J. Anitha, C. Vijila, S.O Suwin, K. Jaseem, S. Lloyd, V. Jestin
{"title":"Performance improved GA based statistical computing technique for retinal image segmentation","authors":"J. Anitha, C. Vijila, S.O Suwin, K. Jaseem, S. Lloyd, V. Jestin","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469189","url":null,"abstract":"Retinal vessel segmentation is important for the detection of numerous eye diseases and plays an important role in automatic retinal screening systems. K-nearest neighbor classifier is used to perform a soft segmentation of retinal vessels and is a supervised method. This method produces segmentation by classifying each image pixel as vessel or nonvessel, based on the output of filters and the pixel values with in the neighborhood. Genetic algorithms are powerful tools for K-nearest neighbors classifier optimization. Genetic Algorithm is used to optimize the feature vector by removing both irrelevant and redundant features and finds optimal ones. In this work, GA is used to estimate the K value. The performance of the unoptimised K-nearest neighbor classifier and the genetic optimized K-NN are analysed in terms of segmentation efficiency and convergence time period. Experimental results show superior results for the genetic algorithm based K-NN in terms of the performance measures.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126683571","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":"Architecture of a web browser for visually handicapped people","authors":"R. Ghose, Tirthankar Dasgupta, A. Basu","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469172","url":null,"abstract":"Internet has brought about an incredible improvement in human access to knowledge and information. However, blind people face difficulties in accessing these text materials. Web browsers for the visually handicapped people in the past have been limited to converting documents to Braille or speech, or extracting text and filtering. However, the human aspects of web surfing for blind people have not been adequately addressed. This paper presents an architecture of an open source, light weight web browser that makes it easy for the visually handicapped people to surf the web. The proposed architecture allows a blind person to navigate any web content through simple speech commands and voice feedback to any keyboard operation. The browser will have an integrated text extraction engine that inspects the content of the page to construct a structured representation. The internal nodes of the structure represent various levels of abstraction of the content. This helps in easy and flexible navigation of the page so as to rapidly home into objects of interest. Finally, the browser is integrated to an automatic Text-To-Speech and Text-To-Braille transliteration engine that outputs the selected text in the form of speech and/or Braille.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":" 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116552059","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. Ghosh, S. Sarcar, Manoj Kumar Sharma, D. Samanta
{"title":"Effective virtual keyboard design with size and space adaptation","authors":"S. Ghosh, S. Sarcar, Manoj Kumar Sharma, D. Samanta","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469159","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there are huge developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT in present form has offered to interact with the computing system in users own language. But, there are several challenges to be addressed to achieve the full advantages of ICT. One of the biggest issue is standard text input mechanism. In practice, the text input mechanism is mainly realized through the virtual keyboard. A numbers of work have been proposed to design virtual keyboard with optimum layout. So that performance of text entry can be enhanced. Still there are demand of more improvement to make an efficient text entry mechanism. In this paper, a new concept of adaptation in virtual keyboard is proposed. Our objective is to develop a user friendly interface through adaptation of key size and centroid distance between keys. As a mean of adaptation, we provide several states (keyboard) on the basis of key size and center distance between keys. Upper and lower threshold values for a performance metric of a state are defined by evaluating the states using motor movement time and searching time. If one individual user performance is in between the range of upper and lower threshold values for the keyboard then no adaptation is required. Otherwise, the keyboard is adapted according an algorithm proposed in this paper. The proposed approach is experimented with real users and results substantiate the efficacy of the approach.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"332 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134463376","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. Sarcar, S. Ghosh, Pradipta Kumar Saha, D. Samanta
{"title":"Virtual keyboard design: State of the arts and research issues","authors":"S. Sarcar, S. Ghosh, Pradipta Kumar Saha, D. Samanta","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469165","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) open up a scope for computing in Indian languages. Off late, computing devices are evolved in different shapes like cell phone, PDA, iPod etc. In these devices, it is not possible to afford hardware keyboard because of the limitations in size and weight of devices. To alleviate this problem, application developers propose virtual keyboard. The virtual is an on screen graphics keyboard and is flexible to compare with its hardware keyboard counterpart. There are many reported strategies towards the development of virtual keyboards in English language, but those well known strategies are not properly applicable for virtual keyboard design in Indian languages. In this paper, we survey the existing strategies and critically examine their applicability to design virtual keyboard in Indian languages. We then propose an approach to design any Indian language compatible virtual keyboard.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124579491","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 monopropellant hydrazine MEMS thruster for attitude control of nanosatellites","authors":"P. Kundu, T. K. Bhattacharyya, S. Das","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469220","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the design and development of catalytic type mono-propellant hydrazine microthruster for space applications. In the process of development of microthruster the modeling & simulation of different parts/modules have been considered. Design of inlet feed channel and exit nozzle with different layout have been done to achieve required specifications. Considering different fluid resistive forces acting on the microchannel some theoretical calculation coupled with simulation has been done for optimization of inlet channel and exit nozzle geometry. The nozzle configuration is critical for high thrust vector and the direction accuracy. For this various types of nozzles have been studied for pressure & temperature distribution. Some preliminary experiments have been done to explore the compatibility of hydrazine with MEMS material. In this study the etch characteristics of different thin film materials in hydrazine have been presented.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124119835","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":"Estimating the complexity of biomedical signals by multifractal analysis","authors":"D. Easwaramoorthy, R. Uthayakumar","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469188","url":null,"abstract":"Fractal Analysis is the well developed theory in the Non-linear Analysis of Biomedical Signals such as Electroen-cephalogram (EEG). EEG Biomedical signal is essentially multi scale fractal i.e., Multifractal. Therefore, quantifying the chaotic nature and complexity of the EEG Signal requires estimation of the Generalized Fractal Dimensions spectrum where the complexity means higher variability in general fractal dimension spectrum.We organize a novel technique for estimating the steepness of EEG signals from Epileptic Patients. The proposed idea is developed from the theory of Rényi Fractal Dimensions or Generalized Fractal Dimensions (GFD), which is based on the concept of generalized Rényi Entropy of a given probability distribution. The range of GFD shows the chaotic nature (ir-regularity) and complexity of the Biomedical Time Series. We estimate the steepness of EEG Fractal Time Series using the Steepness measure, which is defined from the GFD. We compare these measures for the EEG signals taken at different states and observe that there are significant differences between the values of Steepness measure for the Epileptic EEGs and Healthy EEGs. Finally we conclude that Epileptic EEGs has less complexity (less unexpected values) than the Healthy EEGs. These are the system of Multifractal techniques, which are very efficient tool in the Non-linear Analysis of Biomedical Signals to analyze, detect or predict the state of illness of the Epileptic patients.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121041136","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 intelligent road traffic control system","authors":"S. Gangadhar","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469286","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reveals the use of a microcontroller to optimize timing plans according to traffic conditions in real-time. The control system is designed to be able to optimize the traffic flow using several kinds of strategies, which are green time split and time slot, green time extension, and offset optimization strategy and the transfer of data related to local conditions to a network control base. This provides diversity in control and shows how several control strategies can be used and switched over to provide best control. The solution is cost-effective too employing minimum number of sensors.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127253536","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}
C. Venkittarayan, Jayaprakash, V. M. Gopal, Rao Kartikkumar, B. Nitin, Nitin Madan, Kumar Rajamani, Krishnashree Achyutan, Bhavani Bijlani
{"title":"Virtual soldering environment using touch and gesture for engineering labs education","authors":"C. Venkittarayan, Jayaprakash, V. M. Gopal, Rao Kartikkumar, B. Nitin, Nitin Madan, Kumar Rajamani, Krishnashree Achyutan, Bhavani Bijlani","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469179","url":null,"abstract":"Labs form a central component especially in engineering education. The objective of our current work is to enhance the possibility of teaching, learning and experiencing engineering lab targeted towards teachers and students of various disciplines in engineering. This is achieved by developing virtual computer based lab environments. The experience of these environments is enriched with touch based technology. This paper talks about creation of virtual soldering environment. We have successfully implemented a working prototype which would enable the end user to get a feel for real time soldering. This approach of ‘virtual’ computer based training environment has great potential that stimulates self-learning process of soldering.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123788166","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":"Cascaded 5-level inverter type DSTATCOM for power quality improvement","authors":"G. Satyanarayana, S. Ganesh","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469168","url":null,"abstract":"In energy transmission systems, effective equipments on power control are generally known as Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS). In addition, the power electronics-based equipment, which are called power conditioners are use to solve power quality problems. Since the topologies of these equipments are similar to those used in FACTS equipment, power conditioners are also called Distribution FACTS (DFACTS). DSTATCOM is one such power conditioner used for improving power quality. This study proposes a cascaded multilevel inverter type DSTATCOM to compensate voltage sags in utility voltages in power distribution network. The proposed DSTATCOM is implemented using multilevel topology with isolated dc energy storage. The phase shifted PWM technique is described to generate firing pulses to cascaded inverter. The proposed controller adopts itself to the sag and provides effective means of mitigating the voltage sags with the minimum harmonics at the utility end. The proposed concept will be simulated using MATLAB simulink environment. The simulink results will be presented to verify the performance of the proposed multilevel DSTATCOM.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"326 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122636203","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":"Analysis of bioelectrical signal of the human retina (ERG) using LabVIEW","authors":"Umashankar, M. Panse","doi":"10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469191","url":null,"abstract":"ERG is the recording of electrical potentials evoked by a flash of light and picked up at the cornea of the eye using contact lens electrode. This paper aims to demonstrate the possibility of finding features reliable for more precise distinguishing between standard and abnormal Electroretinogram (ERG) recordings. Understanding the specific features (onset, time delay, amplitude, line shape) of the ERG components and their relationship represents the principal aim of past and present research in the field of ocular electrophysiology. ERG waveforms are simulated in LabVIEW then Analysis is carried out to detect abnormalities. ERG belonging to a subject with abnormality called Achromatopsia (ACR) and ERG belonging to a subject with abnormality called Congenital Stationary Blindness (CSNB) are simulated and analyzed. The proposed system is readily usable low cost alternative to sophisticated costly equipments used in hospitals for the ERG signal analysis purpose.","PeriodicalId":262830,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Students Technology Symposium (TechSym)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124761540","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}