The Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region is facing environmental sustainability challenges due to its abundant reserves of strategic commodities like crude oil and gold. These commodities significantly contribute to economic ...

The main aim of this study is to explore the role of gender-based digital financial inclusion (GDFI) and women empowerment in poverty reduction in Asian countries using a panel data set from 2011 to 2023. For this purpose, ...

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and any future coronavirus outbreaks will require more affordable, effective and safe treatment options to complement current ones such as Paxlovid. Drug repurposing can be a promising ...

The next great innovation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology is smart UAVs, which aim to provide new possibilities in numerous applications. There is an increasing usage of UAVs in various fields of civil ...

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) applications require the support of communication, caching, and computation (3C) resources to offload the computation-intensive tasks and for uplifting the traffic conditions in the development ...

Green IoV has emerged as a latent solution in the field of autonomous driving for the future Intelligent transportation system (ITS) accompanied with green wireless communication and computational intelligence. It facilitates ...

Anomaly detection is critical for real-time applications, e.g., monitoring elderly people or kids from a remote place; gas leakage detection, night vision surveillance, etc. Detecting anomalous behavior becomes even more ...

Band-to-Band Registration (BBR) is a pre-requisite image processing operation essential for specific remote sensing multispectral sensors. BBR aims to align spectral wavelength channels at sub-pixel level accuracy over ...

Detecting facial expressions is a challenging task in the field of computer vision. Several datasets and algorithms have been proposed over the past two decades; however, deploying them in real-world, in-the-wild scenarios ...

Automatically recognizing emotional intent using facial expression has been a thoroughly investigated topic in the realm of computer vision. Facial Expression Recognition (FER), being a supervised learning task, relies ...