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Mobile Assistive Technologies for Visual Impaired Users: A Survey
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In this article, we summarize some of the recent advancements in assistive technologies that are designed for people with visual impairments (VI) and blind people. Present technology enables applications to be actively ...
Fog Computing Potentials, Applications, and Challenges
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and the technological advancements of smart devices and wearable gadgets, are empowering new real-Time applications such as health monitoring, traffic monitoring, tele-surveillance, ...
Ontology Based Education/Industry Collaboration Modeling: Opportunities and Challenges
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
One of the main suppliers of the workforce for the engineering industry and the economy in general is the higher education sector. The higher education sector is consistently being challenged by the fast evolving industry ...
Cybersecurity Issues in Implanted Medical Devices
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) is a promising new technology in the medical field to improve the treatment of patients. IMDs are electronic devices implanted in the human body to monitor or treat various sorts of ...
Modeling Family Behavior in Crowd Simulation
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Crowd simulation represents one of the approaches most commonly used to model human behavior in a crowd. Such simulation usually requires modeling different human structures such as individuals, groups, and friends. Most ...
Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment
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International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Disaster scenarios in high-rise buildings such as the Address Downtown, Dubai or Grenfell Tower, London have showed ones again the importance of data information availability for emergency management in buildings. 3D ...
MHDID: A Multi-distortion Historical Document Image Database
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, a new dataset, called Multi-distortion Historical Document Image Database (MHDID), to be used for the research on quality assessment of degraded documents and degradation classification is proposed. The MHDID ...
Arabic Bank Cheque Words Recognition Using Gabor Features
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Arabic cheque processing is one of the important applications of handwriting recognition. The recognition of Arabic Cheque bank is still awaiting lots of work in its constituent stages, which include pre-processing, feature ...
Data Collection and Image Processing System for Ancient Arabic Manuscripts
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents a general-purpose data collection system that combines a DSLR camera with directional LED lamps in order to capture a large quantity of high-resolution manuscript images in such a way as to maximize the ...
Effect of Pavement Surface Aging on Tire-Pavement Noise: A Case Study in the State of Qatar
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EDP Sciences
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
The acoustical performance of asphalt pavements changes with time due to combined effects of environmental conditions and various distresses induced by repeated and heavy traffic. This study examined the changes in the ...