S. Shah, Kunal Khatri, Purva Mhasakar, R. Nagar, S. Raman
{"title":"Unsupervised GIST based Clustering for Object Localization","authors":"S. Shah, Kunal Khatri, Purva Mhasakar, R. Nagar, S. Raman","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732251","url":null,"abstract":"In the past years, there have been several attempts for the task of object localization in an image. However, most of the algorithms for object localization have been either supervised or weakly supervised. The work presented in this paper is based on the localization of a single object instance, in an image, in a fully unsupervised manner. Initially, from the input image, object proposals are generated where the proposal score for each of these proposals is calculated using a saliency map. Next, a graph by the GIST feature similarity between each pair of proposals is constructed. Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is used to make clusters of proposals based on GIST similarity, which eventually helps us in the final localization of the object. The setup is evaluated on two challenging benchmark datasets - PASCAL VOC 2007 dataset and object discovery dataset. The performance of the proposed approach is observed to be comparable with various state-of-the-art weakly supervised and unsupervised approaches for the problem of localization of an object.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88322176","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":"Edge Preserved Herringbone Artifact Removal from MRI Using Two-Stage Variational Mode Decomposition","authors":"Divya Pankaj, D. Govind, K. Narayanankutty","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732256","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an efficient and non-invasive method for analyzing the structural features and functional behaviors of internal organs and tissues for medical diagnosis. The artifacts present in MRI mislead the diagnostic procedure. Herringbone artifact is a hardware artifact generated from the outlier in k-space measurement. In realtime MRI, the herringbone artifact has non-stationary noise characteristics. The non-stationary noise characteristics affect the high-frequency characteristics which in turn results in an improper estimation of structural details of the image in the processing stage. The objective of the present work is to exploit the properties of the variational mode decomposition (VMD) in reducing the effective herringbone noise at selected spectral regions (high-frequency regions in particular) of the given MRI data. In the present work, the given herringbone artifact affected image is subjected to VMD in two stages. The reconstructed image by removing the higher frequency VMD modes in two-stages found to enhance the noisy MRI data. In the second stage of processing, the discarded higher frequency VMD mode in the first stage is further decomposed into component modes in order to preserve the high-frequency details. The enhanced image is later reconstructed by adding low-frequency modes obtained in both decomposition stages. The effectiveness of the proposed two-stage VMD based enhancement is confirmed from the improved scores obtained from the non-reference quality measures such as Blind Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluator (BRISQUE) and Naturalness Image Quality Evaluator (NIQE).","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"190 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83878527","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":"Performance Analysis of Wireless Powered Decode-and-Forward Relay System","authors":"Pawan Kumar, Kalpana Dhaka","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732244","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a two-hop decode-and-forward relay system with wireless powered source node. Source and destination are in the coverage range of the relay and direct link connecting them is assumed to be blocked. The signal transmitted by the relay node is used to harvest energy at the source and forward data to the destination in even time slot. In the following odd slot the energy harvested at source is used to communicate data to relay node. The cycle continues and the source data is communicated to the blocked destination node. The average symbol error rate (SER) of the system is analyzed for Rayleigh faded links when data is i) $M$-ary phase-shift keying modulated with coherent detection and ii) orthogonal $M$-ary frequency-shift keying modulated with non-coherent detection. The high signal-to-noise ratio approximations of the average SER are also obtained to investigate the effects of modulation order and relay placement on the system's performance.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"PP 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84362703","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. Kadam, A. Deshmukh, S. Deshmukh, Akshay Doshi, K. P. Ray
{"title":"Slit Loaded Circular Ultra Wideband Antenna for Band Notch Characteristics","authors":"A. Kadam, A. Deshmukh, S. Deshmukh, Akshay Doshi, K. P. Ray","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed a planar, low cost, simple, and compact printed microstrip-fed circular monopole ultrawideband antennas with band-notched characteristics. By introducing pair of open slits and varying angular separation between slits on the circular patch the band notched characteristics can be obtained. The proposed antennas are successfully simulated, designed, fabricated on FR-4 substrate. The measured results show that the proposed antenna with dimensions of $pmb{65mathrm{mm}times 65mathrm{ mm} times 1.6mathrm{mm}}$ has a bandwidth over the frequency band 2.00-10.6 GHz with $mathbf{VSWR} pmb{leq 2}$, except 2.5-3.95GHz with circular antenna having pair of slits. The presented antennas shows nearly omnidirectional radiation pattern, stable gain, small group delay variation at working frequencies. Satisfactory results have been obtained in frequency and time-domain analysis of the proposed structure.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80566045","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":"On the Optimality of Simple Han-Kobayashi Schemes for Gaussian Interference Channels","authors":"Ragini Chaluvadi, S. Bhashyam","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732233","url":null,"abstract":"The Generalized Degrees of Freedom (GDoF) region of the 2-user Gaussian Interference Channel (GIC) was derived by Etkin, Tse and Wang. This GDoF region is achieved using the class of Han-Kobayashi (HK) schemes. For $K$-user GICs with $K > 2$, the GDoF region is not known completely. For the $K$-user GIC, Geng et al. derived the channel conditions under which Gaussian signalling and Treating Interference as Noise (TIN) is GDoF optimal. The TIN scheme also belongs to the class of HK schemes. In this paper, we derive conditions under which Simple HK (S-HK) schemes are GDoF optimal for general $K$-user GICs. Simple HK schemes are HK schemes with Gaussian signalling, no time sharing, and no private-common power splitting. The class of simple HK schemes includes the TIN scheme and schemes that involve various levels of interference decoding and cancellation at each receiver.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78556665","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":"Performance Evaluation of Visible Light Communication for DCO and ACO Optical OFDM Techniques","authors":"Mahendra P. S. Bhadoria, G. Pandey, A. Dixit","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732220","url":null,"abstract":"Visible light communication (VLC) has evolved as a relatively new research topic that employs white light-emitting diodes for data transmission. The basic requirement for optical transmission is that signal should be real and positive. Among the various developed modulation techniques for VLC, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has drawn major consideration because of its high data rate and heftiness to inter-symbol interference (ISI), but it suffers from the problem of high peak to average power ratio (PAPR), causing signal distortion thereby effecting the system efficiency. In this paper, asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) and direct current biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) for VLC have been investigated by evaluating its bit error rate (BER) and PAPR performance. The effect of the uncorrelated noise due to dual-sided clipping of the signal, modulation order and number of subcarriers on the symbol distortion is also studied. Study on selection of optimum clipping levels is done to reduce the PAPR for both the schemes. Simulation analysis implies that ACO-OFDM is better than DCO-OFDM by around 4.5 dB for a BER of $pmb{1times 10^{-3}}$ and by about 2 dB for a PAPR complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of $pmb{1times 10^{-1}}$.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"190 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76948630","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 weighted optimization for Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy","authors":"Parimala Kancharla, Sumohana S. Channappayya","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732227","url":null,"abstract":"Fourier ptychography can be implemented as a phase retrieval optimization algorithm that iteratively solves for high resolution spectrum from low resolution images. In prior art, all the low resolution images were considered equally in the optimization. In this paper, we propose a weighted optimization algorithm to enhance the quality of reconstruction with the same convergence speed. Our method is motivated by the observation that bright field and dark field low resolution images have significantly different pixel intensities. Therefore, we weight their estimated error differently in the optimization. Though the proposed method is both conceptually and computationally simple, it dramatically improves the quality of reconstruction. We also show that the weighted optimization algorithm converges to a lower mean squared error value compared to the conventional optimization. We validate our approach on several low resolution images from an experimental dataset.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"145 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77574038","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}
D. Govind, S. Priya, S. Akarsh, B. G. Gowri, K. Soman
{"title":"Improved Epoch Extraction From Speech Signals Using Wavelet Synchrosqueezed Transform","authors":"D. Govind, S. Priya, S. Akarsh, B. G. Gowri, K. Soman","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732259","url":null,"abstract":"Synchrosqueezed wavelet transform (WSST) is an effective tool in tracking instantaneous frequency of a given signal. The objective of the present work is to propose a WSST based method for accurate epoch estimation from speech. Epochs in speech represent the instants where the excitation to the vocaltract is maximum and instantaneous $F_{0}$ contour is derived from epoch locations. The proposed hypothesis in this paper is that the signal reconstructed by discarding higher frequency modes (above the mean $F_{0}$) in the WSST transformed time frequency domain observed to predominantly represent source characteristics. The presence of the source characteristics in the modified WSST reconstructed signal is validated by the improved identification accuracy obtained for the epochs estimated from clean speech utterances of CMU-Arctic database. To further demonstrate the effectiveness of the WSST in improving the overall epoch estimation performance, a WSST modified zero frequency filtering (ZFF) of speech, which is one of the simple and effective tools for epoch extraction, is proposed. The sharp instantaneous frequency representation by WSST also found to be effective in estimating epochs emotion utterances where rapid pitch variations are present. The improved epoch estimation performance from emotive utterances are confirmed by validating on the German emotion speech corpus(EmoDb).","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"57 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78116893","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 and Resonant Length Formulation of Dual Band Microstrip Antenna with Modified Ground","authors":"P. Kadam, S. Deshmukh, A. Deshmukh, Akshay Doshi","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732195","url":null,"abstract":"A dual band microstrip antenna with defected ground plane is proposed in this paper. The dual bands are achieved by appropriately embedding pair of slots on the ground plane to tune TM30 mode resonant frequency. These slots essentially reduces $mathbf{TM}_{pmb{30}}$ mode frequency and places it closer to fundamental mode frequency. Broadside radiation pattern is observed at both the frequencies with maximum gain of nearly 3 dBi. The effect of the ground slot is studied and are portrayed by showing resonance plot for variation in the slot length. Empirical formulation of resonant length for fundamental as well as higher order $mathbf{TM}_{pmb{30}}$ mode frequency is suggested in the paper. The calculated frequencies obtained using the proposed formula closely matches with the simulated values. Thus these formulas can be applied to design dual band antenna with similar configuration at any given operating frequency.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73285006","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. Hiremath, Sambit Behura, Subham Kedia, Siddharth Deshmukh, S. K. Patra
{"title":"Deep Learning-Based Modulation Classification Using Time and Stockwell Domain Channeling","authors":"S. Hiremath, Sambit Behura, Subham Kedia, Siddharth Deshmukh, S. K. Patra","doi":"10.1109/NCC.2019.8732258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2019.8732258","url":null,"abstract":"Deep learning techniques have recently exhibited unprecedented success in classification problems with ill-defined mathematical models. In this paper, we apply deep learning for RF data analysis and classification. We present a novel method of using I-Q time samples to form images with ‘Time and Discrete Orthonormal Stockwell Transform Domain Channels’ which are used for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) for radio modulation classification. Also, a concept inspired from transfer learning is used in extending the number of output classes of the CNN, which helps the network to estimate the approximate SNR of the input signal as well and further improve the classification accuracy. Such a network trained on Time and Stockwell Channeled Images performs superior to similar networks that are trained on just raw I-Q time series samples or time-frequency images, especially when training samples are less. The network achieved an overall classification accuracy of 97.3% at 8 dB SNR over a class of 10 radio modulation schemes (for both digital and analog systems). The study shows that such a trained network can be well applied to achieve high classification accuracies at low and moderate SNR scenarios.","PeriodicalId":6870,"journal":{"name":"2019 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","volume":"99 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90456776","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}