New Trends in Information and Communications Technology Applications: 5th International Conference, NTICT 2021, Baghdad, Iraq, November 17–18, 2021, ... in Computer and Information Science)

✍ Scribed by Abbas M. Al-Bakry (editor), Safaa O. Al-Mamory (editor), Mouayad A. Sahib (editor), Loay E. George (editor), Jaafar A. Aldhaibani (editor), Haitham S. Hasan (editor), George S. Oreku (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Trends in Information and Communications Technology Applications, NTICT 2021, held in Baghdad, Iraq, in November 2021.
The 13 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 52 qualified submissions. The volume presents the latest research results in such areas as network protocols, overlay and other logical network structures, wireless access networks, computer vision, machine learning, artificial Intelligence, data mining, control methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Organization
Contents
Computing Methodologies
Semi-automatic Ontology Learning for Twitter Messages Based on Semantic Feature Extraction
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Ontology Construction
3.1 Domain Tweets Collection
3.2 The Data Pre-processing
3.3 Domain Term Extraction
3.4 Concept Learning
3.5 Taxonomic Relation Construction
3.6 Non Taxonomic Relation Construction
4 Evaluation
4.1 Inheritage Richness
4.2 Ratio of Class Relations
4.3 Axiom and Axiom/class Ratio
5 Conclusion
References
Audio Compression Using Transform Coding with LZW and Double Shift Coding
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Proposed Methodology
2.1 Audio Data Loading
2.2 Transform Technique
2.3 Quantization
2.4 Run-Length
2.5 Entropy Encoder
3 Results and Discussion
4 Comparisons with Previous Studies
5 Conclusion
References
The Effect of Speech Enhancement Techniques on the Quality of Noisy Speech Signals
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Environmental Noise
3 Speech Enhancement Techniques
3.1 Spectral Subtraction Approaches
3.2 Approaches Based on Statistical-Models
3.3 Subspace Approaches
4 Experimental Setup
4.1 Speech Samples
4.2 Noise Samples
4.3 Applied Speech Enhancement Algorithms
5 Questionnaires and Evaluations
5.1 Experimental Results
6 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Image Steganography Based on DNA Encoding and Bayer Pattern
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 The Proposed Method
4 Results
5 Conclusions
References
Panoramic Image Stitching Techniques Based on SURF and Singular Value Decomposition
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 Contribution
4 Image Stitching System
4.1 Image Acquisition
4.2 Features Extraction
4.3 Speeded up Robust Features
4.4 Features Matching
4.5 Homography Estimation
5 Blending and Composing
6 Image Quality Metrics
7 Methodology
8 Results and Discussion
8.1 Stitching Images Under Normal Conditions
8.2 Stitching Many Images with Normal Conditions
8.3 Stitching Images with Poor Illumination
8.4 Stitching Images with Various Illumination
8.5 Stitching Images with Noise
8.6 Stitching Images with Geometrical Images
8.7 Comparing the Results
9 Conclusion
References
Lossless EEG Data Compression Using Delta Modulation and Two Types of Enhanced Adaptive Shift Coders
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Suggested Compression System
3 Evaluation Metrics
3.1 Compression Gain (CG)
3.2 Compression Ratio (CR)
4 Experimental Results
5 Comparison with WINRAR and EDF
6 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Automatic Classification of Heart Sounds Utilizing Hybrid Model of Convolutional Neural Networks
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Methodology
3.1 Main Components of CNN
3.2 The Proposed Model
4 Experimental Results
5 Conclusion
References
Hybrid Approach for Fall Detection Based on Machine Learning
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 An Overview on Machine Learning
3.1 Naïve Bayes
3.2 Decision Trees
3.3 Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
4 Fall Detection System
4.1 Data Source
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Programming Environment
5 Evaluation Metrics
6 Experimental Result
7 Comparison of Classification Techniques
8 Conclusion
References
Three N-grams Based Language Model for Auto-correction of Speech Recognition Errors
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Proposed Technique
3.1 Language Model Design
3.2 Detecting of ASR Text Errors
3.3 Correcting of ASR Text Errors
4 Experimental Result
5 Conclusion
References
Networks
A Proposed Dynamic Hybrid-Based Load Balancing Algorithm to Improve Resources Utilization in SDN Environment
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Static Load Balancing Algorithms
2.2 Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithms
2.3 Limitations and Drawbacks
3 Proposed Hybrid-Based (HB) Algorithm
3.1 Advanced Server Monitoring Module (ASMM)
3.2 Hybrid Load Balancing Module (HLBM)
4 Experimental Setup
5 Flow Sequence Diagram
6 Results and Discussions
6.1 Server Transactions per Second
6.2 Server Average Response
6.3 Server CPU Capacity
7 Conclusion
8 Future Work
References
Energy-Saving Adaptive Sampling Mechanism for Patient Health Monitoring Based IoT Networks
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Literature
3 EASaM Mechanism
3.1 National Early Warning Score
3.2 Emergency Detection of the Patient
3.3 Adapting Sensing Frequency
4 Simulation Results
4.1 Data Reduction vs Adaptation of Sensing Rate
4.2 Energy Consumption
4.3 Data Integrity
5 Conclusion and Future Work
References
ETOP: Energy-Efficient Transmission Optimization Protocol in Sensor Networks of IoT
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Network Model
4 ETOP Protocol
5 Performance Evaluation and Analysis
5.1 Readings Reduction Ratio
5.2 Energy Consumption
5.3 Accuracy
6 Conclusions and Future Works
References
Applied Computing
The Extent of Awareness of Faculty Members at Albaydha University About the Concept of Educational Technology and Their Attitudes Towards It
Abstract
1 Introduction
1.1 The Problem of the Study
1.2 Importance of the Study
1.3 The Aims of the Study
1.4 Limits of the Study
1.5 Procedural Definitions
2 Previous Studies
3 Methodology and Procedures
4 Results
References
Author Index