{"title":"Color removal method preserving local contrast","authors":"Meng Meng, Shi Bao, G. Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432726","url":null,"abstract":"A usual color-to-gray conversion only considers lightness components, and differences of colors are sometimes not reflected in monochrome images because three-dimension data which is RGB color components is converted in one-dimensional gray level. Gooch et al. have proposed a color removal method that considers the difference of colors which is named as the Color2Gray algorithm. Although the Colo2Gray algorithm can obtain good results in many cases, we can still improve it. In this paper, we propose a new color-to-gray conversion which attaches importance to the local contrast improvement. The proposed method evaluates the local contrast by computing the local variance of pixel values in an input color image and using it, high contrast monochrome image is obtained. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128251269","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 of programmable switched-capacitor DC-DC converters with arbitrary conversion ratio","authors":"R. Nicodimus, K. Takeuchi, T. Shima","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432781","url":null,"abstract":"Switched-capacitor (SC) DC-DC converters have been widely used for their compatibility to a fully on-chip implementation of DC-DC converters. The conversion ratio of a SC DC-DC converter is determined by its topology. This means, in order to obtain various conversion ratios, different circuit topologies are required. It has been a drawback of SC DC-DC converters. This paper proposes an SC DC-DC converter with programmable conversion ratio. The proposed programmable SC DC-DC converter is based on a systematical topology derivation using continued fraction. A design strategy to reduce the complexity of control circuit is presented. The validity of the proposed system is demonstrated using Hspice simulation of a buck converter with various conversion ratios. Although there is a small error in the output voltage due to charge injection of the switches, the output voltage of the proposed SC DC-DC converter approaches the ideal value.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129863743","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 250MHz 60dB gain control range 1dB gain step programmable gain amplifier with DC-offset calibration","authors":"Youming Zhang, Yang Fei, Z. Peng, F. Huang","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432770","url":null,"abstract":"A broadband programmable gain amplifier (PGA) for wireless communication is presented in this paper. The PGA is carried out by improved parallel feedback based flipped voltage follower (FLV) to achieve wide dynamic range of gain, wide bandwidth, as well as low noise and high linearity. It is implemented with a topology consisting of three coarse gain adjustment stages cascaded by a fine gain control stage. The chip also includes novel analog DC-offset calibration (DCOC) units and a digital serial peripheral interface (SPI) to generate the calibration enable and gain control words. By using the bandwidth extension technique, the proposed design obtains a broad 0~60dB linear-in-decibel gain range 1dB gain step with a 3dB bandwidth up to 250MHz. The measured gain error achieves less than 0.3dB, the input 1dB compression point is -1dBm and -61dBm respectively at 0dB and 60dB gain mode, meanwhile the in-band IIP3 is +10.1dBm and -50.2dBm. Fabricated in 0.13μm CMOS process, the PGA has a total area with bonding pads of 0.73×0.55 mm2. The power consumption is 16.6mA from a 1.2V supply including 5mA of the output buffers to diver 50Ω.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128863076","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 signal separation using QMF","authors":"Kazuaki Matsushima, Tomomi Ogawa, H. Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432743","url":null,"abstract":"Blind signal separation method is the method that the source signals are obtained by separating only the mixed signals. Generally, separation precision is lower when blind signal separation method is used for the sound signals. It is the cause that the power of the sound signals is concentrated in the low-frequency band. Specifically, the high-frequency band has over separation when the separation to be suitable for the low-frequency band is performed, and the separation of the low-frequency band is insufficient when the separation to be suitable for the high-frequency band is performed. Then, in this paper, we propose the method that has higher separation precision. The proposed method is as follows: 1) divide the mixed signals into the signals of the high-frequency band and the signals of the low-frequency band, 2) separate each of the divided signals, 3) reconstruct the regenerated source signals from each of the separated signals. We evaluate the proposed method by computer simulation.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133204233","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":"HMM-based Indonesian speech synthesis system with declarative and question sentences intonation","authors":"E. Cahyaningtyas, D. Arifianto","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432756","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a result of HMM-based speech synthesis system applied to Indonesian with prosody information in declarative and question sentences. The purpose is to observe the speech quality of synthesized speech from declarative to question sentences, conversely. Variation is given in kind of sentences and training data amount. We use 44, 72, 116, 450, 929 and 1379 training data. The result were evaluated by objective and subjective test. In objective test using MCD method earn the best score for question sentences with score 4.32 in 450 training data. Then for declarative sentences with score 5.13 in 929 training data. Subjective test with DMOS method obtain naturalness for declarative and question sentences with score 3.53 and 3.36 in 1379 training sentences respectively. The result shows that “degradation speech is slightly annoying”, it is possibly caused by poor F0 estimates.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134618067","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}
Gorkem Bam, E. Dilcan, Bekir Dogan, B. Dinc, B. Tavlı
{"title":"DLWTS: Distributed Light Weight Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Gorkem Bam, E. Dilcan, Bekir Dogan, B. Dinc, B. Tavlı","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432813","url":null,"abstract":"Time synchronization is a vitally important service for all distributed systems. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which, generally, are designed to operate with stringent set of constraints, require time synchronization services especially for accomplishing the functionality expected from them. In literature there are various time synchronization protocols designed specifically for WSNs. Some of these protocols are also evaluated through direct experimentation. In this study, we propose a novel time synchronization protocol (DLWTS: Distributed Light Weight Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks), which is light-weight, reliable, accurate, and designed to operate in a distributed fashion. We conducted extensive experimental analysis to quantify the performance of the DLWTS protocol.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132094368","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":"Effective hierarchical optimization using integration of solution spaces and its application to multiple Vehicle Routing Problem","authors":"Shudai Ishikawa, K. Horio, R. Kubota","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432805","url":null,"abstract":"Hierarchical optimization is an optimization method that is divided the problem into several levels of hierarchy. In hierarchical optimization, a complex problem is divided into simpler sub-problems, and each level is optimized independently. Several hierarchical optimization techniques have been proposed, including the hierarchical genetic algorithm (HGA). HGA is organized by multiple genetic algorithms, thereby the computational cost becomes huge depending on the problem. Moreover, the same solution space is searched many times at the upper level, and an unnecessary computational cost takes. In this paper, we propose a new effective searching technique using integration of solution space for hierarchical optimization. The proposed method is based on the Hierarchical multi-space competitive Distributed Genetic Algorithm (HmcDGA), which was proposed by the authors, and the duplicate solution space is integrated at the upper level. The probability of finding optimal solution is improved at lower level, because the population size becomes large by the integration of the solution space. We apply the improved HmcDGA to the multiple Vehicle Routing Problem (mVRP) and show the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"1973 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130069967","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":"Practical resource scheduling in massive-cell deployment for 5G mobile communications systems","authors":"Y. Arikawa, K. Kawai, H. Uzawa, S. Shigematsu","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432815","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the first practical resource scheduling that increases system throughput in massive-cell deployment for 5G mobile communications systems. In 5G systems, the best combination of a huge number of antennas and user equipment for communications should be decided in the scheduling. The proposed scheme searches for the suitable combination without exhaustive search and accelerates calculation of system throughput for each combination. The scheme quickly obtains the combination for which the scheduling achieves higher system throughput, and thus the scheduling can be done within the required period. Simulation and experimental measurements show that the system throughput obtained is about seven times higher than for the conventional scheme. The proposed scheme enables a future practical 5G system.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"46 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114119522","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}
N. Takai, Y. Sugawara, Kento Suzuki, Takayuki Negishi, Hiroaki Seki, Masato Kato
{"title":"Automatic design of RC polyphase filters with small element value spread using genetic algorithm","authors":"N. Takai, Y. Sugawara, Kento Suzuki, Takayuki Negishi, Hiroaki Seki, Masato Kato","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432785","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the method of automatic design for RC polyphase filters. The proposed method searches the filter that satisfies specifications such as small element value spread, flat gain characteristics in pass-band, and good attenuation characteristics in stop-band using genetic algorithm. The polyphase filter of relative bandwidth (fH/fL) 10, 30, 100 is automatically designed as examples. Simulation results indicate that automatic designed polyphase filters meet the specifications and good performance compared with reference [1].","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114893879","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 image restoration method by PCA-based subspace generation","authors":"Brian Sumali, N. Hamada, Y. Mitsukura","doi":"10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPACS.2015.7432766","url":null,"abstract":"Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been effectively applied for image restoration. Original idea underlying PCA approach has two different roots. One is from the fact that PCA is relevant to variance of pixel intensity by which the missing high frequency components in blurred image should be recovered. The other comes from the idea of source separation based on PCA. In the light of PCA approach we have proposed an image restoration algorithm which contains the following three novel aspects: iterative application of PCA, Gaussian smoothing filtering for image ensemble creation, and no-reference image quality index for iteration number management. This paper aims to investigate and propose a non-iterative PCA-based image restoration with some generalizations. First, through conducted experiments the variance of Gaussian filters as well as the number of created images by them are appropriately determined. Second, weights are introduced to the principal component images. Finally, optimal weights are determined by maximizing the image quality index with no reference. Experimental results by the proposed method provide higher PSNR than the previous iterative PCA approach.","PeriodicalId":238787,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116177574","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}