1) Peer-reviewed articles

• Muhammad Sikandar Lal Khan, Alaa Halawani, Shafiq ur Réhman, Haibo Li,
  Action Augmented Real Virtuality: A Design for Presence
  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, April 2018.

• Alaa Halawani, Haibo Li,
  100 Lines of Code for Shape-based Object Localization
  Pattern Recognition, Volume 60, Pages 458–472, December 2016.

• Alaa Halawani, Haibo Li
  Human Ear Localization: A Template-based Approach
  International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Volume 4, No. 3, Pages 258-262, June 2016.

• Zhihan Lv, Alaa Halawani, Shengzhong Feng, Shafiq ur Rehman, Haibo Li,
  Touch-less Interactive Augmented Reality Game on Vision Based Wearable Device
  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 551-567, July 2015.

• Alaa Halawani, Shafiq ur Rehman, Haibo Li
  Active Vision for Tremor Disease Monitoring
  Procedia Manufacturing Volume 3, Pages 2042-2048, 2015.

• Zhihan Lv, Alaa Halawani, Shengzhong Feng, Haibo Li, Shafiq ur Rehman,
  Multimodal Hand and Foot Gesture Interaction for Handheld Devices
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 11, Issue 1s, Pages 10:1-10:19, September 2014.

• Mohamed Eisa, E. I. Esedimy, Alaa Halawani,
  Improving Scalability of Cloud System based on Routing Algorithms
  International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 101, Number 11, Pages 40-46, September 2014.

• Alaa Halawani, Shafiq ur Rehman, Haibo Li, Adi Anani,
  Active Head Motion Tracking for Controlling an Electric Wheelchair
  Intelligent Service Robotics, Volume 5, Number 2, Pages 89-98, 2012.
   
• Alaa Halawani, Haibo Li, Adi Anani
  Building Eye Contact in E-Learning Through Head-Eye Coordination
  International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 3, Number 1, Pages 95-106, 2011.
   
• Lokesh Setia, Alexandra Teynor, Alaa Halawani and Hans Burkhardt
  Grayscale Medical Image Annotation using Local Relational Features
  Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue on Medical Image Annotation in ImageCLEF, Volume 29, Issue 15, Pages 2039-2045, 2008.
   
• Alaa Halawani, Alexandra Teynor, Lokesh Setia, Gerd Brunner, Hans Burkhardt
  Fundamentals and Applications of Image Retrieval: An Overview
  Datenbank-Spektrum, Heft 18, August 2006.

• Omar Al-Jarrah, Alaa Halawani,
  Recognition of Gestures in Arabic Sign Language using Neuro-fuzzy Systems,
  Artificial Intelligence, Volume 133, Issues 1-2, Pages 117-138, 2001.

2) Peer-reviewed conference contributions

• Muhammad Sikandar Lal Khan, Shafiq Ur Réhman, Ulrik Söderström, Alaa Halawani and Haibo Li,
  Face-off: a Face Reconstruction Technique for Virtual Reality (VR) Scenarios,
  In 1st Intl. Workshop on Egocentric, perception, interaction and computing, the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Alaa Halawani, Haibo Li
  Template-based Search: A Tool for Scene Analysis
  In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications (CSPA 2016), Malacca, Malaysia, March 4-6, 2016.

• Alaa Halawani, Haibo Li
  FingerInk: Turn your Glass into a Digital Board
  In Proceedings of the 25th OzCHI conference, Adelaide, Australia, November 25-29, 2013.

• Zhihan Lv, Alaa Halawani, Muhammad Sikandar Lal Khan, Shafiq ur Rehman, Haibo Li,
  Finger in air: touch-less interaction on smartphone
  In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Luleå, Sweden, December 2-5, 2013.

• Alaa Halawani, Haibo Li
  Personal Relative Time: Towards Internet of Watches
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings), Dalian, China, October 19-22, 2011.

• Lokesh Setia, Alexandra Teynor, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt
  Image Classification using Cluster-Cooccurrence Matrices of Local Relational Features
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October 26-27, 2006.

• Lokesh Setia, Alexandra Teynor, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt
  Radiograph Annotation using Local Relational Features
  In Workshop on Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), Alicante, Spain, September 19-23, 2006

• Alaa Halawani, Hashem Tamimi, Hans Burkhardt, Andreas Zell,
  Using Local Integral Invariants for Object Recognition in Complex Scenes,
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2006), Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, September 18-20, 2006.

• Alaa Halawani, Hashem Tamimi,
  Retrieving Objects using Local Integral Invariants,
  In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2006), Tempe, Arizona, USA, July 13-15, 2006.

• Hashem Tamimi, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt, Andreas Zell,
  Appearance-based Localization of Mobile Robots using Local Integral Invariants,
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo, Japan, March 7-9, 2006.

• Hashem Tamimi, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt, Andreas Zell,
  Using Descriptive Image Features for Global Localization of Mobile Robots,
  In Proceedings of  19th  Autonomous Mobile Systems (AMS 2005), Stuttgart, Germany, December 8-9, 2005.

• Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt,
  On using Histograms of Local Invariant Features for Image Retrieval,
  In Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 16-18, 2005.

• Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt,
  Image Retrieval by Local Evaluation of Nonlinear Kernel Functions around Salient Points,
  In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition  (ICPR), Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 2004.

• Bernard Haasdonk, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt,
  Adjustable Invariant Features by Partial Haar-Integration,
  In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 2004.

​​​​​​​3) Theses

• Alaa Halawani
  Local Integral Invariants for Image Retrieval
  PhD Thesis, University of Freiburg, Germany, July 2006.

• Alaa Halawani
  Recognition of Gestures in Arabic Sign Language using Neuro-fuzzy Systems
  Master Thesis, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, January 2000.