International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP)

IJIGSP Vol. 7, No. 12, Nov. 2015

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REGULAR PAPERS

Face Detection and Auto Positioning for Robotic Vision System

By Muralindran Mariappan Tan Wei Fang Manimehala Nadarajan Norfarariyanti Parimon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.01, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

Robotic vision system has taken a great leap in the field of robotics. Vision system is an essential tool to be implemented in a robot for visual communication between robot and human especially in the application of Tele-Diagnostic Robot. The robot vision system must always be in the field of view. The ability for the vision system to automatically track the person in communication is crucial for the remote medical specialist. To circumvent this problem, a face detection technique is implemented and it is performed using skin color segmentation with two color space which are YCbCr and HSV. Besides that, morphological operations are also done to detect the face region accurately. Two DOF servo mechanism were designed to ensure that the servo motor rotates to centralize the detected face region. A real-time testing were conducted and it was found that this system results a good performance.

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Anti-Forensics of JPEG Images using Interpolation

By Saurabh Agarwal Satish Chand

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.02, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

The quantization artifacts and blocking artifacts are the two significant properties for identifying the forgery in a JPEG compressed image. There are some techniques for JPEG compressed images that can remove these artifacts resulting no traces for forgery. These methods are referred as anti-forensic methods. A forger may perform some post-operations to disturb the underlying statistics of JPEG images to fool current forensic techniques. These methods create noise and reduce the image quality. In this paper we apply three different interpolation techniques namely nearest neighbor, bilinear and bicubic techniques to remove JPEG artifacts. The experimental results show that the bicubic interpolated images are found to be of better quality as compare to the nearest neighbor and bilinear interpolated images with no JPEG artifacts. For quality analysis of these interpolation methods on the images three popular quality metric are used. The proposed method is very simple to perform. This interpolation based method is applicable to both single and double JPEG compression.

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A New Heuristic Approach for DNA Sequences Alignment

By M.I. Khalil

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.03, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

The problem of comparing DNA sequences is one of the most significant tasks in the field of computational biology. It helps locating the similarities and differences between pairs of DNA sequences. This task can be achieved by finding the longest common substrings between DNA sequences and consequently aligning them. The complexity of this task is due to the high computational power and huge space consuming. Comparing DNA sequences leads to infer the cause of a certain disease beside many significant biological applications. This paper introduces a new Heuristic Approach for DNA Sequences Alignment between two DNA sequences. The new approach is based on three processing phases: the first phase finds the multiple common substrings in the two sequences, the second one sorts the obtained common substrings descending according to their lengths, and the last phase generates the optimal two aligned sequences. The modules of the new approach have been implemented and tested in C# language under Windows platform. The obtained results manifest a reduction in both time of processing and memory requirements. 

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Resource Optimization for the Efficient Channel Access and Estimation in LTE System

By Manorama.Setia Jyoteesh Malhotra

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.04, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

LTE Standard has been an inseparable part of 3GPP that was started with an objective to upgrade 3G based Mobile Systems to 4G.This standard has been developed to enhance the data rate, reliability and seamless connectivity to the users. There is a need to evaluate the achievable performance through this standard in terms of MAC parameters. Moreover, in order to optimize the resources like Power and Bandwidth, Extensive Simulations have been done here considering the Medium Access techniques like Channel estimation, Retransmission techniques and Scheduling techniques. Two Scenarios have been designed by considering diverse Conditions of Physical Layer Resources. Optimal Performance bounds have been obtained in terms of BLER and throughput for the proposed Scenarios.

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Recognition and Classification of Human Behavior in Intelligent Surveillance Systems using Hidden Markov Model

By Adeleh Farzad Rahebeh Niaraki Asli

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.05, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

Nowadays, the human behavior analysis by computer vision techniques has been an interesting issue for researchers. Automatic recognition of actions in video allows automation of many otherwise manually intensive tasks such as video surveillance. Video surveillance system especially for elderly care and their behavior analysis has an important role to take care of aged, impatient or bedridden persons. In this paper, we propose a high accuracy human action classification and recognition method using hidden Markov model classifier. In our approach, first, we use star skeleton feature extraction method to extract extremities of human body silhouette to produce feature vectors as inputs of hidden Markov model classifier. Then, hidden Markov model, which is learned and used in our proposed surveillance system, classifies the investigated behaviors and detects abnormal actions with high accuracy in comparison by other abnormal detection reported in previous works. The accuracy about 94% resulted from confusion matrix approve the efficiency of the proposed method when compared with its counterparts for abnormal action detection.

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Image Processing Method For Embedded Optical Peanut Sorting

By Desai Vasishth P. Arjav Bavarva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.06, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

Sorting of finished products or agriculture food has different method for ultra high speed quality inspection. Optical sorting is one of the important applications of image processing used in industries to replace manual method to verify quality of finished products or row food. Most of the systems use the computer as main processing device that perform image processing algorithms on it, such kind of system having limitations like higher cost, bigger size and large Initial boot-up time. This type of design cannot be implemented for ultra fast, higher capacity and smaller in size agricultural products like nuts, grains and pulses. Standalone image processing have embedded image processing platform that can able to overcome the limitation of computer based systems at certain level. As peanuts (Arachis hypogeal) come from farm, they are mixed with foreign material like rocks, moisture contended soil particles and outer shells of raw peanuts and they must be separated with high level of accuracy and precision. here discussed the multi channel peanut sorting algorithm that apply on raspberry pi ARM platform for peanut quality segregation by sort out foreign material as well as defective peanut like aflatoxin contaminants and fungi allergies contents from the required quality good peanuts. In paper we discuss about implementation of such a system by using conveyor belt method and image processing algorithm. Algorithm takes consider the color and size of peanut for optical peanut sorting process.

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Embedded Digital SISO Radar using Wireless Open Access Research Platform for Object Detection and RCS Measurement

By Subhankar Shome Rabindranath Bera Bansibadan Maji Samarendra Nath Sur Soumyasree Bera

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.07, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

Nowadays, the ground radar systems are mostly used for controlling airspace or making weather images. These systems consist of large antenna, a lot of the electronic equipment and very powerful computational unit. Smaller versions of these systems are often carried on the board of planes but still they are quite complex devices. Much simpler versions of the systems mentioned above but still using the same basic principles are small compact devices for measuring Target RCS or Target detection. In these applications, small size embedded SDR radar can be used. Then real time processing of a radar signal can also be much simpler. For the above mentioned simple applications, it is possible and reasonable to have small devices with low power consumption that perform real time correlation based processing. Typical today's embedded FPGA based SDR solutions have enough computational performance and their electric input is also very low. Moreover, the dimensions of the processor boards are very compact and they can be easily integrated into very small cases. That's why it is good to transfer radar signal processing algorithms to the embedded system. The recent development in the digital Radar is now molded in these SDR systems. Our motivation is to design a Spread Spectrum based digital SDR radar which is very small in size and may be a low cost solution where we can bypass all the huge instrumentation complexity. This type of solution is now popular for defense organizations, even can be used in human daily life.

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All Aspects of Digital Video Watermarking Under an Umbrella

By Rakesh Ahuja S.S.Bedi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.12.08, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

The present review covers the video watermarking literature published from 1997 to the year 2015. Through extensive work, some selection is necessary. Therefore, only articles published by a process of peer review in archival journal are reviewed. Papers are grouped according to the implementation techniques and further divided into sub techniques. Many papers deal with fundamental of digital video watermarking, including experimental, numerical and analytical works. Others are related to application or natural system. In addition to reviewing journal articles, this review also takes papers of good conferences and meeting on video watermarking. The main aim of authors is to provide every details regarding digital video watermarking under an umbrella. In other words all aspects of video watermarking are placed together in order to helpful to those readers looking the complete literature related to video watermarking scheme.

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