Review on Classification Methods used in Image based Sign Language Recognition System

Sign language is the way of communication among the Deaf-Dumb people by expressing signs. This paper is present review on Sign language Recognition system that aims to provide communication way for Deaf and Dumb pople. This paper describes review of Image based sign language recognition system. Signs are in the form of hand gestures and these gestures are identified from images as well as videos. Gestures are identified and classified according to features of Gesture image. Features are like shape, rotation, angle, pixels, hand movement etc. Features are finding by various Features Extraction methods and classified by various machine learning methods. Main pupose of this paper is to review on classification methods of similar systems used in Image based hand gesture recognition . This paper also describe comarison of various system on the base of classification methods and accuracy rate

RFID Technology in Intelligent Tracking Systems in Construction Waste Logistics Using Optimisation Techniques

Construction waste disposal is an urgent issue for protecting our environment. This paper proposes a waste management system and illustrates the work process using plasterboard waste as an example, which creates a hazardous gas when land filled with household waste, and for which the recycling rate is less than 10% in the UK. The proposed system integrates RFID technology, Rule-Based Reasoning, Ant Colony optimization and knowledge technology for auditing and tracking plasterboard waste, guiding the operation staff, arranging vehicles, schedule planning, and also provides evidence to verify its disposal. It h relies on RFID equipment for collecting logistical data and uses digital imaging equipment to give further evidence; the reasoning core in the third layer is responsible for generating schedules and route plans and guidance, and the last layer delivers the result to inform users. The paper firstly introduces the current plasterboard disposal situation and addresses the logistical problem that is now the main barrier to a higher recycling rate, followed by discussion of the proposed system in terms of both system level structure and process structure. And finally, an example scenario will be given to illustrate the system’s utilization

Semantic radical consistency and character transparency effects in Chinese: an ERP study

BACKGROUND: This event-related potential (ERP) study aims to investigate the representation and temporal dynamics of Chinese orthography-to-semantics mappings by simultaneously manipulating character transparency and semantic radical consistency. Character components, referred to as radicals, make up the building blocks used dur...postprin

Interprétation visuelle de gestes pour l'interaction homme-machine

Nowadays, people want to interact with machines more naturally. One of the powerful communication channels is hand gesture. Vision-based approach has involved many researchers because this approach does not require any extra device. One of the key problems we need to resolve is hand posture recognition on RGB images because it can be used directly or integrated into a multi-cues hand gesture recognition. The main challenges of this problem are illumination differences, cluttered background, background changes, high intra-class variation, and high inter-class similarity. This thesis proposes a hand posture recognition system consists two phases that are hand detection and hand posture recognition. In hand detection step, we employed Viola-Jones detector with proposed concept Internal Haar-like feature. The proposed hand detection works in real-time within frames captured from real complex environments and avoids unexpected effects of background. The proposed detector outperforms original Viola-Jones detector using traditional Haar-like feature. In hand posture recognition step, we proposed a new hand representation based on a good generic descriptor that is kernel descriptor (KDES). When applying KDES into hand posture recognition, we proposed three improvements to make it more robust that are adaptive patch, normalization of gradient orientation in patches, and hand pyramid structure. The improvements make KDES invariant to scale change, patch-level feature invariant to rotation, and final hand representation suitable to hand structure. Based on these improvements, the proposed method obtains better results than original KDES and a state of the art method.Aujourd'hui, les utilisateurs souhaitent interagir plus naturellement avec les systèmes numériques. L'une des modalités de communication la plus naturelle pour l'homme est le geste de la main. Parmi les différentes approches que nous pouvons trouver dans la littérature, celle basée sur la vision est étudiée par de nombreux chercheurs car elle ne demande pas de porter de dispositif complémentaire. Pour que la machine puisse comprendre les gestes à partir des images RGB, la reconnaissance automatique de ces gestes est l'un des problèmes clés. Cependant, cette approche présente encore de multiples défis tels que le changement de point de vue, les différences d'éclairage, les problèmes de complexité ou de changement d'environnement. Cette thèse propose un système de reconnaissance de gestes statiques qui se compose de deux phases : la détection et la reconnaissance du geste lui-même. Dans l'étape de détection, nous utilisons un processus de détection d'objets de Viola Jones avec une caractérisation basée sur des caractéristiques internes d'Haar-like et un classifieur en cascade AdaBoost. Pour éviter l'influence du fond, nous avons introduit de nouvelles caractéristiques internes d'Haar-like. Ceci augmente de façon significative le taux de détection de la main par rapport à l'algorithme original. Pour la reconnaissance du geste, nous avons proposé une représentation de la main basée sur un noyau descripteur KDES (Kernel Descriptor) très efficace pour la classification d'objets. Cependant, ce descripteur n'est pas robuste au changement d'échelle et n'est pas invariant à l'orientation. Nous avons alors proposé trois améliorations pour surmonter ces problèmes : i) une normalisation de caractéristiques au niveau pixel pour qu'elles soient invariantes à la rotation ; ii) une génération adaptative de caractéristiques afin qu'elles soient robustes au changement d'échelle ; iii) une construction spatiale spécifique à la structure de la main au niveau image. Sur la base de ces améliorations, la méthode proposée obtient de meilleurs résultats par rapport au KDES initial et aux descripteurs existants. L'intégration de ces deux méthodes dans une application montre en situation réelle l'efficacité, l'utilité et la faisabilité de déployer un tel système pour l'interaction homme-robot utilisant les gestes de la main

Large-scale Cellular Imaging of Neuronal Activity: a Study of Neural Individuality and a Method for Imaging Mouse Cortex

The brain contains an enormous number of neurons with diverse gene expression, morphology, and connectivity. These neurons exhibit distinct activity in the course of behaviors. The study of neural coding of a specific behavior necessitates recording activity from multifarious neurons in the circuit.One appealing approach is to simultaneously image the activity of a very large neuronal population at cellular resolution. However, recording calcium signals from tens of thousands of neurons at one time is not trivial. The gold standard technique, two-photon laser-scanning microscopy, typically permits recording from hundreds of neurons. Recently, we developed objective-coupled planar illumination (OCPI) microscopy, which uses thin sheets of light to image whole volumes of ∼ 10, 000 neurons within 2 seconds. Mydissertation includes an application and a further methodological development of such a fast large-scale imaging technique: 1) Large-scale functional imaging revealsindividuality, dimorphism, and plasticity of mouse pheromone-sensing neurons.Different individuals exhibit distinctive behaviors, which is presumably attributed to the neuronal differences between brains. However, studying neural individuality, especially at the level of the function of single neurons, requires an effective approach to measure cellular activity of a diverse neuronal population in a circuit. Here using OCPI microscopy, I performed calcium imaging of pheromone-sensing neurons in the intact mouse vomeronasal organ. Exhaustive recording enabled robust detection of 17 functionally-defined neuronal types in each animal. Inter-animal differences were much larger than expected from random sampling, and different cell types showed distinct degrees of variability. One prominent difference was a neuronal type present in males and virtually absent in females, and animals exhibited a corresponding dimorphism in investigatory behavior. Surprisingly, this dimorphism was not innate but generated by plasticity, as exposure to female scents led to both the elimination of this cell type and alterations in behavior. The finding that an all-or-none dimorphism in neuronal types is controlled by experience--even in a sensory system devoted to innate responses--highlights the extraordinary role of nurture in neural individuality. 2) A new generation of OCPI microscopy enables unprecedentedlarge-scalein vivoimaging of mouse brain activity by light-sheet microscopy. I have built a new variant of OCPI microscope, horizontal scanning objective-coupled planar lumination (hsOCPI) microscope, with enhanced imaging volume and speed by ∼ 15 fold compared to OCPI, thereby capable of recording ∼ 100, 000 neurons simultaneously. Using this technique, I imaged the entire nervous system of the larval zebrafish (including the spinal cord) and a square-millimeter patch of mouse cortexex vivo. The miniaturized optics around the specimen allowed in vivo imaging through a cranial window of a head-fixed mouse. This technique is the first application of light-sheet microscopy in calcium imaging of mouse cortexin vivo. The exceptional large-scale sampling of cortical activity with cellular resolution should usher new insights into the functions of brain circuits

Towards Robust Long-form Text Generation Systems

Text generation is an important emerging AI technology that has seen significant research advances in recent years. Due to its closeness to how humans communicate, mastering text generation technology can unlock several important applications such as intelligent chat-bots, creative writing assistance, or newer applications like task-agnostic few-shot learning. Most recently, the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs) has resulted in systems like ChatGPT, capable of generating fluent, coherent and human-like text. However, despite their remarkable capabilities, LLMs still suffer from several limitations, particularly when generating long-form text. In particular, (1) long-form generated text is filled with factual inconsistencies to world knowledge and the input prompt; (2) it is difficult to accurately evaluate the quality of long-form generated text; (3) it is difficult to identify whether a piece of long-form text was AI-generated, a task necessary to prevent widespread misinformation and plagiarism. In this thesis I design algorithms aimed at making progress towards these three issues in current LLMs. I will first describe a retrieval-augmented system we built for long-form question answering, to improve factual correctness of long-form generated text. However, a careful empirical analysis reveals issues related to input/output consistency of generated text, and an inherent difficulty in evaluation. I will then describe our model RankGen, which uses large-scale contrastive learning on documents to significantly outperform competing long-form text generation methods to generate text more faithful to the input. Next, I will describe our efforts to improve human evaluation of long-form generation (issue #2) by proposing the LongEval guidelines. LongEval is a set of three simple empirically-motivated ideas to make human evaluation of long-form generation more consistent, less expensive, and cognitively easier for evaluators. Finally, I describe my work on AI-generated text detection (issue #3), and showcase the brittleness of existing methods to paraphrasing attacks I designed. I will describe a simple new AI-generated text detection algorithm using information retrieval, which is significantly more robust to paraphrasing attacks. Finally, I conclude this thesis with some future research directions that I am excited about, including plan-based long-form text generation, and a deeper dive into understanding large language model training dynamics

Biometric Systems

Biometric authentication has been widely used for access control and security systems over the past few years. The purpose of this book is to provide the readers with life cycle of different biometric authentication systems from their design and development to qualification and final application. The major systems discussed in this book include fingerprint identification, face recognition, iris segmentation and classification, signature verification and other miscellaneous systems which describe management policies of biometrics, reliability measures, pressure based typing and signature verification, bio-chemical systems and behavioral characteristics. In summary, this book provides the students and the researchers with different approaches to develop biometric authentication systems and at the same time includes state-of-the-art approaches in their design and development. The approaches have been thoroughly tested on standard databases and in real world applications