IJACSA Vol. 4 Issue 3 (2013)

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Sensitivity Analysis and Validation of Refractive Index Estimation Method with Ground Based Atmospheric Polarized Radiance Measurement Data

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Sensitivity analysis and validation of the proposed refractive index estimation method with ground based atmospheric polarized radiance measurement data is conducted. Through the sensitivity analysis, it is found that Degree of Polarization: DP is highly dependent upon surface reflectance followed by imaginary and real part of refractive index and Junge… Read full abstract & cite →

solar irradiance refractive index atmospheric polarized radiance

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Vicarious Calibration Based Cross Calibration of Solar Reflective Channels of Radiometers Onboard Remote Sensing Satellite and Evaluation of Cross Calibration Accuracy through Band-to-Band Data Comparisons

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Accuracy evaluation of cross calibration through band-to-band data comparison for visible and near infrared radiometers which onboard earth observation satellites is conducted. The conventional cross calibration for visible to near infrared radiometers onboard earth observation satellites is conducted through comparisons of band-to-band data of which spectral response functions are overlapped… Read full abstract & cite →

vicarious calibration cross calibration visible to near infrared radiometer earth observation satellite remote sensing radiative transfer equation

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Interactive Application Development Policy Object 3D Virtual Tour History Pacitan District based Multimedia

Author 1: Muga Linggar Famukhit Author 2: Maryono Author 3: Lies Yulianto Author 4: Bambang Eka Purnama

Pacitan has a wide range of tourism activity. One of the tourism district is Pacitan historical attractions. These objects have a history tour of the educational values, history and culture, which must be maintained and preserved as one tourism asset Kabupeten Pacitan. But the history of the current tour the… Read full abstract & cite →

Interactive 3D Virtual Application Development Object-Based Tourism Pacitan History Multimedia

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Spatial-Temporal Variations of Turbidity and Ocean Current Velocity of the Ariake Sea Area, Kyushu, Japan Through Regression Analysis with Remote Sensing Satellite Data

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Yuichi Sarusawa

Regression analysis based method for turbidity and ocean current velocity estimation with remote sensing satellite data is proposed. Through regressive analysis with MODIS data and measured data of turbidity and ocean current velocity, regressive equation which allows estimation of turbidity and ocean current velocity is obtained. With the regressive equation… Read full abstract & cite →

turbidity ocean current remote sensing satellite regressive analysis

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Transmission Control for Fast Recovery of Rateless Codes

Author 1: Jau-Wu Huang Author 2: Kai-Chao Yang Author 3: Han-Yu Hsieh Author 4: Jia-Shung Wang

Luby Transform (LT) codes are more important in communication applications due to the characteristics of fast encoding/decoding process, and low complexity. However, LT codes are optimal only when the number of input symbols is close to infinity. Some researches modified the degree distribution of LT codes to make LT codes… Read full abstract & cite →

LT codes broadcasting channel degree distribution

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A Project Based CS/IS-1 Course with an Active Learning Environment

Author 1: Dr. Suvineetha Herath Author 2: Dr. Ajantha Herath Author 3: Mr. Mohammed A.R. Siddiqui Author 4: Mr. Khuzaima AH. El-Jallad

High level programming languages use system defined data types and the user defined data types in computations. We have developed a project-based CS/IS-1 course to substitute the traditional lecture based classroom to help students design and use at least two user defined data types in their computations to solve real… Read full abstract & cite →

I/O arithmetic expressions if-else and switch conditional operations for-while iterative computation inheritance polymorphism recursion searching and sorting algorithms IDE.

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Quadrant Based WSN Routing Technique By Shifting Of Origin

Author 1: Nandan Banerji Author 2: Uttam Kumar Kundu Author 3: Pulak Majumder Author 4: Debabrata Sarddar

A sensor is a miniaturized, low powered (basically battery powered), limited storage device which can sense the natural phenomenon or things and convert it into electrical energy or vice versa using transduction process. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is such a wireless network built using sensors. The sensors communicate with… Read full abstract & cite →

component WSN Quardent Packet Hops

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Resolution of Unsteady Navier-stokes Equations with the C a,b Boundary condition

Author 1: Jaouad EL-Mekkaoui Author 2: Ahmed Elkhalfi Author 3: Abdeslam Elakkad

in this work, we introduce the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a new boundary condition, generalizes the Dirichlet and the Neumann conditions. Then we derive an adequate variational formulation of time-dependent Navier- Stokes equations. We then prove the existence theorem and a uniqueness result. A Mixed finite-element discretization is used… Read full abstract & cite →

Unsteady Navier-Stokes Equations Mixed Finite Element Method C_(a b c) boundary condition Adina system.

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An Overview of Recent Machine Learning Strategies in Data Mining

Author 1: Bhanu Prakash Battula Author 2: Dr. R. Satya Prasad

Most of the existing classification techniques concentrate on learning the datasets as a single similar unit, in spite of so many differentiating attributes and complexities involved. However, traditional classification techniques, require to analysis the dataset prior to learning and for not doing so they loss their performance in terms of… Read full abstract & cite →

Data mining classification supervised learning unsupervised learning learning strategies.

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Design of Semi-Adaptive 190-200 KHz Digital Band Pass Filters for SAR Applications

Author 1: P Yadav Author 2: A Khare Author 3: K Parandham Gowd

Technologies have advanced rapidly in the field of digital signal processing due to advances made in high speed, low cost digital integrated chips. These technologies have further stimulated ever increasing use of signal representation in digital form for purposes of transmission, measurement, control and storage. Design of digital filters especially… Read full abstract & cite →

Digital filter XILINX and MATLAB softwares Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) SPARTAN-3E DSP Chips.

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Collaborative Learning Skills in Multi-touch Tables for UML Software Design

Author 1: Mohammed Basheri Author 2: Malcolm Munro Author 3: Liz Burd Author 4: Nilufar Baghaei

The use of Multi-touch interfaces for collaborative learning has received significant attention. Their ability to synchronously accommodate multiple users is an advantage in co-located collaborative design tasks. This paper explores the Multi-touch interface’s potential in collaborative Unified Modeling Language diagramming by comparing it to a PC-based tool, looking at the… Read full abstract & cite →

Collaborative Design Multi-touch Table PC-based Collaborative Learning Skills

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Interference Aware Channel Assignment Scheme in Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks

Author 1: Sunmyeng Kim

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are gaining significant attention to provide wireless broadband service. Nodes in a wireless mesh network can communicate with each other directly or through one or more intermediate nodes. Because of multi-hop transmissions with multiple contending and compet¬ing channels, performance of wireless mesh networks decreases. Supporting high… Read full abstract & cite →

interference channel assignment multichannel mesh network

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Robust Facial Expression Recognition via Sparse Representation and Multiple Gabor filters

Author 1: Rania Salah El-Sayed Author 2: Prof.Dr. Ahmed El Kholy Author 3: Prof.Dr. Mohamed Youssri El-Nahas

Facial expressions recognition plays important role in human communication. It has become one of the most challenging tasks in the pattern recognition field. It has many applications such as: human computer interaction, video surveillance, forensic applications, criminal investigations, and in many other fields. In this paper we propose a method… Read full abstract & cite →

Facial expression recognition (FER) L1-minimization sparse representation Gabor filters support vector machine (SVM).

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New Technique for Suppression Four-Wave Mixing Effects in SAC-OCDMA Networks

Author 1: Ibrahim Fadhil Radhi Author 2: S. A. Aljunid Author 3: Hilal A. Fadhil Author 4: Thanaa Hussein Abd

A new technique invented for suppressing the FWM in SAC-OCDMA systems based on adding idle code at the sideband of the code construction to generate the virtual FWM power at the sideband of the signal, and then by subtracting these virtual FWM power from the original FWM power in the… Read full abstract & cite →

Optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) Spectral amplitude coding (SAC) Multi diagonal (MD) Random Diagonal (RD) Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) Light Emitting Diode (LED).)

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Selection of Eigenvectors for Face Recognition

Author 1: Manisha Satone Author 2: G.K.Kharate

Face recognition has advantages over other biometric methods. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been widely used for the face recognition algorithm. PCA has limitations such as poor discriminatory power and large computational load. Due to these limitations of the existing PCA based approach, we used a method of applying PCA… Read full abstract & cite →

face recognition PCA wavelet transform genetic algorithm

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Sentiment Analyzer for Arabic Comments System

Author 1: Alaa El-Dine Ali Hamouda Author 2: Fatma El-zahraa El-taher

Today, the number of users of social network is increasing. Millions of users share opinions on different aspects of life every day. Therefore social network are rich sources of data for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Also users have become more interested in following news pages on Facebook. Several posts… Read full abstract & cite →

Analysis for Arabic comments machine learning algorithms sentiment analysis opinion mining

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Routing Discovery Algorithm Using Parallel Chase Packet

Author 1: Muneer Bani Yassein Author 2: Yaser M. Khamayseh Author 3: Amera Al-Ameri Author 4: Wail E. Mardini

On demand routing protocols for ad hoc networks such as Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) initiate a route discovery process when a route is needed by flooding the network with a route request packet. The route discovery process in such protocols depends on a simple flooding as a… Read full abstract & cite →

MANET Chase Packets AODV Broadcast Storm Problem.

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Simulation of a WiMAX network to evaluate the performance of MAC IEEE 802.16 during the IR phase of Network Entry and Initialization

Author 1: Namratha M Author 2: Pradeep Author 3: Manu G V

Pervasive Computing is also called as Ubiquitous Computing, which means “being present everywhere at once” or “constantly encountered”. The main idea behind making these pervasive computing systems is that these systems improve living by performing computations on their own, without having to be monitored by anyone. These systems are targeted… Read full abstract & cite →

Backoff delay Circular topology Linear topology Markov Model Pervasive computing Ubiquitous computing WiMAX

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Joint Operation in Public Key Cryptography

Author 1: Dragan Vidakovic Author 2: Olivera Nikolic Author 3: Jelena Kaljevic Author 4: Dusko Parezanovic

We believe that there is no real data protection without our own tools. Therefore, our permanent aim is to have more of our own codes. In order to achieve that, it is necessary that a lot of young researchers become interested in cryptography. We believe that the encoding of cryptographic… Read full abstract & cite →

Public-key cryptography RSA & ECC Digital Signature Inverse element Code

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Diagnosing Learning Disabilities in a Special Education By an Intelligent Agent Based System

Author 1: Khaled Nasser elSayed

The presented paper provides an intelligent agent based classification system for diagnosing and evaluation of learning disabilities with special education students. It provides pedagogy psychology profiles for those students and offer solution strategies with the best educational activities. It provides tools that allow class teachers to discuss psycho functions and… Read full abstract & cite →

Intelligent Agent Learning Disabilities Special Education Semantic Network Psych Pedagogy Evaluation Exemplar Based Classification

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A Fresnelet-Based Encryption of Medical Images using Arnold Transform

Author 1: Muhammad Nazeer Author 2: Dai-Gyoung Kim Author 3: Bibi Nargis Author 4: Yasir Mehmood Malik

Medical images are commonly stored in digital media and transmitted via Internet for certain uses. If a medical information image alters, this can lead to a wrong diagnosis which may create a serious health problem. Moreover, medical images in digital form can easily be modified by wiping off or adding… Read full abstract & cite →

Fresnelet transform wavelet transform Arnold transform data hiding and image encryption

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A New Type Method for the Structured Variational Inequalities Problem

Author 1: Chengjiang Yin

In this paper, we present an algorithm for solving the structured variational inequality problem, and prove the global convergence of the new method without carrying out any line search technique, and the global R-convergence rate are also given under the suitable conditions. Read full abstract & cite →

structured variational inequality problem algorithm globally convergent R-linear convergent

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A Posteriori Error Estimator for Mixed Approximation of the Navier-Stokes Equations with the Boundary Condition

Author 1: J. EL MEKKAOUI Author 2: M A. BENNANI Author 3: A.ELKHALFI Author 4: A. ELAKKAD

In this paper, we introduce the Navier-Stokes equations with a new boundary condition. In this context, we show the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the weak formulation associated with the proposed problem. To solve this latter, we use the discretization by mixed finite element method. In addition, two… Read full abstract & cite →

Navier-Stokes Equations boundary condition Mixed Finite element method Residual Error Estimator

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Mitigating Cyber Identity Fraud using Advanced Multi Anti-Phishing Technique

Author 1: Yusuf Simon Enoch Author 2: Adebayo Kolawole John Author 3: Adetula Emmanuel Olumuyiwa

Developing Countries are gradually transiting from cash to an electronic based economy by virtue of cashless policy implementation. With this development, cyber criminals and hackers who hitherto attacked businesses and individuals across the Atlantic now see this development as a new venture for their criminal acts and are thus re-directing… Read full abstract & cite →

Security authentication attack Cybercrime Identify theft

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A New Viewpoint for Mining Frequent Patterns

Author 1: Thanh-Trung Nguyen Author 2: Phi-Khu Nguyen

According to the traditional viewpoint of Data mining, transactions are accumulated over a long period of time (in years) in order to find out the frequent patterns associated with a given threshold of support, and then they are applied to practice of business as important experience for the next business… Read full abstract & cite →

accumulating frequent patterns data mining frequent pattern horizontal parallelization representative set vertical parallelization

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Pilot Study: The Use of Electroencephalogram to Measure Attentiveness towards Short Training Videos

Author 1: Paul Alton Nussbaum Author 2: Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves

Universities, schools, and training centers are seeking to improve their computer-based [3] and distance learning classes through the addition of short training videos, often referred to as podcasts [4]. As distance learning and computer based training become more popular, it is of great interest to measure if students are attentive… Read full abstract & cite →

Electroencephalogram EEG Signal Analysis Machine Learning Attentiveness Training Videos

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Camera Mouse Including “Ctrl-Alt-Del” Key Operation Using Gaze, Blink, and Mouth Shape

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Ronny Mardiyanto

This paper presents camera mouse system with additional feature: "CTRL - ALT - DEL" key. The previous gaze-based camera mouse systems are only considering how to obtain gaze and making selection. We proposed gaze-based camera mouse with "CTRL - ALT - DEL" key. Infrared camera is put on top of… Read full abstract & cite →

Camera Mouse User Gaze Combination keys function

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Multi-resolution Analysis of Multi-spectral Palmprints using Hybrid Wavelets for Identification

Author 1: Dr. H.B. Kekre Author 2: Dr. Tanuja Sarode Author 3: Rekha Vig

Palmprint is a relatively new physiological biometric used in identification systems due to its stable and unique characteristics. The vivid texture information of palmprint present at different resolutions offers abundant prospects in personal recognition. This paper describes a new method to authenticate individuals based on palmprint identification. In order to… Read full abstract & cite →

Hand-based biometrics Hybrid wavelet Multi-resolution Energy compaction fusion

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Method for Psychological Status Estimation by Gaze Location Monitoring Using Eye-Based Human- Computer Interaction

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Ronny Mardiyanto

Method for psychological status estimation by gaze location monitoring using Eye-Based Human-Computer Interaction: EBHCI is proposed. Through the experiment with English book reading of e-learning content, relation between psychological status and the distance between the correct location of English sentence reading points and the corresponding location derived from EBHCI is… Read full abstract & cite →

psychological status gaze estimation computer input by human eyes only

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040330 PDF

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A Survey of Environment and Demands Along with a Marketing Communications Plan for WatPutthabucha Market to Promote Agricultural Tourism through Main Media and Online Social Network Media

Author 1: Kuntida Thamwipat Author 2: Nakorn Thamwipat

This study was aimed to examine the current environment and the demands and to make a marketing communications plan for WatPuttabucha Market to promote agricultural tourism through main media and online social network media. Moreover, it was aimed to build up working experiences for research with communities near the campus… Read full abstract & cite →

Environment Marketing Communications Plan Demands Agricultural Tourism Main Media Online Social Network Media

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Draft dynamic student learning in design and manufacturing of complex shape parts

Author 1: Ivana Kleinedlerová Author 2: Peter Kleinedler Author 3: Alexander Janác Author 4: Ivan Buranský

The contribution deals with the dynamic teaching of students through blended learning and teaching online distance teaching which can be considered nowadays to be a very effective and dynamic education of students. Content of the article is focused on the sphere of programming with CNC machines and use Cax systems… Read full abstract & cite →

dynamic education blended learning e-learning CA systems.

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Genetic algorithms to optimize base station sitting in WCDMA networks

Author 1: Najat Erradi Author 2: Noura Aknin Author 3: Fadoua Thami Alami Author 4: Ahmed El Moussaoui

In UMTS network, radio planning cannot only be based on signal predictions, but it must also consider the traffic distribution, the power control mechanism as well as the power limits and the signal quality constraints. The present work aims to optimize the number of base stations used in the WCDMA… Read full abstract & cite →

Ukumura-Hata model UMTS W-CDMA Genetic Algorithms.

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Algorithm to Match Ontologies on the Semantic Web

Author 1: Alaa Qassim Al-Namiy

It has been recognized that semantic data and knowledge extraction will significantly improve the capability of natural language interfaces to the semantic search engine. Semantic Web technology offers a vast scale of sharing and integration of distributed data sources by combining information easily. This will enable the user to find… Read full abstract & cite →

Semantic Web Ontology matching WordNet Information retrieval web service

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Energy-Aware Fragmented Memory Architecture with a Switching Power Supply for Sensor Nodes

Author 1: Harish H Kenchannavar Author 2: M.M.Math Author 3: Umakant P.Kulkarni

The basic sensor node architecture in a wireless sensor network contains sensing, transceiver, processing and memory units along with the power supply module. Because the basic sensor network application nature is surveillance, these networks may be deployed in a remote environment without human intervention. The sensor nodes are also battery-powered… Read full abstract & cite →

modified memory architecture switching power supply sensor node energy conserve idle energy

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A novel optical network on chip design for future generation of multiprocessors system on chip

Author 1: M. Channoufi Author 2: P. Lecoy Author 3: S. Le Beux Author 4: R. Attia Author 5: B. Delacressonniere

The paper presents a novel Optical Network on Chip (ONoC) relying on the multi-level optical layer design paradigm and called “OMNoC”. The proposed ONoC relies on multi-level microring resonator allowing efficient light coupling between superposed waveguides. Such microring resonator avoids using waveguide crossing, which contribute to reduce propagation losses. Preliminary… Read full abstract & cite →

3D-Optical network on chip multi-level optical layer optical control.

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Toward Evolution Strategies Application in Automatic Polyphonic Music Transcription using Electronic Synthesis

Author 1: Herve Kabamba Mbikayi

We present in this paper a new approach for polyphonic music transcription using evolution strategies (ES). Automatic music transcription is a complex process that still remains an open challenge. Using an audio signal to be transcribed as target for our ES, information needed to generate a MIDI file can be… Read full abstract & cite →

evolution strategy polyphonic music transcription FFT electronic synthesis MIDI notes frequency audio signal fundamental frequency pitch detection F0 chords monophonic contours

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Hybrid Approach for Detection of Hard Exudates

Author 1: Dr.H. B. Kekre Author 2: Dr. Tanuja K. Sarode Author 3: Ms. Tarannum Parkar

Diabetic Retinopathy is a severe and widely spread eye disease which can lead to blindness. Hence, early detection of Diabetic Retinopathy is a must. Hard Exudates are the primary sign of Diabetic Retinopathy. Early treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy is possible if we detect Hard Exudates at the earliest stage. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Diabetic Retinopathy Hard Exudates Clustering Mathematical Morphology

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Extended Standard Hough Transform for Analytical Line Recognition

Author 1: Abdoulaye SERE Author 2: Oumarou SIE Author 3: Eric ANDRES

This paper presents a new method which extends the Standard Hough Transform for the recognition of naive or standard line in a noisy picture. The proposed idea conserves the power of the Standard Hough Transform particularly a limited size of the parameter space and the recognition of vertical lines. The… Read full abstract & cite →

hough transform recognition discrete

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k-Modulus Method for Image Transformation

Author 1: Firas A. Jassim

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to make a novel spatial image transformation. The proposed approach aims to reduce the bit depth used for image storage. The basic technique for the proposed transformation is based of the modulus operator. The goal is to transform the whole image into… Read full abstract & cite →

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Analytical Solution of the Perturbed Oribt-Attitude Motion of a Charged Spacecraft in the Geomagnetic Field

Author 1: Hani M. Mohmmed Author 2: Mostafa K. Ahmed Author 3: Ashraf Owis Author 4: Hany Dwidar

In this work we investigate the orbit-attitude perturbations of a rigid spacecraft due to the effects of several forces and torques. The spacecraft is assumed to be of a cylindrical shape and equipped with a charged screen with charge density s. Clearly the main force affecting the motion of the… Read full abstract & cite →

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Automatic Skin Cancer Images Classification

Author 1: Mahmoud Elgamal

Early detection of skin cancer has the potential to reduce mortality and morbidity. This paper presents two hybrid techniques for the classification of the skin images to predict it if exists. The proposed hybrid techniques consists of three stages, namely, feature extraction, dimensionality reduction, and classification. In the first stage… Read full abstract & cite →

Skin cancer images wavelet transformation principle component analysis feed forward back-propagation network knearest neighbor classification.

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