College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Virtual and Augmented Reality in Surgery
( Springer , 2020 , Book chapter)To provide an overview of the novel applications of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies within the realm of Surgery. This chapter will clarify the concepts associated with AR and VR in the context ... -
Generating haptic texture using solid noise
( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article)Texture enhances haptic interaction by providing unique, distinguishable, and versatile surfaces. In computer haptics, texture can render environments more realistic and provide useful information. In this paper, an algorithm ... -
Augmented reality flavor: cross-modal mapping across gustation, olfaction, and vision
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Gustatory display research is still in its infancy despite being one of the essential everyday senses that human practice while eating and drinking. Indeed, the most important and frequent tasks that our brain deals with ... -
Assistive Telexistence System Using Motion Blending
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)Robotic avatar and telexistence systems have risen in prominence after the covid-19 pandemic, where current telecommunication methods are limited in terms of physical interaction abilities. Most existing systems focus on ... -
Virtual Interactive Imagery: Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Obesity
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a multidisciplinary framework that applies psychological treatment. The framework uses virtual reality to apply guided imagery scenarios, where a person imagines a certain situation positively, to better ... -
Evaluating the use of visual prompts in online meeting applications for kindergarteners
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)The use of online meeting applications for educational purpose, has increased during pandemic. These meeting applications mostly use textual prompts as a way of communicating with the user, which might not be suitable for ... -
A Cost-Effective Immersive Telexistence Platform for Generic Telemanipulation Tasks
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)Robots are expected to become an essential part in tackling the global corona virus pandemic. However, acquiring robotic technology in economically-challenged nations is very difficult for a variety of factors. This work ... -
Augmented Reality in Surgical Navigation: A Review of Evaluation and Validation Metrics
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Pre-operative imaging has been used earlier to guide traditional surgical navigation systems. There has been a lot of effort in the last decade to integrate augmented reality into the operating room to help surgeons ... -
Piton: Investigating the Controllability of a Wearable Telexistence Robot
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic impacted collaborative activities, travel, and physical contact, increasing the demand for real-time interactions with remote environments. However, the existing remote communication solutions provide ... -
Virtual reality for ambulance simulation environment
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Simulations are beneficial in evaluating clinicians' empirical competencies through practical skills, prioritizing, and decision-making as part of patient care scenarios generally run in a full-scale physical context. ... -
Publisher Correction: A lightweight neural network with multiscale feature enhancement for liver CT segmentation (Scientific Reports, (2022), 12, 1, (14153), 10.1038/s41598-022-16828-6)
( Nature Research , 2022 , Other)Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16828-6, published online 19 August 2022 The original version of this Article contained errors in References 1 and 2, which were incorrectly given as: -
Enhanced electrochemical and mechanical performance of BN reinforced Ni-P based nanocomposite coatings
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Adequate corrosion protection and improved mechanical properties are necessary requirements to overcome operational costs in the industries. Ni-P based coatings are known to possess better superior corrosion resistance ... -
Modeling and forecasting electricity consumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Machine learning vs. nonlinear econometric time series models
( 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, ... -
A novel deep learning technique for morphology preserved fetal ECG extraction from mother ECG using 1D-CycleGAN
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)The non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) enables easy detection of developing heart abnormalities, leading to a significant reduction in infant mortality rate and post-natal complications. Due to the overlapping of ... -
Recent progress in generative adversarial networks applied to inversely designing inorganic materials: A brief review
( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Article Review)Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are deep generative models (GMs) that have recently attracted attention owing to their impressive performance in generating completely novel images, text, music, and speech. Recently, ... -
Machine learning for prediction of the uniaxial compressive strength within carbonate rocks
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Article)The Uniaxial Compressive Strength (UCS) is an essential parameter in various fields (e.g., civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, mechanical engineering, and material sciences). Indeed, the determination of UCS in ... -
SELF-ORGANIZED RESIDUAL BLOCKS FOR IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION
( IEEE Computer Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)It has become a standard practice to use the convolutional networks (ConvNet) with RELU non-linearity in image restoration and super-resolution (SR). Although the universal approximation theorem states that a multi-layer ... -
BM3D VS 2-LAYER ONN
( IEEE Computer Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)Despite their recent success on image denoising, the need for deep and complex architectures still hinders the practical usage of CNNs. Older but computationally more efficient methods such as BM3D remain a popular choice, ... -
Brain Tumor Segmentation and Classification from Sensor-Based Portable Microwave Brain Imaging System Using Lightweight Deep Learning Models
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Automated brain tumor segmentation from reconstructed microwave (RMW) brain images and image classification is essential for the investigation and monitoring of the progression of brain disease. The manual detection, ... -
Global ECG Classification by Self-Operational Neural Networks with Feature Injection
( IEEE Computer Society , 2023 , Article)Objective: Global (inter-patient) ECG classification for arrhythmia detection over Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is a challenging task for both humans and machines. Automating this process with utmost accuracy is, therefore, ...