• A Scene-to-Speech Mobile based Application: Multiple Trained Models Approach 

      Karkar A.; Kunhoth J.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( 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 ...
    • An efficient hybrid prediction approach for predicting cloud consumer resource needs 

      Erradi, Abdelkarim; Kholidy, Hisham A. ( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      The prediction of cloud consumer resource needs is a vital step for several cloud deployment applications such as capacity planning, workload management, and dynamic allocation of cloud resources. In this paper, we develop ...
    • Automatic prediction of age, gender, and nationality in offline handwriting 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Hassaine A. ( 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 ...
    • CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the automatic identification and verification of claims in social media 

      Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Elsayed, Tamer; Nakov, Preslav; Da San Martino, Giovanni; Hasanain, Maram; ... more authors ( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of the 2020 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes four complementary tasks and a related task from previous lab editions, offered in ...
    • Fuzzy prediction for failed back surgery syndrome 

      Qidwai, U.; Shamim, S.; Enam, A. ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2010 , Article)
      In this article a new strategy is presented that can be used by neurophysicians, neurosurgeons, and orthopedic surgeons to predict patients' health after an operative procedure on the vertebral column just by analyzing the ...
    • ICDAR 2013 competition on gender prediction from handwriting 

      Hassaine A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Aljaam J.; Jaoua A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The prediction of gender from handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...
    • Modeling and forecasting electricity consumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Machine learning vs. nonlinear econometric time series models 

      Lanouar, Charfeddine; Zaidan, Esmat; Alban, Ahmad Qadeib; Bennasr, Hamdi; Abulibdeh, Ammar ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Accurately modeling and forecasting electricity consumption remains a challenging task due to the large number of the statistical properties that characterize this time series such as seasonality, trend, sudden changes, ...
    • Smart Edge Healthcare Data Sharing System 

      Chkirbene Z.; Mohamed A.; Erbad A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Smart health systems improve the efficiency of healthcare infrastructures and biomedical systems by integrating information and technology into health and medical practices. However, reliability, scalabilty and latency are ...
    • Transcoding resources forecasting and reservation for crowdsourced live streaming 

      Haouari F.; Baccour E.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      During the last decade, empowered by the technological advances of mobile devices and the revolution of wireless mobile network access, crowdsourced live streaming has become more popular. Ensuring a stable high-quality ...
    • Urban air pollution monitoring system with forecasting models 

      Shaban, Khaled Bashir; Kadri, Abdullah; Rezk, Eman ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      A system for monitoring and forecasting urban air pollution is presented in this paper. The system uses low-cost air-quality monitoring motes that are equipped with an array of gaseous and meteorological sensors. These ...
    • Your Behavior Signals Your Reliability: Modeling Crowd Behavioral Traces to Ensure Quality Relevance Annotations 

      Goyal, Tanya; McDonnell, Tyler; Kutlu, Mucahid; Elsayed, Tamer; Lease, Matthew ( AAAI Press , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      While peer-agreement and gold checks are well-established methods for ensuring quality in crowdsourced data collection, we explore a relatively new direction for quality control: estimating work quality directly from ...