The detection of nystagmus using video oculography experiences accuracy problems when patients who complain of dizziness have difficulty in fully opening their eyes. Pupil detection and tracking in this condition affect the accuracy of the nystagmus waveform. In this research, we design a pupil detection method using a pattern matching approach that approximates the pupil using a Mexican hat-type ellipse pattern, in order to deal with the aforementioned problem. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method, in comparison with that of a conventional Hough transform method, for eye movement videos retrieved from Gifu University Hospital. The performance results show that the proposed method can detect and track the pupil position, even when only 20% of the pupil is visible. In comparison, the conventional Hough transform only indicates good performance when 90% of the pupil is visible. We also evaluate the proposed method using the Labelled Pupil in the Wild (LPW) data set. The results show that the proposed method has an accuracy of 1.47, as evaluated using the Mean Square Error (MSE), which is much lower than that of the conventional Hough transform method, with an MSE of 9.53. We conduct expert validation by consulting three medical specialists regarding the nystagmus waveform. The medical specialists agreed that the waveform can be evaluated clinically, without contradicting their diagnoses.
Theft and intrusion are crimes that often occur in neighborhoods when there is opportunity or negligence by owners and security personnel. Many studies have been carried out to improve environmental security by applying cameras as a surveillance medium. However, the camera is not optimal in detecting objects when the lighting conditions are lacking. Therefore, in this study, a monitoring and object detection system was built by applying the Illumination Invariant model. This model is used to improve the appearance of the image from light and shadow reflections. The process of detecting and identifying objects is done by using human facial features (face detection) captured by the camera. The camera used is a Logitec C270 Webcam 720p which is connected via a USB port on the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 4 processes human face image data and sends the processing results to a MySQL database using the HTTP protocol. Data transmission is done using the Python Flask web framework. The system was successfully run 100% by using black box testing of all functional requirements. Tests on the object detection feature were carried out based on different lighting conditions 15 times by comparing the original image and the results of the Illumination Invariant implementation. Based on the test results obtained object detection accuracy of 86.7%.
Quality of Service (QoS) of video streaming service over wireless and mobile network is determined by many intermingled factors. Some of the factors can be adjusted. Video resolution, audio rate, and bandwidth are among of them. Other factors are not fully controllable such as network throughput, delay, and packet lost probability. In order to increase user satisfaction, efforts to make better quality of video services should consider these factors. However,userperceived quality of the service is not only determined by QoS factors. User experience, user expectation and user interest to specific content are among factors that influence level of user satisfaction. In this context, customer satisfaction is known as Quality of user Experience (QoE). Moreover, there is a nonlinearity issue regarding improvement of QoS and QoE. This paper will discuss a holistic view of video service quality in order to elaborate the nonlinearity of QoS and QoE factors and their contribution to enhance user satisfaction.
Real-time traffic monitoring is essential for the operation of an adaptive traffic lighting system and plays a significant role in decision-making, particularly signaling in roadworks. When only one lane is accessible due to temporary road blockage, early detection of oncoming vehicles is crucial to minimize bottlenecks near the traffic light that could result in congestion and accidents. This research aimed to enhance the detection and tracking of traffic at a distance from the traffic light. We utilized the vanishing point as a reference for detection and calculated the region of interest. We implemented the proposed method on twelve traffic surveillance videos and evaluated the system performance based on how quickly it could detect incoming traffic compared with the R-CNN method. The proposed method detected target vehicles in an average of 17.75 frames, while the R-CNN method required an average of 63.36 frames. Moreover, the proposed method’s precision depends on the number of pixel orientations used to estimate the vanishing point and the definition of the region of interest. Therefore, the proposed method for enhancing the safety and reliability of an adaptive traffic light system is reliable.
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