With the popular use of geotagging images, more and more research efforts have been placed on geographical scene classification. In geographical scene classification, valid spatial feature selection can significantly boost the final performance. Bag of visual words (BoVW) can do well in selecting feature in geographical scene classification; nevertheless, it works effectively only if the provid...

It is well known that many languages make use of neo-classical compounds, and that some domains with a very long tradition like medicine made an intense use of such morphemes. This phenomenon has been largely studied for different languages with the common result that a relatively short number of morphemes allows the detection of a high number of specialised terms to be produced. We believe tha...

The Pruned modified fuzzy hyperline segment neural network (PMFHLSNN) is pruned extension of Fuzzy hyperline segment neural network (FHLSNN) with modification in the testing phase. In this paper, a genetic algorithm based rule extractor (GA-PMFHLSNN) is proposed to extract a small set of compact and comprehensible fuzzy if-then rules with high classification accuracy from the PMFHLSNN. After pr...

For on-site detection of cysts, a portable cyst extraction kit was constructed from nine readily available items. The portable cyst extractor detected cysts in a range of 1-117 cysts/100 g soil from 42 fields. Samples processed by this kit in fields were clean and easy to examine, possibly because the kit is a compact version of the standard wet-sieving technique used in the laboratory. The por...

We propose an authentication scheme using fingerprint biometrics, protected by a construct called a Fuzzy Extractor. We look at a new way of quantizing and digitally representing the minutiae measurements so that a construct called PinSketch can be applied to the minutiae. This is converted to a Fuzzy Extractor by tying some random information to the minutiae measurements. We run a matching alg...

In this paper we propose a modified morphological corner detection method which finds convex and concave significant points using simple integer computation. We use the morphological peak extractor to detect convex corners and use a modified valley extractor to detect concave corners. Moreover, information of the distances between pixels on the boundary segment determined by two contiguous sign...