Humza Naveed, Gulraiz Khan, Saira Jabeen, Zeeshan Khan, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan
{"title":"Human, Object and Scene Centric Image Retrieval Engine to Enhance Image Management","authors":"Humza Naveed, Gulraiz Khan, Saira Jabeen, Zeeshan Khan, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00025","url":null,"abstract":"Image data available on internet and in personal computers is colossal. There is a need of a search engine that can effectively meet the retrieval demands of user. Most of the systems available consider low level features for retrieval without taking input from user. To handle this problem, we propose a search engine that can retrieve images from database based on specific request from user. We present a system that has multiple computer vision algorithms based retrieval options available. Scene, human, face, age, emotion, face recognition, gender and object detection based systems are integrated to create a diverse image search engine. The retrieval performance of system is shown in pictorial form. Precision and recall metrics are used to evaluate system’s performance.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116086221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposing Optimal ARMA Based Model for Measurement Compensation in the State Estimation","authors":"N. Khan, Syed Abuzar Bacha","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00060","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to improve state estimation in the event of data loss by augmenting a novel Moving Average Autoregressive-based artificial measurement vector with Kalman filtering. The proposed technique replaces the existing Autoregressive-series based model embedded in the linear prediction techniques through Moving Average Autoregressive-based model. The Autoregressive scheme needs only one type of linear prediction coefficient to be tracked, while the proposed scheme computes two parameters at each recursion. Since Autoregressive Moving Average technique possesses more information, hence it efficiently predicts the future values of a signal. This value is placed as an alternative in the structure (or steps) involved in standard process of state estimations. The ultimate consequences of this extra computations involve more computational efforts. A standard mass-spring damper case study has been provided to show some aspects of the existing and proposed techniques.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125156982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing Ambiguities in Software Team's Roles and Responsibilities: Minimizing Accountability Problems","authors":"Abdul Jabbar, Ali Afzal Malik","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00039","url":null,"abstract":"A software team consists of several individuals who are assigned different roles and responsibilities. Mostly these roles and responsibilities are not clear among team members. Due to this ambiguity, expectation about roles and responsibilities of an individual in a team is different between this individual and other team members. This ambiguity further leads to issues at the time of accountability and leads to blame games among team members. To create a culture of accountability, every team member should be very clear about his/her role, responsibilities and expectations from him/her. This paper addresses this problem of ambiguity in roles and responsibilities of software team members. We conducted a survey of various software development organizations to know how software teams look at these problems and what tools and techniques they are using to clarify roles and responsibilities. We have surveyed software teams having diverse experience ranging from less than one year to twenty plus years and diverse roles from internee to senior project manager so that any type of bias should not affect our results. After analysis of survey results, our findings reveal what industry practitioners think about this issue of ambiguity in roles and responsibilities and how they are addressing and managing this issue. Based on this analysis we have outlined the main findings and the best tools that software industry is using to successfully identify this issue of ambiguity in roles and responsibilities.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122816898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ligature Analysis-based Urdu OCR Framework","authors":"Zaheer Ahmed, Khalid Iqbal, I. Mehmood, M. Ayub","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00023","url":null,"abstract":"Urdu script belongs to Arabic script which is cursive in nature, written right to left with each word formation from top-right to bottom-left, along complex placement of diacritics. Characters are joined together to make ligature and combination of ligatures make words. In this paper, Nataleeq Urdu OCR framework is proposed consisting of three steps. These steps are normalization and segmentation, feature extraction and classification, and text formation. In Urdu script, last character in any ligature or in isolated form always appears in full shape. Each ligature is classified according to segmented last character by finding similarity co-relation with corresponding one, two and three characters ligature image bank in sequence. Ligature image bank comprising 3500 images, developed during this research, and is used to classify ligatures according to the sequence of characters appearance. The proposed framework provides promising results for Urdu Nastaleeq text recognition with accuracy of 97.4% for isolated characters, 82.3% for two-character ligatures and 80.6% for three-character ligature","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"24 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120818223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User Association Techniques in Future Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"K. Bakht, Haji. M. Furqan, Zain Ali, G. Sidhu","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00011","url":null,"abstract":"The exponential increase in the demand of data rate and scarcity of the available spectrum have evolved to the more advanced network topology which efficiently utilizes the radio spectrum such as Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). HetNets consist of many tiers of base stations, having different transmit powers. The macro base stations transmit at high power level whereas pico and femto base stations have much less power as compared to macro. An efficient user association becomes necessary to exploit the actual benefits of the HetNets. However, the user association is challenging task and recently a number of techniques have been proposed. In this study, we summarize the recent developments in user association methods under different constraints.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133644670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of Advanced Deep Learning Architectures for Offline Handwritten Character Recognition","authors":"Moazam Soomro, Muhammad Ali Farooq, R. H. Raza","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00071","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a hand-written character recognition comparison and performance evaluation for robust and precise classification of different hand-written characters. The system utilizes advanced multilayer deep neural network by collecting features from raw pixel values. The hidden layers stack deep hierarchies of non-linear features since learning complex features from conventional neural networks is very challenging. Two state of the art deep learning architectures were used which includes Caffe AlexNet [5] and GoogleNet models [6] in NVIDIA DIGITS [10]. The frameworks were trained and tested on two different datasets for incorporating diversity and complexity. One of them is the publicly available dataset i.e. Chars74K [4] comprising of 7705 characters and has upper and lowercase English alphabets, along with numerical digits. While the other dataset created locally consists of 4320 characters. The local dataset consists of 62 classes and was created by 40 subjects. It also consists upper and lowercase English alphabets, along with numerical digits. The overall dataset is divided in the ratio of 80% for training and 20% for testing phase. The time required for training phase is approximately 90 minutes. For validation part, the results obtained were compared with the ground-truth. The accuracy level achieved with AlexNet was 77.77% and 88.89% with Google Net. The higher accuracy level of GoogleNet is due to its unique combination of inception modules, each including pooling, convolutions at various scales and concatenation procedures.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"40 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132811328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FIG based Quality Assurance in Software Product Lines","authors":"Nazish Yousaf, Rida Sheikh, M. Abbas","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00038","url":null,"abstract":"SPL (Software Product Line) is known as a set of software systems that share mutual set of features. These features are developed from core assets in a commended way. Testing plays a significant role in ensuring quality of software product for their reuse in future to reduce the development time and extensive testing of the similar product persistently. Testing a product line is very tricky and challenging. It has gained reflectivity in the development process as quality issues are rising significantly for software development organizations. The research proposes a systematic testing technique which uses Factor Interdependency Graphs (FIG) to test the product lines in order to ensure early defect detection, fault correction and to find common set of testing assets for the subsequent products of the SPL.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133409769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Holistic Approach for Recognition of Complete Urdu Ligatures Using Hidden Markov Models","authors":"I. Din, I. Siddiqi, S. Khalid","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00035","url":null,"abstract":"Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the continuously explored problems. Presently, commercial character recognizers are available reporting near to 100% recognition rates on text in a number of scripts. Despite these advancements, OCR systems however, have yet to mature for cursive scripts like Urdu. This study presents a holistic technique for recognition of Urdu text in Nastaliq font using \"complete\" ligatures as recognition units. The term \"complete\" refers to a partial word including its main body and secondary components (dots and diacritic marks). Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is employed as feature extractor while a separate Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is trained for each ligature considered in our study. More than 2000 frequently used unique Urdu ligatures from the standard CLE (Center of Language Engineering) dataset are considered in our evaluations. The system reads a promising accuracy of 88.87% on more than 10,000 partial words.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133969565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shadow Encoding Scheme: A Smart line Coding Scheme for Network Communication","authors":"Abdul Rasheed Rizwan, Tariq Ali","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00064","url":null,"abstract":"Digital encoding schemes are commonly used in computer networks, data transportation, and cellular communication. In digital environment to provide better communication remained a challenging task. The main issues possess by the environment and coding methods of digitizing scheme are synchronization, Direct Current (DC) components, and bandwidth. The line coding techniques like unipolar, polar, and bipolar have been proposed to overcome such issues. Some of them provide a better solution but still, these issues need the attention of researchers. Each encoding scheme dominates or dominated over others by their pros and cons. The issues of synchronization and DC component in unipolar is overcome by using polar encoding scheme. Similarly, every technique overcomes issues posses by other proposed techniques. Considering these issues as a challenges task the Shadow Encoding Scheme (SES) is proposed. Unlike AMI digitizing scheme here focus will not only on 1’s synchronization but also on the long stream of 0’s. In SES, the issues of synchronization, DC component and bandwidth will overcome.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115483924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sum-of-the-Parts Valuation-Based Scheduling of Parallel Applications over Global Grid","authors":"Aroosa Hameed, Muhammad Usman","doi":"10.1109/FIT.2017.00031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIT.2017.00031","url":null,"abstract":"Grid schedulers efficiently map grid jobs to resources over the global grid network. The existing double auction-based meta-schedulers productively schedule jobs over the resources of grids. However, they are unable to address the problem of starvation in the resource-allocation process. A novel valuation method, which works along with the double auction meta-scheduler, is proposed to facilitate the adjusted utilization of resources over a grid. The two-valuation metrics are designed on the basis of Sum-of-the-Parts valuation method that aids user requirements and availability of computational resources, thus reduces the job starvation. The formal analysis is performed through Petri nets to analyze the correctness of the presented method. The comparison of the proposed valuation method and Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT)-based multiplicative valuation method is performed. The experiment results show that the proposed valuation method facilitates up to 17% more utilization of grid resources as compared to the MAUT - based multiplicative valuation method.","PeriodicalId":107273,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123315003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}