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Design and evaluation of a biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework (2020)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Li, J., & Hussain, A. (2020). Design and evaluation of a biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework. Cluster Computing, 23, 3095-3117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-020-03073-7

The elasticity in cloud is essential to the effective management of computational resources as it enables readjustment at runtime to meet application demands. Over the years, researchers and practitioners have proposed many auto-scaling solutions usi... Read More about Design and evaluation of a biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework.

Impact of Relay Location of STANC Bi-Directional Transmission for Future Autonomous Internet of Things Applications (2020)
Journal Article
Tanoli, S. A. K., Shah, S. A., Khan, M. B., Nawaz, F., Hussain, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Khan, I., Shah, S. Y., & Alsarhan, A. (2020). Impact of Relay Location of STANC Bi-Directional Transmission for Future Autonomous Internet of Things Applications. IEEE Ac

Wireless communication using existing coding models poses several challenges for RF signals due to multipath scattering, rapid fluctuations in signal strength and path loss effect. Unlike existing works, this study presents a novel cod... Read More about Impact of Relay Location of STANC Bi-Directional Transmission for Future Autonomous Internet of Things Applications.

Height Prediction for Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Planning Using Deep Learning (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ilyas, M., Ahmad, J., Lawson, A., Khan, J. S., Tahir, A., Adeel, A., …Hussain, A. (2020). Height Prediction for Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Planning Using Deep Learning. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (76-85). https://doi.org/1

Prospective studies using longitudinal patient data can be used to help to predict responsiveness to Growth Hormone (GH) therapy and assess any suspected risks. In this paper, a novel Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is developed to predict gr... Read More about Height Prediction for Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Planning Using Deep Learning.

Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Deep Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmed, R., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Raza, A., Zhang, R., Huang, K., Hawalah, A., Adeel, A., & Hussain, A. (2019, July). Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Deep Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances. Presented at 10th International Con

In pattern recognition, automatic handwriting recognition (AHWR) is an area of research that has developed rapidly in the last few years. It can play a significant role in broad-spectrum of applications rending from, bank cheque processing, applicati... Read More about Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Deep Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances.

Self-focus Deep Embedding Model for Coarse-Grained Zero-Shot Classification (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, G., Huang, K., Zhang, R., Goulermas, J. Y., & Hussain, A. (2020). Self-focus Deep Embedding Model for Coarse-Grained Zero-Shot Classification. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2019 (12-22). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-394

Zero-shot learning (ZSL), i.e. classifying patterns where there is a lack of labeled training data, is a challenging yet important research topic. One of the most common ideas for ZSL is to map the data (e.g., images) and semantic attributes to the s... Read More about Self-focus Deep Embedding Model for Coarse-Grained Zero-Shot Classification.

Generalized Adversarial Training in Riemannian Space (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, S., Huang, K., Zhang, R., & Hussain, A. (2020). Generalized Adversarial Training in Riemannian Space. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) (826-835). https://doi.org/10.1109/icdm.2019.00093

Adversarial examples, referred to as augmented data points generated by imperceptible perturbations of input samples, have recently drawn much attention. Well-crafted adversarial examples may even mislead state-of-the-art deep neural network (DNN) mo... Read More about Generalized Adversarial Training in Riemannian Space.

Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Hussain, A., & Huang, K. (2019, November). Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), Beijing, China

With the explosion of Big Data, fast and frugal reasoning algorithms are increasingly needed to keep up with the size and the pace of user-generated contents on the Web. In many real-time applications, it is preferable to be able to process more data... Read More about Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics.

A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia (2019)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Mammone, N., Hussain, A., & Morabito, F. C. (2020). A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia. Neural Networks, 123, 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.12.006

Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings generate an electrical map of the human brain that are useful for clinical inspection of patients and in biomedical smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) applications. From a signal... Read More about A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia.

Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs (2019)
Journal Article
Alsarhan, A., Kilani, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Zomaya, A. Y., & Hussain, A. (2020). Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(2), 1568-1581. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2019.2956228

Different studies have recently emphasized the importance of deploying clustering schemes in Vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET) to overcome challenging problems related to scalability, frequent topology changes, scarcity of spectrum resources, maintain... Read More about Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs.

A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Zhou, M., Liu, H., & Hussain, A. (2020). A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle. Cognitive Computation, 12(1), 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09692-6

This paper introduces the functional system architecture of the Mengshi intelligent vehicle, winner of the 2018 World Intelligent Driving Challenge (WIDC). Different from traditional smart vehicles, a cognitive module is introduced in the system arch... Read More about A Cognitively Inspired System Architecture for the Mengshi Cognitive Vehicle.

A Novel Real-Time, Lightweight Chaotic-Encryption Scheme for Next-Generation Audio-Visual Hearing Aids (2019)
Journal Article
Adeel, A., Ahmad, J., Larijani, H., & Hussain, A. (2020). A Novel Real-Time, Lightweight Chaotic-Encryption Scheme for Next-Generation Audio-Visual Hearing Aids. Cognitive Computation, 12, 589-601. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09653-z

Next-generation audio-visual (AV) hearing aids stand as a major enabler to realize more intelligible audio. However, high data rate, low latency, low computational complexity, and privacy are some of the major bottlenecks to the successful deployment... Read More about A Novel Real-Time, Lightweight Chaotic-Encryption Scheme for Next-Generation Audio-Visual Hearing Aids.

A novel statistical analysis and autoencoder driven intelligent intrusion detection approach (2019)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Adeel, A., Morabito, F. C., & Hussain, A. (2020). A novel statistical analysis and autoencoder driven intelligent intrusion detection approach. Neurocomputing, 387, 51-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.11.016

In the current digital era, one of the most critical and challenging issues is ensuring cybersecurity in information technology (IT) infrastructures. With significant improvements in technology, hackers have been developing ever more complex and dang... Read More about A novel statistical analysis and autoencoder driven intelligent intrusion detection approach.

Attention Graph Convolution Network for Image Segmentation in Big SAR Imagery Data (2019)
Journal Article
Ma, F., Gao, F., Sun, J., Zhou, H., & Hussain, A. (2019). Attention Graph Convolution Network for Image Segmentation in Big SAR Imagery Data. Remote Sensing, 11(21), 2586. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212586

The recent emergence of high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images leads to massive amounts of data. In order to segment these big remotely sensed data in an acceptable time frame, more and more segmentation algorithms based on deep learni... Read More about Attention Graph Convolution Network for Image Segmentation in Big SAR Imagery Data.

A non-parametric softmax for improving neural attention in time-series forecasting (2019)
Journal Article
Totaro, S., Hussain, A., & Scardapane, S. (2020). A non-parametric softmax for improving neural attention in time-series forecasting. Neurocomputing, 381, 177-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.10.084

Neural attention has become a key component in many deep learning applications, ranging from machine translation to time series forecasting. While many variations of attention have been developed over recent years, all share a common component in the... Read More about A non-parametric softmax for improving neural attention in time-series forecasting.

A hybrid Persian sentiment analysis framework: Integrating dependency grammar based rules and deep neural networks (2019)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Li, J., Jiang, F., Kong, B., & Hussain, A. (2020). A hybrid Persian sentiment analysis framework: Integrating dependency grammar based rules and deep neural networks. Neurocomputing, 380, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.

Social media hold valuable, vast and unstructured information on public opinion that can be utilized to improve products and services. The automatic analysis of such data, however, requires a deep understanding of natural language. Current sentiment... Read More about A hybrid Persian sentiment analysis framework: Integrating dependency grammar based rules and deep neural networks.

Style-Neutralized Pattern Classification Based on Adversarially Trained Upgraded U-Net (2019)
Journal Article
Jiang, H., Huang, K., Zhang, R., & Hussain, A. (2021). Style-Neutralized Pattern Classification Based on Adversarially Trained Upgraded U-Net. Cognitive Computation, 13(4), 845-858. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09660-0

Traditional machine learning approaches usually hold the assumption that data for model training and in real applications are created following the identical and independent distribution (i.i.d.). However, several relevant research topics have demons... Read More about Style-Neutralized Pattern Classification Based on Adversarially Trained Upgraded U-Net.

Lip-reading driven deep learning approach for speech enhancement (2019)
Journal Article
Adeel, A., Gogate, M., Hussain, A., & Whitmer, W. M. (2021). Lip-reading driven deep learning approach for speech enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 5(3), 481-490. https://doi.org/10.1109/tetci.2019.2917039

This paper proposes a novel lip-reading driven deep learning framework for speech enhancement. The approach leverages the complementary strengths of both deep learning and analytical acoustic modeling (filtering-based approach) as compared to benchma... Read More about Lip-reading driven deep learning approach for speech enhancement.

Contextual deep learning-based audio-visual switching for speech enhancement in real-world environments (2019)
Journal Article
Adeel, A., Gogate, M., & Hussain, A. (2020). Contextual deep learning-based audio-visual switching for speech enhancement in real-world environments. Information Fusion, 59, 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.08.008

Human speech processing is inherently multi-modal, where visual cues (e.g. lip movements) can help better understand speech in noise. Our recent work [1] has shown that lip-reading driven, audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement can significantly outper... Read More about Contextual deep learning-based audio-visual switching for speech enhancement in real-world environments.