• A multi-modal face and signature biometric authentication system using a max-of-scores based fusion 

      Elmir Y.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Amira A.; Hassane A. ( Springer , 2012 , Conference Paper)
      Face and signature based multimodal biometric systems are often required in various areas, such as banking biometric systems and secured mobile phone operating systems, among others. Our system combines these two biometric ...
    • A new web-based project and employee time tracking system for project management 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Abdulrahman, Asma; Al-Naimy, Aisha ( EMCIS , 2010 , Conference Paper)
      Project and Time Tracking System (PTTS) is a web application that provides an automated and centralized method of tracking and monitoring work time for active projects by enabling supervisors to track employees work time, ...
    • A novel approach for handedness detection from off-line handwriting using fuzzy conceptual reduction 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Ferjani, Fethi; Elloumi, Samir; Jaoua, Ali ( Springer International Publishing , 2016 , Article)
      A challenging area of pattern recognition is the recognition of handwritten texts in different languages and the reduction of a volume of data to the greatest extent while preserving associations (or dependencies) between ...
    • A review on Radio Frequency Identification methods 

      Al-Khater, Wadha; Kunhoth, Suchithra; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Radio frequency identification (RFID), the process of identifying objects within a predefined protocol definition technologies serves its primary application for tracking objects. The three main approaches followed are ...
    • A secure cloud system for maintaining COVID-19 patient's data using image steganography 

      Subramanian, Nandhini; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has been life-threatening for many people and as such, a contactless medical system is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus. Smart healthcare systems collect data from patients at one end and ...
    • A vision-based zebra crossing detection method for people with visual impairments 

      Akbari, Younes; Hassen, Hanadi; Subramanian, Nandhini; Kunhoth, Jayakanth; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; ... more authors ( IEEE , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Safe navigation for visually impaired is challenging without assistive technology. This paper proposes a pedestrian crossing detection approach to help visually impaired people. We introduce the use of multiple convolutional ...
    • Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Heart Failure 

      Al-Mannai, Rashid Ebrahim; Almerekhi, Mohammed Hamad; Al-Mannai, Mohammed Abdulla; N, Mishahira; Sadasivuni, Kishor Kumar; ... more authors ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      Heart Failure is a major chronic disease that is increasing day by day and a great health burden in health care systems world wide. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), ...
    • 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 and Secure Electronic Gate System Using Fusion of License Plate, Car Make Recognition and Face Detection 

      Saadouli G.; Elburdani M.I.; Al-Qatouni R.M.; Kunhoth S.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose an automatic electronic gate system with authenticity confirmation from 3 individual modules, viz., car make and model, license plate and face detection. The ultrasonic sensor detects the stopped ...
    • 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 ...
    • Automatic diagnosis of prostate cancer using multispectral based linear binary pattern bagged codebooks 

      Peyret R.; Khelifi F.; Bouridane A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Cancer is classified by the World Health Organisation as a worldwide problem and its effect is increasing. A timely diagnosis is crucial and an early detection can be vital leading to an effective diagnosis. This paper ...
    • Bagged Randomized Conceptual Machine Learning Method 

      Ali, Mohamed Abdalhakem Taha (2018 , Master Thesis)
      Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a scientific approach aiming to investigate, analyze and represent the conceptual knowledge deduced from the data in conceptual structures (lattice). Recently many researchers are counting ...
    • BEMD-3DCNN-based method for COVID-19 detection 

      Riahi, A.; Elharrouss, O.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)
      The coronavirus outbreak continues to spread around the world and no one knows when it will stop. Therefore, from the first day of the identification of the virus in Wuhan, China, scientists have launched numerous research ...
    • BigCrypt for big data encryption 

      Al Mamun, Abdullah; Salah, Khaled; Al-maadeed, Somaya; Sheltami, Tarek R. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      as data size is growing up, cloud storage is becoming more familiar to store a significant amount of private information. Government and private organizations require transferring plenty of business files from one end to ...
    • Blink rate vs Inner self perceived cognitive state while using virtual reality applications with haptic devices. 

      Ottakath, Najmath; Al Maadeed, Somaya; Al Jaam, Jihad; Saleh, Moutaz ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      On average, humans blink between eight and 21 times per minute while resting. Eye actions are influenced by external and internal stimuli. This can be utilized to measure internal cognition specifically focus and attention ...
    • Building a multispectral image dataset for colorectal tumor biopsy 

      Kunhoth, Suchithra; Al Maadeed, Somaya ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Automated grading of tumor cells proves to be a great way of enhancing the rapidity and accuracy of cancer diagnostic procedures. The application of image processing and machine learning techniques on the digitized biopsy ...
    • CamNav: a computer-vision indoor navigation system 

      Karkar A.G.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Kunhoth J.; Bouridane A. ( Springer , 2021 , Article)
      We present CamNav, a vision-based navigation system that provides users with indoor navigation services. CamNav captures images in real time while the user is walking to recognize their current location. It does not require ...
    • Cancer Detection and Identification on Scarce and Low- Resolution Data 

      KUNHOTHt, SUCHITHRA (2018 , Master Thesis)
      Machine learning algorithms have been contributing immensely in the biomedical sector with the innovation of several automatic and semi-automatic diagnostic devices. They are well suited for applications such as the diagnosis ...
    • 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 ...
    • Characterization of untreated and treated male and female date palm leaves 

      AlMaadeed, M.A.; Kahraman, Ramazan; Khanam, P. Noorunnisa; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Elsevier, Ltd , 2013 , Technical Report)
      This paper describes the characterization of male and female date palm leaves from two different cultivars, Sheshi female and unknown male leaves. Characterization was done for both untreated and NaOH treated date palm ...