Mohammad Anwar Hossain

Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 1230, Bangladesh

E-mail: anwar.hossain@cse.wub.edu.bd

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1114-9041

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Biography

Mohammad Anwar Hossain is a Lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering at the World University of Bangladesh, where he has served since January 2023. He earned his BSc in CSE from WUB in 2019 and completed an MSc in Computer Science at Jahangirnagar University in 2022. For his outstanding academic excellence, he received the Founder's Gold Medal at WUB’s 5th Convocation. His research interests focus on Network Security, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning.

Author Articles
Region-Specific Vehicle Classification in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study of CNN Architectures and Ensemble Strategies

By Shamsun Nahar Md. Nazim Hossain Noshin Un Noor Mohammad Anwar Hossain Md. Sabbir Hossain Babu Md. Sohorab Hossen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2026.05.06, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2026

The rapid growth of vehicles in Bangladesh has exacerbated traffic congestion, safety concerns, and administrative difficulties, creating an urgent need for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, existing global datasets poorly represent Bangladeshi vehicles, and no region-specific detection models are currently available. To address this gap, this research constructs a balanced augmented dataset combining two public repositories, yielding images across ten vehicle classes. A harmonized dataset of manually verified images was split prior to augmentation, expanding the training set to 24,696 samples. Five deep Convolutional Neural Network architectures are then evaluated using transfer learning and extensive augmentation, and a convex ensemble of three selected models with optimized weights is developed to enhance robustness. The single ConvNeXt model achieves 98.980% ± 0.198% accuracy, while the ensemble attains 98.991% ± 0.156% accuracy. Statistical testing confirms the significance of these results; the ensemble effectively reduces misclassifications between visually similar categories. Overall, the proposed system provides a dependable platform for transportation applications in Bangladesh. Future work will address current limitations in static image and category scope through video-based analysis and lightweight deployment strategies.

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