{"title":"Issue Based OCR Error Prediction in Video Streams","authors":"Dirk Siegmund, Luís Rüger Sacco, Arjan Kuijper","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241245","url":null,"abstract":"This paper increases the reliability of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems in natural scene by proposing a novel Image Quality Assessment (IQA) system. We propose to increase reliability based on the principle that OCR accuracy is a function of the quality of the input image. Detected text boxes are analyzed regarding their OCR score and different quality issues, such as blur, light and reflection effects. The novelty of our approach is to model IQA as a classification task, where one class represents high quality elements and each of the other classes represent a specific quality issue. We demonstrate how this methodology allows the training of IQA systems for complex quality metrics, even when no data labeled with the desired metric is available. Furthermore, a single IQA system outputs the quality score as well as the quality issues for a given image. We built on publicly available databases to generate 60k text boxes for each class and obtain 97,1% classification accuracy on a test set of 24k images. We conclude that the learnt quality metric is a valid indicator of common OCR errors by evaluating on the ICDAR 2003 Robust Word Recognition dataset.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124540816","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":"TIRUB: A Safety and Energy-Aware Scheduling Algorithm","authors":"Javier Hoffmann, M. Brandalero, M. Hübner","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241280","url":null,"abstract":"The paradigm change towards the Industrial Internet of Things carries considerations related to the implementation and quality of processes already established inside the industries. If we also consider the essential roles that Cyber-Physical systems play in modern industries, we cannot avoid recognizing that devices are obtaining more responsibility. Thus, their safety functioning has to be guaranteed, even if their batteries are running low.The correct scheduling of tasks can provide a functional safety execution, and additionally save energy to ensure that the safety-critical tasks are allowed to run. We present in this paper a novel algorithm named TIRUB, specially designed for the industrial scenario so that devices are compliant with safety standards as the IEC-61508.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127184331","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}
M. Niedźwiecki, M. Ciołek, Artur Gańcza, Piotr Kaczmarek
{"title":"A New Method of Noncausal Identification of Time-varying Systems","authors":"M. Niedźwiecki, M. Ciołek, Artur Gańcza, Piotr Kaczmarek","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241263","url":null,"abstract":"The paper shows that the problem of noncausal identification of a time-varying FIR (finite impulse response) system can be reformulated, and solved, as a problem of smoothing of the preestimated parameter trajectories. Characteristics of the smoothing filter should be chosen so as to provide the best tradeoff between the bias and variance of the resulting estimates. It is shown that optimization of the smoothing operation can be performed adaptively using the parallel estimation technique.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114199837","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":"Pneumonia detection in X-ray chest images based on convolutional neural networks and data augmentation methods","authors":"Jakub Garstka, M. Strzelecki","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241305","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence is gaining in importance in our everyday lives. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a very promising and perspective technology in the area of medical images processing, where it could contribute to diagnostics becoming easier and more reliable. Accurate diagnosis is an important factor in the selection of proper and effective treatment. In this paper, a self-constructed convolutional neural network trained on a relatively small dataset for classification of lung X-ray images is presented. This CNN enables classification into one of three categories: healthy, those with bacterial pneumonia, and those with viral pneumonia. Such classification, that considers pneumonia distinction, is rather uncommon among scientific publications. Also, a comparative analysis of the degree of impact of data augmentation on the model’s performance and prevention of overfitting was performed. The obtained accuracy of the categorical classification has reached the level of 85% while the sensitivity was equal 0.95. Such results are promising for further work and improvement.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114401888","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}
T. Lee, H. W. Chan, K. Leo, E. Chew, Ling Zhao, S. Sanei
{"title":"Surrogate Data for Deep Learning Architectures in Rehabilitative Edge Systems","authors":"T. Lee, H. W. Chan, K. Leo, E. Chew, Ling Zhao, S. Sanei","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241275","url":null,"abstract":"The age of Big Data came about with the profitable mining of large amounts of data stored on the Cloud data servers accessible through the Internet. Much of these data were provided by users of extensive social networks. The availability of these data for training, coupled with advances in processing power have led to the surge in deep learning applications.While the Cloud provides wide scale data storage and analytic facilities, there is a move to perform data analyses closer to where data is gathered. Low resource but powerful processors have led the move toward these systems at the “edge“ rather than remotely.However, certain environments which can benefit from edge systems do not produce large volumes of data, such as in clinical applications. We augment such data using surrogate time series and compare various neural network architectures which would allow data analysis in rehabilitative edge systems.We show that a neural network using temporal data provides excellent classification results while using a fraction of the resources in an earlier work. Our novel framework shows how deep learning tools can be trained in a data scarce environment and then deployed in resource constrained edge systems.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131491599","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":"Switched-capacitor finite impulse response rotator filter","authors":"P. Pawlowski, R. Dlugosz, A. Dabrowski","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241247","url":null,"abstract":"Design of the topology and layout for an analog finite impulse response (FIR) filter realized in the CMOS technology using the switched capacitor (SC) technique, is presented. The filter is based on the so called “rotator structure” supplemented with the programmable capacitor array. This array makes the on-line adjusting of the frequency response of the filter possible in a very wide range, thus, enlarges the area of applications of this circuit, e.g., to multi-standard wireless communication, software-defined radio, adaptive systems, etc. The presented circuit realizes filters of orders up to 15 (16 filter coefficients). The maximum frequency range approaches ca. 2 MHz. The circuit dissipates ca. 8 mW from the power supply.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131581974","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":"SMART4ALL Open Calls, the right funding instrument to boost technology and business development in South, East and Central Europe","authors":"Antonio Montalvo","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241258","url":null,"abstract":"SMART4ALL is a four-year Innovation Action project funded under Horizon 2020 framework under call DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere – Area 2: Customized low energy computing powering CPS and the IoT. The target of the project is to establish a unique Pan European network of Digital Innovation Hubs that will not only support innovation and reveal business opportunities across South, Eastern and Central Europe, but will build capacity via the development of self-sustained, cross-border pathfinder application experiments. The project will provide a total funding of 2,2 Mio Euros via 9 open calls and it will support 88 cross-border pathfinder application experiments from European consortia. Each experiment will get funding up to €80,000 and it will be supported with novel coaching services from world lead experts in ethics, technology, funding and business development. This presentation will describe in detail the Open Calls, including their value proposition, the processes for eligibility (who can apply), evaluation and selection, the financial support and how to submit an application.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132392508","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}
Przemysław Falkowski-Gilski, M. Kulawiak, M. Kulawiak
{"title":"Geospatial Coverage and Signal Quality Measurements of Terrestrial DAB+ Network in Northern Poland","authors":"Przemysław Falkowski-Gilski, M. Kulawiak, M. Kulawiak","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241292","url":null,"abstract":"Modern signal coverage maps are prepared based on industry-standard radio propagation models, which take into account a number of parameters, including: type of antenna, distance from the transmitter, type of terrain, etc. However, such simulations are prone to location-specific inaccuracies, and should be verified with in-situ measurements. This paper presents results of a field test of a terrestrial DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcasting plus) network in the metropolitan area of the Tricity, the largest agglomeration in Northern Poland. Obtained results were compared to previously generated radio signal coverage maps. The study shown that terrain topology has a profound impact on signal strength, and should be more accurately implemented in coverage modeling, particularly in order to provide a stable and reliable high-quality connection.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133877380","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}
Javier Hoffmann, Safdar Mahmood, Priscile Suawa Fogou, N. George, Solaiman Raha, Sabur Safi, K. Schmailzl, M. Brandalero, M. Hübner
{"title":"A Survey on Machine Learning Approaches to ECG Processing","authors":"Javier Hoffmann, Safdar Mahmood, Priscile Suawa Fogou, N. George, Solaiman Raha, Sabur Safi, K. Schmailzl, M. Brandalero, M. Hübner","doi":"10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/spa50552.2020.9241283","url":null,"abstract":"Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals convey a substantial amount of information that can be used for detecting and predicting the occurrence of several diseases and conditions. Approaches to ECG analysis were traditionally based on Signal Processing (SP), but several recent work have managed to substantially increase the quality of the analyses by using Machine Learning (ML) techniques. Still, while ML offers the potential to extract a substantially more information and predict diseases with better accuracy, it is also intrinsically more computationally expensive. Given the importance of this field and recent advances, we present a survey on ML approaches to ECG processing, focusing on particular diseases and conditions that can be detected and the different algorithms used for that. Moreover, we also discuss recent implementations of such algorithms on low-power wearable devices. We identify an opportunity for the development of novel embedded architectures that could enable the continuous monitoring of ECG signals and identify emerging technologies that could help in paving the way towards that.","PeriodicalId":157578,"journal":{"name":"2020 Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA)","volume":"12 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134562475","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}