Outputs (11)

STIDNet: Identity-Aware Face Forgery Detection with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Distillation (2024)
Journal Article
Fang, M., Yu, L., Xie, H., Tan, Q., Tan, Z., Hussain, A., Wang, Z., Li, J., & Tian, Z. (2024). STIDNet: Identity-Aware Face Forgery Detection with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Distillation. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 11(4), 5354 - 5366. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcss.2024.3356549

The impressive development of facial manipulation techniques has raised severe public concerns. Identity-aware methods, especially suitable for protecting celebrities, are seen as one of promising face forgery detection approaches with additional ref... Read More about STIDNet: Identity-Aware Face Forgery Detection with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Distillation.

Machine Un-learning: An Overview of Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions (2023)
Journal Article
Sai, S., Mittal, U., Chamola, V., Huang, K., Spinelli, I., Scardapane, S., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2024). Machine Un-learning: An Overview of Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions. Cognitive Computation, 16, 482-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10219-3

ML applications proliferate across various sectors. Large internet firms employ ML to train intelligent models using vast datasets, including sensitive user information. However, new regulations like GDPR require data removal by businesses. Deleting... Read More about Machine Un-learning: An Overview of Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions.

A Digital Twin-Assisted Intelligent Partial Offloading Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Zhao, Z., Zhang, E., Hawbani, A., Al-Dubai, A., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2023). A Digital Twin-Assisted Intelligent Partial Offloading Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 41(11), 3386-3400. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2023.3310062

Vehicle Edge Computing (VEC) is a promising paradigm that exposes Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) to road scenarios. In VEC, task offloading can enable vehicles to offload the computing tasks to nearby Roadside Units (RSUs) that deploy computing capabili... Read More about A Digital Twin-Assisted Intelligent Partial Offloading Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing.

ESPP: Efficient Sector-based Charging Scheduling and Path Planning for WRSNs with Hexagonal Topology (2023)
Journal Article
Naji, A., Hawbani, A., Wang, X., Al-Gunid, H. M., Al-Dhabi, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Hussain, A., Zhao, L., & Alsamhi, S. H. (2024). ESPP: Efficient Sector-based Charging Scheduling and Path Planning for WRSNs with Hexagonal Topology. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 9(1), 31 - 45. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsusc.2023.3296607

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a promising technology that can potentially mitigate the energy provisioning problem for sensor networks. In order to efficiently replenish energy for these battery-powered devices, designing appropriate scheduling an... Read More about ESPP: Efficient Sector-based Charging Scheduling and Path Planning for WRSNs with Hexagonal Topology.

Towards individualised speech enhancement: An SNR preference learning system for multi-modal hearing aids (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kirton-Wingate, J., Ahmed, S., Gogate, M., Tsao, Y., & Hussain, A. (2023, June). Towards individualised speech enhancement: An SNR preference learning system for multi-modal hearing aids. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), Rhodes Island, Greece

Since the advent of deep learning (DL), speech enhancement (SE) models have performed well under a variety of noise conditions. However, such systems may still introduce sonic artefacts, sound unnatural, and restrict the ability for a user to hear am... Read More about Towards individualised speech enhancement: An SNR preference learning system for multi-modal hearing aids.

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.

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. [Data]. 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.

Impact of Relay Location of STANC Bi-Directional Transmission for Future Autonomous Internet of Things Applications (2020)
Journal Article
Tanoli, S. A. K., Shah, S. A., Khan, M. B., Nawaz, F., Hussain, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Khan, I., Shah, S. Y., & Alsarhan, A. (2020). Impact of Relay Location of STANC Bi-Directional Transmission for Future Autonomous Internet of Things Applications. IEEE Access, 8, 29395-29406. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2969750

Wireless communication using existing coding models poses several challenges for RF signals due to
multipath scattering, rapid fluctuations in signal strength and path loss effect. Unlike existing works, this
study presents a novel cod... Read More about Impact of Relay Location of STANC Bi-Directional Transmission for Future Autonomous Internet of Things Applications.

Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs (2019)
Journal Article
Alsarhan, A., Kilani, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Zomaya, A. Y., & Hussain, A. (2020). Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(2), 1568-1581. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2019.2956228

Different studies have recently emphasized the importance of deploying clustering schemes in Vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET) to overcome challenging problems related to scalability, frequent topology changes, scarcity of spectrum resources, maintain... Read More about Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs.

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.

Higher-order statistics-based nonlinear speech analysis (2002)
Journal Article
Soraghan, J. J., Hussain, A., Alkulabi, A., & Durrani, T. (2002). Higher-order statistics-based nonlinear speech analysis. Control and Intelligent Systems, 30, 11-18

A fast and robust three-level binary higher order statistics (HOS) based algorithm for simultaneous voiced/unvoiced detection and pitch estimation of speech signals in coloured noise environments with low SNR is presented. The use of the three-level... Read More about Higher-order statistics-based nonlinear speech analysis.