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Pupil Detection Based on Color Difference and Circular Hough Transfor

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3278-3284
Hazim G. Daway , Hana H. kareem , Ahmed Rafid Hashim
Human pupil eye detection is a significant stage in iris segmentation which is representing one of the most important steps in iris recognition. In this paper, we present a new method of highly accurate pupil detection. This method is consisting of many steps to detect the boundary of the pupil. First, the read eye image (R, G, B), then determine the work area which is consist of many steps to detect the boundary of the pupil. The determination of the work area contains many circles which are larger than pupil region. The work area is necessary to determine pupil region and neighborhood regions afterward the difference in color and intensity between pupil region and surrounding area is utilized, where the pupil region has color and intensity less than surrounding area. After the process of detecting pupil region many steps on the resulting image is applied in order to concentrate the pupil region and delete the others regions by using many methods such as dilation, erosion, canny filter, circle hough transforms to detect pupil region as well as apply optimization to choose the best circle that represents the pupil area. The proposed method is applied for images from palacky university, it achieves to 100 % accurac
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3278-3284
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Laptop Cooling Pad Temperature Monitoring System

10.11591/ijeecs.v12.i1.pp420-427
Shamsul Kamal Ahmad Khalid , Noor Azah Samsudin , Nor Amirul Amri Nordin , Muhammad Syariff Aripin
Cooling pads are commonly used to reduce temperature of laptop to avoid overheating problem. However, existing cooling pads are prone to various limitations: fixed voltage in the hardware component, inaccurate temperature readings and lacked of computer-based temperature monitoring functions. In this paper, a laptop cooling system with multivoltage fan speed controller using real-time processor temperature readings is proposed. A graphical user interface (GUI) and color coded LEDs are also implemented to provide visual inspection of the temperature values captured from the laptop. The temperature values are displayed in graph and tabular form.  The performance of the proposed cooling pad with computer-based monitoring application is evaluated against two other types of existing cooling pad systems.  The experiments have shown that the temperature values can be monitored clearly with the proposed GUI. More importantly, the proposed cooling pad system has the potential to achieve lower temperature faster than the rest of the existing cooling pad systems.
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
Page: 420-427
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Hysteresis-based Voltage and Current Control Techniques for Grid Connected Solar Photovoltaic Systems: Comparative Study

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2671-2681
S. Raja Mohamed , P. Aruna Jeyanthy , D. Devaraj
Solar PV system development and integration with existing grid is very fast in recent years all over the world, as they require limited maintenance, pollution free and simple structure. When observing the factors affecting the performance of the grid connected solar photovoltaic system, the inverter output voltage with harmonics add with the harmonics generated due to the non-linear loads, retain a bigger challenge to maintain power quality in the grid. To maintain grid power quality, better inverter control technique should be developed. This paper presents the two control techniques for grid-tied inverters. This study developed the hysteresis controller for the inverter. Hysteresis controller used in this work two way (i) Voltage control mode (ii) Current control mode. Matlab/Simulink model is developed for the proposed system. Further the study presents the comparative evaluation of the performance of both control techniques based on the percentage of total harmonic distortion (THD) with the limits specified by the standards such as IEEE 1547 and IEC 61727 and IEEE Std 519-2014
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 2671-2681
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Novel Approach for Evaluating Video Transmission using Combined Scalable Video Coding over Wireless Broadband Network

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3407-3416
Kalvein Rantelobo , Kalamullah Ramli , Wirawan Wirawan
One of the main problems in video transmission is the bandwidth fluctuation in wireless channel. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find an efficient bandwidth utilization and method. This research utilizes the Combined Scalable Video Coding (CSVC) which comes from Joint Scalable Video Model (JSVM). In the combined scalable video coding, we implement Coarse Grain Scalability (CGS) and Medium Grain Scalability (MGS). We propose a new scheme in which it can be implemented on Network Simulator II (NS-2) over wireless broadband network. The advantages of this new scheme over the other schemes are more realistic and based on open source program. The result shows that CSVC implementation on MGS mode outperforms CGS mode.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3407-3416
Publish at: 2018-10-01

An Effective Data Privacy Mechanism through Secure Session Key Exchange Model for MANET

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3267-3277
K. Ramesh Rao , S.N. Tirumala Rao , P. Chenna Reddy
Data privacy in the mobile ad-hoc network is a problem due to wireless medium, frequent node movement and lack of any centralized infrastructure support. In such case, it is very important to build a reliable and secure network and achieve high throughput in MANET. The reliability and security of a network depend on whether the network remains linked to different failures and malicious activities, which is the fundamental issue that needs to be focused when designing a secure routing protocol in MANET. This paper proposes an effective privacy mechanism to handle data security through a novel secure session key exchange model, which provides the node data privacy and network stability for a longer period of time and prevents abnormal behavior changes due to malicious behavior and different type of attacks in the network. The simulation results show improvement in throughput with nominal overhead and end-to-end delay in different malicious conditions against existing protocols.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3267-3277
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Design of CW THz PhotonicTtransmitter based on Low Pass-Filter and Bow-tie Wideband Antenna

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3801-3808
Ibtissame Moumane , J. Zbitou , M. Latrach , A. Errkik , O. Chakkor , A. Fouad
This paper presents the design of Continuous Wave Terahertz photonic transmitters which is composed from photodetector (PD) associated to a wideband antenna, low–pass filter (LPF) and DC Probe. Firstly, we have developed the bow-tie wideband antenna using an EM solver Momentum integrated in ADS “Advanced Design System”. Then we had optimized a low-pass filter which is responsible of blocking the RF signal providing from the antenna to reach the DC probe. And finally, we have validated into simulation the CW THz photonic transmitter. The three structures are based on multi-layers GaAs substrate, which is the most widely used for THz circuit design. The dimensions of the Whole circuit are 776.788 × 303.39〖μm〗^2.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3801-3808
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Wave File Features Extraction using Reduced LBP

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2780-2787
Aws Al-Qaisi , Saleh A. Khawatreh , Ahmad A. Sharadqah , Ziad A. Alqadi
In this work, we present a novel approach for extracting features of a digital wave file. This approach will be presented, implemented and tested. A signature or a key to any wave file will be created.  This signature will be reduced to minimize the efforts of digital signal processing applications. Hence, the features array can be used as key to recover a wave file from a database consisting of several wave files using reduced Local binary patterns (RLBP). Experimental results are presented and show that The proposed RLBP method is at least 3 times faster than CSLBP method, which mean that the proposed method is more efficient.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 2780-2787
Publish at: 2018-10-01

An Efficient Filtering Technique for Denoising Colour Images

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3604-3608
K. Arun Sai , K. Ravi
Single-sensor digital cameras capture image with the aid of masking the sensor surface along a colour filter array(CFA) such that every sensor pixel solely samples certain of three primary colour values i.e., R (red),G (green) and B (blue). To get a full-colour image, an interpolation method commonly referred in conformity with CFA demosaicking is required to estimate the other two contributions for producing a full-colour image. But, the clutter in imaging sensors not only corrupts the colour filter array but also introduces artifacts at some stage in the colour interpolation step and affects the characteristics of image. To acquire high quality full-colour image, a kind of viable and effective interpolation algorithm based over gradient is used. This technique can remove the noise effectively by retaining image border and detail data clearly.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3604-3608
Publish at: 2018-10-01

A Framework for Arabic Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis using SenticNet

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp4015-4022
Hend G. Hassan , Hitham M. Abo Bakr , Ibrahim E. Ziedan
Arabic Sentiment analysis research field has been progressing in a slow pace compared to English and other languages. In addition to that most of the contributions are based on using supervised machine learning algorithms while comparing the performance of different classifiers with different selected stylistic and syntactic features. In this paper, we presented a novel framework for using the Concept-level sentiment analysis approach which classifies text based on their semantics rather than syntactic features. Moreover, we provided a lexicon dataset of around 69 k unique concepts that covers multi-domain reviews collected from the internet. We also tested the lexicon on a test sample from the dataset it was collected from and obtained an accuracy of 70%. The lexicon has been made publicly available for scientific purposes.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 4015-4022
Publish at: 2018-10-01

A Multi Criteria Recommendation Engine Model for Cloud Renderfarm Services

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3214-3220
Ruby Annette , Aisha Banu W , Subash Chandran P
Cloud services that provide a complete platform for rendering the animation files using the resources in the cloud are known as cloud renderfarm services. This work proposes a multi criteria recommendation engine model for recommending these Cloud renderfarm services to animators. The services are recommended based on the functional requirements of the animation file to be rendered like the rendering software, plug-in required etc and the non functional Quality of Service (QoS) requirements like render node cost, time taken to upload animation files etc. The proposed recommendation engine model uses a domain specific ontology of renderfarm services to identify the right services that could satisfy the functional requirements of the user and ranks the identified services using the popular Multi Criteria Decision Analysis method like Simple Additive Weighting (SAW). The ranked list of services is provided as recommended services to the animators in the ranking order. The Recommendation model was tested to rank and recommend the cloud renderfarm services in multi criteria requirements by assigning different QoS criteria weight for each scenario. The ranking based recommendations were generated for six different scenarios and the results were analyzed. The results show that the services recommended for each scenario were different and were highly dependent on the weights assigned to each criterion.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3214-3220
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Enhancement of On-grid PV System under Irradiance and Temperature Variations Using New Optimized Adaptive Controller

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2650-2660
Othman A. M Omar , Niveen M. Badra , Mahmoud A. Attia
Solar Energy is one of the key solutions to future electrical power generation. Photovoltaic Plants (PV) are fast growing to satisfy electrical power demand. Different maximum power point tracking techniques (MPPT) are used to maximize PV systems generated power. In this paper, on grid PV system model in MATLAB SIMULINK is tested under sudden irradiance and cell temperature variations. Incremental Conductance MPPT is used to maximize generated power from the PV system with the help of new adaptive controller to withstand these heavy disturbances. The new adaptive controller is tuned for optimal operation using two different optimization techniques (Invasive weed and Harmony search).Optimization results for the two techniques are compared. .A robustness test is made to check system stability to withstand different random irradiance and cell temperature patterns without failure to track the maximum power point.Finally, a brief comparison is made with a previous literature and the new adaptive controller gives better results.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 2650-2660
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Determining Basis Test Paths Using Genetic Algorithm and J4

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3333-3340
Achmad Arwan , Denny Sagita Rusdianto
Basis test paths is a method that uses a graph contains nodes as a representation of codes and the lines as a sequence of code execution steps. Determination of basis test paths can be generated using a Genetic Algorithm, but the drawback was the number of iterations affect the possibility of visibility of the appropriate basis path. When the iteration is less, there is a possibility the paths do not appear all. Conversely, if the iteration is too much, all the paths have appeared in the middle of iteration. This research aims to optimize the performance of Genetic Algorithms for the generation of Basis Test Paths by determining how many iterations level corresponding to the characteristics of the code. Code metrics Node, Edge, VG, NBD, LOC were used as features to determine the number of iterations. J48 classifier was employed as a method to predict the number of iterations. There were 17 methods have selected as a data training, and 16 methods as a data test. The system was able to predict 84.5% of 58 basis paths. Efficiency test results also show that our system was able to seek Basis Paths 35% faster than the old system.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3333-3340
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Permanent Fault Location in Distribution System Using Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) in Phase Domain

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp2709-2720
Ali Khaleghi , Mahmoud oukati Sadegh , Mahdi Ghazizadeh Ahsaee
This paper proposes a new method for locating high impedance fault in distribution systems using phasor measurement units (PMUs) installed at certain locations of the system. To implement this algorithm, at first a new method is suggested for the placement of PMUs. Taking information from the units, voltage and current of the entire distribution system are calculated. Then, the two buses in which the fault has been occurred is determined, and location and type of the fault are identified. The main characteristics of the proposed method are: the use of distributed parameter line model in phase domain, considering the presence of literals, and high precision in calculating the high impedance fault location. The results obtained from simulations in EMTP-RV and MATLAB software indicate high accuracy and independence of the proposed method from the fault type, fault location and fault resistance compared to previous methods, so that the maximum observed error was less than 0.15%
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 2709-2720
Publish at: 2018-10-01

Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Control Approach for a Single Inverted Pendulum System

10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3657-3665
Mohammed A. A. Al-Mekhlafi , Herman Wahid , Azian Abd Aziz
The inverted pendulum is an under-actuated and nonlinear system, which is also unstable. It is a single-input double-output system, where only one output is directly actuated. This paper investigates a single intelligent control system using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to stabilize the inverted pendulum system while tracking the desired position. The non-linear inverted pendulum system was modelled and built using MATLAB Simulink. An adaptive neuro-fuzzy logic controller was implemented and its performance was compared with a Sugeno-fuzzy inference system in both simulation and real experiment. The ANFIS controller could reach its desired new destination in 1.5 s and could stabilize the entire system in 2.2 s in the simulation, while in the experiment it took 1.7 s to reach stability. Results from the simulation and experiment showed that ANFIS had better performance compared to the Sugeno-fuzzy controller as it provided faster and smoother response and much less steady-state error.
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
Page: 3657-3665
Publish at: 2018-10-01

An Accurate Medium-Term Load Forecasting based on Hybrid Technique

10.11591/ijeecs.v12.i1.pp161-167
Z.M. Yasin , N.F.A. Aziz , N.A. Salim , N.A. Wahab , N.A. Rahmat
An accurate medium term load forecasting is significant for power generation scheduling, economic and reliable operation in power system. Most of classical approach for medium term load forecasting only consider total daily load demand. This approach may not provide accurate results since the load demand is fluctuated in a day. In this paper, a hybrid Ant-Lion Optimizer Least-square Support Vector Machine (ALO-LSSVM) is proposed to forecast 24-hour load demand for the next year. Ant-Lion Optimizer (ALO) is utilized to optimize the RBF Kernel parameters in Least-Square Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM). The objective of the optimization is to minimize the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The performance of ALO-LSSVM technique was compared with those obtained from LS-SVM technique through a 10-fold cross-validation procedure. The historical hourly load data are analyzed and appropriate features are selected for the model. There are 24 inputs and 24 outputs vectors for this model which represents 24-hour load demand for whole year. The results revealed that the high accuracy of prediction could be achieved using ALO-LSSVM.
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
Page: 161-167
Publish at: 2018-10-01
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