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Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Favre, B., Cheung, K., Kazemian, S., Lee, A., Liu, Y., Munteanu, C., Nenkova, A., Ochei, D., Penn, G., Tratz, S., Voss, C., & Zeller, F. (2013, August). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. Presented at Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France

We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial... Read More about Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?.

Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, B., Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013). Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (OS12A-06)

One of the concerns of employing CCS at engineering scale is the risk of leakage of storage CO2 on the environment and especially on the marine life. QICS, a scientific research project was launched with an aim to study the effects of a potential lea... Read More about Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment.

Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baig, H., Sellami, N., Bahaidarah, H., & Mallick, T. (2013, September). Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia. Presented at 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Paris, France

Saudi Arabia receives an average insolation of 6 kWh/m2/day, making it one of the most likely candidates for a country to be using solar energy for meeting its energy needs in the near future. The energy from the sun can be directly converted into el... Read More about Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia.

Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, S., Li, R., & Hillenbrand, D. (2013, August). Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform. Presented at 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), Beijing, China

Designing nanoplasmonic devices presents a number of unique challenges. The time domain modelling and simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave interaction with nanoplasmonic devices, at high spatial and time resolution, requires high computational pow... Read More about Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. Presented at 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12), Stockholm, Sweden

Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insufficiently holistic approach to the assessment of the sustainable performance of... Read More about Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance.

The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013, October). The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems. Presented at International Conference on Adaptation and Movement (ICAM), Toronto

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Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013). Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context. In Proceedings of IPGRC 2013: International post graduate research conference (1106-1113)

Thermal comfort is a complicatedsubjectand is thus hard to quantify generally and specificallyandthe existing quantification methods are unlikely to be reliable for naturally ventilated houses. The challenge for designers is to produce a com... Read More about Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context.

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. In 2013 8th IEEE Design and Test Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/idt.2013.6727088

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.

Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, M., & Hussain, A. (2013, November). Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation. Presented at 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, Mexico City, Mexico

Rapid development in highly parallel neurophysiological recording techniques along with sophisticated signal processing tools allow direct communication with neuronal processes at different levels. One important level from the point of view of Rehabi... Read More about Towards reduced EEG based brain-computer interfacing for mobile robot navigation.

Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poria, S., Gelbukh, A., Hussain, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., & Howard, N. (2013, June). Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach. Presented at MCPR 2013: 5th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, Querétaro, Mexico

Music genres can be seen as categorical descriptions used to classify music basing on various characteristics such as instrumentation, pitch, rhythmic structure, and harmonic contents. Automatic music genre classification is important for music retri... Read More about Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach.

Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface (2013)
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Liu, D., Alippi, C., Zhao, D., & Hussain, A. (2013). Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2013, held in Beijing, China in June 2013. The 45 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68... Read More about Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: Preface.

Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zakir, U., Hussain, A., Ali, L., & Luo, B. (2013, June). Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

This paper describes an efficient approach towards road sign detection, and recognition. The proposed system is divided into three sections namely: Road Sign Detection where Colour Segmentation of the road traffic signs is carried out using HSV colou... Read More about Improved efficiency of road sign detection and recognition by employing Kalman filter.

Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Yang, P., Hussain, A., Huang, K., MacRae, C., Eckl, C., & Slack, W. (2013, April). Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data. Presented at 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), Singapore, Singapore

Clinical decision making frequently involves making decisions under uncertainty because of missing key patient data (e.g, demographics, episodic and clinical diagnosis details) - this information is essential for modern clinical decision support syst... Read More about Efficient clinical decision making by learning from missing clinical data.

Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Krishnan, R., Hussain, A., & Sherimon, S. P. C. (2013, June). Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation. Presented at BICS 2013: International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

In Information retrieval, Keyword based retrieval is unsatisfactory for user needs since it can’t always retrieve relevant words according to the concept. Since different words can represent the same concept (polysemy) and one word can represent diff... Read More about Conceptual clustering of documents for automatic ontology generation.

Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, A. (2013). Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions. In The 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2013.6706716

Cognitive computation is an emerging discipline linking together neurobiology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. Springer Neuroscience has launched a journal in this exciting multidisciplinary topic, which seeks to publish biologicall... Read More about Cognitive computation: A case study in cognitive control of autonomous systems and some future directions.

A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Minhas, S., Poria, S., Hussain, A., & Hussainey, K. (2013, June). A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

Indisputably, financial reporting has a key role to play in the efficient workings of capitalist economies. Problems related to agency and asymmetric information (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) would abound and cripple financial markets, as it has done w... Read More about A review of artificial intelligence and biologically inspired computational approaches to solving issues in narrative financial disclosure.

A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farooq, K., Hussain, A., Atassi, H., Leslie, S., Eckl, C., MacRae, C., & Slack, W. (2013, June). A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

Rapid access chest pain clinics (RACPC) enable clinical risk assessment, investigation and arrangement of a treatment plan for chest pain patients without a long waiting list. RACPC Clinicians often experience difficulties in the diagnosis of chest p... Read More about A novel clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment.

A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, E., Hussain, A., & Gurney, K. (2013, June). A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle. Presented at BICS 2013: 6th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China

This paper presents a new brain-inspired, switching control approach for a car-like autonomous vehicle using a basal ganglia (BG) model as an action selection mechanism. The problem domain has challenging nonholonomic and state constraints which impl... Read More about A basal ganglia inspired soft switching approach to the motion control of a car-like autonomous vehicle.