A. B. M. Alim Al Islam

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology | BUET · Department of Computer Science and Engineering

People exhibit unique emotional responses. In the same scenario, the emotional reactions of two individuals can be either similar or vastly different. For instance, consider one person's reaction to an invitation to smoke versus another person's response to a query about their sleep quality. The identification of these individual traits through the...

The traffic signaling system is a critical part of managing traffic in any city or country. Unfortunately, the traffic signaling system in Dhaka is in terrible shape due to the non-lane-based transportation system and the heterogeneous mix of vehicles. The aim of this project is to overcome this situation for better traffic management and develop a...

This poster presents a quantitative study on the preferences of buyers and sellers in Bangladesh for using social media versus websites as e-commerce platforms. It explores the factors influencing these preferences, such as ease of use, trust, and effectiveness in advertising and engagement. Based on data collected from 101 participants through liv...

People exhibit unique emotional responses. In the same scenario, the emotional reactions of two individuals can be either similar or vastly different. For instance, consider one person's reaction to an invitation to smoke versus another person's response to a query about their sleep quality. The identification of these individual traits through the...

The changing climate is anticipated to result in more frequent and extended heat waves having catastrophic effects on urban areas. Prolonged exposure to extreme heat is believed to adversely affect both physiological and psychological well-being, particularly for outdoor workers. This study analyzed the effects of hot weather conditions on the brai...

Depression is more than just feeling sad. It is a severe and multifaceted mental health condition that impacts millions of individuals around the globe. Regrettably, it can even be more prevalent in university students of underdeveloped and developing countries like Bangladesh because of academic pressure, family and societal expectations, financia...

Efficient vectorization of hand-drawn cadastral maps, such as Mouza maps in Bangladesh, poses a significant challenge due to their complex structures. Current manual digitization methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Our study proposes a semi-automated approach to streamline the digitization process, saving both time and human resources....

Erasure Coding (EC) in cloud storage minimizes data replication by reconstructing data from parity fragments. This method enhances data redundancy and efficiency while reducing storage costs and improving fault tolerance. It is more advantageous than replication in Object Storage Systems. EC guarantees data integrity by ensuring lossless transmissi...

Even though the traffic systems in developed countries have been analyzed rigorously and operated efficiently, the same does not generally hold for developing countries due to inadequate planning, design, and operations of their transportation systems. Because of inherent differences between internal infrastructures, the strategies deployed in deve...

The prevalence and mobility of smartphones make these a widely used tool for environmental health research. However, their potential for determining aggregated air quality index (AQI) based on PM2.5 concentration in specific locations remains largely unexplored in the existing literature. In this paper, we thoroughly examine the challenges associat...

Cloud-based Object Storage Systems (OSS) are known for their scalability, durability, availability, and concurrency. However, there is a gap in open-source OSS for a straightforward way for users and administrators to conduct data searches within object storage without fully utilizing the cloud infrastructure. In our research, we present Sherlock,...

The poor traffic condition of Dhaka city is majorly impacted by the lack of development in the traffic signaling system. The implementation of an efficient and intelligent traffic signaling system in our country is imminent to improve the on-road experience, although the existing solutions are not feasible as they are based on well-structured traff...

Sarcasm detection research in Bengali is still limited due to a lack of relevant resources. In this context, getting high-quality annotated data is costly and time-consuming. Therefore, in this paper, we present a transformer-based generative adversarial learning for sarcasm detection from Bengali text based on available limited labeled data. Here,...

A well-accessible healthcare system is an important measure of the progress of a country, as access to adequate healthcare is one of everyone's very basic human rights. When a community lives below the poverty line, unfortunately, it gets deprived of the basic human rights like healthcare, which is a reality to many resource-constrained communities...

Emotion modeling has always been intriguing to researchers, where detecting emotion is highly focused and generating emotion is much less focused to date. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to explore emotion generation, particularly for general-purpose conversations. Based on the Cognitive Appraisal Theory and focusing on audio and textual inputs, w...

The prevalence and mobility of smartphones make these a widely used tool for environmental health research. However, their potential for determining aggregated air quality index (AQI) based on PM2.5 concentration in specific locations remains largely unexplored in the existing literature. In this paper, we thoroughly examine the challenges associat...

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) serve marginalized communities, such as street children. Their success highly depends on donation-raising and their connections with donors, where online platforms (e.g. social media, individual websites, messaging applications, etc.) play a significant role. However, small-scale NPOs face several challenges due to t...

Sensor-based systems such as that for real-time air condition monitoring present two conflicting metrics namely energy efficiency and data fidelity, joint optimization of which is little explored in the literature. Therefore, in this paper, we present an in-depth study on how to perform a joint optimization in purview of the real-time air condition...

The method of finding new petroleum deposits beneath the earth’s surface is always challenging for having low accuracy while simultaneously being highly expensive. As a remedy, this paper presents a novel way to predict the locations of petroleum deposits. Here, we focus on a region of the Middle East, Iraq to be specific, and conduct a detailed st...

The annual Hajj presents diversified negative experiences to millions of pilgrims worldwide. The negative experiences and recommendations to overcome them as per pilgrims' feedback are yet to be analyzed from an aggregated perspective in the literature, which we do in this paper. To do so, first, we perform a large-scale survey (n=988) using our co...

Object Storage Systems (OSS) inside a cloud promise scalability, durability, availability, and concurrency. However, open-source OSS does not have a specific approach to letting users and administrators search based on the data, which is contained inside the object storage, without involving the entire cloud infrastructure. Therefore, in this paper...

Salat, the most important worship of Muslims and the second pillar of Islam, is an integral part of the Muslim community. Being a complex activity, Salat involves a series of steady and transitional activities to be performed in a specific sequence. On top of that, Salat has variations based on time, priority, school of thought, etc., making activi...

Nowadays, extremely large amounts of structured and unstructured types of data are stored in public, private, and hybrid cloud storage using object storage systems. Among these, storing multimedia data such as image, video, and audio pose unique challenges and long-term effects on object storage Sustainability. Three such challenges are smoother an...

Even though emails are identified as a prominent source of exchanging abusive behaviors, very little work has explored abuse over emails. In our accepted paper in NSysS 2021, we explore perceptions of users on types of abuse detection systems for emails, revealing privacy concerns and lack of control in human-moderator-based systems and a noteworth...

This poster is about the assessment of the health of rickshaw pullers using ubiquitous mobile health devices considering the impact of environmental conditions.

Even though digitally filtered images are taking over the Internet for their aesthetic appeal, general people often feel betrayed if they are dealt with filtered images. Our study, comprising a series of structured surveys over images filtered using Instagram filters, reveals that different people perceive the filtered images differently. However,...

Microscopic car-following models can be applied in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) to control the real-time longitudinal interactions among individual vehicles. Moreover, they can have a vital role in Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSSs) such as collision warning, adaptive cruise control, lane guidance driver assistance, brake assist as w...

Agriculture is the fundamental source of revenue and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in many countries where economically developing countries; especially the Global South are no exception. Various types of plant-based diseases are strongly intertwined with the everyday lives of those who are connected with agriculture. Among the diseases, most of the...

The recent Covid-19 pandemic elucidates the need for a better disease outbreak analysis and surveillance system, which can harness state-of-the-art data mining and machine learning techniques to produce better forecasting. In this regard, understanding the correlation between disease outbreaks and socioeconomic factors should pave the way for such...

Epidemics and pandemics have been affecting human lives since time, and have sometimes altered the course of history. At this very moment, Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been the defining global health crisis. Now, perhaps for the first time in history, humanity as a whole has undergone major disruptions to life and some form of lockdown. New...

The number of disasters, accidents, and casualties in disasters is increasing, however, technological advancement has yet to ripe benefits to emergency rescue operations. This contrast is even more prominent in the Global South. The consequences are a huge loss of wealth and resources, but more importantly, the loss of lives. Locating victims of di...

Large mass gatherings such as pilgrimages, protests, etc., often pose serious challenges for the crowd management personnel to maintain public safety and security especially in dense crowds. These challenges can be mitigated through estimating the number of attendees as well as localizing them in a particular crowded event, where existing research...

Since massive numbers of images are now being communicated from, and stored in different cloud systems, faster retrieval has become extremely important. This is more relevant, especially after COVID-19 in bandwidth-constrained environments. However, to the best of our knowledge, a coherent solution to overcome this problem is yet to be investigated...

An electronic health record (EHR) typically contains sensitive medical records, personal information, doctors’ provided prescription, and other physical histories of a patient. This digital approach remodeled the health sector while increasing privacy concerns and possibility of security breaches. This paper proposes an EHR system based on blockcha...

Although prominent translators, such as Google, Yahoo Babel Fish, Bing, etc., perform better when translating most widely used languages, they tend to commit fundamental mistakes in working with low-resource languages such as Bengali, Romanian, Arabic, etc. Such translators (e.g. Google Translate) use different data-driven translation approaches, s...

With the advent of pervasive usage of online platforms, online abusive behavior has become an indispensable part of our life demanding great attention from the research community. Accordingly, the research community is spending its effort on the demanding task, however, perhaps having much less effort on emails, even though emails are identified as...

Agriculture is the fundamental source of revenue in third-world countries. Thus, plant leaf diseases are strongly intertwined with the everyday lives of those who are connected. Due to the variety of illnesses, identifying and classifying any plant leaf disease is not only difficult but also time-consuming. As a result, we present a lightweight met...

Since a huge number of images are now communicated from and stored in different cloud systems, faster retrieval has become extremely important. This is more relevant, especially after COVID-19 in bandwidth-constrained environments. However, to the best of our knowledge, a coherent solution to overcome this problem is yet to be investigated in the l...

Even though emails are identified as a prominent source of exchanging abusive behaviors, very little work has explored abuse over emails. In our accepted paper in NSysS 2021, we explore perceptions of users on types of abuse detection systems for emails, revealing privacy concerns and lack of control in human-moderatorbased systems, and a noteworth...

Mass gatherings (such as Hajj/Umrah), owing to their immensity, often present a variety of difficulties to the attendees. To have a comprehensive understanding of the difficulties as well as their potential remedies, surveying a good number of attendees is unavoidable and this can be facilitated through engaging data collectors. A crucial part here...

Crowd management is a considerable challenge in many countries including Saudi Arabia, where millions of pilgrims from all over the world visit Mecca to perform the sacred act of Hajj. This holy ritual requires large crowds to perform the same activities during specific times, which makes crowd management both critical and difficult. Without proper...

Nowadays, a major problem in faster page loading through optimizing websites is the absence of having images in their intended sizes. Accordingly, while loading a webpage, most of the time overhead pertains to image-related tasks such as image loading and resizing, which can be optimized substantially through the pre-availability of smaller-size im...

Bangladesh (a low-income country) has a significant number of people dependent on alms for daily survival. These people, who we address as extremely impoverished people (EIP) are deprived of even basic healthcare. Their extreme levels of poverty, coupled with low literacy skills, and complete lack of access to technology means that they are unaware...

Popular translators such as Google, Bing, etc., perform quite well when translating among the popular languages such as English, French, etc.; however, they make elementary mistakes when translating the low-resource languages such as Bengali, Arabic, etc. Google uses Neural Machine Translation (NMT) approach to build its multilingual translation sy...

Using low-cost piezoelectric sensors to sense structural vibration exhibits great potential in augmenting structural engineering, which is yet to be explored in the literature to the best of our knowledge. Examples of such unexplored augmentation include classifying diverse structures (such as building, flyover, foot over-bridge, etc.), and relatin...