Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA New Modified Gaussian Mixture Model for Color-Texture SegmentationM. Sujaritha, S. AnnaduraiProblem statement: This study presents a new, simple and efficient modified Gaussian mixture model based clustering algorithm for color-texture segmentation. The proposed mixture model introduces a new component density function which incorporates spatial information and the weighting factor for neighborhood effect is fully adaptive to the image content. Approach: It enhances the smoothness towards piecewise-homogeneous segmentation and reduces the edge-blurring … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 25 Feb 2011 · 7,332 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractForecasting Daily Demand in Cash Supply ChainsMichael WagnerProblem statement: Previous studies focused on explaining the long run determinants of currency demand offering limited insight into the short-run determinants and co-variability of daily demand in cash supply chains. Approach: This study contrasted competing techniques of forecasting daily demand in cash supply chains in order to determine the overall performance and the potential of joint forecasting for integrated planning. … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 28 Nov 2010 · 7,743 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDFM of Strained-Engineered MOSFETs Using Technology CADT. K. Maiti, C. K. MaitiProblem statement: In this study, a systematic study based on Technology CAD (TCAD) was taken up for the design and Virtual Wafer Fabrication (VWF) of strain-engineered MOSFETs in Si CMOS technology. Approach: A simple manufacturable process recipe was developed to induce uniaxial stress in channel region to obtain enhanced performance in CMOS in 45 nm technology node. Results: Using Synopsys … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 5 Nov 2010 · 7,668 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCultural Identity Expressions through Visual Analysis in Post-Disaster HousingAsal Kamani Fard, Mohd Hamdan Ahmad, Dilshan Remaz OssenProblem statement: The incidence of natural disasters as well as followed human beings’ efforts for reestablishing life is considered as unavoidable essence of nature. Whilst, the interdisciplinary theme of post disaster recovery and reconstruction has been researched worldwide in order to examine its different aspects. And within architectural interests, evaluating the housing reconstruction programs would lead to beneficial clues through … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2010 · 7,273 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHead Gesture Analysis using Matrix Group Displacement AlgorithmMahmoud Z. IskandaraniA novel algorithm for head gestures interpretation is designed and tested. The designed system carries out gesture detection and recognition using the MGDA algorithm, which implements random sampling and importance sampling, such technique can track head poses and estimate head positions. Problem statement: Head position is an important indicator of a person’s focus of attention, which can be used as … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 11 · 23 Oct 2010 · 7,251 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Event-Based Methodology to Generate Class Diagrams and its Empirical EvaluationSandeep K. Singh, Sangeeta Sabharwal, J. P. GuptaProblem statement: Event-based systems have importance in many application domains ranging from real time monitoring systems in production, logistics, medical devices and networking to complex event processing in finance and security. The increasing popularity of Event-based systems has opened new challenging issues for them. One such issue is to carry out requirements analysis of event-based systems and build conceptual models. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 11 · 23 Oct 2010 · 7,632 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHand Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer InteractionS. Mohamed Mansoor Roomi, R. Jyothi Priya, H. JayalakshmiProblem statement: With the development of ubiquitous computing, current user interaction approaches with keyboard, mouse and pen are not sufficient. Due to the limitation of these devices the useable command set is also limited. Direct use of hands can be used as an input device for providing natural interaction. Approach: In this study, Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) was used to … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2010 · 8,314 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvolution of Neural Controllers for Robot Navigation in Human EnvironmentsGenci Capi, Hideki TodaProblem statement: In this study, we presented a novel vision-based learning approach for autonomous robot navigation. Approach: In our method, we converted the captured image in a binary one, which after the partition is used as the input of the neural controller. Results: The neural control system, which maps the visual information to motor commands, is evolved online using real … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2010 · 6,788 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractStudy of the Permeability of Foam Conditioned Soils with Laboratory TestsLuca Borio, Daniele PeilaProblem statement: EPB tunneling requires that the excavated soil has a plastic and pulpy behavior to be able to apply a stabilizing pressure to the face, but it should also be impervious to counteract filtration forces that could develop ahead of the face. The evaluation of this parameter in granular soil, before and after conditioning, is therefore of key importance … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 31 Aug 2010 · 8,468 accessesView PDFCite