and M. S. Sayed, " A Reconfigurable 2-D IDCT Architecture for HEVC Encoder/Decoder," in Proc. IEEE 27th international conference on microelectronics (ICM 2015), Casablanca, Morocco, December 20-23, 2015.

27. S. El Gendy, A. Shalaby and M. S. Sayed, "Fast Parameter Estimation Algorithm for Sample Adaptive Offset in HEVC Encoder," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Nanyang, Singapore, December 13 – 16, 2015.

28. M. S. Elpeltagy, M. M. Abdelwahab, M. S. Sayed. "Image Encryption Using Camellia and Chaotic Maps" in Proc. IEEE 15th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT'15), Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 7-10, 2015.

29. R. A. Elsayed, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, "Skin-based Adaptive Background Subtraction for Hand Gesture Segmentation," in Proc. IEEE 22nd International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS’15), Cairo, Egypt, December 06-09, 2015.

30. A. Medhat, A. Shalaby, and M. S. Sayed, "High-Throughput Hardware Implementation for Motion Estimation in HEVC Encoder," in proc. IEEE 58th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA , August 2-5, 2015.

31. M. Abdelrasoul, M. S. Sayed, and V. Goulart, "High Performance 2D-DCT Architecture for HEVC Encoder," in Proc. 3rd International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Inamori Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, March 16th - 18th, 2015.

32. M. Abdelrasoul, M. S. Sayed, and V. Goulart, "High Performance Two-Select Arbiter," in Proc. 3rd International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Inamori Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, March 16th - 18th, 2015.

33. A. Medhat, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, M. Elsabrouty, and F. Mehdipour, "Adaptive Search Window Algorithm for Integer Motion Estimation Unit in HEVC Encoder," in Proc. 3rd International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Inamori Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, March 16th - 18th, 2015.

34. S. El Gendy, A. Shalaby and M. S. Sayed, "Reducing SAO Encoding Complexity by Eliminating Infrequent Types," in Proc. 3rd International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, Inamori Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, March 16th - 18th, 2015.

35. M. Abdelrasoul, M. S. Sayed, M. Elsabrouty and V. Goulart, “High Performance 2D-DCT Architecture for HEVC Encoder,” in Proc. IEEE IBERCHIP/Latin American Symposium on Circuits & Systems LASCAS, Montevideo, Uruguay, 24-27 February, 2015.

36. S. Hassan, M. S. Sayed, and F. Farag “Segmentation of Breast Cancer Lesion in Digitized Mammogram Images,” in Proc. 7th Cairo International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CIBEC’14), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 11–13, 2014.

37. A. Medhat, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, M. Elsabrouty, and F. Mehdipour, "Fast Center Search Algorithm with Hardware implementation for Motion Estimation in HEVC Encoder," in Proc. 21st IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS’14), Marseille, France, December 7-10, 2014, pp. 155 - 158.

38. A. Medhat, A. Shalaby, M. S. Sayed, M. Elsabrouty, and F. Mehdipour, "A Highly Parallel SAD Architecture for Motion Estimation in HEVC Encoder," in Proc. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS’14), Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan, 17 - 20, Nov 2014, pp. 280 - 283.

39. E. H. El-Shazly, M. M. Abdelwahab, A. Medhat, M. S. Sayed, "A Novel Algorithm with FPGA Implementation for Action and Gesture Recognition Employing Spatiotemporal Gradient in the Transform Domain," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2014), El Greco Resort - Santorini, Greece, Oct 14-17, 2014.

40. O. F. Abd-Elaziz, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “Liver Tumors Segmentation from Abdominal CT Images using Region Growing and Morphological Processing,” in Proc. 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET 2014), Cairo, Egypt, April 19-20, 2014.

41. D. M. Rashed, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “Improved Moving Object Detection Algorithm Based on Adaptive Background Subtraction,” in Proc. 2nd International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (JEC-ECC’13), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 17-19, 2013, pp. 43-47.

42. A. A. Ateya, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “Multilevel Hierarchical Clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks,” in Proc. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS’13), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 14-16, 2013, pp. 103-109. 43. H. El-Sayed, M. Ragab, M. S. Sayed, and V. Goulart, “Hardware Implementation and Evaluation of the Flexible Router Architecture for NoCs,” in Proc. 20th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS’13), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 8-11, 2013, pp. 621 - 624.

44. M. Awney, M. S. Sayed, and F. E. Abd El-Samie, “Hybrid Moving Object Detection Algorithm with Controlled Temporal Scale Frame Difference,” in Proc. 23rd International Conference On Computer Theory and Applications (ICCTA 2013), Alexandria, Egypt, Oct. 29-31, 2013, pp. 33-37.

45. M. A. A. Mousa, M. S. Sayed, and M. I. Abdalla, “Arabic Character Segmentation Using Projection-Based Approach with Profile's Amplitude Filter,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT’13), Bandung, Indonesia, March 20-22, 2013, pp. 122 - 126.

46. M. Abdel Aziz, A. Haggag, and M. S. Sayed, “Fabric Defect Detection Algorithm Using Morphological Processing and DCT,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA’13), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 12-14, 2013.

47. N. Elsawy, M. S. Sayed, F. Farag, and G. K. Gouhar “Band-Limited Histogram Equalization for Mammograms Contrast Enhancement,” in Proc. IEEE 6th Cairo International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CIBEC’12), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 20–22, 2012, pp. 154 - 157.

48. S. Hassan, M. S. Sayed, F. Farag, and G. K. Gouhar “Pectoral Muscle Identification in Mammograms for Computer Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer,” in Proc. IEEE 6th Cairo International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CIBEC’12), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 20–22, 2012, pp. 158 - 161.

49. M. S. Sayed and J. Delva, “Low Complexity Contrast Enhancement Algorithm for Nighttime Visual Surveillance,” in Proc. IEEE 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’10), Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2010, pp. 835 - 838.

50. M. Sayed, W. Badawy, and G. Jullien, “Video-Active RAM: A Processor-in-Memory Architecture for Video Coding Applications,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’10), Paris, France, May 30 - June 2, 2010, pp. 2968 - 2971.

51. M. Sayed, “A Fast Architecture for Exhaustive Search Block Matching Algorithm with MPEG-4 Applications,” in Proc. the 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’09), Hammamet, Tunisia, Dec. 13-16, 2009, pp. 787-790.

52. M. Sayed, W. Badawy, and G. Jullien, “Low-Complexity Algorithm for Fractional-Pixel Motion Estimation,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’09), Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 7-10, 2009, pp. 1565-1568.

53. M. Sayed, I. Amer and W. Badawy, “Towards an H.264/AVC Full Encoder on Chip: An Efficient Real-Time VBSME ASIC Chip,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, Island of Kos, Greece, May 21-24, 2006, pp. 2613-2616.

54. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Towards an MPEG-4 HW/SW Integrated Solution: An Efficient SIMD Architecture for Exhaustive BMA,” in Proc. ITI 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2005), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 5-6, 2005, pp. 495-503.

55. I. Amer, M. Sayed, W. Badawy, and G. Jullien, “On the Way to an H.264 HW/SW Reference Model: A SystemC Modeling Strategy to Integrate Selected IP-Blocks with the H.264 Software Reference Model”, in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Athens, Greece, Nov. 2005, pp. 178-181.

56. I. Amer, C. A. Rahman, T. Mohamed, M. Sayed, and W. Badawy, “A Hardware-Accelerated Framework with IP-Blocks for Application in MPEG-4,” in Proc. The 5th IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 20-24, 2005, pp. 211-214.

57. M. Sayed, T. Mohamed and W. Badawy, “Motion Estimation Architecture for MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description,” in Proc. International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering ICEEC, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 5-7, 2004, pp. 403-406.

58. T. Mohamed, M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “On the Design Flow of A Hardware/Software Platform for MPEG-4 Part 9 Reference Hardware Model,” in Proc. International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering ICEEC, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 5-7, 2004, pp. 399-402.

59. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Novel Memory Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-based Video Motion Compensation,” in Proc. The 4th IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 19-21, 2004, pp. 153-157.

60. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Novel Embedded Memory Architecture for Real-Time Mesh-Based Motion Estimation,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, vol. 2, Vancouver, Canada, May 23-26, 2004, pp. II-237 – II-240.

61. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Novel Motion Estimation Method For Mesh-Based Video Motion Tracking,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, vol. 3, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004, pp. iii-337 – iii-340.

62. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A New Class of Computational RAM Architectures for Real-Time MPEG-4 Applications,” in Proc. International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real Time Applications IWSOC, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 30 – July 2, 2003, pp. 328-332.

63. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Half-Pel Motion Estimation Architecture for MPEG-4 Applications,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, vol. 3, Bangkok, Thailand, May 25-28, 2003, pp. II-792 – II-795.

64. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Real-Time SIMD Architecture for MPEG-2 Block-Based Motion Estimation with High Frame Rate Applications,” in Proc. IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology ISSPIT, Marrakesh, Morocco, Dec. 18-21, 2002.

65. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “A Fully Parallel-Pipelined Architecture for Full-Search Block-Based Motion Estimation,” in Proc. IEEE 14th International Conference on Microelectronics ICM, Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 11-13, 2002, pp. 24-27.

66. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “MPEG-4 Synthetic Video Object Prediction Using Embedded Memory,” in Proc. IEEE 45th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems MWSCAS, vol. 1, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Aug. 4-7, 2002, pp. 591-594.

67. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “An Embedded Memory Architecture for MPEG-4 Applications with Mobile Devices,” in Proc. International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real Time Applications IWSOC, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 6-7, 2002.

68. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Novel 1-Bit Full Adder Cells for Low-Power System-On-Chip Applications,” in Proc. International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real Time Applications IWSOC, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 6-7, 2002.

69. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Performance of Single-Bit Full Adder Cells in 0.18, 0.25, and 0.35 Technologies,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS, vol. 3, Scottsdale Princess Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 26-29, 2002, pp. III-559 – III-562.

70. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Low Power Embedded Memory Architecture for Video Object Decoding in MPEG-4 Simple Profile,” in Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference for Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE, vol. 2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, May 12-15, 2002, pp. 889-893.

1. NTRA Research Grant CFP5, “Hardware Accelerators for HEVC Encoder in Video Conferencing and Surveillance Applications,” PI, 1,497,632 LE, October 2016 – June 2019.

2. STDF Capacity Building Grant, “National Microelectronics Testing Facility,” PI, 4,982,839 LE, September 2016 – August 2019.

3. ITIDA/ITAC-PRP grant, “Citrus Fruits Grading System Based on Machine Vision Technology,” PI, 130,000 LE, April 2015 – March 2016.

4. Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS), “Development of Joint International Master Degree and Lifelong Learning Framework in Mechatronics”, co-PI, € 1,312,276 (€ 166,302 for ZU) , Dec. 2011 – Nov. 2014.

5. Zagazig University, “Mammographic Image Analysis for Detecting Breast Cancer”, PI, 35,000 EGP, July 2010 – Dec. 2012.

6. Ministry of Higher Education, “Developing Management Information System at Zagazig University”, PI, 65,000 EGP, July 2012 – Sept. 2012.

7. Ministry of Higher Education, “Developing Management Information System at Zagazig University”, PI, 365,000 EGP, July 2011 – June 2012.

8. Ministry of Higher Education, “Developing Management Information System at Zagazig University”, PI, 505,000 EGP, July 2010 – June 2011.

9. European Union-Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), “Focal Point for the Research, Development, and Innovation Program”, PI, € 10,000, July 2009 – Jan. 2011.

10. Trans European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS), “Development of an industry-linked Mechatronics Program with Training of Trainers”, team member, € 470,700 (€ 80,000 for ZU) , Dec. 2006 – Nov. 2009.

1. A talk on “Real-Time Grading System for Orange Citrus Fruits Using Multi-Spectral Imaging” in ITU Workshop on Multimedia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 9th July 2018.

2. A talk on "Hardware Accelerators for HEVC Encoder in Video Conferencing and Surveillance Applications" in Hosei University annual international colloquium, Tokyo, Japan, 28th February, 2018.

3. A full day talk about the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) organized by NTRA, New Borg Elarab, Egypt, 28th December, 2016.

Contributions to the H.264/MPEG-4 Standards:

1. M. Sayed, “Integrating affine-based motion model in HEVC encoder for future video coding,” Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) of ITU-T SG 16 WP 3 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11, JVET-K0481-v1, 11th Meeting: Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10–18 July 2018.

2. M. Sayed and M. Abdelrasoul, “Faster HEVC Encoder for Video Surveillance and Screen Content Applications,” Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T SG 16 WP 3 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11, JCTVC-AF0026-v1, 32nd Meeting: Ljubljana, Slovenia, 12–18 July 2018.

3. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “An IP Block for Variable Block Size Motion Estimation in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 M12671, Nice, France, Oct. 2005 (included in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11: Reference Hardware Description).

4. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “An SIMD Architecture for Full Pixel Exhaustive Search Block Matching Algorithm”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 M12072, Busan, South Korea, April 2005 (included in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11: Reference Hardware Description).

5. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “An IP Block for MPEG-4 Part 9 Block-Based Motion Estimation Architecture”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 M11461, 2004.

6. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Embedded Memory Architecture for Motion Compensation in MPEG-4 Simple Profile”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 M8562, 2002.

7. M. Sayed and W. Badawy, “Motion Estimation Architecture for MPEG-4 Simple Profile”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 M8563, 2002.