{"title":"A novel approach to remove random-valued impulse noise from digital image","authors":"G. Tanwar, S. Chaudhuri","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561165","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of switching filter, a highly effective filter to restore extremely corrupted image with impulse noise is presented. It is capable of handling low density as well as high density of random valued and fixed valued impulse noise. In this study, local area comprises within the window in an image is analyzed for intensity extrema to classify the pixel as either noisy or noiseless. Filtering is applied to the noisy pixels only and it is done in such a way that the noisy pixel is replaced by either the median or the mean value of the filtering window depending on the noiseless pixels present in the window. The window size is adaptive for this filter and depends on the estimated noise density. The proposed filter is tested on a large number of grayscale and color images under a wide range of noise density (from 10% to 94%) and the simulation results reveal that it performs better than other approaches to impulse noise removal, in terms of suppressing impulse noise while preserving image details. The proposed filter is simple to implement and suitable for real time implementation.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"139 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":"132591916","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 analysis of Diabetic Maculopathy using level set spatial fuzzy clustering","authors":"J. Medhi, S. Dandapat","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561198","url":null,"abstract":"Patients suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy are at a high risk of sight threatening disease, the Diabetic Maculopathy. It gets initiated with the deposition of lesions formed from blood constituents, in a region of one optic disc diameter centered at fovea of retina. The effect becomes vision threatening when the deposition of the lesions spread close to fovea. These lesions are of two types, namely bright lesions such as soft and hard Exudates and dark lesions including Microaneurysms and Hemorrhages. The detection of the lesions become difficult when they overlap or lie close to each other. In this paper, we have presented a novel method for improving the detection of bright and dark lesions in positive Diabetic Maculopathy images. The algorithm consists of two stages. Initially the fovea is detected and the region for analysis of Maculopathy is marked. Secondly, level set spatial fuzzy clustering is performed over the region to enhance the detection of lesions and hence analysis of the disease. The performance evaluation of the proposed method is carried out by comparing the result with manually segmented ground truth images, obtained with the help of ophthalmologists. The results show improvement of the analysis as compared to present methodologies.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"11 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":"115118274","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":"LFSR identification using Groebner bases","authors":"S. Vijayakumaran","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561164","url":null,"abstract":"Given the output of an unknown linear feedback shift register (LFSR), the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm can be used to recover the characteristic polynomial of the LFSR. We propose a method to recover the characteristic polynomial and initial state of an LFSR from a noisy version of its output sequence using Groebner bases.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"97 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":"117320782","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}
Prashant Sharma, Thomas Valerrian Pasca S, N. Kamath, B. R. Tamma
{"title":"Velocity based dynamic Flow Mobility in converged LTE/Wi-Fi networks","authors":"Prashant Sharma, Thomas Valerrian Pasca S, N. Kamath, B. R. Tamma","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561196","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the boost of mobile-phones, tablets and smart devices with data-hungry applications has caused massive growth in demand of “Mobile data services” and fulfilling this demand is a very challenging task with all the available resources of cellular networks. This has brought us to the option of offloading traffic from the cellular networks to Wi-Fi networks. Offloading on Wi-Fi network for static users is comparatively easy when compared to mobile users because switching mobile users to Wi-Fi network may cause unnecessary ping-pong effect, packet loss and delay during vertical handovers. But the flow mobility solutions like PMIPv6 and DSMIPv6 provide the mechanism to offload traffic from one network to another network seamlessly and offloading is done at the granularity of flows instead of moving the entire traffic generated by the mobile user. The idea is to intelligently move certain flows onto either network so as to achieve better throughput and thereby improve the capacity of the heterogeneous network. User mobility plays a significant role while moving a flow across different networks. Generally, offloading decisions are based on signal quality and load of the networks. In this paper, we propose an integrated offloading approach, called as Velocity based Integrated Flow Mobility (VIFM), for converged LTE/Wi-Fi networks, which considers the signal quality, network load and user velocity to maximize the network performance. We studied the performance of VIFM in different scenarios using extensive NS-3 simulations and found that it reduces unnecessary flow handovers by 50% and increases the Wi-Fi network utilization by 12% when compared to previous techniques [1].","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"4 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":"121982077","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":"Class specificity and commonality based discriminative dictionary for speaker verification","authors":"Nagendra Kumar, R. Sinha","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561185","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the learning of speaker dictionary encoding class-specific and class-common information to enhance the discriminative ability in context of sparse representation based speaker verification (SV). Typically, the KSVD learned dictionary is employed that is well suited for minimizing the representation error, but is not optimized for classification purpose. The work is motivated by a similar objective approach reported in context of image classification. In this work, we explore that idea on NIST 2012 speaker recognition evaluation dataset which forms a large size multi-variability SV task. The learned discriminative dictionary is initialized with an exemplar dictionary accounting for the class-specific part while a global KSVD learned dictionary having a small number of atoms initializes the class-common part. As the atoms in common part are not intended to capture the discriminative information, the sparse coefficients corresponding to those are discarded during the classification and the decision is made using the remaining coefficients only. The explored method is contrasted with the sparse representation over exemplar dictionary and the state-of-the-art i-vector Gaussian PLDA based SV methods. The explored method is noted to provide a relative improvements of 4.5% and 13% in terms of the average decision cost factor (CDET) and the equal error rate (EER) when compared with the exemplar based SV method. On the other hand, it results in poor EER but a relative improvement of 15% in CDET in contrast to the i-vector Gaussian PLDA method. The explored approach is also noted to be more robust to additive noise.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"30 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":"127432755","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}
K. Saurav, D. Sarkar, Yogesh Pal Singh, K. V. Srivastava
{"title":"CRLH TL-unit cell loaded tri-band circularly polarized crossed dipole antenna","authors":"K. Saurav, D. Sarkar, Yogesh Pal Singh, K. V. Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561117","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, two unit cells of a via-less Composite Right/Left handed Transmission Line (CRLH TL) are loaded on the arms of a reference double sided printed dipole antenna to achieve tri-band operation. A pair of CRLH TL loaded tri-band dipoles are crossed through a vacant printed ring to obtain a tri-band circularly polarized (CP) operation. A cavity backed reflector is used with the tri-band CP crossed dipole to get high gain with unidirectional pattern (front to back lobe ratio > 25 dB) and wider CP operating bandwidth in all the three resonant frequency bands. The measurement results on the fabricated prototype confirm that the proposed tri-band cavity backed CP crossed dipole antenna exhibits CP operating bandwidth (S11 <; -10 dB and Axial Ratio <; 3 dB) of 1.22%, 3.69% and 10.78% centered at 1.64 GHz, 2.17 GHz and 2.69 GHz respectively.","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":"131081077","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}
H. Rath, Sonakshi Verma, Anantha Simha, A. Karandikar
{"title":"Path Loss model for Indian terrain - empirical approach","authors":"H. Rath, Sonakshi Verma, Anantha Simha, A. Karandikar","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561183","url":null,"abstract":"It has been observed that the existing path loss models such as Hata, Okumura, and COST-231-Walfisch-Ikegami do not help in accurately predicting path loss for Indian terrain conditions. Since path loss values impacts the cost of operation along with Quality of Services (QoS) significantly, a new path loss model is desired. Modelling an accurate path loss model for Indian terrain requires terrain/city planning along with the building data, extensive drive tests for radio signal characterization, wireless telecom operator data related to Base Station (BTS) location, transmission power, height, tilt, etc. All these factors make the path loss modeling difficult and challenging. In this direction, we have proposed Tata Dense Urban Path loss (T-DUP) model which is a non-deterministic statistical model applicable for Indian cities. The proposed path loss model is validated through extensive drive tests at Bangalore with the help of a major Indian Telecom Operator operating at 1800 MHz. We have observed that the T-DUP model is statistically robust and is closely matching to the drive test results. We have also conducted statistical analysis and have illustrated the impact of various city planning parameters such as building heights, building separation, road widths, etc., on path loss model. We believe that T-DUP model can be extended to other frequency bands operating in India with appropriate tuning of parameters.","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":"127959125","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 Quantized Gradient Direction based face image representation and recognition technique","authors":"M. Parlewar, H. Patil, K. Bhurchandi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561186","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel quantized gradient based local feature descriptor, named Local Quantized Gradient Direction (LQGD) descriptor and the subsequent Partitioned Gradient Histogram, for facial image representation. The 8 bit LQGD descriptor accommodates eight levels quantized gradient magnitude and direction information from the horizontal and vertical gradients at local facial image pixels using 3×3 neighborhoods. The subsequent novel partitioned histogram based feature detection using the proposed descriptor offers separation in feature space resulting in recognition performance improvement. The technique is also robust to rotation, scale variations and noise due to typical preprocessing, background minimization and the descriptor itself. Spatial and transform domain feature level fusion is used for further performance improvement. The benchmarking of the proposed technique has been done using publicly available YEL and JAFFE databases with other contemporary techniques. The proposed technique outperforms the other published contemporary techniques.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"77 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":"131243604","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":"Algorithms for faster overlay creation under high growth rate in query network based overlaid multicasting","authors":"Ashutosh Singh, Anurag Dwivedi, Y. N. Singh","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561129","url":null,"abstract":"Live Streaming Multicast Systems supporting applications like Live Lecture Delivery, face a problem called flash crowd. In this problem, a very large number of subscribers join the session in a very short duration. The result of flash crowd is that most of the subscribers do not get the desired feed in first attempt and thus waiting time increases excessively. We consider this problem in query network based overlaid multicasting [1] systems, where the information about available feeders is stored distributively using Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). At normal growth rate, maintaining a list of only a few available feeders is sufficient; however, during flash crowd, a list of large number of feed forwarders needs to be maintained. Two different algorithms are proposed in this paper; one to alleviate the load of root nodes and the other to guarantee with high probability the provisioning of feed to any new arriving node even at very high growth rate. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of these algorithms in sustaining high growth rate in the network.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"13 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":"128810603","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}
T. Prasad, Dhruv Shekhawat, Sukanto Guha, Neena Goveas, Bharat M. Deshpande
{"title":"Analysis of impartial quality measurements on Indian broadband connections","authors":"T. Prasad, Dhruv Shekhawat, Sukanto Guha, Neena Goveas, Bharat M. Deshpande","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2016.7561135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2016.7561135","url":null,"abstract":"Broadband Internet user base is growing at an exponential pace in India. The market pressures are forcing the Internet service providers (ISPs) to sell their service offerings aggressively, resulting in a growing discrepancy between consumer expectations and service offerings from the ISPs. This discrepancy is often evident in experienced vs offered Internet connection service. We study the Quality of Service (QoS) variations for Internet connections of the Indian broadband users. We use the Network Diagnostic Test (NDT) data set provided by the Measurement Lab (M-Lab) for the study. Our study shows a significant increase in the maximum and the average Internet connection throughput values. We present a statistical summary of the four QoS parameters (throughput, jitter, latency and packet loss) for the Indian broadband connections. Our study shows a lack of diversity in the QoS characteristics of the Indian broadband connections.","PeriodicalId":279637,"journal":{"name":"2016 Twenty Second National Conference on Communication (NCC)","volume":"41 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":"125515214","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}