{"title":"Two elements dual segment cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna array with annular shaped microstrip feed","authors":"Gourab Das, Anand Sharma, R. Gangwar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561168","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a dual segment two element wideband cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna array with annular shaped corporate feed network is presented. To enhance impedance bandwidth, multisegmentation concept with shifted center has been pragmatic. Annular shaped microstrip parallel feed with quarter wave transformer etched on a single side of the copper grounded substrate (εr=4.4) is used to excite the dielectric resonator antenna. With this arrangement, approximately 46.8 % impedance bandwidth is achieved for the proposed cylindrical DRA array. The proposed antenna array gives the appreciable gain and better radiation characteristics at resonant frequencies. To validate the proposed design, a prototype of the proposed antenna array is fabricated, according to the optimized dimensions. Simulation is performed using Ansys HFSS simulation software and a close agreement between simulation and measured results has been observed.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134422008","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":"Multiresolution inter-sample and inter-lead eigen error features for classification of cardiac diseases","authors":"R. Tripathy, S. Dandapat","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561157","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new technique to estimate diagnostic features in multilead electrocardiogram (MECG) signal. The technique uses the eigen analysis of the significant sub-band matrices of analyzed MECG and synthetic MECG for evaluation of features. The sub-band matrices are obtained using the multiresolution analysis of MECG. For each of the significant sub-band matrix, the inter-sample eigen error (ISEE), the inter-lead eigen error (ILEE) and the singular value error (SVE) features are evaluated. The multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network and the support vector machine (SVM) classifiers are employed to classify the MECG features into three cardiac diseases (heart muscle disease (HMD), myocardial infarction (MI) and bundle branch block (BBB)) and healthy control. The result reveals that, for MI, HMD and BBB, the proposed technique has better performance with sensitivity values of 99.43%, 99.77% and 97.78%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133632708","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":"Reduced dimension superimposed precoder feedback for interference alignment","authors":"Navneet Garg, G. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561131","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, analog feedback of precoder is proposed for K-user interference channel with equal number of antennas at transmitters and receivers. We also consider the superimposed pilot based training scheme where training pilots and feedback data are sent simultaneously. This scheme requires the same number of time slots as non-superimposed one. In addition to this framework, we propose reduced dimension precoder feedback by utilizing the unit norm of the precoder. This reduced dimension feedback with multiple antennas improves the precoder estimation at transmitters, which improves the sumrates of the system. The simulation results verify that this reduced dimension precoder feedback schemes decrease the rate loss, and improve the sumrate.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123554388","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":"Improved acoustic modeling of low-resource languages using shared SGMM parameters of high-resource languages","authors":"N. M. Joy, B. Abraham, K. Navneeth, S. Umesh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561169","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate methods to improve the recognition performance of low-resource languages with limited training data by borrowing subspace parameters from a high-resource language in subspace Gaussian mixture model (SGMM) framework. As a first step, only the state-specific vectors are updated using low-resource language, while retaining all the globally shared parameters from the high-resource language. This approach gave improvements only in some cases. However, when both state-specific and weight projection vectors are re-estimated with low-resource language, we get consistent improvement in performance over conventional monolingual SGMM of the low-resource language. Further, we conducted experiments to investigate the effect of different shared parameters on the acoustic model built using the proposed method. Experiments were done on the Tamil, Hindi and Bengali corpus of MANDI database. Relative improvement of 16.17% for Tamil, 13.74% for Hindi and 12.5% for Bengali, over respective monolingual SGMM were obtained.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124975607","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 efficient face model for facial expression recognition","authors":"Sunil Kumar, M. Bhuyan, B. Chakraborty","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561187","url":null,"abstract":"Existing facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms aim to extract discriminative features from a face. These discriminative features can be extracted only from the informative regions of a face. In this view, several face models are proposed which are mainly intended to extract geometrical features from a face, and hence these models may not be suitable for extract discriminative texture features from a face. We proposed a novel face model based on projection analysis of a face. Our proposed projection analysis evaluates the distribution of informative regions of a face. This is done by projecting the expressive face images onto their corresponding neutral images. Hence, the proposed face model can efficiently extract distinctive texture features from a face. Additionally, the proposed face model can extract geometrical features as well. The performance of the proposed face model is evaluated on MUG datasets which shows that the proposed face model outperforms several existing face models. Also, the proposed face model can give a recognition accuracy of 97.3% which is significantly better than the performance of state-of-the-art face models.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130090009","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":"Arbitrary beamforming based FSO MIMO system in atmospheric turbulence and misalignment errors","authors":"P. Sharma, Ankur Bansal, M. Bhatnagar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561167","url":null,"abstract":"An arbitrary beamforming scheme is analyzed in a 2 × 2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) free-space optical (FSO) communication system. The probability density function (PDF) and moment generating function (MGF) of the instantaneous received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the receiver are derived for Gamma-Gamma distributed non-identical FSO links. We also consider the effect of zero-boresight misalignment errors where the radial misalignment is assumed to be Rayleigh distributed. Using the MGF of the SNR, the error performance of the considered FSO system is investigated. Specifically, we derive the expression for average symbol error rate (SER) for subcarrier intensity modulated (SIM) M-ary phase shift keying (MPSK). Contrary to the fact that repetition scheme (equal-weight beamforming) is optimal in identical channel conditions, it is observed in this paper that for non-identical turbulence channels, arbitrary beamforming with proper selection of weights can outperform the repetition beamforming.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122403236","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":"Image quality assessment for a selective-processing noise-aided iterative enhancement algorithm","authors":"R. Chouhan, P. Biswas","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a revision of the existing universal image quality index (UIQ) metric in order to gauge the quality of images in a selective-processing iterative enhancement algorithm. The original UIQ is based on factors of loss of correlation, luminance and contrast similarity, and is, therefore, unsuitable in enhancement-related applications. While testing existing state-of-the-art metrics as image quality criterion in an iterative dynamic range compression algorithm, a lack of coherence was observed between the objective scores and that obtained from subjective evaluation study with twenty human subjects. We, therefore, propose to modify the existing UIQ with properties of a tone-mapped image. The proposed variant, named image quality metric for dynamic range compression, IQDRC, maintains the contributing effect of structural correlation and local contrast similarity, but observes an inverse relation with local luminance similarity. The proposed metric was observed to promisingly quantify the image quality and dynamic range compression of such images in close accordance with subjective scores for the target enhancement algorithm. Observations also suggest that IQDRC is indicative of image quality for various other dynamic range compression algorithms.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115170614","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":"Reliable tempo detection for structural segmentation in sarod concerts","authors":"T. P. Vinutha, Suryanarayana Sankagiri, P. Rao","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561163","url":null,"abstract":"Tempo, or perceived speed, is an important characteristic of any music piece. In Hindustani instrumental music, different sections of a concert are characterised by the absence or presence of a regular rhythm and the speed of the music. In this paper, we analyse the tempo of concerts of a particular plucked-string instrument, the sarod. We first describe and evaluate different methods to detect plucks of sarod strings, as the timing pattern of the plucks, or note onsets, decides the tempo. We then use one such accurate method to track the tempo of a concert by analyzing the short-term periodicity of the onsets. Simultaneously, we also generate a measure of the salience of the periodicity to distinguish between rhythmic and non-rhythmic sections. We show that the tempo and salience vary significantly across sections in a concert, and thus, are valuable discriminative features in the task of automatic segmentation of sarod concerts.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115177581","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":"Exploring different acoustic modeling techniques for the detection of vowels in speech signal","authors":"Avinash Kumar, S. Shahnawazuddin, G. Pradhan","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561195","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore acoustic modeling techniques based on the Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM), the subspace GMM (SGMM) and deep neural network (DNN) for the detection of vowels in a given speech signal. At the outset, we develop a recognition system on the TIMIT database that recognizes the sequence of phonetic units present in a given speech sample. Two recognizers are developed using speech data sampled at 16 kHz and 8 kHz rates, respectively. The phone error rates (classification errors) for the two recognizers help in studying the effect of sampling rate on the classifier performance. The experimental evaluations presented in this study show that there is a slight deterioration in the recognition performance when speech data is re-sampled to 8 kHz rate. Next, a three-class classifier (vowel, non-vowel and silence) is also developed on the TIMIT database and the classification performances are studied. Using the three-class classifier, a given speech sample is then forced aligned against the trained acoustic model under the constraints of true/first-pass transcriptions to detect the vowel regions. The correctly detected and spurious vowel regions are analyzed in detail to find the impact of semivowel and nasal sound units on the detection of vowel regions as well as on the determination of vowel onset and end points. Among the explored acoustic modeling techniques, the SGMM-based system is observed to superior to all other systems. Furthermore, for all the studied modeling techniques, the spurious cases are mostly due to the detection of semivowels as the vowels.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115470463","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}
Manu Seth, Sourya Basu, Shivam Chaturvedi, R. Hegde
{"title":"Multi character frequency based encoding for efficient text messaging in Indian Languages","authors":"Manu Seth, Sourya Basu, Shivam Chaturvedi, R. Hegde","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561128","url":null,"abstract":"Short Message Service (SMS) via cell phones is a widely used mode of data communication. Currently employed encoding schemes allow the transmission of 160 characters per SMS in English. This drops to 70 characters per SMS if any Indian language including Hindi is used, due to the UNICODE format used therein. Schemes proposed to improve the encoding efficiency of short text messaging generally encode one character at a time. Table splitting schemes that reduce the average number of bits per character are generally used in this context. In this paper, a novel multi-character frequency-based encoding scheme is proposed for efficient messaging of short text messages in four Indian Languages. Both uni-gram and bi-gram modelling based schemes are proposed herein. The efficiency of the proposed schemes is evaluated by conducting experiments on a large multilingual database of short text messages collected from twitter using a dictionary learning approach. Performance evaluation shows that these encoding schemes can allow the transmission of around 190 characters per SMS in English and more than 165 characters per SMS for Four Indian Languages. Encoding efficiency is significantly improved when compared to existing state of the art table marker algorithms and is motivating enough to be used in practice for transmission of short text messages in Indian Languages.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127723281","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}