In this paper, two shadow reduction algorithms have been proposed and implemented using CIE Lab color space. The task of performing shadow reduction is done by executing shadow detection, shadow removal and lastly shadow edge correction in a sequential order. The first proposed algorithm is implemented based on pixel illumination and color information meanwhile the second algorithm is carried out via thresholding of one or more CIE Lab color space channels. The outputs from both proposed algorithms are compared in terms of shadow detection accuracy and required processing period. The proposed methods shown some promising results. 

Lane detection has recognition in real time vehicular ad-hoc system. That study work concentrate on giving greater efficiency in lane detection by utilizing the additive Hough transform to identify the curve lanes and convert into data parallelism in order to improve the speed of the proposed technique by using fork and join process. To accomplish performance evaluation various metrics is likely to be considered. The performance of lane detection algorithms is generally evaluated in terms of algorithm results and parallel results. Algorithm results is evaluated in terms of accuracy, error rate, execution time ,overhead and parallel results is evaluated in terms of speed, efficiency etc. To complete performance comparison the result of proposed algorithm is going to be compared with existing lane detection algorithms. Intelligent transportation systems are available these days for increasing the safety of the vehicles and reduce incident ratio. A new technique which uses modified additive hough transform is used to reduce the limitations of existing technique. The proposed algorithm has been designed and implemented in MATLAB. 

The international standard of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) improves the compression ratio over %50 compared with previous standards such as H264/AVC which maintain the same perceptual quality. HEVC has achieved significant coding efficiency improvement beyond existing video coding standard by employing several new coding tools. Deblocking filter, Adaptive Loop Filter (ALF) and Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) are currently introduced for the HEVC standard. The deblocking filter detects the artifacts at the coded block boundaries and attenuates them by employing a selected filter. However, it was shown that the HEVC encoder may produce visible block artifacts on some sequences. In this paper, we propose an efficient deblocking filter to reduce block artifacts. The simulation results indicate that the maximum increase Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the proposed method is 0.09db, comparing to other deblocking filter algorithm. 

Detection of rows in crops planted as rows is fundamental to site specific management of agricultural farms. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly being used for agriculture applications. Images acquired using Low altitude remote sensing is analysed. In this paper we propose the detection of rows in an open field tomato crop by analyzing images acquired using remote sensing from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle used is a quadcopter fitted with an optical sensor. The optical sensor used is a vision spectrum camera. Spectral-spatial methods are applied in processing the images. K-Means clustering is used for spectral clustering. Clustering result is further improved by using spatial methods. Mathematical morphology and geometric shape operations of Shape Index and Density Index are used for spatial segmentation. Six images acquired at different altitudes are analysed to validate the robustness of the proposed method. Performance of row detection is analysed using confusion matrix. The results are comparable for the diverse image sets analyzed. 

In the biomedicine field, blood cell analysis is the first step for diagnosis of many of the disease. The first test that is requested by a doctor is the CBC (Complete Blood cell Count). Microscopic image of blood stream contains three types of blood cells: Red Blood Cells (RBCs), White Blood Cells (WBCs) and platelets. Earlier counting of blood cell was done manually which was inaccurate and depends on operator's skill. Counting of blood cells using image processing provides cost effective and accurate result than manual counting. During the counting process, the splitting of clumped cell is the most challenging issue. This paper represents segmentation and counting of RBCs and WBCs from microscopic blood sample images. Segmentation is done using Otsu's thresholding and morphological operations. Counting of cells is done using geometric features of cells. RBCs contain clumped cells which make the task of counting of cells accurately very challenging. For counting of RBCs, two different methods are used: 1) Watershed segmentation 2) Circular Hough Transform. Comparison of both this method is shown for randomly selected images. The performance of counting methods is also analyzed by comparing it with results obtained by manual counts. 

As on date, Speaker-specific feature extraction and modelling techniques has been designed in automatic speaker recognition (ASR) for a sufficient amount of speech data. Once the speech data is limited the ASR performance degraded drastically. ASR system for limited speech data is always a highly challenging task due to a short utterance. The main goal of ASR to form a judgment for an incoming speaker to the system as being which member of registered speakers. This paper presents a comparison of three different modelling techniques of speaker specific extracted information (i) Fuzzy c-means (FCM) (ii) Fuzzy Vector Quantization2 (FVQ2) and (iii) Novel Fuzzy Vector Quantization (NFVQ). Using these three modelling techniques, we developed a text independent automatic speaker recognition system that is computationally modest and equipped for recognizing a non-cooperative speaker. In this investigation, the speaker recognition efficiency is compared to less than 2 sec of text-independent test and train utterances of Texas Instruments and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIMIT) and self-collected database. The efficiency of ASR has been improved by 1% with the baseline by hiding the outliers and assigns them by their closest codebook vectors the efficiency of proposed modelling techniques is 98.8%, 98.1% respectively for TIMIT and self-collected database. 

The present decade has seen the growth of both, the software and hardware for three dimensional televisions in real time applications. Depth map is fundamental key of 3-Dimensional algorithms. Reliable depth map is an acceptance in 3D transmission, analysis and compression of algorithm. Computer vision and pattern recognition research fields use sensor like low cost Microsoft kinect. Kinect sensor suffers from some problems of noise, poor accuracy and unmatched edges. This paper presents effective solution to improve the real time depth sequences and real time 3-D map using warping method from kinect sensor.
We proposed real time frequency domain based depth data refurbishment and improve the quality of depth video provided by sensors' Microsoft Kinect. The quality of the depth map is improved by depth refurbishment in frequency domain technique, filling the holes present in the maps, 2-Dimensional spatial filtering and permutation of morphological operation. We show that the proposed approach is able to generate high quality depth maps which can be quite useful in improving the performance of various applications of Microsoft Kinect such as obstacle detection and avoidance, pose estimation, gesture recognition, skeletal and facial tracking, etc. We produce the real time 3-D map using warping method. An experimental result shows that the quality of our proposed method is better than previous research works. Our algorithm produces noise less, reliable, smooth and efficient depth sequence. The qualitative parameter Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structure Similarity Index Map (SSIM) and Mean Square Error (MSE) measure the real time results for comparative analysis.

Fully automatic brain tumor detection is one of the critical tasks in medical image processing. The proposed study discusses the tumor segmentation process by means of wavelet transformation and clustering technique. Initially, MRI brain images are preprocessed by various wavelet transformations to sharpen the images and enhance the tumor region. This helps to quicken the clustering technique since tumor region appears good in sharpened CSF region. Finally, a wavelet decomposition method is applied in CSF region and extracts the tumor portion. This proposed method analyzes the performance of various wavelet types such as Haar, Daubechies (db1, db2, db3, db4 and db5), Coiflet, Morlet and Symlet in MRI scans. Experiments with the proposed method were done on 5 volume datasets collected from the popular brain tumor pools are BRATS2012 and whole brain atlas. The quantitative measures of results were compared using the metrics false alarm (FA) and missed alarm (MA). The results demonstrate that the proposed method obtaining better performance in the terms of both quantity and visual appearance.