In this study, authors present an enhanced approach of face detection using bacteria foraging technique. This approach is based on chemotexis, reproduction and elimination and dispersal step. In this study the authors analysed face detection algorithm based on human skin color and fitting the...

Most of matching or verification phases of fingerprint systems use minutiae types and orientation angle to find matched minutiae pairs from the input and template fingerprints. Unfortunately, due to some non-linear distortions, like excessive pressure and fingers twisting during enrollment, this...

Nowadays, processing of Multimedia information leads to high computational cost due its larger size especially for video processing. In order to reduce the size of the video and to save the user's time in spending their attention on whole video, video summarization is adopted. However, it can be...

Falls are the major health problem among older people who live alone in their home. In the past few years, several studies have been proposed to solve the dilemma especially those which exploit video surveillance. In this paper, in order to allow older adult to safely continue living in home...

In this study the over-enhancement problem of traditional Histogram-Equalization (HE) has been removed to some extent by a variant of HE called Range Optimized Entropy based Bi-Histogram Equalization (ROEBHE). In ROEBHE image histogram has been thresholded into two sub-histograms i.e. histograms...

A video is composed of set of shots, where shot is defined as a sequence of consecutive frames captured by one camera without interruption. In video shot transition could be a prompt (hard cut) or gradual (fade, dissolve, and wipe). Shot boundary detection is an essential component of video...

In this paper, a line parameter based approach is presented to identify the handwritten scripts written in eight popular scripts. Since Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines are usually script-dependent, automatic text recognition in multi-script environment requires a pre-processing...

In this paper a system for the recognition of printed Tifinagh characters is presented. It is divided into three main steps: preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification. Image quality is enhanced through preprocessing which are: binarization, normalization and thinning. Then the image...

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the process of retrieving visually similar images from huge datasets. Images are identified based on their content. Content identification using shape features is considered in this paper. Content identification using shapes is a challenging task...

In this paper, the authors proposed a Scale Space Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients method (SS Co-HOG) for retrieving words from digitized handwritten documents. The poor performance of HOG based word spotting in handwritten documents is due to that HOG ignores spatial information...