Research

Research Grants

 1. Title: consumer Engagement towards Energy saving behaviour by means of Exploiting Micro Moments and Mobile recommendation systems (EM)3
Source: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Funding: 599,928.00 USD
2. Title: Embedded multi-core systems for multi-critical applications in the Internet of Things Era (EMBIoT)
Source: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Funding: 692,760.00 USD
3. Title: Revolutionizing ECMO Simulation with Affordable yet High-Fidelity Technology
Source: Qatar University
Funding: 41,000.00 USD
4. Title: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Simulator for Patient Management Training at HMC
Source: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Funding: 15,315.00 USD
5. Title: Development of Instrumentation for High-Precision Angular Position and Speed Measurement
Source: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Funding: 20,000.00 USD
6. Title: HD ANPR on Heterogeneous SoC Platform
Source: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Funding: 39,400.00 USD
7. Title: A Reconfigurable Connected Health Platform
Source: Qatar University
Funding: 33,000.00 USD
8. Title: Reconfigurable Smart Wireless Gas Sensor Network
Source: Qatar University
Funding: 33,000.00 USD
9. Title: Acceleration of DSP algorithms on Zync SoC platform
Source: Qatar University
Funding: 14,000.00 USD
10. Title: Vital Signs Monitoring System using IoT Devices
Source: Qatar University
Funding: 2,200.00 USD
11. Title: IoT-based Class Attendance Management System using Fingerprint
Source: Qatar University
Funding: 2,000.00 USD
12. Title: 3D Face Recognition for Border Control
Source: University of Hertfordshire
Funding: 7,500.00 USD

Publications

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  1. M. Aldisi, A. Alsalemi, Y. Alhomsi, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and G. Alinier, “Revolutionizing ECMO Simulation with Affordable yet High-Fidelity Technology,” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Elsevier, in press.
  2. H. Djelouat, A.  Ait Si Ali, A.  Amira and F.  Bensaali, “An interactive software tool for gas identification,” Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Elsevier, in press.
  3. A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, F. Bensaali, X. Zhai and A. Amira, “HD Number Plate Localization and Character Segmentation on the Zynq Heterogeneous SoC,” Journal of Real-time Image Processing, Springer, accepted.
  4. H. Baali, X. Zhai, H. Djelouat, A.  Amira and F.  Bensaali, “Inequality Indexes as Sparsity Measures Applied to Ventricular Ectopic Beats Detection and its Efficient Hardware Implementation,” IEEE Access, in press
  5. H. Baali, H. Djelouat, A.  Amira and F.  Bensaali, “Empowering Technology Enabled Care Using IoT and Smart Devices: A Review,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, Issue 5, pp. 5169-5179, March 2018.
  6. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Farhat, M. Saqib, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar and A. Bermak, “Embedded Platform for Gas Applications Using Hardware/Software Co-Design and RFID,” IEEE Sensors Journal, major revision.
  7. H. Djelouat, H. Baali, A.  Amira and F.  Bensaali, “An Adaptive Joint Sparsity Recovery for Compressive Sensing Based EEG System,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley/Hindawi, vol. 2017, Article ID 9823684, 10 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/9823684.
  8. A. Ait Si Ali, H. Djelouat, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar and A. Bermak, “Electronic nose system on the Zynq SoC platform,” Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier, vol. 53, pp. 145-156, August 2017.
  9. M. Benammar, A. Khattab, S. Saleh, F. Bensaali and F. Touati, “A Sinusoidal Encoder-to-Digital Converter Based on an Improved Tangent Method,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, Issue 16, pp. 5169-5179, August 2017.
  10. X. Zhai, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “ECG Encryption and Identification based Security Solution on the Zynq SoC for Connected Health Systems,” Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 106, pp. 143-152, August 2017.
  11. A. Haider, F. Bensaali and F. Jaber, “Novel Approach to Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring based on Transmittance and Refraction of Visible Laser Light”, IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 9163-9174, May 2017.
  12. H. Djelouat, A.  Ait Si Ali, A.  Amira and F.  Bensaali, “Compressive sensing based electronic nose platform”, Elsevier Journal Digital Signal Processing, vol. 60, pp. 350-359, January 2017.
  13. M. Aldisi, A. Alsalemi, Y. Alhomsi, I. Ahmed, F. Bensaali, G. Alinier and A. Amira, “Design and Implementation of a Modular ECMO Simulator,” Qatar Medical Journal: 4th Annual ELSO-SWAC Conference Proceedings, vol. 2017, 62, pp. 1-2. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2017.swacelso.62
  14. A. Alsalemi, M. Aldisi, Y. Alhomsi, I. Ahmed, F. Bensaali, G. Alinier and A. Amira, “Using Thermochromic Ink for Medical Simulations,” Qatar Medical Journal: 4th Annual ELSO-SWAC Conference Proceedings. vol. 2017, 63, pp. 1-2. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2017.swacelso.63
  15. X. Zhai, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “MLP Neural Network Based Gas Classification System on Zynq SoC”, IEEE Access, Special Session on Cooperative and Intelligent Sensing, vol. 4. Issue 1, pp. 8138-8146, December 2016.
  16. M. A. Akbar, A. Ait Si Ali, A.  Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, M. Hassan, and A. Bermak, “An Empirical Study for PCA and LDA Based Feature Reduction for Gas Identification,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, Issue 14, pp.  5734 – 5746, July 2016.
  17. M. A. Akbar, M. Zgaren, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, M. Benammar, F. Bensaali, M Sawan and A. Bermak, “Gas Identification Using Passive UHF RFID Sensor Platform,” Sensors and Transducers Journal, vol. 194. Issue 11, pp. 42-53, November 2015.
  18. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar and M. A. Akbar, “Design and Implementation of a Gas Identification on the Zynq SoC Platform,” The ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,  vol. 10, No. 20, pp. 9758-9764, November 2015.
  19. X. Zhai, F. Jaber, F. Bensaali and A. Mishra, “Hardware Acceleration of a Dielectrophoresis System for Achieving a Single-Neuron-Per-Electrode Arrangement in Microelectrode Arrays,” The International Journal of Simulation, Systems, Science and Technology, vol. 16. Issue 3, pp. 4.1-4.7, June 2015.
  20. M. A. Akbar, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, M. Hassan and A. Bermak, “Impact of feature reduction and operating temperature on gas identification,” ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 10, No. 19, pp. 8783-8790, October 2015.
  21. X. Zhai and F. Bensaali, “Improved Number Plate Character Segmentation Algorithm and Its Efficient FPGA Implementation”, Journal of Real-time Image Processing, Springer, vol.10, issue 1, pp. 91-103, Mar, 2015.
  22. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and R. Sotudeh, “Real-Time Optical Character Recognition on FPGA for ANPR”, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol.7, issue 6, pp. 337-344, Nov, 2013. In Top 50 Most Frequently Downloaded Articles (Dec 2014).
  23. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and S. Ramalingam, “Improved Number Plate Localisation Algorithm and its Efficient Field Programmable Gate Arrays Implementation”, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol.7, issue 2, pp. 93-103, Mar, 2013.
  24. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and R. Sotudeh, “FPGA-based Number Plate Binarisation and Adjustment for ANPR Systems”, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 22, issue 1, pp. 1-11, Jan, 2013.
  25. Z. Musoromy, S. Ramalingam, F.  Bensaali and G. Pissanidis, “Real-time DSP-based Edge Detection Techniques for License Plate Detection: A Comparative Study”, Journal of Information Assurance and Security, pp. 294-301, ISSN 1554-1010 Volume 6, 2011.
  26. F. Bensaali, A. Amira and R. Sotudeh, “A General Framework for efficient FPGA Implementation of Matrix Product”, The Mediterranean Journal of Computers and Networks, pp 124-131, Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007.
  27. R. Sotudeh, Z. Ahmad and F. Bensaali, “Intelligent Co-operative Processor-In-Memory Architectures”, The Mediterranean Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 52-65, April 2007.
  28. F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Field Programmable Gate Array Based Parallel Matrix Multiplier for 3D Affine Transformations”, the IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing – Special Issue on Rapid Prototyping of Signal Processing Algorithms, Vol. 153, Issue 6, pp 739-746, December 2006.
  29. F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Accelerating Color Space Conversion on Reconfigurable Hardware”, Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 23, Issue 11, pp 935-942, October 2005.
  30. F. Bensaali, A. Amira and A. Bouridane, “Accelerating Matrix Product on Reconfigurable Hardware for Image Processing Applications”, IEE Proceedings on Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol. 152, Issue 3, pp 236-246, June 2005.
  31. F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Design and Implementation of Efficient Architectures for Color Space Conversion”, The International Journal on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, pp 37-47, Vol. 5, Issue 1, December 2004.
 Book Chapters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. D. Abunahia, H. Abou Al Ola, T. Ismail, A. Amira, A. Ait Si Ali, F. Bensaali, “Generalised and Versatile Connected Health Solution on the Zynq SoC”, In: Bi Y., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2016. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 751, pp 454-474, Springer, Cham, January 2018.
  2. A. Akbar, H. Djelouat, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, A. Bermak, “Design and Performance Evaluation of a Committee Machine for Gas Identification,” Proceedings of the SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 16, pp. 936-945, Springer, August 2017.
  3. G. Abunahia, H. R. Abou Al Ola, T. A. Ismail, A.  Amira, A. Ait Si Ali, F. Bensaali, “A Reconfigurable Connected Health Platform Using ZYNQ System on Chip,” Proceedings of the SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 16, pp. 857-867, Springer, August 2017.
  4. A. Ait Si Ali, X. Zhai, A. Amira, F. Bensaali and N. Ramzan,“Enhanced Biometric Security and Privacy using ECG on the Zynq SoC”, Biometric Security and Privacy – Opportunities & Challenges in The Big Data Era, Springer, pp 179-202, 2017.
  5. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, M. Hassan and A. Bermak, “Versatile Gas Monitoring System on the Heterogeneous Zynq SoC Platform”, Proceedings of the 4th International Gas Processing Symposium, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780444634610, June 2015.
  6. F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Design and Efficient FPGA Implementation of an RGB to YCrCb Color Space Converter Using Distributed Arithmetic”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic (FPL), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3203, pp 991-995, Springer Verlag, August 2004.
  7. A. Amira, A. Bouridane, P. Milligan and F. Bensaali, “Custom Coprocessor based Matrix Algorithms for Image and Signal Processing”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic (FPL), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 730-739, Springer Verlag, September 2002.
Refereed Conference Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. H. Djelouat, H. Baali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali; “CS-Based Fall Detection Platform for Connected Health Applications”, 4th International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering, Lebanon, October 2017.
  2. H. Baali, X. Zhai, H. Djelouat, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “Design and Acceleration of Scarifying Matrices for Compressed Sensing of EEG Signal”, 2nd International Computational Science and Engineering Conference, Doha, Qatar, October 2017.
  3. A. Alsalemi, M. Al Disi, I. Ahmed, Y. Alhomsi, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and G. Alinier, “’Developing Cost-Effective Simulators for Patient Management: A Modular Approach”, 4th International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering, Lebanon, October 2017.
  4. A. El-Sayed, A. Al-Shibani, A. Al-Nassr, N. Al-Maadeed, S. Balakrishnan, G. Anderson, R. Richardson, D. Groen, P. Coveney, A. Zakaria, P. Bermejo, A. Al-Ansari, J. Abinahed, S. Dakua, F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Data Processing on Zynq System on Chip for Blood Flow Simulation”, 2nd International Computational Science and Engineering Conference, Doha, Qatar, October 2017.
  5. E. Hussein, M. Filali, S. Shalaby, S. Balakrishnan, G. Anderson, R. Richardson, D. Groen, P. Coveney, A. Zakaria, P. Bermejo, A. Al-Ansari, J. Abinahed, S. Dakua, F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Aneurysm Treatment Planning on Reconfigurable System on Chip”, 2nd International Computational Science and EngineerinHg Conference, Doha, Qatar, October 2017.
  6. H. Djelouat, H. Baali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali; “Joint Sparsity Recovery for Compressive Sensing Based EEG”, 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, Spain, September 2017.
  7. H. Baali, X. Zhai, H. Djelouat, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “Efficient Hardware Implementation of the -Regularized Least Squares for IoT Edge Computing”, 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, Spain, September 2017.
  8. C. Kotronis, G. Minou, G. Dimitrakopoulos, M. Nikolaidou, D. Anagnostopoulos, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, H. Djelouat and H. Baali, “Managing Criticalities of e-Health IoT Systems”, 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, Spain, September 2017.
  9. Djelouat, H. Baali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, “IoT Based Compressive Sensing for ECG Monitoring”, 2nd International Symposium on Real-time Data Processing for Cloud Computing. In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing, Exeter, UK, June 2017.
  10. H. Baali, H. Djelouat, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, “QRS Complexes Classification using Dictionary Learning and Pietra Index,” 2nd International Symposium on Real-time Data Processing for Cloud Computing. In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing, Exeter, UK, June 2017.
  11. A. Alsalemi, Y. Alhomsi, M. Al Disi, I. Ahmed, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and G. Alinier, “Real-Time Communication Network using Firebase Cloud IoT Platform for ECMO Simulation”, 2nd International Symposium on Real-time Data Processing for Cloud Computing. In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing, Exeter, UK, June 2017.
  12. A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, A. Al -Qahtani, O. Hommos, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “OCR-based Hardware Implementation for Qatari Number Plate on the Zynq SoC,” 9th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Bahrain, May 2017.
  13. A. Haider, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and F. Jaber, “Sea Water Salinity Detection Using Circular Fringes Formation Based on Diffraction of Laser Light,” 9th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Bahrain, May 2017.
  14. A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “HD Number Plate Localization on the Zynq Heterogeneous SoC,” The IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Greece, October 2016.
  15. A. Khattab, M. Benammar and F. Bensaali, “A Novel Method for Online Correction of Amplitude and Phase Imbalances in Sinusoidal Encoders Signals,” 17th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control, Bulgaria, pp. 784-789, September 2016.
  16. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar and A. Bermak, “HW/SW Co-Design Based Implementation of Gas Discrimination,” The 27th Annual IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, pp. 237-238, London, UK, July 2016.
  17. A. Khattab, S. Saleh, M. Benammar and F. Bensaali, “A Precise Converter for Resolvers and Sinusoidal Encoders Based on a Novel Ratiometric Technique,” 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, pp. 1-6, Italy, April 2016.
  18. A. Ait Si Ali, X. Zhai, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, N. Ramzan, “Heterogeneous Implementation of ECG Encryption and Identification on the Zynq SoC,” The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 139-139, Washington DC, USA, May 2016.
  19. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, M. Hassan and A. Bermak, “High Level Synthesis Based E-Nose System for Gas Applications,” The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 202-203,Washington DC, USA, May 2016.
  20. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali and N. Ramzan, “Custom IP Cores for Robust Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition,” 12th UWS Annual Research Conference, Scotland, UK, April 2016.
  21. O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “HD Qatari ANPR system,” The IEEE conference on industrial informatics and Computer Systems, UAE, March 2016.
  22. A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, A. Al-Qahtani, O. Hommos, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “OCR Based Feature Extraction and Template Matching Algorithms for Qatari Number Plate,” The IEEE conference on industrial informatics and Computer Systems, UAE, March 2016.
  23. A. Ait Si Ali, M. A. Akbar, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, M. Hassan and A. Bermak, “Fast Prototyping of KNN Based Gas Discrimination System on the Zynq SoC,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (QF-ARC), Doha, Qatar, vol. 2016, ICTOP1832, March 2016.
  24. S. Alshorman, F. Jaber and F. Bensaali, “A Remote Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate Monitoring System,” The International Conference in Emergency Medicine and Public Health, Qatar, January 2016.
  25. S. Alshorman, F. Jaber and F. Bensaali, “ A Wireless Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate Monitoring and Alarming System Based on the Qatar Early Warning Scoring System,” The International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, pp. 787-790, Las Vegas, USA, December 2015.
  26. F. Bensaali, A. Amira, X. Zhai and T. Huang, “A Stand-Alone Application for Automatic Bulk Returning of Students’ Reports,” The 4th International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education, pp. 9-15, Indonesia, September 2015.
  27. X. Zhai, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “ECG Security Identification System on the Zynq SoC Platform”, the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, pp. 1164-1169, Liverpool, UK, October 2015.
  28. A. Akbar, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, S. Mohamad and A. Bermak, “Receiver Design of Passive UHF RFID Sensor Platform for Gas Applications,” The 6th International Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications, pp. 164-169, Venice, Italy, 23-28 August, 2015.
  29. X. Zhai, F. Jaber, F. Bensaali and A. Mishra, “Hardware Acceleration of an Image Processing System for Dielectrophoretic Loading of Single Neurons Inside Micro-Wells of Microelectrode Arrays,” IEEE UKSim-AMSS 17th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 571-576, Cambridge University, UK, March 2015.
  30. A. Akbar, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, M. Benammar, F. Bensaali, S. Mohamad, F. Tang, A. Bermak, M. Zgaren and M. Sawan, “A Multi-Sensing Reconfigurable Platform for Gas Applications,” 26th International Conference on Microelectronics, Qatar, pp. 148-151, December 2014.
  31. A. Ait Si Ali, M. Siupik, A. Amira, F. Bensaali and P. Casaseca, “HLS Based Hardware Acceleration on the Zynq SoC: a Case Study for Fall Detection System,” The 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Qatar, pp. 685-690, November 2014.
  32. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, M. Benammar, M. Hassan, A. Bermak, “Software-Hardware Co-Design Approach for gas Identification,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, vol. 2014, ITPP1115, Qatar, November 2014.
  33. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “Custom IP Cores for Robust Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition Algorithms Used in Gas Applications”, ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)- PhD Symposium, pp 68-69, Qatar, November 2014. Best PhD paper award winner.
  34. A. Akbar, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, M. Benammar, F. Bensaali, S. Mohamad, F. Tang, A. Bermak, M. Zgaren, M. Sawan, “A Low Power Reconfigurable Multi-Sensing Platform for Gas Application,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, Qatar, November 2014.
  35. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali and M. Benammar, “PCA IP-Core for Gas Applications on the Heterogenous Zynq Platform”, 25th International Conference on Microelectronics, pp. 1-4, Beirut, Lebanon, December 2013.
  36. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and K. McDonald-Maier, “Automatic Number Plate Recognition on FPGA”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, pp. 325-328, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2013.
  37. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira and F. Bensaali and M. Benammar, “Hardware PCA for Gas Identification Systems Using High Level Synthesis on the Zynq SoC”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, pp. 707-710, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2013.
  38. A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “Custom IP Cores for Robust Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition Algorithms Used in Gas Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (PhD Forum), pp. 68-69, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2013. Best MSc/PhD Forum Paper Winner.
  39. A .Ait Si Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali and M. Benammar, “Hardware Implementation of Principal Component Analysis for Gas Identification Systems on the Zynq SoC Platform”, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, vol. 2013, ICTP017, Doha, Qatar, November 2013. Research Excellence Award Winner.
  40. X. Zhai and F. Bensaali, “Standard Definition ANPR System on FPGA and an Approach to Extend it to HD”, The 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, pp. 214-219, Doha, Qatar, November 2013.
  41. Z. Jeffrey, X. Zhai, F. Bensaali, R. Sotudeh and A. Ariyaeeinia, “Automatic Number Plate Recognition System on an ARM-DSP and FPGA Heterogeneous SoC Platforms”, Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips, California, USA, August 2013.
  42. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and R. Sotudeh, “OCR-Based Neural Network for ANPR”, in the proceedings of the 2012 IEEE international Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, pp. 393-397, Manchester, UK, July 2012.
  43. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and S. Ramalingam, “Real-Time License Plate Localisation on FPGA”, The 7th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision, pp. 14-19, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, June 2011.
  44. X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and S. Ramalingam, “License Plate Localisation based on Morphological Operations”, The 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp 1128-1132, Singapore, December 2010.
  45. Z. Musoromy, F.  Bensaali, S. Ramalingam and G. Pissanidis, “Comparison of real-time DSP-Based Edge Detection Techniques for License Plate Detection”, Sixth international Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS), pp 323-328, Atlanta, USA, August 2010.
  46. M. Milosavljevic, F. Bensaali, and P. Kourtessis, “xDSL Network Upgrade Employing FPGAs”, The IEEE International Symposium on Electronic, Test and Applications (DELTA 2008), pp 158-162, Hong Kong, January 2008.
  47. X. Wen, F. Bensaali, and R. Sotudeh, “Dynamic Co-operative Intelligent Memory”, The IEEE International Symposium on Electronic, Test and Applications (DELTA 2008), pp 184-189, Hong Kong, January 2008.
  48. A. Amira, F. Bensaali and S. Chandrasekaran, “A General Framework for Efficient FPGA Implementation and Power Modelling of Image Processing Cores”, The 4th Visual Information Engineering Conference, London, UK, July 2007.
  49. F. Bensaali, A. Amira and R. Sotudeh, “Floating-Point Matrix Product on FPGA”, The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2007), pp 466-473, Amman, Jordan, May 2007.
  50. F. Bensaali, A. Amira and S.Chandrasekaran, “Power Modeling and Efficient FPGA Implementation of Color Space Conversion”, The 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2006), pp 164-167, Nice, France, December 2006.
  51. A. Amira, F. Bensaali, I. S. Uzun and A. Ahmedsaid, “Matrix Algorithm Cores Generator on Reconfigurable Hardware for Image Processing”, The Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Logic Devices and Technologies International Conference, Washington, D.C. USA, September 2006.
  52. S. Chandrasekaran, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “FPGA Implementation of Reduced Bit Plane Motion Estimation”, The Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Logic Devices and Technologies International Conference (MAPLD 2005), Washington, D.C. USA, September 2005.
  53. F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “An FPGA Based Color Space Converter Using Distributed Arithmetic” Proceedings of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 30 June-2 July 2004.
  54. F. Bensaali, A. Amira and A. Bouridane, “An Efficient Architecture for Color Space Conversion Using Distributed Arithmetic”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004), vol. 2, pp. 265-268, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004.
  55. F. Bensaali and A. Amira, “Design and Hardware Implementation of An Efficient Architecture For Color Space Conversion” Proceedings of the EPSRC PREP04 Conference, pp 64-65, 5 -7 April 2004, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
  56. F. Bensaali, A. Amira, I. S. Uzun and A. Ahmedsaid, “An FPGA Implementation of 3D Affine Transformation”, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2003), vol. 2, p. 715-718, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, December 2003.
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  61. F. Bensaali, A. Amira, A. Ahmedsaid and I. S. Uzun, “Efficient Implementation of Large Parallel Matrix Product for DOTs”, The International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT 2003), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2003.
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  63. A. Amira, I. S. Uzun and F. Bensaali, “An FPGA Implementation of Discrete Hartley Transforms for Signal Processing”, The International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT 2003), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2003.
  64. S. Uzun, A. Amira, A. Ahmedsaid and F. Bensaali, “Towards A General Framework for an FPGA-based FFT Coprocessor”, The Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Application (ISSPA 2003), Paris, France, July 2003.
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