{"title":"Smart Health using IOT: Challenges and Solutions","authors":"Afia M. Muhammad, A. Alsunbul, A. Zeki","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00025","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of the Internet of Things in any field cannot be neglected, its tightening the whole world with the thread of Internet ranges from a small thing to a giant hierarchal structural organization as it is showing its performance in different sectors, smart health is one from them. While discussing the importance of IOT smart health, key contributions of different techniques are discussed in this paper. This research paper covers the contribution of different techniques under the umbrella of smart health. Moreover, critical overview is been highlighted along with gaps in the form of conclusion. On the basis of current status, future is also depicted.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129028503","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":"RSS Certainty: An Efficient Solution for RSS Variation due to Device Heterogeneity in WLAN Fingerprinting-based Indoor Positioning System","authors":"I. H. Alshami, Noor Azurati Ahmad, S. Sahibuddin","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00024","url":null,"abstract":"Fingerprinting method has been adopted widely for WLAN-based indoor positioning because of its effectiveness and the low-cost infrastructure of WLAN. However, the WLAN fingerprinting, based on the received signal strength (RSS), accuracy will be declined due to mobile devices heterogeneity since each device reads RSS differently even at the same location and the same time. This paper presents RSS Certainty (RSC) as an efficient solution for received signal strength variation because of device heterogeneity. The efficiency of RSC has been proved theoretically and experimentally it increases the positioning accuracy by more than 10%. RSC-based positioning performance evaluated against the most recent literatures which were proposed to handle the effect of the device heterogeneity such as Weight-RSS (wRSS); Signal Strength Difference (SSD) and Hyperbolic Location Fingerprinting (HLF), and the results show that RSC-based positioning has the best accuracy.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129182233","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":"Noise-Robust Least-Squares Method in TDOA Estimation of a Source Location","authors":"Ahmed Waleed Al-Asadi, Nabeel Salih Ali","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00032","url":null,"abstract":"The determination of the target position between a sensor and signal arrival is essential in various spheres of life, including telecommunication and military sectors. In this case, several sensors for detecting sound or other signals in space are used to estimate the position of a source emitting a signal. Typical methods for determining the location of a target often encounter problems when there is noise in the place of the sensors. This paper proposes the least-squares error method that applies the concept of correntropy. The process can robustly detect distortion in the position of the sensors and noise produced by them and could thus be used to estimate the target location. Experiments suggest that the method proposed here is superior to the standard least-squares method. Therefore, the innovations implemented include the provision of a new cost function that uses the concept of correntropy by the term exp, which results in higher resistance to noise in the transmitted data and the positions of the sensors. The technique's performance could be enhanced as a result of the presented method based on convergence rate and reduction of errors. The proposed approach is applicable to signal and instrumentation calculation noises that broaden the sound output time difference.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132390673","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}
Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, M. Al-Betar, M. Awadallah, S. Makhadmeh, O. Alomari, A. Abasi, Iyad Abu Doush
{"title":"EEG Feature Fusion for Person Identification Using Efficient Machine Learning Approach","authors":"Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, M. Al-Betar, M. Awadallah, S. Makhadmeh, O. Alomari, A. Abasi, Iyad Abu Doush","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00029","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal presents an excellent potential for a new person identification technique. This paper proposed a new method for EEG feature extraction based on fusing different EEG features. In general, EEG feature extraction can be categorized into three types which are time domain, frequency domain, and time-frequency domain features. This paper also applied several supervised learning approaches to select the efficient classifier for EEG-based person identification. The performance of the proposed method is tested using standard EEG datasets, namely, EEG Motor Movement/Imagery Dataset. The results are evaluated using four common criteria which are: accuracy rate (ACCEEC), sensitivity (SenEEC), specificity (SpeEEC) and F-score (FSEEC). The experiment results show that the fusion approach achieves better results compared with a traditional EEG feature extraction approach. The proposed fusion feature method is recommended to apply in more challenging signal problem instances, such as user authentication or early detection of epilepsy based on EEG signals.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121608923","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":"Alpha channel-Based Indicator For Robustness Forward/Backward LSB Steganography","authors":"Laila AlFaqawi, Mohamed AbuHaya, T. Barhoom","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00039","url":null,"abstract":"Steganography is important technique for protecting confidential media (text, image, audio, etc.) by embedding it on another media object calling a cover or carrier, subject to no one can discovered. There is a conflict between the developers of Steganography and Steganalysis (detecting hidden messages), Therefore, there must be a rapid development in the creation of complex algorithms to hide information in a way that is difficult to analyze and access. This research introduces a new image steganography technique, Alpha Channel Based Steganography, that differently others algorithms by hiding secret information depending on Alpha Channel where using RGB channels as search space and alpha channel as an indicator for hiding and retrieving confidential data. two least significance bits in alpha channel using to indicate which RGB channel have the secret bit and other two to indicate the rounds number and type (forward and backward search) until secret message end. Using Alpha Channel in the introduced algorithm increase robustness against Steganalysis. Moreover, the capacity of hidden information has also increased due to the quadrupling of the search field in one image, where no visual attack can detect stego image even with maximum hiding capacity. After testing, evaluating and comparing with other algorithms, the proposed algorithm scoring 0% in MSE test, infinite in PSNR test, and 1 for SSIM test, the result of testing indicate that the proposed algorithm achieves the best results according to steganography aspects: imperceptibility, capacity and robustness.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124847276","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":"Applying Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing in Cancer: A Survey","authors":"Aiman AbuSamra, Areej M. R. Al-Madhoun","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00030","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) tools significantly bolstered and facilitated the complexity of forecasting dangers, catching cancer earlier, and predicting the survival after treatment. Nowadays, they are emerging as a major adjunct for clinical and medical approaches. In this paper, the main idea concentrates on using deep learning (DL) and natural language processing (NLP) to scan, diagnose, and reduce any future negativities of cancer and oncology. In addition to giving strong variety of structural, systematic analysis of some reviewed studies. The primary aim of this survey is that it includes and represents a helpful guidance for researchers who need such direct evaluation of existed techniques for the purpose of more effective maintenance and development.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127852849","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":"Technical Support Committee","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/picict53635.2021.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/picict53635.2021.00010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121222308","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":"[Copyright notice]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/picict53635.2021.00003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/picict53635.2021.00003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122819667","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 Use of Machine Translation to Provide Resources for Under-Resourced Languages - Image Captioning Task","authors":"Basem H. A. Ahmed, Motaz K. Saad","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00017","url":null,"abstract":"Image captioning is an NLP task that has many applications such as image search and retrieval. This Task is a challenging task, and it needs a lot of data (image data and their text captions), which might not be available for some languages. In this work, we investigate the use of a machine translation system to provide resources for a low-resourced language (Arabic) for the imaging captioning task. We train a model on captions automatically translated using Google machine translation service. The performance is measured using the BLEU, ROUGE, CIDEr, METEOR metrics. We compare to English model's performance. We also evaluate the generated captions on manually translated captions. The results show that machine translation can be good enough for creating resources for low-resourced languages for the image captioning task and translating training data and building a new model is better than translating the model's output.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132602587","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}
S. Makhadmeh, M. Al-Betar, A. Abasi, M. Awadallah, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, O. Alomari, Iyad Abu Doush
{"title":"Wind Driven Optimization With Smart Home Battery for Power Scheduling Problem in Smart Home","authors":"S. Makhadmeh, M. Al-Betar, A. Abasi, M. Awadallah, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, O. Alomari, Iyad Abu Doush","doi":"10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICICT53635.2021.00026","url":null,"abstract":"The power scheduling problem in smart home (PSPSH) refers to schedule smart appliances at suitable times in accordance with pricing system(s). Smart appliances can be rearranged and scheduled by moving their operation times from one period to another. Such a process aims to decrease the electricity bill and the power demand at peak periods and improve user satisfaction. Different optimization approaches were proposed to address PSPSH, where metaheuristics are the most common methods. In this paper, wind-driven optimization (WDO) is adapted to handle PSPSH and optimize its objectives. Smart home battery (SHB) is modelled and used to improve the schedules by storing power at off-peak periods and using the stored power at peak periods. In the simulation results, the proposed approach proves its efficiency in reducing electricity bills and improving user satisfaction. In addition, WDO is compared with bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) to evaluate and investigate its performance. WDO outperforms BFOA in optimizing PSPSH objectives.","PeriodicalId":308869,"journal":{"name":"2021 Palestinian International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (PICICT)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126695093","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}