• An Empirical Study for PCA- and LDA-Based Feature Reduction for Gas Identification 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      Increasing the number of sensors in a gas identification system generally improves its performance as this will add extra features for analysis. However, this affects the computational complexity, especially if the ...
    • Computationally efficient environmental monitoring with electronic nose: A potential technology for ambient assisted living 

      Hassan, Muhammad; Umar, Muhammad; Bermak, Amine; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Recently, ambient assisted living technologies have emerged to improve the quality of life of ageing populations. Identification of health-endangering indoor gases with a hardware-friendly solution may provide an early ...
    • Custom IP cores for robust data analysis and pattern recognition algorithms used in gas applications 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents an overview of a PhD research project, completed tasks and future work. The aim of the research is to contribute to the improvement of gas identification systems at different levels by designing and ...
    • Design and implementation of a gas identification system on Zynq SoC platform 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; ... more authors ( Asian Research Publishing Network , 2015 , Article)
      The Zynq-7000 based platforms are increasingly being used in different applications including image and signal processing. The Zynq system on chip (SoC) architecture combines a processing system based on a dual core ARM ...
    • Fast Prototyping of KNN Based Gas Discrimination System on the Zynq SoC 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Electronic noses (EN) or machine olfaction are systems used for the detection and identification of odorous compounds and gas mixtures. The accuracy of such systems is as important as the processing time. Therefore, the ...
    • Hardware PCA for gas identification systems using high level synthesis on the Zynq SoC 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      One of the significant stages in a gas identification system is dimensionality reduction to speed up the processing part. This is even more important when the system is implemented on a hardware platform where the resources ...
    • Heterogeneous Implementation of ECG Encryption and Identification on the Zynq SoC 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Zhai, Xiaojun; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Ramzan, Naeem ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents an innovative and safe connected health solution for human identification. The system consists of the encryption and decryption of ECG signals using the advanced encryption standard (AES) as well as the ...
    • High Level Synthesis Based E-Nose System for Gas Applications 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Hassan, Muhammad; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper proposes a hardware/software co-design approach using the Zynq platform for the implementation of an electronic nose (EN) system based on principal component analysis (PCA) as a dimensionality reduction technique ...
    • HLS based hardware acceleration on the zynq SoC: A case study for fall detection system 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Siupik, Marek; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Casaseca-De-La-Higuera, Pablo ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Fall detection is a major problem in healthcare systems, especially for elderly people who are the most vulnerable. It is important to design and implement not only an accurate fall detection system (FDS) but also a system ...
    • HW/SW co-design based implementation of Gas discrimination 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Bermak, Amine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      A gas discrimination system is mainly made of two parts, the sensing part and the processing part. As an alternative solution to pure software or hardware implementation of the processing part of a gas identification system, ...
    • Impact of feature reduction and operating temperature on gas identification 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine Amor; ... more authors ( Asian Research Publishing Network , 2015 , Article)
      Tin-oxide based gas sensor requires an operating temperature typically in the range of 200 °C to 400 °C and its performance dependents on this temperature. In this paper a deep examination has been made to analyze the best ...
    • MLP Neural Network Based Gas Classification System on Zynq SoC 

      Zhai, Xiaojun; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      Systems based on wireless gas sensor networks offer a powerful tool to observe and analyze data in complex environments over long monitoring periods. Since the reliability of sensors is very important in those systems, gas ...
    • PCA IP-core for gas applications on the heterogenous zynq platform 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine (2013 , Conference Paper)
      Principal component analysis (PCA) is a commonly used technique for data reduction in general as well as for dimensionality reduction in gas identification systems when a sensor array is being used. This paper presents the ...
    • Quantification of carcinogenic odor of formaldehyde with electronic nose technologyd 

      Hassan, Muhammad; Umar, Muhammad; Bermak, Amine; Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Based on recent experimental discoveries about a link between the length of exposure to formaldehyde and cancers of the lymphatic and hematopoietic systems, we present a low-cost and compact solution for monitoring ...