{"title":"Impact of directional density on GyTAR routing protocol for VANETs in city environments","authors":"S. M. Bilal, S. Mustafa, Uzma Saeed","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151491","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular ad hoc networks are highly dynamic and their topology changes frequently due to high speed of vehicles. This result in disconnected networks, therefore, designing a routing protocol for such network is challenging task. The two most important factors which effect routing in vehicular ad hoc networks are Speed and direction. In this work, we propose a novel routing protocol (E-GyTAR) motivated from GyTAR, which was specifically designed for city environments. This paper presents the effect of speed and direction on routing protocol in city environment. City environment consists of junctions and these junctions are selected dynamically on the basis of vehicular speed and directional density. Simulation results show that E-GyTAR incurs less packet loss, and end-to-end delay.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127168519","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}
Benish Fida, Muhammad Nazir, Nawazish Naveed, Sheeraz Akram
{"title":"Heart disease classification ensemble optimization using Genetic algorithm","authors":"Benish Fida, Muhammad Nazir, Nawazish Naveed, Sheeraz Akram","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151471","url":null,"abstract":"Heart disease diagnosis is considered as one of the complicated tasks in medical field. In order to perform heart disease diagnosis an accurate and efficient automation system can be very helpful. In this research, we propose a classifier ensemble method to improve the decision of the classifiers for heart disease diagnosis. Homogeneous ensemble is applied for heart disease classification and finally results are optimized by using Genetic algorithm. Data is evaluated by using 10-fold cross validation and performance of the system is evaluated by classifiers accuracy, sensitivity and specificity to check the feasibility of our system. Comparison of our methodology with existing ensemble technique has shown considerable improvements in terms of classification accuracy.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125271326","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 novel fast and robust digital image watermarking using Bee Algorithm","authors":"Asma Ahmad Farhan, Sana Bilal","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151516","url":null,"abstract":"In today's era of digital information, protection of intellectual property rights is of great concern. Watermarking is one technique which is used to protect against illicit copy and distribution of digital information. In this paper we propose a novel technique for embedding watermarks in digital images that takes inspiration from the Bee Algorithm. The Bee Algorithm is a fairly new evolutionary algorithm that exploits the food foraging behavior of honey bees which enables them to search for best quality flower patches over large distances. Our Algorithm mimics this behavior of bees to embed watermark in the wavelet domain such that the resultant image is highly imperceptible as well as robust. Simulation results show that our proposed technique consumes far less time in comparison to other classical evolutionary algorithms.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"11 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114114171","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}
Intikhab Hussain, Umar Usman, Yasir Iqbal, A. Shafqat, Abid Mushtaq
{"title":"Automated testing process for electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing facility","authors":"Intikhab Hussain, Umar Usman, Yasir Iqbal, A. Shafqat, Abid Mushtaq","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151481","url":null,"abstract":"So far all the efforts to automate the EMI/EMC testing facility consider only the automation of instruments used in these tests, for example Antenna, Spectrum Analyzer, RF Generator and different software to manipulate the results of these tests. Movement of Device Under Test (DUT) has not been automated to meet the new standards. Currently it is being done manually by switching off the test setup. This discontinuity increases the testing time along with the increase in error. If different operators are involved in performing these tests, it also increases human error. We have designed an automatic testing process to speed up the tests along with improving the precision and accuracy of test measurements. It also helps to avoid human health hazards. By using the suggested improved testing process, we have decreased the testing time by about 50%, increased accuracy by more than 20% and precision by 40% respectively.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117197498","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":"Evaluating and comparing the performance of DYMO and OLSR in MANETs and in VANETs","authors":"S. Sagar, J. Saqib, A. Bibi, N. Javaid","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151505","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates and compares the performance of two routing protocols, one is reactive, Dynamic MANET On-Demand (DYMO) and other is proactive, Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). Performance of these protocols is analyzed using three performance metrics; Packet Delivery Ratio, Normalized Routing Overhead and End-to-End Delay against varying scalabilities of nodes. We perform these simulations with NS-2 using TwoRayGround propagation model. The SUMO simulator is used to generate a random mobility pattern for VANETs. From the extensive simulations, we observe that DYMO performs better than OLSR for both VANETs and MANETs at the cost of delay. Moreover, DYMO performs better in VANETs as compared to MANETs.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128166192","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":"Context based image search","authors":"Waqas Ahmad, C. Faisal","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151512","url":null,"abstract":"Ontologies provide formed conceptualization of the concepts of domain under study. It is emerging research area due to its unique features of sharing knowledge and its rich structure to adopt structured as well unstructured content. Ontology utilization has extended its scope to other fields like retrieval systems including content and image retrieval. In this paper, we have proposed new framework for image retrieval system based on the domain ontology. The proposed domain in this paper is regarding national heroes of Pakistan. The ontology of diverse nature has been constructed including various contexts related to certain resources, who are personalities in this domain. We have discussed the ontology creation process, implementation of the complete image retrieval system using latest tools including Jena API architecture for inferencing mechanism. The results depict that semantic technique gives better results as compared to keyword search. This work encourages us to add the concept of result ranking for the results achieved using domain ontology.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129818462","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}
S. Khan, Muhammad Nazir, Sheeraz Akram, Naveed Riaz
{"title":"Gender classification using image processing techniques: A survey","authors":"S. Khan, Muhammad Nazir, Sheeraz Akram, Naveed Riaz","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151483","url":null,"abstract":"Classification has emerged as a leading technique for problem solution and optimization. Classification has been used extensively in several problems domains. Automated gender classification is an area of great significance and has great potential for future research. It offers several industrial applications in near future such as monitoring, surveillance, commercial profiling and human computer interaction. Different methods have been proposed for gender classification like gait, iris and hand shape. However, majority of techniques for gender classification are based on facial information. In this paper, a comparative study of gender classification using different techniques is presented. The major emphasis of this work is on the critical evaluation of different techniques used for gender classification. The comparative evaluation has highlighted major strengths and limitations of existing gender classification techniques. Taking an overview of these major problems, our research is focused on summarizing the literature by highlighting its strengths and limitations. This study also presents several areas of future research in the domain of gender classification.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125525135","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":"Application of statistical sampling to predict faults from real time alarm data","authors":"A. S. Kazmi","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151490","url":null,"abstract":"The faults in today's telecommunication systems happen frequently. The reason is simply the complexity of the telecommunication networks and other supported hardware. Various parts of the network may be supplied by various vendors, thus adding to the overall operational complexity. Furthermore these networks may consist of various types of networks, e.g. computer, switching, circuit and wireless networks, inter-operating. The result of such complexities is that a number of faults will happen over unit time intervals. Many of these faults may result in denial of service to the end users, consequently causing revenue losses to the telecommunication companies. Therefore various fault prediction and correction techniques have been proposed. Most, if not all, of these techniques are based on analysis of the historical alarm logs. The Telecom Alarm Sequence Analyzer (TASA) project has proposed associate and episodal rules for historical alarms. We have practically applied TASA episodal rules to identify sequence of alarms and then used the probabilities of these alarm sequences to predict future sequences of alarms. We have used the proposed alarm prediction technique on the real time alarm data of a telecommunication company and predicted future alarms sequences. Furthermore we have compared the predicted alarms against the actual alarm sequences to check the accuracy of our technique. The proposed technique does not make any assumption about the alarm data. We have concluded that the proposed technique has practical usage for alarm prediction in telecommunication networks.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116140522","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":"Computerized system for fingerprint classification using singular points","authors":"S. Javed, Anam Usman","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151519","url":null,"abstract":"AFIS (automated fingerprint identification system) is very popular now days for biometric security. Fingerprint classification plays a key role in identifying fingerprints and also helps in fingerprint matching. This paper presents a new classification technique based on the detection of singular points (core and delta points). This fingerprint classification technique consists of four steps. In the first step, preprocessing (segmentation and normalization) of input fingerprint image is done. In the second step, fine orientation field of image is estimated. In the third step, singular points are located using modified Poincare index technique. In the fourth step, classification is done on the basis of singular points. The proposed technique was tested on FVC2004 database and the results show a significant improvement in reducing the misclassification errors.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127934621","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":"Low-cost single-channel EEG based communication system for people with lock-in syndrome","authors":"Khalil Ullah, Mohsin Ali, M. Rizwan, M. Imran","doi":"10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151455","url":null,"abstract":"As the use of biomedical signals is incredibly increasing in both clinical and nonclinical applications. They have a great deal in the development of devices that can be controlled by information inferred from thoughts. One of the current hot topics for research is the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) on basis of EEG signals. BCI is a technology that makes humans to control computer or other devices on basis of information inferred from thoughts. BCIs have given new hopes to people who suffer from locked-in syndrome and motor disabilities by providing alternative means of communication channels. The existing BCIs are Multi-channel, thus very expensive in terms of cost and processing speed, which make them difficult for domestic use. The aim of this research paper is to introduce a very cheap, simple and a robust single channel BCI that could prevail in the market. We propose a very low-cost EEG-based BCI that is designed to help severely disabled people communicate with others by means of text and SMS. To make it simple and affordable, the number of channels is limited to one and signal is acquired through homemade silver electrodes and then fed to the computer through the soundcard for further processing and features extractions. The experimental results show that the proposed system is capable enough to provide a very low cost, yet reliable, communication means and a suitable BCI for domestic use. Its average accuracy is 87%. The potential uses for the technology are almost limitless. Instead of communication system, disabled users could have robotic wheelchair, allowing them to move and directly interact with the environments thus it can be used for clinical and nonclinical purposes.","PeriodicalId":207616,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115070151","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}