Muhammad Usama

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Despite recent advancements in speech emotion recognition (SER) models, state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) approaches face the challenge of the limited availability of annotated data. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionised our understanding of natural language, introducing emergent properties that broaden comprehension in la...
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Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has proven to be a powerful tool for capturing detailed spectral and spatial information across diverse applications. Despite the advancements in Deep Learning (DL) and Transformer architectures for HSI classification, challenges such as computational efficiency and the need for extensive labeled data persist. This paper...
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The 3D Swin Transformer (3DST) and Spatial-Spectral Transformer (SST) each excel in capturing distinct aspects of image information: 3DST with hierarchical attention and window-based processing, and SST with self-attention mechanisms for long-range dependencies. However, applying them independently reveals limitations: 3DST struggles with spectral...
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Nitrogen dioxide (NO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> ) is one among several constituents of air pollution. To restrict its surface-level concentration to within the limits prescribed by regulatory authorities, dedicated monitoring of its spatiotemporal spread is needed. Satellit...
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Spatial-Spectral Mamba (SSM) improves computational efficiency and captures long-range dependencies, addressing Transformer limitations. However, traditional Mamba models overlook rich spectral information in HSIs and struggle with high dimensionality and sequential data. To address these issues, we propose the SSM with multi-head self-attention an...
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Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has proven to be a powerful tool for capturing detailed spectral and spatial information across diverse applications. Despite the advancements in Deep Learning (DL) and Transformer architectures for HSI Classification (HSIC), challenges such as computational efficiency and the need for extensive labeled data persist. Thi...
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In recent years, Transformers have garnered significant attention for Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC) due to their self-attention mechanism, which provides strong classification performance. However, these models face major challenges in computational efficiency, as their complexity increases quadratically with the sequence length. The Ma...
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Transformers have proven effective for Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC) but often incorporate average pooling that results in information loss. This paper presents WaveFormer, a novel transformer-based approach that leverages wavelet transforms for invertible downsampling. This preserves data integrity while enabling attention learning. Sp...
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The metaverse is currently undergoing a profound transformation, fundamentally reshaping our perception of reality. It has transcended its origins to become an expansion of human consciousness, seamlessly blending the physical and virtual worlds. Amidst this transformative evolution, numerous applications are striving to mould the metaverse into a...
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In the modern landscape of information and communication technologies, the current healthcare industry confronts significant challenges. These include a shortage of experienced medical professionals, disparities in access to healthcare services that persist across different regions around the globe, and an increased need for detailed, real-time mon...
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Speech emotion recognition (SER) faces challenges in cross-language scenarios due to differences in linguistic and cultural expression of emotions across languages. Recently, large multilingual foundation models pre-trained on massive corpora have achieved performance on natural language understanding tasks by learning cross-lingual representations...
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This survey paper provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements and challenges in applying large language models to the field of audio signal processing. Audio processing, with its diverse signal representations and a wide range of sources--from human voices to musical instruments and environmental sounds--poses challenges distinct f...
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Despite recent advancements in speech emotion recognition (SER) models, state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) approaches face the challenge of the limited availability of annotated data. Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionised our understanding of natural language, introducing emergent properties that broaden comprehension in language, speec...
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Non-speech emotion recognition has a wide range of applications including healthcare, crime control and rescue, and entertainment, to name a few. Providing these applications using edge computing has great potential, however, recent studies are focused on speech-emotion recognition using complex architectures. In this paper, a non-speech-based emot...
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Extremist content on social media platforms has led to tragic acts of violence. A context-aware extremist content framework is the need of the hour to ensure the detection and mitigation of this type of content. This work provides an outline of our recently launched initiative to develop a context-aware framework. We also present the rudimentary re...
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Automated emotion recognition (AER) technology can detect humans' emotional states in real-time using facial expressions, voice attributes, text, body movements, and neurological signals and has a broad range of applications across many sectors. It helps businesses get a much deeper understanding of their customers, enables monitoring of individual...
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Several Pakistani cities are among the world’s most polluted. In the previous three years, air pollution in Lahore has been considerably over World Health Organization guideline levels, endangering the lives of the city’s more than 11 million citizens. In this paper, we investigate the city’s capability to combat air pollution by analyzing three es...
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Rapid progress in adversarial learning has enabled the generation of realistic-looking fake visual content. To distinguish between fake and real visual content, several detection techniques have been proposed. The performance of most of these techniques however drops off significantly if the test and the training data are sampled from different dis...
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Urban air quality is increasingly becoming a cause for concern for the health of the human population. The poor air quality is already wreaking havoc in major cities of the world, where serious health issues and reduction of average human life by a factor of years are reported. The air quality in developing countries can become worse as they underg...
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The spread of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed led to an increase in activity on online social networks. This has resulted in users sharing unfiltered and unreliable information on social networks like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc. In this work, we give an extended overview of how Pakistan's population used public WhatsApp groups for sh...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has numerous applications in the real world thanks to its ability to achieve high performance in a range of environments with little manual oversight. Despite its great advantages, DRL is susceptible to adversarial attacks, which precludes its use in real-life critical systems and applications (e.g., smart grids, t...
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Spurred by the recent advances in deep learning to harness rich information hidden in large volumes of data and to tackle problems that are hard to model/solve (e.g., resource allocation problems), there is currently tremendous excitement in the mobile networks domain around the transformative potential of data-driven AI/ML based network automation...
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Rapid progress in adversarial learning has enabled the generation of realistic-looking fake visual content. To distinguish between fake and real visual content, several detection techniques have been proposed. The performance of most of these techniques however drops off significantly if the test and the training data are sampled from different dis...
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The anticipated increase in the count of IoT devices in the coming years motivates the development of efficient algorithms that can help in their effective management while keeping the power consumption low. In this paper, we propose LoRaDRL and provide a detailed performance evaluation. We propose a multi-channel scheme for LoRaDRL. We perform ext...
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With the advances in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques, and the potency of cloud computing in offering services efficiently and cost-effectively, Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) cloud platforms have become popular. In addition, there is increasing adoption of third-party cloud services for outsourcing training of DL mode...
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The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussions, creating an `infodemic' on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Twitter. However, the information shared on these platforms is prone to be unreliable and/or misleading. In this paper, we present the first analysis of COVID-19 discourse on public WhatsApp groups from...
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The performance of densely-deployed low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) can significantly deteriorate due to packets collisions, and one of the main reasons for that is the rule-based PHY layer transmission parameters assignment algorithms. LoRaWAN is a leading LPWAN technology where LoRa serves as the physical layer. Here, we propose and evaluat...
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The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussions, creating an 'infodemic' on social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Twitter. However, the information shared on these platforms is prone to be unreliable and/or misleading. In this paper, we present the first analysis of COVID-19 discourse on public WhatsApp groups from...
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Spurred by the recent advances in deep learning to harness rich information hidden in large volumes of data and to tackle problems that are hard to model/solve (e.g., resource allocation problems), there is currently tremendous excitement in the mobile networks domain around the transformative potential of data-driven AI/ML based network automation...
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Speech technology is not appropriately explored even though modern advances in speech technology---especially those driven by deep learning (DL) technology---offer unprecedented opportunities for transforming the healthcare industry. In this paper, we have focused on the enormous potential of speech technology for revolutionising the healthcare dom...
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Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) will form the backbone of future next-generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS) providing travel comfort, road safety, along with a number of value-added services. Such a transformation—which will be fuelled by concomitant advances in technologies for machine learning (ML) and wireless communicatio...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has numerous applications in the real world thanks to its outstanding ability in quickly adapting to the surrounding environments. Despite its great advantages, DRL is susceptible to adversarial attacks, which precludes its use in real-life critical systems and applications (e.g., smart grids, traffic controls, and...
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The holy grail of networking is to create cognitive networks that organize, manage, and drive themselves. Such a vision now seems attainable thanks in large part to the progress in the field of machine learning (ML), which has now already disrupted a number of industries and revolutionized practically all fields of research. But are the ML models f...
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Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been widely adopted in self-organizing networks (SON) for automating different networking tasks. Recently, it has been shown that DNN lack robustness against adversarial examples where an adversary can fool the DNN model into incorrect classification by introducing a small imperceptible perturbation to the original e...
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Modulation classification is an important component of cognitive self-driving networks. Recently many ML-based modulation classification methods have been proposed. We have evaluated the robustness of 9 ML-based modulation classifiers against the powerful Carlini \& Wagner (C-W) attack and showed that the current ML-based modulation classifiers do...
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"Big Data" has the potential to facilitate sustainable development in many sectors of life such as education, health, agriculture, and in combating humanitarian crises and violent conflicts. However, lurking beneath the immense promises of Big Data are some significant risks such as 1) the potential use of Big Data for unethical ends; 2) its abilit...
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Recently, many deep neural networks (DNN) based modulation classification schemes have been proposed in the literature. We have evaluated the robustness of two famous such modulation classifiers (based on the techniques of convolutional neural networks and long short term memory) against adversarial machine learning attacks in black-box settings. W...
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Recently, many deep neural networks (DNN) based modulation classification schemes have been proposed in the literature. We have evaluated the robustness of two famous such modulation classifiers (based on the techniques of convolutional neural networks and long short term memory) against adversarial machine learning attacks in black-box settings. W...
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The holy grail of networking is to create \textit{cognitive networks} that organize, manage, and drive themselves. Such a vision now seems attainable thanks in large part to the progress in the field of machine learning (ML), which has now already disrupted a number of industries and revolutionized practically all fields of research. But are the ML...
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Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) will form the backbone of future next-generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS) providing travel comfort, road safety, along with a number of value-added services. Such a transformation---which will be fuelled by concomitant advances in technologies for machine learning (ML) and wireless communicat...
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Big data revolution promises to be instrumental in facilitating sustainable development in many sectors of life such as education, health, agriculture, and in combating humanitarian crises and violent conflicts. However, lurking beneath the immense promises of big data are some significant risks such as (1) the potential use of big data for unethic...
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Future communications and data networks are expected to be largely cognitive self-organizing networks (CSON). Such networks will have the essential property of cognitive self-organization, which can be achieved using machine learning techniques (e.g., deep learning). Despite the potential of these techniques, these techniques in their current form...
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Along with recent networking advances (such as software-defined networks, network functions virtualization, and programmable data planes), the networking field, in a bid to construct highly optimized self-driving and self-organizing networks, is increasingly embracing artificial intelligence and machine learning. It is worth remembering that the mo...
Technical Report
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This report covers the design evolution, shortcomings, and future design challenges in wireless and data networks. Security is considered as a use case to describe current architectural and design issues in wireless and data networks. This report also covers the technical and socioeconomic tussles in the current design. I have also purposed a new c...
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The networking field has recently started to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), big data analytics combined with advances in networking (such as software-defined networks, network functions virtualization, and programmable data planes) in a bid to construct highly optimized self-driving and self-organizing networks. It...
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Despite the best efforts of networking researchers and practitioners, an ideal Internet experience is inaccessible to an overwhelming majority of people the world over, mainly due to the lack of cost-efficient ways of provisioning high-performance, global Internet. In this paper, we argue that instead of an exclusive focus on a utopian goal of univ...
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While machine learning and artificial intelligence have long been applied in networking research, the bulk of such works has focused on supervised learning. Recently there has been a rising trend of employing unsupervised machine learning using unstructured raw network data to improve network performance and provide services such as traffic enginee...
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While machine learning and artificial intelligence have long been applied in networking research, the bulk of such works has focused on supervised learning. Recently there has been a rising trend of employing unsupervised machine learning using unstructured raw network data to improve network performance and provide services such as traffic enginee...
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The explosive increase in number of smart devices hosting sophisticated applications is rapidly affecting the landscape of information communication technology industry. Mobile subscriptions, expected to reach 8.9 billion by 2022, would drastically increase the demand of extra capacity with aggregate throughput anticipated to be enhanced by a facto...
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The paper details the vector indexing algorithm for post processing of data in optical time domain reflectometer. Post processing is necessary in OTDR for event detection and feature extraction from the acquired traces. The vector indexing algorithm uses the acquired data trace to extract accurate event location and improve upon the spatial resolut...

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