CSE Team Wins Best UREP 2022 Presentation
A CSE team of undergraduate students, supervised by our faculty member Dr. Noora Fetais, won the Best Presentation award in the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) competition, which was held on 18th of October 2022. The winning project is titled “Intelligent and Immersive Cultural Game using Virtual Reality” and the team consists of the students Yahia Boray, Hesham Zaky, and Omar Osman.
UREP is one of the main programs offered by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and designed to fulfil its aims in developing research infrastructure in Qatar by establishing the basis of scientific research at the undergraduate level. UREP provides a great opportunity for undergraduate students to experience scientific research and to engage in the various processes to build skills essential for the professional development of the students.
The developed game aims to preserve and spread cultural practices. It introduces new gaming mechanics, allowing user interaction with virtual game objects using hand gestures. The user’s objective is to hunt prey in their natural habitat which means that the player will physically change his location to hunt a specific prey using his falcon to mimic how the falcon hunts for its’ prey in the real world. This interaction with the real world, along with the incorporation of realistic graphics and mixed reality features, enhances the user’s experience and helps in preserving cultural practices.
Previous work tried to achieve the same goal by different approaches that led to different user segments and different usability cases. One major limitation in that work was the accessibility due to the use of specialized hardware. The hardware is accessible to only a small segment of users, and due to the challenges forced by the COVID19 situation reusing the hardware is prohibited in conferences or exhibitions.
As a result, not many will have access to the developed solution. The new implementation was designed to work on both Android and IOS to have a social interaction between the largest possible numbers of players. Other features that could also contribute to the goal of the project include building a virtual museum and displaying real falcons using the capabilities mixed reality has to offer.
Congratulations to the winning team!
CSE Faculty Members and Students Awarded in QU Annual Research Forum 2022
Faculty members and students from CSE department have received awards in QU Annual Research Forum and Exhibition 2022. The event brought together students, researchers and academics from the University’s colleges, research centers and institutions, in addition to partners and stakeholders, to assess, review, and discuss QU’s research outcomes and activities.
A team from faculty members and post docs from College of Engineering including Dr. Osama Halabi was awarded the Best Poster in Information and Communications Technologies discipline for Faculty and Postdoc category. The project is titled “The Development of Emerging Virtual Reality (VR) System for Analyzing Pedestrian Safety Perception on Road Infrastructure”.
Our students Somaya Eltanbouly, Muraam Abdel-Ghani, and Hoda Helmy won the Best Poster Award in Information and Communications Technologies discipline for Undergraduate Students category. The project is titled “Assistive Telexistence System Using Motion Blending”, and supervised by Dr. Osama Halabi and Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada.
Our CSE graduate student Najmath Ottakath won the Best Poster in FIFA World Cup Related Research discipline for graduate students category with a project titled “Fan Rage Detection and Alert System in Football Stadiums Using Multi-surveillance System”. The project is supervised by Dr. Sumaya Al Maadeed.
Congratulation to all of our winners!
Announcement of CSE Senior Project Contest AY21-22 Winners
The winners of our department’s senior project contest for 2021-2022 academic year have just been announced. A showcase of spectacular SDP projects took place on May 10, 2022 at QU. The event included live demos and posters’ presentations. Internal examiners and judges from industry evaluated the projects.
Computer Science Winners
- First Place: Yousseif Elshahawy, Mohanad Mohamed, and Hesham Zaky, with a project titled “Harassment Heat-Map“. Supervisor is Dr. Mohamad Saleh.
- Second Place: Dana Hasan, Maryam Al-Malki, and Maryam Arab, with a project titled “Sakkin: Taking Real Estate To The Next Level“. Supervisor is Dr. Sayed ElSayed.
- Third Place: Fatma Al-Mansouri, Shaymaa Al-Mohssen, Fatima Al-Khulaifi, and Muneera Al-Naimi, with a project titled “Share“. Supervisor is Dr. Khalid Khan.
Computer Engineering Winners
- First Place: Muraam Abdel-Ghani, Hoda Helmy, and Somaya Eltanbouly, with a project titled “Assistive Telexistence System Using Motion Blending“. Supervisor is Dr. Osama Halabi, co-supervisor is Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada .
- Second Place: Mohamad Bahri, Abdelrahman Soliman, Mohamed Daniel Bin, and Mohamad Izham, with a project titled “AirEye: UAV-Based Intelligent DRL Mobile Target Visitation“. Supervisor is Dr. Amr Mohamed.
- Third Place: Aya Elsayed, Sofia Basha, and Myesha Hoque, with a project titled: “Automatic Electronic Gate System Using BLE Beacons of EHTERAZ“. Supervisor is Dr. Qutaibah Malluhi .
Well done CSE SDP teams; everyone is a winner indeed!
For CSE Students: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Training on Oct 17-18
As part of its collaboration with Qatar University, Microsoft is inviting our CSE students to attend a virtual training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fundamentals where you can discover the solutions that are possible to create with AI and the Azure services that can help you build those solutions. The training will be held on Oct 17 & 18 (9:30 AM – 12:30 PM). Below is the training agenda and the MS Teams link to join it.
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Qatar Seeds for the Future 2021
Under the endorsement of Qatar Communication Regulatory Authority, Huawei Technologies organized its 4th edition of “Seeds for the Future” program over 8-day online training from 23 to 30 August 2021 for Qatar top students to obtain valuable cutting-edge ICT knowledge developed by Huawei’s Headquarters. The program offered a rich experience involving technology courses including 5G, cloud computing, AI, IoT, leadership course, and participation in “Tech4Good” group project.
This year 31 students from QU, HBKU, and CCQ have participated in the program and so proudly QU students represented by CSE department have achieved the highest number of distributed awards. Following is the complete list of our CSE-QU student winners for each award category:
Best Tech4Good Project: Abhigyan Kishor, Fatemeh Ahmadizdeh, Ziad Abdelazim Sabry Abdelazim, Ifran Ahmed Rafi, Kulsum Kader, Noof Mohammed Ali Hassan Qassmi, Sofia Basha
Daily Best Student: Moslem Al Qawasmi, MahnoorAkhund, ZainehAbughazzah
Best Team Leader: Kulsum Kader
Best Performance: Amira Radwan Menisy Abdalla, Fatma Elnahas
Social Media: Moslem Al Qawasmi
Top 5 Students: Islam Hamdi, Sofia Basha
Big congratulations for all our wining students and wishing them the bright future in their study and beyond!
Programming Contest for First-year Students (Spring 2021)
To motivate our new students and highlight the importance of programming, the CSE department organized a programming contest for the students who enrolled in all sections in programming concept course (CMPS151). The contest was held in two rounds. In the first round, 24 students participated in 9 teams. Based on their submissions, the best five teams were shortlisted to continue to the second round. The teams in the second round presented their works to the contest committee. All teams have shown excellent efforts and used a variety of techniques to solve the problems.
The CSE department would like to thank all participants and would like to congratulate the winners.