FoodNet: Recognizing Foods Using Ensemble of Deep Networks

In this work we propose a methodology for an automatic food classification system which recognizes the contents of the meal from the images of the food. We developed a multi-layered deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that takes advantages of the features from other deep networks and improves the efficiency. Numerous classical handcrafted features and approaches are explored, among which CNNs are chosen as the best performing features. Networks are trained and fine-tuned using preprocessed images and the filter outputs are fused to achieve higher accuracy. Experimental results on the largest real-world food recognition database ETH Food-101 and newly contributed Indian food image database demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology as compared to many other benchmark deep learned CNN frameworks.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, IEEE Signal Processing Letter

Micropropagation of Dendrocalamus strictus nees from mature nodal explants

An effort has been made to propagate Dendrocalamus strictus Nees using nodal explants from mature plants. The explants, after surface sterilization, were inoculated on solidified MS basal medium with 2 mg/l BAP. The buds, which started growing, were transferred to solidified MS basal medium with 4 mg/l BAP and 15 mg/l AdS to achieve about three fold multiplication. Single shoots or 2-shoot clusters did not survive and therefore all the experiments were conducted with a cluster of minimum 3-shoots. The rooting was found difficult. Three hormones viz. IAA, IBA and NAA with a concentration of 1, 3 and 5 mg/l were used in various combinations for rooting. Out of the total 9 treatments, only 20% rooting was found only in one treatment, namely in the medium with 5 mg/l indole butyric acid (IBA)

Sir Elijah Impey in India 1774-1783.

This is study of the life and character of Sir Elijah Impey as the first Chief justice of the first Supreme Court of India. He arrived in India with a commission to administer justice according to English law and to check the Company's servants in their oppressions of the Indians. In order to administer justice according to English legal principles it was necessary. not only to establish the Supreme Court as an independent organ of King's justice but also to treat the English and Indians alike in the eyes of the law. To check oppression and corruption it was further necessary to bring under the jurisdiction of the Court the revenue and judicial officers of the Company. The late 12th century political condition of Bengal was very unfavourable for the attainments of these objects. As against the cause of law and justice which Impey tried to hold above all considerations, the Supreme Council set up the commercial and political interests of the Company. As a result the Council and the Court entered into a long series of quarrels which lasted during the whole period of Impey's stay in India. Whether the Supreme Court was to serve under the supervision and in the interest of the Council or it was to function independently as a body of checks and balances, was the main issue of quarrel between the Court and the Council. This thesis, therefore, considers the background against which Impey had to work, the objects he had in view and the methods he applied for their accomplishment. It also assesses how and under what circumstances Impey led the infant Court in its struggle against the Council and to what extent he was successful in the attainment of his objects

Quantitative vegetation analysis of tree species in the forest adjacent to villages on the periphery of Kedarnath wildlife sanctuary

The study was carried out in the forest adjacent to three villages located on the periphery of Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary with the objective to evaluate the quantitative characters of tree species of the forest vegetation near these villages in relation to the species diversity, equitability and concentration of dominance of the selected villages. A total of eleven tree species were recorded. While the IVI values ranged from 9.78 to 84.33, the density values ranged between 0.3 and 1.9 and TBC values between 13.55 cm2/100m2 and 4080.80 cm2/100m2. Distributionpattern varied for different species. The recorded values viz. density, Shannon-Weiner Index (H), Concentration of Dominance (cd) and Equitability (Eq) were within the reported range for these types of forests