International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP)

IJIGSP Vol. 12, No. 3, Jun. 2020

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REGULAR PAPERS

Detecting Video Inter-Frame Forgeries Based on Convolutional Neural Network Model

By Xuan Hau Nguyen Yongjian Hu Muhmmad Ahmad Amin Khan Gohar Hayat Van Thinh Le Dinh Tu Truong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2020.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2020

In the era of information extension today, videos are easily captured and made viral in a short time, and video tampering has become more comfortable due to editing software. So, the authenticity of videos becomes more essential. Video inter-frame forgeries are the most common type of video forgery methods, which are difficult to detect by the naked eye. Until now, some algorithms have been suggested for detecting inter-frame forgeries based on handicraft features, but the accuracy and processing speed of those algorithms are still challenging. In this paper, we are going to put forward a video forgery detection method for detecting video inter-frame forgeries based on convolutional neural network (CNN) models by retraining the available CNN model trained on ImageNet dataset. The proposed method based on state-the-art CNN models, which are retrained to exploit spatial-temporal relationships in a video to detect inter-frame forgeries robustly and we have also proposed a confidence score instead of the raw output score based on these networks for increasing accuracy of the proposed method.  Through the experiments, the detection accuracy of the proposed method is 99.17%. This result has shown that the proposed method has significantly higher efficiency and accuracy than other recent methods.

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Automated Quality Inspection of PCB Assembly Using Image Processing

By Punith Kumar M B Shreekanth.T Prajwal M R

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2020.03.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2020

Quality inspection of PCB is a crucial stage in the assembly line as it provides an insight on whether the board works correctly or not. When the inspection is done manually, it is susceptible to human errors and is time consuming. The boards should thus be inspected at every stage of the assembly line and the process should be dynamic. This is achieved in this work through three crucial stages in the assembly line and by replacing the conventional manual inspection by using image processing to obtain a faster and more precise quality inspection. The solder paste inspection consists of pre-processing using blue plane conversion, comparing with the unsoldered board in blue color plane and post processing using overlay. The X-ray inspection basically consists of pre- processing the captured image by RGB to gray conversion with thresholding, comparing with the expected image and post processing using overlay to show the shorts that has occurred along the assembly. The conformal coating inspection uses conversion of the blue intensity emitted off the board under UV light to RGB scale. Each of the algorithms were tested using 48 actual in-production boards from Vinyas IT Pvt Ltd, a PCB assembly company based in Mysore. The processing time of the algorithms were found to be less than 2 seconds with an accuracy of 85.7%. The system was also found to be cost effective over existing systems available in the market.

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QR Code Based Solar Panel Data Monitoring System

By Akash Singh Chaudhary D K Chaturvedi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2020.03.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2020

Solar panels are safe and one of the commonly used renewable sources of energy generation now-a-days and are subjected to different atmospheric conditions. Data loggers are used to monitor the condition of solar panels with the help of data acquisition system. Zigbee is used as a transferring solar data from solar panels to the recording system (laptop). QR code is basically used to store and share any content, here in this paper an advanced technique is used to store the solar panel data in QR code in video form followed by developing a web application. This solar panel data can easily be accessed by scanning the generated QR code through QR code scanner installed in android mobile phone. One of the advantages of technique used in this research paper is to visualize the variations of graphs and values of data logger which were displayed on the screen of laptop during online in video format. This video format file is stored in QR code which reduces the size of pre-stored solar panel data file. Second advantage of technique used here that QR code allows reducing the size of pre-stored video format file of solar panel data monitoring system into image format without any loss of data. 

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Bearing Health Assessment Using Time Domain Analysis of Vibration Signal

By Om Prakash Yadav G.L Pahuja

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2020.03.04, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2020

Objective: Bearing defects are the most frequently occurring fault in any electrical machine. In this perspective, this manuscript proposed a novel statistical time-domain approach utilizing the vibration signal to detect incipient faults of rolling-element bearing used in three-phase induction motor. 
Methodology: To detect bearing defects, six time-domain features (TDFs) namely Mean Value (µ), Peak, Root Mean Square (RMS), Crest Factor (CRF), Skewness (SKW) and Kurtosis (K) were extracted from the standard database of the vibration signal. The standard databases of vibration signals were taken from the publicly available datacenter website of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) relating to healthy, inner raceway and ball defects of bearing. Initially, the mean and standard deviation analysis of each considered TDFs of vibration signals were performed to discriminate the health conditions of bearing. Then, the box or whisker plot method was applied to visualize the variation in each TDF in terms of median and interquartile range (IQR) value for better analysis of bearing defects. Finally, a new index parameter termed as bearing fault index (BFIT) was also computed and this parameter predicts the bearing defects based on the mean of all considered TDFs.
Results: The results of the “mean±σ” analysis have depicted that all considered TDFs except µ feature are almost independent to operating loads, and have discerning potential to diagnose bearing defects. The computations of these TDFs are mathematically very simple. The box plot representation of TDFs of vibration databases have shown that peak, RMS, and skewness features outperforms to demarcate bearing health conditions in terms of median and IQR value. The results of quantitative analysis of BFIT parameter have shown that if the magnitude of this parameter is higher than 1.8 then bearing is supposed to be faulty at all operating loads of machine. Thus, the BFIT analysis of TDFs is more simple and reliable to discriminate the health conditions of bearing. As most of the available techniques rely on the multi-processing of vibration data that requires large processing time and complicated mathematical model, so the proposed method prove to be simple and reliable in identifying the incipient bearing defects. 

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A Brief Review on Different Driver's Drowsiness Detection Techniques

By Anis-Ul-Islam Rafid Amit Raha Niloy Atiqul Islam Chowdhury Nusrat Sharmin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2020.03.05, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2020

Driver drowsiness is the momentous factor in a huge number of vehicle accidents. This driver drowsiness detection system has been valued highly and applied in various fields recently such as driver visual attention monitoring and driver activity tracking. Drowsiness can be detected through the driver face monitoring system. Nowadays smartphone-based application has developed rapidly and thus also used for driver safety monitoring system. In this paper, a detailed review of driver drowsiness detection techniques implemented in the smartphone has been reviewed. The review has also been focused on insight into recent and state-of-the-art techniques. The advantages and limitations of each have been summarized. A comparative study of recently implemented smartphone-based approaches and mostly used desktop-based approaches have also been discussed in this review paper. And the most important thing is this paper helps others to decide better techniques for the effective drowsiness detection.

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