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{"title":"Non-Parametric Local Maxima and Minima Finder with Filtering Techniques for Bioprocess","authors":"K. K. L. B. Adikaram, M. Hussein, M. Effenberger, T. Becker","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.74018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.74018","url":null,"abstract":"Typically extrema filtration techniques are \u0000based on non-parametric properties such as magnitude of prominences and the \u0000widths at half prominence, which cannot be used with data that possess a \u0000dynamic nature. In this work, an extrema identification that is totally \u0000independent of derivative-based approaches and independent of quantitative \u0000attributes is introduced. For three consecutive positive terms arranged in a \u0000line, the ratio (R) of the sum of the maximum and minimum to the sum of the three \u0000terms is always 2/n, where n is the number of terms and 2/3 ≤ R ≤ 1 when n = 3. \u0000R > 2/3 implies that one term is away from the other two terms. Applying \u0000suitable modifications for the above stated hypothesis, the method was \u0000developed and the method is capable of identifying peaks and valleys in any \u0000signal. Furthermore, three techniques were developed for filtering \u0000non-dominating, sharp, gradual, low and high extrema. Especially, all the \u0000developed methods are non-parametric and suitable for analyzing processes that \u0000have dynamic nature such as biogas data. The methods were evaluated using \u0000automatically collected biogas data. Results showed that the extrema \u0000identification method was capable of identifying local extrema with 0% error. \u0000Furthermore, the non-parametric filtering techniques were able to distinguish \u0000dominating, flat, sharp, high, and low extrema in the biogas data with high \u0000robustness.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"566 1","pages":"192-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78047324","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 Improved Characterization of Small Scale Fading Based on 2D Measurements and Modeling of a Moving Receiver in an Indoor Environment","authors":"Redhwan Mawari, A. H. Henderson, Muhammad B. Akbar, G. Durgin, M. Zohdy","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.73016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.73016","url":null,"abstract":"Accurately characterizing the wireless \u0000small-scale fading channel has been a challenging task in the wireless \u0000communication era due to the surrounding environment. Therefore, this paper \u0000introduces a new technique to experimentally characterize the small-scale \u0000fading taking under consideration real environmental conditions. By conducting \u0000a two dimensional measurement while the mobile receiver is moving; a more \u0000accurate channel will be achieved. Two-dimensional measurement refers to \u0000collecting data from the receiver along the x and y direction. The two-dimensional \u0000measurement data contain far more information than a one-dimensional data \u0000collected. In order to represent the small-scale channel along with the real \u0000environmental conditions, new approaches are necessary to configure the \u0000two-dimensional system and to analyze the 2D data. The new approach this paper \u0000introduces for the characterization is that the measurements are conducted on a \u0000receiver while it is moving in a two dimensional manner, under different \u0000scenarios, Line-of-sight, Non-line-of-sight, and Two-wave-Diffuse Power. The \u0000experiment was conducted in a 7 meters long by 4 meters wide room, wherein the \u0000distance between the transmitter antenna and receiver is about 3 meters. Those \u0000scenarios represent different real-time conditions where obstacles differ from \u0000one scenario to another. For example, the line of sight scenario assumes there \u0000a clear line of sight between transmitter and receiver, Non line of sight \u0000assumes many obstacles between the transmitter and receiver, i.e. walls, \u0000cabinets, etc. and Two Wave Diffuse Power assumes a metallic reflector \u0000surrounding the receiver. The experiment showed more accurate results when \u0000compared to the one dimensional measurement that has been done in the past where \u0000receiver is moving in one direction and also receiver being fixed where a \u0000constructive and destructive interference is not captured. The two dimensional \u0000measurement technique, i.e. capturing data while receiver moving in both x and \u0000y directions, provided essential information regarding the constructive and \u0000destructive interference patterns caused by the interaction between the \u0000receiver while moving and the obstacles surrounding the receiver.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"160-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79756978","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":"The Potential for Excess Correlation (Entanglement) between Flow States in Pairs of Gamers Sharing Specific Circumcerebral Rotating Magnetic Fields","authors":"Brendan Lehman, M. Persinger","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.73012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.73012","url":null,"abstract":"Excess correlation between the activity or \u0000properties of two particles separated by non-local distances has been \u0000demonstrated for photons, shifts in relative proton and hydroxyl ratios in \u0000spring water, and the distribution of values from random number generators if \u0000both loci shared a specific type of rotational magnetic field. Previous \u0000experiments had shown that specific responses from pairs of people who shared \u0000circumcerebral magnetic fields with changing angular velocities revealed \u0000significant excess correlation. The most significant differences occurred \u0000during the component of the field exposure that has previously been associated \u0000with “excess correlation”. In the present experiments, we found evidence of \u0000excess correlation of performance (serial in-game scores) occurred between \u0000pairs (separated by 10 m) of experienced gamers during the relative measures \u0000for the central portion of the protocol but was diminished when the “excess \u0000correlation” electromagnetic fields were activated, suggesting a similar competing \u0000mechanism. The results are consistent with the interpretation that shared video \u0000systems and activities may enhance excess correlation of responses. This can be \u0000simulated in novice players by experimentally inducing excess correlation \u0000through appropriate application of changing, circumcerebral angular velocity \u0000magnetic fields that were similar in magnitude to those associated with \u0000computer systems and time frames that define human consciousness.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"11 1","pages":"115-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86992510","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":"Comparison of Three Techniques to Identify and Count Individual Animals in Aerial Imagery","authors":"P. Terletzky, R. D. Ramsey","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.73013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.73013","url":null,"abstract":"Whether a species is rare and requires \u0000protection or is overabundant and needs control, an accurate estimate of \u0000population size is essential for the development of conservation plans and management \u0000goals. Current wildlife surveys are logistically difficult, frequently biased, \u0000and time consuming. Therefore, there is a need to provide additional techniques \u0000to improve survey methods for censusing wildlife species. We examined three \u0000methods to enumerate animals in remotely sensed aerial imagery: manual photo \u0000interpretation, an unsupervised classification, and multi- image, multi-step \u0000technique. We compared the performance of the three techniques based on the \u0000probability of correctly detecting animals, the probability of under-counting \u0000animals (false positives), and the probability of over-counting animals (false \u0000negatives). Manual photo-interpretation had a high probability of detecting an \u0000animal (81% ± 24%), the lowest probability of over-counting an animal (8% ± \u000016%), and a relatively low probability of under-counting an animal (19% ± 24%). \u0000An unsupervised, ISODATA classification with subtraction of a background image \u0000had the highest probability of detecting an animal (82% ± 10%), a high \u0000probability of over-counting an animal (69% ± 27%) but a low probability of \u0000under-counting an animal (18% ± 18%). The multi-image, multi-step procedure \u0000incorporated more information, but had the lowest probability of detecting an \u0000animal (50% ± 26%), the highest probability of over-counting an animal (72% ± \u000026%), and the highest probability of under-counting an animal (50% ± 26%). \u0000Manual interpreters better discriminated between animal and non-animal features \u0000and had fewer over-counting errors (i.e., false positives) than either the \u0000unsupervised classification or the multi-image, multi-step techniques \u0000indicating that benefits of automation need to be weighed against potential \u0000losses in accuracy. Identification and counting of animals in remotely sensed \u0000imagery could provide wildlife managers with a tool to improve population \u0000estimates and aid in enumerating animals across large natural systems.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"9 1","pages":"123-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87262600","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":"Simultaneous Children Recognition and Tracking for Childcare Assisting System by Using Kinect Sensors","authors":"Bin Zhang, Tomoaki Nakamura, Rena Ushiogi, T. Nagai, Kasumi Abe, T. Omori, N. Oka, M. Kaneko","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.73015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.73015","url":null,"abstract":"Developing a childcare assisting system is highly necessary due to the lack of nursery teachers, and it will make an important progress on effective utilization of nursery teacher resources. In this paper, we proposed simultaneous children recognition and tracking system by using Kinect sensors for the childcare assisting system to provide information for the nursery teachers. Each of the children is recognized by integrating his/her personal information of color, face and motion. The tracking problem is modeled as finding the MAP solution of a posterior probability, and is solved by using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) particle filter. Our system can recognize and robustly track each child during class activities. Trajectories, motion ranges and relative distances information can be provided for the nursery teachers to assist their childcare work. The effectiveness of our system is proved through continuous monitoring of the children in a nursery school.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"4 1","pages":"148-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86703635","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":"Identifying Factors Which Contribute to the Magnitude of Excess Correlations between Magnetic Field-Paired Volumes of Water","authors":"Nicolas Rouleau, Trevor N. Carniello, M. Persinger","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.73014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.73014","url":null,"abstract":"Excess correlations, one of the \u0000quantitative demonstrations of “entanglement”, have been experimentally \u0000demonstrated as spontaneous shifts in photon properties and molecular \u0000interactions. The magnitudes of the excess correlations have been enhanced \u0000experimentally for photon emissions and proton densities in aqueous solutions \u0000when the loci containing these physical chemical reactions shared circular \u0000magnetic fields whose angular velocities were always changing. In the present \u0000experiment, quantities of spring water each placed in one of two loci (local or \u0000non-local) separated by 100 or 10,000 m were exposed simultaneously to toroidal \u0000magnetic fields within a paradigm that has been shown to produce conspicuous \u0000excess correlations in shifts of photon emissions, pH in spring water, and \u0000human brain activity as inferred by electroencephalography. The non-local area \u0000that was not injected with proton donors displayed a reliable shift in pH when \u0000the local area was serially injected with small aliquots of protons but only \u0000during the presentations of the field parameters known to produce \u0000“entanglement”. The effect was most obvious when the global geomagnetic \u0000activity was less than Kp < 3. The probability is high that convergent similarities \u0000in the magnitudes of the local geomagnetic intensities of the two loci enhance \u0000the strength of the excess correlations. These results suggest that a minimal \u0000energy and inexpensive system, not involving classical electromagnetic \u0000transmission through a medium, but influenced by the global geomagnetic field \u0000activity, could be employed to generalize and superpose information between two \u0000non-local spaces.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"106 1","pages":"136-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77687974","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":"Shearlet Based Video Fingerprint for Content-Based Copy Detection","authors":"Fang Yuan, L. Po, Mengyang Liu, Xuyuan Xu, Weihua Jian, K. Wong, Kei-Wai Cheung","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.72010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.72010","url":null,"abstract":"Content-based copy detection (CBCD) is widely used in copyright control for protecting unauthorized use of digital video and its key issue is to extract robust fingerprint against different attacked versions of the same video. In this paper, the “natural parts” (coarse scales) of the Shearlet coefficients are used to generate robust video fingerprints for content-based video copy detection applications. The proposed Shearlet-based video fingerprint (SBVF) is constructed by the Shearlet coefficients in Scale 1 (lowest coarse scale) for revealing the spatial features and Scale 2 (second lowest coarse scale) for revealing the directional features. To achieve spatiotemporal natural, the proposed SBVF is applied to Temporal Informative Representative Image (TIRI) of the video sequences for final fingerprints generation. A TIRI-SBVF based CBCD system is constructed with use of Invert Index File (IIF) hash searching approach for performance evaluation and comparison using TRECVID 2010 dataset. Common attacks are imposed in the queries such as luminance attacks (luminance change, salt and pepper noise, Gaussian noise, text insertion); geometry attacks (letter box and rotation); and temporal attacks (dropping frame, time shifting). The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed TIRI-SBVF fingerprinting algorithm is robust on CBCD applications on most of the attacks. It can achieve an average F1 score of about 0.99, less than 0.01% of false positive rate (FPR) and 97% accuracy of localization.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"84-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78588552","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":"Unbiased Estimations of Atmosphere Vortices: The Saturn's Storm by Cassini VIMS-V as Case Study","authors":"M. Moriconi, A. Adriani, E. D’aversa, G. Liberti, G. Filacchione, F. Oliva","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.72009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.72009","url":null,"abstract":"The size determination of dynamical \u0000structures from spectral images poses the question where to fix the shape’s \u0000boundary. Here, we propose a method, suitable for nearly elliptical shape, \u0000based on the fit of a 2D Gaussian to the pixel intensities of the spectral \u0000image. This method has been tested on a vortex structure embedded in the wake \u0000of the 2010 Saturn’s giant storm. On January 4th 2012, the Visual and Infrared \u0000Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), onboard Cassini, observed a giant vortex in the \u0000Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The structure was embedded in the wake storm \u0000system detected on December 2010 by Fletcher et al. [1]. Therefore, all the \u0000VIMS observations focused on the Saturn’s storm have been analyzed to \u0000investigate its morphology and development. VIMS detected the vortex from May \u00002011up to January 2012. The evolution of shape and size has been determined for \u0000the vortex cloud top, visible at 890 nm. The largest size resulted 4000 km \u0000about and seemed to shrinks continuously up to January 2012, while the shape \u0000varied in the second half of the year. The vortex oscillated in 2 degrees \u0000latitude around 37°N planetocentric latitude, and drifted in longitude by ~0.75 \u0000deg/day in westward direction.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"75 1","pages":"75-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83836999","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 Optimal H∞ Control for Uncertain 2-D Discrete State-Delayed Systems Described by the General Model","authors":"A. Singh, Amit Dhawan","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.72011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.72011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the problem of \u0000robust optimal H∞ control for uncertain two-dimensional (2-D) discrete \u0000state-delayed systems described by the general model (GM) with norm-bounded \u0000uncertainties. A sufficient condition for the existence of g-suboptimal \u0000robust H∞ state feedback controllers is established, based on \u0000linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. Moreover, a convex optimization \u0000problem is developed to design a robust optimal state feedback controller which \u0000minimizes the H∞ noise attenuation level of the resulting closed-loop \u0000system. Finally, two illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the \u0000effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"78-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81403043","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":"Second-Order Kalman Filtering Application to Fading Channels Supported by Real Data","authors":"Azra Kapetanovic, Redhwan Mawari, M. Zohdy","doi":"10.4236/JSIP.2016.72008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JSIP.2016.72008","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of effective techniques for estimation of shadow power in fading mobile wireless communication channels motivated the use of Kalman Filtering as an effective alternative. In this paper, linear second-order state space Kalman Filtering is further investigated and tested for applicability. This is important to optimize estimates of received power signals to improve control of handoffs. Simulation models were used extensively in the initial stage of this research to validate the proposed theory. Recently, we managed to further confirm validation of the concept through experiments supported by data from real scenarios. Our results have shown that the linear second-order state space Kalman Filter (KF) can be more accurate in predicting local shadow power profiles than the first-order Kalman Filter, even in channels with imposed non-Gaussian measurement noise.","PeriodicalId":38474,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing","volume":"98 1","pages":"61-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86284919","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}