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An Incremental SAR Target Recognition Framework via Memory-Augmented Weight Alignment and Enhancement Discrimination (2023)
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Huang, H., Gao, F., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2023). An Incremental SAR Target Recognition Framework via Memory-Augmented Weight Alignment and Enhancement Discrimination. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 20, https://doi.org/10.1109/lgr

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) is one of the most important research directions in SAR image interpretation. While much existing research into SAR ATR has focused on deep learning technology, an equally important yet... Read More about An Incremental SAR Target Recognition Framework via Memory-Augmented Weight Alignment and Enhancement Discrimination.

Unlocking the Potential of Two-Point Cells for Energy-Efficient and Resilient Training of Deep Nets (2023)
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Adeel, A., Adetomi, A., Ahmed, K., Hussain, A., Arslan, T., & Phillips, W. A. (2023). Unlocking the Potential of Two-Point Cells for Energy-Efficient and Resilient Training of Deep Nets. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence,

Context-sensitive two-point layer 5 pyramidal cells (L5PCs) were discovered as long ago as 1999. However, the potential of this discovery to provide useful neural computation has yet to be demonstrated. Here we show for the first time how a transform... Read More about Unlocking the Potential of Two-Point Cells for Energy-Efficient and Resilient Training of Deep Nets.

Editorial: Physiological computing of social cognition, volume II (2023)
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Fernández-Caballero, A., Hussain, A., Latorre, J. M., Martínez-Rodrigo, A., Rodriguez-Jimenez, R., & Fernández-Sotos, P. (2023). Editorial: Physiological computing of social cognition, volume II. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, Article 1152291. ht

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Randomized block-coordinate adaptive algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems (2023)
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Zhou, Y., Huang, K., Li, J., Cheng, C., Wang, X., Hussian, A., & Liu, X. (2023). Randomized block-coordinate adaptive algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 121, Article 105968. https://doi.org

Nonconvex optimization problems have always been one focus in deep learning, in which many fast adaptive algorithms based on momentum are applied. However, the full gradient computation of high-dimensional feature vector in the above tasks become pro... Read More about Randomized block-coordinate adaptive algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems.

A Novel Hierarchical Extreme Machine-Learning-Based Approach for Linear Attenuation Coefficient Forecasting (2023)
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Varone, G., Ieracitano, C., Çiftçioğlu, A. Ö., Hussain, T., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Al-Tamimi, B. N., Almoamari, H., Akkurt, I., & Hussain, A. (2023). A Novel Hierarchical Extreme Machine-Learning-Based Approach for Linear Attenuation Coefficient

The development of reinforced polymer composite materials has had a significant influence on the challenging problem of shielding against high-energy photons, particularly X-rays and γ-rays in industrial and healthcare facilities. Heavy materials’ sh... Read More about A Novel Hierarchical Extreme Machine-Learning-Based Approach for Linear Attenuation Coefficient Forecasting.

Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion for remote sensing and earth observation: Concepts, taxonomy, literature review, evaluation methodologies and challenges ahead (2023)
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Zhang, K., Zhang, F., Wan, W., Yu, H., Sun, J., Del Ser, J., …Hussain, A. (2023). Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion for remote sensing and earth observation: Concepts, taxonomy, literature review, evaluation methodologies and challenges ahead.

Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion, termed pan-sharpening, is to merge the spatial and spectral information of the source images into a fused one, which has a higher spatial and spectral resolution and is more reliable for downstream tasks c... Read More about Panchromatic and multispectral image fusion for remote sensing and earth observation: Concepts, taxonomy, literature review, evaluation methodologies and challenges ahead.

Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition (2022)
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Zheng, A., Wang, H., Wang, J., Huang, H., He, R., & Hussain, A. (2023). Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 119, Article 105708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engapp

Recently, Swin Transformer has been widely explored as a general backbone for computer vision, which helps to improve the performance of vision tasks due to the ability to establish associations for long-range dependencies of different spatial locati... Read More about Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition.

Multimodal salient object detection via adversarial learning with collaborative generator (2022)
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Tu, Z., Yang, W., Wang, K., Hussain, A., Luo, B., & Li, C. (2023). Multimodal salient object detection via adversarial learning with collaborative generator. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 119, Article 105707. https://doi.org/10.1016

Multimodal salient object detection(MSOD), which utilizes multimodal information (e.g., RGB image and thermal infrared or depth image) to detect common salient objects, has received much attention recently. Different modalities reflect different appe... Read More about Multimodal salient object detection via adversarial learning with collaborative generator.

A novel approach of many-objective particle swarm optimization with cooperative agents based on an inverted generational distance indicator (2022)
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Kouka, N., BenSaid, F., Fdhila, R., Fourati, R., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2023). A novel approach of many-objective particle swarm optimization with cooperative agents based on an inverted generational distance indicator. Information Sciences, 623, 22

Most evolutionary algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO), use Pareto dominance as a major selection criterion and face significant challenges when dealing with many-objective problems. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a nove... Read More about A novel approach of many-objective particle swarm optimization with cooperative agents based on an inverted generational distance indicator.

Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation With Stair Network (2022)
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Jiang, C., Huang, K., Zhang, S., Wang, X., Xiao, J., Niu, Z., & Hussain, A. (2023). Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation With Stair Network. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 7(3), 805-817. https://doi.org/10

In this paper, we focus on tackling the precise keypoint coordinates regression task. Most existing approaches adopt complicated networks with a large number of parameters, leading to a heavy model with poor cost-effectiveness in practice. To overcom... Read More about Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation With Stair Network.

Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids (2022)
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Passos, L. A., Papa, J. P., Hussain, A., & Adeel, A. (2023). Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids. Neurocomputing, 527, 196-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2022.11.081

Despite the recent success of machine learning algorithms, most models face drawbacks when considering more complex tasks requiring interaction between different sources, such as multimodal input data and logical time sequences. On the other hand, th... Read More about Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids.

Ellipse Encoding for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Dynamic Key Points (2022)
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Gao, F., Huo, Y., Sun, J., Yu, T., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2022). Ellipse Encoding for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Dynamic Key Points. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, Article 5240528. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgr

In recent years, there has been growing interest in developing oriented bounding box (OBB)-based deep learning approaches to detect arbitrary-oriented ship targets in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, most existing OBB-based detection m... Read More about Ellipse Encoding for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Dynamic Key Points.

Fusing external knowledge resources for natural language understanding techniques: A survey (2022)
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Wang, Y., Wang, W., Chen, Q., Huang, K., Nguyen, A., De, S., & Hussain, A. (2023). Fusing external knowledge resources for natural language understanding techniques: A survey. Information Fusion, 92, 190-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.11.025

Knowledge resources, e.g. knowledge graphs, which formally represent essential semantics and information for logic inference and reasoning, can compensate for the unawareness nature of many natural language processing techniques based on deep neural... Read More about Fusing external knowledge resources for natural language understanding techniques: A survey.

A robust deep learning approach for tomato plant leaf disease localization and classification (2022)
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Nawaz, M., Nazir, T., Javed, A., Masood, M., Rashid, J., Kim, J., & Hussain, A. (2022). A robust deep learning approach for tomato plant leaf disease localization and classification. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 18568. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598

Tomato plants' disease detection and classification at the earliest stage can save the farmers from expensive crop sprays and can assist in increasing the food quantity. Although, extensive work has been presented by the researcher for the tomato pla... Read More about A robust deep learning approach for tomato plant leaf disease localization and classification.

A Trimodel SAR Semisupervised Recognition Method Based on Attention-Augmented Convolutional Networks (2022)
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Yan, S., Zhang, Y., Gao, F., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2022). A Trimodel SAR Semisupervised Recognition Method Based on Attention-Augmented Convolutional Networks. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 1

Semisupervised learning in synthetic aperture radars (SARs) is one of the research hotspots in the field of radar image automatic target recognition. It can efficiently deal with challenging environments where there are insufficient labeled samples a... Read More about A Trimodel SAR Semisupervised Recognition Method Based on Attention-Augmented Convolutional Networks.

PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis (2022)
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Jiang, C., Huang, K., Wu, J., Wang, X., Xiao, J., & Hussain, A. (2023). PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis. Information Fusion, 91, 316-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.10.016

Directly processing 3D point cloud data becomes dominant in classification and segmentation tasks. Present mainstream point based methods usually focus on learning in either geometric space ( PointNet++) or semantic space ( DGCNN). Owing to the irreg... Read More about PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis.

WikiDes: A Wikipedia-based dataset for generating short descriptions from paragraphs (2022)
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Ta, H. T., Rahman, A. B. S., Majumder, N., Hussain, A., Najjar, L., Howard, N., …Gelbukh, A. (2023). WikiDes: A Wikipedia-based dataset for generating short descriptions from paragraphs. Information Fusion, 90, 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.

As free online encyclopedias with massive volumes of content, Wikipedia and Wikidata are key to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as information retrieval, knowledge base building, machine translation, text classification, and text s... Read More about WikiDes: A Wikipedia-based dataset for generating short descriptions from paragraphs.

Multimodal sentiment analysis: A systematic review of history, datasets, multimodal fusion methods, applications, challenges and future directions (2022)
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Gandhi, A., Adhvaryu, K., Poria, S., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2023). Multimodal sentiment analysis: A systematic review of history, datasets, multimodal fusion methods, applications, challenges and future directions. Information Fusion, 91, 424-444. ht

Sentiment analysis (SA) has gained much traction In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). There is growing demand to automate analysis of user sentiment towards products or services. Opinions are increasingl... Read More about Multimodal sentiment analysis: A systematic review of history, datasets, multimodal fusion methods, applications, challenges and future directions.

DPb-MOPSO: A Dynamic Pareto bi-level Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (2022)
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Aboud, A., Rokbani, N., Fdhila, R., Qahtani, A. M., Almutiry, O., Dhahri, H., …Alimi, A. M. (2022). DPb-MOPSO: A Dynamic Pareto bi-level Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. Applied Soft Computing, 129, Article 109622. https://doi.org/

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) system based on the distributed architecture over multiple sub-swarms is very efficient for static multi-objective optimization but has not been considered for solving dynamic multi-objective problems (DMOPs). Tracki... Read More about DPb-MOPSO: A Dynamic Pareto bi-level Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.

A New Class of Efficient Adaptive Filters for Online Nonlinear Modeling (2022)
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Comminiello, D., Nezamdoust, A., Scardapane, S., Scarpiniti, M., Hussain, A., & Uncini, A. (2023). A New Class of Efficient Adaptive Filters for Online Nonlinear Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 53(3), 1384-1396. https

Nonlinear models are known to provide excellent performance in real-world applications that often operate in nonideal conditions. However, such applications often require online processing to be performed with limited computational resources. To addr... Read More about A New Class of Efficient Adaptive Filters for Online Nonlinear Modeling.