One of the most convenient biometrics approaches for identifying a person is dorsal hand veins recognition. In recent years, the dorsal hand veins have acquired increasing attention because of its characteristics such as universal, unique, permanent, contactless, and difficulty of forging, also, the veins remain unchanged when a human being grows. The captured dorsal hand veins image suffers from the many differences in lighting conditions, brightness, existing hair, and amount of noise. To solve these problems, this paper aims to extract and recognize dorsal hand veins based on the largest correlation coefficient. The proposed system consists of three stages: 1) preprocessing the image, 2) feature extraction, and 3) matching. In order to evaluate the proposed system performance, two databases have been employed. The test results illustrate the correct recognition rate (CRR), and accuracy of the first database are 99.38% and 99.46%, respectively, whereas the CRR, and accuracy of the second database are 99.11% and 99.07% respectively. As a result, we conclude that our proposed method for recognizing dorsal hand veins is feasible and effective.
One of the most important biometric features for personal identification is the face. In current paper, a new method of face verification upon on singular value decomposition (SVD) and standard deviation (SD) would be described. Due to many variations in real-life such as pose, illumination, or facial expression, there would be difficulty of face recognition. It should be mentioned that there are many approaches for face recognition, however, there is no one could be considered as the most suitable for many situations. One of the methods used is Singular value vector for an image detecting, but the drawback of this approach is the low rate of recognition, where one scale singular value vector is used for face acknowledgment. There an algorithm has been developed to expand the rate of the recognition. In this paper, an approach has been proposed to associate two feature sets obtained from SVD and SD method. It has noticed a good recognition rate could be obtained from the experimental results, where approximately more that 97.5% recognition rate has obtained on the ORL data base. The results from current proposed method have matched with some techniques and it has shown that this method is better than the existing approaches. An extensive experiment has demonstrated not only better performance, but it offers a great likely to achieve equivalent performance to other categories of state-of-the-art methods.
One study whose importance has significantly grown in recent years is lip-reading, particularly with the widespread of using deep learning techniques. Lip reading is essential for speech recognition in noisy environments or for those with hearing impairments. It refers to recognizing spoken sentences using visual information acquired from lip movements. Also, the lip area, especially for males, suffers from several problems, such as the mouth area containing the mustache and beard, which may cover the lip area. This paper proposes an automatic lip-reading system to recognize and classify short English sentences spoken by speakers using deep learning networks. The input video extracts frames and each frame is passed to the Viola-Jones to detect the face area. Then 68 landmarks of the facial area are determined, and the landmarks from 48 to 68 represent the lip area extracted based on building a binary mask. Then, the contrast is enhanced to improve the quality of the lip image by applying contrast adjustment. Finally, sentences are classified using two deep learning models, the first is AlexNet, and the second is VGG-16 Net. The database consists of 39 participants (32 males and 7 females). Each participant repeats the short sentences five times. The outcomes demonstrate the accuracy rate of AlexNet is 90.00%, whereas the accuracy rate for VGG-16 Net is 82.34%. We concluded that AlexNet performs better for classifying short sentences than VGG-16 Net.
Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natural disasters facing humans because of their occurrence without warning and their impact on their lives and property. In addition, predicting seismic movement is one of the main research topics in seismic disaster prevention. In geological studies, scientists can predict and know the locations of earthquakes in the long term. Therefore, about 80% of the major global earthquakes lie along the Pacific Ring belt, known as the Ring of Fire. Machine learning methods have also been used for short-term earthquake prediction, and studies have applied the random forest method to determine the factors that precede earthquakes. The machine learning method was based on various decision trees, each of which predicted the time to the nearest oscillation. The third group of scientists used the hybrid prediction method, which combines machine learning and geological studies. This research deals with a review of most of the geological studies and machine learning techniques applied to earthquake data sets, which showed a total lack of prediction of potential earthquakes through one approach, so studies designed by geologists were combined with machine learning.
A New measure is proposed for assessing the similarity among gray-scale images. The well-known Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) has been designed using a statistical approach that fails under significant noise (lowPSNR). The proposed measure, denoted by Manhattan distance and STD, uses a combination of two parts: the first part is the Geometric method, while the second part is based on the statistical feature. The concept of manhattan distance is used in the geometric part. The new measure shows the advantages of statistical approaches and geometric approaches. The proposed similarity method is an outcome for the human face. The novel measure outperforms the classical SSIM in detecting image similarity at low PSNR, with a significant difference in performance. AMS subject classification:
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