Mohammadreza Jamali, Firouzeh Golaghazadeh, S. Coulombe, Ahmad Vakili, C. Vázquez
{"title":"Comparison of 3D 360-Degree Video Compression Performance Using Different Projections","authors":"Mohammadreza Jamali, Firouzeh Golaghazadeh, S. Coulombe, Ahmad Vakili, C. Vázquez","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861868","url":null,"abstract":"3D and multi-view 360-degree videos offer 3D immersive visual experience of the real world on head-mounted displays (HMDs). They are used in extended reality applications (including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality) such as gaming, entertainment, education and medicine. However, these applications require a very high rate of compression and a great deal of computational resources. Compression efficiency and coding complexity are highly influenced by 360 projections used to map spherical frames to rectangular frames. To study the effect of this mapping process, in this paper, we evaluate the performance of various projections in 3D and multi-view 360-degree videos in terms of coding efficiency, quality and complexity. The evaluation is conducted for two coding scenarios: stereo coding scenario where the encoder considers the interview dependency for disparity estimation and simulcast coding scenario where two views are encoded separately. This performance evaluation approach provides valuable insights on using 360-degree projections in 3D and multi-view $coding$.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129946422","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 Analog Circuit Approach for Optimal Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations using Wide Area Control of Power Converters","authors":"P. Agnihotri, A. Kulkarni, A. Gole, A. Sinkar","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861865","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an electric circuit analogy approach to represent the electromechanical dynamics of a power transmission network using virtual passive elements. A participation factor analysis on this simplified circuit provides optimal location for the placement of HVDC or FACTS devices into the network. These devices can also be represented by appropriate passive elements (i.e., RLC) to introduce damping, synchronizing, and inertia effects in the system. The optimal damping can be easily determined using the analogous ‘maximum power theorem’ to obtain a value for the virtual resistance ‘R’ in the analog network. This value of R directly corresponds to the controller gain in the real network. A case study of three machine nine bus system is presented in this paper to show such applications. This control design procedure is not only simple and intuitive, but has beneficial effect on the system dynamics even with detailed models.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133810627","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":"Decoding Motor Imagery Movements using Area of 2-D Phase Space Reconstruction","authors":"Niraj Bagh, R. Machireddy, Fatemeh Shahlaei","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861798","url":null,"abstract":"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a common neurological disorder where voluntary muscle movements of the patient stop functioning and resulting paralyzed person. One of the solution of ALS is motor imagery (MI) based brain computer interface (BCI) which helps motor disabled patient to interact with the external world through their brain signal. But it has limited real-time applications due to its lower performance. The performance depends on feature extraction technique which extract relevant feature related to MI movements. The extraction of significant feature is challenging task in MI based BCI system. To improve the performance, this paper introduces an efficient feature extraction technique known as phase space reconstruction (PSR) for decoding various MI movements. First, filter bank technique was applied to MI signal and sets of sub-bands were generated. To study MI activities effectively, PSR was applied to each sub-band. The features (area of 2-D PSR pattern) of all sub-bands were combined and the significant features (p <0.05) were extracted using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The significant features were fed into multi-class support vector machine (SVM) for decoding MI movements. The proposed method and classifier were tested on BCI competition 2008 dataset-II-a. The performance of proposed method was based on Cohen’s kappa coefficient (K). The results show that the SVM improved mean kappa coefficient (K=0.60) and outperformed existing methods presented in the literature.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129696192","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 Simple and Secured Cryptography System of Cloud Computing","authors":"S. J. Islam, Zulfiker Haider Chaudhury, S. Islam","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861845","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing is a vast growing technology in the IT industries. Cloud Service Providers (CSP) are offering various suitable and flexible services to the users. Users of cloud computing are growing in an equal rhyme. As cloud computing is becoming an essential part of human life, users and CSP are noticing for suitable security feathers. Many researchers are working in the security aspects of cloud computing. In this paper, we present a suitable cryptography and secure authentication system for cloud computing. This procedure includes auto encryption and KEYs changing process in the cloud end. New generated KEYs will not be sent to users initially. Users will be checked in three steps for authentication. CSP can trigger encryption process at any time manually or it will be performed automatically after logged out by the users. This procedure will ensure extra security for data/files as well as prevent hackers from getting original files/data even they got valid credential. Proposed protocol is simulated by CloudSim and we observed that one more step needs for user’s credential, it required a bit of time to use data/files for only the first time. This bit of time is negligible and we can exclude it from consideration but security increase more and more.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132284647","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 Light and Secure Healthcare Blockchain for IoT Medical Devices","authors":"Gautam Srivastava, J. Crichigno, Shalini Dhar","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861593","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the incorporation of Blockchain technology in the security of Internet of Things(IoT) based on Remote Patient monitoring systems. The paper presents the benefits and also practical obstacles of blockchain-based security approaches in remote patient monitoring using IoT devices. Furthermore, the paper evaluates various potentially suitable cryptographic technologies for deployment in IoT.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130145204","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. Nassif, M. Dong, Sanjay Kumar, Graeme Vanderstar
{"title":"Managing Ferroresonance Overvoltages in Distribution Systems","authors":"A. Nassif, M. Dong, Sanjay Kumar, Graeme Vanderstar","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861797","url":null,"abstract":"Overvoltages resulting from ferroresonance have been a hurdle to utilities for several decades. Ferroresonance is frequently difficult to diagnose as its development and effects are often surprising. This paper presents qualitative and quantitative approaches, and a theoretical background on how ferroresonance develops, as well as a guideline on how to manage the extent of its effect. The paper also presents a case study experienced by a Canadian electric utility company. The goal is to aid utility staff by presenting its experience on how to understand and diagnose the phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":" 800","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113946991","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}
Jaime Cardenas, A. Khan, Li Chen, Zhichao Zhang, M. Khan
{"title":"A Radiation-Tolerant CML Voltage Controlled Oscillator in 28nm CMOS FDSOI","authors":"Jaime Cardenas, A. Khan, Li Chen, Zhichao Zhang, M. Khan","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861804","url":null,"abstract":"Ring oscillators have been one of the main choices for high-frequency electronic devices since this kind of oscillators are able to generate a wide tuning range. However, they present a high sensitivity to single event effects in radiation environments. As a hardening technique, an improved ring-oscillator based on the current mode logic was developed. In this circuit the delay of each stage of the oscillator and subsequently the oscillation frequency can be determined by the value of the passive elements (resistors and capacitors) rather than the properties of the active components, The design was designed and simulated in a 28 nm CMOS FDSOI technology, the simulation results reveal that an improvement in the sensitivity of the system to SEE is obtained without affecting the tuning range or increasing the phase noise, besides the increased switching speed and reduced leakage current by the advanced FDSOI technology.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114208859","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 Recognition from 2D Facial Expressions","authors":"Bilal Taha, D. Hatzinakos","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861751","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes an approach to find and learn informative representations from 2 dimensional gray-level images for facial expression recognition application. The learned features are obtained from a designed convolutional neural network (CNN). The developed CNN enables us to learn features from the images in a highly efficient manner by cascading different layers together. The developed model is computationally efficient since it does not consist of a huge number of layers and at the same time it takes into consideration the overfitting problem. The outcomes from the developed CNN are compared to handcrafted features that span texture and shape features. The experiments conducted on the Bosphours database show that the developed CNN model outperforms the handcrafted features when coupled with a Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifier.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116258311","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. Delshadpour, C. Speelman, Xu Zhang, R. Gupta, Leo Liu
{"title":"A 5.4 Gbps Type-C USB3.1/DP1.2 Combo Limiting ReDriver in 0.14 μm CMOS Technology","authors":"S. Delshadpour, C. Speelman, Xu Zhang, R. Gupta, Leo Liu","doi":"10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052407","url":null,"abstract":"Type-C cable and PCB traces have high-frequency losses due to skin effect and dielectric losses which results in Inter Symbol Interference, ISI, as the signal passes through cable and PCB traces. A limiting ReDriver which includes a continuous time equalizer, removes the ISI which results in a longer signal reach. A limiting ReDriver operating up to 5.4Gbps that supports signaling as specified in USB Type-C and VESA Display Port 1.2 and the USB3.1 specification is presented. It has programmable peaking gain up to 12 dB at 5.4 GHz with 1.5 dB steps to compensate for the channel loss and a programmable output swing control of 400 to 1100mVppd. This ReDriver achieves a cross-talk lower than -35 dB up to 5.4GHz. It has been implemented in 0.14 μm CMOS Technology and consumes 37.5 to 55.5mA per channel from a 1.8V supply, depending on output swing end pre-emphasis settings.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116296349","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":"Experimental Evaluation of Heating Water by Electromagnetic Induction","authors":"H. Sherwali, W. Dunford","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861887","url":null,"abstract":"Water heating is a common and important requirement in many industrial and domestic applications. In this work, the heating of water using electromagnetic induction is demonstrated in the laboratory through an experimental approach. In order to validate the experimental results, temperature measurements are compared to calculated values. Measured data shows very good agreement with the calculations indicating the feasibility of heating water using electromagnetic induction. This work also demonstrates a preliminary proof of concept that can be built upon to further develop the design of the induction heating system for large scale implementation.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114670208","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}