{"title":"Singularity spectrum of hydrocarbon fluids in synthetic seismograms","authors":"M. Khan, M. H. Ahmad Fadzil","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658581","url":null,"abstract":"Oil and gas exploration is the quest for hydrocarbon deposits trapped underneath the earth surface. Seismic is one of the hydrocarbon exploration tools. Significant efforts have been directed, in seismic processing and interpretation, to the development of methods such as spectral decomposition used for tuning hydrocarbon reservoirs and delineating it. In addition, statistical techniques are required to analyze variations in seismic traces. This research work is an alternative technique based on singularity spectrum analysis for detecting and delineating hydrocarbon reservoir. Singularity spectrum captures the singularities occurring in a signal. The technique is applied on synthesized seismograms and three attributes of the singularity spectrum namely width, correlation dimension and alphapeak are determined. Results show that by using these attributes the reservoir fluids are detected and delineated. Singularity spectrum analysis will potentially improve the performance of oil & gas industry by reducing drilling uncertainties, producing accurate geological models of 2D seismic data and for correct production estimates of reservoirs.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"79 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131612928","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":"Block motion estimation using Directional Adaptive Search Window with Early Termination","authors":"N.F.F. Chew, N. Badruddin, V. Jeoti","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658476","url":null,"abstract":"Motion estimation (ME) is an important part of H.264 and other video compression standards, which eliminates temporal redundancies at the expense of higher computational complexity. Many adaptive methods have been proposed to reduce the amount of computation involved in ME. In this paper, two improvements are added to the technique using directional adaptive search window (DASW) method: directional search process and early termination. DASW alone can achieve a savings in number of search point computations of between 42% to 60%. By introducing early termination(ET) into motion estimation using DASW, the number of computations could be reduced even further since the search process is terminated immediately if the block is considered as a stationary block. However, DASW-ET incurs a slight degradation of less than 1 dB, in PSNR performance.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"16 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128252247","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":"Nanotube-based chemical sensors","authors":"M. Norani Muti, H. Thaha, A. Dzilal, J. Dennis","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658535","url":null,"abstract":"Sensor technology has drawn a tremendous amount of attention because of its ability to provide fast feedback on the environment. This has led to intensive research activities worldwide to develop new sensing materials and technologies. With the advancement in nanotechnology, miniaturized sensors with reduced weight, lower power consumption, and low cost can be realized. In order to realize this potential, it is critical to develop reliable growth techniques capable of producing high purity, density and desired properties of the sensing element. This article focuses on the production of good quality sensing elements in the form of nanotubes; carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and titania nanotubes. Both types of CNTs, single-walled (SWCNT) and multiwalled (MWCNT) grown in the form of vertically aligned film on the substrates are believed to have enhanced sensing properties because of their high purity and directionality. Similarly with titania nanotubes, their sensitivity and selectivity towards hydrogen would be greatly increased because of their quality. Based on the changes in the specific properties of these nanotubes, chemical sensors can then be developed.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130525757","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":"Blind deconvolution technique for de-noising of non-stationary seismic signals using DWT","authors":"M. Shahzad Younis, A. Hani","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658580","url":null,"abstract":"Discrete wavelet transform is an effective tool to disintegrate the time variant seismic data in time-frequency manner. This work incorporates the wavelet transform in the blind deconvolution technique to deal with the inherent non-stationarity present in seismic data and to improve the SNR of seismic data. Time varying nature of seismic data is the result of a depth varying character of seismic source wavelet (where high frequency components of the source wavelet get absorbs due to increasing heat gradient with depth) convolved with the non Gaussian distributed earth reflectivity in presence of additive Gaussian, color Gaussian noise. Seismic signal can thus be considered as a result of multiple subsystems with different constraints based on time-frequency localization convolved with input signal. Techniques based on stationarity assumptions are not effective in modeling the time variance character of source with depth. In this work we apply the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to decompose the seismic data into different time-frequency signals. Denoising based on soft thresholding is applied to get the shrinkage effect of wavelet coefficients. Combination of blind deconvolution technique mixed with the discrete wavelet transform gives the best result in terms of reducing the noise and improving the resolution of seismic data with time. Denoising based on soft thresholding gives optimal minimum means square value, low convolutional noise and also low maximum distortion value than hard thresholding.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"95 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123365078","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":"Using geometry modeling to find pose invariant features in face recognition","authors":"H. Badakhshannoory, M. Safayani, M. T. Manzuri","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658453","url":null,"abstract":"Face recognition has been an important topic in computer vision for the last two decades. While many algorithms have been developed to address this issue, one of the major challenges faced by them is variation in pose. One of the possible solutions is to find invariant features among different poses of a single person. In this paper a geometry mapping between a frontal face and its rotated pose is used to find invariant features for pose robust face recognition. This mapping is solely based on the angle of rotation and indicates mutual regions between a frontal view of a person and its rotated image. Invariant features based on the low frequency coefficients of these mutual regions are then extracted and used for recognition. Simulations performed on the ldquoYale Face DatabaseBrdquo show promising results for pose invariant face recognition.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132455914","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. T. Swee, S. Salleh, A. K. Ariff, C. Ting, Siew Kean Seng, Leong Seng Huat
{"title":"Malay Sign Language Gesture Recognition system","authors":"T. T. Swee, S. Salleh, A. K. Ariff, C. Ting, Siew Kean Seng, Leong Seng Huat","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658532","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes hardware design and sensors setting and configuration for Malay sign language gesture recognition systems. A set of sensors consists of accelerometers and flexure sensors has been setup to capture the movement or gesture of shoulder, elbow, wrist, palm and fingers. This project is based on the need of developing an electronic device that can translate the sign language into speech (sound) in order to enable communication to take place between the mute and deaf community with the common public. Hence, the main objective of this project is to develop a system that can convert the sign language into speech so that deaf people are able to communicate efficiently with normal people. This Human-Computer Interaction system is able to recognize 25 common words signing in Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM) by using the Hidden Markov Models (HMM) method. Both hands are involved to perform the BIM with all the sensors connect wirelessly to a PC with a Bluetooth module. This project aims to capture the hand gestures which involve multiple axis of movement. Altogether 24 sensors have been setup in different hand locations to capture hand and wrist movement in different directions.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130815700","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":"On improving an image encryption scheme based on chaotic logistic map","authors":"M. Asim, V. Jeoti","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658488","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia security has become a serious issue in todaypsilas highly computerized and interconnected world. Pareek et al. recently proposed an image encryption scheme based on multiple 1D chaotic logistic maps. However, it has been shown in [8] that the proposed scheme is insecure against the chosen-plaintext attack and also has some other security defects. Here a modified scheme is propose based on a key dependent S-box and ciphertext feedback. The modified scheme efficiently fulfills the need of real-time image encryption, while at the same time it is secure against the differential and linear cryptanalysis.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131045475","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. Nithya, A. S. Gour, N. Sivakumaran, T. Radhakrishnan, N. Anantharaman
{"title":"Predictive controller design for a shell and tube heat exchanger","authors":"S. Nithya, A. S. Gour, N. Sivakumaran, T. Radhakrishnan, N. Anantharaman","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658550","url":null,"abstract":"Process industry requires now accurate, efficient and flexible operation of the plants. There is always a need for development of innovative technologies for process modeling, dynamic trajectory optimization and high performance industrial process control. The advanced control technology which made a significant impact on industrial control engineering is model predictive control (MPC). The objective of this work is the development of MPC for a shell and tube heat exchanger and to address the difficulties in tuning a MPC. The identification of the heat exchanger is done by using the black box model technique. Although the PI controller is widely used for these types of applications there is still a need for optimization of conservation of energy. In this paper a model based predictive algorithm is used for controlling a temperature of a fluid stream using the shell and tube heat exchanger and the associated difficulties in tuning are analyzed. The transients and steady state results obtained using a MPC is compared with a conventional PI Ziegler Nicholas (ZN) controller.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131062419","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}
D. Ihtatho, M. H. Ahmad Fadzil, A. Mohd Affandi, S. Hussein
{"title":"Automatic PASI area scoring","authors":"D. Ihtatho, M. H. Ahmad Fadzil, A. Mohd Affandi, S. Hussein","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658501","url":null,"abstract":"Psoriasis is a skin disorder which is caused by genetic fault. There is no cure for psoriasis; however, there are many treatment modalities to help control the disease. To evaluate treatment efficacy, PASI (Psoriasis Area and Severity Index) which is the current gold standard method is used to measure psoriasis severity by evaluating the area, erythema, scaliness and thickness of the plaques. However, the calculation of PASI can be tedious and subjective. There have been many attempts in assessing psoriasis lesion area in order to calculate PASI area score. Segmentation on hue-chroma plane of CIE L*a*b* colour space is found to be effective method to extract psoriasis lesion from normal skin. However, centroids of normal skin and psoriasis lesion in hue-chroma plane must be calculated for each patient (local centroids). In this work, we investigate the possibility of using centroids obtained from three different groups based on their skin colour to avoid calculating centroids for each patient. First, patients were grouped according to their skin colour (fair, brown, and dark). For each group, the centroids of four body regions (head, trunk, arm, and leg) are calculated from normal skin and lesion samples of all patients in the group. The study involves patients from three different ethnic origins having different skin tones. Results of segmentation using global centroids are comparable with segmentation using local centroids.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132995498","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":"Annotated disjunct in Link Grammar for Machine Translation","authors":"T. B. Adji, B. Baharudin, N. bt Zamin","doi":"10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658375","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a machine translation (MT) model using the link grammar (LG) formalism is introduced. The contribution to this formalism is by developing a hybrid of direct and rule-based translation model which is suitable for translating a source language text with its parser into target language text with no grammar formalism and corpus yet. This model can theoretically handle one-to-one, many-to-one, and many-to-many word(s) translations.","PeriodicalId":228083,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134486518","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}