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MHDID: A Multi-distortion Historical Document Image Database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In this paper, a new dataset, called Multi-distortion Historical Document Image Database (MHDID), to be used for the research on quality assessment of degraded documents and degradation classification is proposed.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 ...
Cost Optimization Algorithms for Hot and Cool Tiers Cloud Storage Services
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we consider the data placement problem in the new generation tiered cloud storage services offering hot and cool tiers that are characterized by differentiated Quality of Service (i.e, access latency, ...
Effect of Annotation on Multiple-Player-Tracking Algorithms
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
For most people from all ages and genders, participation in sports becomes part of their life, especially participation in soccer matches, which are considered a symbol of healthy living and active attitudes of families. ...
Self-Powered IoT-Enabled Water Monitoring System
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
While usable water on earth is sparse and costly to treat, statistics show excessive use worldwide. Penalties are issued to limit the excessive consumption; however, their impact is marginal as they do not identify the ...
Play, learn and eat healthy food: A mobile game for children to fight obesity
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Obesity amongst children and youth is one of the major health issue in the state of Qatar. The percentage of obese and overweight people exceeds 40 percent. Many children are going to school without taking their breakfast. ...
An Ensemble Learning Method Based on Random Subspace Sampling for Palmprint Identification
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Palmprint recognition is an important and widely used biometric modality with high reliability, stability and user acceptability. In this paper we propose a simple and effective ensemble learning method for palmprint ...
UAV-based Semi-Autonomous Data Acquisition and Classification
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In the context of mobile Health (mHealth) applications, data are prone to several sources of contamination which would lead to false interpretation and misleading classification results. In this paper, a robust deep learning ...