• ICDAR 2013 competition on gender prediction from handwriting 

      Hassaine A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Aljaam J.; Jaoua A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The prediction of gender from handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...
    • ICFHR2012 competition on writer identification - Challenge 2: Arabic scripts 

      Hassane A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( IEEE , 2012 , Conference Paper)
      Arabic writer identification is a very active research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare recent advances in ...
    • Improved gait recognition based on gait energy images 

      Rida I.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya.; Bouridane A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The performance of gait recognition systems are usually affected by clothing, carrying conditions, and other intraclass variations which are also referred to as covariates. This paper proposes a supervised feature selection ...
    • Indoor positioning and wayfinding systems: a survey 

      Kunhoth J.; Karkar A.G.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Al-Ali A. ( Springer , 2020 , Article)
      Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which effectively increases the popularity of navigation systems ...
    • Integrating Blockchain Technology in 5G enabled IoT: A Review 

      Haris R.M.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      In the digitized world, Internet of thing(IoT) is growing rapidly and most of the devices are connected by internet technology. IoT connected more than 5 million devices across the world and it needs high power internet ...
    • Multi-focus image fusion using Content Adaptive Blurring 

      Farid, Muhammad Shahid; Mahmood, Arif; Al-Maadeed, Somaya Ali ( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)
      Multi-focus image fusion has emerged as an important research area in information fusion. It aims at increasing the depth-of-field by extracting focused regions from multiple partially focused images, and merging them ...
    • PRNU-Net: a Deep Learning Approach for Source Camera Model Identification based on Videos Taken with Smartphone 

      Akbari, Younes; Almaadeed, Noor; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Khelifi, Fouad; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Recent advances in digital imaging have meant that every smartphone has a video camera that can record high-quality video for free and without restrictions. In addition, rapidly developing Internet technology has contributed ...
    • Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression Prediction Using Image Processing and Machine Learning 

      Aboeleneen A.E.; Patel M.K.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Springer Nature , 2021 , Book chapter)
      The onset of COVID-19 has focused the attention of the research community on lung diseases and conditions. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), in which internal scarring of the lung takes place, has gone undetected among ...
    • Smartphone-based food recognition system using multiple deep CNN models 

      Fakhrou A.; Kunhoth J.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Springer , 2021 , Article)
      People with blindness or low vision utilize mobile assistive tools for various applications such as object recognition, text recognition, etc. Most of the available applications are focused on recognizing generic objects. ...
    • Systolic architecture for hardware implementation of two-dimensional non-separable filter-bank 

      Mohanty B.K.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Amira A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we present an efficient poly-phase decomposition scheme for implementation of 2-D non-separable filter bank. Poly-phase decomposition scheme offers multiplexing of filter bank computations or/and reduce the ...
    • Texture analysis for colorectal tumour biopsies using multispectral imagery 

      Peyret R.; Bouridane A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya.; Kunhoth S.; Khelifi F. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. As part of its diagnosis, a histological analysis is often run on biopsy samples. Multispecral imagery taken from cancer tissues can be useful to capture ...
    • Ultrasound Intima-Media Complex (IMC) Segmentation Using Deep Learning Models 

      Hassen Mohammed, Hanadi; Elharrouss, Omar; Ottakath, Najmath; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Chowdhury, Muhammad E.H.; ... more authors ( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)
      Common carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a common measure of atherosclerosis, often assessed through carotid ultrasound images. However, the use of deep learning methods for medical image analysis, segmentation and ...
    • Unsupervised feature selection method for improved human gait recognition 

      Rida I.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Gait recognition is an emerging biometric technology which aims to identify people purely through the analysis of the way they walk. The technology has attracted interest as a method of identification because it is ...
    • Using codebooks generated from text skeletonization for forensic writer identification 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Hassane A.; Bouridan A. ( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose a novel approach for writer identification using codebook generation based on text skeletonization.Unlike other schemes, the skeleton in this approach is segmented at its junction pixels into ...
    • Using geodesic space density gradients for network community detection 

      Mahmood, Arif; Small, Michael; Al-Maadeed, Somaya Ali; Rajpoot, Nasir ( IEEE Computer Society , 2017 , Article)
      Many real world complex systems naturally map to network data structures instead of geometric spaces because the only available information is the presence or absence of a link between two entities in the system. To enable ...
    • Wireless Power Transmission for the Internet of Things (IoT) 

      Chaari M.Z.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      In some cases, long battery life may be essential to IoT devices, and early failures of actuators and sensors because of the rapid discharging of battery may lead to unacceptably high replacement costs. Critical to the ...