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Towards intelligibility-oriented audio-visual speech enhancement (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hussain, T., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2021, September). Towards intelligibility-oriented audio-visual speech enhancement. Presented at The Clarity Workshop on Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2021), Online

Existing deep learning (DL) based approaches are generally optimised to minimise the distance between clean and enhanced speech features. These often result in improved speech quality however they suffer from a lack of generalisation and may not deli... Read More about Towards intelligibility-oriented audio-visual speech enhancement.

An Attribute Weight Estimation Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches for Customer Churn Prediction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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

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.

An Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques (2021)
Journal Article
Kaur, I., Doja, M. N., Ahmad, T., Ahmad, M., Hussain, A., Nadeem, A., & Abd El-Latif, A. A. (2021). An Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2021, Article 6342226. h

Ovarian cancer is the third most common gynecologic cancers worldwide. Advanced ovarian cancer patients bear a significant mortality rate. Survival estimation is essential for clinicians and patients to understand better and tolerate future outcomes.... Read More about An Integrated Approach for Cancer Survival Prediction Using Data Mining Techniques.

A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls (2021)
Journal Article
Varone, G., Boulila, W., Lo Giudice, M., Benjdira, B., Mammone, N., Ieracitano, C., …Aguglia, U. (2022). A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls

Until now, clinicians are not able to evaluate the Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) from the rest-electroencephalography (EEG) readout. No EEG marker can help differentiate PNES cases from healthy subjects. In this paper, we have investigate... Read More about A Machine Learning Approach Involving Functional Connectivity Features to Classify Rest-EEG Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures from Healthy Controls.

FairDrop: Biased Edge Dropout for Enhancing Fairness in Graph Representation Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Spinelli, I., Scardapane, S., Hussain, A., & Uncini, A. (2022). FairDrop: Biased Edge Dropout for Enhancing Fairness in Graph Representation Learning. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3(3), 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2021.3133818

Graph representation learning has become a ubiquitous component in many scenarios, ranging from social network analysis to energy forecasting in smart grids. In several applications, ensuring the fairness of the node (or graph) representations with r... Read More about FairDrop: Biased Edge Dropout for Enhancing Fairness in Graph Representation Learning.

Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification (2021)
Journal Article
Li, H., Lin, X., Zheng, A., Li, C., Luo, B., He, R., & Hussain, A. (2022). Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 6(5), 1211-1221. https://doi.org/10.1109/tetci

Vehicle Re-ID has recently attracted enthusiastic attention due to its potential applications in smart city and urban surveillance. However, it suffers from large intra-class variation caused by view variations and illumination changes, and inter-cla... Read More about Attributes Guided Feature Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification.

Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Gelbukh, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-021-00840-1

Nowadays, it is important for buyers to know other customer opinions to make informed decisions on buying a product or service. In addition, companies and organizations can exploit customer opinions to improve their products and services. However, th... Read More about Extending persian sentiment lexicon with idiomatic expressions for sentiment analysis.

A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds (2021)
Journal Article
Fatima, M., Nisar, M. W., Rashid, J., Kim, J., Kamran, M., & Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds. Sensors, 21(22), Article 7647. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21227647

With the emerging growth of digital data in information systems, technology faces the challenge of knowledge prevention, ownership rights protection, security, and privacy measurement of valuable and sensitive data. On-demand availability of various... Read More about A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds.

A novel multimodal fusion network based on a joint-coding model for lane line segmentation (2021)
Journal Article
Zou, Z., Zhang, X., Liu, H., Li, Z., Hussain, A., & Li, J. (2022). A novel multimodal fusion network based on a joint-coding model for lane line segmentation. Information Fusion, 80, 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.10.008

There has recently been growing interest in utilizing multimodal sensors to achieve robust lane line segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a novel multimodal fusion architecture from an information theory perspective, and demonstrate its practica... Read More about A novel multimodal fusion network based on a joint-coding model for lane line segmentation.

Multi-lingual character handwriting framework based on an integrated deep learning based sequence-to-sequence attention model (2021)
Journal Article
Rabhi, B., Elbaati, A., Boubaker, H., Hamdi, Y., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2021). Multi-lingual character handwriting framework based on an integrated deep learning based sequence-to-sequence attention model. Memetic Computing, 13, Article 459-475. htt

Online signals are rich in dynamic features such as trajectory chronology, velocity, pressure and pen up/down movements. Their offline counterparts consist of a set of pixels. Thus, online handwriting recognition accuracy is generally better than off... Read More about Multi-lingual character handwriting framework based on an integrated deep learning based sequence-to-sequence attention model.

A novel few-shot learning method for synthetic aperture radar image recognition (2021)
Journal Article
Yue, Z., Gao, F., Xiong, Q., Sun, J., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2021). A novel few-shot learning method for synthetic aperture radar image recognition. Neurocomputing, 465, 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.09.009

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image recognition is an important stage of SAR image interpretation. The standard convolutional neural network (CNN) has been successfully applied in the SAR image recognition due to its powerful feature extraction capa... Read More about A novel few-shot learning method for synthetic aperture radar image recognition.

Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps (2021)
Journal Article
Li, J., Jiang, F., Yang, J., Kong, B., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2021). Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps. Neurocomputing, 465, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08

Accurate high-definition maps with lane markings are often used as the navigation back-end for commercial autonomous vehicles. Currently, most high-definition maps are manually constructed by human labelling. Therefore, it is urgently required to pro... Read More about Lane-DeepLab: Lane semantic segmentation in automatic driving scenarios for high-definition maps.

Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality for improving knowledge and skills in medical students: protocol for a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Ng, D. M., Alnafisee, N., Sheikh, Z., Ng, N., Khan, A., …Sheikh, A. (2021). Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality for improving knowledge and skills in medical students: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 11(8), Article e0

Introduction Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies are increasingly being used in undergraduate medical education. We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of VR and AR technologies for improving knowledge and skills in medical stu... Read More about Effectiveness of virtual and augmented reality for improving knowledge and skills in medical students: protocol for a systematic review.

Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection (2021)
Journal Article
Cui, C., Lu, L., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2021). Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection. Neurocomputing, 464, 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.026

Segmentation-based methods are widely used for scene text detection due to their superiority in describing arbitrary-shaped text instances. However, two major problems still exist: (1) current label generation techniques are mostly empirical and lack... Read More about Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection.

A Hybrid-Domain Deep Learni/ng-Based BCI For Discriminating Hand Motion Planning From EEG Sources (2021)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Morabito, F. C., Hussain, A., & Mammone, N. (2021). A Hybrid-Domain Deep Learni/ng-Based BCI For Discriminating Hand Motion Planning From EEG Sources. International Journal of Neural Systems, 31(9), Article 2150038. https://doi.org/10.1142

In this paper, a hybrid-domain deep learning (DL)-based neural system is proposed to decode hand movement preparation phases from electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. The system exploits information extracted from the temporal-domain and time-fr... Read More about A Hybrid-Domain Deep Learni/ng-Based BCI For Discriminating Hand Motion Planning From EEG Sources.

Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease from Retinal Images Using a Deep Learning Based CenterNet Model (2021)
Journal Article
Nazir, T., Nawaz, M., Rashid, J., Mahum, R., Masood, M., Mehmood, A., …Hussain, A. (2021). Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease from Retinal Images Using a Deep Learning Based CenterNet Model. Sensors, 21(16), Article 5283. https://doi.org/10.3390/s2116528

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an eye disease that alters the blood vessels of a person suffering from diabetes. Diabetic macular edema (DME) occurs when DR affects the macula, which causes fluid accumulation in the macula. Efficient screening systems... Read More about Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease from Retinal Images Using a Deep Learning Based CenterNet Model.

Leveraging label hierarchy using transfer and multi-task learning: A case study on patent classification (2021)
Journal Article
Aroyehun, S. T., Angel, J., Majumder, N., Gelbukh, A., & Hussain, A. (2021). Leveraging label hierarchy using transfer and multi-task learning: A case study on patent classification. Neurocomputing, 464, 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.07.0

When labels are organized into a meaningful taxonomy, the parent-child relationship between labels at different levels can give the classifier additional information not deducible from the data alone, especially with limited training data. As a case... Read More about Leveraging label hierarchy using transfer and multi-task learning: A case study on patent classification.

Cloud based scalable object recognition from video streams using orientation fusion and convolutional neural networks (2021)
Journal Article
Usman Yaseen, M., Anjum, A., Fortino, G., Liotta, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). Cloud based scalable object recognition from video streams using orientation fusion and convolutional neural networks. Pattern Recognition, 121, Article 108207. https://doi.org/10

Object recognition from live video streams comes with numerous challenges such as the variation in illumination conditions and poses. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used to perform intelligent visual object recognition. Yet, CN... Read More about Cloud based scalable object recognition from video streams using orientation fusion and convolutional neural networks.

A Novel Multi-Stage Residual Feature Fusion Network for Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images (2021)
Journal Article
Fang, Z., Ren, J., MacLellan, C., Li, H., Zhao, H., Hussain, A., & Fortino, G. (2022). A Novel Multi-Stage Residual Feature Fusion Network for Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communic

To suppress the spread of COVID-19, accurate diagnosis at an early stage is crucial, chest screening with radiography imaging plays an important role in addition to the real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab test. Due... Read More about A Novel Multi-Stage Residual Feature Fusion Network for Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images.

Arabic question answering system: a survey (2021)
Journal Article
Alwaneen, T. H., Azmi, A. M., Aboalsamh, H. A., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Arabic question answering system: a survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 55, 207-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10031-1

Question answering is a subfield of information retrieval. It is a task of answering a question posted in a natural language. A question answering system (QAS) may be considered a good alternative to search engines that return a set of related docume... Read More about Arabic question answering system: a survey.

Public perception of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G) on social media (2021)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, K., Taylor, W., Ansari, S., Gogate, M., Zahid, A., Sambo, Y., Hussain, A., Abbasi, Q. H., & Imran, M. A. (2021). Public perception of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G) on social media. Frontiers in Big Data, 4, Article 640868. htt

With the advancement of social media networks, there are lots of unlabeled reviews available online, therefore it is necessarily to develop automatic tools to classify these types of reviews. To utilize these reviews for user perception, there is a n... Read More about Public perception of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G) on social media.

Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Taylor, W., Dashtipour, K., Shah, S. A., Hussain, A., Abbasi, Q. H., & Imran, M. A. (2021). Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning. Sensors, 21(11), Article 3881. https://doi.

The health status of an elderly person can be identified by examining the additive effects of aging along with disease linked to it and can lead to ‘unstable incapacity’. This health status is determined by the apparent decline of independence in act... Read More about Radar Sensing for Activity Classification in Elderly People Exploiting Micro-Doppler Signatures Using Machine Learning.

Ten Years of Sentic Computing (2021)
Journal Article
Susanto, Y., Cambria, E., Ng, B. C., & Hussain, A. (2022). Ten Years of Sentic Computing. Cognitive Computation, 14, 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-021-09824-x

Sentic computing is a multi-disciplinary approach to sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing and commonsense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better recognize, interpret, and process opinions and... Read More about Ten Years of Sentic Computing.

Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Farooq, U., Rahim, M. S. M., Sabir, N., Hussain, A., & Abid, A. (2021). Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges. Neural Computing and Applications, 33, 14357-14399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-0607

Sign languages are used by the deaf community around the globe to communicate with one another. These are gesture-based languages where a deaf person performs gestures using hands and facial expressions. Every gesture represents a word or a phrase in... Read More about Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges.

Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Social Media Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Cresswell, K., Tahir, A., Sheikh, Z., Hussain, Z., Domínguez Hernández, A., Harrison, E., …Hussain, A. (2021). Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Social Media Analysis. Journal of Medic

Background: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 and its subsequent spread worldwide continues to be a global health crisis. Many governments consider contact tracing of citizens through apps installed on mobile phones as a key mechanism to conta... Read More about Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Social Media Analysis.

Sentiment analysis of persian movie reviews using deep learning (2021)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Adeel, A., Larijani, H., & Hussain, A. (2021). Sentiment analysis of persian movie reviews using deep learning. Entropy, 23(5), Article 596. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050596

Sentiment analysis aims to automatically classify the subject’s sentiment (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral) towards a particular aspect such as a topic, product, movie, news, etc. Deep learning has recently emerged as a powerful machine learning... Read More about Sentiment analysis of persian movie reviews using deep learning.

A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI images (2021)
Journal Article
Masood, M., Nazir, T., Nawaz, M., Mehmood, A., Rashid, J., Kwon, H., …Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI images. Diagnostics, 11(5), Article 744. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnosti

A brain tumor is an abnormal growth in brain cells that causes damage to various blood vessels and nerves in the human body. An earlier and accurate diagnosis of the brain tumor is of foremost important to avoid future complications. Precise segmenta... Read More about A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI images.

Improving generative adversarial networks with simple latent distributions (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, S., Huang, K., Qian, Z., Zhang, R., & Hussain, A. (2021). Improving generative adversarial networks with simple latent distributions. Neural Computing and Applications, 33, 13193-13203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05946-3

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn great attention recently since they are the powerful models to generate high-quality images. Although GANs have achieved great success, they usually suffer from unstable training and consequently may... Read More about Improving generative adversarial networks with simple latent distributions.

Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification (2021)
Journal Article
Zhong, X., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2022). Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification. Neural Computing and Applications, 34, 8373-8384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05949-0

Many researchers jointly model multiple linguistic tasks (e.g., joint modeling of named entity recognition and named entity classification and joint modeling of syntactic parsing and semantic parsing) with an implicit assumption that these individual... Read More about Does semantics aid syntax? An empirical study on named entity recognition and classification.

Artificial intelligence--enabled analysis of public attitudes on facebook and twitter toward covid-19 vaccines in the united kingdom and the united states: Observational study (2021)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Tahir, A., Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Ali, A., & Sheikh, A. (2021). Artificial intelligence--enabled analysis of public attitudes on facebook and twitter toward covid-19 vaccines in the united kingdom and the united

Background: Global efforts toward the development and deployment of a vaccine for COVID-19 are rapidly advancing. To achieve herd immunity, widespread administration of vaccines is required, which necessitates significant cooperation from the general... Read More about Artificial intelligence--enabled analysis of public attitudes on facebook and twitter toward covid-19 vaccines in the united kingdom and the united states: Observational study.

COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research (2021)
Data
Plant, R., Hussain, A., & Sheikh, A. (2021). COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2755974

We present a benchmark database of public social media postings from the United Kingdom related to the Covid-19 pandemic for academic research purposes, along with some initial analysis, including a taxonomy of key themes organised by keyword. This r... Read More about COVID-19 UK Social Media Dataset for Public Health Research.

A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking (2021)
Journal Article
Tu, Z., Zhou, A., Gan, C., Jiang, B., Hussain, A., & Luo, B. (2021). A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking. Neurocomputing, 449, 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.03.056

Conventional convolution neural network (CNN)-based visual trackers are easily influenced by too much background information in candidate samples. Further, extreme imbalance of foreground and background samples has a negative impact on training the c... Read More about A novel domain activation mapping-guided network (DA-GNT) for visual tracking.

Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Gao, F., Wang, J., Hussain, A., Yang, E., & Zhou, H. (2021). Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 3846-3859. https://doi

Common horizontal bounding box-based methods are not capable of accurately locating slender ship targets with arbitrary orientations in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Therefore, in recent years, methods based on oriented bounding box (OBB) ha... Read More about Learning Polar Encodings for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images.

A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling (2021)
Journal Article
Farouq, M. W., Boulila, W., Hussain, Z., Rashid, A., Shah, M., Hussain, S., …Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling. Sensors, 21(6), Article 2190. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21062190

Machine learning (ML)-based algorithms are playing an important role in cancer diagnosis and are increasingly being used to aid clinical decision-making. However, these commonly operate as ‘black boxes’ and it is unclear how decisions are derived. Re... Read More about A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling.

Novel deep convolutional neural network-based contextual recognition of Arabic handwritten scripts (2021)
Journal Article
Ahmed, R., Gogate, M., Tahir, A., Dashtipour, K., Al-Tamimi, B., Hawalah, A., El-Affendi, M. A., & Hussain, A. (2021). Novel deep convolutional neural network-based contextual recognition of Arabic handwritten scripts. Entropy, 23(3), Article 340. https:/

Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition (OAHR) has recently become instrumental in the areas of pattern recognition and image processing due to its application in several fields, such as office automation and document processing. However, OAHR continu... Read More about Novel deep convolutional neural network-based contextual recognition of Arabic handwritten scripts.

A novel explainable machine learning approach for EEG-based brain-computer interface systems (2021)
Journal Article
Ieracitano, C., Mammone, N., Hussain, A., & Morabito, F. C. (2022). A novel explainable machine learning approach for EEG-based brain-computer interface systems. Neural Computing and Applications, 34, 11347-11360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-0562

Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings can be of great help in decoding the open/close hand’s motion preparation. To this end, cortical EEG source signals in the motor cortex (evaluated in the 1-s window preceding movement onset) are extracted by s... Read More about A novel explainable machine learning approach for EEG-based brain-computer interface systems.

Discriminative Dictionary Design for Action Classification in Still Images and Videos (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Banerjee, B., Hussain, A., & Poria, S. (2021). Discriminative Dictionary Design for Action Classification in Still Images and Videos. Cognitive Computation, 13, 698-708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-021-09851-8

In this paper, we address the problem of action recognition from still images and videos. Traditional local features such as SIFT and STIP invariably pose two potential problems: 1) they are not evenly distributed in different entities of a given cat... Read More about Discriminative Dictionary Design for Action Classification in Still Images and Videos.

A novel context-aware multimodal framework for persian sentiment analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2021). A novel context-aware multimodal framework for persian sentiment analysis. Neurocomputing, 457, 377-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.02.020

Most recent works on sentiment analysis have exploited the text modality. However, millions of hours of video recordings posted on social media platforms everyday hold vital unstructured information that can be exploited to more effectively gauge pub... Read More about A novel context-aware multimodal framework for persian sentiment analysis.

A semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of arab (ic+ izi) messages: Application to the algerian dialect (2021)
Journal Article
Guellil, I., Adeel, A., Azouaou, F., Benali, F., Hachani, A., Dashtipour, K., …Hussain, A. (2021). A semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of arab (ic+ izi) messages: Application to the algerian dialect. SN Computer Science, 2, Article 118. ht

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of Arabic and its dialects. This approach is based on a sentiment corpus, constructed automatically and reviewed manually by Algerian dialect native speakers. This approach c... Read More about A semi-supervised approach for sentiment analysis of arab (ic+ izi) messages: Application to the algerian dialect.

A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector (2021)
Journal Article
Qu, S., Huang, K., Hussain, A., & Goulermas, Y. (2021). A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector. Sensors, 21(4), Article 1360. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21041360

Object detection has wide applications in intelligent systems and sensor applications. Compared with two stage detectors, recent one stage counterparts are capable of running more efficiently with comparable accuracy, which satisfy the requirement of... Read More about A Multipath Fusion Strategy Based Single Shot Detector.

Deep Sparse Auto-Encoder Features Learning for Arabic Text Recognition (2021)
Journal Article
Rahal, N., Tounsi, M., Hussain, A., & Alimi, A. M. (2021). Deep Sparse Auto-Encoder Features Learning for Arabic Text Recognition. IEEE Access, 9, 18569-18584. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3053618

One of the most recent challenging issues of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence is Arabic text recognition. This research topic is still a pervasive and unaddressed research field, because of several factors. Complications arise due to t... Read More about Deep Sparse Auto-Encoder Features Learning for Arabic Text Recognition.

Real-Time Artifacts Reduction during TMS-EEG Co-Registration: A Comprehensive Review on Technologies and Procedures (2021)
Journal Article
Varone, G., Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Howard, A., Boulila, W., Mahmud, M., …Hussain, A. (2021). Real-Time Artifacts Reduction during TMS-EEG Co-Registration: A Comprehensive Review on Technologies and Procedures. Sensors, 21(2), Article 637. https://doi.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) excites neurons in the cortex, and neural activity can be simultaneously recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). However, TMS-evoked EEG potentials (TEPs) do not only reflect transcranial neural stimulatio... Read More about Real-Time Artifacts Reduction during TMS-EEG Co-Registration: A Comprehensive Review on Technologies and Procedures.

iWorksafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces During COVID-19 With an Intelligent Phealth App for Industrial Settings (2021)
Journal Article
Kaiser, M. S., Mahmud, M., Noor, M. B. T., Zenia, N. Z., Mamun, S. A., Mahmud, K. M. A., …Hussain, A. (2021). iWorksafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces During COVID-19 With an Intelligent Phealth App for Industrial Settings. IEEE Access, 9, 13814-13828. htt

The recent outbreak of the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has given rise to diverse health issues due to its high transmission rate and limited treatment options. Almost the whole world, at some point of time, was placed in lock-down in an atte... Read More about iWorksafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces During COVID-19 With an Intelligent Phealth App for Industrial Settings.

A Novel Deep Learning-Based Multilevel Parallel Attention Neural (MPAN) Model for Multidomain Arabic Sentiment Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
El-Affendi, M. A., Alrajhi, K., & Hussain, A. (2021). A Novel Deep Learning-Based Multilevel Parallel Attention Neural (MPAN) Model for Multidomain Arabic Sentiment Analysis. IEEE Access, 9, 7508-7518. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3049626

Over the past few years, much work has been done to develop machine learning models that perform Arabic sentiment analysis (ASA) tasks at various levels and in different domains. However, most of this work has been based on shallow machine learning,... Read More about A Novel Deep Learning-Based Multilevel Parallel Attention Neural (MPAN) Model for Multidomain Arabic Sentiment Analysis.