• Automated vehicle density estimation from raw surveillance videos 

      Mehboob, Fozia; Abbas, Muhammad; Jiang, Richard; Tahir, Muhammad Atif; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      To enable an effective traffic management and signal control, it is important to know the road traffic density. In recent years, video surveillance based systems and monitoring tools have been widely used for obtaining ...
    • Automatic detection and classification of audio events for road surveillance applications 

      Almaadeed, N.; Almaadeed, Noor; Asim, Muhammad; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2018 , Article)
      © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This work investigates the problem of detecting hazardous events on roads by designing an audio surveillance system that automatically detects perilous situations ...
    • Car Make And Model Detection System 

      Al-maadeed, Somaya; Boubezari, Rayana; Kunhoth, Suchithra; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The deployment of highly intelligent and efficient machine vision systems accomplished to achieve new heights in multiple fields of human activity. A successful replacement of manual intervention with their automated systems ...
    • Digitization and spectral analysis of Historical Manuscripts 

      Al Maadeed, Somaya; Kunhoth, Suchithra; Bouridane, Ahmed ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Digitization is an efficient means of preserving the rare historical records led to the development of a large number of digital libraries across the world. Choice of the suitable imaging equipment, storage format, and ...
    • Direct unsupervised text line extraction from colored historical manuscript images using DCT 

      Baig, Asim; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed; Cheriet, Mohamed ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Extracting lines of text from a manuscript is an important preprocessing step in many digital paleography applications. These extracted lines play a fundamental part in the identification of the author and/or age of the ...
    • Efficient Quantum Image Classification Using Single Qubit Encoding 

      Easom-McCaldin, Philip; Bouridane, Ahmed; Belatreche, Ammar; Jiang, Richard; Al-maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)
      The domain of image classification has been seen to be dominated by high-performing deep-learning (DL) architectures. However, the success of this field, as seen over the past decade, has resulted in the complexity of ...
    • Emotion recognition from scrambled facial images via many graph embedding 

      Jiang, Richard; Ho, Anthony T.S.; Cheheb, Ismahane; Al-Maadeed, Noor; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)
      Facial expression verification has been extensively exploited due to its wide application in affective computing, robotic vision, man-machine interaction and medical diagnosis. With the recent development of Internet-of-Things ...
    • Face Recognition in the Scrambled Domain via Salience-Aware Ensembles of Many Kernels 

      Jiang, Richard; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed; Crookes, Danny; Celebi, M. Emre ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      With the rapid development of Internet-of-Things (IoT), face scrambling has been proposed for privacy protection during IoT-targeted image/video distribution. Consequently, in these IoT applications, biometric verification ...
    • Gait recognition based on modified phase-only correlation 

      Rida, Imad; Almaadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Springer-Verlag London Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      Gait recognition is an emerging biometric technology aiming 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 noncontact ...
    • Glandular structure-guided classification of microscopic colorectal images using deep learning 

      Awan, Ruqayya; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Al-Saady, Rafif; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      In this work, we propose to automate the pre-cancerous tissue abnormality analysis by performing the classification of image patches using a novel two-stage convolutional neural network (CNN) based framework. Rather than ...
    • Low-quality facial biometric verification via dictionary-based random pooling 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bourif, Mehdi; Bouridane, Ahmed; Jiang, Richard ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      In the past decade, visual surveillance has emerged as an effective tool in public security applications. Due to the technical limitations of both surveillance cameras and transmission speed, videos collected from surveillance ...
    • Measuring and optimising performance of an offline text writer identification system in terms of dimensionality reduction techniques 

      Durou, Amal; Aref, Ibrahim; Elbendak, Mosa; Al-Maadeed, Sumaya; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Usually, most of the data generated in real-world such as images, speech signals, or fMRI scans has a high dimensionality. Therefore, dimensionality reduction techniques can be used to reduce the number of variables in ...
    • Multispectral imaging and machine learning for automated cancer diagnosis 

      Al Maadeed, Somaya; Kunhoth, Suchithra; Bouridane, Ahmed; Peyret, Remy ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Advancing technologies in the current era paved a lot to break the hurdles in medical diagnostic field. When cancer turned out to be the most common and dangerous disease of the age, novel diagnostic methodologies were ...
    • Multispectral palmprint recognition based on local binary pattern histogram fourier features and gabor filter 

      El-Tarhouni, Wafa; Boubchir, Larbi; Al-Maadeed, Noor; Elbendak, Mosa; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Fusing multiple features within one biometric modality has attracted increasing attention and interest among researchers during recent decades because the concept is useful in addressing a wide range of real world problems. ...
    • Palmprint identification using an ensemble of sparse representations 

      Rida, Imad; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Mahmood, Arif; Bouridane, Ahmed; Bakshi, Sambit ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Among various palmprint identification methods proposed in the literature, sparse representation for classification (SRC) is very attractive offering high accuracy. Although SRC has good discriminative ability, its performance ...
    • 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 ...
    • Random sampling for patch-based face recognition 

      Cheheb, Ismahane; Al-Maadeed, Noor; Al-Madeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed; Jiang, Richard ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Real face recognition is a challenging problem especially when face images are subject to distortions. This paper presents an approach to tackle partial occlusion distortions present in real face recognition using a single ...
    • Robust model-free gait recognition by statistical dependency feature selection and Globality-Locality Preserving Projections 

      Rida, Imad; Boubchir, Larbi; Al-Maadeed, Noor; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Gait recognition aims to identify people through the analysis of the way they walk. The challenge of model-free based gait recognition is to cope with various intra-class variations such as clothing variations and carrying ...
    • Secure MIMO Visible Light Communication System Based on User's Location and Encryption 

      Mousa, Farag Ibrahim Khalifa; Al Maadeed, Noor; Busawon, Krishna; Bouridane, Ahmed; Binns, Richard ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Visible light communication systems are rapidly growing research areas with wide applications ranging from illumination and data communication. To achieve high data rates in such systems, a number of techniques have been ...
    • Stego-eHealth: An eHealth System for Secured Transfer of Medical Images Using Image Steganography 

      Subramanian, Nandhini; Kunhoth, Jayakanth; Al-Maadeed1, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      COVID pandemic has necessitated the need for virtual and online health care systems to avoid contacts. The transfer of sensitive medical information including the chest and lung X-ray happens through untrusted channels ...