Latest Articles - Volume 9 No. 3

  • Copy Move Image Forgery Detection Using SIFT

    Priyanka R. Ruikarand Pravin S. Patil2

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    In recent years the digital form of data allowing ease on to manipulation & storage due to progress in technology. But this progress in technology has lots of risks especially when it comes to the security of the digital data & files. Basically, image forgery means malfunctioning & playing with images or manipulating data fraudulently. In that case, some important data may get hidden in the original image. In particular, many organizations worry for digital forgery, because it is easier to create fake & fraudulent images without leaving any Tampering traces. A copy-move is a specific form of image forgery operation & it is considered one of the most difficult problems in that case for this a part of any image is copied & pa tested on another location of an image that may be a same or different image, to obfuscate undesirable objects in the scene. In this paper, the method is proposed which automatically detects & identifies the duplicated regions in the image. In that process first image segmentation takes place & by identifying the local characteristics of the images (points of interest) the duplication is detected using SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform).

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  • Detection of Powdery Mildew Disease of Beans in India : A Review

    Kuldeep Singh1, Satish Kumar2 and Pawan Kaur3*

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    Powdery mildew disease of beans in India causes major economic losses in agriculture. For sustainable agriculture detection and identification of diseases in plants is very important.  In this review, we are trying to identify the powdery mildew disease of beans crop by using some image processing and pattern recognition techniques and comparing with molecular and spectroscopic techniques. Early information on crop health and disease detection can facilitate the control of diseases through proper management strategies. The present review recognizes the need for developing a rapid, cost-effective, and reliable health monitoring techniques that would facilitate advancements in agriculture. These technologies include image processing and pattern recognition based plant disease detection methods

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  • Formulation of A Prediction Index with the Help of WEKA Tool for Guiding the Stock Market Investors.

    Aseema Dake Kulkarni and Ajit More

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    Prediction of stock prices using various computer programs is on rise. Popularly known in the field of finance as algorithmic trading, a radical transformation has taken place in the field of stock markets for decision making through automated decision making agents. Machine learning techniques can be applied for predicting stock prices. This paper attempts to study the various stock market forecasting processes available in the forecasting plugin of the WEKA tool. Twenty experiments have been conducted on twenty different stocks to analyse the prediction capacity of the tool.

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  • Improving WLAN Quality of Services (Qos) Using Opnet

    Ishwar Baidari1 , S. P. Sajjan2 and Ajeet Kumar Singh2

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    Wireless local area networks (WLANs) are in a period of great expansion and there is a strong need for them to support multimedia applications. With the increasing demand and penetration of wireless services, users of wireless networks now expect Quality of Service (QoS) and performance comparable to what is available from fixed networks. Providing QoS requirements like good throughput and minimum access delay are challenging tasks with regard to 802.11 WLAN protocols and Medium Access Control (MAC) functions.
    This research is done to study, the presently implemented schemes (the Point Coordination Function (PCF) of IEEE 802.11, the Enhanced Distributed Coordination Function (EDCF) of the proposed IEEE 802.11e extension to IEEE 802.11), solves these issues and what can be done to improve them further.  The metrics used were Throughput, Data Drop, Retransmission and Medium Access Delay, to analyze the performance of various MAC protocols in providing QoS to users of WLAN.
    Two scenarios, with same Physical and MAC parameters, one implementing the DCF and other EDCF, were created in the network simulation tool (OPNET MODELER) to obtain the results. The results showed that the performance of EDCF was better in providing QoS for real-time interactive services (like video conferencing) as compared to DCF, because of its ability to differentiate and prioritize various services. Index Terms - Wireless local area networks (WLANs),

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  • Analysis of the Effect of Cell Phone Radiation on The Human Brain Using Electroencephalogram

    Humaira Nisar* and Hamara M. Awadh

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    This paper aims to investigate the effect of cell phone radiation on human brain. It is known that the cell phone emits electromagnetic (EM) radiation which could be harmful to the human brain. In this research the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal has been acquired from 24 healthy subjects using a 16 channel EEG headset under different experimental conditions. The signal is decomposed into different brain rhythms using Daubechies Discrete Wavelet Transform up to 5th-level of the decomposition. Quantitative analysis has been carried out using two statistical parameters (Energy, Entropy) and Absolute Power. Special attention was focused on Temporal and Frontal lobes as these are near to the ear. Experimental results show higher values (for energy, entropy and absolute power) in the low-frequency bands (delta and theta) compared to the high frequency bands (alpha, beta and gamma) in both lobes. When the phone was placed 5cm away from the head there was less brain activation compared to when the cell phone was placed next to the ear/head on both sides. It was found that there was more effect on the right side compared to the left side from the cell phone’s radio waves. 

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