K. Daqrouq, A. Al-Qawasmi, W. Al-Sawalmeh, T. A. Hilal
{"title":"Wavelet Transform based multistage speaker feature tracking identification system using Linear Prediction Coefficient","authors":"K. Daqrouq, A. Al-Qawasmi, W. Al-Sawalmeh, T. A. Hilal","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227955","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper Wavelet Transform (WT) in its two forms Continuous and Discrete are used to create text-dependent robust to noise speaker recognition system. The research intends to investigate a high accuracy of identification the speech signal of very difficult nature that is non- stationary. Three methods are used to extract the essential speaker features based on Continuous, Discrete Wavelet Transform and Linear Prediction Coefficient (LPC). To have better identification rate three measurement methods are used: Percentage rms Difference (PRD), Correlation Coefficient (CC), and Statically Deformation Determination Coefficient (SDDC). 95% identification rate is accomplished. The presented system in this paper depends on multi-stage features extracting due to its better accuracy. The system works with excellent capability of features tracking even when the tested signals are very noisy with −32dB SNR. This is accomplished because of multistage features tracking based system using Wavelet Transform, which is suitable for non-stationary signal.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124052694","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}
G. Ibarra-Berastegi, J. Sáenz, A. Ezcurra, A. Elias, A. Barona
{"title":"Using neural networks for short-term prediction of air pollution levels","authors":"G. Ibarra-Berastegi, J. Sáenz, A. Ezcurra, A. Elias, A. Barona","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227910","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper focuses on the prediction of hourly levels up to 8 hours ahead for five pollutants (SO2, CO, NO2, NO and O3) and six locations in the area of Bilbao (Spain. To that end, 216 models based on neural networks (NN) have been built. The database used to fit the NN's has been historical records of the traffic, meteorological and air pollution networks existing in the area corresponding to year 2000. Then, the models have been tested on data from the same networks but corresponding to year 2001. At a first stage, for each of the 216 cases, 100 models based on different types of neural networks have been built using data corresponding to year 2000. The final identification of the best model has been made under the criteria of simultaneously having at a 95% confidence level the best values of R2, d1, FA2 and RMSE when applied to data of year 2001. The number of hourly cases in which due to gaps in data predictions have been possible range from 11% to 38% depending on the sensor. Depending on the pollutant, location and number of hours ahead the prediction is made, different types of models have been selected. The use of these models based on NN's can provide Bilbao's air pollution network originally designed for diagnosis purposes, with short-term, real time forecasting capabilities. The performance of these models at the different sensors in the area range from a maximum value of R2=0.88 for the prediction of NO2 1 hour ahead, to a minimum value of R2=0.15 for the prediction of ozone 8 hours ahead. These boundaries and the limitation in the number of cases that predictions are possible represent the maximum forecasting capability that Bilbao's network can provide in real-life operating conditions.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"30 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125805438","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}
A. Asadi Ghanbari, M. R. Nazari Kousarrizi, M. Teshnehlab, M. Aliyari
{"title":"Wavelet and Hilbert transform-based Brain Computer Interface","authors":"A. Asadi Ghanbari, M. R. Nazari Kousarrizi, M. Teshnehlab, M. Aliyari","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227850","url":null,"abstract":"Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a technology that developed over the last three decades has provided a novel and promising alternative method for interacting with the environment. BCI is a system which translates a subject's intentions into a control signal for a device, e.g., a computer application, a wheelchair or a neuroprosthesis. Electroencephalogram-based BCI has become a hot spot in the research of neural engineering, rehabilitation, and brain science. The artifacts are disturbance that can occur during the signal acquisition and that can alter the analysis of the signals themselves. Removing artifacts produced in Electroencephalogram (EEG) data by muscle activity, eye blinks and electrical noise is a common and important problem in EEG analysis. In this research, for artifact rejection, EEG data are filtered to the frequency range between 8 and 32 Hz with a butterworth band-pass filter. Finally two different structures of neural network and a support vector machine used to classify features that are extracted by Hilbert and Wavelet transform.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128228980","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}
Pascal Bou Nassar, Y. Badr, K. Barbar, F. Biennier
{"title":"Towards integrating security services in e-learning platforms","authors":"Pascal Bou Nassar, Y. Badr, K. Barbar, F. Biennier","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227929","url":null,"abstract":"E-learning has become of great importance nowadays, starting at the point of simplifying and improving learning in the academic institutions, to saving time and money by providing special training in the companies. E-learning platforms are evolving in a rapid way into modular platforms based on service-oriented architectures providing flexibility and services reusability. In this work, in one hand, we highlight the importance of securing e-learning platforms: we start a review of the first e-learning generation where the focus was on sharing learning content, the second generation that added sharing of learning objects between different platforms, and the third generation based on service-oriented architecture, where content, tools, and functionalities are available for reuse in a dynamic environment. On the other hand, we explain the security challenges, both, the first and the second e-learning generations might be facing, we then discuss the service-oriented architecture security challenges in distributed environments, and finally, as a conclusion, we propose a security service-based architecture to securing third e-learning generation.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127042634","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":"Design and development of a hybrid feedback control system for an RF remote-controlled robot","authors":"M. Owayjan, Ahmad Abou Ammo","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227868","url":null,"abstract":"With the widespread diffusion of digital computers, hybrid control systems combine discrete as well as continuous systems by means of computer software in order to control physical processes. This paper presents the design and development of a computer-based feedback control system for an RF remote-controlled robot. The robot is wirelessly connected to a transmitter/receiver circuit through two RF remote control units ensuring fast and reliable five-bit, two-way communication. The transmitter/receiver circuit is connected to the parallel (LPT1) port of a PC running a Java™ application. The program provides two functionalities for the robot: a closed-loop control system that allows the robot to automatically follow a line, and an open-loop system that allows the user to manually control the robot through a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The computer-based feedback control system is a demonstration of a reactive hybrid system where flexible computer instructions form the logic unit that controls a continuous process. The system can be easily modified to enhance the capabilities of the robot and use different control laws and principles, thus ascertaining that hybrid control systems are highly accurate, reliable, and most importantly flexible.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130663094","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 feature fusion technique in Saliency-Based Visual Attention","authors":"Z. Armanfard, H. Bahmani, A. Nasrabadi","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227866","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we proposed a novel feature fusion technique in Saliency-Based Visual Attention Model, presented in [Itti, 1998]. There are three conspicuity maps in Saliency-Based Visual Attention Model, which are linearly combined from 12 color maps, 6 intensity maps and 24 orientation maps (42 Feature maps overall) through an Across-scale combination and normalization. We utilized the genetic algorithm approach to combine all 42 Feature maps that are mentioned in this basic Saliency-Based Visual Attention Model. We proposed a “Weighted Feature Summation” to form a saliency map, with optimum weights which are determined by the genetic algorithm. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed method to improve the detection speed of a favorite object in the scene.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132882623","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 generalized likelihood ratio test for a fault-tolerant control system","authors":"H. Jamouli, D. Sauter","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227905","url":null,"abstract":"Willsky and Jones (1976) have developed the Generalized Likelihood Ratio (GLR) test for sequential jumps detection, isolation and estimation in discrete-time stochastic linear systems. After each detection and isolation of one jump, the treatment of another possible jump is obtained by a direct state estimate and covariance incrementation of the Kalman filter originally designed on the jump-free system. With this updating strategy, the rate of good decisions is not guaranteed to be maximized. To solve this problem, the proposed active GLR test will be based on a reference model updated on line after each detection and isolation of one jump. To reduce the computational requirement, the passive GLR test will be derived from a state estimator designed on a fixed reference model directly sensitive to system changes. We will show that the active and passive GLR tests can be easily integrated in a reconfigurable Fault-Tolerant Control System (FTCS) to asymptotically recover the nominal system performances of the jump-free system.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130455074","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":"Environmentally conscious quality function deployment - A new approach for green manufacturing","authors":"F. Francis","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227936","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past twenty years, environmental issues have gained greater public recognition. The general public has become more aware that the consumption of manufactured products and marketing services, as well as the daily activities of our societies, adversely affect supplies of natural resources and the quality of the environment. These effects occur at all stages of the life cycle of a product, beginning with raw materials acquisition and continuation through materials manufacturing and products fabrication. In this paper, Environmental Metrics are used in the application of Environmentally Conscious Quality Function Deployment as evaluation criteria for technical requirements before any design concepts are being developed. This will lead to building up an environmentally friendly product.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128760921","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":"Impact of climatic data uncertainties on the simulation of the thermal behavior of ancient houses","authors":"B. Moujalled, R. Cantin, G. Guarracino","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227916","url":null,"abstract":"In many countries, the stock of existing buildings accounts for half of the energy consumption. With the actual environmental and energetic context, it is urgent to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases emissions in the buildings sector. In order to optimize retrofitting strategies, the thermal behavior of the existing buildings must be efficiently modeled by the dynamic building energy simulation tools. The stock of existing buildings is very important with, for instance, more than 30 millions of dwellings in France. This stock is characterized by a wide variety of construction techniques that are not taken into account in the existing calculation methods and tools as has been shown in a recent French study. This paper presents in the first part the uncertainties related to the thermal modeling of a traditional ancient house using different calculation tools. Then the house is modeled with the dynamic simulation tool TRNSYS in order to analyze the influence of the uncertainties of the climatic data on the quality of the results.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123314667","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 information-theoretic approach for removing feedback channels in distributed video coding","authors":"C. Yaacoub, J. Farah","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA.2009.5227911","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an information-theoretic approach for estimating the compression bounds of Wyner-Ziv frames in a distributed video coding system, taking into account the amount of motion in the captured video scene, as well as the transmission channel conditions. Simulation results show a comparable behavior between the practical system performance and the theoretical limits. Therefore, based on the analytical estimations, a suitable compression rate can be predicted for each frame without the need for a feedback channel, with a minor loss in the system's rate-distortion performance compared to the classical feedback-based coding system.","PeriodicalId":308909,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128083572","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}