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Item A novel real-time face detection system using modified affine transformation and Haar cascades(Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2019) Sharma, R.; Ashwin, T.S.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Human Face Detection is an important problem in the area of Computer Vision. Several approaches are used to detect the face for a given frame of an image but most of them fail to detect the faces which are tilted, occluded, or with different illuminations. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time face detection system which detects the faces that are tilted, occluded, or with different illuminations, any difficult pose. The proposed system is a desktop application with a user interface that not only collects the images from web camera but also detects the faces in the image using a Haar-cascaded classifier consisting of Modified Census Transform features. The problem with cascaded classifier is that it does not detect the tilted or occluded faces with different illuminations. Hence to overcome this problem, we proposed a system using Modified Affine Transformation with Viola Jones. Experimental results demonstrate that proposed face detection system outperforms Viola–Jones method by 6% (99.7% accuracy for the proposed system when compare to 93.5% for Voila Jones) with respect to three different datasets namely FDDB, YALE and “Google top 25 ‘tilted face’” image datasets. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019Item A novel hybrid algorithm for overlapping community detection in social network using community forest model and nash equilibrium(Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2019) Sarswat, A.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Overlapping community detection in social networks is known to be a challenging and complex NP-hard problem. A large number of heuristic approaches based on optimization functions like modularity and modularity density are available for community detection. However, these approaches do not always give an optimum solution, and none of these approaches are able to clearly provide a stable overlapping community structure. Hence, in this paper, we propose a novel hybrid algorithm to detect the overlapping communities based on the community forest model and Nash equilibrium. In this work, overlapping community has been detected using backbone degree and expansion of the community forest model, and then a Nash equilibrium is found to get a stable state of overlapping community arrangement. We tested the proposed hybrid algorithm on standard datasets like Zachary’s karate club, football, etc. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the current state-of-the-art methods in terms of quality, stability, and less computation time. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019Item Multimodal group activity state detection for classroom response system using convolutional neural networks(Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2019) Sebastian, A.G.; Singh, S.; Manikanta, P.B.T.; Ashwin, T.S.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Human–Computer Interaction is a crucial and emerging field in computer science. This is because computers are replacing humans in many jobs to provide services. This has resulted in the computer being needed to interact with the human in the same way as the human does with another. When humans talk to each other, they gain feedback based on how the other person responds non-verbally. Since computers are now interacting with humans, they need to be able to detect these facial cues and accordingly adjust their services based on this feedback. Our proposed method aims at building a Multimodal Group Activity State Detection for Classroom Response System which tries to recognize the learning behavior of a classroom for providing effective feedback and inputs to the teacher. The key challenges dealt here are to detect and analyze as many students as possible for a non-biased evaluation of the mood of the students and classify them into three activity states defined: Active, passive, and inactive. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019Item Kinect Based Suspicious Posture Recognition for Real-Time Home Security Applications(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Vikram, M.; Anantharaman, A.; Suhas, B.S.; Ashwin, T.S.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Suspicious posture recognition is a paramount task with numerous applications in everyday life. We explore one such application in real-time home security using the Microsoft Kinect depth camera. We propose a novel method where the remote device itself detects the suspicious activity. The server is alerted by the remote device in case of a suspicious activity which further alerts the home owners immediately. We show that our method, works in real-time, is robust towards changing lighting conditions and the computations happen on the remote device itself which makes it suitable for real-time home security. © 2018 IEEE.Item GA-PSO: Service Allocation in Fog Computing Environment Using Hybrid Bio-Inspired Algorithm(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Yadav, V.; Natesha, B.V.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Internet of Thing (IoT) applications require an efficient platform for processing big data. Different computing techniques such as Cloud, Edge, and Fog are used for processing big data. The main challenge in the fog computing environment is to minimize both energy consumption and makespan for services. The service allocation techniques on a set of virtual machines (VMs) is the decidable factor for energy consumption and latency in fog servers. Hence, the service allocation in fog environment is referred to as NP-hard problem. In this work, we developed a hybrid algorithm using Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique to solve this NP-hard problem. The proposed GA-PSO is used for optimal allocation of services while minimizing the total makespan, energy consumption for IoT applications in the fog computing environment. We implemented the proposed GA-PSO using customized C simulator, and the results demonstrate that the proposed GA-PSO outperforms both GA and PSO techniques when applied individually. © 2019 IEEE.Item Smart Cane for Assisting Visually Impaired People(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Nandini, A.V.; Dwivedi, A.; Kumar, N.A.; Ashwin, T.S.; Vishnuvardhan, V.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Blindness disables a person from self-navigating outside well-known environments. It affects their ability to perform several jobs, duties, and activities. They are dependent on external assistance which can be provided by humans, dogs or special electronic devices for better decision making. This motivated us to create a prototype called 'Smart cane for assisting visually impaired people' to overcome the problems they face in their daily life. Our device is a low cost and lightweight system that processes signals and alerts the visually impaired over any obstacle, potholes or water puddles through different beeping patterns. It senses the light intensity of the environment and illuminates the LED accordingly. These are accomplished by incorporating two ultrasonic sensors, a moisture sensor and a LDR sensor along with an Arduino Nano micro-controller. These are placed at specific positions of the cane for efficient guidance. Moreover, a GSM module is also added to the system so that the visually impaired person can send a message to the emergency contact number in case of distress. The developed model showed 89 percent accuracy and 80 percent of the users were satisfied with the developed prototype. © 2019 IEEE.Item Automated Parking System in Smart Campus Using Computer Vision Technique(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Banerjee, S.; Ashwin, T.S.; Guddeti, R.M.R.In today's world we need to maintain safety and security of the people around us. So we need to have a well connected surveillance system for keeping active information of various locations according to our needs. A real-time object detection is very important for many applications such as traffic monitoring, classroom monitoring, security rescue, and parking system. From past decade, Convolutional Neural Networks is evolved as a powerful models for recognizing images and videos and it is widely used in the computer vision related work for the best and most used approach for different problem scenario related to object detection and localization. In this work, we have proposed a deep convolutional network architecture to automate the parking system in smart campus with modified Single-shot Multibox Detector (SSD) approach. Further, we created our dataset to train and test the proposed computer vision technique. The experimental results demonstrated an accuracy of 71.2% for the created dataset. © 2019 IEEE.Item Optimized Object Detection Technique in Video Surveillance System Using Depth Images(Springer, 2020) Shahzad Alam, M.; Ashwin, T.S.; Guddeti, R.M.R.In real-time surveillance and intrusion detection, it is difficult to rely only on RGB image-based videos as the accuracy of detected object is low in the low light condition and if the video surveillance area is completely dark then the object will not be detected. Hence, in this paper, we propose a method which can increase the accuracy of object detection even in low light conditions. This paper also shows how the light intensity affects the probability of object detection in RGB, depth, and infrared images. The depth information is obtained from Kinect sensor and YOLO architecture is used to detect the object in real-time. We experimented the proposed method using real-time surveillance system which gave very promising results when applied on depth images which were taken in low light conditions. Further, in real-time object detection, we cannot apply object detection technique before applying any image preprocessing. So we investigated the depth image by which the accuracy of object detection can be improved without applying any image preprocessing. Experimental results demonstrated that depth image (96%) outperforms RGB image (48%) and infrared image (54%) in extreme low light conditions. © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.Item Skeleton based Human Action Recognition for Smart City Application using Deep Learning(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Rashmi, M.; Guddeti, R.M.R.These days the Human Action Recognition (HAR) is playing a vital role in several applications such as surveillance systems, gaming, robotics, and so on. Interpreting the actions performed by a person from the video is one of the essential tasks of intelligent surveillance systems in the smart city, smart building, etc. Human action can be recognized either by using models such as depth, skeleton, or combinations of these models. In this paper, we propose the human action recognition system based on the 3D skeleton model. Since the role of different joints varies while performing the action, in the proposed work, we use the most informative distance and the angle between joints in the skeleton model as a feature set. Further, we propose a deep learning framework for human action recognition based on these features. We performed experiments using MSRAction3D, a publicly available dataset for 3D HAR, and the results demonstrated that the proposed framework obtained the accuracies of 95.83%, 92.9%, and 98.63% on three subsets of the dataset AS1, AS2, and AS3, respectively, using the protocols of [19]. © 2020 IEEE.Item Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition Using Motion and Orientation of Joints(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Ghosh, S.K.; Rashmi, M.; Mohan, B.R.; Guddeti, R.M.R.Perceiving human actions accurately from a video is one of the most challenging tasks demanded by many real-time applications in smart environments. Recently, several approaches have been proposed for human action representation and further recognizing actions from the videos using different data modalities. Especially in the case of images, deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated their classification efficiency. Here, we propose an effective framework for representing actions based on features obtained from 3D skeleton data of humans performing actions. We utilized motion, pose orientation, and transition orientation of skeleton joints for action representation in the proposed work. In addition, we introduced a lightweight convolutional neural network model for learning features from action representations in order to recognize the different actions. We evaluated the proposed system on two publicly available datasets using a cross-subject evaluation protocol, and the results showed better performance compared to the existing methods. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.