Browsing Computer Science & Engineering by Publisher "Springer"
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A combined multiple action recognition and summarization for surveillance video sequences
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Human action recognition and video summarization represent challenging tasks for several computer vision applications including video surveillance, criminal investigations, and sports applications. For long videos, it is ... -
A comprehensive overview of feature representation for biometric recognition
( Springer , 2020 , Article)The performance of any biometric recognition system heavily dependents on finding a good and suitable feature representation space where observations from different classes are well separated. Unfortunately, finding this ... -
A deep dive into COVID-19-related messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan
( Springer , 2022 , Article)The spread of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed led to an increase in activity on online social networks. This has resulted in users sharing unfiltered and unreliable information on social networks like WhatsApp, ... -
A machine learning-based optimization approach for pre-copy live virtual machine migration
( Springer , 2023 , Article)Organizations widely use cloud computing to outsource their computing needs. One crucial issue of cloud computing is that services must be available to clients at all times. However, the cloud services may be temporarily ... -
A model-driven PBL application to support the authoring, delivery, and execution of PBL processes
( Springer , 2016 , Article)As problem-based learning (PBL) is becoming more and more popular, there is also a growing interest in developing and using technologies in the implementation of PBL. However, teachers may have difficulties to design and ... -
A multi-modal face and signature biometric authentication system using a max-of-scores based fusion
( Springer , 2012 , Conference Paper)Face and signature based multimodal biometric systems are often required in various areas, such as banking biometric systems and secured mobile phone operating systems, among others. Our system combines these two biometric ... -
A Reconfigurable Connected Health Platform Using ZYNQ System on Chip
( Springer , 2018 , Book chapter)This paper presents a reconfigurable connected health platform for fall and cardiac disease detection to be used in smart home environments using Shimmer sensing device and ZYNQ System on Chip (SoC) platform. The system ... -
A set of geometrical features for writer identification
( Springer , 2012 , Conference Paper)Writer identification is an important field in the forensic document examination. We propose in this paper a set of geometrical features that makes it possible to characterize writers. They include directions, curvatures ... -
A study of children emotion and their performance while handwriting Arabic characters using a haptic device
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Emotion and focus of children during handwriting are essential for language learning. Handwriting for young children is challenging because it needs deep motivation and willingness to complete the task regardless of its ... -
A survey and taxonomy on energy efficient resource allocation techniques for cloud computing systems
( Springer , 2014 , Article)In a cloud computing paradigm, energy efficient allocation of different virtualized ICT resources (servers, storage disks, and networks, and the like) is a complex problem due to the presence of heterogeneous application ... -
A survey on data center network topologies
( Springer , 2018 , Conference Paper)Data centers are the infrastructures that support the cloud computing services. So, their topologies have an important role on controlling the performance of these services. Designing an efficient topology with a high ... -
The adoption of metaverse in the retail industry and its impact on sustainable competitive advantage: moderating impact of sustainability commitment
( Springer , 2023 , Article)The concept of the metaverse involves creating a fully immersive virtual world that allows users to interact with each other and digital objects in a way that is almost indistinguishable from reality. One of the key areas ... -
AI-enabled remote monitoring of vital signs for COVID-19: methods, prospects and challenges
( Springer , 2021 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed the existing healthcare infrastructure in many parts of the world. Healthcare professionals are not only over-burdened but also at a high risk of nosocomial transmission from COVID-19 ... -
An Arabic-based tutorial system for children with special needs
( Springer , 2012 , Conference Paper)In spite of the current advance of the use of computers in education in the Arab world, complete suites of solutions for students with special needs are very scarce. This paper presents an assistive system managing learning ... -
An assistive computerized system for children with intellectual and learning disabilities
( Springer , 2009 , Conference Paper)This work proposes an assistive computerized system using the Arabic language for children with intellectual and learning disabilities (ILD) who are resident at Shafallah Center in Doha, Qatar. The system is flexible and ... -
An efficient secure data compression technique based on chaos and adaptive Huffman coding
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Data stored in physical storage or transferred over a communication channel includes substantial redundancy. Compression techniques cut down the data redundancy to reduce space and communication time. Nevertheless, compression ... -
An energy saving mechanism based on vacation queuing theory in data center networks
( Springer , 2018 , Conference Paper)To satisfy the growing need for computing resources, data centers consume a huge amount of power which raises serious concerns regarding the scale of the energy consumption and wastage. One of the important reasons for ... -
An improved palmprint recognition system using iris features
( Springer , 2013 , Article)This paper presents a bimodal biometric recognition system based on the extracted features of the human palmprint and iris using a new graph-based approach termed Fisher locality preserving projections (FLPP). This new ... -
An integrated framework for the interaction and 3D visualization of cultural heritage
( Springer , 2023 , Article)In this study, the aim is to design and develop a 3D acquisition, visualization, and interaction framework to preserve cultural heritage and provide new ways to enable museum visitors and cultural audiences to virtually ... -
An online signature verification system for forgery and disguise detection
( Springer , 2012 , Conference Paper)Online signatures are acquired using a digital tablet which provides all the trajectory of the signature as well as the variation in pressure with respect to time. Therefore, online signature verification achieves higher ...