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        1 - Accurate Fire Detection System for Various Environments using Gaussian Mixture Model and HSV Space
        Khosro Rezaee Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad Mohammad Rasegh Ghezelbash Javad Haddadnia
        Smart and timely detection of fire can be very useful in coping with this phenomenon and its inhibition. Enhancing some image analysis methods such as converting RGB image to HSV image, smart selecting the threshold in fire separation, Gaussian mixture model, forming po More
        Smart and timely detection of fire can be very useful in coping with this phenomenon and its inhibition. Enhancing some image analysis methods such as converting RGB image to HSV image, smart selecting the threshold in fire separation, Gaussian mixture model, forming polygon the enclosed area resulted from edge detection and its combination with original image, this papers addresses fire detection. Accuracy and precision in performance and rapid detection of fire are among the features that distinguish this proposed system from similar fire detection systems such as Markov model, GM, DBFIR and other algorithms introduced in valid articles. The average accuracy (95%) resulted from testing 35000 frames in different fire environments and the high sensitivity (96%) was quite significant. This system be regarded as a reliable suitable alternative for the sensory set used in residential areas, but also the high speed image processing and accurate detection of fire in wide areas makes it low cost, reliable and appropriate. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Low Complexity Median Filter Hardware for Image Impulsive Noise Reduction
        Hossein Zamani HosseinAbadi samavi96 samavi96 Nader Karimi
        Median filters are commonly used for removal of the impulse noise from images. De-noising is a preliminary step in online processing of images, thus hardware implementation of median filters is of great interest. Hence, many methods, mostly based on sorting the pixels, More
        Median filters are commonly used for removal of the impulse noise from images. De-noising is a preliminary step in online processing of images, thus hardware implementation of median filters is of great interest. Hence, many methods, mostly based on sorting the pixels, have been developed to implement median filters. Utilizing vast amount of hardware resources and not being fast are the two main disadvantages of these methods. In this paper a method for filtering images is proposed to reduce the needed hardware elements. A modular pipelined median filter unit is first modeled and then the designed module is used in a parallel structure. Since the image is applied in rows and in a parallel manner, the amount of necessary hardware elements is reduced in comparison with other hardware implementation methods. Also, image filtering speed has increased. Implementation results show that the proposed method has advantageous speed and efficiency. Manuscript profile
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        3 - On-road Vehicle detection based on hierarchical clustering using adaptive vehicle localization
        Moslem  Mohammadi Jenghara Hossein Ebrahimpour Komleh
        Vehicle detection is one of the important tasks in automatic driving. It is a hard problem that many researchers focused on it. Most commercial vehicle detection systems are based on radar. But these methods have some problems such as have problem in zigzag motions. Im More
        Vehicle detection is one of the important tasks in automatic driving. It is a hard problem that many researchers focused on it. Most commercial vehicle detection systems are based on radar. But these methods have some problems such as have problem in zigzag motions. Image processing techniques can overcome these problems.This paper introduces a method based on hierarchical clustering using low-level image features for on-road vehicle detection. Each vehicle assumed as a cluster. In traditional clustering methods, the threshold distance for each cluster is fixed, but in this paper, the adaptive threshold varies according to the position of each cluster. The threshold measure is computed with bivariate normal distribution. Sampling and teammate selection for each cluster is applied by the members-based weighted average. For this purpose, unlike other methods that use only horizontal or vertical lines, a fully edge detection algorithm was utilized. Corner is an important feature of video images that commonly were used in vehicle detection systems. In this paper, Harris features are applied to detect the corners. LISA data set is used to evaluate the proposed method. Several experiments are applied to investigate the performance of proposed algorithm. Experimental results show good performance compared to other algorithms . Manuscript profile
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        4 - Crisis management using spatial query processing in wireless sensor networks
        mohammad shakeri seyyed majid mazinani
        Natural disasters are an inevitable part of the world that we inhabit. Human casualties and financial losses are concomitants of these natural disasters. However, by an efficient crisis management program, we can minimize their physical and social damages. The real chal More
        Natural disasters are an inevitable part of the world that we inhabit. Human casualties and financial losses are concomitants of these natural disasters. However, by an efficient crisis management program, we can minimize their physical and social damages. The real challenge in crisis management is the inability to timely receive the information from the stricken areas. Technology has come to the aid of crisis management programs to help find an answer to the problem. One of these technologies is wireless sensor network. With recent advances in this field, sensor nodes can independently respond to the queries from the users. This has transformed the processing of the queries into one of the most useful chapters in sensor networks. Without requiring any infrastructure, the sensor network can easily be deployed in the stricken area. And with the help of spatial query processing, it can easily provide managers with the latest information. The main problem, however, is the irregular shape of the area. Since these areas require many points to present them, the transmission of the coordinates by sensor nodes necessitates an increase in the number of data packet transmissions in the sensor network. The high number of packets considerably increases energy consumption. In related previous works, to solve this problem, line simplification algorithm s, such as Ramer-Douglas-Peucker (RDP), were used. These algorithms could lessen energy consumption by reducing the number of points in the shape of the area. In this article, we present a new algorithm to simplify packet shapes which can reduce more points with more accuracy. This results in decreasing the number of transmitted packets in the network, the concomitant reduction of energy consumption, and, finally, increasing network lifetime. Our proposed method was implemented in different scenarios and could on average reduce network’s energy consumption by 72.3%, while it caused only 4.5% carelessness which, when compared to previous methods, showed a far better performance. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Drone Detection by Neural Network Using GLCM and SURF Features
        Tanzia  Ahmed Tanvir  Rahman Bir  Ballav Roy Jia Uddin
        This paper presents a vision-based drone detection method. There are a number of researches on object detection which includes different feature extraction methods – all of those are used distinctly for the experiments. But in the proposed model, a hybrid feature extrac More
        This paper presents a vision-based drone detection method. There are a number of researches on object detection which includes different feature extraction methods – all of those are used distinctly for the experiments. But in the proposed model, a hybrid feature extraction method using SURF and GLCM is used to detect object by Neural Network which has never been experimented before. Both are very popular ways of feature extraction. Speeded-up Robust Feature (SURF) is a blob detection algorithm which extracts the points of interest from an integral image, thus converts the image into a 2D vector. The Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) calculates the number of occurrences of consecutive pixels in same spatial relationship and represents it in a new vector- 8 × 8 matrix of best possible attributes of an image. SURF is a popular method of feature extraction and fast matching of images, whereas, GLCM method extracts the best attributes of the images. In the proposed model, the images were processed first to fit our feature extraction methods, then the SURF method was implemented to extract the features from those images into a 2D vector. Then for our next step GLCM was implemented which extracted the best possible features out of the previous vector, into a 8 × 8 matrix. Thus, image is processed in to a 2D vector and feature extracted from the combination of both SURF and GLCM methods ensures the quality of the training dataset by not just extracting features faster (with SURF) but also extracting the best of the point of interests (with GLCM). The extracted featured related to the pattern are used in the neural network for training and testing. Pattern recognition algorithm has been used as a machine learning tool for the training and testing of the model. In the experimental evaluation, the performance of proposed model is examined by cross entropy for each instance and percentage error. For the tested drone dataset, experimental results demonstrate improved performance over the state-of-art models by exhibiting less cross entropy and percentage error. Manuscript profile
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        6 - Comparing the Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Images Using Deep Convolutional Networks: SegNet, HRNet, CSE-HRNet and RCA-FCN
        Nafiseh Sadeghi Homayoun Mahdavi-Nasab Mansoor Zeinali Hossein Pourghasem
        Semantic segmentation is a branch of computer vision, used extensively in image search engines, automated driving, intelligent agriculture, disaster management, and other machine-human interactions. Semantic segmentation aims to predict a label for each pixel from a giv More
        Semantic segmentation is a branch of computer vision, used extensively in image search engines, automated driving, intelligent agriculture, disaster management, and other machine-human interactions. Semantic segmentation aims to predict a label for each pixel from a given label set, according to semantic information. Among the proposed methods and architectures, researchers have focused on deep learning algorithms due to their good feature learning results. Thus, many studies have explored the structure of deep neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks. Most of the modern semantic segmentation models are based on fully convolutional networks (FCN), which first replace the fully connected layers in common classification networks with convolutional layers, getting pixel-level prediction results. After that, a lot of methods are proposed to improve the basic FCN methods results. With the increasing complexity and variety of existing data structures, more powerful neural networks and the development of existing networks are needed. This study aims to segment a high-resolution (HR) image dataset into six separate classes. Here, an overview of some important deep learning architectures will be presented with a focus on methods producing remarkable scores in segmentation metrics such as accuracy and F1-score. Finally, their segmentation results will be discussed and we would see that the methods, which are superior in the overall accuracy and overall F1-score, are not necessarily the best in all classes. Therefore, the results of this paper lead to the point to choose the segmentation algorithm according to the application of segmentation and the importance degree of each class. Manuscript profile