{"title":"Performance evaluation of satellite-to-earth FSO link in presence of turbulence and weather conditions for different IM schemes","authors":"Anjitha Viswanath, V. Jain, Subrat Kar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561092","url":null,"abstract":"We evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance of a geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellite to earth free space optical (FSO) link using intensity modulated/direct detection (IM/DD) system. The analysis is carried out in presence of turbulence and various weather conditions. The combined channel state probability density function (pdf) is obtained by using gamma-gamma distribution to model the turbulence and Beer-Lambert law to incorporate the weather effects. Owing to the fact that IM schemes are simple in implementation and cost effective, we use three IM schemes, viz., on-off keying (OOK), M-ary pulse position modulation (M-PPM) and M-ary differential PPM (M-DPPM) for our analysis. The closed from hBERi expressions are derived for the above schemes using the combined channel state pdf. Results show that hBERi increases with increase in the strength of ground level turbulence. Also, the presence of various weather conditions such as moderate, light and thin fog can cause additional degradation. In case of thick or dense fog, the degradation becomes quite high and may lead to link failure. Among the IM schemes, with the same average received power, M-PPM scheme performs the best followed by M-DPPM and OOK schemes in presence of turbulence and different weather conditions.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123006780","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 complexity in-loop skin tone detection for ROI coding in the HEVC encoder","authors":"P. Goswami, P. Srikanth, Jasmin Rahiman","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561096","url":null,"abstract":"Perceptual video coding with rate control is a technique commonly used to improve the perceptual video quality without compromising on the video bit rate. Region of Interest (ROI) detection has traditionally been done by a dedicated software or hardware block which provides the video encoder the coordinates of the regions whose perceptual video quality needs to be higher than non-ROI regions. This paper introduces a low complexity human skin color based ROI detection technique in-loop with the HEVC encoder which classifies a coding unit as skin or not. The proposed method utilizes the HEVC encoder tools of spatial predictive encoding, variable coding unit block sizes and motion vectors generated during motion estimation to optimize skin tone detection in Intra and Inter predicted frames. The in-loop classification was found to improve the detection precision per operation per pixel by 4x compared to other low cost skin classifiers.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114571639","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}
P. M. Wagh, U. Prajapati, Mayuresh Shinde, Prafulla M. Salunke, Vinayak A. Chaskar, Sanchit Telavane, Vijaypal Yadav
{"title":"E-Braille-a self-learning Braille device","authors":"P. M. Wagh, U. Prajapati, Mayuresh Shinde, Prafulla M. Salunke, Vinayak A. Chaskar, Sanchit Telavane, Vijaypal Yadav","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561162","url":null,"abstract":"Braille is an essential system of learning for visually challenged people. It is the method which enables them to read and write. The literacy rate in case of visually challenged people in many countries is very low. Various factors like lack of government initiatives, limitations of tutors, lack of personal attention etc. are the possible reasons for this state. Our project aims at developing a self-learning Braille kit which can help people with visual impairments. The solution aims at developing an easy to learn kit that will behave as a teacher and assists the visually challenged people for learning the Braille learning system. The designed system uses a Braille keypad and microphone to take input and produces speech as output. By implementing the designed system for visually challenged individuals, Braille literacy can be affected positively. The solution is so designed that it optimizes cost and speed of operation of the device.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117026763","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. Manikandan, A. Vishwanath, V. K. Agrawal, M. Korulla
{"title":"Indigenous design and development of underwater wireless power transfer system","authors":"J. Manikandan, A. Vishwanath, V. K. Agrawal, M. Korulla","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561099","url":null,"abstract":"Maritime systems employ wireless sensor nodes, wireless network systems, autonomous underwater vehicles and underwater surveillance systems for marine safety and surveillance operations. Most of these systems are powered using rechargeable batteries and recharging these batteries is considered as one of the challenges. In this paper, indigenous design and development of a 500W wireless power transfer system (WPTS) for recharging the batteries of autonomous underwater vehicles is reported, which is an outcome of a funded project. The performance of proposed system designed is assessed in air as well as underwater using different types of windings and results are reported for various experiments carried out using the system. The proposed system can be easily adapted for various other underwater systems, nodes and robots too.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124580689","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 the development of a dynamic virtual reality system using audio and visual scenes","authors":"S. Reddy, G. S. S. Srinivas Rao, R. Hegde","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561204","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual reality systems have been widely used in many popular and diverse applications including education and gaming. However, development of a dynamic virtual reality system which combines both audio and visual scenes has hitherto not been investigated. In this work a dynamic virtual reality system which synchronizes both audio and visual information is developed. Realtime audio and visual information is obtained from a spherical audio visual camera with 64 microphones and 5 cameras. Subsequently, a head mounted display application is designed to render spherical video. A three dimensional sound rendering algorithm using head related transfer functions is developed. Finally, a virtual reality system that combines both spherical audio and video is realized. The head position of the user is also integrated into this system adaptively to make the system dynamic. Both subjective and objective evaluations of the proposed virtual reality system indicate its significance.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125481215","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}
Kausik Das, Abhijit Guha Roy, J. Chatterjee, D. Sheet
{"title":"Landscaping of random forests through controlled deforestation","authors":"Kausik Das, Abhijit Guha Roy, J. Chatterjee, D. Sheet","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561112","url":null,"abstract":"Random forest (RF) is an ensemble learner constructed using a set of decision trees, where each tree is trained using randomly bootstrapped samples and aggregated to provide a decision. While the generalization error is reduced by increasing the number of trees in a RF, it substantially increases the testing time complexity, inhibiting its fast deployment in practical applications. In this paper, we propose a post-training optimization technique termed landscaping of RF for reducing computational complexity by compensating for trees associated with similar decision boundary. This allows faster deployment of the RF without compromising its performance. Landscaping is achieved through a two stage mechanism: (i) computation of decision similarity between all pairs of trees in the RF, and (ii) deletion of the computationally expensive tree in the RF with decision bias compensation for the removed tree. Performance of the proposed methodology was evaluated using three publicly available datasets. The RF performance before and after landscaping over the datasets was observed to have an error of 0.1084 ± 0.03 and 0.1087 ± 0.03, respectively, while testing times of the RF before landscaping was 2.5508 ± 0.08 sec. and 0.9066 ± 0.19 sec. after landscaping with 32 - 76% reduction in execution time. These results strongly substantiates our claim of achieving deployment speedup without compromising the decision quality with landscaping of RF through controlled deforestation.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"478 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131988328","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 deep learning approach to fetal-ECG signal reconstruction","authors":"P. R. Muduli, Rakesh Reddy Gunukula, A. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561206","url":null,"abstract":"Fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) monitoring has become essential due to the current increase in the relative number of cardiac patients worldwide. This paper proposes to use a deep learning approach to compress/recover FECG signals, improving the computation speed in a telemonitoring system. The problem is analogous to the reconstruction of a non-sparse signal in compressive sensing (CS) framework. The architecture incorporates a non-linear mapping using a stacked denoising autoencoder (SDAE). The compression of the raw non-sparse FECG data takes place at the transmitter side using a deep neural network. After pre-training, the whole deep SDAE can be further fine tuned by the mini-batch gradient descent-based back-propagation algorithm. Although the training for SDAE is usually time-consuming, it does not affect the performance due to the one-time off-line training process. The real-time FECG reconstruction is faster due to a few matrix-vector multiplications at the receiver end. The simulations performed by employing standard non-invasive FECG databases shows promising results in terms of the reconstruction quality.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130212423","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":"TDoA based EKF localization for LTE","authors":"R. Sriram, D. Jalihal","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561192","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of location based services has increased the need for accurate positioning of mobile stations (MS). Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is not reliable in indoor and urban environments. Cellular wireless communication systems like the OFDM based 3GPP-LTE provide an alternative via Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measurements. Typical Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) algorithms using TDoA make certain assumptions about the mobility model and associated noise statistics of the MS. In this paper, we develop an alternate formulation of the TDoA localization problem and adaptive EKF algorithm that does not make the assumptions made by traditional EKF algorithms. We demonstrate that the proposed algorithm gives better position estimates than a static positioning estimator.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130477155","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. Rallabandi, Ayushi Pandey, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Tejas Godambe, S. Gangashetty
{"title":"Sonority rise: Aiding backoff in syllable-based speech synthesis","authors":"S. Rallabandi, Ayushi Pandey, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Tejas Godambe, S. Gangashetty","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561189","url":null,"abstract":"Back off techniques are employed in syllable based unit selection speech synthesis systems to maintain the naturalness of the speech in spite of the missing syllables. In synthesizing the missing complex consonant clusters syllables of Telugu, we introduced reduced vowel epenthesis as a rule-based backoff strategy[1]. In this paper, we refine the scope of the approach in selectively applying vowel epenthesis only in cases of sonority rise between adjacent consonants. When the sonority does not rise (stop-stop, liquid-stop clusters), we increase the duration of the consonant. Owing to specific patterns of vowel epenthesis observed in languages, we conduct a subjective evaluation to determine the identity of the epenthetic vowel in Hindi. From the inferences of the listening test, we devise a class based rule to perform epenthesis. Further, to evaluate the performance of the designed system, we perform both subjective as well as an objective evaluation based on confidence measures from an ASR system. We conduct a phone level automatic speech recognition task on the intelligibility of the words synthesized using epenthesis as a cluster-repair strategy. The results show that the proposed back off method helps in producing more natural-sounding speech compared to the conventional backoffs.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132930266","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":"Emotion-specific features for classifying emotions in story text","authors":"D. M. Harikrishna, K. S. Rao","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561205","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we are attempting emotion classification in view of synthesizing story speech. We are proposing emotion-specific text features (ESF) for classifying sentences from children stories into five different emotion categories: happy, sad, anger, fear and neutral. ESF is a five dimensional feature vector, where each dimension corresponds to weight of the sentence according to each emotion class. The dataset consists of 780 Hindi emotional sentences collected from children stories belonging to three genres: fable, folk-tale and legend. Part-of-speech (POS) and proposed ESF are used as features for emotion classification. Emotion classification performance is analysed using various combinations of features with three classifiers: Naive Bayes (NB), k-nearest neighbour (KNN) and support vector machine (SVM). The effectiveness of classifiers is analysed using precision, recall, F-measure and accuracy. The classification performance of 67.9% and 67.2% is achieved using POS and ESF respectively. The fusion of both features resulted an accuracy of 71.1%. Further, the importance of story genre information in emotion classification was observed from the experiments conducted on classifying emotions within story genre. An accuracy of 73.7% was observed after adding story genre information to the fusion of POS and ESF. SVM models outperformed other models in terms of classification accuracy.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123497792","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}