{"title":"Feature extraction of heart sounds using velocity and acceleration of MFCCs based on support vector machines","authors":"M. Azmy","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257736","url":null,"abstract":"Heart sounds Auscultation has usually used as an important primary symptom to identify cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). In this paper, a new approach of automatic recognition of normal and abnormal heart sounds (HSs) is produced. Features of HSs are extracted by several steps. First, signals of heart sounds are preprocessed. Second, Energies of these signals are calculated and divided by logarithmic of these energies. Then, velocity and acceleration of MFCCs (mel frequency cepstral coefficients) are conducted for the second step. Fourth, Statistical calculations are calculated for the third step to get the features of heart sounds. Support vector machines (SVMs) are used as classifiers for the extracted signals. The obtained recognition percent is 98.44%.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121549289","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}
Khaled Al-Maaitah, Issa Qiqieh, A. Soltan, A. Yakovlev
{"title":"Configurable-accuracy approximate adder design with light-weight fast convergence error recovery circuit","authors":"Khaled Al-Maaitah, Issa Qiqieh, A. Soltan, A. Yakovlev","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257753","url":null,"abstract":"Approximate computing has recently introduced a new era of low-power and high-speed circuit designs. Recent efforts in the domain of configurable-accuracy approximate designs have proposed substantial performance gains and energy savings by allowing performance-energy-accuracy trade-offs. In this paper, we propose a configurable-accuracy approximate adder with new light-weight error detection technique. This is followed by significance-driven error correction stages during run-time. The correction starts by recovering the higher magnitude errors at premier correction stages, which results in fast convergence and higher precision outputs. Compared to other equivalent approximate adders, the proposed design has drastically reduced the logic counts used for error detection process; hence, achieving lower overhead of silicon area and improving the energy-efficiency of the adder design with faster convergence to the exact results. A number of different bit-widths of the proposed adder (32-bit to 256-bit) are designed in Verilog and synthesized using Synopsys Design Compiler. Our post-synthesis experiments showed significant reductions of 12% and 10% for Dynamic and Leakage Power respectively, and 8% in the silicon area for the design with full correction stages. Moreover, the proposed adder with large bit-widths has reserved these reduction ratios while presenting better scalability overhead. Additionally, our low overhead proposed design has presented the chance to be improved in terms of increasing accuracy to reach 100% exact results as accurate conventional adder at the final correction stage.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130386976","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":"A new visual tool to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning CPU scheduling algorithms","authors":"Yosef Jbara","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257759","url":null,"abstract":"CPU scheduling plays a vital role in Operating Systems for undergraduate students. Understanding the CPU scheduling concepts and algorithms will positively affect students' further study on the course. However, teaching and learning CPU scheduling algorithms using conventional lectures and textbooks is faced with difficulties by many teachers and students. First, textbooks illustrate the CPU scheduling algorithms in an incomplete and unclear manner. Second, students solve problems manually. They don't receive any immediate feedback on their solutions. Third, due to time restriction, the teacher has to select a few small problems. To overcome these problems, we developed a simple visual educational simulator, which can be used as an efficient tool for teaching and learning CPU scheduling algorithms for one processor. Although this simulation tool is similar to others, it has its own unique features. In this paper, the educational impact, functional capabilities and features for this simulator are discussed in details.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124905359","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":"Use filtering techniques to improve the accuracy of association rules","authors":"Zainab Darwish, M. Al-Akhras, Mohamed Habib","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257773","url":null,"abstract":"Association rules' learning is a machine learning technique used to find interesting relations among data items and is a base to build an association rules classifier. The accuracy of the classifier highly depends on the quality and accuracy of data items. This accuracy can be affected negatively by noisy instances and this may lead to classification overfitting. This work investigates overcoming this problem by applying DROP3 or ALLKNN filtering algorithms to the datasets prior to generating association rules and building a classifier. Several experiments and comparisons were conducted to test the accuracy of the above filtering algorithms. The experiments were conducted on three noise levels: 0%, 5% and 10%. Results were more promising with ALLKNN as accuracy has improved remarkably especially with high noise ratios. With ALLKNN, average classification accuracy for the eight datasets in the 0% noise case improved from 70.47% to 73.63% compared to the base case when ALLKNN was not used. This improvement in classification accuracy was more apparent with the increase in noise ratio. In the 5% noise ratio the accuracy improved from 66.08% to 76.17%. In the 10% noise ratio the accuracy improved from 59.89% to 75.68%.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130818647","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":"Embedded system implementation for material recognition using deep learning","authors":"K. Younis, Waed Ayyad, Abdallah Al-Ajlony","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257769","url":null,"abstract":"Material recognition is the process of classifying materials into different categories based on the constituent material of the object under study. It is a very important problem in many fields and especially in the industrial field. In factories that use production lines to manufacture their products, one step is to separate materials and package different materials. In that case, it helps to move each material into specific containers. This step can be automated, which saves money, time and can improve efficiency. We utilized the advances in deep learning to build a system for material recognition, and we tested it on the Flicker Materials Database (FMD) with an accuracy of 79.25%. We also built a local database using materials from our environment via a camera mounted on an Raspberry Pi 3 embedded system, and that gave an accuracy of 90.5%. The system is self-contained and can be portable in any factory with minimal changes.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128881209","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}
M. Masoud, Yousef Jaradat, Ismael Jannoud, Esra’a A. Bashayreh
{"title":"A measurement study of internet services in Jordan: A case study","authors":"M. Masoud, Yousef Jaradat, Ismael Jannoud, Esra’a A. Bashayreh","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257752","url":null,"abstract":"Internet measurements are required to obtain statistics and insights of how applications, services and protocols are operating over the Internet. These insights and statistics are utilized to reveal operational and functional issues, predict the Internet future and propose new services and protocol to enhance Internet operation. In this work, a case study of Internet measurement in Jordan will be demonstrated. The case study aims to gain insights of the web hosting process, IP addresses, autonomous system (AS) paths and country paths between clients in Jordan and DotJO websites. To facilitate the conducted measurement process, a list of all DotJo websites has been crawled. Subsequently, trace-route, IP-to-AS and AS-to-Country processes have been utilized. Our results show that more P2P relationships have to be deployed in the country to reduce AS paths and enhance QoS. Moreover, local hosting of DotJo websites should be encouraged to enhance the ICT field in Jordan.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121875075","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}
M. Al-Rawi, A. Galdran, Fredrik Elmgren, Jonathan Rodriguez, J. Bastos, M. Pinto
{"title":"Landmark detection from sidescan sonar images","authors":"M. Al-Rawi, A. Galdran, Fredrik Elmgren, Jonathan Rodriguez, J. Bastos, M. Pinto","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257760","url":null,"abstract":"Sidescan sonars have seen wide deployment in underwater imaging. They can be used to image the seabed to a rather acceptable resolution from a few centimeters to 10 centimeters. Yet, sonar images are still of a substantially lower visual quality as they suffer from quite a few problems, e.g., acoustic shadows that vary according to vehicle heading and sonar grazing angle, speckle noise, geometric deformation due to ping variation and speed of vehicle carrying the sonar, etc. Landmark detection in sidescan sonar images is vital to find objects and locations of interest that are useful in various underwater operations. The objective of this work is proposing novel landmark detection methods for this class of images. Cubic smoothing spline fitted to the across-track signals is proposed as a method to detect the objects and their shadows. To cover a large area, experimental data has been acquired during missions performed in Melenara Bay (Las Palmas/Spain) using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) equipped with Klein 3500 sidescan sonar. The AUVs have been deployed in two missions (one mission performed each day) and a total of 25 large-resolution images have been acquired. The AUV generated 12 parallel path images in the first mission and 13 parallel path images in the second mission with an angle of 70 degrees between the direction of mission #1 and mission #2. This difference in the directions of the two missions was necessary to ensure different acoustic shadows between the two sets of images, each set being generated from a different mission. Results show that the proposed methods are powerful in detecting landmarks from these challenging images.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132737217","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":"The effect of diacritization on Arabic speech recogntion","authors":"Fawaz S. Al-Anzi, Dia AbuZeina","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257758","url":null,"abstract":"Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a successful application of natural language processing (NLP). However, Arabic formal text is generally written without diacritics, which produces different pronunciation forms. That is, the Arabic writing system allows discarding short vowels and, hence, forcing the reader to use the prior knowledge and the words context to infer the missing diacritics. For speech recognition, there are two options for textual training data; either diacritized (also called vowelized) or non-diacritized text. However, using non-diacritized text may introduce a challenge for Arabic ASR as missing the short vowels may lead to some confusion in the learning process. This ambiguity produces a less than optimal acoustic model that is one of the most important components of ASR systems. In this paper, we present the performance using diacritized and non-diacritized text. In the experiments, we used the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) PocketSphinx speech recognizer. We also used a new “in house” modern standard Arabic (MSA) continuous speech corpus that contains 13.5 hours for training and 4.1 hours for testing. The text of the corpus was manually diacritized. For acoustic modelling, we used the phonetic tied-mixture (PTM). The experimental results show that the non-diacritized text system scored 76.4% (i.e. 1-word error rate (WER)) while the diacritized text based system scored 63.8%. Even the diacritized case has less accuracy due to the slight differences in diacritics; however, the non-diacritized case might be adequate and faultless for the Arabic native speakers.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131969558","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}
A. A. Shareef, Sari F. Amle, N. Awad, M. K. Abdelazeez
{"title":"UWB antenna with corners modified patch","authors":"A. A. Shareef, Sari F. Amle, N. Awad, M. K. Abdelazeez","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257745","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new patch antenna with large bandwidth is proposed. The antenna consists of a rectangular patch, 50 Ω microstrip feed line and partial ground plane. Modifications are introduced in the antenna to enhance the bandwidth; adding one cut in the patch upper and lower corners, adding two steps to the microstrip feed line and adding one rectangular grove to the partial ground plane. The simulated results using high frequency structure simulator (HFSS) and computer simulation technology software (CST) show high bandwidth at RL ≥ 10 dB (3.5–14.9) GHz with percentage bandwidth of 123.91%. Promising peak gain, dipole-like radiation pattern in E-plane and good omni-directional radiation patterns in H-plane are achieved.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"R-20 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132934201","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":"Heart sounds recognition using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis and support vector machine","authors":"M. Azmy, R. Mohamady","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257742","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a heart sound recognition algorithm is based on Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDFA) to obtain most of the specifications of the heart sound signals, and support vector machine (SVM) to classify the features of signals of heart sound which distinguish the normal signals from the abnormal ones. The aim of this study is the development of computerized program to help physicians in the diagnosis of heart diseases. This algorithm allows us to classify the signals with accuracy percentage of 96.875%. The proposed method is evaluated using heart sound signal available in the web site of PhysioNet. They are collected from a variety of several environments from both healthy subjects and pathological patients. The recording signals include children and adults.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130901282","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}