Face Recognition Using Holistic Features and Within Class Scatter-Based PCA

The Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and itsvariations are the most popular approach for features clustering,which is mostly implemented for face recognition. The optimumprojection matrix of the PCA is typically obtained by eigenanalysisof global covariance matrix. However, the projection datausing the PCA are lack of discriminatory power. This problem iscaused by removing the null space of data scatter that containsmuch discriminant information. To solve this problem, we presentalternative strategy to the PCA called alternative PCA, whichobtains the optimum projection matrix from within class scatterinstead of global covariance matrix. This algorithm not onlyprovides better features clustering than that of common PCA(CPCA) but also can overcome the retraining problem of theCPCA. In this paper, this algorithm is applied for face recognitionwith the holistic features of face image, which has compact sizeand powerful energy compactness as dimensional reduction ofthe raw face image. From the experimental results, the proposedmethod provides better performance for both recognition rateand accuracy parameters than those of CPCA and its variationswhen the tests were carried out using data from several databasessuch as ITS-LAB., INDIA, ORL, and FERET

Traffic Light Signal Parameters Optimization using Modification of Multielement Genetic Algorithm

A strategy to optimize traffic light signal parameters is presented for solving traffic congestion problem using modification of the Multielement Genetic Algorithm (MEGA). The aim of this method is to improve the lack of vehicle throughput (FF ) of the works called as traffic light signal parameters optimization using the MEGA and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). In this case, the modification of MEGA is done by adding Hash-Table for saving some best populations for accelerating the recombination process of MEGA which is shortly called as H-MEGA. The experimental results show that the H-MEGA based optimization provides better performance than MEGA and PSO based methods (improving the FF of both MEGA and PSO based optimization methods by about 10.01% (from 82,63% to 92.64%) and 6.88% (from 85.76% to 92.64%), respectively). In addition, the H-MEGA improve significantly the real FF of Ooe Toroku road network of Kumamoto City, Japan about 21.62%

Media Pembelajaran Pengenalan Alat Transportasi dan Rambu Lalu Lintas Berbasis Android untuk Sekolah Dasar

Transportation equipment and traffic signs are one of the important lessons for elementary school students. However, many elementary school students only know the means of transportation without knowing the traffic signs. The purpose of this study is to build and create learning media to make it easier for students to recognize transportation tools and traffic signs using the Android platform. The method used in building this application is the waterfall method, which starts with making observations to testing the system. The tests used are black box testing and Mean Opinion Score (MOS). The results of the black box testing test are that the menu has been able to run according to their respective functions, while for MOS, it produces about 98% results stating that the application is running well. So that this application is used in accordance with the needs of elementary school students in helping to recognize means of transportation and traffic signs

Pornographic Image Recognition Based on Skin Probability and Eigenporn of Skin ROIs Images

The paper proposed a pornographic image recognition using skin probability and principle component analysis (PCA) on YCbCr color space. The pornographic image recognition is defined as a process to classify the image containing and showing genital elements of human body from any kinds of images. This process is hard to be performed because the images have large variability due to poses, lighting, and background variations. The skin probability and holistic feature, which is extracted by YCbCr skin segmentation and PCA, is employed to handle those variability problems. The function of skin segmentation is to determine skin ROI image and skin probability. While the function of PCA is to extract eigenporn of the skin ROIs images and by using the eigenporns the holistic features are determined. The main aim of this research is to optimize the accuracy and false rejection rate of the skin probability and fusion descriptor based recognition system. The experimental result shows that the proposed method can increase the accuracy by about 12% and decrease the FPR and FNR by about 16%, respectively. The proposed method also works fast for recognition, which requires 1.3.second per image.

Denoising Acoustic Emission Signal using Wavelet Transforms for Determining the Micro Crack Location Inside of Concrete

Acoustic emission (AE) technique is developed to locate source of damage inside of concrete. However, the AE signal is interfered by much noise, which makes the determination of first time amplitude of AE signal is hard to be carried out. In fact, the determination of this parameter is a significant part for locating the source of damage in concrete. Therefore, one of the denoising methods called wavelet based denoising is proposed. In this case, some wavelet bases function are investigated to find out the proper wavelet bases function to perform the denoising of AE Signal. From the experimental data, the best wavelet basis function for this case is Coiflet, which is shown by providing the best SNR than the other wavelet families. In addition, the determining cracks locations on concrete can be performed easier on denoised AE signal than on noisy AE signal

Real Time Face Recognition Based on Face Descriptor and Its Application

This paper presents a real time face recognition based on face descriptor and its application for door locking. The face descriptor is represented by both local and global information. The local information, which is the dominant frequency content of sub-face, is extracted by zoned discrete cosine transforms (DCT). While the global information, which also is the dominant frequency content and shape information of the whole face, is extracted by DCT and by Hu-moment. Therefore, face descriptor has rich information about a face image which tends to provide good performance for real time face recognition. To decrease the dimensional size of face descriptor, the predictive linear discriminant analysis (PDLDA) is employed and the face classification is done by kNN. The experimental results show that the proposed real time face recognition provides good performances which indicated by 98.30%, 21.99%, and 1.8% of accuracy, FPR, and FNR respectively. In addition, it also needs short computational time (1 second)

Efficiency Analysis of Tanker Ship Fuel Usage by Applying Exhaust Gas Boyler and Turbo Generator Power Plant

Efforts to save fuel consumption on tankers is absolutely necessary because in shipping it always faces waves and currents that inhibit the speed of the ship so that the shipping time is longer. If this happens, the fuel consumption of the ship will increase and waste will occur.This study aims to analyze fuel savings on tankers as oil supply vessels to meet domestic fuel needs. Savings are carried out by utilizing the heat energy of the exhaust gas of the propulsion main engine as a steam generator in the exhaust gas boiler (EGB). The steam production process takes place when the ship is in a sailing condition where the main engine has reached the maximum rotation. Exhaust gas boilers work with 16.5 bar pressure steam used as turbo generators to replace auxiliary engines to work as electricity generators as long as ships are on the cruise. In order to ensure the condition of the steam production system remains normal at work pressure so that the turbo generator working system remains stable for that exhaust gas boiler is equipped with automatic equipment both in the filling water supply system and ignition auxiliary boiler ignition system. Thus, as long as the ship is in shipping all the electricity needs are charged to the turbo generator, so practically with the application of this system resulting in savings in fuel consumption of MFO / MDO type vessels reaching 11.2% on each cruise. Keywords: Tanker ship, exhaust gas boiler, turbo generator, fuel efficienc