All Outputs (189)

Evaluation of mobile health education applications for health professionals and patients (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., & Aljaber, T. Evaluation of mobile health education applications for health professionals and patients. Presented at Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Health, EH 2016 - Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2016

Paper presented at 8th International conference on e-Health (EH 2016), 1-3 July 2016, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. ABSTRACT Mobile applications for health education are commonly utilized to support patients and health professionals. A critical evaluat... Read More about Evaluation of mobile health education applications for health professionals and patients.

Guided mesh normal filtering (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, W., Deng, B., Zhang, J., Bouaziz, S., & Liu, L. Guided mesh normal filtering

The joint bilateral filter is a variant of the standard bilateral filter, where the range kernel is evaluated using a guidance signal instead of the original signal. It has been successfully applied to various image processing problems, where it prov... Read More about Guided mesh normal filtering.

A computer vision approach to classification of birds in flight from video sequences (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atanbori, J., Duan, W., Murray, J., Appiah, K., & Dickinson, P. (2015, September). A computer vision approach to classification of birds in flight from video sequences. Presented at Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour Workshop 2015, Swansea, UK

Bird populations are an important bio-indicator, ; so collecting reliable data is useful for ecologists helping conserve and manage fragile ecosystems. However, existing manual monitoring methods are labour-intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone.... Read More about A computer vision approach to classification of birds in flight from video sequences.

An evaluation framework for mobile health education software (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aljaber, T., Gordon, N., Kambhampati, C., & Brayshaw, M. (2015, July). An evaluation framework for mobile health education software. Presented at 2015 Science and Information Conference (SAI), London

© 2015 IEEE. Mobile applications in general, and mobile applications for health education in particular, are commonly used to support patients, health professionals and other stakeholders. A critical evaluation framework is needed to ensure the usabi... Read More about An evaluation framework for mobile health education software.

Security aspects in cognitive radio networks detection and mitigation of primary user emulation attacks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammar, M., Riley, N., Mehdawi, M., Fanan, A., & Zolfaghari, M. (2015, April). Security aspects in cognitive radio networks detection and mitigation of primary user emulation attacks. Presented at COCORA 2015 : The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Cognitive Radio

Cognitive Radio Networks (CR) is an advanced growing technique and a promising technology for the upcoming generation of the wireless networks. Deployment of such networks is hindered by the vulnerabilities that these networks are exposed to, in this... Read More about Security aspects in cognitive radio networks detection and mitigation of primary user emulation attacks.

Introducing the Emergency Propagated Reference Network (EPRN): A practical and efficient ad hoc network for emergency response (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dixon, J. W. D., & Grey, D. J. (2015, April). Introducing the Emergency Propagated Reference Network (EPRN): A practical and efficient ad hoc network for emergency response. Presented at International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology, Singapore

Many civilian, law enforcement or military emergency services are beginning to understand the need for rapidly deployable and dependable mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for situations where GPS, satellite, cellular and private mobile radio (PMR) comm... Read More about Introducing the Emergency Propagated Reference Network (EPRN): A practical and efficient ad hoc network for emergency response.

Simplifying collaboration in co-located virtual environments using the active-passive approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Estrada, J. G., Springer, J. P., & Wright, H. Simplifying collaboration in co-located virtual environments using the active-passive approach. Presented at 2015 IEEE 2nd VR International Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Environments, 3DCVE 2015

The design and implementation of co-located immersive virtual environments with equal interaction possibilities for all participants is a complex topic. The main problem, on a fundamental technical level, is the difficulty of providing perspective-co... Read More about Simplifying collaboration in co-located virtual environments using the active-passive approach.

Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Networks: Detection and Mitigation of Primary User Emulation Attacks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammar, M., Riley, N., Mehdawi, M., Fanan, A., & Zolfaghari, M. (2015, January). Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Networks: Detection and Mitigation of Primary User Emulation Attacks. Presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Manufacturing Engineering

Cognitive Radio Networks (CR) is an advanced growing technique and a promising technology for the upcoming generation of the wireless networks in order to efficiently utilize the limited spectrum resources and satisfy the rapidly increasing demand fo... Read More about Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Networks: Detection and Mitigation of Primary User Emulation Attacks.

Experimental detection using cyclostationary feature detectors for cognitive radios (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zolfaghari, M., Fanan, A., Mehdawi, M., Riley, N. G., & Ammar, M. (2014, November). Experimental detection using cyclostationary feature detectors for cognitive radios. Presented at 2014 22nd Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2014 - Proceedings of Papers, Serbia, Belgrade

© 2014 IEEE. Signal detection is widely used in many applications. Some examples include Cognitive Radio (CR) and military intelligence. Without guaranteed signal detection, a CR cannot reliably perform its role. Spectrum sensing is currently one of... Read More about Experimental detection using cyclostationary feature detectors for cognitive radios.

Local barycentric coordinates (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, J., Deng, B., Liu, Z., Patanè, G., Bouaziz, S., Hormann, K., & Liu, L. Local barycentric coordinates

Barycentric coordinates yield a powerful and yet simple paradigm to interpolate data values on polyhedral domains. They represent interior points of the domain as an affine combination of a set of control points, defining an interpolation scheme for... Read More about Local barycentric coordinates.

Robotized task time scheduling and optimization based on Genetic Algorithms for non redundant industrial manipulators (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baizid, K., Meddahi, A., Yousnadj, A., Chellali, R., Khan, H., & Iqbal, J. (2014, October). Robotized task time scheduling and optimization based on Genetic Algorithms for non redundant industrial manipulators. Presented at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), Timisoara, Romania

Industrial robot manipulators must work as fast as possible in order to increase the productivity. This goal could be achieved by increasing robots speed or/and optimizing the trajectories followed by robots while performing assembly, welding or simi... Read More about Robotized task time scheduling and optimization based on Genetic Algorithms for non redundant industrial manipulators.

Safety analysis of clinical workflows: The case of the workflow within a radiology department (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., Sharvia, S., Walker, M., & Al-Qora'n, L. Safety analysis of clinical workflows: The case of the workflow within a radiology department. Presented at 2014 Science and Information Conference

This paper was originally presented at the Science and Information Conference, 2014, 27-29 August, London. Abstract: Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communication systems (PACS) are used widely to help in the workflow ma... Read More about Safety analysis of clinical workflows: The case of the workflow within a radiology department.

Modeling and computed torque control of a 6 degree of freedom robotic arm (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ullah, M. I., Ajwad, S. A., Islam, R. U., Iqbal, U., & Iqbal, J. (2014, April). Modeling and computed torque control of a 6 degree of freedom robotic arm. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE), Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper presents modelling and control design of ED 7220C - a vertical articulated serial arm having 5 revolute joints with 6 Degree Of Freedom. Both the direct and inverse kinematic models have been developed. For analysis of forces and to facili... Read More about Modeling and computed torque control of a 6 degree of freedom robotic arm.

Addressing collision avoidance and nonholonomic constraints of a wheeled robot: Modeling and simulation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zohaib, M., Pasha, S. M., Bushra, H., Hassan, K., & Iqbal, J. (2014, April). Addressing collision avoidance and nonholonomic constraints of a wheeled robot: Modeling and simulation. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE), Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper presents kinematic model of two configurations of a wheeled mobile robot. Two-wheeled robot with castor and four-wheeled robot are considered for modeling. Kinematic equations, modeled in MATLAB/Simulink, represent the position and angle o... Read More about Addressing collision avoidance and nonholonomic constraints of a wheeled robot: Modeling and simulation.

A tutorial on metamodelling for grammar researchers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paige, R. F., Kolovos, D. S., & Polack, F. A. A tutorial on metamodelling for grammar researchers

A metamodel has been defined as: a model of a model; a definition of a language; a description of abstract syntax; and a description of a domain. Because of these varied definitions, it is difficult to explain why metamodels are constructed, what can... Read More about A tutorial on metamodelling for grammar researchers.

Survey: A comparison of spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fanan, A., Riley, N., Mehdawi, M., Ammar, M., & Zolfaghari, M. (2014, January). Survey: A comparison of spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio. Presented at International Conference Image Processing, Computers and Industrial Engineering

In the present day Cognitive Radio has become a realistic option for solution of the spectrum scarcity problem in wireless communication. One of the most challenging issues in cognitive radio systems is spectrum sensing concepts, which is considered... Read More about Survey: A comparison of spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio.

A Spectrum Sensing Test Bed based on Matlab and USRP2 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammar, M., Mehdawi, M., Riley, N., Fanan, A., Paulson, K., & Zolfaghari, M. (2014, January). A Spectrum Sensing Test Bed based on Matlab and USRP2. Presented at International Conference on Machine Learning, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

— The spectrum monitoring has gained new aspects with development of the software defined radio SDR as its very important issue in the spectrum management area. In this paper a spectrum monitoring technique with SDR is proposed, the setup of the prot... Read More about A Spectrum Sensing Test Bed based on Matlab and USRP2.

Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Gordon, N., Walker, M., & Papadopoulos, Y. Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX, Brunów, Poland

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Most techniques for quantitatively analysing the temporal fault trees of safety-critical systems are used with the assumption that the systems under study have exponentially distributed component... Read More about Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions.

GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hong, Q., Wang, B., Li, Q., Li, Y., & Wu, Q. GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Wuhan, China

With the flooding datasets of medical Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), implicit modeling techniques are increasingly applied to reconstruct the human organs, especially the vasculature. However, displaying implicitly rep... Read More about GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures.

Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees

Fault Tree Analysis has been a cornerstone of safety-critical systems for many years. It has seen various extensions to enable it to analyse dynamic behaviours exhibited by modern systems with redundant components. However, none of these extended FTA... Read More about Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees.