PUBLICATIONS:

 

Papers in Refereed Journals

 

[1]  N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, “Human Perception-based Data Reduction for Haptic Communication in Six-DoF Telepresence Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, (accepted, to appear), 2011.

[2]  N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, and E.M. Petriu, “Multimodal Vision-Haptic Perception of Digital Watermarks Embedded in 3D Meshes,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 1047-1055, May 2010.

[3]  N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, and J. Zhao, “Prediction-based Haptic Data Reduction and Transmission in Telementoring Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 1727-1736, May 2009.

[4]  N. Sakr, J. Zhao, and V. Groza, “Adaptive Digital Image Watermarking based on Predictive Embedding and a Dynamic Fuzzy Inference System Model,” InderScience Journal: International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 237-264, 2007.

 

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

 

[1]  F. Guo, Y. He, N. Sakr, J. Zhao, and A. El Saddik,Haptic data compression based on quadratic curve reconstruction and prediction,” Proc. ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, pp. 193-196, Chengdu, China, Aug. 2011.

[2]  F. Guo, Y. He, N. Sakr, J. Zhao, and A. El Saddik,,Haptic data compression based on curve reconstruction,” Proc. Second international conference on Autonomous and intelligent systems (Springer-Verlag), pp. 343-354, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 2011.

[3]  N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao “Exploring Human Perception-based Data Reduction for Haptic Communication in 6-DOF Telepresence Systems,” Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games, pp. 1-6, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Oct. 2010.

[4]  N. Sakr, F. A. Alsulaiman, J.J. Valdés, A. El Saddik, N.D. Georganas, “Feature Selection in Haptic-based Handwritten Signatures using Rough Sets,” Proc. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 1463-1470, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.

[5]  N. Sakr, F. A. Alsulaiman, J.J. Valdés, A. El Saddik, N.D. Georganas, “Exploring the Underlying Structure of Haptic-based Handwritten Signatures using Visual Data Mining Techniques,” Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium, pp. 467-474, Boston, MA, USA, March 2010.

[6] N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M Petriu, “Network Traffic Reduction in Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Telementoring Systems,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 2451-2456, San Antonio, TX, USA, Oct. 2009.

[7]  N. Sakr, F. A. Alsulaiman, J.J. Valdés, A. El Saddik, N.D. Georganas, “Relevant Feature Selection and Generation in High Dimensional Haptic-based Biometric Data,” Proc. International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'09), CSREA Press, pp. 71-77, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 2009.

[8]  F. A. Alsulaiman, N. Sakr, J.J. Valdés, A. El Saddik, N.D. Georganas, “Feature Selection and Classification in Genetic Programming: Application to Haptic-based Biometric data,” IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications, pp. 1-7, Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 2009.

[9]  N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M. Petriu, “Robust Perception-based Data Reduction and Transmission in Telehaptic Systems,” Proc. IEEE World Haptics, Third Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, pp. 214-219, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, March 2009.

[10] N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao,  E.M. Petriu, “Perceptibility of Digital Watermarks Embedded in 3D Meshes using Unimodal and Bimodal Hapto-Visual Interaction,” Proc. IEEE International Instrumentation and. Measurement. Technology Conference, pp. 987-991, Singapore, May 2009.

[11] N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, “Perceptibility of Watermarked 3D Meshes using  a Multimodal Visuo-Haptic Interface,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces, and Measurement Systems, pp. 20-24, Turkey, Istanbul, July 2008.

[12] N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, X. Shen, “Prediction-based Haptic Data Reduction and Compression in Tele-Mentoring Systems, Proc. IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, pp. 1828-1832, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2008.

[13] N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, “A Perceptual Quality Metric for Haptic Signals, Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 27-32, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Oct. 2007.

[14] N. Sakr, N. Georganas, J. Zhao, and X. Shen, “Towards an Architecture for the Compression of Haptic Media, Proc. IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces, and Measurement Systems, pp. 13-18, Ostuni, Italy, June 2007.

[15] N. Sakr, N. Georganas, J. Zhao, and X. Shen, “Motion and Force Prediction in Haptic Media,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 2242-2245, Beijing, China, July 2007.

[16] N. Sakr, N. Georganas, and J. Zhao, “Copyright Protection of Image Learning Objects using Wavelet-based Watermarking and Fuzzy Logic,” Proc. of I2LOR 2006, third annual e-learning conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories, Nov. 2006.

[17] N. Sakr, J. Zhao, and V. Groza, “A Dynamic Fuzzy Logic Approach to Adaptive HVS-based Watermarking,” Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, pp. 121-126, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Oct. 2005.

[18] N. Sakr, J. Zhao, and V. Groza, “Adaptive Image Watermarking based on a Dynamic Fuzzy Inference System,” Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 976-979, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May  2005.

[19] N. Sakr and V. Groza, “Run-Time Reconfigurable Hardware Blocks for Multimedia Applications,” Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, pp. 1996-1999, Saskatchewan Canada, May 2005.

[20] V. Groza, N. Sakr, M. Elbadri, “Run-Time Reconfigurable System-on-Chip,” Proc. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 2005.

[21] R. Abielmona, V. Groza, N. Sakr, J. Ho, “Low-Level Run-Time Reconfiguration of FPGAs for Dynamic Environments,” Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 2135-2138, Niagara Falls, May 2004.

[22] V. Groza, R. Abielmona, M. El-Kadri, N. Sakr, M. Elbadri, “A Reconfigurable Co-Processor for Adaptive Embedded Systems,” WISES 2004 - Second Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems, pp. 105-116, Graz, Austria, June 2004.

Nizar Sakr

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