2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)最新文献

{"title":"An improved dynamic daltonization for color-blinds","authors":"Anika Tasnim, M. S. Hasan","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289076","url":null,"abstract":"Color-blindness is an inherited condition which leads to the sufferer not being able to distinguish between certain colors. One of the most widely used algorithms for enhancing a color-blind's color perception of images is Daltonization. Non-iterative Daltonization leaves the possibility of modifying imperceptible colors into colors that already exist in an image. Iterative Daltonization method provides better results by overcoming this problem. This paper presents a new iterative Daltonization method for protanopes which uses hue to ensure imperceptible colors are not modified into colors similar to existing perceptible ones. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms similar existing methods.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126401324","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":"Implementing and testing an ultrasonic sensor based mobility aid for a visually impaired person","authors":"Ebad Zahir, Md. Shakawat Hossain, Md. Waseem Iqbal, Ishika Jalil, Sheikh Mehzabin Kabir","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288997","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the findings of a student project that is aimed at helping to improve the quality of life for visually impaired people with an innovative and affordable solution. The project goal was to implement a cost effective prototype of a light, wearable head mounted device with sensors for aiding the mobility of visually impaired people in Bangladesh. The prototype consists of ultrasonic sensors powered by a rechargeable battery and an Arduino processor to control signals in the presence of obstacles. The sensors and Arduino were implemented on a Virtual Reality Box which was worn by a visually impaired person to detect obstacles along the path. The detection was conveyed with vibrations from a motor to caution the person of nearby obstacles. The prototype was successfully implemented and tested for variable parameters of consequence such as range and optimum response time.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114990414","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 single finger movement detection scheme for real time wheelchair control by physically challenged people","authors":"Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury, Rakib Hyder, Celia Shahanaz, S. Fattah","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289071","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of human-computer interfaces that rely on user gestures, there exists a real opportunity to develop systems to ease the lives of disabled as well as normal people. Driving the wheelchair by hand may not be feasible for a physically challenged person with limited hand movement and as an alternate, simple finger movement based control system can assist them a great deal. In this paper, a robust scheme of finger movement detection is proposed for the direction control of a wheelchair. In order to obtain the fingertip location, a finger movement detection scheme is developed based on background subtraction and some morphological operations, where computationally expensive classifiers with trainers are avoided. The proposed method is capable of identifying finger movement in real time from images captured even by a very low resolution off-the-shelf cell phone camera. The control operation between the cell-phone and wheelchair is carried out wirelessly with the help of bluetooth technology. It is found that the proposed method is suitable under varying light intensity and noise conditions. Extensive analyses of various effects, such as shade, camera position, and speed of finger movement have been performed and a very high level of accuracy with low computational cost in terms of real-time precise direction control is achieved. The proposed approach could have significant impact by providing means to the physically challenged section in the society to become self-reliant as well as contribute for the overall development and turn themselves into a strength of the society.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127364605","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 issues and the possible solutions for implementing self-driving cars in bangladesh","authors":"Md. Saef Ullah Miah, Mohammad Faisal Bin Ahmed, Md. Muneef Anjum Timu, Shakura Akter, Md. Jubayer Sarker","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288950","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study is to find the issues and suggest possible solutions regarding the implementation of Self-driving cars on Bangladeshi roads. A Self-driving car is fairly in its infancy today, but once implemented this can revolutionize our traffic management and transport system. This paper addresses some of the hurdles the technology might face in the country and offers a few measures that can be taken to overcome the downsides.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125830557","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":"Brain-drive: A smart driver for controlling digital appliances using cognitive command","authors":"R. Chowdhury, Arafat Kabir Sun, Azwad Tamir, C. Shahnaz, S. Fattah","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289087","url":null,"abstract":"For the disabled and handicapped, the world of brain-computer interface has opened a new horizon to lead an unassisted and least supervised life. But the use of prosthetic limbs and artificial organs are still not commercially available in most of the countries. Recently developed some other brainwave based systems are mostly expensive, immobile or task specific. In order to overcome these problems, analogous to the pen-drive, we have focused on developing a low cost control unit namely “Brain-drive” which transforms ones thoughts into output digital electric signal. Certain thoughts (mental tasks) with hard eye blinking (neural driven physical outcome) develops certain action potential, no matter the eye blinking is visible or not, it creates a significant change in electroencephalogram (EEG) or brain signal. Single channel EEG signal is collected from frontal lobe as it plays a vital role in voluntary movement using a wearable Mindwave Mobile from Neurosky. The EEG data thus recorded is preprocessed to reduce the effect of noise and artifacts and then analyzed in time domain. A grid of cells are displayed on a monitor in front of the subject, which is connected to individual digital output pin onboard an embedded system. To select a cell, a user just needs to look and generate a sustainable eye blink which can easily be identified from the raw value of brainwave. Since eye blinking can be both conscious and involuntary, automatic periodic eye blink of very low frequency oscillation is removed to avoid unwanted selection of command. Unlike webcam based eye blink detector, Brain-Drive captures the signal for blink rather than the visual output of blinking. The system can be trained for person specific customized performance, considering special needs of a disabled or handicapped people who cannot communicate with the outside world using voice, motion or other methods. With the help of cognitive command, the ‘Brain-Drive’ can be used to control wheelchair, home appliances and even industrial machines.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125402550","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 implementation of a cyber-vigilance system for anti-terrorist drives based on an unmanned aerial vehicular networking signal jammer for specific territorial security","authors":"D. Chowdhury, M. Sarkar, M. Z. Haider, S. Fattah, C. Shahnaz","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288995","url":null,"abstract":"During sudden anti-terrorist drives conducted by the security personnel and law enforcement units in a certain region, a localized cyber security system happens to be a special tactic to avert the unprecedented massacre and gruesome fatalities against the residents of that area by disconnecting the affected territory from the rest of the world; so that the militants and their outside accomplices cannot communicate with each other and also the terrorists cannot go through the ongoing apprehensive operation via Internet or Mobile communication. This paper presents a novel framework of an unmanned aerial vehicular networking signal jammer which is oriented to block incoming and outgoing signals of all frequencies transmitted from a specifically marginalized territory scanned and explored by the aerial vehicle. During such a cyber-vigilance operation, the aerial vehicle is equipped with a transmitter and an auto-tuning band-pass filter module with automatic regulation of center frequencies according to the surrounding networking signals, which are considered to be the suppressing noise parameters. In order to restrict the signal blocking operation within the militant hub, the aerial vehicle with the network terminator is controlled to navigate within a particular boundary of a residential area and its navigation is continuously mapped and stored for effective evacuation process directed to save the innocent stranded people. The implemented system is tested in certain practical arenas with particular dimensions for assessing the aerial exploration of the vehicle. The test arenas are provided with signals of different frequencies along with variation in dimensions of the testing environment to affirm the reliability and sustainability of the aerial vehicular auto-tuning signal jammer.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122784487","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":"Power file extraction process from bangladesh grid and exploring ENF based classification accuracy using machine learning","authors":"Samin Yeasar Arnob, Riyasat Ohib, Md. Muhtady Muhaisin, Tanzil Bin Hassan","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288911","url":null,"abstract":"The Electric Network Frequency (ENF) is the supply frequency of power distribution networks, which can be captured by multimedia signals recorded near electrical activities. It normally fluctuates slightly over time from its nominal value of 50 Hz/60 Hz. The ENF remain consistent across the entire power grid. This has led to the emergence of multiple forensic application like estimating the recording location and validating the time of recording. Recently an ENF based Machine Learning system was proposed which infers that the region of recording can be identified using ENF signal extracted from the recorded multimedia signal, with the help of relevant features. As supervised learning process requires ground truth to train classifier for identifying future unknown data, in this work-we report Power Recording data extraction process from the National Grid of Bangladesh. Furthermore, we used ENF data — derived from Power Recordings, to compare grids around the world and found out classification accuracy of Bangladesh National Grid. ENF derivation process from Power Recording data and set of features, which serve as identifying characteristics for detecting the region of origin of the multimedia recording are followed from published work. We used those characteristics in a multiclass Machine Learning implementation based on MATLAB which is able to identify the grid of the recorded signal.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129504764","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":"Feasibility analysis of solar powered base stations for sustainable heterogeneous networks","authors":"Abu Jahid, Md. Sanwar Hossain","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289051","url":null,"abstract":"The unprecedented growth in the number of user terminals and the ubiquitous availability of internet access, cellular networks worldwide are deploying a higher number of base stations in their infrastructure leading to a massive inflation in energy consumption. Renewable energy harvesting (EH) technology is expected to pervasively attractive solution in the modern Long-term Evolution (LTE) cellular networks to reduce operational expenditures (OPEX) and carbon footprints. This paper investigates the feasibility of solar energy solutions for heterogeneous networks (HetNet) with guaranteed sustainability and reliability. The scaling of power consumption of LTE base stations (BSs) in accordance with traffic pattern variations is considered to be an effective method of improving energy efficiency (EE). The objective is to dimensioning the optimal solar powered cellular architecture and minimizations the overall expenditures over a period of 10 years accounting the temporal variation of traffic intensity. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed cellular system in terms of reduction of energy consumption and net present cost while maintaining the quality of service (QoS).","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"62 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129547987","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":"Representation of shapes using connected pattern array grammar model","authors":"G Vishnu Murthy, C Pavan Kumar, V. V. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8289081","url":null,"abstract":"From any image, the objects are recognized using patterns (or connected patterns). The ability to efficiently describe image patterns is of fundamental importance. Array Grammar models can be employed in generating patterns on a two — dimensional (2D) plane. Study of patterns generated by such grammar models form an important step in characterization and classification of images. Also, it is difficult to represent all connected patterns by proposing a model or pictorial representation. Basically a connected pattern of any neighborhood represents a shape. In this paper, we proposed a Connected Pattern Array Grammar (CPAG) model, a new model of array grammar capable of generating connected patterns. Generation of connected pattern on a 3 × 3 image neighborhood on a 2D plane is discussed as an example to demonstrate the capability of the proposed CPAG grammar model.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129812384","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":"Hexagonal boron cluster as an anode material for divalent-ion (Ca2+) storage: A theoretical study","authors":"S. M. Hasan, Milon, Md. Rakib Hossain, Md. Kamal Hossain, F. Ahmed, Md. Abul Hossain","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288948","url":null,"abstract":"There has been always a persistent search for creating cheaper and efficient energy storage devices. After its discovery Li+ ion storage device has become the most preferred choice due to its high energy density. However, an ion storage device that can use Ca²+ ions instead of Li+ ions, will be much cheaper owing to the higher abundance of calcium. Realizing the need for developing novel ion storage devices, present study aims to investigate hexagonal boron (B<inf>6</inf>) cluster's ability to store divalent Ca²⁺ ions. The calculated values of adsorption energies show that Ca²+ ions are well adsorbed in B<inf>6</inf> cluster and it reaches the maximum storage capacity when two ions are adsorbed into it with bi-pyramidal shape. We have used density functional theory (DFT) for our investigations. Both CaB<inf>6</inf> and Ca<inf>2</inf>B<inf>6</inf> have high specific capacities, with theoretical values 826 mAh/g and 1653 mAh/g respectively. Open circuit voltages (OCV) of the CaB<inf>6</inf> and Ca<inf>2</inf>B<inf>6</inf> are found to be 3.755 V and 2.993 V respectively.","PeriodicalId":411099,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128578578","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}