Identifcación de la marcha humana basada en Kinect bajo diferentes factores covariables

Introduction: Nowadays human gait identification/recognition is available in a variety of applications due to rapid advances in biometrics technology. This makes them easier to use for security and surveillance. Due to the rise in terrorist attacks during the last ten years research has focused on the biometric traits in these applications and they are now capable of recognising human beings from a distance. The main reason for my research interest in Gait biometrics is because it is unobtrusive and requires lower image/video quality compared to other biometric traits. Materials and Methods: In this paper we propose investigating Kinect-based gait recognition using non-standard gait sequences. This study examines different scenarios to highlight the challenges of non-standard gait sequences. Gait signatures are extracted from the 20 joint points of the human body using a Microsoft Kinect sensor. Results and Discussion: This feature is constructed by calculating the distances between each two joint points from the 20 joint points of the human body provided which is known as the Euclidean Distance Feature (EDF). The experiments are based on five scenarios, and a Linear Discriminant Classifier (LDC) is used to test the performance of the proposed method. Conclusions: The results of the experiments indicate that the proposed method outperforms previous work in all scenarios

Clasificación de género basada en la marcha humana usando secuencias de marcha neutrales y no neutrales

A biometric system offers automatic identification of an individual basedon characteristic possessed by the individual. Biometric identification systems are often categorized as physiological or behavioural characteristics.Gait as one of the behavioural biometric recognition aims to recognizean individual by the way he/she walk. In this paper we propose genderclassification based on human gait features using wavelet transform andinvestigates the problem of non-neutral gait sequences; Coat Wearing andcarrying bag condition as addition to the neutral gait sequences. We shallinvestigate a new set of feature that generated based on the Gait Energy Image and Gait Entropy Image called Gait Entropy Energy Image(GEnEI). Three different feature sets constructed from GEnEI basedon wavelet transform called, Approximation coefficient Gait EntropyEnergy Image, Vertical coefficient Gait Entropy Energy Image and Approximation & Vertical coefficients Gait Entropy Energy Image Finallytwo different classification methods are used to test the performance ofthe proposed method separately, called k-nearest-neighbour and SupportVector Machine. Our tests are based on a large number of experimentsusing a well-known gait database called CASIA B gait database, includes124 subjects (93 males and 31 females). The experimental result indicatesthat the proposed method provides significant results and outperform thestate of the art

El uso de bloques de imagen en el dominio espacial como una vía robusta de estenografía

Steganography is a way to convey secret communication, with rapid electronic communication and high demand of using the internet, steganography has become a wide field of research and discussion. In this paper a new approach for hiding information in cover image proposed in spatial domain, the proposed approach divides the host image into blocks of size (8x8) pixels and message bits are embeds into the pixels of a cover image. The 64-pixel values of each block converted to be represented in binary system and compared with corresponding secret data bits for finding the matching and hold 6-pixels. The search process performed by comparing each secret data bit (8-bits) with created binary plane at the cover image, if matching is found the last row of the created binary plane which is (LSB) is modified to indicate the location of the matched bits sequence “which is the secret data” and number of the row, if matching is not found in all 7th rows the secret sequence is copied in to the corresponding 8th row location.The payload of this technique is 6 pixels’ message (48-bits) in each block. In the experiments secret messages are randomly embedded into different images. The quality of the stego-image from which the original text message is extracted is not affected at all. For validation of the presented mechanism, the capacity, the circuit complexity, and the measurement of distortion against steganalysis is evaluated using the peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) are analyzed

A Novel Poisoned Water Detection Method Using Smartphone Embedded Wi-Fi Technology and Machine Learning Algorithms

Water is a necessary fluid to the human body and automatic checking of its quality and cleanness is an ongoing area of research. One such approach is to present the liquid to various types of signals and make the amount of signal attenuation an indication of the liquid category. In this article, we have utilized the Wi-Fi signal to distinguish clean water from poisoned water via training different machine learning algorithms. The Wi-Fi access points (WAPs) signal is acquired via equivalent smartphone-embedded Wi-Fi chipsets, and then Channel-State-Information CSI measures are extracted and converted into feature vectors to be used as input for machine learning classification algorithms. The measured amplitude and phase of the CSI data are selected as input features into four classifiers k-NN, SVM, LSTM, and Ensemble. The experimental results show that the model is adequate to differentiate poison water from clean water with a classification accuracy of 89% when LSTM is applied, while 92% classification accuracy is achieved when the AdaBoost-Ensemble classifier is applied

Novel Integration of Wi-Fi Signal and Magnetometer Sensor Measurements in Fingerprinting Technique for Indoors Smartphone positioning

Smartphones are becoming more widespread, and location-based services (LBS) have become one of the most important uses in people’s daily lives. While outdoor location is reasonably simple thanks to GNSS signals, however, indoor location is more problematic due to the lack of GNSS signals. As a result of the widespread deployment of alternative technologies such as wireless and sensors technologies, various studies on wireless-based indoor positioning have been conducted. However, each technology has its own limitations including multipath fading of wireless signals causes time-varying received signal strength as well as the accumulated error of the onboard sensors (i.e. sensor drift) resulting in poor localization accuracy. Motivated by these restrictions, this work integrates the applicability of two technologies for indoor positioning that are already available in smartphones by avoiding their limitation. The integration is based on fingerprinting-positioning technique by including magnetometer sensor measurements and WiFi signal strength. Android-based smartphones with low-cost sensors in real indoor scenarios are utilized to create a dataset and collect independent track tests to confirm results. The performance of different scenarios, such as Wi-Fi alone, magnetometer alone, and magnetometer-aided Wi-Fi, is compared. The experimental results show that the combination of magnetometer sensor and WiFi signal strength provides significant results in which leads to reducing the location error to 0.7224 meters