A work etitled "Gait-based Gender Classification Using Smartphone Accelerometer Sensor" from a group of Department of Software Engineering (DSWE) and Department of Mathematics staff has been presented at “2019 5th International Conference on Frontiers of Signal Processing (ICFSP)” which has been sponsored by IEEE France Section. The location of the conference was Marseille, France.  Aras T Asaad has presented the work at the conference.

The title of the work is  “Gait-based Gender Classification Using Smartphone Accelerometer Sensor” which focuses on a new scheme to identify the gender of the people via onboard Smartphone sensors including accelerometer sensor. Such a scheme requires little interaction with the people; individuals would simply have to hold his/her smartphone and walk normally. Four different data mining techniques and machine learning algorithms are used to identify people gender including: Decision Tree (DT), Support Vector Machine (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) and Deep learning algorithm (recurrent-neural-network long-short-term-memory ‘RNN-LSTM’).

Place of the conference: Marseille, France
Date of the Conference: 18.09.19 — 20.09.19

The authors of the conference paper are: 

1. Azhin T. Sabir (Koya University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Software Engineering, University Park, Koya, Kurdistan Region  -F.R., Iraq)
2. Halgurd S. Maghdid (Koya University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Software Engineering, University Park, Koya, Kurdistan Region  -F.R., Iraq))
3. Safar Maghdid Asaad (Koya University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Software Engineering, University Park, Koya, Kurdistan Region  -F.R., Iraq))
4. Mohammed H. Ahmed (University of Raparin, Computer Science Department, Ranyah, Kurdistan Region,Iraq)
5. Aras T. Asaad (Koya University Staff and Ph.D. Student at University of Buckingham,Applied Computing Department,UK, MK181EG)

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Koya University (KOU) is located in the city of Koya (Koy Sanjaq) which is 1.0 hr drive to the East of the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil (Arbil, Hewlér) in Kurdistan Region of F.R. Iraq. It is on the foothills of beautiful high mountain. Its campus has been carefully laid out to embrace the beautiful mountainous nature. . There are 4 Faculties and 2 Schools in KOU; Faculty of Engineering (FENG), Faculty of Science and Health (FSCH), Faculty of Education (FEDU), Faculty of Humanities and Social Silences (FHSS), Shcool of Physical Education (SPHE) and School of Medicine (SMED). Also, there are two research centers; Genome Center and Malai Gawra Center. Moreover, at KOU there is an English Language Center (BELC) at KOU has been opened with the sponsorship of IREX and American embassy in Baghdad as well as with the support of Spring International Language Center of The University of Arkansas. KOU has two Scientific Journals; ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University, which is indexed by Clarivate Analytics (ESCI), and Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (KUJHSS). KOU is a proactive member of Erasmus/ Marhaba Project and Erasmus+. KOU signed many Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with many International Universities, e.g., The University of Arkansas (June 2015). The Lulea University in Sweden (April 2014), The University of Nottingham in the UK, The University of Buckingham in the UK (Oct 2008), Belkin University in Turkey (Sep 2009) and The University of Greenwich in the UK.