Publications
Journal Articles:
Khanam, Z., Aslam, B., Saha, S., Zhai, X., Ehsan, S., Stolkin, R. and McDonald-Maier, K., (2021). Gamma-Induced Image Degradation Analysis of Robot Vision Sensor for Autonomous Inspection of Nuclear Sites. IEEE Sensors Journal, 1-1
Ali, H., Tariq, UU., Hussain, M., Lu, L., Panneerselvam, J. and Zhai, X., (2020). ARSH-FATI a Novel Metaheuristic for Cluster Head Selection in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Systems Journal, 1-12
Kasap, S., Weber Wachter, E., Zhai, X., Ehsan, S. and McDonald-Maier, K., (2020). Survey of Soft Error Mitigation Techniques Applied to LEON3 Soft Processors on SRAM-Based FPGAs. IEEE Access. 8, 28646-28658
Esfahani, SS., Zhai, X., Chen, M., Amira, A., Bensaali, F., AbiNahed, J., Dakua, S., Younes, G., Baobeid, A., Richardson, RA. and Coveney, PV., (2020). Lattice-Boltzmann interactive blood flow simulation pipeline.. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 15 (4), 629-639
Xu, J., Guo, Y., Yang, P., Zhang, R., Zhai, X., Huang, S. and Bi, K., (2020). Recent progress on RF orbital angular momentum antennas. Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 34 (3), 275-300
J Xu, K Bi, X Zhai*, Y Hao, KD Mcdonald-Maier, “A dual-band microwave filter design for modern wireless communication systems”, IEEE Access, 7, 98786-98791.
Zhai, X., Chen, M., Esfahani, SS., Amira, A., Bensaali, F., Abinahed, J., Dakua, S., Richardson, RA. and Coveney, PV., (2020). Heterogeneous System-on-Chip based Lattice-Boltzmann Visual Simulation System. IEEE Systems Journal. 14 (2), 1592-1601
S. P. Dakua, J. Abinahed, A. Zakaria, S. Balakrishnan, G. Younes, N. Navkar, A. Al-Ansari, X. Zhai, F. Bensaali, A. Amira, “Moving object tracking in clinical scenarios: application to cardiac surgery and cerebral aneurysm clipping”, International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 2019
M. S. Nadeem, V. N. L. Franqueira, X. Zhai and F. Kurugollu, "A Survey of Deep Learning Solutions for Multimedia Visual Content Analysis," in IEEE Access. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2924733, in press.
Ullah Tariq U, Ali H, Liu L, Panneerselvam J, Zhai X*, “Energy-efficient Static Task Scheduling on VFI based NoC-HMPSoCs for Intelligent Edge Devices in Cyber-Physical Systems”, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), in press.
Lu Y, Liu L, Panneerselvam J, Zhai X, Sun X, Antonopoulos NL, Latency-based Analytic Approach to Forecast Cloud Workload Trend for Sustainable Datacentres, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2019.
X. Bai, Z. Zhang, L. Liu, X. Zhai*, J. Panneerselvam and L. Ge, "Enhancing Localization of Mobile Robots in Distributed Sensor Environments for Reliable Proximity Service Applications," in IEEE Access, in press, 2019
Al-Zawqari, A., Hommos, O., Al-Qahtani, A., Farhat, AAH., Bensaali, F., Zhai, X. and Amira, A., (2019). HD number plate localization and character segmentation on the Zynq heterogeneous SoC. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. 16 (6), 2351-2365
X. Zhai*, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, et al. Zynq SoC based acceleration of the lattice Boltzmann method. Wiley Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience. 2019.
H. Ali, U. U. Tariq, Y. Zheng, X. Zhai* and L. Liu, "Contention & Energy-Aware Real-Time Task Mapping on NoC Based Heterogeneous MPSoCs," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 75110-75123, 2018.
Djelouat, H., Zhai, X., Disi, MA., Amira, A. and Bensaali, F., (2018). System-on-Chip Solution for Patients Biometric: A Compressive Sensing-Based Approach. IEEE Sensors Journal. 18 (23), 9629-9639
X. Zhai, M. Eslami, E. Hussein, M. Filali, S. Shalaby, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, S. Dakuad, J. Abinahedd, A. Al-Ansarid, A. Ahmede, “Real-time automated image segmentation technique for cerebral aneurysm on reconfigurable system-on-chip”, Elsevier Journal of Computational Science, in press.
A. Farhat, O. Hommos, A. Al-Zawqari, A. Al-Qahtani, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “Optical Character Recognition on Heterogeneous SoC for HD Automatic Number Plate Recognition System”, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, in press.
H. Baali, X. Zhai, H. Djelouat, A. Amira, and F. Bensaali, “Inequality Indexes as Sparsity Measures Applied to Ventricular Ectopic Beats Detection and its Efficient Hardware Implementation”, IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 9464-9472, 2018.
N. Bessis, X. Zhai, S. Sotiriadis, “Service-Oriented System Engineering”, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 80, 2018, pp. 211-214.
A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, F. Bensaali, X. Zhai and A. Amira, “HD Number Plate Localization and Character Segmentation on the Zynq Heterogeneous SoC”, Springer Journal of Real-time Image Processing, 2017, in press.
X. Zhai, A. Ait Si Ali, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “ECG Encryption and Identification based Security Solution on the Zynq SoC for Connected Health Systems”, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, in press, 2017.
X. Zhai, A. Ait-Si-Ali, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, "MLP Neural Network Based Gas Classification System on Zynq SoC," IEEE Access, Vol. 4, pp.8138-8146, 2016.
Z. Zhong, K. Chen, X. Zhai, S. Zhou, “Virtual Machine Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Cloud Computing Environment”, Tsinghua Science and Technology, Vol. 21, Issue 6, pp.660-667, 2016.
X. Zhai and Tanya Vladimirova, "Efficient Data Processing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks based Planetary Exploration", AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Vol.13, No. 1, 2016, pp.46-66.
X. Zhai, F. Jaber, F. Bensaali and A. Mishra, “Hardware Acceleration of a Dielectrophoresis System for Achieving a Single-Neuron-Per-Electrode Arrangement in Microelectrode Arrays”, International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science & Technology, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2016.
X. Zhai, K. Appiah, S. Ehsan, G. Howells, W. M Cheung, H. Hu, D. Gu, and K. McDonald-Maier, “Exploring ICMetrics to Detect Abnormal Program Behaviour on Embedded Devices”, Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 61, Issue 8, 2015.
X. Zhai, K. Appiah, S. Ehsan, G. Howells, W. M Cheung, H. Hu, D. Gu, and K. McDonald-Maier, “A Method for Detecting Abnormal Program Behaviour on Embedded Devices”, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 10, Issue 8, pp. 1692 – 1704, April, 2015.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and R. Sotudeh, “Real-Time Optical Character Recognition on FPGA for ANPR”, in IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds.2012.0339, vol. 7, issue 6, pp. 337-344, August, 2013.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and R. Sotudeh, “FPGA-based Number Plate Binarisation and Adjustment for ANPR Systems”, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 22, issue 1, pp. 1-11, Jan, 2013.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and S. Ramalingam, “Improved Number Plate Localisation Algorithm and its Efficient FPGA Implementation”, in IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol.7, issue 2, pp. 93-103, March, 2013.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali, “Improved Number Plate Character Segmentation Algorithm and Its Efficient FPGA Implementation”, Springer Journal of Real-time Image Processing, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11554-012-0258-5, pp. 1-13, June, 2012.
Conference Papers and book chapters:
Aslam, B., Saha, S., Zaffar, M., Ehsan, S., Zhai, X., Cazzaniga, C., Frost, C., McDonald-Maier, K. and Stolkin, R., Measuring the Degradation of Commercial Cameras Under Fast Neutron Beam
Wachter, E., Kasap, S., Zhai, X., Ehsan, S. and McDonald-Maier, K., A Framework and Protocol for Dynamic Management of Fault Tolerant Systems in Harsh Environments
Lu, Y., Zhai, X., Saha, S., Ehsan, S. and McDonald-Maier, K., A self-scrubbing scheme for embedded systems in radiation environments
Aslam, B., Saha, S., Khanam, Z., Zhai, X., Ehsan, S., Stolkin, R. and McDonald-Maier, K., (2020). Gamma-induced Degradation Analysis of Commercial off-the-shelf Camera Sensors
Wachter, EW., Kasap, S., Zhai, X., Ehsan, S. and McDonald-Maier, K., (2020). Survey of Lockstep based Mitigation Techniques for Soft Errors in Embedded Systems
Djelouat, H., Al Disi, M., Amira, A., Bensaali, F. and Zhai, X., (2019). Compressive Sensing Based ECG Biometric System
Liao, Y., Yu, Q., Zhai, X., Ai, Q., Liu, Q. and Zhou, T., (2019). Wireless Big Data Meets WBANs: An Attempt for Cooperative Task Process Assisted with MEC
Liao, Y., Qiao, X., Shou, L., Zhai, X., Ai, Q., Yu, Q. and Liu, Q., (2019). Caching-Aided Task Offloading Scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks with MEC
Khanam, Z., Saha, S., Aslam, B., Zhai, X., Ehsan, S., Cazzaniga, C., Frost, C., Stolkin, R. and McDonald-Maier, K., (2019). Degradation Measurement of Kinect Sensor Under Fast Neutron Beamline
Esfahani, SS., Zhai, X., Chen, M., Amira, A., Bensaali, F., AbiNahed, J., Dakua, S., Younes, G., Richardson, RA. and Coveney, PV., (2019). HEMELB Acceleration and Visualization for Cerebral Aneurysms
M. S. Nadeem, V. NL Franqueira, F. Kurugollu, X. Zhai, “WVD: A New Synthetic Dataset for Video-based Violence Detection”, In: AI-2019 Thirty-ninth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 17-19 December 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom. (In press)
S. S. Esfahani, X. Zhai, M. Chen, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, J. AbiNahed, S. Dakua, G. Younes, R. A Richardson, P. Coveney, “VHEMELB Acceleration and Visualization for Cerebral Aneurysms”, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1376-1380, 2019
Y. Liao, X. Qiao, L. Shou, X. Zhai, Q. Ai, Q. Yu, Q. Liu, “Caching-Aided Task Offloading Scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks with MEC”, 2019 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), 2019.
H. Wang, J. Pannereselvam, L. Liu, Y. Lu, X. Zhai and H. Ali, "Cloud Workload Analytics for Real-Time Prediction of User Request Patterns," 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), Exeter, United Kingdom, 2018, pp. 1677-1684.
H. Ali, X. Zhai, U. Tariq, L. Liu, “Energy Efficient Heuristic Algorithm for Task Mapping on Shared-Memory Heterogeneous MPSoCs”, in the proceedings of the 20th IEEE conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, accepted in 2018.
H. Ali, U. Tariq, X. Zhai, L. Liu, “Energy Efficient Task Mapping & Scheduling on Heterogeneous NoC-MPSoCs in IoT based Smart City”, in the proceedings of the 16th IEEE conference on Smart City, accepted in 2018.
H. Djelouat, M. Disi, X. Zhai, A. Amira, “Compressive Sensing based ECG Biometric System”, in the proceedings of Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2018, accepted in 2018.
H. Baali, X. Zhai, H. Djelouat, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “Efficient Hardware Implementation of the l1-Regularized Least Squares for IoT Edge Computing”, presented in the 17th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB’2017), salamanca, Spain, 2017, pp. 1-5.
H. Baali, X. Zhai, H. Djelouat, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “Design and Acceleration of Sparsifying Transform for Compressed Sensing (CS) of EEG Signal”, in the proceedings of the 2rd International Computational Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC17), accepted in 2017.
A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “OCR-based Hardware Implementation for Qatari Number Plate on the Zynq SoC”, in the proceedings of the 9th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), accepted in 2017.
A. Ait Si Ali, X. Zhai, A. Amira, F. Bensaali, and N. Ramzan, "Enhanced Biometric Security and Privacy Using ECG on the Zynq SoC," in Biometric Security and Privacy: Opportunities & Challenges in The Big Data Era, R. Jiang, S. Al-maadeed, A. Bouridane, P. D. Crookes, and A. Beghdadi, Eds., ed Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 179-202.
A. Al-Zawqari, O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “HD Number Plate Localization on the Zynq Heterogeneous SoC”, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2016
A. A. S. Ali, X. Zhai, A. Amira, F. Bensaali and N. Ramzan, "Heterogeneous Implementation of ECG Encryption and Identification on the Zynq SoC," 2016 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Washington, DC, 2016, pp. 139-139.
O. Hommos, A. Al-Qahtani, A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “HD Qatari ANPR system”, 2016 International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems (CIICS), 2016, pp.1-5.
A. Farhat, A. Al-Zawqari, A. Al-Qahtani, O. Hommos, F. Bensaali, A. Amira and X. Zhai, “OCR Based Feature Extraction and Template Matching Algorithms for Qatari Number Plate”, 2016 International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems (CIICS), 2016, pp.1-5.
P. Rodrigues, A. Oliveira, P. Sinogas, G. Oddi, F. Lisi, F. Alvarez, R. Cabas, T. Vladimirova, X. Zhai, M. Crosnier. “Testing of a Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks with Applications to Planetary Exploration”, Proc. of the 66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 12-16 October 2015, Jerusalem, Israel.
F. Alvarez, P. Rodrigues, P. Sinogas, A. Oliveira, T. Vladimirova, X. Zhai, F. Liberati, G. Oddi, A. Pietrabissa, M. Crosnier, C. Rivera, D. Millen, L. Moreno. “Low Power Lightweight Micro-Meteorological Station for Wireless Sensor Network Based Space Exploration”, Proc. of the 66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 12-16 October 2015, Jerusalem, Israel.
F. Bensaali, A. Amira, X. Zhai and Tao Huang, "A Stand-Alone Application for Automatic Bulk Returning of Students’ Reports", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2015), Indonesia, 2015.
X. Zhai, A. Amira and F. Bensaali, “ECG Security Identification System on the Zynq SoC Platform”, the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2015), pp. 1164-1169, 2015.
X. Zhai and T. Valdimirova, "Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks for Lunar Exploration," in The sixth Emerging Security Technologies (EST), Germany, pp. 30-37, 2015.
X. Zhai, F. Jaber, F. Bensaali and A. Mishra, “Hardware Acceleration of an Image Processing System for Dielectrophoretic Loading of Single Neurons Inside Micro-Wells of Microelectrode Arrays”, UKSim-AMSS 17th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, pp.571-576, March, 2015 (Best paper awards).
X. Zhai, H. Jing, and T. Vladimirova, “Multi-Sensor Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks for Planetary Exploration”, in the proceedings of the 9th NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2014), pp. 188 – 195, July, 2014.
P. Rodrigues, A. Oliveira, F. Alvarez, R. Cabas, G. Oddi, F. Liberati, T. Vladimirova, X. Zhai, H. Jing, and M. Crosnier, “Space Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for planetary exploration: node and network architectures”, in the proceedings of the 9th NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2014), pp. 180 – 187, July, 2014.
X. Zhai, K. Appiah, S. Ehsan, G. Howells, W. M Cheung, H. Hu, D. Gu, and K. McDonald-Maier, “Detecting Compromised Programs for Embedded System Applications”, in Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2014, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, vol. 8350, pp. 221-232, Feb, 2014.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and K. McDonald-Maier, “Automatic Number Plate Recognition on FPGA”, in the proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), pp. 325-328 Oct. 2013.
Z. Jeffrey, X. Zhai, F. Bensaali, R. Sotudeh and A. Ariyaeeinia. (2013). “Automatic Number Plate Recognition System on an ARM-DSP and FPGA Heterogeneous SoC Platforms”, Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips, California, USA, August 2013.
X. Zhai and F. Bensaali, “Standard Definition ANPR System on FPGA and an Approach to Extend it to HD”, in the proceedings of the 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), pp. 214-219, Nov, 2013.
X. Zhai, K. Appiah, S. Ehsan, G. Howells, W. M Cheung, H. Hu, D. Gu, and K. McDonald-Maier, “A Self-Organising Map Based Algorithm for Analysis of ICmetrics Features”, in the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST), pp. 93-97, Sep, 2013.
X. Zhai, K. Appiah, S. Ehsan, G. Howells, K. McDonald-Maier, H. Hu, D. Gu, and W. M Cheung, “Application of ICmetrics for Embedded System Security”, in the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST), pp. 89 – 92, Sep, 2013.
K. Appiah, X. Zhai, S. Ehsan, W. M Cheung, H. Hu, D. Gu, K. McDonald-Maier and G. Howells, “Program Counter as an Integrated Circuit Metrics for Secured Program Identification”, in the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST), pp. 98-101, Sep, 2013.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and R. Sotudeh, “OCR-Based Neural Network for ANPR”, in the proceedings of the 2012 IEEE international Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, pp. 393-397, Manchester, UK, July 2012.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and S. Ramalingam, “Real-Time License Plate Localisation on FPGA”, in the proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), pp. 14-19, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, June 2011.
X. Zhai, F. Bensaali and S. Ramalingam, “License Plate Localisation based on Morphological Operations”, the 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp. 1128-1132, Singapore, Dec, 2010.