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

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. 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