Ahmad Hoirul Basori

• PhD (Computer Graphics)
• Professor (Full) at King Abdulaziz University

Displaying extreme expressions such as scared until sweating is not easy task that can be accomplished in 3D games and facial animation simulation in real-time. Several difficulties faced by researches such as the complexity of simulation including physical properties of the muscles, emotions, properties of fluids and texture element. The next part...

Crowd simulation has been studied extensively for the past two decades. The behaviour of a crowd or pedestrian somehow is determined by the inner emotion of each agent. Occasionally, the inner emotion has been influenced by surrounding atmospheres. Emotion along with Seek-flee are factors that important on simulating the crowd under the panic situa...

Grand Mosque Al-Haram is always crowded with the pilgrim that coming from around the world. The highest intensity of crowd is when hajj period or during Ramadan. Even though the grand mosque is already supplied with many signboard routes, exit or emergency sign. There are some difficulties that pilgrim faced when they got misplaced inside or outsid...

Emotion recognition from brain computer interface (EEG) has been studied extensively for the past few years. Time-frequency analysis is widely used in the past research; however, a variation of case study determines the brain signal analysis. In this paper, human emotion from brain waves is recognized in simple ways by calculating a frequency of si...

Hair animation is one of the elements that contribute to realistic character animation which is widely used in animation, games and movies. Simulating realistic hair with physical properties always becomes a challenge where the hair strands are being manipulated with the forces. This paper proposed physical forces of gravity and wind to be applied...

Coal transportation is a critical aspect of mining operations, involving the transfer of coal from extraction sites to loading areas. Previous studies have emphasized the effectiveness of object detection models, such as YOLO (You Only Look Once), in monitoring and identifying vehicles to improve safety and efficiency on transportation routes. Howe...

The rich diversity of herbal plants in Indonesia holds immense potential as alternative resources for traditional healing and ethnobotanical practices. However, the dwindling recog-nition of herbal plants due to modernization poses a significant challenge in preserving this valuable heritage. The accurate identification of these plants is crucial f...

There is growing interest in using deep learning for object recognition in robots to enhance the efficiency of apple farming. While deep learning-based object detection has shown promising results in various visual tasks, more research is needed to accurately recognize apples in orchard environments. During the training phase, it is important to de...

Background: In Agile software development, an essential initial stage is eliciting software requirements. This process engages stakeholders to achieve comprehensive results. However, a common issue is the variance in domain and technical knowledge among stakeholders, potentially impacting the quality of software requirements elicitation. Objective:...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a widespread influence on a global scale, leading numerous nations to prepare for the endemicity of COVID-19. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) swab test has emerged as the prevailing technique for identifying viral infections within the current pandemic. Following this, the application of chest X-ray imaging in...

Green houses are being built and expanded at a breakneck pace. The green house climate directly affects plant’s development, and its continuous indoor environment monitoring is critical. Most green house systems rely on manual temperature and humidity monitoring which can be inconvenient for personnel required to visit the green house daily and man...

Background: Software testing and software security have become one of the most important parts of an application. Many studies have explored each of these topics but there is a gap wherein the relation of software security and software testing in general has not been explored. Objective: This study aims to conduct a systematic literature review to...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is still a threat to humanity that cause death and disability due to changes in environmental and socioeconomic conditions, especially in tropical areas. A critical assessment of the models and methods is necessary. The vital role of stochastic processes of infectious disease research in Bayesian statistical models he...

Harvest drop in rice because of leaf blast is a vital issue in the country’s food stock and social life where rice is the primary source of food. Epidemics can cause leaf blasts due to weather conditions or environmental transformation. Therefore, early detection of leaf blast is needed to take precautions action to save the harvest. This research...

The robot perception can be enhanced further through visual and haptic to give more impression. This chapter aims to combine vision and haptic for the robot navigation during tracing their movement. The pandemic has striven humans to do direct contact; therefore, an alternative using the robot as delivery tools is assumed to be one of solution. As...

Education is a vital component for country development, particularly in the engineering or technology field. The engineering students must maintain their focus and attention due to the complexity of their study. The objective of this research is to observe student anxiety who is taking a course in engineering fields. Students with anxiety disorders...

The use of virtual reality (VR) technology in data visualisation and analytics introduces a new way for users to explore and understand the data through Immersive Analytics (IA). However, previous works evaluated the IA based on the traditional 2D visualisation tasks and thus reduced the VR benefits. The IA is also still in its infancy and lacks st...

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has forced major countries to apply strict policy toward society. People must wear a facemask and always keep their distance from each other's to avoid virus contamination. Government employ officers to monitor citizen and warn them if not wearing a face mask. The warning message also spread through SM...

It is imperative for government to constantly improve e-government services through innovative technologies in order to cope with tremendous demands coming from citizen side. Although it is realized that e-services to citizens have to be improved and enriched, the realization is not an easy effort since additional budget allocation is usually consi...

The pandemic of Covid-19 has drawn significant attention of the people around the world. The current situation has revealed that this virus infected more than 50 million people globally. On the other hand, the study on crowd simulation can demonstrate the behaviour of massive people that gather in the same location. The importance of this study can...

The accident rate in Saudi Arabia is quite high due to several factors such as speeding, lousy weather, pedestrian unawareness, etc. For the past year, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia suffered from a significant loss of human life and economical due to a traffic accident. Ministry of Interior Riyadh Traffic department reporting that traffic accident has ma...

Smart City indeed become a vision of most of the countries. The city will have robots, drone, smart car, the house entirely operated Intelligently. However, managing how the human crowd and machine can live together is a challenging task; social and emotional interaction between human may affect the crowd behaviour. Therefore, Crowd simulation has...

The continuous health monitoring for the elderly is a critical issue that may lead to saving people nowadays. The physiological signal of the human body can be measured using the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are attached to the human body. We proposed a wearable IoT devices that attached to a patient cloth that has contact with body skin d...

The stroke patient will be having difficulty to control their upper limb, which causes their handling to become weak and unorganized. Conventional therapy designed to retrain the subject ability when it's losses due to stroke. As previous study concern that a subject with strong motivation and concentration of treatment tends to recover better than...

Nowadays, our expectations of robots have been significantly increases. The robot, which was initially only doing simple jobs, is now expected to be smarter and more dynamic. People want a robot that resembles a human (humanoid) has and has emotional intelligence that can perform action-reaction interactions. This book consists of two sections. The...

span lang="EN-GB">Robotic technology has affected the education field, and even early education involves robot to attract Kids. Technical education is the notion of giving students knowledge of robots and technology. The main contribution of our research is to provide an interactive way of learning for kids through play and fun method. Two approach...

Plant disease can become a serious threat toward food production and security since the demand for food increased significantly over the year. The big data and deep learning have been discussed and explored highly in recent years due to its capability to detect certain features in smart ways. Whilst, crop disease that attack leaves can be cured if...

The cyberattack has been increased rapidly since most of the devices are connected to networks due to Internet of Things (IoT) era. In addition, artificial intelligence (AI) is booming due to its capability to adapt to most of the science fields. AI has the capability to learn, identify, and recognize certain pattern according to their training app...

Visually impaired people have suffered greatly on finding the right direction toward their destination. This paper initiates an innovative and low-cost solution by providing mobile Augmented Reality (HapAR) that is capable to stimulate haptic and audio sensation for guiding them inside the campus. The direction is generated using the geo-location o...

In recent years, Augmented Reality (AR) has received increasing emphasis and researchers gradually promote it Over the worlds. With the unique abilities to generate virtual objects over the real-world environment, it can enhance user perception. Although AR recognised for their enormous positive impacts, there are still a ton of matters waiting to...

Automated Visual Inspection System (AVIS) has the capability to investigate large numbers of manufactured goods quickly and accurately. In addition, this system operates with a high level of reliability and consistency in their tasks. This study proposed an AVIS for detecting cap situations by using fuzzy logic classifiers. The objectives of this r...

The implementations of data integration in current days have many issues to be solved. Heterogeneity of data with non-standardization data, data conflicts between various data sources, data with a different representation, as well as semantic aspects problems are among the challenges and still open to research. Semantic data integration using ontol...

The learning processes are unique for each individual. Thus, the appropriate learning methods are essential to boost the student performance and success in their study. The current e-learning system is focusing on producing tools for collaborative study or facilitating the course for the discussion forum and direct communication such as chat servic...

A smart city is one of a huge transformation in these millennia, where it combines latest and advanced technology to overcome the daily basis problem of humans. Artificial intelligence with augmented reality has been highlighted as the potential solution along with IOT and another system to support the smart city system. The smarter Jeddah is part...

Advancing grass development and maintenances is a novel research area in Indonesia. Among many areas of grass research, real time monitoring with low cost energy usage is underlined within this paper. In order to support cloud based grass surveillance systems, appropriate video streaming technique is considered be applied according to real time mon...

In this research, human body will be marked and tracked using depth camera. The arm motion from the trainer will be sent through network and then mapped into 3D robotic arm in the destination server. The robotic arm will move according to the trainer. In the meantime, trainee will follow the movement and they can learn how to do particular tasks ac...

Games and 3D movies are mostly supported by realistic character animation performance. The behaviour of the humanoid character it is depend on the motion data itself. Therefore the complexity of character movement will determine the realism of their behaviour. Generally, Motion Capture device will provide the raw data that previously recorded from...

Internet of Things has become one of the most challenging issues in many researches to connect physical things through the internet by creating a virtual identity for everything. Traffic congestion in Riyadh city is chosen due to the proliferation in the number of vehicles on Riyadh roads that is resulting in grumbling by residents. Currently, ther...

Most of the technologies of today’s world, which are enriched with various powerful features and amazing quality characteristics, enables software developers to come up with best possible software solutions, no matter what the context of the particular issue. Technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), is utilized almost every kind of fields in to...

Analysing student behavior such as failure or success or even their study pattern is essential for further improvement in E-learning system. This study observed the profile elements of student that contribute to the failures rate of student. There are several factors which are affecting the student behavior such as: relative bond, education schedul...

Cloth simulation remains challenging for past two decades. There are several factors that contribute to this challenge such as, internal and external forces, water, oil and other fluid elements. This paper focuses on simulating wet cloth by considering external forces and water element. Initially, the mass spring technique is used to produce cloth...

Touchable interface is one of the future interfaces that can be implemented at any medium such as water, table or even sand. The word multi touch refers to the ability to distinguish between two or more fingers touching a touch-sensing surface, such as a touch screen or a touch pad. This interface is provided tracking the area by using depth camera...

Touchable interface is one of the future interfaces that can be implemented at any medium such as water, table or even sand. The word multi touch refers to the ability to distinguish between two or more fingers touching a touch-sensing surface, such as a touch screen or a touch pad. This interface is provided tracking the area by using depth camera...

The research on human computer interaction. Human already thinking to overcome the way of interaction towards natural interaction. Kinect is one of the tools that able to provide user with Natural User Interface (NUI). It has capability to track hand gesture and interpret their action according to the depth data stream. The human hand is tracked in...

Stroke patient basically suffer from limited movement, they cannot control their balance very well, therefore the therapy that involve repetitive motion, harmonization and stability workout should be applied to them. The invention of Kinect has lead people to applied this device as a tool for recovering patient from stroke because its capability on...

The color of skin is one of the key indicators of bodily change that affect facial expressions. The skin colour tenacity is majorly determined by the light effect and concentration from the chromophores inside skin and haemoglobin oxygenation in the blood. We did an extension work of previous researcher: Donner and Jensen approach to develop a real...

Stroke patient basically suffer from limited movement, they cannot control their balance very well, therefore the therapy that involve repetitive motion, harmonization and stability workout should be applied to them. The invention of Kinect has lead people to applied this device as a tool for recovering patient from stroke because its capability on...

Social learning network analysis is a potential approach to analyze the behaviour of students in collaborative work. However, most of the previous works focus on asynchronous discussion forum as the learning activity. Very few of them are trying to analyze the students' collaborative work while using wiki e-learning. This paper proposes the degree...

The virtual human play vital roles in virtual reality and game. The process of enriching the virtual human through their expression is one of the aspect that most researcher studied and improved. This study aims to demonstrate the combination of facial action units (FACS) and facial muscle to produce a realistic facial expression. The result of exp...

p>Social learning network analysis is a potential approach to analyze the behaviour of students in collaborative work. However, most of the previous works focus on asynchronous discussion forum as the learning activity. Very few of them are trying to analyze the students' collaborative work while using wiki e-learning. This paper proposes the degre...

p>The virtual human play vital roles in virtual reality and game. The process of Enriching the virtual human through their expression is one of the aspect that most researcher studied and improved. This study aims to demonstrate the combination of facial action units (FACS) and facial muscle to produce a realistic facial expression. The result of e...

The present invention relates to a method of determining a three- dimensional blood flow visualization for a cardiac, characterized by the steps of: acquiring a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanned data of a heart; rendering the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanned data for providing a virtual three-dimensional model of the heart; defining...

Brain computer interfaces have many functions in our daily lives. In this product, we use human brain signals to detect inner emotions of user and reveal their inner emotion through facial animation.The first step is putting the device on brain and it will read signals inside the user brain. The approach is comparing the real inner emotion which is...

Stroke Rehabilitation is one of disease that paralyzed part of body or whole body. The technique that widely known to improve the nerve sense is vibration.on the other hand,The emotion is important element that affect the physiology signal in the human body. In computer facial animation most of emotion is shown through the facial expression and voi...

Cloth simulation is an area of research in domain of computer graphics, that assists actors/actress to wear such clothes that seem real using animated techniques. In this paper, we discuss a panoramic overview on computer graphics cloth simulation and modelling techniques such as firstly geometrical methods which utilise geometrical equations to ge...

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Markerless tracking for augmented reality should not only be accurate but also fast enough to provide a seamless synchronization between real and virtual beings. Current reported methods showed that a vision-based tracking is accurate but requires high computational power. This paper proposes a real-time hybrid-based method for tracking unknown env...

The enhancement of emotional expression of virtual human in extreme situation such as, crying or sweating required physical effect that involved fluid behavior. The aim of this research is to analyze the facial action coding system and smooth particle hydrodynamic strategies to effectively provide an efficient display in computer facial animation....

The quest for determining the glamorous conditions of the human facial skin based on the texture, color, health perception, races, age and charm is never-ending. Manifestation of facial skin is subjected to the physical and physiological state of human emotions. The facial expression and appearance alters as we move, talk, think and endure stress u...

The quest of developing realistic facial animation is ever-growing. The emergence of sophisticated algorithms, new graphical user interfaces, laser scans and advanced 3D tools imparted further impetus towards the rapid advancement of complex virtual human facial model. Face-to-face communication being the most natural way of human interaction, the...

The research on facial animation is growing and became more sensible in terms of three dimensional data. The emergence of laser scans and advanced 3D tools imparted further towards the rapid development of complex facial model. This paper has given an overview on facial animation techniques such as blend shape interpolation, facial action coding sy...

The making of virtual human character to be realistic and credible in real time automated dialog animation system is necessary. This kind of animation carries importance elements for many applications such as games, virtual agents and movie animations. It is also considered important for applications which require interaction between human and comp...

The facial animation in term of 3D facial data has accurate research support of the laser scan and advance 3D tools for complex facial model production. However, the approach still lacks facial expression based on emotional condition. Though, facial skin colour is required to offers an effect of facial expression improvement, closely related to the...

Generating extreme appearances such as scared awaiting sweating while happy fit for tears (cry) and blushing (anger and happiness) is the key issue in achieving the high quality facial animation. The effects of sweat, tears, and colors are integrated into a single animation model to create realistic facial expressions of 3D avatar. The physical pro...

Nowadays, computer facial animation is used in a significant multitude fields that brought human and social to study the computer games, films and interactive multimedia reality growth. Authoring the computer facial animation, complex and subtle expressions are challenging and fraught with problems. As a result, the current most authored using univ...

Heart attacks increase rapidly as a killer disease at Malaysia, therefore Malaysian government give more attention to this particular disease in order to reduce the number of patients who got cardiac disease. Based on Malaysia Noncommunicable Disease survey during 2005-2006 and National Strategic Plan for Non-Communicable Disease (Medium term strat...

In facial animation, the research trend is an eye gaze and voice modeling. However, the incorporation of eye movement, lip synchronization, and facial expression are necessary for a more realistic face model. This paper provides a thorough survey of facial animation with respect to eye movement, lip synchronization, and facial expression research....

Augmented Reality opens the gate of connection between real and virtual dimension. AR can be used to display any information that by default are not perceived by regular human senses. As such, it is very beneficial to enrich the connection between human and machines. In this paper, an indoor Augmented Reality system is presented in order to display...

The important role of communication process between human and computer have been increased in the recent years. In this paper, the main focus on analyzing human brain signals to create a natural interaction between human brain and virtual human. The method of this study base on reading brain signals then classifies the signals in order to represent...

Interaction with medical visualization is one of attractive research topics in human computer interaction and medical visualization. Controlling the volume visualization for 3D heart is one of the useful applications for clinician to produce an efficient ways on analysing the behaviour of heart. In this paper, we use some scenarios to develop a ges...

Eye movement combined with lip synchronization, eye movements, and emotional facial expression revealed an interesting research field that gives information about verbal and nonverbal behaviors occurring in the human body. Most of the previous researchers focused on eyes gazes, lip synching and emotion expression which are the most important featur...

The study related to human machine interaction has been done intensively to improve the ways human communication with the machine. In this paper, we present the application that uses of hand and arm gesture control to interact with a 2D medical image 3D volumetric medical visualization. User is allowed to use hand and arm gestures to navigate and m...

Eye movement, lip and crying expression are facial elements that able to give realistic expression on virtual human,especially on transferring emotion expression from human to virtual human. Eye expression can be described through standard approach such as MPEG4 and FACS, while lip synchronization needs Speech API to be described into appropriate m...

This paper presents a survey of dynamic motion manipulation for 3D character movement in the virtual environment. The survey is regarding the latest methods that have been used by researchers to transform dull motions into more dynamic and interactive movements. Comparisons of various motion algorithms used by other researchers are also presented....

Collision avoidance behavior is always about maintaining free collision between virtual objects. It is also about generating evasion routing for the agents in virtual environment such as in crowd simulation. It consists of three processes which are construction of Field of Vision, Collision handling and collision response. Constructing field of vis...

Interaction between humans and humanoid avatar representations is very important in virtual reality and robotics, since the humanoid avatar can represent either a human or a robot in a virtual environment. Many researchers have focused on providing natural interactions for humanoid avatars or even for robots with the use of camera tracking, gloves,...

The research on facial animation has grown very fast and become more realistic in term of 3D facial data since the laser scan and advance 3D tools can support creating complex facial model. However, that approaches still lacking in term of facial expression based on emotional condition. Facial skin color is one parameter that is contributing on aug...

Most of the latest 3D humanoid models that are currently available can produce emotions only through facial expressions, gestures and voice. Only a few humanoid models are capable of manipulating haptic tactile emotions through vibrations. This study proposes a system, in which haptic feedback is integrated based on visual, acoustic, and haptic cue...