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

IJIGSP Vol. 6, No. 7, Jun. 2014

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REGULAR PAPERS

Applied Computational Engineering in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Tumor Case Study

By Carlo Ciulla Dijana Capeska Bogatinoska Filip A. Risteski Dimitar Veljanovski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

This paper solves the biomedical engineering problem of the extraction of complementary and/or additional information related to the depths of the anatomical structures of the human brain tumor imaged with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The combined calculation of the signal resilient to interpolation and the Intensity-Curvature Functional provides with the complementary and/or additional information. The steps to undertake for the calculation of the signal resilient to interpolation are: (i) fitting a polynomial function to the signal, (ii) the calculation of the classic-curvature of the signal, (iii) the calculation of the Intensity-Curvature term before interpolation of the signal, (iv) the calculation of the Intensity-Curvature term after interpolation of the signal, (v) the solution of the equation of the two aforementioned Intensity-Curvature terms of the signal provides with the signal resilient to interpolation. The Intensity-Curvature Functional is the result of the ratio between the two Intensity-Curvature terms before and after interpolation. Because of the fact that the signal resilient to interpolation and the Intensity-Curvature Functional are derived through the process of re-sampling the original signal, it is possible to obtain an immense number of images from the original MRI signal. This paper shows the combined use of the signal resilient to interpolation and the Intensity-Curvature Functional in diagnostic settings when evaluating a tumor imaged with MRI. Additionally, the Intensity-Curvature Functional can identify the tumor contour line.

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Image Retrieval Based on Color, Shape, and Texture for Ornamental Leaf with Medicinal Functionality Images

By Kohei Arai Indra Nugraha Abdullah Hiroshi Okumura

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

This research is focusing on ornamental leaf with dual functionalities, which are ornamental and medicinal functionalities. However, only few people know about the medicinal functionality of this plant. In Indonesia, this plant is also easy to find because mostly cultivates in front of the house. If its medicinal function and that easiness are taken into consideration, this leaf should be an option towards the full chemical-based medicines. This image retrieval system utilizes color, shape, and texture features from leaf images. HSV-based color histogram, Zernike complex moments, and Dyadic wavelet transformation are the color, shape, and texture features extractor methods, respectively. We also implement the Bayesian automatic weighting formula instead of assignment of static weighting factor. From the results, this proposed method is very powerful from any rotation, lighting, and perspective changes.

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An Efficient Characterization of Gait for Human Identification

By Mridul Ghosh Debotosh Bhattacharjee

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

In this work, a simple characterization of human gait, which can be used for surveillance purpose, is presented. Different measures, like leg rise from ground (LRFG), the angles created between the legs with the centroid (ABLC), the distances between the control points and centroid (DBCC) have been taken as different features. In this method, the corner points from the edge of the object in the image have been considered. Out of several corner points thus extracted, a set of eleven significant points, termed as control points, that effectively and rightly characterize the gait pattern, have been selected. The boundary of the object has been considered and using control points on the boundary the centroid of those has been found out. Statistical approach has been used for recognition of individuals based on the n feature vectors, each of size 23(collected from LRFG, ABLCs, and DBCCs) for each video frame, where n is the number of video frames in each gait cycles. It has been found that recognition result of our approach is encouraging with compared to other recent methods.

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Image Segmentation Method for Identifying Convective and Stratiform Rain using MSG SEVIRI Data

By Mounir Sehad Mourad Lazri Soltane Ameur Jean Michel Brucker Fethi Ouallouche

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.04, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

This paper provides a new method for the classification of rainfall areas in convective and stratiform rain using MSG/SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared) data. The proposed approach is based on spectral and temporal properties of clouds. The spectral parameters used are: brightness temperature (BT) and brightness temperature differences (BTDs), and the temporal parameter (RCT10.8) is the rate of change of (BT) in the 10.8µm channel over two consecutive images. The developed rain area classification technique (RACT-DN) is based on two multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLP-D for daytime and MLP-N for nighttime) which relies on the correlation of satellite data with convective and stratiform rain. The two algorithms (MLP-D and MLP-N) are trained using as reference data from ground meteorological radar over northern Algeria. The results show that RACT-DN classifier gives accurate discrimination between convective and stratiform areas during daytime and nighttime.

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3D Face Recognition based on Radon Transform, PCA, LDA using KNN and SVM

By P. S. Hiremath Manjunatha Hiremath

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.05, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

Biometrics (or biometric authentication) refers to the identification of humans by their characteristics or traits. Bio-metrics is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance. Biometric identifiers are the distinctive, measurable characteristics used to label and describe individuals. Three dimensional (3D) human face recognition is emerging as a significant biometric technology. Research interest into 3D face recognition has increased during recent years due to the availability of improved 3D acquisition devices and processing algorithms. Three dimensional face recognition also helps to resolve some of the issues associated with two dimensional (2D) face recognition. In the previous research works, there are several methods for face recognition using range images that are limited to the data acquisition and pre-processing stage only. In the present paper, we have proposed a 3D face recognition algorithm which is based on Radon transform, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The Radon transform (RT) is a fundamental tool to normalize 3D range data. The PCA is used to reduce the dimensionality of feature space, and the LDA is used to optimize the features, which are finally used to recognize the faces. The experimentation has been done using three publicly available databases, namely, Bhosphorus, Texas and CASIA 3D face databases. The experimental results are shown that the proposed algorithm is efficient in terms of accuracy and detection time, in comparison with other methods based on PCA only and RT+PCA. It is observed that 40 Eigen faces of PCA and 5 LDA components lead to an average recognition rate of 99.20% using SVM classifier.

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A New Algorithm for Computationally Efficient Modified Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform

By SK.Umar Faruq K.V.Ramanaiah K.Soundararajan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.06, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

We introduce a new generation functionally distinct redundant free Modified Dual Tree Complex Wavelet structure with improved orthogonality and symmetry properties. Traditional Dual Tree Complex Wavelets Transform (DTCWT), which incorporates two operationally similar, procedurally different Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) trees, is inherently redundant and computationally complex. In this paper, we propose Symmetrically Modified DTCWT (SMDTCWT) to explore the close relationships between the wavelet coefficients from the real and imaginary tree of the dual-tree CWT with an advent of a Quadrature Filter. This exploitation can reduce the level of redundancy that currently exists in a dual-tree wavelet system and decrease the computational complexity .Some of the primary constraints include that the designed algorithm should be satisfying the Hilbert transform pair condition and should have high coding gain, good directional sensitivity, and sufficient degree of regularity.

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OTSU's Thresholding with Back Projection Modeling for Neural Network Data Sets

By S.Asif Hussain D. Satya Narayana M.N. Giri Prasad

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.07, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

For Tracking interfaces and shapes which depends on the regions of pixel intensity is a challenging task in image segmentation. Many level set methods have been formulated for region based and edge based models in computer aided diagnosis systems. In order to provide accurate modeling involving numerical computations, contours, lesions and bias variance which often rely on pixel intensity variations for the region of Interest. The proposed method involves the formulation by deriving a global criterion function in terms of neighborhood pixels to represent domain field and bias variance characteristics. Gaussian impulse is used for smoothening sharp edges. Computational neural networks provide the integral part of most learning algorithms as images consists of redundant attributes of data which have redundant network connections with different input patterns of small weights form a network training process for minimizing the energy and to estimate the bias field correction for various imaging modalities. The PET and CT images are used as inputs which are affected with cancer; in order to extract the features, proposed method is used for easy diagnosis. The result shows the improved performance with Neural Networks and provides valuable diagnostic information.

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Speaker Emotion Recognition based on Speech Features and Classification Techniques

By J. Sirisha Devi Srinivas Yarramalle Siva Prasad Nandyala

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.07.08, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014

Speech Processing has been developed as one of the vital provision region of Digital Signal Processing. Speaker recognition is the methodology of immediately distinguishing who is talking dependent upon special aspects held in discourse waves. This strategy makes it conceivable to utilize the speaker's voice to check their character and control access to administrations, for example voice dialing, data administrations, voice send, and security control for secret information. 
A review on speaker recognition and emotion recognition is performed based on past ten years of research work. So far iari is done on text independent and dependent speaker recognition. There are many prosodic features of speech signal that depict the emotion of a speaker. A detailed study on these issues is presented in this paper.

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