{"title":"Maximum likelihood watermark detection in absolute domain using Weibull model","authors":"Luan Dong, Qin Yan, Meng Liu, Yangxu Pan","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863024","url":null,"abstract":"Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection scheme is regarded as one of key components of many blind image watermarking algorithms in various transform domains. In ML detection, a proper Probability Distribution Function (PDF) such as the Generalized Gaussian Distribution (GGD) is usually required to model the statistical characteristics of the transform coefficients of the watermarked images. However in some cases, the GGD is not the most suitable model due to its limitation in modeling the pulse-shape distribution. In this paper, we propose a novel ML detection scheme. By performing ML detection in the absolute domain, we utilize the Weibull distribution, a special case of the Generalized Gamma distribution, to model the absolute transform coefficients. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed detection scheme outperforms the conventional ones in both DWT and CT domain for natural images. Furthermore it improves the watermark detection rates averagely by 75.03% for Computer Graphic (CG) images compared with the conventional algorithm.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126923987","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 new Wideband Digital Array Radar (WB-DAR) experiment system","authors":"Lu Qian, Xue-gang Wang","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863073","url":null,"abstract":"With the capability of multifunction and high resolution imaging and flexible configuration, nowadays Wideband Digital Array Radar (WB-DAR) is developing gradually from theoretical research to practical system. Hence it's essential to launch develop program to assess the performance and feasibility of practical system. This paper presents a new WB-DAR experiment system. The system architecture and processing procedure is introduced briefly, and some key problems about system design are discussed in detail. Then the wideband digital T/R module as the most important components of this system is analyzed.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115726228","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}
J. Ronaldson, N. Anderson, A. Butler, R. Zainon, P. Butler, S. Gieseg, T. Janmale, N. J. Scott
{"title":"High resolution spectral micro-CT imaging of atherosclerotic plaque","authors":"J. Ronaldson, N. Anderson, A. Butler, R. Zainon, P. Butler, S. Gieseg, T. Janmale, N. J. Scott","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863099","url":null,"abstract":"Spectral micro-Computed Tomography (CT) yields valuable quantitative information about elemental and molecular composition of materials. It enables the identification of materials by decomposing the total attenuation of the material into the various physical contributions for each voxel. Spectral micro-CT equipped with energy-resolved photon counting detector has the ability to measure the spectrum of x-ray beams. It is known that the attenuation of x-ray photons is energy-dependent and each substance has a specific attenuation curve. Therefore, measurement of the specific attenuation responses can enable material differentiation. The goal of this study was to demonstrate the potential of the MARS-CT scanner for preclinical evaluation of biomarker particularly in ex vivo advanced atherosclerotic plaque. It was proposed that spectral CT has the potential to identify the presence of specific markers for vulnerable plaques: iron deposits and lipid core. Using spectroscopic methods developed with this system, it was possible to distinguish the presence of iron deposits and lipid core within ex vivo atherosclerotic plaques. Vulnerable plaques are unstable, prone to rupture and put the person at risk of cardiovascular events and strokes. This preclinical study is a precursor to the development of a clinical technique that will enable vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques to be identified in vivo prior to treatment or removal.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130318500","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":"Position sensing for a bio-inspired flapping wing-actuation system","authors":"J. Kok, J. Chahl","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6862996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6862996","url":null,"abstract":"Three sensors were investigated as possible position sensors for a 3 degree-of-freedom flapping wing-actuation system - infrared displacement sensor, infrared camera tracking system and resistive flex sensor. The performance of the sensors were weighed against such criteria as precision, sampling frequency, invasiveness and the scalability of the sensor to smaller Micro Air Vehicle systems. The IR displacement sensor and IR camera tracking system were ruled out as potential sensors. The IR displacement sensor had a precision of 1mm making it too imprecise. The IR camera tracking system had a limited sampling frequency of 22Hz. In addition, both these concepts were not scalable to MAV sizes due to their complexity. The flex sensor is suitable as a position sensor due to its high precision of 0.25mm. It is an analogue sensor and has a sampling frequency only limited by the data-logger and frequency response. Frequency and thermal characteristics were acceptable. Additionally, its solid state nature makes it highly scalable.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128908506","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 approach to predict the popularity of the video","authors":"A. Bhaskar, J. Gyani, G. Narsimha","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863101","url":null,"abstract":"Video classification is an emerging research area. Advertisement videos play a major role in improving targeted sales of a product. The popularity of the advertisement depends on the number of viewers attracted to that advertisement video in a short span of time. Popular advertisements have more impact on the sales of the product. In this paper, we propose a new measure called Video Differential Index(VDI) to analyze and classify advertisement videos to know whether that video attracts more number of viewers or not. By using VDI measure we can also predict the type of video i.e., action-oriented, theme or concept based without watching the content of the video. Our experimental results demonstrated that, action oriented videos have high Video Differential Index as compared to theme or concept based videos. The VDI can be directly related to the popularity of the video.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123990660","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":"Characterization of on-body communication channel for vertical and horizontal polarization of center fed dipole at GSM frequency","authors":"M. I. Khattak, R. Edwards, M. Shafi","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863049","url":null,"abstract":"While designing a wearable antenna for on-body communications, particular importance is given to lessen the lossy effects of the human body on transmission coefficient. This paper presents experimental and simulation results for two different polarizations of center-fed dipole antenna on human body at mobile communication frequency. The isolated parameter is S21(dB). Early results suggest that vertical polarization of dipole gives better transmission coefficient than horizontal polarization.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115131963","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}
Mohammed Fadhil, M. Ismail, Abdu Saif, N. S. Othman, Mohammed Khaleel
{"title":"Cooperative communication system based on convolutional code CDMA techniques","authors":"Mohammed Fadhil, M. Ismail, Abdu Saif, N. S. Othman, Mohammed Khaleel","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863104","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the performance of a cooperative communication scheme when communicating over Rayleigh channel. More explicitly, the performances of the Code Division Multiple Access CDMA cooperative schemes with two and eight users, employing systematic convolutional code (CC) are presented. The single relay cooperative network with decode-and-forward (DAF) relay is investigated in the proposed system. The proposed CDMA cooperative scheme is capable of attaining over 2 dB of SNR gain at a Bit Error Rate (BER) of 10-4 in comparison with the non cooperative scheme. The result shows at BER of 10-4 the system that employs the Maximum Ratio Combiner (MRC) outperformance the system that employs Equal Gain Combiner (EGC) by about 1.5 dB in terms of SNR. On the other hand, the signal power in cooperative system employing EGC varied from 5 to -20 dB. However, in non cooperative system the signal power varied from -10 to -30 dB. Which approve, those independent copies of the signal received by the receiver lead to mitigate the effect of fading.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129330878","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":"Lossless watermarking technique for copyright protection of high resolution images","authors":"N. Gavini, Surekha Borra","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863000","url":null,"abstract":"With the revolution of E-commerce websites, there is a great need for development of copyright protection techniques, which are able to detect ownership from the Intellectual Property. In this paper, a novel watermarking method, is proposed as a solution for copyright protection of very high resolution images. Application of the concept of Visual Cryptography and Central Limit Theorem, on a Correlation Matrix obtained from the image to be protected is the key approach used in this paper, so as to satisfy the requirements. The proposed method have merits such as 100% imperceptibility and unrestricted watermark image size, without compromising robustness.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126369672","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}
Basem Abu Zneid, Mohammed G. Al-Zidi, Tareq Al-kharazi
{"title":"Non-invasive blood pressure remote monitoring instrument based microcontroller","authors":"Basem Abu Zneid, Mohammed G. Al-Zidi, Tareq Al-kharazi","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863036","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents design and development of a Non-invasive wireless blood pressure data acquisition instrument for remote monitoring based Micro-controller and Bluetooth transmission kit. The real-time blood pressure biomedical signal is measured using an optical measurement circuit based Plethysmography technique (PPG) continuously for a long period of time. The detected measured signal amplified using an operational amplifier circuit and interfaced with the Micro-controller. Blood pressure readings with help of developed algorithm has been calculated and transmitted via Bluetooth kit to the stationary computer. Numerical reading values of systolic and diastolic blood pressure remotely recorded and displayed with help of LCD as well stationary computer. Furthermore, the obtained results were compared with existing devices data like a Sphygmomanometer to verify the accuracy of the developed Instrument.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122071688","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":"Reactive power optimization oriented control using optimal reactive power supply for radial network","authors":"Zhang Yong-jun, Li Qin-hao, Chenxing Xu","doi":"10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCONSPRING.2014.6863083","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of optimal reactive power supply is introduced. The value of optimal reactive power supply is derived from a two buses model. An optimal reactive power control strategy called reactive power optimization oriented slack control (RPOOSC) is put forward. Furthermore, an optimal control method using optimal reactive power supply for radial network is proposed as an application of reactive power optimization oriented control (RPOOC). The proposed method uses reactive power load as control variable and reactive power supply as state variable. The method can effectively reduce active power loss of transmission lines, and it is easy to realize. A simulation is carried out to reflect the optimization effect of the method compared with another optimization method, which is widely acknowledged. And the results show that the proposed method is effective and practical.","PeriodicalId":270495,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE REGION 10 SYMPOSIUM","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117195221","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}