Browsing by Author "Al-Maadeed, Somaya"
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A comprehensive overview of feature representation for biometric recognition
( Springer , 2020 , Article)The performance of any biometric recognition system heavily dependents on finding a good and suitable feature representation space where observations from different classes are well separated. Unfortunately, finding this ... -
A Haptic Handwriting Device in MOALEM Platform for Arabic Vocabulary Learning
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Conference Paper)Several research works have demonstrated the high importance of handwriting in a language acquisition. Learners prefer to use the traditional method of writing with a pen and pencil to strengthen the understanding of the ... -
A Scene-to-Speech Mobile based Application: Multiple Trained Models Approach
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)The concept of Scene-to-Speech (STS) is to recognize elements in a captured image or a video clip to speak loudly an informative textual content that describes the scene. The contemporary progression in convolution neural ... -
A Study of Children Engagement and Focus During Handwriting in VR with a Haptic Device
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)Engagement and focus of children during the handwriting process are essential factors for language learning and concepts acquisition. Handwriting for young children is challenging because it needs large motivation, great ... -
An interactive annotation tool for indexing Historical manuscripts
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)When a huge collection of digitized old manuscripts are obtained as a part of their preservation, an appropriate indexing technique is essential to search through them. In this paper, we have proposed a novel tool to assist ... -
Arabic handwriting recognition using sequential minimal optimization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Due to the variability of writing styles and to other problems related to the nature of Arabic scripts, the recognition of Arabic handwriting is still awaiting accurate results. Segmentation of Arabic handwritten words ... -
Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey with Challenges and Future Directions
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In recent years, computer language area has witnessed important evolvement with applications in different domains. Machine Translation MT technology, considered as a subfield, has received important development with different ... -
Automated Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy Severity: A Deep Learning Apprch
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a damage to the retina caused by complications of diabetes and is the fastest growing cause of blindness. It is a major concern for the Qatari population, affecting about 40% of ... -
Automatic handedness detection from off-line handwriting
( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)In forensics, the handedness detection or the classification of writers into left or right-handed helps investigators focusing more on a certain category of suspects. However, only a few studies have been carried out in ... -
Automatic prediction of age, gender, and nationality in offline handwriting
( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2014 , Article)The classification of handwriting into different categories, such as age, gender, and nationality, has several applications. In forensics, handwriting classification helps investigators focus on a certain category of ... -
Binarization of Degraded Document Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Wavelet-Based Multichannel Images
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have previously been broadly utilized to binarize document images. These methods have problems when faced with degraded historical documents. This paper proposes the utilization of CNNs ... -
Construction of audio corpus of non-native English dialects -Arabs speakers
( European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE , 2017 , Conference Paper)Speech recognition for the academic and standard languages has achieved a great development, but in the face of the multiple dialects with their differences, there is still a noticeable lack of recognition rates, especially ... -
Covid -19 lockdown-challenges to higher education in qatar
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)Covid 19 is a pandemic disease and it has spread all over the world. Due to the concern for the health of students, colleges and school authorities all over the world have decided to close the education institution and ... -
Digitization And Indexing Of Arabic Historical Manuscripts In Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)Background Hundreds of thousands of rare Arabic manuscripts are available in Qatar. A rich archival heritage of Islamic world and Qatar are preserved in the Qatar National Library (QNL). A number of international projects ... -
Drone-SCNet: Scaled Cascade Network for Crowd Counting on Drone Images
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Crowd management is an essential task to ensure the safety and smoothness of any event. Using novel technologies, including surveillance cameras, drones, and the communication techniques between security agents, the control ... -
Encoder-decoder architecture for ultrasound IMC segmentation and cIMT measurement
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have shown a huge impact on the number of deaths in the world. Thus, common carotid artery (CCA) segmentation and intima-media thickness (IMT) measurements have been significantly implemented ... -
End-to-End Image Steganography Using Deep Convolutional Autoencoders
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Image steganography is used to hide a secret image inside a cover image in plain sight. Traditionally, the secret data is converted into binary bits and the cover image is manipulated statistically to embed the secret ... -
FPGA Implementation of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Compressive Sensing Reconstruction
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we present a novel architecture based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for the reconstruction of compressively sensed signal using the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm. We have analyzed ... -
Generating Images from Arabic Story-Text using Scene Graph
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we propose a new approach to generate descriptive images from simple Arabic text of stories for children to build a flexible and rich multimedia repository. To make it successful, we need to transform the ... -
Highly sensitive and selective colorimetric sensing of CO2 for biomedical applications
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Article)The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in unhealthy people differs greatly from healthy people. High-precision CO2 detection with a quick response time is essential for many biomedical applications. A major focus of ...
