Image Analysis Using Human Body Geometry and Size Proportion Science for Action Classification

Gestures are one of the basic modes of human communication and are usually used to represent different actions. Automatic recognition of these actions forms the basis for solving more complex problems like human behavior analysis, video surveillance, event detection, and sign language recognition, etc. Action recognition from images is a challenging task as the key information like temporal data, object trajectory, and optical flow are not available in still images. While measuring the size of different regions of the human body i.e., step size, arms span, length of the arm, forearm, and hand, etc., provides valuable clues for identification of the human actions. In this article, a framework for classification of the human actions is presented where humans are detected and localized through faster region-convolutional neural networks followed by morphological image processing techniques. Furthermore, geometric features from human blob are extracted and incorporated into the classification rules for the six human actions i.e., standing, walking, single-hand side wave, single-hand top wave, both hands side wave, and both hands top wave. The performance of the proposed technique has been evaluated using precision, recall, omission error, and commission error. The proposed technique has been comparatively analyzed in terms of overall accuracy with existing approaches showing that it performs well in contrast to its counterparts

A Case of Engineering Quality for Mobile Healthcare Applications Using Augmented Personal Software Process Improvement

Mobile healthcare systems are currently considered as key research areas in the domain of software engineering. The adoption of modern technologies, for mobile healthcare systems, is a quick option for industry professionals. Software architecture is a key feature that contributes towards a software product, solution, or services. Software architecture helps in better communication, documentation of design decisions, risks identification, basis for reusability, scalability, scheduling, and reduced maintenance cost and lastly it helps to avoid software failures. Hence, in order to solve the abovementioned issues in mobile healthcare, the software architecture is integrated with personal software process. Personal software process has been applied successfully but it is unable to address the issues related to architectural design and evaluation capabilities. Hence, a new technique architecture augmented personal process is presented in order to enhance the quality of the mobile healthcare systems through the use of architectural design with integration of personal software process. The proposed process was validated by case studies. It was found that the proposed process helped in reducing the overall costs and effort. Moreover, an improved architectural design helped in development of high quality mobile healthcare system

An empirical study of software requirements verification and validation techniques along their mitigation strategies

Requirements engineering is very crucial phase of software development cycle. Different sub activitiesare performed during requirements engineering. Previous research shows that there are various techniques regardingrequirements verification and validation. These techniques can have different relative importance in differentsituation. Typically the requirements engineers don’t have proper knowledge regarding nature of each technique.Existing requirements validation &amp; verification techniques differ in their ability to effectively cover the systemrequirements. It is highly desirable to conduct an empirical study on requirements verification and validationtechniques to know their relative importance in opinion of different experts. In this study we developed aquestionnaire based on requirements verification and validation techniques and their relative importance. Analysis ofthe results indicates that according to experts point of view (based on their experiences and judgments) ambiguousrequirements are the biggest reason behind requirements verification and validation issues. Experts do believe thatreview and inspection are the best mitigation strategies to remove or minimize requirements verification andvalidation challenges.<br/

A Case of Engineering Quality for Mobile Healthcare Applications Using Augmented Personal Software Process Improvement

Mobile healthcare systems are currently considered as key research areas in the domain of software engineering. The adoption of modern technologies, for mobile healthcare systems, is a quick option for industry professionals. Software architecture is a key feature that contributes towards a software product, solution, or services. Software architecture helps in better communication, documentation of design decisions, risks identification, basis for reusability, scalability, scheduling, and reduced maintenance cost and lastly it helps to avoid software failures. Hence, in order to solve the abovementioned issues in mobile healthcare, the software architecture is integrated with personal software process. Personal software process has been applied successfully but it is unable to address the issues related to architectural design and evaluation capabilities. Hence, a new technique architecture augmented personal process is presented in order to enhance the quality of the mobile healthcare systems through the use of architectural design with integration of personal software process. The proposed process was validated by case studies. It was found that the proposed process helped in reducing the overall costs and effort. Moreover, an improved architectural design helped in development of high quality mobile healthcare system

An empirical study of software requirements verification and validation techniques along their mitigation strategies

Requirements engineering is very crucial phase of software development cycle. Different sub activitiesare performed during requirements engineering. Previous research shows that there are various techniques regardingrequirements verification and validation. These techniques can have different relative importance in differentsituation. Typically the requirements engineers don’t have proper knowledge regarding nature of each technique.Existing requirements validation &amp; verification techniques differ in their ability to effectively cover the systemrequirements. It is highly desirable to conduct an empirical study on requirements verification and validationtechniques to know their relative importance in opinion of different experts. In this study we developed aquestionnaire based on requirements verification and validation techniques and their relative importance. Analysis ofthe results indicates that according to experts point of view (based on their experiences and judgments) ambiguousrequirements are the biggest reason behind requirements verification and validation issues. Experts do believe thatreview and inspection are the best mitigation strategies to remove or minimize requirements verification andvalidation challenges.<br/