IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Enhanced target tracking based on mean shift algorithm for satellite imageryeSAT Journals
Abstract Target tracking in high resolution satellite images is challenging task for computer vision field. In this paper we have proposed a mean shift algorithm based enhanced target tracking system for high resolution satellite imagery. In proposed tracking algorithm, Target modeling is done using spectral features of target object i.e. Mean & Energy density function. Feature Vector space with minimum Euclidean Distance is used for predicting next possible position of target object in consecutive frames. Proposed tracking algorithm has been tested using two high resolution databases i.e. Harbor & Airport region database acquired by WorldView-2 satellite at different times. Recall, Precision & F1 score etc. performance parameters are also calculated for showing the tracking ability of the proposed method in real-time applications and are compared with the results of Regional Operator Design based tracking algorithm proposed in [1]. The results show that our proposed method gives relatively better performance than the other tracking algorithms used in satellite imagery. Keywords- Target tracking, Mean shift algorithm, Energy density function, Feature Vector Space, Frame
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document discusses techniques for image resolution enhancement, including super resolution and blind deconvolution. It provides an overview of various super resolution methods such as interpolation-based, learning-based, and reconstruction-based. For blind deconvolution, it describes single image blind deconvolution and multi-image blind deconvolution. It also discusses unified blind approaches that combine blur identification and image restoration. The document compares different resolution enhancement methods and their processing times. It concludes that unified blind techniques can efficiently enhance image resolution captured under atmosphere turbulence by combining blur identification and image restoration in a single procedure.
Image resolution enhancement using blind techniqueeSAT Journals
This document discusses techniques for image resolution enhancement, including super resolution and blind deconvolution. It provides an overview of various super resolution methods such as interpolation-based, learning-based, and reconstruction-based. For blind deconvolution, it describes single image blind deconvolution and multi-image blind deconvolution. It also discusses unified blind approaches that combine blur identification and image restoration. The document compares different resolution enhancement methods and their processing times. It concludes that unified blind techniques can efficiently enhance image resolution captured under atmosphere turbulence with minimum processing time.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Preliminary study of multi view imaging for accurate 3 d reconstruction using...eSAT Journals
Abstract This paper presents a multi-view structured-light approach for surface scanning to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) object using a turntable. It is a modification from DAVID 3D Scanner SLS-1 (Structured-Light Scanner) as a starting point of study on improving and builds a complete system of 3D structured-light based scanner. This type of scanner uses a video projector to project various patterns onto an object which is going to be digitized or reconstruct to a 3D model. At the same time, a camera will record and capture the scene at least one image of each pattern from a certain point of view for example from right, left, above or below of the video projector. Then, 3D meshes of surface of the object will be computed based on the deformations of the projected patterns. The preliminary results show that object which are model of prostheses are successfully reconstructed. Index Terms: 3D scanner, structured-light scanner, 3D reconstruction, and multiple-view
This document summarizes a proposed online framework for video stabilization that uses Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) detection to select stable and consistent feature points from reference frames that are then tracked across all frames. A discrete Kalman filter is used to smooth estimated motion vectors and provide predictions when feature points are missing. Motion compensation is performed to generate a stabilized video sequence free of unstable camera motion. The framework estimates global motion, separates intentional from unintentional camera motion, and fills in voids through mosaicking or inpainting to produce a complete, stabilized online video.
Enhanced target tracking based on mean shift algorithm for satellite imageryeSAT Journals
Abstract Target tracking in high resolution satellite images is challenging task for computer vision field. In this paper we have proposed a mean shift algorithm based enhanced target tracking system for high resolution satellite imagery. In proposed tracking algorithm, Target modeling is done using spectral features of target object i.e. Mean & Energy density function. Feature Vector space with minimum Euclidean Distance is used for predicting next possible position of target object in consecutive frames. Proposed tracking algorithm has been tested using two high resolution databases i.e. Harbor & Airport region database acquired by WorldView-2 satellite at different times. Recall, Precision & F1 score etc. performance parameters are also calculated for showing the tracking ability of the proposed method in real-time applications and are compared with the results of Regional Operator Design based tracking algorithm proposed in [1]. The results show that our proposed method gives relatively better performance than the other tracking algorithms used in satellite imagery. Keywords- Target tracking, Mean shift algorithm, Energy density function, Feature Vector Space, Frame
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document discusses techniques for image resolution enhancement, including super resolution and blind deconvolution. It provides an overview of various super resolution methods such as interpolation-based, learning-based, and reconstruction-based. For blind deconvolution, it describes single image blind deconvolution and multi-image blind deconvolution. It also discusses unified blind approaches that combine blur identification and image restoration. The document compares different resolution enhancement methods and their processing times. It concludes that unified blind techniques can efficiently enhance image resolution captured under atmosphere turbulence by combining blur identification and image restoration in a single procedure.
Image resolution enhancement using blind techniqueeSAT Journals
This document discusses techniques for image resolution enhancement, including super resolution and blind deconvolution. It provides an overview of various super resolution methods such as interpolation-based, learning-based, and reconstruction-based. For blind deconvolution, it describes single image blind deconvolution and multi-image blind deconvolution. It also discusses unified blind approaches that combine blur identification and image restoration. The document compares different resolution enhancement methods and their processing times. It concludes that unified blind techniques can efficiently enhance image resolution captured under atmosphere turbulence with minimum processing time.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Preliminary study of multi view imaging for accurate 3 d reconstruction using...eSAT Journals
Abstract This paper presents a multi-view structured-light approach for surface scanning to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) object using a turntable. It is a modification from DAVID 3D Scanner SLS-1 (Structured-Light Scanner) as a starting point of study on improving and builds a complete system of 3D structured-light based scanner. This type of scanner uses a video projector to project various patterns onto an object which is going to be digitized or reconstruct to a 3D model. At the same time, a camera will record and capture the scene at least one image of each pattern from a certain point of view for example from right, left, above or below of the video projector. Then, 3D meshes of surface of the object will be computed based on the deformations of the projected patterns. The preliminary results show that object which are model of prostheses are successfully reconstructed. Index Terms: 3D scanner, structured-light scanner, 3D reconstruction, and multiple-view
This document summarizes a proposed online framework for video stabilization that uses Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) detection to select stable and consistent feature points from reference frames that are then tracked across all frames. A discrete Kalman filter is used to smooth estimated motion vectors and provide predictions when feature points are missing. Motion compensation is performed to generate a stabilized video sequence free of unstable camera motion. The framework estimates global motion, separates intentional from unintentional camera motion, and fills in voids through mosaicking or inpainting to produce a complete, stabilized online video.
Integration of poses to enhance the shape of the object tracking from a singl...eSAT Journals
Abstract In computer vision, tracking human pose has received a growing attention in recent years. The existing methods used multi-view videos and camera calibrations to enhance the shape of the object in 3D view. In this paper, tracking and partial reconstruction of the shape of the object from a single view video is identified. The goal of the proposed integrated method is to detect the movement of a person more accurately in 2D view. The integrated method is a combination of Silhouette based pose estimation and Scene flow based pose estimation. The silhouette based pose estimation is used to enhance the shape of the object for 3D reconstruction and scene flow based pose estimation is used to capture the size as well as the stability of the object. By integrating these two poses, the accurate shape of the object has been calculated from a single view video. Keywords: Pose Estimation, optical Flow, Silhouette, Object Reconstruction, 3D Objects
Human action recognition with kinect using a joint motion descriptorSoma Boubou
- We proposed a novel descriptor for motion of skeleton joints.
- Proposed descriptor proved to outperform the state-of-the-art descriptors such as HON4D and the one proposed by Chen et al 2013.
- Our proposed approached proved to be effective for periodic actions (e.g., Waving, Walking, Jogging, Side-Boxing, etc).
- Grouping was effective for actions with unique joints trajectories (e.g., Tennis serving, Side kicking , etc).
- Grouping joints into eight groups is always effective with actions of MSR3D dataset.
The document summarizes a project where an industrial robot named Baxter, made by Rethink Robotics, plays pool using its vision sensors and inverse kinematics. The key steps involved finding the desired orientation to strike the cue ball into the pocket using either a 3D sensor or Baxter's head camera, moving Baxter's arm to that orientation, then using visual servoing with Baxter's hand camera to align the end effector with the center of the ball while maintaining orientation. Once aligned, Baxter would linearly move its end effector to strike the ball. Some limitations were the workspace was limited due to Baxter's fixed position, and insufficient force was achieved on the ball. Future work proposed making Baxter mobile and using linear actuators to increase striking force
Scanning 3 d full human bodies using kinectsFensa Saj
The document describes a system for reconstructing 3D human body models using multiple Microsoft Kinect depth cameras. The system uses two Kinects to capture the upper and lower body, and a third from the opposite direction to capture the middle. Pairwise registration is used to align successive frames, and global registration minimizes errors across all frames. A template mesh is deformed to each frame and Poisson reconstruction is used to generate the final model. Results show the ability to generate realistic 3D avatars and enable applications like virtual try-on and personalized avatars for games.
This summarizes an academic paper that proposes an unsupervised algorithm to detect regions of interest (ROIs) in images using fast feature detectors. It detects keypoints using Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) and Features from Accelerated Segment Test (FAST) to maximize interest points. It categorizes keypoints as foreground or background using k-nearest neighbors classification on texture descriptors. ROIs are identified as groups of foreground keypoints. Preliminary experiments showed this approach can efficiently detect ROIs without computationally expensive comparisons between images.
Object tracking using motion flow projection for pan-tilt configurationIJECEIAES
We propose a new object tracking model for two degrees of freedom mechanism. Our model uses a reverse projection from a camera plane to a world plane. Here, the model takes advantage of optic flow technique by re-projecting the flow vectors from the image space into world space. A pan-tilt (PT) mounting system is used to verify the performance of our model and maintain the tracked object within a region of interest (ROI). This system contains two servo motors to enable a webcam rotating along PT axes. The PT rotation angles are estimated based on a rigid transformation of the the optic flow vectors in which an idealized translation matrix followed by two rotational matrices around PT axes are used. Our model was tested and evaluated using different objects with different motions. The results reveal that our model can keep the target object within a certain region in the camera view.
V. Karthikeyan proposes a novel histogram-based image registration technique. The method segments images using multiple histogram thresholds to extract objects. Extracted objects are characterized by attributes like area, axis ratio, and fractal dimension. Objects between images are matched to estimate rotation and translation. The technique was tested on pairs of images with different rotations and translations and achieved sub-pixel accuracy in registration. The method outperformed other techniques like SIFT for remote sensing images. Future work could optimize the segmentation and apply the technique to multispectral images.
This document presents a methodology for real-time object tracking using a webcam. It combines Prewitt edge detection for object detection and Kalman filtering for tracking. Prewitt edge detection is used to detect the edges of the moving object in each video frame. Then, Kalman filtering is used to track the detected object across subsequent frames by predicting its location. Experiments show the approach can efficiently track objects under deformation, occlusion, and can track multiple objects simultaneously. The combination of Prewitt edge detection and Kalman filtering provides an effective method for real-time object tracking.
An Assessment of Image Matching Algorithms in Depth EstimationCSCJournals
Computer vision is often used with mobile robot for feature tracking, landmark sensing, and obstacle detection. Almost all high-end robotics systems are now equipped with pairs of cameras arranged to provide depth perception. In stereo vision application, the disparity between the stereo images allows depth estimation within a scene. Detecting conjugate pair in stereo images is a challenging problem known as the correspondence problem. The goal of this research is to assess the performance of SIFT, MSER, and SURF, the well known matching algorithms, in solving the correspondence problem and then in estimating the depth within the scene. The results of each algorithm are evaluated and presented. The conclusion and recommendations for future works, lead towards the improvement of these powerful algorithms to achieve a higher level of efficiency within the scope of their performance.
Implementation of Object Tracking for Real Time VideoIDES Editor
Real-time tracking of object boundaries is an
important task in many vision applications. Here we propose
an approach to implement the level set method. This approach
does not need to solve any partial differential equations (PDFs),
thus reducing the computation dramatically compared with
optimized narrow band techniques proposed before. With our
approach, real-time level-set based video tracking can be
achieved.
3D Reconstruction from Multiple uncalibrated 2D Images of an ObjectAnkur Tyagi
3D reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects. In this project we are using passive methods which only use sensors to measure the radiance reflected or emitted by the objects surface to infer its 3D structure.
The document provides an overview of a vision-based place recognition system for autonomous robots. It discusses the framework of such a system, including sensing, pre-processing, feature extraction, training, classification, and post-processing. Local feature extraction is a key component, involving local feature detection to identify interest points and local feature descriptors to build representations around those points. The system aims to recognize places using visual cues in order to enable robot localization.
Thermal image for truncated object target in the presence of vibrations motionsAlexander Decker
1. The document examines the effects of vibration (longitudinal and transverse) on thermal imaging of a truncated object target.
2. A Mathcad program is used to reconstruct the degraded bar spread function and simulate the intensity distribution with and without vibration.
3. Results show that even low amplitude vibration can greatly impact target detection, with the image becoming blurrier and the resolution decreasing as vibration increases.
Real-time 3D Object Pose Estimation and Tracking for Natural Landmark Based V...c.choi
1) The document describes a real-time method for estimating and tracking the 3D pose of a rigid object using either a mono or stereo camera.
2) The method combines scale invariant feature matching (SIFT) for initial pose estimation with optical flow-based tracking (KLT) for efficient local pose estimation.
3) Outliers in the tracking are removed using RANSAC to improve accuracy, and tracking restarts from initial pose estimation if the number of inliers falls below a threshold.
An expanded haar wavelet transform and morphological deal based approach for ...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document discusses motion estimation and compression techniques for video frames using true motion tracking. It begins with an abstract describing motion estimation as determining motion vectors between video frames to model the transformation from one frame to the next. It then discusses how motion estimation is used in video compression to exploit temporal redundancy by comparing frames and estimating displaced regions. The document provides details on algorithms like exhaustive search that perform motion estimation and compensation to reconstruct frames from motion vectors and residual differences.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Spectral approach to image projection with cubic b spline interpolationiaemedu
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for image projection using spectral interpolation with cubic B-spline interpolation. The key points are:
1) Existing super resolution methods based on Fourier transforms have limitations in providing high visual quality when scaling images.
2) The proposed method first transforms image frames into the frequency domain using FFT. It then interpolates in the spectral domain using cubic B-spline interpolation to project the images onto a higher resolution grid.
3) Experimental results show the proposed method provides higher visual quality projections compared to conventional Fourier-based approaches, while also having faster computation times.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Integration of poses to enhance the shape of the object tracking from a singl...eSAT Journals
Abstract In computer vision, tracking human pose has received a growing attention in recent years. The existing methods used multi-view videos and camera calibrations to enhance the shape of the object in 3D view. In this paper, tracking and partial reconstruction of the shape of the object from a single view video is identified. The goal of the proposed integrated method is to detect the movement of a person more accurately in 2D view. The integrated method is a combination of Silhouette based pose estimation and Scene flow based pose estimation. The silhouette based pose estimation is used to enhance the shape of the object for 3D reconstruction and scene flow based pose estimation is used to capture the size as well as the stability of the object. By integrating these two poses, the accurate shape of the object has been calculated from a single view video. Keywords: Pose Estimation, optical Flow, Silhouette, Object Reconstruction, 3D Objects
Human action recognition with kinect using a joint motion descriptorSoma Boubou
- We proposed a novel descriptor for motion of skeleton joints.
- Proposed descriptor proved to outperform the state-of-the-art descriptors such as HON4D and the one proposed by Chen et al 2013.
- Our proposed approached proved to be effective for periodic actions (e.g., Waving, Walking, Jogging, Side-Boxing, etc).
- Grouping was effective for actions with unique joints trajectories (e.g., Tennis serving, Side kicking , etc).
- Grouping joints into eight groups is always effective with actions of MSR3D dataset.
The document summarizes a project where an industrial robot named Baxter, made by Rethink Robotics, plays pool using its vision sensors and inverse kinematics. The key steps involved finding the desired orientation to strike the cue ball into the pocket using either a 3D sensor or Baxter's head camera, moving Baxter's arm to that orientation, then using visual servoing with Baxter's hand camera to align the end effector with the center of the ball while maintaining orientation. Once aligned, Baxter would linearly move its end effector to strike the ball. Some limitations were the workspace was limited due to Baxter's fixed position, and insufficient force was achieved on the ball. Future work proposed making Baxter mobile and using linear actuators to increase striking force
Scanning 3 d full human bodies using kinectsFensa Saj
The document describes a system for reconstructing 3D human body models using multiple Microsoft Kinect depth cameras. The system uses two Kinects to capture the upper and lower body, and a third from the opposite direction to capture the middle. Pairwise registration is used to align successive frames, and global registration minimizes errors across all frames. A template mesh is deformed to each frame and Poisson reconstruction is used to generate the final model. Results show the ability to generate realistic 3D avatars and enable applications like virtual try-on and personalized avatars for games.
This summarizes an academic paper that proposes an unsupervised algorithm to detect regions of interest (ROIs) in images using fast feature detectors. It detects keypoints using Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) and Features from Accelerated Segment Test (FAST) to maximize interest points. It categorizes keypoints as foreground or background using k-nearest neighbors classification on texture descriptors. ROIs are identified as groups of foreground keypoints. Preliminary experiments showed this approach can efficiently detect ROIs without computationally expensive comparisons between images.
Object tracking using motion flow projection for pan-tilt configurationIJECEIAES
We propose a new object tracking model for two degrees of freedom mechanism. Our model uses a reverse projection from a camera plane to a world plane. Here, the model takes advantage of optic flow technique by re-projecting the flow vectors from the image space into world space. A pan-tilt (PT) mounting system is used to verify the performance of our model and maintain the tracked object within a region of interest (ROI). This system contains two servo motors to enable a webcam rotating along PT axes. The PT rotation angles are estimated based on a rigid transformation of the the optic flow vectors in which an idealized translation matrix followed by two rotational matrices around PT axes are used. Our model was tested and evaluated using different objects with different motions. The results reveal that our model can keep the target object within a certain region in the camera view.
V. Karthikeyan proposes a novel histogram-based image registration technique. The method segments images using multiple histogram thresholds to extract objects. Extracted objects are characterized by attributes like area, axis ratio, and fractal dimension. Objects between images are matched to estimate rotation and translation. The technique was tested on pairs of images with different rotations and translations and achieved sub-pixel accuracy in registration. The method outperformed other techniques like SIFT for remote sensing images. Future work could optimize the segmentation and apply the technique to multispectral images.
This document presents a methodology for real-time object tracking using a webcam. It combines Prewitt edge detection for object detection and Kalman filtering for tracking. Prewitt edge detection is used to detect the edges of the moving object in each video frame. Then, Kalman filtering is used to track the detected object across subsequent frames by predicting its location. Experiments show the approach can efficiently track objects under deformation, occlusion, and can track multiple objects simultaneously. The combination of Prewitt edge detection and Kalman filtering provides an effective method for real-time object tracking.
An Assessment of Image Matching Algorithms in Depth EstimationCSCJournals
Computer vision is often used with mobile robot for feature tracking, landmark sensing, and obstacle detection. Almost all high-end robotics systems are now equipped with pairs of cameras arranged to provide depth perception. In stereo vision application, the disparity between the stereo images allows depth estimation within a scene. Detecting conjugate pair in stereo images is a challenging problem known as the correspondence problem. The goal of this research is to assess the performance of SIFT, MSER, and SURF, the well known matching algorithms, in solving the correspondence problem and then in estimating the depth within the scene. The results of each algorithm are evaluated and presented. The conclusion and recommendations for future works, lead towards the improvement of these powerful algorithms to achieve a higher level of efficiency within the scope of their performance.
Implementation of Object Tracking for Real Time VideoIDES Editor
Real-time tracking of object boundaries is an
important task in many vision applications. Here we propose
an approach to implement the level set method. This approach
does not need to solve any partial differential equations (PDFs),
thus reducing the computation dramatically compared with
optimized narrow band techniques proposed before. With our
approach, real-time level-set based video tracking can be
achieved.
3D Reconstruction from Multiple uncalibrated 2D Images of an ObjectAnkur Tyagi
3D reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects. In this project we are using passive methods which only use sensors to measure the radiance reflected or emitted by the objects surface to infer its 3D structure.
The document provides an overview of a vision-based place recognition system for autonomous robots. It discusses the framework of such a system, including sensing, pre-processing, feature extraction, training, classification, and post-processing. Local feature extraction is a key component, involving local feature detection to identify interest points and local feature descriptors to build representations around those points. The system aims to recognize places using visual cues in order to enable robot localization.
Thermal image for truncated object target in the presence of vibrations motionsAlexander Decker
1. The document examines the effects of vibration (longitudinal and transverse) on thermal imaging of a truncated object target.
2. A Mathcad program is used to reconstruct the degraded bar spread function and simulate the intensity distribution with and without vibration.
3. Results show that even low amplitude vibration can greatly impact target detection, with the image becoming blurrier and the resolution decreasing as vibration increases.
Real-time 3D Object Pose Estimation and Tracking for Natural Landmark Based V...c.choi
1) The document describes a real-time method for estimating and tracking the 3D pose of a rigid object using either a mono or stereo camera.
2) The method combines scale invariant feature matching (SIFT) for initial pose estimation with optical flow-based tracking (KLT) for efficient local pose estimation.
3) Outliers in the tracking are removed using RANSAC to improve accuracy, and tracking restarts from initial pose estimation if the number of inliers falls below a threshold.
An expanded haar wavelet transform and morphological deal based approach for ...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document discusses motion estimation and compression techniques for video frames using true motion tracking. It begins with an abstract describing motion estimation as determining motion vectors between video frames to model the transformation from one frame to the next. It then discusses how motion estimation is used in video compression to exploit temporal redundancy by comparing frames and estimating displaced regions. The document provides details on algorithms like exhaustive search that perform motion estimation and compensation to reconstruct frames from motion vectors and residual differences.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Spectral approach to image projection with cubic b spline interpolationiaemedu
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for image projection using spectral interpolation with cubic B-spline interpolation. The key points are:
1) Existing super resolution methods based on Fourier transforms have limitations in providing high visual quality when scaling images.
2) The proposed method first transforms image frames into the frequency domain using FFT. It then interpolates in the spectral domain using cubic B-spline interpolation to project the images onto a higher resolution grid.
3) Experimental results show the proposed method provides higher visual quality projections compared to conventional Fourier-based approaches, while also having faster computation times.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
An iterative unsymmetrical trimmed midpoint median filter for removal of high...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document discusses improving the pass band droop in cascaded integrator comb (CIC) filters. CIC filters are commonly used for decimation but exhibit high pass band droop. The document proposes a zero rotation approach to improve droop. It compares the magnitude response of the original CIC filter to the proposed filter with zero rotation. The proposed filter shows over 1dB improvement in droop at the pass band frequency. The distribution of zeros is also improved in the proposed approach.
Issues in optimizing the performance of wireless sensor networkseSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Text independent speaker recognition using combined lpc and mfc coefficientseSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document describes an adaptive Kalman filter implementation for video denoising. It proposes processing video frames independently in the spatial domain and then applying an adaptive temporal Kalman filter to each pixel sequence to reduce complexity. An adaptive Kalman filter is used which can adjust its parameters based on noise statistics variations and detected motions between frames. The algorithm is tested through MATLAB simulation on sample video frames, showing it produces a denoised output with reduced noise while still responding to changes in pixel values over time. The design considerations for FPGA implementation focus on using fixed-point arithmetic and shift operations instead of division to optimize for the FPGA hardware.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Natural and calcined clayey diatomite as cement replacement materials microst...eSAT Publishing House
1) The document discusses the use of natural clayey diatomite (CD) and calcined clayey diatomite (CCD) as partial replacements for cement at levels of 5-15% by weight.
2) Testing showed that both CD and CCD act as high-efficiency pozzolans, consuming more calcium hydroxide and producing a finer pore structure compared to reference cement pastes.
3) Microstructural analysis found that cement composites with CD and CCD replacements had higher amounts of gel-like hydrate phases, indicating pozzolanic reactions were occurring.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
This document summarizes a study that investigated the effect of roughness and Reynolds number on mean flow velocities in an open channel. Laboratory experiments were conducted in a flume with four different bed surfaces (smooth, rough with sand strips, continuous rough sand layer, permeable sand bed) and two Reynolds numbers. Laser Doppler anemometry was used to measure streamwise velocities. The results showed that mean velocities collapsed well across different bed surfaces and Reynolds numbers. Maximum velocities generally occurred below the free surface. The location of maximum velocity depended on roughness and Reynolds number. Friction coefficients were also found to depend on both roughness and Reynolds number.
Fpga implementation of optimal step size nlms algorithm and its performance a...eSAT Publishing House
This document discusses the implementation of an optimal step size normalized least mean square (NLMS) adaptive filtering algorithm on an FPGA. It begins with background on LMS and NLMS algorithms. It then derives the optimal step size NLMS algorithm and discusses its theoretical performance advantages over fixed step size LMS. The paper presents the FPGA implementation of the optimal step size NLMS algorithm for audio noise cancellation. Simulation results show the proposed algorithm has faster convergence, lower error rates, and superior noise cancellation performance compared to LMS and variable step size LMS algorithms. Area utilization and maximum operating frequency are also compared for the different implementations on an Altera Cyclone III FPGA.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Automatic identification of animal using visual and motion saliencyeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
3 d mrf based video tracking in the compressed domaineSAT Journals
Abstract Object tracking is an interesting and needed procedure for many real time applications. But it is a challenging one, because of the presence of challenging sequences with abrupt motion, drastic illumination change, large pose variation, occlusion, cluttered background and also the camera shake. This paper presents a novel method of object tracking by using the algorithms spatio-temporal Markov random field (STMRF) and online discriminative feature selection (ODFS), which overcome the above mentioned problems and provide a better tracking process. This method is also capable of tracking multiple objects in video sequence even in the presence of an object interactions and occlusions that achieves better results with real time performance. Keywords: Video object tracking, spatio-temporal Markov random field (ST-MRF), online discriminative feature selection (ODFS).
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Applying edge density based region growing with frame difference for detectin...eSAT Publishing House
1. The document presents a method for detecting moving objects in video surveillance systems using edge density based region growing with frame difference.
2. It involves preprocessing frames through edge detection, frame differencing to eliminate stationary backgrounds, and applying edge density based region growing to connect regions of moving objects.
3. Experimental results on videos of a moving person and cylinder show the method can accurately detect moving objects in complex backgrounds.
This document discusses approaches for video segmentation. It describes tracking particles across frames to identify motion patterns, then clustering the particles to obtain a pixel-wise segmentation over space and time. This addresses limitations of segmentation based on motion boundaries. Reality-based 3D models can help address complex spatial motions by representing objects and their relationships in 3D space. The document also reviews direct and feature-based motion estimation methods, variational and level-set segmentation frameworks, and challenges including fitting motion models to data and handling outliers.
Moving object detection using background subtraction algorithm using simulinkeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
IRJET- Human Fall Detection using Co-Saliency-Enhanced Deep Recurrent Convolu...IRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for detecting human falls in videos using deep learning. The method uses a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCN) that applies convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to video segments and connects them with long short-term memory (LSTM) to model temporal relationships. It also enhances video frames using co-saliency detection to highlight important human activity regions before feeding them to the RCN. The researchers tested the method on a dataset of 768 video clips from 4 activity classes and achieved 98.12% accuracy at detecting falls, demonstrating the effectiveness of the co-saliency-enhanced RCN approach.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Review On Different Feature Extraction AlgorithmsIRJET Journal
This document discusses different feature extraction algorithms that can be used in visual sensor networks (WVSN). It begins by explaining the traditional "compress-then-analyze" approach and introduces the newer "analyze-then-compress" approach. The document then reviews several real-valued and binary feature extraction algorithms such as SIFT, SURF, BRIEF, BRISK, and BinBoost. It proposes a video coding system that uses the BRISK algorithm to extract features, encodes the features using entropy coding, and transmits the data to a base station for matching with stored image data. Diagrams of the proposed system and the BRISK algorithm are also included.
Flow Trajectory Approach for Human Action RecognitionIRJET Journal
This document proposes a method for human action recognition in videos using scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) and flow trajectory analysis. The key steps are:
1. Extract SIFT features from each video frame to detect keypoints.
2. Track the keypoints across frames and calculate the magnitude and direction of motion for each keypoint.
3. Analyze the tracked keypoints and their motion parameters to recognize the human action, such as walking, running, etc. occurring in the video.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Background differencing algorithm for moving object detection using system ge...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IRJET- Behavior Analysis from Videos using Motion based Feature ExtractionIRJET Journal
This document proposes a technique for analyzing human behavior in videos using motion-based feature extraction. It discusses how previous approaches have used spatial and temporal features to detect abnormal behaviors. The proposed approach extracts motion features from videos to represent each video with a single feature vector, rather than extracting features from each individual frame. This reduces the feature space and unnecessary information. The technique involves preprocessing videos into frames, extracting motion features, using KNN classification on the features to classify behaviors as normal or abnormal, and evaluating the method's performance on various metrics like accuracy, recall, and precision. Testing on fight and riot datasets showed the motion-based approach achieved higher accuracy, recall, precision and F-measure than a non-motion based approach.
IRJET- Segmenting and Classifying the Moving Object from HEVC Compressed Surv...IRJET Journal
This paper proposes a method to segment and classify moving objects in HEVC compressed surveillance videos. It first uses motion vectors and coding information to segment moving objects at the block level. Connected foreground blocks are grouped into objects. It then extracts HEVC syntax features from blocks within detected object regions, such as motion vectors, block sizes and prediction modes. These features are used to train a classifier to distinguish vehicles from people. The method aims to perform these tasks directly in the compressed domain for efficient analysis of large surveillance video collections.
Optimal Deployment Scheme for Load Balancing in Sensor NetworkIRJET Journal
The document presents a new algorithm called APOLLO (Optimal Deployment Scheme for Load Balancing) for optimally deploying sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks to achieve k-surface coverage. The goal of APOLLO is to limit the maximum sensing range required by sensor nodes while ensuring each point on the target surface is monitored by at least k sensor nodes, in order to balance sensing load and extend network lifetime. Simulation results show that APOLLO converges rapidly and reduces energy consumption compared to other deployment schemes. The paper also discusses extending APOLLO to work on 3D surfaces by replacing the Euclidean distance metric with geodesic distance.
This document summarizes an approach for video segmentation based on motion coherence. It uses tracking to identify 2-D motion patterns with clustering. Pixels are clustered to obtain a segmentation in both space and time domains. The limitations of segmentation based solely on spatial motion can be addressed using 3-D models generated from range, image, or CAD data. These models can be semantically segmented and organized in different ways depending on their geometry and detail levels.
Event recognition image & video segmentationeSAT Journals
Abstract This paper gives a clear look at the segmentation process at the basic level. Segmentation is done at multiple levels so that we will get different results. Segmentation of relative motion descriptors gives a clear picture about the segmentation done for a given input video. Relative motion computation and histograms incrementation are used to evaluate this approach. Also here we will give complete information about the related research which is done about how segmentation can be done for the both images and videos. Keywords: Image Segmentation, Video Segmentation.
Object extraction using edge, motion and saliency information from videoseSAT Journals
Abstract Object detection is a process of finding the instances of object of a certain class which is useful in analysis of video or image. There are number of algorithms have been developed so far for object detection. Object detection has got significant role in variety of areas of computer vision like video surveillance, image retrieval`. In this paper presented an efficient algorithm for moving object extraction using edge, motion and saliency information from videos. Out methodology includes 4 stages: Frame generation, Pre-processing, Foreground generation and integration of cues. Foreground generation includes edge detection using sobel edge detection algorithm, motion detection using pixel-based absolute difference algorithm and motion saliency detection. Conditional Random Field (CRF) is applied for integration of cues and thus we get better spatial information of segmented object. Keywords: Object detection, Saliency information, Sobel edge detection, CRF.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Similar to Human action recognition using local space time features and adaboost svm (20)
Hudhud cyclone caused extensive damage in Visakhapatnam, India in October 2014, especially to tree cover. This will likely impact the local environment in several ways: increased air pollution as trees absorb less; higher temperatures without tree canopy; increased erosion and landslides. It also created large amounts of waste from destroyed trees. Proper management of solid waste is needed to prevent disease spread. Suggested measures include restoring damaged plants, building fountains to reduce heat, mandating light-colored buildings, improving waste management, and educating public on health risks. Overall, changes are needed to water, land, and waste practices to rebuild the environment after the cyclone removed green cover.
Impact of flood disaster in a drought prone area – case study of alampur vill...eSAT Publishing House
1) In September-October 2009, unprecedented heavy rainfall and dam releases caused widespread flooding in Alampur village in Mahabub Nagar district, a historically drought-prone area.
2) The flood damaged or destroyed homes, buildings, infrastructure, crops, and documents. It displaced many residents and cut off the village.
3) The socioeconomic conditions and mud-based construction of homes in the village exacerbated the flood's impacts, making damage more severe and recovery more difficult.
The document summarizes the Hudhud cyclone that struck Visakhapatnam, India in October 2014. It describes the cyclone's formation, rapid intensification to winds of 175 km/h, and landfall near Visakhapatnam. The cyclone caused extensive damage estimated at over $1 billion and at least 109 deaths in India and Nepal. Infrastructure like buildings, bridges, and power lines were destroyed. Crops and fishing boats were also damaged. The document then discusses coping strategies and improvements needed to disaster management plans to better prepare for future cyclones.
Groundwater investigation using geophysical methods a case study of pydibhim...eSAT Publishing House
This document summarizes the results of a geophysical investigation using vertical electrical sounding (VES) methods at 13 locations around an industrial area in India. The VES data was interpreted to generate geo-electric sections and pseudo-sections showing subsurface resistivity variations. Three main layers were typically identified - a high resistivity topsoil, a weathered middle layer, and a basement rock. Pseudo-sections revealed relatively more weathered areas in the northwest and southwest. Resistivity sections helped identify zones of possible high groundwater potential based on low resistivity anomalies sandwiched between more resistive layers. The study concluded the electrical resistivity method was useful for understanding subsurface geology and identifying areas prospective for groundwater exploration.
Flood related disasters concerned to urban flooding in bangalore, indiaeSAT Publishing House
1. The document discusses urban flooding in Bangalore, India. It describes how factors like heavy rainfall, population growth, and improper land use have contributed to increased flooding in the city.
2. Flooding events in 2013 are analyzed in detail. A November rainfall caused runoff six times higher than the drainage capacity, inundating low-lying residential areas.
3. Impacts of urban flooding include disrupted daily life, damaged infrastructure, and decreased economic activity in affected areas. The document calls for improved flood management strategies to better mitigate urban flooding risks in Bangalore.
Enhancing post disaster recovery by optimal infrastructure capacity buildingeSAT Publishing House
This document discusses enhancing post-disaster recovery through optimal infrastructure capacity building. It presents a model to minimize the cost of meeting demand using auxiliary capacities when disaster damages infrastructure. The model uses genetic algorithms to select optimal capacity combinations. The document reviews how infrastructure provides vital services supporting recovery activities and discusses classifying infrastructure into six types. When disaster reduces infrastructure services, a gap forms between community demands and available support, hindering recovery. The proposed research aims to identify this gap and optimize capacity selection to fill it cost-effectively.
Effect of lintel and lintel band on the global performance of reinforced conc...eSAT Publishing House
This document analyzes the effect of lintels and lintel bands on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete masonry infilled frames through non-linear static pushover analysis. Four frame models are considered: a frame with a full masonry infill wall; a frame with a central opening but no lintel/band; a frame with a lintel above the opening; and a frame with a lintel band above the opening. The results show that the full infill wall model has 27% higher stiffness and 32% higher strength than the model with just an opening. Models with lintels or lintel bands have slightly higher strength and stiffness than the model with just an opening. The document concludes lintels and lintel
Wind damage to trees in the gitam university campus at visakhapatnam by cyclo...eSAT Publishing House
1) A cyclone with wind speeds of 175-200 kph caused massive damage to the green cover of Gitam University campus in Visakhapatnam, India. Thousands of trees were uprooted or damaged.
2) A study assessed different types of damage to trees from the cyclone, including defoliation, salt spray damage, damage to stems/branches, and uprooting. Certain tree species were more vulnerable than others.
3) The results of the study can help in selecting more wind-resistant tree species for future planting and reducing damage from future storms.
Wind damage to buildings, infrastrucuture and landscape elements along the be...eSAT Publishing House
1) A visual study was conducted to assess wind damage from Cyclone Hudhud along the 27km Visakha-Bheemli Beach road in Visakhapatnam, India.
2) Residential and commercial buildings suffered extensive roof damage, while glass facades on hotels and restaurants were shattered. Infrastructure like electricity poles and bus shelters were destroyed.
3) Landscape elements faced damage, including collapsed trees that damaged pavements, and debris in parks. The cyclone wiped out over half the city's green cover and caused beach erosion around protected areas.
1) The document reviews factors that influence the shear strength of reinforced concrete deep beams, including compressive strength of concrete, percentage of tension reinforcement, vertical and horizontal web reinforcement, aggregate interlock, shear span-to-depth ratio, loading distribution, side cover, and beam depth.
2) It finds that compressive strength of concrete, tension reinforcement percentage, and web reinforcement all increase shear strength, while shear strength decreases as shear span-to-depth ratio increases.
3) The distribution and amount of vertical and horizontal web reinforcement also affects shear strength, but closely spaced stirrups do not necessarily enhance capacity or performance.
Role of voluntary teams of professional engineers in dissater management – ex...eSAT Publishing House
1) A team of 17 professional engineers from various disciplines called the "Griha Seva" team volunteered after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake to provide technical assistance.
2) The team conducted site visits, assessments, testing and recommended retrofitting strategies for damaged structures in Bhuj and Ahmedabad. They were able to fully assess and retrofit 20 buildings in Ahmedabad.
3) Factors observed that exacerbated the earthquake's impacts included unplanned construction, non-engineered buildings, improper prior retrofitting, and defective materials and workmanship. The professional engineers' technical expertise was crucial for effective post-disaster management.
This document discusses risk analysis and environmental hazard management. It begins by defining risk, hazard, and toxicity. It then outlines the steps involved in hazard identification, including HAZID, HAZOP, and HAZAN. The document presents a case study of a hypothetical gas collecting station, identifying potential accidents and hazards. It discusses quantitative and qualitative approaches to risk analysis, including calculating a fire and explosion index. The document concludes by discussing hazard management strategies like preventative measures, control measures, fire protection, relief operations, and the importance of training personnel on safety.
Review study on performance of seismically tested repaired shear wallseSAT Publishing House
This document summarizes research on the performance of reinforced concrete shear walls that have been repaired after damage. It begins with an introduction to shear walls and their failure modes. The literature review then discusses the behavior of original shear walls as well as different repair techniques tested by other researchers, including conventional repair with new concrete, jacketing with steel plates or concrete, and use of fiber reinforced polymers. The document focuses on evaluating the strength retention of shear walls after being repaired with various methods.
Monitoring and assessment of air quality with reference to dust particles (pm...eSAT Publishing House
This document summarizes a study on monitoring and assessing air quality with respect to dust particles (PM10 and PM2.5) in the urban environment of Visakhapatnam, India. Sampling was conducted in residential, commercial, and industrial areas from October 2013 to August 2014. The average PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations were within limits in residential areas but moderate to high in commercial and industrial areas. Exceedance factor levels indicated moderate pollution for residential areas and moderate to high pollution for commercial and industrial areas. There is a need for management measures like improved public transport and green spaces to combat particulate air pollution in the study areas.
Low cost wireless sensor networks and smartphone applications for disaster ma...eSAT Publishing House
This document describes a low-cost wireless sensor network and smartphone application system for disaster management. The system uses an Arduino-based wireless sensor network comprising nodes with various sensors to monitor the environment. The sensor data is transmitted to a central gateway and then to the cloud for analysis. A smartphone app connected to the cloud can detect disasters from the sensor data and send real-time alerts to users to help with early evacuation. The system aims to provide low-cost localized disaster detection and warnings to improve safety.
Coastal zones – seismic vulnerability an analysis from east coast of indiaeSAT Publishing House
This document summarizes an analysis of seismic vulnerability along the east coast of India. It discusses the geotectonic setting of the region as a passive continental margin and reports some moderate seismic activity from offshore in recent decades. While seismic stability cannot be assumed given events like the 2004 tsunami, no major earthquakes have been recorded along this coast historically. The document calls for further study of active faults, neotectonics, and implementation of improved seismic building codes to mitigate vulnerability.
Can fracture mechanics predict damage due disaster of structureseSAT Publishing House
This document discusses how fracture mechanics can be used to better predict damage and failure of structures. It notes that current design codes are based on small-scale laboratory tests and do not account for size effects, which can lead to more brittle failures in larger structures. The document outlines how fracture mechanics considers factors like size effect, ductility, and minimum reinforcement that influence the strength and failure behavior of structures. It provides examples of how fracture mechanics has been applied to problems like evaluating shear strength in deep beams and investigating a failure of an oil platform structure. The document argues that fracture mechanics provides a more scientific basis for structural design compared to existing empirical code provisions.
This document discusses the assessment of seismic susceptibility of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. It begins with an introduction to earthquakes and the importance of vulnerability assessment in mitigating earthquake risks and losses. It then describes modeling the nonlinear behavior of RC building elements and performing pushover analysis to evaluate building performance. The document outlines modeling RC frames and developing moment-curvature relationships. It also summarizes the results of pushover analyses on sample 2D and 3D RC frames with and without shear walls. The conclusions emphasize that pushover analysis effectively assesses building properties but has limitations, and that capacity spectrum method provides appropriate results for evaluating building response and retrofitting impact.
A geophysical insight of earthquake occurred on 21 st may 2014 off paradip, b...eSAT Publishing House
1) A 6.0 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Paradip, Odisha in the Bay of Bengal on May 21, 2014 at a depth of around 40 km.
2) Analysis of magnetic and bathymetric data from the area revealed the presence of major lineaments in NW-SE and NE-SW directions that may be responsible for seismic activity through stress release.
3) Movements along growth faults at the margins of large Bengal channels, due to large sediment loads, could also contribute to seismic events by triggering movements along the faults.
Effect of hudhud cyclone on the development of visakhapatnam as smart and gre...eSAT Publishing House
This document discusses the effects of Cyclone Hudhud on the development of Visakhapatnam as a smart and green city through a case study and preliminary surveys. The surveys found that 31% of participants had experienced cyclones, 9% floods, and 59% landslides previously in Visakhapatnam. Awareness of disaster alarming systems increased from 14% before the 2004 tsunami to 85% during Cyclone Hudhud, while awareness of disaster management systems increased from 50% before the tsunami to 94% during Hudhud. The surveys indicate that initiatives after the tsunami improved awareness and preparedness. Developing Visakhapatnam as a smart, green city should consider governance
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation w...IJCNCJournal
Paper Title
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation with Hybrid Beam Forming Power Transfer in WSN-IoT Applications
Authors
Reginald Jude Sixtus J and Tamilarasi Muthu, Puducherry Technological University, India
Abstract
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) helps to overcome various difficulties in future technology wireless communications. NOMA, when utilized with millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation becomes extremely difficult. For reaping the benefits of the NOMA and mm-Wave combination, effective channel estimation is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced particle swarm optimization based long short-term memory estimator network (PSOLSTMEstNet), which is a neural network model that can be employed to forecast the bandwidth required in the mm-Wave MIMO network. The prime advantage of the LSTM is that it has the capability of dynamically adapting to the functioning pattern of fluctuating channel state. The LSTM stage with adaptive coding and modulation enhances the BER.PSO algorithm is employed to optimize input weights of LSTM network. The modified algorithm splits the power by channel condition of every single user. Participants will be first sorted into distinct groups depending upon respective channel conditions, using a hybrid beamforming approach. The network characteristics are fine-estimated using PSO-LSTMEstNet after a rough approximation of channels parameters derived from the received data.
Keywords
Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Bit Error Rate (BER), mm-Wave, MIMO, NOMA, deep learning, optimization.
Volume URL: https://airccse.org/journal/ijc2022.html
Abstract URL:https://aircconline.com/abstract/ijcnc/v14n5/14522cnc05.html
Pdf URL: https://aircconline.com/ijcnc/V14N5/14522cnc05.pdf
#scopuspublication #scopusindexed #callforpapers #researchpapers #cfp #researchers #phdstudent #researchScholar #journalpaper #submission #journalsubmission #WBAN #requirements #tailoredtreatment #MACstrategy #enhancedefficiency #protrcal #computing #analysis #wirelessbodyareanetworks #wirelessnetworks
#adhocnetwork #VANETs #OLSRrouting #routing #MPR #nderesidualenergy #korea #cognitiveradionetworks #radionetworks #rendezvoussequence
Here's where you can reach us : ijcnc@airccse.org or ijcnc@aircconline.com
Determination of Equivalent Circuit parameters and performance characteristic...pvpriya2
Includes the testing of induction motor to draw the circle diagram of induction motor with step wise procedure and calculation for the same. Also explains the working and application of Induction generator
We have designed & manufacture the Lubi Valves LBF series type of Butterfly Valves for General Utility Water applications as well as for HVAC applications.
Build the Next Generation of Apps with the Einstein 1 Platform.
Rejoignez Philippe Ozil pour une session de workshops qui vous guidera à travers les détails de la plateforme Einstein 1, l'importance des données pour la création d'applications d'intelligence artificielle et les différents outils et technologies que Salesforce propose pour vous apporter tous les bénéfices de l'IA.
Properties of Fluids, Fluid Statics, Pressure MeasurementIndrajeet sahu
Properties of Fluids: Density, viscosity, surface tension, compressibility, and specific gravity define fluid behavior.
Fluid Statics: Studies pressure, hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy, and fluid forces on surfaces.
Pressure at a Point: In a static fluid, the pressure at any point is the same in all directions. This is known as Pascal's principle. The pressure increases with depth due to the weight of the fluid above.
Hydrostatic Pressure: The pressure exerted by a fluid at rest due to the force of gravity. It can be calculated using the formula P=ρghP=ρgh, where PP is the pressure, ρρ is the fluid density, gg is the acceleration due to gravity, and hh is the height of the fluid column above the point in question.
Buoyancy: The upward force exerted by a fluid on a submerged or partially submerged object. This force is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object, as described by Archimedes' principle. Buoyancy explains why objects float or sink in fluids.
Fluid Pressure on Surfaces: The analysis of pressure forces on surfaces submerged in fluids. This includes calculating the total force and the center of pressure, which is the point where the resultant pressure force acts.
Pressure Measurement: Manometers, barometers, pressure gauges, and differential pressure transducers measure fluid pressure.
Prediction of Electrical Energy Efficiency Using Information on Consumer's Ac...PriyankaKilaniya
Energy efficiency has been important since the latter part of the last century. The main object of this survey is to determine the energy efficiency knowledge among consumers. Two separate districts in Bangladesh are selected to conduct the survey on households and showrooms about the energy and seller also. The survey uses the data to find some regression equations from which it is easy to predict energy efficiency knowledge. The data is analyzed and calculated based on five important criteria. The initial target was to find some factors that help predict a person's energy efficiency knowledge. From the survey, it is found that the energy efficiency awareness among the people of our country is very low. Relationships between household energy use behaviors are estimated using a unique dataset of about 40 households and 20 showrooms in Bangladesh's Chapainawabganj and Bagerhat districts. Knowledge of energy consumption and energy efficiency technology options is found to be associated with household use of energy conservation practices. Household characteristics also influence household energy use behavior. Younger household cohorts are more likely to adopt energy-efficient technologies and energy conservation practices and place primary importance on energy saving for environmental reasons. Education also influences attitudes toward energy conservation in Bangladesh. Low-education households indicate they primarily save electricity for the environment while high-education households indicate they are motivated by environmental concerns.
Blood finder application project report (1).pdfKamal Acharya
Blood Finder is an emergency time app where a user can search for the blood banks as
well as the registered blood donors around Mumbai. This application also provide an
opportunity for the user of this application to become a registered donor for this user have
to enroll for the donor request from the application itself. If the admin wish to make user
a registered donor, with some of the formalities with the organization it can be done.
Specialization of this application is that the user will not have to register on sign-in for
searching the blood banks and blood donors it can be just done by installing the
application to the mobile.
The purpose of making this application is to save the user’s time for searching blood of
needed blood group during the time of the emergency.
This is an android application developed in Java and XML with the connectivity of
SQLite database. This application will provide most of basic functionality required for an
emergency time application. All the details of Blood banks and Blood donors are stored
in the database i.e. SQLite.
This application allowed the user to get all the information regarding blood banks and
blood donors such as Name, Number, Address, Blood Group, rather than searching it on
the different websites and wasting the precious time. This application is effective and
user friendly.
Human action recognition using local space time features and adaboost svm
1. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Volume: 03 Issue: 04 | Apr-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 139
HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION USING LOCAL SPACE TIME
FEATURES AND ADABOOST SVM
M. Shillin Bella1
, R.Bhanumathi2
, G. R. Suresh3
1
PG Student, Dept. of CSE, Apollo Priyadharshanam Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
2
Assistant professor, Dept. of CSE, Apollo Priyadharshanam Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
3
Department of ECE, Easwari Engineering College. Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Abstract
Human action recognition has a wide range of promising applications like video surveillance, intelligent interface, and video
retrieval. The objective of this project is to recognize and annotate different human activities present in digital videos taken from both
constrained and unconstrained environment. This work extended the use of the techniques existing in object recognition in 2D images
to video sequences by determining the Spatio-temporal Interest points using the extension of Harris operator in the time dimension.
Features descriptors are computed on the cuboids around these interest points and further they are clustered and bag of features is
built .SVM is used to classify the different classes of action present in the video. The recognition rate is further improved by using
Adaboost SVM wherein number of weak classifier is weighted to form a strong classifier. The result shows that the proposed method
using adaboost SVM classifier, the mean accuracy rate of recognition of KTH dataset is 89.13%.
Keywords: Space time Interest Point, Bag of Words, Support Vector machine, Multiple Instance Learning, AdaBoost SVM
----------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------
1. INTRODUCTION
Human Activity Recognition is an active research area in
computer vision with wide range of applications in video
surveillance, motion analysis, virtual reality interfaces, robot
navigation and recognition, video indexing, browsing, HCI,
choreography, sports video analysis etc. However, it remains a
challenging problem because of factors like background
cluttering, camera motion, occlusion and other geometric and
photometric variances. The major steps involved in are
analyzing and extracting the characteristic features of various
human actions and classifying them. Many previous works can
be roughly categorized into model-based methods and
appearance-based approaches. Model-based methods [1], [2]
usually rely on human body tracking or pose estimation in order
to model the dynamics of individual body parts for action
recognition. However, it is still a non-trivial task to accurately
detect and track the body parts in unrestricted scenarios.
Appearance-based approaches mainly employ appearance
features for action recognition. For example, global space-time
shape templates from image sequences are used in [3]–[5] to
describe an action. However, in these methods, highly detailed
silhouettes need to be extracted, which may be very difficult in
a realistic video. Recently, approaches [6]–[8] based on local
spatiotemporal interest points have shown much success in
action recognition. Compared to the space-time shape and
tracking based approaches, these methods do not require
foreground segmentation or body parts tracking, so they are
more robust to camera movement and low resolution. Many of
the problems in categorization of human actions in video
sequences are surprisingly well handled with bag of words [9]
representation combined with machine learning techniques like
Support Vector Machine (SVM). In this work, the local
spatiotemporal interest points in a video are identified by
collecting cuboid prototypes around the space time interest
points, and then the Spatiotemporal Bag of features (BoF) was
extracted by applying transformation on the detected cuboids.
To classify various classes of actions present in videos SVM
classifier is trained for different human actions. The accuracy of
the classifier is further improved by Adaboost SVM wherein
number of weak classifier is weighted to form a strong
classifier. The videos for training and testing are taken from the
standard dataset KTH [11] and Weizmann [10] dataset supplied
for this purpose are well-explored in various studies.
2. SPACE TIME INTEREST POINT
In this section, the different steps used to extract the local space
time interest point (STIP) are explained. The steps are as
follows
2.1 Smoothing Out the Videos
Before detecting STIPs, the entire video sequence needs to be
smoothen out by appropriate smoothening filter. The reason
being are the lighting, rate of actions or the speed at which they
are taking place may vary from one video to another. Let’s
consider a video sequence as a 3-D matrix with each frame
spread out in x-y plane and the 3rd dimension corresponding to
temporal domain. We convolve this matrix with a Gaussian
kernel with independent spatial variance and temporal variance
2. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Volume: 03 Issue: 04 | Apr-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 140
.In order to detect the correct STIP select spatial and temporal
variances of the gaussian kernel optimally. The spatial variance
is fixed by the average variance of the background and the
foreground frames. The background and the fore ground images
are obtained by converting the images into frames followed by
the simple background subtraction. But adapting these
variances according to the sequence takes significant
computation time.
2.2 Detection of Space-Time Interest Points
Space-Time interest points either correspond to corners in a
particular frame or instances of sudden variation in time
occurring in the video. It relies heavily on both the Harris
measure [2] and a Gaussian scale-space representation. The
algorithm basically tries to extend the principle of Harris
Detector to detect STIPs in a video clip.The algorithm relies on
a central principle that, at a corner, the image intensity will
change largely in multiple directions. The useful information
required for distinguishing between various actions lie across
these STIPs. The aim is to obtain robust, stable and well-
defined image features for object tracking and recognition.
Corner detection was being used for many years in the past for
detecting interest points in images. Harris affine detector is one
of the Corner detection used in this work.
3. BUILDING BAG OF FEATURES
In this section, the different steps used to build the Bag of
Feature (BoF) is explained. The steps are as follows
3.1 Cuboid Prototypes
Once STIPs of a video is available, it is necessary to extract
useful information from them. The data around the interest
points are grouped to form small chunks, called the cuboid
prototypes. These cuboids contain key features of that particular
frame. The size of each chunk (∆x, ∆y, ∆t) is related to the
detection scales and the size of the feature vector used for
representing an interest point. Then, each volume is further
divided into grids of cuboids based on the similarities between
the actions. The cuboid prototypes are preprocessed by
applying transformations on them to make them invariant to
difference in lighting, appearance, motion etc. yet retaining
their discriminative power. These might include normalization
of pixel values, brightness gradient, windowed optical flow etc.
Once the transformations have been performed, a feature vector
is generated by stretching out the pixel values of the cuboid into
a vector sensitive to perturbations or histogramming the values.
3.2 HoG Descriptor
In this paper, for each cuboid a histogram of oriented gradient
(HoG) is computed. The idea behind the Histogram of Oriented
Gradient descriptors is that local object appearance and shape
within an image can be described by the distribution of
intensity gradients or edge directions. This involves Gradient
computation and Orientation binning. For the gradient
computation the cuboids are filtered with the kernels [-1, 0, 1]
oriented along 3 different dimensions. In the second phase, each
pixel in the cell casts a weighted vote for an orientation-based
histogram channel based on the values found in the gradient
computation. Specifying the orientation of a vector in 3-D
requires 2 angles as opposed to 1 angle in a 2-D case. So, we
will be quantizing the orientations of the “projection” of the
gradient vector onto 2 orthogonal planes (x-y and y-t) .The
orientation of the gradient is quantized into finite number of
bins in the range of 0o-180o.The magnitude of the gradient at a
pixel is used as the weight of the vote that particular pixel casts.
In the similar fashion it is extended to get feature descriptors for
space-time volumes.
3.3 Bag of Features
From the HOG for each cuboid a Spatio-temporal bag of
features (BoF) is build this requires construction of visual
vocabulary. For this purpose, several such features are clustered
using K-means clustering algorithm to find types of features in
human behavior. Each behavior might have many such features
and each feature might be present in many behaviors. But, the
distribution of these features varies significantly for behaviors
belonging to different classes. The BoF representation assigns
each feature to the nearest cluster and computes the histogram
of visual word occurrences over space-time volume to obtain
distribution of the features in a video.
4. MIL FOR ACTION RECOGNITION
In this paper, we employ the Support Vector Machine (SVM)
classifiers to classify various classes of videos. Specifically for
each class, an independent SVM classifier is trained using the
generated visual Bag of Word feature. The SVM uses Radial
Basis function (RBF) as component classifier SVM represents
the training sample as points in space, mapped so that the data
of the different classes are divided by a clear gap that is as wide
as possible. The test data is then mapped into that same space
and predicted to belong to a category based on which side of the
gap they fall on. SVM essentially tries to find a hyper plane in
higher dimension that maximizes the separation between
examples of various classes. Adaboost is the adaptive boosting
algorithm and is a machine learning algorithm. The goal of
boosting is to improve the accuracy of any given learning
algorithm [14]. This classifier aims to employ RBFSVM as
component classifier in Adaboost. Problems have been
encountered when applying a single σ to all RBFSVM
component classifiers. Generally, maintaining large value of σ
leads to weak RBFSVM component classifier and its
classification accuracy is often less than 50% which cannot
meet the requirement on a component classifier given. On the
other hand, a smaller σ often makes the RBFSVM component
classifier stronger and boosting them may become inefficient
because the errors of these component classifiers are highly
correlated. Furthermore, too small a value of σ can even make
RBFSVM over fit the training samples. Hence, finding a
3. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Volume: 03 Issue: 04 | Apr-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 141
suitable σ for these SVM component classifiers in Adaboost
becomes a problem. By using model selection techniques such
as k-fold or leave one – out, cross-validation, a single best σ
may be found for these component classifiers. Initially, a large
value is set to σ, corresponding to a RBFSVM classifier with
very weak learning ability. Then, RBFSVM with this σ value is
trained as many cycles as possible as long as more than half
accuracy can be obtained. Otherwise, this σ value is decreased
slightly to increase the learning capability of RBFSVM, to help
it achieve more than half accuracy. By decreasing the σ value
slightly prevents the new RBFSVM from being too strong for
the current weighted training samples, and thus moderately
accurate RBFSVM component classifiers are obtained.
5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The entire work was implemented in MATLAB. The input
videos for the experiment are taken from the standard KTH and
Weizmann Dataset. Firstly, the videos from the dataset are read
as 3-D matrices and are converted to gray scale. Smoothing
action is performed on these matrices with various scales of
spatial and temporal variances. The spatial variance σ and the
temporal variance τ are fixed empirically σ = 2 and τ = 2.5
respectively. The interest points are extracted from the
smoothened image is with the same spatial and temporal scale
parameters σ and τ. Then cuboid prototypes were extracted
around the these STIPs. The size of the cuboid is empirically
fixed as 9×9×5 and 1000 interest points are extracted from each
video. Then using 2-D HOG descriptor [12] feature descriptors
for each volume are extracted. The orientation (unsigned) of the
gradient is quantized into 9 bins in the range of 0o-180o .These
descriptors are clustered using fast k-means algorithm [13] to
obtain feature vector for each video. The extracted features are
used to train “LibSVM” [14] to learn the features of videos
belonging to different classes and labeling is done in this step.
For each class 100 frames having different styles of the same
action performed by different person are taken for training. The
radial basis kernel is used for training the SVM. Then the
adaptive boosting Adaboost SVM is used to increase the
accuracy of the recognition is [15] used. The boosted or strong
classifier which we used is a combination of weights and weak
classifiers. We have selected arbitrarily 5 number of strong
classifiers depend on Adaboost-SVM training procedure. After,
these strong classifiers are organized into cascade-classifier
structure. On every iteration the weights of each incorrectly
classified example are increased, and the weights of each
correctly classified example are decreased, so the new classifier
focuses on the examples which have so far eluded correct
classification. The trained SVM is tested with a video samples
taken from videos in the standard dataset KTH and Weizmann.
The performance is reported in Table I. It can be seen that
performance using our proposed approach exceeds other
methods on the KTH Dataset.
Table 1 Comparison of Different Methods About Mean
Accuracy on KTH Dataset
The confusion matrix obtained for four different actions namely
“Run” “Walk”, “Jump” and “Side Run” using SVM classifier
is shown in figure 1 (a) .The fig 1(a), shows that the recognition
rate for the walk action is 50%. In order to increase the
recognition rate Adaboost SVM classifier is used, where in
number of weak classifier is weighted to form a strong
classifier. The confusion matrix obtained for four different
actions namely “Run” “Walk”, “Jump” and “Side Run” using
Adaboost SVM classifier is shown in figure 2. In the fig 1(b), it
shows that the recognition rate for the walk action increased to
88% compared to the recognition rate using Support vector
machine and the recognition rate of run and side run actions
reached to 98 %.
Fig. 1 (a) Confusion matrix obtained for four different Fig. 1(b) Confusion matrix obtained for four different
Methods Mean
Accuracy(%)
Feature
Niebles and Li [18] 81.50 Spatio-temporal
interest points
Saad and Mubarak
[19]
87.90 Optical Flow
Our Method 89.13 Spatio-temporal
interest points
4. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Volume: 03 Issue: 04 | Apr-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 142
action using SVM classifier action using AdaBoost SVM classifier
6. CONCLUSIONS
The project uses space time interest point approach for action
recognition. Each videos centered on the human figure was
described using simple local space time features. The local
space time features are clustered to form the BoF for each
action. Based on the features an SVM classifier was learned to
discriminate each action, and then AdaBoost-SVM classifier
was employed to select the most discriminative features to form
a strong classifier to discriminate closely related actions.
Experimental results illustrated the effectiveness and efficiency
of the proposed method for video action recognition and
annotation.
REFERENCES
[1] C. Fanti, L. Zelnik-manor, and P. Perona, “Hybrid
models for human motion recognition,” in Proc.
IEEE CVPR, pp. 1166–1173 Jun. 2005
[2] A. Yilmaz, “Recognizing human actions in videos
acquired by uncalibrated moving cameras,” in Proc.
IEEE ICCV, pp. 150–157 Oct. 2005.
[3] L. Gorelick, M. Blank, E. Shechtman, M. Irani, and R.
Basri, “Actions as space-time shapes,” IEEE Trans.
Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 2247–
2253, Dec. 2007.
[4] A. Yilmaz and M. Shah, “Actions sketch: A novel action
representation,” in Proc. IEEE CVPR, pp. 984–989, Jun.
2005.
[5] X. Wu, Y. Jia, and W. Liang, “Incremental discriminant-
analysis of canonical correlations for action
recognition,” Pattern Recognit., vol. 43, no. 12, pp.
4190–4197, Dec. 2010.
[6] P. Doll´ar, V. Rabaud, G. Cottrell, and S. Belongie,
“Behavior recognition via sparse spatio-temporal
features,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop PETS, pp. 65–72
Jun. 2005.
[7] C. Schuldt, I. Laptev, and B. Caputo, “Recognizing
human actions: A local SVM approach,” in Proc. ICPR,
pp. 32–36, Aug. 2004.
[8] J.C. Niebles, H. Wang, and L. Fei-fei, “Unsupervised
learning of human action categories using spatial-
temporal words,” Int. J. Comput. Vision, vol. 79, no.
3, pp. 299–318, Sep. 2008
[9] Ivan Laptev, MarcinMarszałek, Cordelia Schmid,
Benjamin Rozenfeld. Learning realistic human actions
from movies.IEEE Conference on Computer Vision &
Pattern Recognition, 2008
[10] M. Blank, L. Gorelick, E. Shechtman, M. Irani, and R.
Basri, “Actions as space-time shapes,” in Proc. ICCV,
2005, pp. 1395–1402
[11] C. Schuldt, I. Laptev, and B. Caputo, “Recognizing
human actions: A local SVM approach,” in Proc. ICPR,
2004, pp. 32–36
[12] I. Laptev. On space-time interest points. IJCV,
64(2/3):107–123, 2005.
[13] Alexander Klaser, MarcinMarszałek, CordeliaSchmid. A
Spatio-Temporal Descriptor Based on 3D-Gradients.In
BMVC, 2008
[14] O. Ludwig, D. Delgado, V. Goncalves, and U. Nunes,
'Trainable Classifier-Fusion Schemes: An Application
To Pedestrian Detection,' In: 12th International IEEE
Conference On Intelligent Transportation Systems,
2009.
[15] Mark Everingham’s code on k-means implementation in
C,2003.
[16] Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-Jen Lin, LIBSVM : a
library for support vector machines. ACM Transactions
on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2:27:1--27:27,
2011.
[17] Xuchun Li_, Lei Wang, Eric Sung, “AdaBoost with
SVM-based component classifiers”, Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence 21 (2008) 785–
795
[18] J. Niebles and L. Fei-Fei, “Unsupervised learning of
human action categories using spatial-temporal words,”
in Proc. BMVC, 2006, pp 299–318
[19] S.Ali and M. Shah, “Human action recognition in videos
using kinematic features and multiple instance learning,”
IEEE Trans. Patt Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 32, no. 2, pp.
288–303, Feb. 2010