69 research outputs found
METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A RECOMMENDED ORDER
A method for automatically generating a recommended order is disclosed. The method may include receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of transactions of a user. The transaction data may include line-item data associated with at least one item for each transaction of the plurality of transactions. Merchant inventory data associated with at least one merchant may be received. A recommended order for the user may be generated based on the transaction data and the merchant inventory data. The recommended order may include a plurality of items from the at least one merchant. The recommended order may be communicated to a user device associated with the user. A system and computer program product are also disclosed
STEFANN: Scene Text Editor using Font Adaptive Neural Network
Textual information in a captured scene plays an important role in scene
interpretation and decision making. Though there exist methods that can
successfully detect and interpret complex text regions present in a scene, to
the best of our knowledge, there is no significant prior work that aims to
modify the textual information in an image. The ability to edit text directly
on images has several advantages including error correction, text restoration
and image reusability. In this paper, we propose a method to modify text in an
image at character-level. We approach the problem in two stages. At first, the
unobserved character (target) is generated from an observed character (source)
being modified. We propose two different neural network architectures - (a)
FANnet to achieve structural consistency with source font and (b) Colornet to
preserve source color. Next, we replace the source character with the generated
character maintaining both geometric and visual consistency with neighboring
characters. Our method works as a unified platform for modifying text in
images. We present the effectiveness of our method on COCO-Text and ICDAR
datasets both qualitatively and quantitatively.Comment: Accepted in The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR) 202
A CNN Based Framework for Unistroke Numeral Recognition in Air-Writing
Air-writing refers to virtually writing linguistic characters through hand
gestures in three-dimensional space with six degrees of freedom. This paper
proposes a generic video camera-aided convolutional neural network (CNN) based
air-writing framework. Gestures are performed using a marker of fixed color in
front of a generic video camera, followed by color-based segmentation to
identify the marker and track the trajectory of the marker tip. A pre-trained
CNN is then used to classify the gesture. The recognition accuracy is further
improved using transfer learning with the newly acquired data. The performance
of the system varies significantly on the illumination condition due to
color-based segmentation. In a less fluctuating illumination condition, the
system is able to recognize isolated unistroke numerals of multiple languages.
The proposed framework has achieved 97.7%, 95.4% and 93.7% recognition rates in
person independent evaluations on English, Bengali and Devanagari numerals,
respectively.Comment: Accepted in The International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting
Recognition (ICFHR) 201
Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorder an Increasing Concern in Garment Industry
Background: Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)-related occupational health concerns are becoming a growing problem for the clothing industry, which is influenced by the repetitive tasks, prolonged static postures and poor ergonomic conditions that characterise the nature of work in this industry. This study aims to provide a thorough assessment of the numerous musculoskeletal problems that are prevalent in the garment industry and to recommend useful intervention strategies to mitigate their consequences. Methods: One hundred thirty textile workers aged between 25 to 45 years were taken randomly from five different textile manufacturing sites of Baranagar, West Bengal. A modified Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire was applied to evaluate the postural stress of the garment’s workers. The discomfort/pain intensity in different body parts were evaluated by Body Part Discomfort (BPD) scale . Appropriate statistical tests were applied. Results: Discomfort or pain in hip and lower back were found to be maximum among workers. Conclusion: Pain, discomfort and postural stress among various body parts like upper back, lower back and hip are verry much common for the workers. Despite efforts to deal with these problems, more thorough research and efficient intervention strategies are required to reduce musculoskeletal ailments in the garment industry.
Prevalence Of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Construction Workers
Construction workers frequently have work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) with significant adverse health and financial effects. The aim of this study is to look at the reasons, effects, and prevention measures for WRMSDs among construction workers.Methods: In the study, one hundred thirty-six male construction workers between the ages of 30 and 56 participated. The postural stress experienced by the construction workers was assessed using a modified Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire. The Body Part Discomfort (BPD) scale was used to assess the severity of the discomfort/pain in various body areas.Results: Discomfort or pain in neck portion was found to be maximum percentage of workers. BPD scaling revealed that neck, lower back and shoulder are among three most susceptible body parts in relation to pain sensation.Conclusion: Manual construction workers in the construction industry are particularly vulnerable to developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), working hours and MSD symptoms, particularly in the lower limb, are significantly correlated
Validating a novel angular power spectrum estimator using simulated low frequency radio-interferometric data
The "Tapered Gridded Estimator" (TGE) is a novel way to directly estimate the
angular power spectrum from radio-interferometric visibility data that reduces
the computation by efficiently gridding the data, consistently removes the
noise bias, and suppresses the foreground contamination to a large extent by
tapering the primary beam response through an appropriate convolution in the
visibility domain. Here we demonstrate the effectiveness of TGE in recovering
the diffuse emission power spectrum through numerical simulations. We present
details of the simulation used to generate low frequency visibility data for
sky model with extragalactic compact radio sources and diffuse Galactic
synchrotron emission. We then use different imaging strategies to identify the
most effective option of point source subtraction and to study the underlying
diffuse emission. Finally, we apply TGE to the residual data to measure the
angular power spectrum, and assess the impact of incomplete point source
subtraction in recovering the input power spectrum of the
synchrotron emission. This estimator is found to successfully recovers the
of input model from the residual visibility data. These results are
relevant for measuring the diffuse emission like the Galactic synchrotron
emission. It is also an important step towards characterizing and removing both
diffuse and compact foreground emission in order to detect the redshifted signal from the Epoch of Reionization.Comment: 18 pages, 1 table, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in New
Astronom
Parameter Enhancement and Size Reduction using DGS of L Band Antenna
Proposed research is the outcome of the detailed literature review and intensive research carried out in the field of parameter improvement of antenna using defected ground structure. In this paper a patch antenna is proposed with the introduction of a slit ring DGS structure to modify its parameters and reduce the size of antenna. Antenna was designed and simulated at 1.95GHz initially but after implementing DGS its radiation efficiency is shifted to 1.58GHz which theoretically a sign of size reduction of antenna. DGS is actually a cut made in the ground plane of the antenna which create a disturbance in radiating power, this disturbance in the ground basically distributes the radiating frequency and make antenna more efficient than ever before
Effects of Degradations on Deep Neural Network Architectures
Recently, image classification methods based on capsules (groups of neurons)
and a novel dynamic routing protocol are proposed. The methods show promising
performances than the state-of-the-art CNN-based models in some of the existing
datasets. However, the behavior of capsule-based models and CNN-based models
are largely unknown in presence of noise. So it is important to study the
performance of these models under various noises. In this paper, we demonstrate
the effect of image degradations on deep neural network architectures for image
classification task. We select six widely used CNN architectures to analyse
their performances for image classification task on datasets of various
distortions. Our work has three main contributions: 1) we observe the effects
of degradations on different CNN models; 2) accordingly, we propose a network
setup that can enhance the robustness of any CNN architecture for certain
degradations, and 3) we propose a new capsule network that achieves high
recognition accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on
the performance of CapsuleNet (CapsNet) and other state-of-the-art CNN
architectures under different types of image degradations. Also, our datasets
and source code are available publicly to the researchers.Comment: Journa
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