Stock trading has tremendous importance not just as a profession but also as an income source for individuals. Many investment account holders use the appreciation of their portfolio (as a combination of stocks or indexes) as income for their retirement years, mostly betting on stocks or indexes...

An iterative technique for the removal of artifacts caused by the near field effects of a coded aperture imaging system is presented. The technique, we we call z-Clean, first locates high energy sources within a three dimensional field of view using a least squares method and then removes the...

Gathering and examining progressively multi-modular sensor information of human faces is a critical issue in PC vision, with applications in examinations, entertainment, and security. However, due to the exigent nature of the problem, there is a lack of affordable and easy-to-use systems, with...

This article describes how robust image processing application rely heavily on image descriptors extracted. Limited work is carried out in adopting probabilistic finite state automata (PFSA) models for image processing. A finite state automata for image processing (FSAFIP) method is presented...

The article proposes an image processing-based automatic methodology for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. In pathology, staining and sectioning of tissues are routinely used as a primary technique to detect cancer. In this methodology, the colorectal gland tissues are segmented by using...

Schistosomiasis is serious liver tissues' parasitic disease that leads to liver fibrosis. Microscopic liver tissue images at different stages can be used for assessment of the fibrosis level. In the current article, the different stages of granuloma were classified after features extraction....

Face recognition is considered as one of toughest and most crucial leading domains of digital image processing. The human brain also uses a similar kind of technique for face recognition. When scrutinizing a face, the human brain signifies the result. Aside from AN automatic processing system,...

In this article, in order to improve tree volume calculation method, a measurement method based on tree information point feature extraction is proposed, the method based on image processing and binocular vision, according to the measurement result of information point change and tree growth...

In this article, we have proposed a novel tool that helps to objectively quantify eye blink rate. Using the proposed algorithm, a threshold for normal blink rate can be set to test those who have to reduce eye blink rate and are prone to ocular surface dryness. The statistical results show...

This article describes how in the production process of musical instruments, the width between textures in the panel determine their quality directly. In traditional production process, people observe the texture by eyes to determine whether the panel qualified. This method is inefficient and...

The rise in technology has had a tremendous impact in the field of healthcare. Moreover, the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing when applied to the field of healthcare can ease the process by helping doctors better monitor their patients thereby enabling a speedy recovery. This paper...

This work describes a relatively simple yet effective method for analyzing harmonic distortions and spectral analysis of electronic signals up to the MHz range. The method involves the use a suitable analog or digital oscilloscopes to present the signal, taking a digital picture of the...

Automated guided vehicles’ application in production facilities increases continuously. As these vehicles count as the industrialized version of mobile robots, the later ones can be regarded as the future of industrial AGVs. One of the most important issue of mobile robots is sensors....

Automated guided vehicles’ application in production facilities increases continuously. As these vehicles count as the industrialized version of mobile robots, the later ones can be regarded as the future of industrial AGVs. One of the most important issue of mobile robots is sensors....

Introduction and objective: Computer Aided Decision (CAD) systems based on Medical Imaging could support radiologists in grading Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by means of Computed Tomography (CT) images, thus avoiding medical invasive procedures such as biopsies. The identification and...

Public speaking is an essential skill in a large variety of professions and also in everyday life. However, it can be difficult to master. This paper focuses on the automatic assessment of nonverbal facial behavior during public speaking and proposes simple and efficient methods of head pose...

This paper proposes an approach for a robust tracking method to the objects intersection with appearances similar to a target object. The target is image sequences taken by a moving camera in this paper. Tracking methods using color information tend to track mistakenly a background region or an...

This study is developed from the application software, called “Eyetalk” which supports communication for handicapped people studied by Torii laboratory, Aichi Institute of Technology and modified it to be used by the physically handicapped people with involuntary movement (Abnormal movement...

This paper discusses recent and unique inventions in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). To that end, firstly the authors discuss the Sixth Sense Technology. This technology allows users to interact with virtual objects in the real world in a unique manner. It has a number of applications which...

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This article presents a local entropy based image reconstruction algorithm that performs quite well in cases where there is distortion in an image. If the "wanted" image information is still available but distributed over two or more distinct images, the algorithm can collect the required...

In this paper, region based stereo matching algorithms are developed for extraction depth information from two colour stereo image pair of waste bin. Depth calculation technique from a disparity map is a key part of this study. A filter eliminating unreliable disparity estimation was used for...

Vast reserves of information are found in ancient texts, scripts, stone tablets etc. However due to difficulty in creating new physical copies of such texts, knowledge to be obtained from them is limited to those few who have access to such resources. With the advent of Optical Character...

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...

Image Mosaicing is an image processing technique that arises from the need of having a more realistic view of the real world wider than the view captured by the lenses of the available cameras. In this paper, a sequence of images will be mosaiced using binary edge detection algorithm in a...

The main idea of this paper is to provide an insight to the reader and create awareness on some of the basic Curve Fitting techniques that have evolved and existed over the past few decades. A critical survey has been done on the various Curve Fitting methodologies proposed by various...

"This book focuses on existing and proposed methods for medical imaging, signal processing, and analysis for the purposes of diagnosing and monitoring patient conditions, featuring the most recent empirical research findings in the areas of signal processing for biomedical applications with an...

This book about mathematics and methodology for economics is the result of the lifelong experience of the authors. It is written for university students as well as for students of applied sciences. This self-contained book does not assume any previous knowledge of high school mathematics and...

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is the problem of approximating a nonnegative matrix with the product of two low-rank nonnegative matrices and has been shown to be particularly useful in many applications, e.g., in text mining, image processing, computational biology, etc. In this paper,...