All Outputs (497)

PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis (2022)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Ta, H. T., Rahman, A. B. S., Majumder, N., Hussain, A., Najjar, L., Howard, N., Poria, S., & 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.2022.09.022

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)
Journal Article
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.09.025

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.

Towards real-time privacy-preserving audio-visual speech enhancement (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2022, September). Towards real-time privacy-preserving audio-visual speech enhancement. Presented at 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, Incheon, Korea

Human auditory cortex in everyday noisy situations is known to exploit aural and visual cues that are contextually combined by the brain’s multi-level integration strategies to selectively suppress the background noise and focus on the target speaker... Read More about Towards real-time privacy-preserving audio-visual speech enhancement.

DPb-MOPSO: A Dynamic Pareto bi-level Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (2022)
Journal Article
Aboud, A., Rokbani, N., Fdhila, R., Qahtani, A. M., Almutiry, O., Dhahri, H., Hussain, A., & 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/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109622

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)
Journal Article
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://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.2022.3202656

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.

A Few-Shot Learning Method for SAR Images Based on Weighted Distance and Feature Fusion (2022)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Xu, J., Lang, R., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2022). A Few-Shot Learning Method for SAR Images Based on Weighted Distance and Feature Fusion. Remote Sensing, 14(18), Article 4583. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14184583

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been widely applied in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image recognition. Nevertheless, CNN-based recognition methods usually encounter the problem of poor feature representation ability due to insuf... Read More about A Few-Shot Learning Method for SAR Images Based on Weighted Distance and Feature Fusion.

Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement (2022)
Journal Article
Passos, L. A., Papa, J. P., Del Ser, J., Hussain, A., & Adeel, A. (2023). Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement. Information Fusion, 90, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.09.006

This paper proposes a novel multimodal self-supervised architecture for energy-efficient audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement that integrates Graph Neural Networks with canonical correlation analysis (CCA-GNN). The proposed approach lays its foundati... Read More about Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement.

A Novel Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Model based on Canonical Correlation and Deep Learning (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, T., Diyan, M., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Adeel, A., Tsao, Y., & Hussain, A. (2022, July). A Novel Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Model based on Canonical Correlation and Deep Learning. Presented at 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Glasgow, Scotland

Current deep learning (DL) based approaches to speech intelligibility enhancement in noisy environments are often trained to minimise the feature distance between noise-free speech and enhanced speech signals. Despite improving the speech quality, su... Read More about A Novel Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Model based on Canonical Correlation and Deep Learning.

Pushing the limits of remote RF sensing by reading lips under the face mask (2022)
Journal Article
Hameed, H., Usman, M., Tahir, A., Hussain, A., Abbas, H., Cui, T. J., Imran, M. A., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2022). Pushing the limits of remote RF sensing by reading lips under the face mask. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 5168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32231-1

The problem of Lip-reading has become an important research challenge in recent years. The goal is to recognise speech from lip movements. Most of the Lip-reading technologies developed so far are camera-based, which require video recording of the ta... Read More about Pushing the limits of remote RF sensing by reading lips under the face mask.

A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter (2022)
Journal Article
Torregrosa, J., D’Antonio-Maceiras, S., Villar-Rodríguez, G., Hussain, A., Cambria, E., & Camacho, D. (2023). A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter. Cognitive Computation, 15, 440-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10048-w

Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century. The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countries, in which the political status quo changed. These changes included an in... Read More about A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter.

Next Generation Cognition-Aware Hearing Aid Devices With Microwave Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges (2022)
Journal Article
Anwar, U., Arslan, T., Hussain, A., & Lomax, P. (2022). Next Generation Cognition-Aware Hearing Aid Devices With Microwave Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges. IEEE Access, 10, 82214-82235. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3195875

The strong association between hearing loss and cognitive decline has developed into a major health challenge that calls for early detection, diagnosis and prevention. Hearing loss usually results in severe health implications that include loss of mo... Read More about Next Generation Cognition-Aware Hearing Aid Devices With Microwave Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges.

DNet-CNet: A novel cascaded deep network for real-time lane detection and classification (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Jiang, F., Yang, J., Kong, B., Hussain, A., Gogate, M., & Dashtipour, K. (2023). DNet-CNet: A novel cascaded deep network for real-time lane detection and classification. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 14, 10745-10760. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-022-04346-2

Robust understanding of the lane position and type is essential for changing lanes in autonomous vehicles. However, accomplishing this task in real time with high level of precision is not trivial. In this paper, we propose a novel cascaded deep neur... Read More about DNet-CNet: A novel cascaded deep network for real-time lane detection and classification.

Arabic sentiment analysis using dependency-based rules and deep neural networks (2022)
Journal Article
Diwali, A., Dashtipour, K., Saeedi, K., Gogate, M., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Arabic sentiment analysis using dependency-based rules and deep neural networks. Applied Soft Computing, 127, Article 109377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109377

With the growth of social platforms in recent years and the rapid increase in the means of communication through these platforms, a significant amount of textual data is available that contains an abundance of individuals’ opinions. Sentiment analysi... Read More about Arabic sentiment analysis using dependency-based rules and deep neural networks.

A novel multiple kernel fuzzy topic modeling technique for biomedical data (2022)
Journal Article
Rashid, J., Kim, J., Hussain, A., Naseem, U., & Juneja, S. (2022). A novel multiple kernel fuzzy topic modeling technique for biomedical data. BMC Bioinformatics, 23(1), Article 275. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-022-04780-1

Background: Text mining in the biomedical field has received much attention and regarded as the important research area since a lot of biomedical data is in text format. Topic modeling is one of the popular methods among text mining techniques used t... Read More about A novel multiple kernel fuzzy topic modeling technique for biomedical data.

Novel single and multi-layer echo-state recurrent autoencoders for representation learning (2022)
Journal Article
Chouikhi, N., Ammar, B., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2022). Novel single and multi-layer echo-state recurrent autoencoders for representation learning. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 114, Article 105051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105051

Representation learning impacts the performance of Machine Learning (ML) models. Feature extraction-based methods such as Auto-Encoders (AEs) are used to find new, more accurate data representations from original ones. They perform efficiently on a s... Read More about Novel single and multi-layer echo-state recurrent autoencoders for representation learning.

Educational data mining to predict students' academic performance: A survey study (2022)
Journal Article
Batool, S., Rashid, J., Nisar, M. W., Kim, J., Kwon, H., & Hussain, A. (2023). Educational data mining to predict students' academic performance: A survey study. Education and Information Technologies, 28(1), 905-971. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11152-y

Educational data mining is an emerging interdisciplinary research area involving both education and informatics. It has become an imperative research area due to many advantages that educational institutions can achieve. Along these lines, various da... Read More about Educational data mining to predict students' academic performance: A survey study.

An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation (2022)
Journal Article
Rashid, J., Kanwal, S., Wasif Nisar, M., Kim, J., & Hussain, A. (2023). An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 44(2), 1309-1324. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2023.026018

In project management, effective cost estimation is one of the most crucial activities to efficiently manage resources by predicting the required cost to fulfill a given task. However, finding the best estimation results in software development is ch... Read More about An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation.

Exploiting Attention-Consistency Loss For Spatial-Temporal Stream Action Recognition (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, H., Jin, X., Wang, Q., Hussain, A., & Huang, K. (2022). Exploiting Attention-Consistency Loss For Spatial-Temporal Stream Action Recognition. ACM transactions on multimedia computing communications and applications, 18(2S), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1145/3538749

Currently, many action recognition methods mostly consider the information from spatial streams. We propose a new perspective inspired by the human visual system to combine both spatial and temporal streams to measure their attention consistency. Spe... Read More about Exploiting Attention-Consistency Loss For Spatial-Temporal Stream Action Recognition.

Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study (2022)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Tahir, A., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Sheikh, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 8(5), Article e32543. https://doi.org/10.2196/32543

Background: The roll-out of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, started in December 2020. Uptake has been high, and there has been a subsequent reduction in infections, hospitalisations and deaths in vaccinated individuals. However, vacci... Read More about Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study.