{"title":"Adverse weather simulation for training neural networks","authors":"K. Praveen, Jashojit Mukherjee, V. Madumbu","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8309327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8309327","url":null,"abstract":"Convolutional neural networks generally require considerable amount of data for training to perform adequately well in all real-world scenarios. Many times, the data for all scenarios is hard to collect and ground truth annotation is also a challenge. Similar problem exists in training networks for the autonomous vehicles given the diverse weather conditions where these cars are expected to be driven. Thus, a synthetic data generation model is imperative and we go about building a weather simulation framework. This framework is intended to generate weather conditions over different driving scenarios. To start with, we go about implementing a completely configurable rain/fog/windshield simulation model. The scope of this framework, however is much more than these three models. Apart from refining these models further as and when need, we intend to build in mechanisms to simulate more diverse weather conditions within this framework. There are multiple challenges in the implementation of these models. To begin with, we need a mechanism to simulate diverse weather conditions in a driving environment. One method could be to simulate the entire 3D environment, with the roads, automobiles, and an artificial world, but this approach would be extremely challenging both in terms of the realism that can be achieved, and in terms of the time it would take for the implementation. Another method is to overlay the rain/fog effect on top of pre-rendered videos. This 2D overlaying technique is a practical solution, since there exist many driving videos at our disposal. In this paper, we outline methods to implement this effectively, and showcase the results obtained in training a Neural Network with this approach.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126966722","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":"Solid state relay based inrush current limiter with short circuit and under voltage protection for dc-dc converters","authors":"R. Ranjan","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307841","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses about a new P-Channel MOSFET based solid state relay developed for limiting the plug-in inrush current in dc-dc converters operating on high input voltage power bus in satellites. This circuit can be used as a Solid State Relay in any on-board systems for power bus on/off operation. It provides plug-in inrush current limiting and also provides the protection against input bus under voltage and short mode failure of components in input portion of dc-dc converter. The main challenge for the proposed design is to use of minimum number of components in the design and miniaturizing the circuit. The proposed design in hybridized form can be used as a ‘component’ for inrush current limiting inside every converter OR system and this avoids usage of extra components like electro-mechanical relay and related driver circuit. Proposed design was simulated in Pspice and a lab model was wired and tested successfully for 70 V power bus operation for power up to 160W. The test results of the proposed circuit are also presented in the paper.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129059192","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":"Continuous, robust hand gesture recognition for embedded devices","authors":"Ujwal Bachiraju Venkata Satya, V. Peddigari","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307840","url":null,"abstract":"Gestures are gaining significant demand in embedded devices to provide enhanced user experience through natural communication. This paper presents a robust approach of Hand Gesture Recognition to detect gestures in real time without the need of a delimiter. The method represents the gestures with trajectory strings and matches them with stored trajectory strings of pre-defined gestures. The proposed method employs an enhanced matching scheme using a custom edit distance metric that enables finding of the closest gesture in the database with speed invariance, position invariance and length invariance without the need of a delimiter.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130296525","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":"FPGA implementation of blind source separation using a novel ICA algorithm","authors":"Vinita Singh, V. Somani, J. Manikandan","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307845","url":null,"abstract":"Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is considered as a powerful technique to separate individual sources, from a linear mixture of input sources. This has motivated the use of ICA for various consumer and medical applications. A novel Jacobian Matrix rotation based ICA for blind source separation is proposed in this paper. Hardware implementation of proposed ICA algorithm on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA using System Generator Blocksets is proposed and the performance results are reported.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129057488","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":"Efficient frequency domain CNN algorithm","authors":"Mihir Mody, C. Ghone, Manu Mathew, Jason Jones","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307846","url":null,"abstract":"Deep Learning techniques like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are getting popular for image classification with broad usage spanning across automotive, industrial, medicine, robotics etc. Typical CNN network consists of multiple layers of 2D convolutions, non-linearity, spatial pooling and fully connected layer, with 2D convolutions constituting more than 90% of total computations. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based approach for convolution is promising in theory, but not used in practice due to growth in memory sizing of coefficients storage. The paper proposes new frequency domain algorithm which avoids memory size growth compared to traditional FFT based approach for performing 2D convolution. The proposed algorithm performs Fourier Transform (FT) of coefficients On-The-Fly (OTF) instead of offline calculation on PC. The proposed algorithm consists of expands, OTF-FT and pruning blocks that do efficient 2D convolution in the frequency domain. The proposed algorithm is compared with the FFT-based algorithm for the coefficient transformation. As per simulations, assuming typical network configuration parameters, the proposed algorithm is 4–8X faster compared to FFT based approach for the co-efficient transform.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131104407","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":"Design, analysis and control of an autonomous underwater surveillance robot","authors":"S. Udupa, Nishant Joshi, Shashank Raman","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307847","url":null,"abstract":"A large part of our oceans is still an uncharted territory to humans. The coastal and river bodies serve as a channel for transportation and trades, and hence are vulnerable to accidents and mishaps. In some unfortunate case of an airplane crash, it becomes really hard to find an object underwater, and it also put human lives at stake. Thus, a continuous probation is needed. The aim of this paper is to study the design and development of an Autonomous Underwater Surveillance Robot which would propel this human endeavor and can also be deployed for security surveillance for the navy. The design and development of the robot took place in a controlled environment. The paper aims to suggest a design for the robot with functionalities for maneuverings, image recognition and depth control. The paper revolves around designing the robot and performing various simulation analysis so as to get a clear picture of its condition in the real life simulation. It needs intelligent platforms to solve such complex problems. Using various software packages such as Solid Works and OpenProp for the design and analysis part and FlowExpress for pressure and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. The proposed model for the robot is a robust design with concern to all the surrounding and the environmental conditions. The result is a streamlined design for the AUV facing the least underwater drag.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133752397","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":"Augmented reality in broadcasting","authors":"Shivakumar Chandrasekaran, Umesh Kesavan","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307849","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few years, Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology in different fields. It integrates virtual with real world and display the object in Three Dimensional view. Introducing AR to Advertisement industry, which will change the future of product development companies and manufacturers. We are proposing AR as the future of Advertising, an advanced technology-oriented marketing. Our idea is to integrate this technology with broadcasting which will in turn boost the Marketing strategy to reach the customer effectively and efficiently.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133377339","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}
V T Shubhom, S. Keerthan, S. Swathi, G. Abhiram, R. Shashidhar
{"title":"BRAPTER: Compact braille transput communicator","authors":"V T Shubhom, S. Keerthan, S. Swathi, G. Abhiram, R. Shashidhar","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8309319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8309319","url":null,"abstract":"One of the largest communities that is deprived of education is visually impaired section. The latest information and the technologies which can provide an alternative communication expertise cannot be easily accessible by blind people. Because of high cost and the portability issues the blind people are not able to afford modern technological enhancements. Hence the prime objective is to design a unique and affordable communicable device, to reach all the innovative minds which were unexplored and to educate them. The objective of the paper is to aid and support independent living for visually impaired community. The communication channel introduced is called Compact Braille Transput Communicator or \"BRAPTER\" in short. It provides blind people independence in writing and communicating in Braille. The system consists of two independent modules-a handy ‘Braille e-notepad’ and a compact Braille embosser. The portability, cost-effectiveness and the compatibility makes it stand unique in the field of communication.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133815389","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":"Trans-receiver with digital modulator & frequency up converter for secured communication","authors":"Nanda Kishora Holla, S. Yellampalli","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307838","url":null,"abstract":"Trans-receiver designed with programmable digital Modulators, Frequency up converter, RF Tuner & Digital demodulator can be used for secured communication. The proposed system will be useful for frequency Trans-modulation applications also for the frequency range of 50 MHz to 2.5 GHz for various signal types like DVBC, DVBT, ISTBT, NTSC etc. Secured communication between the systems are required in many applications which can be achieved using the proposed system. Simple Trans-modulation technique is used for the frequency conversion. Programmable Modulator & RF frequency up converter are used as Transmitter whereas Tuner &programmable Demodulator will function as receiver. The designed system is useful for any commercial or military applications.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130920878","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":"Swarm home robots","authors":"P. Kalla, Ramji K Ramj, P. Ravindranath","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-ASIA.2017.8307836","url":null,"abstract":"Swarm robotics is a relatively new research area inspired from biological systems such as ant or bee colonies. It composes a system consisting of many small robots with simple control mechanisms capable of achieving complex collective behaviors on the swarm level such as aggregation, pattern formation and collective transportation to name a few. The main motto of this paper is to incorporate the swarm technology in consumer electronics where these are used in the operations like cleaning, pick and place, transportation of the household items from one location to another location in the place we reside. While a single robot can perform the home tasks, it might not be able to perform the tasks quickly. Time will be lost in finishing one task and then moving to another. So, it is evident that more than one robot must be used here. When more than one robot is used, controlling the robots becomes an important issue especially when the target locations and the robots are large in number. So, for easing the control of more than one robot, traits of Swarm behavior are replicated and implemented. Hence, a swarm behavior replicating group consisting of two robots are designed and fabricated that demonstrate how multiple-tasks can be handled effectively by a group of robots that perform individual actions while communicating and acting symbiotically. In the present paper, when target co-ordinates are passed to one robot, while retaining one target location, it passes another location to the other robot. Both start moving towards their target locations, but continue communicating with each other. In event of failure of one of the robots, the other robot takes notice of the failure. It continues to its location, does its work at that location, and then gives a backup at the other target location by performing the task of the robot that failed.","PeriodicalId":202045,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia)","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127231241","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}