Bahria University Libraries: Recent submissions

  • A Scalable Data Integrity Mechanism Based on Provable Data Possession and JARs 
    Faheem Zafar; Abid Khan; Mansoor Ahmed; Majid Iqbal Khan; Farhana Jabeen; Zara Hamid; Naveed Ahmed; Faisal Bashir (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Cloud storage as a service provides high scalability and availability as per need of user, without large investment on infrastructure. However, data security risks, such as confidentiality, privacy, and integrity of the ...
  • Combining pre-retrieval query quality predictors using genetic programming 
    Shariq Bashir (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Predicting the effectiveness of queries plays an important role in information retrieval. In recent years, a number of methods are proposed for this task, however, there has been little work done on combining multiple ...
  • Estimating retrievability ranks of documents using document features 
    Shariq Bashir (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Retrievability is a measure of access that quantifies how easily documents can be found using a retrieval system. Such a measure is of particular interest within the recall oriented retrieval domains such as patent or legal ...
  • Producing efficient retrievability ranks of documents using normalized retrievability scoring function 
    Shariq Bashir; Akmal Saeed Khattak (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    In this paper, we perform a number of experiments with large scale queries to analyze the retrieval bias of standard retrieval models. These experiments analyze how far different retrieval models differ in terms of retrieval ...
  • Empirical Analysis of Signature-Based Sign Language Recognition 
    Sumaira Kausar; Muhammad Younus Javed; Aasia Khanum (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    The significance of automated SLR (Sign Language Recognition) proved not only in the deaf community but in various other spheres of life. The automated SLR are mainly based on the machine learning methods.PSL (Pakistani ...
  • XL-WMSN: cross-layer quality of service protocol for wireless multimedia sensor networks 
    Zara Hamid; Faisal Bashir (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
  • Load Balanced Routing for Lifetime Maximization in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks 
    Saifullah Khalid; Ashraf Masood; Faisal Bashir Hussain; Haider Abbas; Abdul Ghafoor (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
  • Preemptive re-association scheme for beacon-enabled wireless personal area networks 
    Faisal Bashir Hussain; Jae-Young Pyun (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Communication in wireless personal area networks (WPANs) is characterized as short range (up to few meters). In beacon-enabled cluster-tree-based WPANs, node mobility can result in several cell changes. Each cell change ...
  • Online Signature Verification: A Review 
    Jawad-ur-Rehman Chughtai; Dr. Shehzad Khalid; Dr. Imran Siddiqi (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    From the last few decades, online signature verification (OSV) has become a hot research topic and have been employed in many application areas such as banking, law enforcement, industry, and security control etc. The ...
  • A Review of Offline Signature Verification Techniques 
    Muhammad Nazakat; Dr. Shehzad Khalid; Dr. Imran Siddiqi (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Among various biometric modalities, signature verification remains one of the most widely used methods to authenticate the identity of an individual. Signature verification, the most important component of behavioral ...
  • Survey of Region-Based Text Extraction Techniques for Efficient Indexing of Image/Video Retrieval 
    Samabia Tehsin; Asif Masood; Sumaira Kausar (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    With the dramatic increase in multimedia data, escalating trend of internet, and amplifying use of image/video capturing devices; content based indexing and text extraction is gaining more and more importance in research ...
  • Automatic analysis of handwriting for gender classification 
    Imran Siddiqi; Chawki Djeddi; Ahsen Raza; Labiba Souici meslati (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    This paper presents a study to predict gender of individuals from scanned images of their handwritings. The proposed methodology is based on extracting a set of features from writing samples of male and female writers and ...
  • Fuzzy-Based Segmentation for Variable Font-Sized Text Extraction from Images/Videos 
    Samabia Tehsin; Asif Masood; Sumaira Kausar; Fahim Arif (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Textual information embedded in multimedia can provide a vital tool for indexing and retrieval. A lot of work is done in the field of text localization and detection because of its very fundamental importance. One of the ...
  • RB-Core: Routing Bridge-based 5G Mobile Core Network 
    Heeyoung Jung; Moneeb Gohar (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    The newly emerging 5G mobile communication system requires an effective design of core network to cope with the mobile data traffic explosions. In this paper, we propose a new architecture for 5G mobile core network, ...
  • An Ocr System For Printed Nastaliq Script: A Segmentation Based Approach 
    Saeeda Naz; Arif Iqbal Umar; Saad Bin Ahmed; Syed Hamad Shirazi; M. Imran Razzak; Imran Siddiqi (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Machine simulation of human reading has been a subject of intensive research for almost four decades. Automatic Urdu character recognition remains a challenging task due to its cursive nature despite the fact that the ...
  • Semantic Web Technology for Building Information Model 
    Muhammad Asfand-e-yar; Adam Kucera; Tomas Pitner (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Smart building is a trend towards the Buildings Automation paradigm. Smart building aims to autonomously control devices and systems in given environment. These devices and systems are nevertheless supervised by facility ...
  • Smart Buildings: Semantic Web Technology for Building Information Model and Building Management System 
    Muhammad Asfand-e-yar; Adam Kucera; Tomas Pitner (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Smart Building is a trend towards the Buildings Automation paradigm. Smart Building aims to autonomously control devices and systems in given environment. These devices and systems are nevertheless supervised by facility ...
  • Search-based Testing for Embedded Telecom Software with Complex Input Structures 
    Kivanc Doganay; Sigrid Eldh; Wasif Afzal; Markus Bohlin (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    In this paper, we discuss the application of search-based software testing techniques for unit level testing of a real-world telecommunication middleware at Ericsson. Our current implementation analyzes the existing test ...
  • Enhanced Interactive Learning using Augmented Reality 
    Saima Jawad; Azhar Habib; Babar Ali (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    In the field of education, the need of combining learning with enjoyment can never be underestimated. In order to accomplish these goals, educational applications are widely being developedespecially for smart phones. Most ...
  • Text-based Intelligent Content Filtering on Social Platforms 
    Sadaf Khurshid; Sharifullah Khan; Shariq Bashir (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2014)
    Social platforms have become one of the popular mediums of information sharing and communication over the Internet today. People share all types of contents such as text, images, audio and video using these social platforms. ...