{"title":"Recognition of Off-Line Arabic Handwriting Words Using HMM Toolkit (HTK)","authors":"Hicham El Moubtahij, A. Halli, K. Satori","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.40","url":null,"abstract":"There are a lot of difficulties facing a good handwritten Arabic recognition system such as the similarities of different character shapes and the unlimited variants in human handwriting. This paper presents a handwriting Arabic word recognition system. The objective of this approach is to propose an analytical offline recognition method of handwritten Arabic for rapid implementation. The first part in the writing recognition system is the preprocessing phase that prepares the data which serves to introduce and extract a set of simple statistical features by a window sliding along that text line from the right to left, then it injects the resulting feature vectors to the Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK). In the recognition phase, the concatenation of characters to form words is modelled by simple lexical models, each word is modelled by a stochastic finite-state automaton (SFSA). The proposed system is applied to an \"Arabic-Numbers\" data corpus, which contains 47 words and 1905 sentences. These sentences are written by five different peoples.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114360199","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}
Yong Hwi Kim, Junho Choi, Yong Yi Lee, Bilal Ahmed, Kwan H. Lee
{"title":"Reflectance Transformation Imaging Method for Large-Scale Objects","authors":"Yong Hwi Kim, Junho Choi, Yong Yi Lee, Bilal Ahmed, Kwan H. Lee","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.25","url":null,"abstract":"RTI is an image-based rendering method which can represent the appearance of an object under varying illuminations. To create realistic synthetic-images using RTI, it is necessary to take dozens of images on a mounted camera with a calibrated point light source. Conventional RTI methods have proposed complex lighting systems in a hemispherical dome, or manually calibrate light poses using a reflective probe. In most cases, those methods are not suitable for the large-scale object in an outdoor environment because the size of the target object is restricted by the configuration of measurement systems. In this paper, we present a new RTI method which can create photorealistic images of a large scale outdoor scene under arbitrary light directions. Instead of capturing RTI samples at a time for an entire domain, we divide the RTI domain into a set of subsections. RTI samples in each section are acquired using a camera and an uncalibrated light source. After acquiring samples, we estimate svBRDF of measured samples without any prior knowledge of a 3D model, light poses, and surface normals. We also present an approach to merge the partial RTI images into a panoramic image. Experimental results show that our framework can extend the RTI methods applicable to large-scale objects.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122235383","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":"Surface Tension and Wettability Modeling for Flowing Liquids","authors":"Mariusz Zubrzycki, J. Raczkowski","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.12","url":null,"abstract":"The presented simulation model of surface tension and wettability based on physical properties of liquids is designed for use in computer graphics. Due to the relatively small surface tension forces the model is useful for simulating liquid of small volume such as droplets. This model can be used in conjunction with various fluid simulation methods, one of the most popular - Marker and Cell - has been selected for this paper. The paper describes also a simple and rapid method of determining the liquid surface as a mesh of triangles. The presented method improves the final visual effect and is well suited for determining the surface of the droplets. The simulation method was applied to create realistic animations of flowing liquid droplets of different types.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"06 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":"127195471","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}
O. Elharrouss, Driss Moujahid, Soukaina Elidrissi Elkaitouni, H. Tairi
{"title":"An Effective Foreground Detection Approach Using a Block-Based Background Modeling","authors":"O. Elharrouss, Driss Moujahid, Soukaina Elidrissi Elkaitouni, H. Tairi","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.44","url":null,"abstract":"The moving objects detection is considered as an important factor for many video surveillance applications. To assure a best detection a background model should be generated. This paper proposes a background modeling approach. To generate this model, we use both pixel-based and block-based processes to classify background pixels from those belong to the foreground. After that, to minimize the noise in the results of the background subtraction the structure-texture decomposition is applied on the absolute difference image. Just the structure component which contains the homogeneous parts of the image is used in the segmentation. The binary motion detection mask computation is made using a selected threshold. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach is effective and accurate for moving objects detection.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"38 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":"114279581","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":"Automatic Human Segmentation in Video Using Convex Active Contours","authors":"Hiba Ramadan, H. Tairi","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.43","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new algorithm for automatic detection and segmentation of humans in video. Our algorithm exploits the robustness and the accuracy of the interactive image segmentation using Convex Active Contours, to segment moving persons, but with an unsupervised manner. Based on a collaborative strategy to cluster a set of extracted Selective Space Time Interest Points, the resulting separated moving clusters are used to initialize automatically the seeds for the segmentation. Experiments show a good performance of our algorithm for human detection and segmentation in video without a user interaction.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"95 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":"122046650","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":"Difference Expansion Based Robust Reversible Watermarking with Region Filtering","authors":"Ka-Cheng Choi, Chi-Man Pun","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.61","url":null,"abstract":"Existing robust reversible watermarking methods usually have poor visual quality or unstable robustness and reversibility, implies that reversibility cannot be assured even in lossless channel. In this paper, a novel robust reversible watermarking method is proposed. In the proposed method, bit plane manipulation is applied to hide watermark bits in bit planes that are lesser affected by attacks. Region filtering is also adopted to find blocks that result in low variance for watermark embedding to further increase its robustness. Experimental results show that our method has improved performances compared with state-of-the-art technology, better surviving bit rate, a robustness measure, is obtained in the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"72 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":"123601522","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":"Robust Region Descriptors for Shape Classification","authors":"Cong Lin, Chi-Man Pun","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.59","url":null,"abstract":"A novel scheme for efficient shape classification using region descriptors and extreme learning machine with kernels is proposed. The skeleton and boundary of the input shape image are first extracted. Then the boundary is simplified to remove noise and minor variations. Finally, region descriptors for the local skeleton, and the simplified shape signature are constructed to form a hybrid feature vector. Training and classification are then performed using kernel extreme learning machine (k-ELM) for efficient shape classification. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is very fast and can archive higher classification accuracy on the challenging MPEG-7 dataset, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"175 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":"133748790","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}
Ismail El Massi, Youssef Es-saady, M. El yassa, D. Mammass, A. Benazoun
{"title":"Automatic Recognition of the Damages and Symptoms on Plant Leaves Using Parallel Combination of Two Classifiers","authors":"Ismail El Massi, Youssef Es-saady, M. El yassa, D. Mammass, A. Benazoun","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.34","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a multiple classifier system for automatic recognition of the damages and symptoms on plant leaves from images. The proposed approach is based on parallel combination of two kinds of classifiers, one is a neural network classifier that uses texture, color and shape features to distinguish between the damages and symptoms, then the other is a support vector machine (SVM) classifier that uses texture and shape features. In order to design our system, we have based on some existing approaches in the field that adopt a single classifier. The tests of this study were carried out on six classes including the damages of three pest insects (Leaf miners, Thrips and Tuta absoluta) and symptoms of three fungal diseases (Early blight, Late blight and Powdery mildew). The experimental results show the efficiency of our approach compared to the pervious approaches based on single classifier. The proposed approach is more effective and has the highest rate of recognition.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"33 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":"115416731","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":"Features Selection Based on Modified PSO Algorithm for 2D Face Recognition","authors":"Taher Khadhraoui, S. Ktata, F. Benzarti, H. Amiri","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.28","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a technique of features selection based on modified particle swarm optimization (MPSO) for face recognition system. PSO is a new class of algorithm for feature selection based on the idea of collaborative behavior of bird flocking. The feature selected by the proposed MPSO algorithm plays a vital role to search the solution space for an optimum solution where features are carefully selected according to a well defined discrimination criterion. Several novelties are introduced to make the recognition robust to varying illumination, facial expressions and poses at certain angles is challenging. Image of the face is divided first into sub-regions. Afterwards, the MPSO algorithm is applied to coefficients extracted by Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). We illustrate the experimental results of our new algorithm with the minimal set of selected features using different experimental protocols on several databases, including Yale Face, FEI and ORL.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","volume":"330-332 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":"128598575","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":"Evaluation of Semantic Similarity Using Vector Space Model Based on Textual Corpus","authors":"Badr Hssina, B. Bouikhalene, A. Merbouha","doi":"10.1109/CGIV.2016.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CGIV.2016.64","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we have created a semantic similarity calculation system between text documents to contribute to their semantic clustering. Indeed, semantic clustering of documents is a promising field of research, since it guarantees a quick and targeted access to information. The aim of document clustering is to put together similar documents. We used the algebraic model VSM (Vector Space Model) [2] to represent text documents and the WordNet [1] lexical database, in that it groups words together based on their meanings. In this paper, we will present an overview of the static and semantic methods for calculating the similarity measure and the appropriateness of these methods. As our research is focusing on the treatment of text documents on e-learning systems. We worked on a corpus of a set of text documents from the computer science textbook for high school students in Morocco. To evaluate our system, an experiment has been conducted among students who produced text documents. Experimental evaluations using WordNet prove that the system presented in this work improves the accuracy of semantic similarity between the text documents.","PeriodicalId":351561,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV)","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":"129578942","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}