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An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Kanwal, S., Rashid, J., Kim, J., Nisar, M. W., Hussain, A., Batool, S., & Kanwal, R. (2021). An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction. In 2021 International Conference on Innovative Computing (ICIC) (745-750). https://doi.org/10.1109/icic53490.2021.9693040

One of the most challenging problems in the telecommunications industry is predicting customer churn (CCP). Decision-makers and business experts stressed that acquiring new clients is more expensive than maintaining current ones. From current churn d... Read More about An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction.

Visual Speech In Real Noisy Environments (VISION): A Novel Benchmark Dataset and Deep Learning-Based Baseline System (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2020). Visual Speech In Real Noisy Environments (VISION): A Novel Benchmark Dataset and Deep Learning-Based Baseline System. In Proc. Interspeech 2020 (4521-4525). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2020-2935

In this paper, we present VIsual Speech In real nOisy eNvironments (VISION), a first of its kind audio-visual (AV) corpus comprising 2500 utterances from 209 speakers, recorded in real noisy environments including social gatherings, streets, cafeteri... Read More about Visual Speech In Real Noisy Environments (VISION): A Novel Benchmark Dataset and Deep Learning-Based Baseline System.

Deep Neural Network Driven Binaural Audio Visual Speech Separation (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Bell, P., & Hussain, A. (2020). Deep Neural Network Driven Binaural Audio Visual Speech Separation. In 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn48605.2020.9207517

The central auditory pathway exploits the auditory signals and visual information sent by both ears and eyes to segregate speech from multiple competing noise sources and help disambiguate phonological ambiguity. In this study, inspired from this uni... Read More about Deep Neural Network Driven Binaural Audio Visual Speech Separation.

Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings (2020)
Conference Proceeding
(2020). Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings. In J. Ren, A. Hussain, H. Zhao, K. Huang, J. Zheng, J. Cai, …Y. Xiao (Eds.), Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39431-8

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in July 2019. The 57 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed... Read More about Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings.

Self-focus Deep Embedding Model for Coarse-Grained Zero-Shot Classification (2020)
Conference Proceeding
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/10.1007/978-3-030-39431-8_2

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.

Height Prediction for Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Planning Using Deep Learning (2020)
Conference Proceeding
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/10.1007/978-3-030-39431-8_8

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)
Conference Proceeding
Ahmed, R., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Raza, A., Zhang, R., Huang, K., …Hussain, A. (2020). Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Deep Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 10th International Conference, BICS 2019, Guangzhou, China, July 13–14, 2019, Proceedings (457-468). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39431-8_44

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.

Generalized Adversarial Training in Riemannian Space (2020)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
Gogate, M., Hussain, A., & Huang, K. (2020). Random Features and Random Neurons for Brain-Inspired Big Data Analytics. In 2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW). https://doi.org/10.1109/icdmw.2019.00080

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.

Adaptation of sentiment analysis techniques to Persian language (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dashtipour, K., Hussain, A., & Gelbukh, A. (2018). Adaptation of sentiment analysis techniques to Persian language. In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (129-140). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77116-8_10

In the recent years, people all around the world share their opinions about different fields with each other over Internet. Sentiment analysis techniques have been introduced to classify these rich data based on the polarity of the opinion. Sentiment... Read More about Adaptation of sentiment analysis techniques to Persian language.

Benchmarking multimodal sentiment analysis (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Cambria, E., Hazarika, D., Poria, S., Hussain, A., & Subramanyam, R. (2018). Benchmarking multimodal sentiment analysis. In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (166-179). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77116-8_13

We propose a deep-learning-based framework for multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. In particular, we leverage on the power of convolutional neural networks to obtain a performance improvement of 10% over the state of the art by com... Read More about Benchmarking multimodal sentiment analysis.

A Novel Semi-supervised Classification Method Based on Class Certainty of Samples (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Gao, F., Yue, Z., Xiong, Q., Wang, J., Yang, E., & Hussain, A. (2018). A Novel Semi-supervised Classification Method Based on Class Certainty of Samples. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_30

The traditional classification method based on supervised learning classifies remote sensing (RS) images by using sufficient labelled samples. However, the number of labelled samples is limited due to the expensive and time-consuming collection. To e... Read More about A Novel Semi-supervised Classification Method Based on Class Certainty of Samples.

Style Neutralization Generative Adversarial Classifier (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, H., Huang, K., Zhang, R., & Hussain, A. (2018). Style Neutralization Generative Adversarial Classifier. In BICS: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (3-13). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_1

Breathtaking improvement has been seen with the recently proposed deep Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Purposes of most existing GAN-based models majorly concentrate on generating realistic and vivid patterns by a pattern generator with the aid... Read More about Style Neutralization Generative Adversarial Classifier.

Statistical Analysis Driven Optimized Deep Learning System for Intrusion Detection (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ieracitano, C., Adeel, A., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Morabito, F., Larijani, H., …Hussain, A. (2018). Statistical Analysis Driven Optimized Deep Learning System for Intrusion Detection. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_74

Attackers have developed ever more sophisticated and intelligent ways to hack information and communication technology (ICT) systems. The extent of damage an individual hacker can carry out upon infiltrating a system is well understood. A potentially... Read More about Statistical Analysis Driven Optimized Deep Learning System for Intrusion Detection.

SentiALG: Automated Corpus Annotation for Algerian Sentiment Analysis (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Guellil, I., Adeel, A., Azouaou, F., & Hussain, A. (2018). SentiALG: Automated Corpus Annotation for Algerian Sentiment Analysis. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_54

Data annotation is an important but time-consuming and costly procedure. To sort a text into two classes, the very first thing we need is a good annotation guideline, establishing what is required to qualify for each class. In the literature, the dif... Read More about SentiALG: Automated Corpus Annotation for Algerian Sentiment Analysis.

Exploiting Deep Learning for Persian Sentiment Analysis (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Adeel, A., Ieracitano, C., Larijani, H., & Hussain, A. (2018). Exploiting Deep Learning for Persian Sentiment Analysis. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (597-604). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_58

The rise of social media is enabling people to freely express their opinions about products and services. The aim of sentiment analysis is to automatically determine subject’s sentiment (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral) towards a particular aspe... Read More about Exploiting Deep Learning for Persian Sentiment Analysis.

Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Approaches Using Modern Arabic and Sudanese Dialect (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Hussien, I., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2018). Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Approaches Using Modern Arabic and Sudanese Dialect. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (615-624). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_60

Sentiment analysis mainly focused on the automatic recognition of opinions’ polarity, as positive or negative. Nowadays, sentiment analysis is replacing the web-based and traditional survey methods commonly conducted by companies for finding the publ... Read More about Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Approaches Using Modern Arabic and Sudanese Dialect.

Saliency Detection via Bidirectional Absorbing Markov Chain (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, F., Kong, B., Adeel, A., Xiao, Y., & Hussain, A. (2018). Saliency Detection via Bidirectional Absorbing Markov Chain. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_48

Traditional saliency detection via Markov chain only consider boundaries nodes. However, in addition to boundaries cues, background prior and foreground prior cues play a complementary role to enhance saliency detection. In this paper, we propose an... Read More about Saliency Detection via Bidirectional Absorbing Markov Chain.