Publications

Quantum and Post-Quantum

Red Team Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography Using Transformers
Hu, E., Bouridane, A. & Jiang, R., TechRxiv. June 05, 2025. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.174910091.18242062/v1.

Quantum Face Recognition with Multi-Gate Quantum Convolutional Neural Network
Zhu, Y., Bouridane, A., Celebi, M. E., Konar, D., Angelov, P.Ni, Q. & Jiang, R., 28/06/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 13 p.

Efficient Quantum Image Classification Using Single Qubit Encoding
Easom-Mccaldin, P., Belatreche, A., Bouridane, A., Jiang, R. & Almaadeed, S., 29/02/2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35, 2, p. 1-15 15 p.

3-D Quantum-Inspired Self-Supervised Tensor Network for Volumetric Segmentation of Medical Images
Konar, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Gandhi, T. K., Panigrahi, B. K. & Jiang, R., 31/08/2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35, 8, p. 10312-10325 14 p.

Towards Building a Facial Identification System Using Quantum Machine Learning Techniques
Easom-Mccaldin, P., Bouridane, A., Belatreche, A. & Jiang, R., 30/04/2022, In: Journal of Advances in Information Technology. 13, 2, p. 198-202 5 p.

On Depth, Robustness and Performance Using the Data Re-Uploading Single-Qubit Classifier
Easom, P., Bouridane, A., Belatreche, A. & Jiang, R., 31/12/2021, In: IEEE Access. 9, p. 65127-65139 13 p.

Neural Computing and Brain Study

Modeling Brain Aging with Explainable Triamese ViT: Towards Deeper Insights into Autism Disorder
Zhang, Z., Aggarwal, V., Angelov, P., Jiang, R. 27/05/2025 In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 14 p.

Private Facial Prediagnosis as an Edge Service for Parkinson’s DBS Treatment Valuation
Jiang, R., Chazot, P. L., Pavese, N., Crookes, D., Bouridane, A. & Celebi, M. E., 30/06/2022, In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 26, 6, p. 2703-2713 11 p., 6.

Robust Brain Age Estimation based on sMRI via Nonlinear Age-Adaptive Ensemble Learning
Zhang, Z.Jiang, R.Zhang, C.Williams, B.Jiang, Z., Li, C.-T., Chazot, P. L., Pavese, N., Bouridane, A. & Baghdadi, A., 31/08/2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering . 30, p. 2146 – 2156 11 p.

Shallow Unorganized Neural Networks Using Smart Neuron Model for Visual Perception
Jiang, R. & Crookes, D., 31/10/2019, In: IEEE Access. 7, p. 152701-152714 14 p.

Delve into Neural Activations: Towards Understanding Dying Neurons
Jiang, Z., Wang, Y., Li, C.-T., Angelov, P. & Jiang, R., 1/08/2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 4, 4, p. 959-971 13 p., 4.

Deep salience: Visual salience modeling via deep belief propagation
Jiang, R. & Crookes, D., 1/01/2014, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 28. No. 1. 2014. doi:10.5555/2892753.2892936.

Privacy and Security

A Computational Model for Reputation and Ensemble-Based Learning Model for Prediction of Trustworthiness in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
Alharthi, A.Ni, Q.Jiang, R. & Khan, M. A., 15/10/2023, In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10, 20, p. 18248-18258 11 p., 20.

A Privacy-Preservation Framework based on Biometrics Blockchain (BBC) to Prevent Attacks in VANET
Alharthi, A.Ni, Q. & Jiang, R.4/06/2021In: IEEE Access. 9p. 87299-87309 11 p.

Deep Biometrics
Jiang, R. (Editor), Li, C.-T. (Editor), Crookes, D. (Editor), Meng, W. (Editor) & Rosenberger, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer. 311 p.

Privacy-Protected Facial Biometric Verification Using Fuzzy Forest Learning
Jiang, R., Bouridane, A., Crookes, D., Celebi, M. E. & Wei, H.-L., 1/08/2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 24, 4, p. 779-790 12 p.

Emotion recognition from scrambled facial images via many graph embedding
Jiang, R., Ho, A. T. S., Cheheb, I., Al-Maadeed, N., Al-Maadeed, S. & Bouridane, A., 1/07/2017, In: Pattern Recognition. 67, p. 245-251 7 p.

Face Recognition in the Scrambled Domain via Salience-Aware Ensembles of Many Kernels
Jiang, R., Al-Maadeed, S., Bouridane, A., Crookes, D. & Celebi, M. E., 1/08/2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 11, 8, p. 1807-1817 11 p.

Ethical and Democratic AI

User-Centric Democratization towards Social Value Aligned Medical AI Services
Zhang, Z. & Jiang, R., 19/08/2023, Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023. Elkind, E. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 6326-6334.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions
Longo, L., Brcic, M., Cabitza, F., Choi, J., Confalonieri, R., Ser, J. D., Guidotti, R., Hayashi, Y., Herrera, F., Holzinger, A., Jiang, R., Khosravi, H., Lecue, F., Malgieri, G., Páez, A., Samek, W., Schneider, J., Speith, T. & Stumpf, S., 30/06/2024, In: Information Fusion. 106, 102301.

Explainable artificial intelligence: an analytical review
Angelov, P.Almeida Soares, E.Jiang, R.Arnold, N. & Atkinson, P., 1/09/2021, In: WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 11, 5, 13 p., e1424.

Embodied AI, Robotics, Metaverse and Digital Twins

A Man-Vehicle e-Passport System using Biometric Blockchain towards Automated Border Control
Xu, B., Ni, Q., Bouridane, A., & Jiang, R., 06/2025, In: Frontiers in Blockchain.

Exploring Simulation Environment for Interactive Task Learning towards Explainable Robotics
Xia, R. Z., Zhu, Y. J., and Jiang, R. , 07/2025, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

Multimodal Biometric Human Recognition for Perceptual Human-Computer Interaction
Jiang, R., Sadka, A. H. & Crookes, D., 11/2010, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews. 40, 6, p. 676-681 6 p.

Leveraging Synthetic Data to Learn Video Stabilization Under Adverse Conditions
Kerim, A.De Souza Ramos, W.Soriano Marcolino, L., Nascimento, E. R. & Jiang, R., 24/10/2023, (Accepted/In press) IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Semantic Segmentation under Adverse Conditions: A Weather and Nighttime-aware Synthetic Data-based Approach
Kerim, A., Chamone, F., De Souza Ramos, W.Soriano Marcolino, L., Nascimento, E. R. & Jiang, R., 30/09/2022, (Accepted/In press) The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). 14 p.

Silver: Novel Rendering Engine for Data Hungry Computer Vision Models
Kerim, A.Soriano Marcolino, L. & Jiang, R.15/08/2021, KDD 2021.

Automated 3-D Animation From Snooker Videos With Information-Theoretical Optimization
Jiang, R., Parry, M. L., Legg, P. A., Chung, D. H. S. & Griffiths, I. W., 12/2013In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI IN GAMES.

Financial Computing

WALDATA: Wavelet transform based adversarial learning for the detection of anomalous trading activities
Safa, K., Belatreche, A., Ouadfel, S. & Jiang, R., 1/12/2024, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 255, Part C, 124729.

Medical Computing

A deep learning architecture for multi-class lung diseases classification using chest X-ray (CXR) images
Alshmrani, G.Ni, Q.Jiang, R.Pervaiz, H. & M. Elshennawy , N., 1/02/2023, In: Alexandria Engineering Journal. 64, p. 923-935 13 p.

Hyper-Dense_Lung_Seg: Multimodal-Fusion-Based Modified U-Net for Lung Tumour Segmentation Using Multimodality of CT-PET Scans
Alshmrani, G.Ni, Q. & Jiang, R.20/11/2023In: Diagnostics. 132223 p., 3481.

DRPO: A Deep Learning Technique for Drug Response Prediction in Oncology Cell Lines
Shahzad, M., Kadani, A. Z. U. A., Tahir, M. A., Malick, R. A. S. & Jiang, R., 31/10/2024, In: Alexandria Engineering Journal. 105, p. 88-97 9 p.

Towards Robust Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Vision Self-attention Transformer
Mehboob, F., Rauf, A., Jiang, R., Saudagar, A. K. J., Malik, K. M., Khan, M. B., Hasnat, M. H. A., AlTameem, A. & AlKhathami, M., 26/05/2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 12 p., 8922.

Role for 2D image generated 3D face models in the rehabilitation of facial palsy
Storey, G., Jiang, R. & Bouridane, A., 10/08/2017In: HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY LETTERS. 44p. 145-148 4 p.

Live-Cell Tracking Using SIFT Features in DIC Microscopic Videos
Jiang, R. M., Crookes, D., Luo, N. & Davidson, M. W., 09/2010, In: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 57, 9, p. 2219-2228 10 p.

Environmental Computing 

Self-Supervised Leaf Segmentation under Complex Lighting Conditions
Lin, X., Li, C.-T., Adams, S., Kouzani, A. Z., Jiang, R., He, L., Hu, Y., Vernon, M., Doeven, E. H., Webb, L., Mcclellan, T. & Guskic, A., 31/03/2023, In: Pattern Recognition. 135, 14 p., 109021.

Marine Debris Detection in Satellite Surveillance using Attention Mechanisms
Shen, A., Zhu, Y.Angelov, P. & Jiang, R., 3/01/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17, p. 4320-4330 11 p.

Robust and Fair Undersea Target Detection with Automated Underwater Vehicles for Biodiversity Data Collection
Dinakaran, R., Zhang, L., Li, C.-T., Bouridane, A. & Jiang, R., 1/08/2022, In: Remote Sensing. 14, 15, 17 p., 3680.

Deep Learning based Automated Forest Health Diagnosis from Aerial Images
Chiang, C.-Y., Angelov, P., Barnes, C. & Jiang, R., 28/07/2020, In: IEEE Access. 8, p. 144064 – 144076 13 p.