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Invitation to seminar: Exploration and Exploitation in Evolutionary Algorithms: Recent Developments
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Invitation to Seminar: Towards Risk-aware and Robust Autonomous Systems
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Invitation to workshop: Privacy-aware Dehydration Monitoring on Wearable Devices
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CSE Helps Elementary School Students Develop Monitoring System
As our department is involved in several community services, the department organizes different outreach activities to the local schools and also helps their teachers and students whenever possible. One such request for training was put forwarded by the teachers of Qadisiya Elementary School to the department head Dr. Abdulla Al-Ali for their school scientific research project . A training schedule for the students and the teachers was prepared and executed by the department. The department was represented by Eng. Naveed Nawaz, who helped the students in the project that aims to develop a model to protect the students from being left behind in school buses. The model, developed based on Arduino along with two IR sensors, can count the number of students entering the bus, and the number of students leaving it. This enables the bus driver to know how many students are left behind. The students presented their idea on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 in their school exhibition.
Qatar-Japan-Research-Collaboration Workshop on: Wearable Multimodal Telexistence Robot for Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration
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CSE Team Wins Best Paper Award at BIOSIGNALS 2023
A team from our CSE department has received the Best Paper Award in the 10th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNAL2023) conference with a paper titled “Wearable Data Generation Using Time-Series Generative Adversarial Networks for Hydration Monitoring”. The team includes Farida Sabry, Dr. Wadha Labda (LP), Eng. Tamer Eltaras, Ms. Fatima Hamza, and Dr. Qutaibah Malluhi. in collaboration with Dr. Khawla Elzoubi from Community College of Qatar.
BIOSIGNAL 2023 brought together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of expertise working at the intersection of engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, biology and medicine, who develop and apply algorithmic tools, models and techniques to solve challenging problems in biology and medicine. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including video, audio, electrophysiological signals, medical imaging, and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of the diverse types of data seem across these applications often requires cross-disciplinary expertise and collaborative efforts and this conference aims to be a high quality forum to celebrate many of these ongoing interactions and research efforts.
Paper Abstract: Collection of biosignals data from wearable devices for machine learning tasks can sometimes be expensive and time-consuming and may violate privacy policies and regulations. Successful and accurate generation of these signals can help in many wearable devices applications as well as overcoming the privacy concerns accompanied with healthcare data. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been used successfully in generating images in data-limited situations. Using GANs for generating other types of data has been actively researched in the last few years. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using a time-series GAN (TimeGAN) to generate wearable devices data for a hydration monitoring task to predict the last drinking time of a user. Challenges encountered in the case of biosignals generation and state-of-the-art methods for evaluation of the generated signals are discussed. Results have shown the applicability of using TimeGAN for this task based on quantitative and visual qualitative metrics. Limitations on the quality of the generated signals were highlighted with suggesting ways for improvement.
