Dmitry A. Kolchaev, A. I. Efimov, Dmitry I. Ustukov
{"title":"Automatic Image Enhancement from a Mobile Synthetic Vision System","authors":"Dmitry A. Kolchaev, A. I. Efimov, Dmitry I. Ustukov","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760014","url":null,"abstract":"The work discusses basic image contrasting algorithms and noise compensation methods, an algorithm for estimating image quality based on an integral quality indicator, as well as approaches for estimating noise values in images. The results of contrasting algorithms work (with a numerical estimation) and the most prominent image filtering methods are presented. A description is given for an automatic image enhancement algorithm from a mobile synthetic vision system based on a choice of contrasting algorithms using an integral quality indicator, and a space-time filter using a pyramidal version of Lucas-Kanade optical flow algorithm is proposed.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128903486","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}
E. Zaev, D. Babunski, D. Trajkovski, V. Iliev, L. Trajkovski
{"title":"Real-Time Positioning and Data Collecting System for Aerodynamic Profiles","authors":"E. Zaev, D. Babunski, D. Trajkovski, V. Iliev, L. Trajkovski","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760198","url":null,"abstract":"New digital control systems open new possibilities in many areas. It is here presented design and implementation of a real-time optimal positioning and data collecting system in a newly designed laboratory wind tunnel. The wind tunnel has the possibility of changing the wind intensity in the tunnel. The control system positions the aerodynamic profile in different positions and measures the pressure along the profile in 14 points. All these data are stored in real-time in the SCADA system. This enables automatic finding of the optimum position of the profile according to various parameters: smallest resistance, maximum lifting force, smallest draft force and etc. It also allows students as well as researchers to view data in the form of graphs or tables in real-time as well as additional later offline process and review of the saved data.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116121354","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}
A. D. Sergeeva, A. V. Savin, V. Sablina, O. Melnik
{"title":"Emotion Recognition from Micro-Expressions: Search for the Face and Eyes","authors":"A. D. Sergeeva, A. V. Savin, V. Sablina, O. Melnik","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760029","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper the problem of the emotion recognition from the micro-expressions is considered. The psychological background of this problem from the modern viewpoint is described in short. There are seven universal emotions which are usually could be recognized. The application fields of the emotion recognition are indicated. The most known databases for the facial micro-expression research are highlighted. The state-of-the-art of the micro-expression spotting and recognition methods is given. One of the main preliminary steps before the emotion recognition is investigated more thoroughly. It is the task of searching for the areas of a face and eyes in the image. Two algorithms implemented to solve this task are compared: the algorithm based on the color intensity estimation and the Viola – Jones algorithm. The results for of these algorithms for images of the people with the different skin colors are represented. The advantages and the drawbacks of the considered algorithms are discussed. The survey and experimental research results are proposed to further use in the emotion recognition pipeline.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126675754","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}
Rana H. ElMaraashly, G. Alkady, R. Daoud, Hassan H. Halawa, H. Amer, I. Adly, T. Refaat
{"title":"On the Reliability and Flexibility of FPGAs for Fault Tolerance in Sectored Networked Control Systems","authors":"Rana H. ElMaraashly, G. Alkady, R. Daoud, Hassan H. Halawa, H. Amer, I. Adly, T. Refaat","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760287","url":null,"abstract":"As Networked Control Systems grow more complex in industrial applications, moving network modules and cabling decrease overall system reliability. This paper presents an FPGA-based fault tolerance technique to reduce cabling and increase the overall reliability of such a system. A sectored sensor-to-actuator networked control system architecture with sensor-level sift-out modular redundancy is modeled and analyzed. The fault models considered in this study are Single Event Upsets and hard failures. A reliability analysis is then conducted to evaluate the reliability of each block in the system and study the overall system reliability. A generic reliability analysis is presented to investigate the flexibility of the fault tolerance technique and a case study demonstrates the reliability improvements over a system that does not utilize FPGAs and cable reduction.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121506275","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":"Development of the Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Path in a Transport Network with Dynamic Parameters based on the Multidimensional Data Model","authors":"A. Sokolov, T. Fetisova, A. Bakulev, M. Bakuleva","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760179","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the approach to finding the optimal path for the number of criteria in the transport network. The aim of the work is the development of the algorithm for finding the optimal path capable of solving this problem in the conditions of constantly changing external factors. As such factors, the most common metrics are chosen - travel time and throughput. As a mathematical model reflecting the dynamics of external factors, the tensor model is used. It is based on the dynamic Floyd - Warshall algorithm for finding the shortest distances between all the vertices of a weighted oriented graph. The developed algorithm is modified for the iterative analysis of paths in the graph and finding the optimal one with constant changes in throughput.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121014086","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":"The Development of Information Technology and the Problem of Identity","authors":"A. Pylkin, O. Stroganova, N. Sokolova, M. Pylkina","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760159","url":null,"abstract":"The development of information technology has led to the emergence of such a social phenomenon as the information society. The article deals with the problem of the identity of a person who is forced to communicate with his own peers in the realities of the information society. As a philosophical explication of the latter is considered a poststructuralist concept of intertextuality. According to it an individual is a moving fragment of a continuously reproduced hypertext. In such a context semantic unity, treated by philosophical hermeneutics as a necessary condition for the identification of an individual as an understanding being, is an ideological projection. Poststructuralists postulate “natural” dispersion of the primary semantic unity. Henceforth, a person who has got stuck in the intertextual reproduction of communicative space and lost identity, participates in communication only as a producer of a new conceptual meaning. A message sent by such a person remains unanswered, which means the impossibility of communication in the information society. Since communication is an irreducible parameter of human existence, one should speak about an ideological deadlock of the concept of intertextuality and breakdown of an ideological construct of the information society.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127730875","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}
R. Giorgi, Nicola Bettin, S. Ermini, Francesco Montefoschi, A. Rizzo
{"title":"An Iris+Voice Recognition System for a Smart Doorbell","authors":"R. Giorgi, Nicola Bettin, S. Ermini, Francesco Montefoschi, A. Rizzo","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760187","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe our methodology for designing a smart doorbell system for the homes. While the recent trend of big companies is to offer a home voice assistant, which can integrate all possible services, including the recognition of the owner (or authorized people) at the house door, privacy concerns and independence from a single service provider are requiring more freedom in the choice of the “smart objects” that surround us. The doorbell system is using both iris and voice recognition to verify the identity of the user who rings at the door. Since there is the involvement of biometric data, this information has to be properly handled. In particular, we designed our system in such a way that it can avoid to send or store any biometric data to the cloud. Machine-learning algorithms are used to perform local computations, thus implementing Edge-Computing analytics to determine the identity of the user, by combining both voice and iris biometrics. The system is implemented on reconfigurable hardware in order to accelerate some of the most intensive tasks and achieve enough performance at a reasonable power consumption. Our tests confirm that, by using our architecture, the performance is about 5x the sequential case and, at the same time, we reach about 7x less energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132296065","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}
R. Giorgi, David Oro, S. Ermini, Francesco Montefoschi, A. Rizzo
{"title":"Embedded Face Analysis for Smart Videosurveillance","authors":"R. Giorgi, David Oro, S. Ermini, Francesco Montefoschi, A. Rizzo","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760200","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe our methodology for designing a smart Videosurveillance system for face analysis. The system aims at increasing the security by gathering demographic statistics in highly crowded areas such as train stations, airports and shopping malls. Based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), the system architecture relies on the reconfigurable hardware to accelerate part of the computation and reduce the power consumption compared to general-purpose processors and GPUs. To achieve easy programmability, the platform makes use of the OmpSs programming model, which provides parallelization and acceleration by using simple directives to be added to the sequential code. The rsource-intensive tasks are offloaded to the reconfigurable hardware in order to achieve the desired performance levels. Our evaluation shows that we can detect more than 600 faces per frame, while keeping the power consumption at about 8W. The tests were performed by using the AXIOM hardware/software platform.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133757719","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":"The Materiality of Interaction & Intangible Heritage: Interaction Design","authors":"G. Laštovička-Medin","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760092","url":null,"abstract":"The materiality of interaction - interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of tangible interaction was explored in the context of tangible interface for intangible heritage. This article explores materialization of intangible heritage through tangible interactions. Some examples were designed for mixed reality exhibition “Archeology of memories and architecture of knowledge” which was shown at the Open days of science in Montenegro in October 2018. A new way of co-creation of knowledge was included, social sculptures, as long as audience was willing to augment themselves in narratives of intangible world heritage.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131163569","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}
Suzana Petrovic, N. Lukic, N. Prodanović, G. Devedžić
{"title":"A Comparative FE Analysis of a Flat Foot with and without a Custom-made Orthotic Insole","authors":"Suzana Petrovic, N. Lukic, N. Prodanović, G. Devedžić","doi":"10.1109/MECO.2019.8760280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO.2019.8760280","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study a stress analysis on a deformed footprint was performed in the case when an anatomical customized insole is used and in the case when an anatomical customized insole is not used. For specific deformities of the foot, an anatomical insole is made by using EasyCAD software. Solid models of the foot and insole, which are necessary for creating finite element models, were obtained by scanning the physical objects of the footprint and insole, and by their reconstruction and optimization in Geomagic software. Stress analysis was performed in Catia V5 R21 software for the case of a neutral standing position on the ground. Results show maximum values of the pressures in the medial region of the foot and toe region in the case when an anatomical customized insole is not used. With the use of the customized insole, pressures are significantly reduced, both by size and region.","PeriodicalId":141324,"journal":{"name":"2019 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)","volume":"60 39","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132846264","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}