Prof Amir Hussain's Outputs (344)

A Novel Multi-Input Bidirectional LSTM and HMM Based Approach for Target Recognition from Multi-Domain Radar Range Profiles (2019)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Huang, T., Wang, J., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2019). A Novel Multi-Input Bidirectional LSTM and HMM Based Approach for Target Recognition from Multi-Domain Radar Range Profiles. Electronics, 8(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8050535

Radars, as active detection sensors, are known to play an important role in various intelligent devices. Target recognition based on high-resolution range profile (HRRP) is an important approach for radars to monitor interesting targets. Traditional... Read More about A Novel Multi-Input Bidirectional LSTM and HMM Based Approach for Target Recognition from Multi-Domain Radar Range Profiles.

Speech Enhancement Based on Adaptive Noise Cancellation and Particle Swarm Optimization (2019)
Journal Article
Taha, T. M., Wajid, S. K., & Hussain, A. (2019). Speech Enhancement Based on Adaptive Noise Cancellation and Particle Swarm Optimization. Journal of Computer Science, 15(5), 691-701. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2019.691.701

Speech enhancement is used in almost all modern communication systems. This is due to the quality of speech being degraded by environmental interference factors, such as: Acoustic additive noise, acoustic reverberation or white Gaussian noise. This p... Read More about Speech Enhancement Based on Adaptive Noise Cancellation and Particle Swarm Optimization.

A novel visual attention method for target detection from SAR images (2019)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Liu, A., Liu, K., Yang, E., & Hussain, A. (2019). A novel visual attention method for target detection from SAR images. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 32(8), 1946-1958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cja.2019.03.021

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems have been widely used in civil and military fields due to their all-weather and all-day abilities and various other advantages. However, due to image data exponentially increasing, there is a need for no... Read More about A novel visual attention method for target detection from SAR images.

Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey (2019)
Journal Article
Azmi, A. M., Al-Qabbany, A. O., & Hussain, A. (2019). Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 52(2), 1369-1414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09692-w

Hadith is one of the most celebrated resources of Classical Arabic text. The hadiths, or Prophetic traditions (tradition for short), are narrations originating from the sayings and conduct of Prophet Muhammad. For Muslims, hadiths are the second most... Read More about Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey.

Bi-level multi-objective evolution of a Multi-Layered Echo-State Network Autoencoder for data representations (2019)
Journal Article
Chouikhi, N., Ammar, B., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2019). Bi-level multi-objective evolution of a Multi-Layered Echo-State Network Autoencoder for data representations. Neurocomputing, 341, 195-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.03.012

The Multi-Layered Echo-State Network (ML-ESN) is a recently developed, highly powerful type of recurrent neural network. It has succeeded in dealing with several non-linear benchmark problems. On account of its rich dynamics, ML-ESN is exploited in t... Read More about Bi-level multi-objective evolution of a Multi-Layered Echo-State Network Autoencoder for data representations.

Weakly Supervised Segmentation of SAR Imagery Using Superpixel and Hierarchically Adversarial CRF (2019)
Journal Article
Ma, F., Gao, F., Sun, J., Zhou, H., & Hussain, A. (2019). Weakly Supervised Segmentation of SAR Imagery Using Superpixel and Hierarchically Adversarial CRF. Remote Sensing, 11(5), Article 512. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11050512

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image segmentation aims at generating homogeneous regions from a pixel-based image and is the basis of image interpretation. However, most of the existing segmentation methods usually neglect the appearance and spatial... Read More about Weakly Supervised Segmentation of SAR Imagery Using Superpixel and Hierarchically Adversarial CRF.

A Novel Two-Stage Deep Learning Model for Efficient Network Intrusion Detection (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, F. A., Gumaei, A., Derhab, A., & Hussain, A. (2019). A Novel Two-Stage Deep Learning Model for Efficient Network Intrusion Detection. IEEE Access, 7, 30373-30385. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2899721

The network intrusion detection system is an important tool for protecting computer networks against threats and malicious attacks. Many techniques have recently been proposed; however, these techniques face significant challenges due to the continuo... Read More about A Novel Two-Stage Deep Learning Model for Efficient Network Intrusion Detection.

Cognitively inspired feature extraction and speech recognition for automated hearing loss testing (2019)
Journal Article
Nisar, S., Tariq, M., Adeel, A., Gogate, M., & Hussain, A. (2019). Cognitively inspired feature extraction and speech recognition for automated hearing loss testing. Cognitive Computation, 11(4), 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-018-9607-4

Hearing loss, a partial or total inability to hear, is one of the most commonly reported disabilities. A hearing test can be carried out by an audiologist to assess a patient’s auditory system. However, the procedure requires an appointment, which ca... Read More about Cognitively inspired feature extraction and speech recognition for automated hearing loss testing.

A Novel Multi-Stage Fusion based Approach for Gene Expression Profiling in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (2019)
Journal Article
Wael Farouq, M., Boulila, W., Abdel-aal, M., Hussain, A., & Salem, A.-B. (2019). A Novel Multi-Stage Fusion based Approach for Gene Expression Profiling in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. IEEE Access, 7, 37141-37150. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2898897

Background: Non-small cell lung cancer is defined at the molecular level by mutations and alterations to oncogenes, including AKT1, ALK, BRAF, EGFR, HER2, KRAS, MEK1, MET, NRAS, PIK3CA, RET, and ROS1. A better understanding of non-small cell lung can... Read More about A Novel Multi-Stage Fusion based Approach for Gene Expression Profiling in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

A novel deep learning driven, low-cost mobility prediction approach for 5G cellular networks: The case of the Control/Data Separation Architecture (CDSA) (2019)
Journal Article
Ozturk, M., Gogate, M., Onireti, O., Adeel, A., Hussain, A., & Imran, M. A. (2019). A novel deep learning driven, low-cost mobility prediction approach for 5G cellular networks: The case of the Control/Data Separation Architecture (CDSA). Neurocomputing, 358, 479-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.01.031

One of the fundamental goals of mobile networks is to enable uninterrupted access to wireless services without compromising the expected quality of service (QoS). This paper reports a number of significant contributions. First, a novel analytical mod... Read More about A novel deep learning driven, low-cost mobility prediction approach for 5G cellular networks: The case of the Control/Data Separation Architecture (CDSA).

Complex-Valued Neural Networks With Nonparametric Activation Functions (2018)
Journal Article
Scardapane, S., Van Vaerenbergh, S., Hussain, A., & Uncini, A. (2020). Complex-Valued Neural Networks With Nonparametric Activation Functions. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 4(2), 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1109/tetci.2018.2872600

Complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs) are a powerful modeling tool for domains where data can be naturally interpreted in terms of complex numbers. However, several analytical properties of the complex domain (such as holomorphicity) make the design... Read More about Complex-Valued Neural Networks With Nonparametric Activation Functions.

A Convolutional Neural Network approach for classification of dementia stages based on 2D-spectral representation of EEG recordings (2018)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Mammone, N., Bramanti, A., Hussain, A., & Morabito, F. (2019). A Convolutional Neural Network approach for classification of dementia stages based on 2D-spectral representation of EEG recordings. Neurocomputing, 323, 96-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2018.09.071

A data-driven machine deep learning approach is proposed for differentiating subjects with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Healthy Control (HC), by only analyzing noninvasive scalp EEG recordings. The methodology here pr... Read More about A Convolutional Neural Network approach for classification of dementia stages based on 2D-spectral representation of EEG recordings.

A Semi-supervised Corpus Annotation for Saudi Sentiment Analysis Using Twitter (2018)
Journal Article
Alqarafi, A., Adeel, A., Hawalah, A., Swingler, K., & Hussain, A. (2018). A Semi-supervised Corpus Annotation for Saudi Sentiment Analysis Using Twitter. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 589-596. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_57

In the literature, limited work has been conducted to develop sentiment resources for Saudi dialect. The lack of resources such as dialectical lexicons and corpora are some of the major bottlenecks to the successful development of Arabic sentiment an... Read More about A Semi-supervised Corpus Annotation for Saudi Sentiment Analysis Using Twitter.

Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Zhang, S., Yang, X., Qiao, H., Huang, K., & Hussain, A. (2019). Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection. Information Fusion, 50, 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.015

Multispectral pedestrian detection is an emerging solution with great promise in many around-the-clock applications, such as automotive driving and security surveillance. To exploit the complementary nature and remedy contradictory appearance between... Read More about Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection.

Accelerating Infinite Ensemble of Clustering by Pivot Features (2018)
Journal Article
Jin, X.-B., Xie, G.-S., Huang, K., & Hussain, A. (2018). Accelerating Infinite Ensemble of Clustering by Pivot Features. Cognitive Computation, 10(6), 1042-1050. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-018-9583-8

The infinite ensemble clustering (IEC) incorporates both ensemble clustering and representation learning by fusing infinite basic partitions and shows appealing performance in the unsupervised context. However, it needs to solve the linear equation s... Read More about Accelerating Infinite Ensemble of Clustering by Pivot Features.

Towards workload-aware cloud resource provisioning using a multi-controller fuzzy switching approach (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Li, J., & Hussain, A. (2018). Towards workload-aware cloud resource provisioning using a multi-controller fuzzy switching approach. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 12(1), 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2018.093838

Elasticity enables cloud customers to enrich their applications to dynamically adjust underlying cloud resources. Over the past, a plethora of techniques have been introduced to implement elasticity. Control theory is one such technique that offers a... Read More about Towards workload-aware cloud resource provisioning using a multi-controller fuzzy switching approach.

A comparison of two methods of using a serious game for teaching marine ecology in a university setting (2018)
Journal Article
Ameerbakhsh, O., Maharaj, S., Hussain, A., & McAdam, B. (2019). A comparison of two methods of using a serious game for teaching marine ecology in a university setting. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 127, 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.07.004

There is increasing interest in the use of serious games in STEM education. Interactive simulations and serious games can be used by students to explore systems where it would be impractical or unethical to perform real world studies or experiments.... Read More about A comparison of two methods of using a serious game for teaching marine ecology in a university setting.

A New Algorithm of SAR Image Target Recognition Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2018)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Huang, T., Sun, J., Wang, J., Hussain, A., & Yang, E. (2018). A New Algorithm of SAR Image Target Recognition Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Cognitive Computation, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-018-9563-z

In an attempt to exploit the automatic feature extraction ability of biologically-inspired deep learning models, and enhance the learning of target features, we propose a novel deep learning algorithm. This is based on a deep convolutional neural net... Read More about A New Algorithm of SAR Image Target Recognition Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

Clinical Decision Support Systems: A Visual Survey (2018)
Journal Article
Farooq, K., Khan, B. S., Niazi, M. A., Leslie, S. J., & Hussain, A. (2018). Clinical Decision Support Systems: A Visual Survey. Informatica, 42(4), 485-505. https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v42i4.1571

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) form an important area of research. In spite of its importance, it is difficult for researchers to evaluate the domain primarily because of a considerable spread of relevant literature in interdisciplinary dom... Read More about Clinical Decision Support Systems: A Visual Survey.

Relation Extraction of Medical Concepts Using Categorization and Sentiment Analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Mondal, A., Cambria, E., Das, D., Hussain, A., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2018). Relation Extraction of Medical Concepts Using Categorization and Sentiment Analysis. Cognitive Computation, 10(4), 670-685. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-018-9567-8

In healthcare services, information extraction is the key to understand any corpus-based knowledge. The process becomes laborious when the annotation is done manually for the availability of a large number of text corpora. Hence, future automated ext... Read More about Relation Extraction of Medical Concepts Using Categorization and Sentiment Analysis.