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Comparison Of Common Mathematical Techniques Used In The Calculation Of File Entropy (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, S. R., & Macfarlane, R. (2022, November). Comparison Of Common Mathematical Techniques Used In The Calculation Of File Entropy. Presented at 2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCM

The research described in this paper focuses on the use of mathematical techniques to identify high entropy encrypted files generated during the execution of ransomware. A common approach used by many ransomware detection techniques is to monitor fil... Read More about Comparison Of Common Mathematical Techniques Used In The Calculation Of File Entropy.

Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices (2022)
Journal Article
Althuwayb, A. A., Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Rashid, N., Kaaniche, K., Ben Atitallah, A., … Falcone, F. (2022). Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Dev

This article presents a sub-6GHz ISM-band flexible wearable MIMO antenna array for wireless body area networks (WBANs) and biomedical telemetry devices. The array is based on metasurface inspired technology. The antenna array consists of 2×2 matrix o... Read More about Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices.

High performance aluminum-air battery for sustainable power generation (2022)
Journal Article
Tan, W. C., Saw, L. H., Yew, M. C., Sun, D., & Chen, W. (2023). High performance aluminum-air battery for sustainable power generation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48(28), 10438-10451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.11.247

Metal-air battery is receiving vast attention due to its promising capabilities as an energy storage system for the post lithium-ion era. The electricity is generated through oxidation and reduction reaction within the anode and cathode. Among variou... Read More about High performance aluminum-air battery for sustainable power generation.

Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Khaleel, S. A., Hamad, E. K. I., Parchin, N. O., & Saleh, M. B. (2022). Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications. Electronics, 12(1), Article 16

The approaching sixth-generation (6G) communication network will modernize applications and satisfy user demands through implementing a smart and reconfigurable system with a higher data rate and wider bandwidth. The controllable THz waves are highly... Read More about Programmable Beam-Steering Capabilities Based on Graphene Plasmonic THz MIMO Antenna via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for IoT Applications.

Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horváth, T., Mantovani, R. G., & de Carvalho, A. C. Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features

Meta-learning, a concept from the area of automated machine learning, aims at providing decision support for data scientists by recommending a suitable setting (a machine learning algorithm or its hyper-parameters) to be used for a given dataset. Suc... Read More about Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features.

Diverse features discovery transformer for pedestrian attribute recognition (2022)
Journal Article
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.

An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development (2022)
Journal Article
Valsalakumar, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., Hinshelwood, J., & Sundaram, S. (2022). An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development. Energies, 16(1), Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010190

The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have seen significant performance improvements between 2012 and 2022. PSCs have excellent optoelectronic properties and can be built using low-cost materials. In order to compe... Read More about An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development.

Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions (2022)
Journal Article
Hasselgren, B., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions. Future Internet, 15(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15010005

Making investment decisions by utilizing sentiment data from social media (SM) is starting to become a more tangible concept. There has been a broad investigation into this field of study over the last decade, and many of the findings have promising... Read More about Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions.

Drivers For Building Retrofitting Practice: A Systematic Review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ejidike, C. C., Mewomo, M. C., Agbajor, F. D., & Olawumi, T. O. (2022, October). Drivers For Building Retrofitting Practice: A Systematic Review. Presented at 8th International Conference on Development and Investment in Infrastructure (DII-2022), Johanne

Retrofitting an existing building offers a significant opportunity to improve its performance to solve the problems associated with energy consumption, occupant thermal discomfort, and cost of operation in the building, It is essential to understand... Read More about Drivers For Building Retrofitting Practice: A Systematic Review.

Empirical Investigation of Discipline-Specific Skills Required for the Employability of Built Environment Graduates (2022)
Journal Article
Aliu, J., Aghimien, D., Aigbavboa, C., Oke, A., Ebekozien, A., & Temidayo, O. (2023). Empirical Investigation of Discipline-Specific Skills Required for the Employability of Built Environment Graduates. International Journal of Construction Education and

As the world continues to experience significant and dynamic changes, the concept of graduate employability remains a well-discussed subject in the body of knowledge. Consequently, the concept has attracted the interest of educators, policymakers, re... Read More about Empirical Investigation of Discipline-Specific Skills Required for the Employability of Built Environment Graduates.

An experimental investigation and machine learning-based prediction for seismic performance of steel tubular column filled with recycled aggregate concrete (2022)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, D., Zhang, H., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., …Wang, X. (2022). An experimental investigation and machine learning-based prediction for seismic performance of steel tubular column filled with recycled aggregate concrete. Reviews on Advanced

This paper presents the design and application of a low-cycle reciprocating loading test on 23 recycled aggregate concrete-filled steel tube columns (RACSTC) and 3 ordinary concrete-filled steel tube columns (OCSTC). Additionally, a systematic study... Read More about An experimental investigation and machine learning-based prediction for seismic performance of steel tubular column filled with recycled aggregate concrete.

A Novel Frame Structure for Cloud-Based Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in Multimodal Hearing-aids (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishnu, A., Gupta, A., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Adeel, A., Hussain, A., Sellathurai, M., & Ratnarajah, T. (2022, October). A Novel Frame Structure for Cloud-Based Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in Multimodal Hearing-aids. Presented at 2022 IEEE Intern

In this paper, we design a first of its kind transceiver (PHY layer) prototype for cloud-based audio-visual (AV) speech enhancement (SE) complying with high data rate and low latency requirements of future multimodal hearing assistive technology. The... Read More about A Novel Frame Structure for Cloud-Based Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement in Multimodal Hearing-aids.

Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems (2022)
Journal Article
Kumaresan, T., Palaniswamy, K., Fly, A., & Sundaram, S. (2022). Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems. AIP advances, 12(12), Article 125316. https://doi.org/1

In this research, the performance studies of a single cell Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with three different mass compositions (20%, 40%, and 60%) of platinum at anode infused in NiTiO3/C and multiple cathode flow fields, such as serpentine, parallel, a... Read More about Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems.

Multimodal salient object detection via adversarial learning with collaborative generator (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Computer Vision Based Kidney’s (HK-2) Damaged Cells Classification with Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator (FPGA) (2022)
Journal Article
Ghani, A., Hodeify, . R., See, C. H., Keates, S., Lee, D., & Bouridane, A. (2022). Computer Vision Based Kidney’s (HK-2) Damaged Cells Classification with Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator (FPGA). Electronics, 11(24), Article 4234. https://doi.org/10.

In medical and health sciences, detection of cell injury plays an important role in diagnosis, personal treatment and disease prevention. Despite recent advancements in tools and methods for image classification, it is challenging to classify cell im... Read More about Computer Vision Based Kidney’s (HK-2) Damaged Cells Classification with Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator (FPGA).

Review on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Sensor Node Localization in Wireless Networks: Soft Computing Approaches (2022)
Journal Article
Annepu, V., Sona, D. R., Ravikumar, C., Bagadi, K., Alibakhshikenari, M., Althuwayb, A. A., Alali, B., Virdee, B. S., Pau, G., Dayoub, I., See, C. H., & Falcone, F. (2022). Review on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Sensor Node Localization in Wireless Ne

Node positioning or localization is a critical requisite for numerous position-based applications of wireless sensor network (WSN). Localization using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is preferred over localization using fixed terrestrial anchor no... Read More about Review on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Sensor Node Localization in Wireless Networks: Soft Computing Approaches.

ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fan, K., Liu, Y., Zhang, K., Bian, G., & Yu, H. (2022). ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots. In Artificial Intelligence: Second CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2022, Beijing, China, August 27–28, 2022, Revised

When collaborative robots perform multiple tracking tasks at the same time, the dynamics of each task will interact with each other. In addition, the uncertainty of robot model and external perturbation also limit the performance of the system. In or... Read More about ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots.

What Can Grading Entropy Tell Us About Soil Fabric? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leak, J., Barreto, D., & Dimitriadi, V. (2022, December). What Can Grading Entropy Tell Us About Soil Fabric?. Paper presented at 19th Annual Geomechanics Form Micro to Macro Conference, London

These slides were presented at the 19th annual geomechanics form micro to macro conference at Imperial College London in 2022. They detail an investigation into characterising soil fabric effects using the normalised entropy coordinates proposed by L... Read More about What Can Grading Entropy Tell Us About Soil Fabric?.

An Efficient Localization and Avoidance Method of Jammers in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (2022)
Journal Article
Almomani, I., Ahmed, M., Kosmanos, D., Alkhayer, A., & Maglaras, L. (2022). An Efficient Localization and Avoidance Method of Jammers in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Access, 10, 131640-131655. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3229623

Jamming is a terrifying attack that could harm 802.11p-based vehicular communications by occupying the communication channels by overwhelming the network with jamming packets, especially for self-driving cars, as it is essential to send/receive messa... Read More about An Efficient Localization and Avoidance Method of Jammers in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.

6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges (2022)
Journal Article
Anoh, K., See, C. H., Dama, Y., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Keates, S. (2022). 6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges. Future Internet, 14(12), Article 379. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi14120379

As the technical specifications of the 5th Generation (5G) wireless communication standard are being wrapped up, there are growing efforts amongst researchers, industrialists and standardisation bodies on the enabling technologies of a 6G standard or... Read More about 6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges.