{"title":"A New Method for the Segmentation of Algae Images Using Non-Uniform Background Improvement and Support Vector Machine","authors":"Kyle Dannemiller, E. Salari","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500095","url":null,"abstract":"Algae growth is a natural occurrence in many areas including: freshwater lakes, ponds, gulfs and other bodies of water. The algae can benefit the environment they live in or damage it when a harmful algal bloom takes place. For this reason, the rapid and accurate classification of algae in micro-image samples taken from freshwater bodies becomes highly desirable before an actual bloom proliferates. This paper explores a new method designed to increase the quality of algae micro-images and its segmentation, thus improving two important steps involved in the automatic recognition and classification of algae in images. First, the algae image quality was enhanced through the use of a non-uniform background improvement method. This method enhances an image by adjusting the background to a chosen intensity. Then, the algae in the improved quality image is segmented from the background using a support vector machine.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123147535","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":"GPU-Based Parallel Implementation of K-Means Clustering Algorithm for Image Segmentation","authors":"Shruti Karbhari, Shadi G. Alawneh","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500282","url":null,"abstract":"Clustering algorithms group a dataset into clusters that have common features. Clustering has applications in computer vision, data mining, market segmentation etc. The k-means clustering algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms where the mean is used as a prototype of the cluster. In this paper, we explore accelerating the performance of k-means clustering using NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) programmed with CUDA C. Different optimization techniques are applied such as the use of shared memory for image data and the use of constant memory for cluster data. The performance results are evaluated on a range of images from small ($256times 256$ pixels) to large ($1024times 1024$ pixels) and number of clusters range from 4 to 256. We find that on an average, the parallel implementation has a 9x speed up as compared to the sequential version for 4 clusters. The speedup increases to 57x as number of clusters increase to 256. This implementation also performs better than a reference implementation from Northwestern University/UC Berkeley.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121806835","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 Non-Isolated High Gain Switched-Inductor Switched-Capacitor Step-Up Converter for Renewable Energy Applications","authors":"Y. Almalaq, A. Alateeq, M. Matin","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500142","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel of a transformerless step-up DC-DC converter based on a switched-inductor (SL) and switched-capacitor (SC) techniques. The main advantage of the proposed SLSC step-up converter is the ability to achieve very high voltage gain (>20) with reasonable voltage stress across the semiconductor switches. The presented paper shows a detailed analysis of the proposed SLSC step-up converter and a comparison considering other published step-up converter topologies. Theoretically, the proposed SLSC step-up converter can boost the input voltage to 23.5 times when $mathbf{D}=0.75$, which D means the duty cycle of the MOSFET. Such a large voltage gain can be used in renewable energy applications such as photovoltaic application to boost the output voltage which the output voltage is low. The proposed converter is analyzed in continuous conduction mode (CCM). The proposed converter has been designed for 12V input voltage, 280V output voltage, 200W rated power, 50kHz switching frequency, and 75% duty cycle. The proposed converter has been simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129256637","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":"Sentiment Analysis Based Fuzzy Decision Platform for the Saudi Stock Market","authors":"Hasan A. Alshahrani, A. Fong","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500292","url":null,"abstract":"Investors in the Saudi stock market are used to seeking advice from online resources such as Twitter and discussion forums. In this paper, we introduced some components to enhance decision making using sentiment analysis and simple fuzzy decision. We built two corpora and one lexicon manually, and we did analysis on them using both corpus-based approach, and semantical and lexical based approach. The best model was selected to be the base of a fuzzy decision mechanism provided for investors. We mentioned several performance metrics, but the main metric to count on was recall. The best model was the rule-based approach with minimum and maximum recall of 69% and 96% respectively as we go through different data sets, types, and sizes.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130089705","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":"SMOTE Implementation on Phishing Data to Enhance Cybersecurity","authors":"M. Ahsan, Rahul Gomes, A. Denton","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500086","url":null,"abstract":"Phishing is a form of cybersecurity threat where the criminal tries to gain access to users personal information by infecting their system using malware and viruses. Appearing to come from legitimate sources, it is very easy to fall in the phishing scam. As each phishing data contains features that are consistently different from another, using a predefined set of rules makes a system useless. Data mining techniques can be applied to collected network traffic and build models to predict future attacks. However, since most of the data packets are legitimate, the model tends to produce a bias towards positive results in this imbalanced dataset. In this study, we investigate how prediction accuracy varies in a balanced dataset against an imbalanced one. SMOTE is applied to balance the dataset. XGBoost, Random Forest and Support Vector Machines have been applied on the phishing dataset. Results show much higher accuracy rates with SMOTE application. The highest jump in accuracy has been recorded in XGBoost from 89.87% to 97.17% showing that SMOTE is an effective tool in phishing data monitoring.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121848457","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}
Andrew Brueck, Kyle Bates, Trent Wood, W. House, Zackary Martinez, Shannon Peters, B. Root, K. Yelamarthi, T. Kaya
{"title":"A Custom Computer-Controlled Fluid Mixing and Dispensing System for Sweat Sensor Testing Applications","authors":"Andrew Brueck, Kyle Bates, Trent Wood, W. House, Zackary Martinez, Shannon Peters, B. Root, K. Yelamarthi, T. Kaya","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500209","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a completely automatized, computer-controlled fluid mixing and dispensing system that is suitable for testing sweat sensing devices. The design is based on Raspberry Pi that controls almost a dozen electronic relays and switches. Easy to use graphical user interface allows end users conduct the tests without any technical problems. A dragon skin based arm mold was also prototyped with pores to simulate a close to real-life arm prototype that sweats. Relay controlled mixing tanks allow different concentration of fluid solutions at various rates of fluid dispensing through pores. With the recent advances in sweat sensors, this platform offers a unique way of testing developed sensing devices before human tests both in development and before testing phases.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121032806","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":"An Extended Method of Multiple-Camera Calibration for 3D Vehicle Tracking at Intersections","authors":"Sukriti Subedi, Hua Tang","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500130","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an extended method for calibration of multiple cameras for 3D vehicle tracking at intersections that eventually targets automated and accurate traffic data collection. To allow simple, efficient yet accurate camera calibration of multiple cameras, we propose to extend the method based on the traditional vanishing-point based technique for individual camera calibration. First, a common rectangular road pattern derived from parallel traffic lanes is established to set up a unique world coordinate. Then, each camera is separately calibrated using parallel lines from the road pattern and finally all cameras are jointly optimized in least-squared nonlinear approach for minimum projection error. It is evaluated in a practical traffic scene with two cameras that more than 90% accuracy is achieved for distance and vehicle 3D dimension estimation.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130802038","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":"Automatic Tumor Segmentation Using Machine Learning Classifiers","authors":"U. Shrestha, E. Salari","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500205","url":null,"abstract":"Segmentation of liver and tumor from abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) is important for proper planning and treatment of liver disease. Variable size, intensity overlap, and complexity of CT images probe a problem for a radiologist. These issues make accurate and reliable delineation of liver and tumor very difficult and time-consuming. So, an automatic method is desired and beneficial. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic method to segment both liver and tumor using an array of Gabor Filter (Gabor Bank(GB)) and Machine Learning (ML) classifiers: Random Forest (RF) and Deep Neural Network (DNN). First, GB extract pixel level Gabor features from CT images. Secondly, the liver is segmented using ML classifiers trained on Gabor features. Finally, tumor segmentation is done on the segmented liver image using the same approach as in liver segmentation. 31 CT image slices containing hepatic tumors from 3D-IRCADb (3D Image Reconstruction for Comparison of Algorithm Database) were used to validate our proposed method. For liver segmentation, the experimental result showed that the proposed method with RF classifier performed better than DNN, and can achieve high performance of 99.55% accuracy and 99.03% dice similarity coefficient. Also, for tumor segmentation, a similar conclusion was drawn.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131252875","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 State Estimators for Airborne Target Tracking Using Multi Sensor Data Fusion","authors":"David S. R. Kondru, M. Celenk","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500078","url":null,"abstract":"The main function of range sensory systems under a given dynamic environment is to detect, discriminate and track a particular target for surveillance in case of a friendly target or an enemy target interception. The combination of two or more sensors will provide better position estimate than a single sensor. In this paper, the advantages of the multi sensor data fusion is presented and compared over conventional single sensor tracking. The state estimation techniques are utilized to enhance position accuracy in a single and multi-sensor environment. The performance of each state estimator is evaluated by considering different target motions along with their nonlinear characteristics. The state estimators presented here varies from simple linear filters such as fixed gain and Kalman filters to complex nonlinear filters such as Particle filter. Two widely used Extended Kalman filter based fusion architectures such as measurement fusion and state vector fusion are explored. The data is simulated from two ground based sensors RADAR and FLIR (forward looking infra red) to examine the fusion process. The RMS error is computed in range, azimuth, and elevation angles. A complete mathematical modeling and simulation is implemented in MATLAB. It is found that fusion architectures have demonstrated better performance in tracking accuracy.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132796789","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":"Building an Exoskeleton Glove on Virtual Reality Platform","authors":"Quazi Irfan, Calvin Jensen, Z. Ni, S. Hietpas","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2018.8500085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2018.8500085","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advancements in virtual reality (VR) technologies allow users to experience virtual environment in lifelike fidelity. But users still have a very limited level of interactivity with virtual objects in these virtual environments. Current generation input/output devices are not sophisticated enough to emulate physical interactivity between the user and the virtual environment. In this paper, the construction method of building a new type of input output (I/O) device, a VR glove, that allows users to physically interact with the constituent virtual objects in the virtual environment, is presented. The VR glove tracks the user's physical finger movement and translates the movement to virtual fingers in a game environment, and if the virtual finger touches a virtual object, the motors attached at finger joints of the VR gloves spin up or down to generate haptic feedback to emulate the physical interactivity with the virtual object. The prototype glove covers a single finger. To test the glove, two different test environments, where the virtual finger interacts with soft and hard virtual object, were built.","PeriodicalId":188414,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"335 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133910842","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}