{"title":"Measurement-based analysis of characteristics of fast moving underwater acoustic communication channel","authors":"Yang Wang, Honglu Yan, Chenyu Pan, Songzuo Liu","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00019","url":null,"abstract":"In the fast moving scene, the underwater acoustic communication (UWAC) channel has extremely complex time-varying characteristics. The lack of standardized channel model severely limits the development of mobile UWAC technology. In this paper, the channel time-varying impulse response (TVIR) is estimated based on the measured mobile UWAC data, and the correlation coefficient, spread function and envelope of the channel are analyzed. The analysis results show that the fast movement between the transmitter and the receiver will lead to serious deviation and amplitude variation of the multipath arrival time, which will cause large Doppler frequency offset and spread, and lead to the decline of channel correlation. In this paper, the statistical characteristics of the measured channel are analyzed, which is helpful to the development of mobile UWA channel model.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130198849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Serious Game Design Factors and Problem based Pedagogy on Learning outcome","authors":"Fatima Gillani, Irum Inayat, C. V. Carvalho","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00064","url":null,"abstract":"Serious Games encompasses a wide range of goals including social awareness, public health initiatives, marketing, communications, industry, and so on but their primary concern is Education and training. These games intend to teach subject to players more than just emphasizing players' amusement and entertainment. The primary objective is to teach and train players in a playful environment. Games are too often developed in an ad-hoc manner while overlooking the use of pedagogical aspects and active learning principles. In this paper, we aim to address this issue by designing a serious game design model using Problem-based learning pedagogical aspects to assist the serious game designer. For this purpose, we mapped the problem-based learning principles with the game design factors and proposed a game design model based on 13 identified factors that are Goal, Scenario Exposition, autonomous, Control, Immersion, Challenge, Stimulus, Collaboration, Feedback, Authentic Learning, and Assessment. Followed by that, two experimental studies were conducted. First study was conducted to measure the impact of problem-based pedagogical game design factors on the learning outcome using an open source game that was customized based on the proposed model. The second study was conducted to check the impact of Collaboration and feedback on learning outcome. The results of the study reveal (1) problem based pedagogical mapped game design factors have a positive impact on the learning outcome of students and (2) procedural feedback to be the contributing factor in enhancing student performance.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125318465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Summarization of Cricket Videos Using Deep Learning Technique","authors":"Tabinda Nasir, M. Iqbal, Mehmoon Anwar","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00016","url":null,"abstract":"Video Summarization plays a ignificant role in many fields of life and it can be employed to avoid wastage of time and effort in watching long and boring different types of sports videos. In literature, several computer vision-based techniques have been proposed for predicting useful classes from different perspectives, which is quite challenging. The prediction accuracy results of previous techniques were not satisfactory due to the complex nature and lot of redundant events in sports videos. This work focuses on the video summarization of cricket videos due to their overwhelming interest. To make predictions accurately and precisely, a well-organized dataset of four main classes of cricket like, catch, lbw, four, and sixer as the viewer is not interested in unnecessary coverage of the crowd and replays that just waste its time and interest. In the experiments, cricket videos were extracted from different sources, especially YouTube. Subsequently, these videos have been processed and the most useful frames were extracted to run several experiments. The Resnet152 V2 transfer learning model was implemented to carry out the classification and video summarization task. The proposed method performs well and produces more accurate results. The approach of making datasets reduces inter-class similarity problems that occurred in previous methods of video summarization. The proposed work will be helpful in saving the time of viewers by viewing and observing summarized videos instead of long content videos.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125666367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and Optimizing the Integrated Energy-Water Nexus for Hydrogen Generation","authors":"M. B. Rasheed, M. Rodríguez-Moreno","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00020","url":null,"abstract":"To meet the carbon-free energy and water demand requirements by Europe, this work has proposed an interconnected and integrated-energy-water-hydrogen (IEWH) system. Typically these systems are generally uncoupled, however, they may be interconnected and can be operated to provide green energy and water with reduced carbon footprints. This work has used power, water, and co-generation facilities to generate power, water, and hydrogen through the electrolysis process. Co-generation and power plants meet the water and energy demand for the electrolysis process. We propose an initial formulation of the mathematical models and objective functions of power, water, co-generation, and electrolysis facilities. The final optimization problem subject to generation, transmission, and process constraints is formulated as a nonlinear programming problem, which is solved using the CONOPT solver. Finally, the developed model is tested on a test case comprised of IEEE 30 standard bus and Hanoi water distributions, (UK), to validate the achievements in cost and CO2 reduction. Simulation results show that integration of hydrogen facilities to produce the electricity power significantly reduces the carbon emissions.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131752698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Churn Prediction of Customers in a Retail Business using Exploratory Data Analysis","authors":"W. Abbas, M. Usman, Usman Qamar","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00033","url":null,"abstract":"These days retail stores and supermarkets are rapidly increasing, and they became very high saturated business. Due to its rapid growth, retail sector is facing very serious problems of customer attrition and churns. So, to overcome this problem, the retail stores and supermarkets need to have an effective churn management strategy. Machine learning, and Data Mining can be used by the management to analyze the churning behavior of customers and help them to retain their customers. To do so, this paper executed explorative data analysis and feature engineering on retail store data set. Five different techniques have been applied namely, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Decision Tree, K nearest neighbors and XGboost, while Precision, Accuracy, AUC, F1-Score and Recall been used to analyze the performance of classification techniques. This study shows that the proposed model can predict the customer churn with an accuracy of 73% and help management to retain their customers. It is demonstrated in the result that the XGboost is the most efficient classifier for this data set which surpassed all other classifiers in all performance evaluation metrics.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132406909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Arif, Shahzad Akbar, A. Farooq, Syed Ale Hassan, Sahar Gull
{"title":"Automatic Detection of Leukemia through Convolutional Neural Network","authors":"R. Arif, Shahzad Akbar, A. Farooq, Syed Ale Hassan, Sahar Gull","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00044","url":null,"abstract":"Leukemia is a fatal cancer disease that develops in blood-forming tissue by the excessive development of white blood cells (WBCs) in the human body. However, a bone marrow test is recommended by the pathologist to diagnose leukemia and further types of leukemia. Leukemia has two classes i.e., acute and chronic leukemia. Therefore, early leukemias detection enables preventative actions to be taken to avoid any harm to human life. In addition, several manual and automatic methods have been proposed, however, they possess some drawbacks and are inefficient for the precise detection of leukemia. This research proposes a deep learning-based framework for precise and automatic leukemia identification using microscopic images. The proposed framework comprises four stages which are pre-processing, data augmentation, segmentation, and the classification of leukemia. Moreover, pre-processing is utilized to clean the dataset images and eliminate the noise. Following that, data augmentation approaches have been employed to increase the number of images, and remove the class imbalance, and overfitting problems. The modified Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based model is employed to segment the leukemia images. A well-known pre-trained AlexNet architecture has been used for classification. Besides that, a publicly available dataset Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Image DataBase (ALL-IDB) has been utilized to train and test the proposed model. The proposed model yielded 98.05% accuracy, a specificity of 97.59%, 100% of recall, and a 99.06% of F1-score. The experimentation results demonstrate that this model is effective and reliable for leukemia identification using the ALL-IDB dataset and suitable for deployment in clinical applications.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134191908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noshaba Khurshid, Muhammad Ibrahim Syed, Khurram Khan, Z. Mahmood
{"title":"Towards Automatic Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation in Retinal Images","authors":"Noshaba Khurshid, Muhammad Ibrahim Syed, Khurram Khan, Z. Mahmood","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00021","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, segmenting objects is desired to timely diagnose various diseases. This task is challenging as blood vessels share the same color and intensity information in retinal image area. Therefore, an accurate vessel segmentation method is required. This study presents an automated vessels segmentation algorithm. Our method initially extracts the Green channel on which the CLAHE and Gabor filter is applied. Final segmentation is achieved using Otsu’s thresholding. Meanwhile, to reduce noise from tiny vessels, median filter, Top-hat transform and other morphological operations, such as spur operation is applied in post-processing stage. The proposed algorithm yields superior accuracy results on DRIVE and STARE than several methods and consumes nearly 1 second to produce the segmented output image.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134210363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Syed Umaid Ahmed, M. Affan, Muhammad Ilyas Raza, Muhammad Harris Hashmi
{"title":"Inspecting Mega Solar Plants through Computer Vision and Drone Technologies","authors":"Syed Umaid Ahmed, M. Affan, Muhammad Ilyas Raza, Muhammad Harris Hashmi","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00014","url":null,"abstract":"This research presents a unique approach for monitoring the large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic modules in solar power plants using state-of-art object detection YOLOv5 algorithm and classical image processing techniques. We have highlighted an integral part of the fully automated system in which a drone takes flight over the solar park and shoot the videos. Videos are preprocessed and used for trained YOLOv5 model to recognize the clean and dirty panels. The process is defined for a selected site and can be implemented using a Raspberry Pi. This system processes the images taken by drones, generates a report, and sends it to the concerned department automatically via email every day so that timely maintenance can be done for the long-life and safe operation of solar arrays. The inspection timeline for the same process was about one hundred and twenty hours, reduced to five minutes. It means that 99.93% of the time is saved through vision and robust automation techniques.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130482164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rudeema Chughtai, F. Azam, Muhammad Waseem Anwar, Wasi Haider Butt, M. U. Farooq
{"title":"A Lecture Centric Automated Distractor Generation for Post-Graduate Software Engineering Courses","authors":"Rudeema Chughtai, F. Azam, Muhammad Waseem Anwar, Wasi Haider Butt, M. U. Farooq","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00028","url":null,"abstract":"Critical circumstances, natural disasters or pandemics like COVID 19 gave rise to the wide applicability of E-learning into education system. Efficient and fair online assessment is very important to utilize the inevitable benefits of E-learning.. In order to make it efficient, the trend of assessment has shifted from the subjective type to the objective type assessments which is mainly based on Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), generation of MCQs is a tedious, tiresome and time consuming task. To cater this dire need, this study proposes an automated Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) generation by utilizing state of the art transformer based model T5 for the task of question generation and a lexicon based approach Sense2vec for the task of distractor generation. It also presented a domain specific lecture text based test data for performing evaluation on the task of domain specific lecture text based MCQ generation.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"106 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114049430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arwa Mohamed, Mosab Hamdan, Suleman Khan, Muzaffar Hamzah, M. N. Marsono
{"title":"Traffic Classification based on Incremental Learning Algorithms for the Software-Defined Networks","authors":"Arwa Mohamed, Mosab Hamdan, Suleman Khan, Muzaffar Hamzah, M. N. Marsono","doi":"10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00068","url":null,"abstract":"A new era of network administration has been ushered in by recent developments in software-defined networks (SDN) and traffic classification (TC) using machine learning (ML) techniques. All network devices are centrally managed and accessible through the SDN, which can simplify the TC process. The traditional data mining/ML approach that uses TC assumes that all of the task's data is always accessible and can be viewed simultaneously without processing time and memory restrictions. Therefore, these approaches are not effective in the case of stream learning since, in more realistic settings, the data is not available all at once and has a distinct distribution. Consequently, incremental learning algorithms (ILAs) can handle online data mining. This study's primary goal is to contrast various ILA approaches to enhance SDN's TC performance. In this study, we propose four ILAs: the self- adjusting memory coupled with the k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classifier (SAMKNNC), the very fast decision rules classifier (VFDRC), the extremely fast decision tree classifier (EFDTC), and the streaming random patches ensemble classifier (SRPC). Both real and synthetic datasets are used for validation. Experimental findings reveal that the proposed techniques perform better in SDN traffic classification since they can effectively identify drift and use less memory and time.","PeriodicalId":102958,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122795869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}