Indian Sign Language (ISL) consists of static as well as dynamic hand gestures for communication among deaf and dumb persons. Most of the ISL gestures are produced using both hands. A video database is created and utilized which contains several videos, for a large number of signs. Direction histogram is the feature used for classification due to its appeal for illumination and orientation inva...

The importance of personal authentication is gradually increasing with the development of the information society. Biometrics identification technology plays an important role in cyberspace. Unlike other biometrics such as the face or fingerprints, iris recognition has high reliability for personal identification. Iris recognition methods are classified into four categories: the phase-based met...

Histogram Equalization technique is one of the basic methods in image contrast enhancement. Using this method, in the case of images with uniform gray levels (with narrow histogram), causes loss of image detail and the natural look of the image. To overcome this problem and to have a better image contrast enhancement, a new two-step method was proposed. In the first step, the image histogram is...

This paper presents an enhancement to the recent framework of histogram aggregation [1], that enables to improve the matching accuracy while preserving a low computational complexity. The original algorithm uses a fronto-parallel support window for cost aggregation, which leads to inaccurate results in the presence of significant surface slant. We address the problem by considering a pre-define...

One of the most important tasks on robot soccer is localization. The team robots should self-localize on the 18 x 12 meters soccer field. Since a few years ago the soccer field has increased and the corner posts were removed and that increased the localization task complexity. One important aspect to take care for a proper localization is to find out the robot orientation. This paper proposes a...

This paper presents a simple and robust method, namely discriminative histograms of local dominant orientation (D-HLDO), for biometric image feature extraction. In D-HLDO, the local dominant orientation map and the corresponding relative energy map are obtained by applying the singular value decomposition (SVD) to the collected gradient vectors over a local patch. The dominant orientation map a...

Angle discrimination thresholds were obtained for V-shaped targets with a base angle of 90 deg at four different pattern orientations (0, 45, 90 and 135 deg). A comparison of these thresholds with the orientation discrimination thresholds for the single lines from which the patterns had been constructed, revealed that angle acuity cannot be predicted from component acuity. Angle acuity is finer...

simple and fast reflectional symmetry detection algorithm has been developed in this Apaper. The algorithm employs only the original gray scale image and the gradient information of the image, and it is able to detect multiple reflectional symmetry axes of an object in the image. The directions of the symmetry axes are obtained from the gradient orientation histogram of the input gray scale ima...

As service-orientation becomes more and more popular in the computer science community, more research is done in applying service-oriented applications in specific fields, including knowledge discovery. In this paper we investigate how the service-oriented paradigm can benefit knowledge discovery, and how specific services and the knowledge discovery process as a whole should be designed. We pr...

Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging enabling technology to achieve relevant situational knowledge from distributed systems in real-time or almost realtime. It gains more and more attention due to the industry hype and momentum regarding situation-aware computing and service-orientation. Support for CEP is considered to become a critical success factor for many businesses, especially r...