S. Kiruthika Devi¹, Amani Abdulrahman Albraikan², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi³, Mohamed K. Nour⁴, Ahmed Ashour⁵, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^6,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 3191-3207, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036980

Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Vision (CV) advancements have led to many useful methodologies in recent years, particularly to help visually-challenged people. Object detection includes a variety of challenges, for example, handling multiple class images, images that get augmented when captured by a camera and so on. The test images include all these variants as well. These detection models alert them about their surroundings when they want to walk independently. This study compares four CNN-based pre-trained models: Residual Network (ResNet-50), Inception v3, Dense Convolutional Network (DenseNet-121), and SqueezeNet, predominantly used in image recognition applications. Based on the analysis performed on… More >

Mrim M. Alnfiai^1,2, Nabil Almalki^1,3, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^4,*, Mesfer Alduhayyem⁵, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁶, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁶

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 2639-2652, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.034069

Abstract Text-To-Speech (TTS) is a speech processing tool that is highly helpful for visually-challenged people. The TTS tool is applied to transform the texts into human-like sounds. However, it is highly challenging to accomplish the TTS outcomes for the non-diacritized text of the Arabic language since it has multiple unique features and rules. Some special characters like gemination and diacritic signs that correspondingly indicate consonant doubling and short vowels greatly impact the precise pronunciation of the Arabic language. But, such signs are not frequently used in the texts written in the Arabic language since its speakers and readers can guess them… More >