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15 papers
Advancing Offline Handwritten Text Recognition: A Systematic Review of Data Augmentation and Generation Techniques
Yassin Hussein Rassul, Aram M. Ahmed, Polla Fattah +4
Offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems play a crucial role in applications such as historical document digitization, automatic form processing, and biometric authentica…
From Dialect Gaps to Identity Maps: Tackling Variability in Speaker Verification
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Soran Badawi, Dana A. Abdullah +1
The complexity and difficulties of Kurdish speaker detection among its several dialects are investigated in this work. Because of its great phonetic and lexical differences, Kurdis…
Video Forgery Detection for Surveillance Cameras: A Review
Noor B. Tayfor, Tarik A. Rashid, Shko M. Qader +14
The widespread availability of video recording through smartphones and digital devices has made video-based evidence more accessible than ever. Surveillance footage plays a crucial…
A Proposed Hybrid Recommender System for Tourism Industry in Iraq Using Evolutionary Apriori and K-means Algorithms
Bryar A. Hassan, Alla A. Hassan, Joan Lu +2
The rapid proliferation of tourism data across sectors, including accommodations, cultural sites, and events, has made it increasingly challenging for travelers to identify relevan…
Reducing Formal Context Extraction: A Newly Proposed Framework from Big Corpora
Bryar A. Hassan, Shko M. Qader, Alla A. Hassan +4
Automating the extraction of concept hierarchies from free text is advantageous because manual generation is frequently labor- and resource-intensive. Free result, the whole proced…
Multi-objective Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm based on a Grid System
Aram M. Ahmed, Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid +4
This paper presents a multi-objective version of the Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm called the Grid-based Multi-objective Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm (GMOCSO). Convergence a…
Advanced Clustering Techniques for Speech Signal Enhancement: A Review and Metanalysis of Fuzzy C-Means, K-Means, and Kernel Fuzzy C-Means Methods
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Aram Mahmood Ahmed, Tarik Rashid +1
Speech signal processing is a cornerstone of modern communication technologies, tasked with improving the clarity and comprehensibility of audio data in noisy environments. The pri…
From A-to-Z Review of Clustering Validation Indices
Bryar A. Hassan, Noor Bahjat Tayfor, Alla A. Hassan +3
Data clustering involves identifying latent similarities within a dataset and organizing them into clusters or groups. The outcomes of various clustering algorithms differ as they…
Modified Bat Algorithm: A Newly Proposed Approach for Solving Complex and Real-World Problems
Shahla U. Umar, Tarik A. Rashid, Aram M. Ahmed +2
Bat Algorithm (BA) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic search algorithm designed to efficiently explore complex problem spaces and find near-optimal solutions. The algorithm is insp…
Equitable and Fair Performance Evaluation of Whale Optimization Algorithm
Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid, Aram Ahmed +7
It is essential that all algorithms are exhaustively, somewhat, and intelligently evaluated. Nonetheless, evaluating the effectiveness of optimization algorithms equitably and fair…
Balancing exploration and exploitation phases in whale optimization algorithm: an insightful and empirical analysis
Aram M. Ahmed, Tarik A. Rashid, Bryar A. Hassan +7
Agents of any metaheuristic algorithms are moving in two modes, namely exploration and exploitation. Obtaining robust results in any algorithm is strongly dependent on how to balan…
Multi-objective learner performance-based behavior algorithm with five multi-objective real-world engineering problems
Chnoor M. Rahman, Tarik A. Rashid, Aram Mahmood Ahmed +1
In this work, a new multiobjective optimization algorithm called multiobjective learner performance-based behavior algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on the pro…
Dynamic Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Backboard Wiring Problem
Aram Ahmed, Tarik A. Rashid, Soran Saeed
This paper presents a powerful swarm intelligence meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Dynamic Cat Swarm Optimization. The formulation is through modifying the existing Cat…
Evaluating e-Government Services in Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research Using the EGOVSAT Model
Bryar A. Hassan, Aram M. Ahmed, Soran A. Saeed +1
Office automation is an initiative used to digitally deliver services to citizens, private and public sectors. It is used to digitally collect, store, create, and manipulate office…
Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm -- A Survey and Performance Evaluation
Aram M. Ahmed, Tarik A. Rashid, Soran Ab. M. Saeed
This paper presents an in-depth survey and performance evaluation of the Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) Algorithm. CSO is a robust and powerful metaheuristic swarm-based optimization…