{"title":"Simple and effective techniques for core-region detection and slant correction in offline script recognition","authors":"A. Rehman, Dzulkifli Mohammad, G. Sulong, T. Saba","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478628","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two new preprocessing techniques for cursive script recognition. Enhanced algorithms for core-region detection and effective uniform slant angle estimation are proposed. Reference lines composed of core-region are usually obtained as the ones surrounding highest density peaks, but are strongly affected by the presence of long horizontal strokes and erratic characters in the word. Therefore, it caused confusion with the actual core-region and leads to decisive errors in normalizing the word. To overcome this problem in core-region detection quantile is introduced to make resulting process robust. On the other hand, research community has introduced computationally heavy approaches to remove slant in cursive script. Therefore, a simple formalized and effective method is presented for the detection and removal of slant angle for offline cursive handwritten words to avoid heavy experimental efforts. Additionally, already not-slanted words are not affected negatively by applying this algorithm. The core-region detection is based on statistical features, while slant angle estimation is based on structure features of the word image. The algorithms are tested on IAM benchmark database of cursive handwritten words. Promising results for core-region detection, slant angle estimation/removal are reported and compared with widely applied Bozinovic and Srihari method (BSM).","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131704462","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}
N.B.A. Mustafa, S. K. Ahmed, Z. Ali, W. B. Yit, A. Abidin, Z. Sharrif
{"title":"Agricultural produce Sorting and Grading using Support Vector Machines and Fuzzy Logic","authors":"N.B.A. Mustafa, S. K. Ahmed, Z. Ali, W. B. Yit, A. Abidin, Z. Sharrif","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478684","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture sector was accorded a very different treatment in the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) where this sector is being revitalized to become a part of the economic growth engine. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) application is going to be implemented as a solution in improving the status of the agriculture sector. The idea of integrating ICT with agriculture sector motivates the development of an automated system for sorting and grading of agriculture produce. Currently, the grading is done based on observations and through experience. The developed system starts the grading process by capturing the fruit's image using a regular digital camera or mobile phone camera. Then, the image is transmitted to the processing level where feature extraction, classification and grading is done using MATLAB. In this paper, the focus is more on agricultural produce Sorting and Grading technique. The agricultural produce is classified based on fruit shape and size using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and its grade is determined using Fuzzy Logic (FL) approach. The results obtained are very promising.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125743784","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. Zabidi, W. Mansor, L. Khuan, I. Yassin, R. Sahak
{"title":"Classification of infant cries with hypothyroidism using Multilayer Perceptron neural network","authors":"A. Zabidi, W. Mansor, L. Khuan, I. Yassin, R. Sahak","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478608","url":null,"abstract":"Hypothyroidism occurs in infants with insufficient production of hormones by the thyroid gland. The cry signals of babies with hypothyroidism have distinct patterns which can be recognized with pattern classifiers such as Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network. This study investigates the performance of the MLP in discriminating between healthy infants and infants suffering from hypothyroidism based on their cries. The infant cries were first divided into one second segments, and important features were extracted using Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) analysis. Two methods were then used to select which MFCC coefficients to be used as features for the MLP: direct selection or Fisher's Ratio analysis (F-ratio analysis). Their performances were compared with experimental results showing that MLP was able to accurately distinguish between the two cases. The classification performance of MLP trained with F-Ratio analysis is found to be better compared to direct selection method.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"143 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129458483","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. Chalamandaris, P. Tsiakoulis, S. Karabetsos, S. Raptis
{"title":"An efficient and robust pitch marking algorithm on the speech waveform for TD-PSOLA","authors":"A. Chalamandaris, P. Tsiakoulis, S. Karabetsos, S. Raptis","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478685","url":null,"abstract":"In a Text-to-Speech system based on time-domain techniques that employ pitch-synchronous manipulation of the speech waveforms, one of the most important issues that affect the output quality is the way the analysis points of the speech signal are estimated and the actual points, i.e. the analysis pitchmarks. In this paper we present our methodology for calculating the pitchmarks of a speech waveform, a pitchmark detection algorithm, which after thorough experimentation and in comparison with other algorithms, proves to behave better with our TD-PSOLA-based Text-to-Speech synthesizer (Time-Domain Pitch-Synchronous Overlap Add Text to Speech System).","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128800313","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}
Jun-Hyung Kim, Jong-Woo Han, Sung-Hyun Cheon, S. Baek, S. Ko
{"title":"A hybrid method for whole-frame error concealment","authors":"Jun-Hyung Kim, Jong-Woo Han, Sung-Hyun Cheon, S. Baek, S. Ko","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478687","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel hybrid method for whole-frame error concealment is proposed. The proposed method effectively combines results of various EC methods using the Kalman filter algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves PSNR performance with acceptable additional bits.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125467497","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 new approach for off-line handwritten Arabic word recognition using KNN classifier","authors":"J. AlKhateeb, F. Khelifi, Jianmin Jiang, S. Ipson","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478620","url":null,"abstract":"Due to similarities between Arabic letters, and the various writing styles employed, recognition of Arabic handwritten text can be difficult. In this paper, an off-line Arabic handwritten word recognition system is proposed, in which technical details are presented in terms of three stages, i.e. preprocessing, feature extraction and classification. Firstly, words are segmented from input scripts and also normalized in size. Secondly, each segmented word is divided into overlapping blocks. Absolute mean values computed for each block of segmented words constitutes a feature vector. Finally, the resulting feature vectors are used to classify the words using the K nearest Neighbour classifier (KNN). The proposed system has been successfully tested on the IFN/ENIT database consisting of 32492 Arabic handwritten words which are written by more than 1000 different writers. Experimental results show a good recognition rate when compared with other methods.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116522701","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":"Least square algorithm for sea surface salinity retrieving from MODIS satellite data","authors":"M. Marghany","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478707","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new approach for retrieving sea surface salinity (SSS) from MODIS satellite data. In doing so, the least squares method is used which is based on the hypothesis of linearity between visual bands and the real sea surface salinity. The study shows that offshore sea surface salinity tends to be homogenous with SSS value of 33.8 psu. Onshore SSS variation, however, has irregular pattern as compared with offshore SSS that is ranged between 28.5 and 29.5 psu. The results also show a good correlation between in situ SSS measurements and the SSS that is retrieved from MODIS satellite data with high r2 of 0.96. In conclusion, the least squares method can be used to provide a new algorithm for SSS retrieval from MODIS satellite data with RMS of bias value of ±0.37 psu.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132973313","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":"Sensing period considerations in fading environment for multimedia delivery in cognitive Ultra Wideband system","authors":"R. Rashid, N. Aripin, N. Fisal, S. Yusof","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478712","url":null,"abstract":"Spectrum scarcity and the inefficiency in its usage have necessitates the use of Cognitive Radio (CR) technology to exploit the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. Spectrum sensing is a critical component of CR as it is a fundamental requirement that a cognitive user (CU) continuously senses the channel before accessing it to avoid causing interference to the primary user (PU) and other radio systems. Due to its low transmit power, detection of PU in a fading environment for an Ultra Wideband (UWB) system is a key problem. This paper presents preliminary works in determining the appropriate sensing period for the cognitive UWB that support multimedia delivery. Firstly, the proposed cross-layer design for multimedia transmission is presented. Next, simulations of bit-error-rate (BER), packet-error-rate (PER) and job-failure-rate (JFR) were carried out to determine the optimal signal-to-ratio (SNR) range to meet the Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirement set for video application. Lastly, the performance of probability of detection against SNR is studied to estimate the appropriate time slot allocation for sensing scheduling.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"124 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122038912","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":"Analysis of capnography for asthmatic patient","authors":"Tan Teik Kean, M. Malarvili","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478699","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a total of 13 parameters were studied and automatically extracted to differentiate the asthmatic and non-asthmatic capnogram. From the results, slope ratio (SR) and the newly introduced Hjorth Parameters (HP2 - Mobility) are the best among the investigated parameters in differentiating the two groups. Results show that parameters that associate with the slope of the capnogram are good index in differentiating the asthmatic and non-asthmatic capnogram.","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"323 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123496761","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 model for retrieval sea surface current from different RADARSAT-1 SAR mode data","authors":"M. Marghany","doi":"10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA.2009.5478705","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the application of robust model to simulate sea surface current pattern. We have developed the horizontal surface velocity model which is estimated from the Doppler frequency theory to model out the sea surface current velocity. The robust model was applied to the RADARSAT-1 SAR satellite at three different modes (Wide-3, High extended-6 and Standard-2). The results of the study were validated using real time in situ current measurements that were acquired by AWAC equipment. It is found that the velocity and direction of the current changed through the period of the study according to the changing of Doppler frequency shift. Onshore sea surface current was modeled from Wide-3 mode varied between 0.22 to 0.25 m/s, while sea surface current velocities extracted from the Extended High-6 and Standard-2 modes were ranged between 0.16 to 0.53 m/s and 0.52 to 0.65 m/s, respectively. The RMS difference between the three RADARSAT-1 SAR images is 0.136, 0.364, and 0.485 in the Standard-2, Wide-3, and Extended High-6 mode, respectively. This shows that RADARSAT-1 Standard-2 mode is the best mode which can be used to simulate sea surface current patterns (velocity and direction).","PeriodicalId":400165,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134289364","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}