Research List

Smart city term has strong relationship with the integration of information systems. The paper investigates information systems, particularly building information modeling, BIM as part of the smart city term, and attempts at linking BIM to the construction process and its related tasks and activities. A smart method that effectively utilizes [...]

A novel Motion Estimation architecture, used for homeland security video surveillance systems, proposed in this paper. The proposed architecture is suitable to be adopted in H.265 High Efficient Video Coding (H.265/HEVC) encoder of video surveillance systems. The proposed architecture uses level A and level B data reuse to minimize memory [...]

In this paper, we propose using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to learn safe driving behavior and smooth steering maneuvering as an empowerment of autonomous driving technologies. The training data is collected from a front-facing camera and the steering commands issued by an experienced driver driving in traffic as well [...]

This study aims to explore the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for estimating the relationship between accidents and other variables with a small dataset. ANNs have not been used to explore relationships between variables, especially for road accidents which have small datasets. Analysis of road traffic accidents is often [...]

In this paper, a Proportional-Integral-Differential (PID) controller that facilitates track maneuvering for self-driving cars is proposed. Three different design approaches are used to find and tune the controller hyper-parameters, one of them is specifically proposed in this paper for this specific application. The proposed controller uses only the Cross-Track-Error (CTE) [...]

In this paper, a fast and reliable lane-lines detection and tracking technique is proposed. The proposed technique is well suited to be used in Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) or self-driving cars. The main emphasis of the proposed technique in on simplicity and fast computation capability so that it can [...]

As technology improves at an astounding rate, cities have to improve their services in terms of safety, healthcare, transportation, and the overall welfare of their residents. Internet of Things (IoT) play a major role in the infrastructure of a smart city by gathering and processing data from distributed sensors to [...]

The Kingdom of Bahrain is ranked in the top 10 most urban ambient air polluted countries in the world due to high particulate matter (PM) concentrations. The main objective of this article is to analyze comprehensively long-term temporal (annual, seasonal, and monthly) trends of PM 2.5 /PM 10 ratios using [...]

Background & Objective: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are one of the most important elements in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. It is envisaged that WSNs will seamlessly bridge the physical world with the Internet resulting in countless IoT applications in smart cities, wearable devices, smart grids, smart retails amongst [...]

Engaging new mobile technology tools, which deliver information and knowledge, become part of our daily life. One of these tools is Augmented Reality (AR), a technology that blends the real world with computer-generated media. Through in-depth analysis, this study investigated the researchers’ (academics and students) behavioral intention to use mobile [...]