School of Mechatronic Engineering (Articles): Recent submissions
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Electromyographic responses during elbow movement at two angles with voluntary contraction: Influences of muscle activity on upper arm Biceps Brachii
(Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2012-11-15)Analysis of Electromyography (EMG) signals generated by individuals is part of human musculoskeletal system research and signals are always influenced by the electrode placement in the muscle. This characteristic is also ... -
Modified global and modified linear contrast stretching algorithms: New colour contrast enhancement techniques for microscopic analysis of malaria slide images
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)Malaria is one of the serious global health problem, causing widespread sufferings and deaths in various parts of the world. With the large number of cases diagnosed over the year, early detection and accurate diagnosis ... -
Dielectric measurement techniques of biological tissue: A review on electrodes perspective
(International Frequency Sensor Association Publishing (IFSA), 2012-02)The aim of this paper is to review the techniques that have been developed in biological tissue dielectric measurement. This manuscript may give a clear picture on the history, development of the technology and also the ... -
Normal and hypoacoustic infant cry signal classification using time-frequency analysis and general regression neural network
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd., 2012-11)Crying is the most noticeable behavior of infancy. Infant cry signals can be used to identify physical or psychological status of an infant. Recently, acoustic analysis of infant cry signal has shown promising results and ... -
Luminance sticker based facial expression recognition using discrete wavelet transform for physically disabled persons
(Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2012)Developing tools to assist physically disabled and immobilized people through facial expression is a challenging area of research and has attracted many researchers recently. In this paper, luminance stickers based facial ... -
Development of gesture database for an adaptive gesture recognition system
(IJENS Publishers, 2012-08)The application of human gesture for the interaction between humans and computers is becoming an impressive alternative. Particularly, hand gesture is used as a non-verbal communication between human and machines. Most ... -
Development of low cost “GloveMAP” based on fingertip bending tracking techniques for virtual interaction
(IJENS Publishers, 2012-08)Thedevelopment of a new low cost GloveMAP based on fingertip bending tracking techniques for measuring the sign language is presented. Nowadays, the communication between two parties has always been a huge obstacle in the ... -
Gesture recognition based on the probability distribution of arm trajectories
(The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 2009-09)The use of human motions for the interaction between humans and computers is becoming an attractive alternative to verbal media, especially through the visual interpretation of the human body motion. In particular, hand ... -
Accurate measurement of the force sensor for intermediate and proximal phalanges of index finger
(Foundation of Computer Science, 2012-05)In this research paper, the study for grip force on the maximum level of the various materials handling griper can be evaluate at an effective maximum isometric strength especially for intermediate and proximal phalanges ... -
Hardware developments of an ultrasonic tomography measurement system
(International Frequency Sensors Association (IFSA), 2011-01)This research provides new technique in ultrasonic tomography by using ultrasonic transceivers instead of using separate transmitter-receiver pair. The numbers of sensors or transducers used to acquire data plays an important ... -
An improved defect classification algorithm for six printing defects and its implementation on real printed circuit board images
(ICIC International, 2012-05)Because decisions made by human inspectors often involve subjective judg- ment, in addition to being intensive and therefore costly, an automated approach for printed circuit board (PCB) inspection is preferred to eliminate ... -
Automated identification of exudates and optic disc based on inverse surface thresholding
(Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2012)This paper presents a new approach to detect exudates and optic disc from color fundus images based on inverse surface thresholding. The strategy involves the applications of fuzzy c-means clustering, edge detection, otsu ... -
Development of human sensory mimicking system
(American Scientific Publishers, 2011-02)Taste (gustatory) and smell (olfactory) are two of the five human senses apart from touch (somatosensory), vision and hearing (auditory). In human and many other vertebrate animals the sense of taste are often used with ... -
Analysis of infant cry through weighted linear prediction cepstral coefficients and probabilistic neural network
(Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2012)Acoustic analysis of infant cry signals has been proven to be an excellent tool in the area of automatic detection of pathological status of an infant. This paper investigates the application of parameter weighting for ... -
Optical tomography: Velocity profile measurement using orthogonal and rectilinear arrangements
(Elsevier Ltd., 2012-03)In tomography applications, flow velocity is an important flow characteristic for analysis. Excessively high particle velocity will cause high energy consumption, severe pipeline wear and particle degradation. This paper ... -
Optical tomography: A review on sensor array, projection arrangement and image reconstruction algorithm
(Kyushu Tokai University, 2011-07)This paper reviews previous research on sensor arrays, projection arrangements and image reconstruction algorithms of optical tomography for industrial processes. These include the review of sensor selection and projection ... -
Improved back propagation neural network for the diagnosis of pathological voices
(Association for Advancedment of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Entreprises (A.M.S.E), 2008)Most of vocal and voice diseases cause changes in the voice. ENT clinicians use acoustic voice analysis to characterize the pathological voices. Nowadays, voice diseases are increasing dramatically due to unhealthy social ... -
Gas hold-up profiles measurement using ultrasonic sensor
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-02)In this letter, we present a work carried out to measure gas hold-up profiles in a liquid column using a pair of ultrasonic sensors. The gas hold-up profiles from 1.85 to 7.7 mm in diameter are of interest in this ... -
Classification of speech dysfluencies with MFCC and LPCC features
(Elsevier Ltd., 2012-02)The goal of this paper is to discuss comparison of speech parameterization methods: Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) and Linear Prediction Cepstrum Coefficients (LPCC) for recognizing the stuttered events. Speech ... -
Optical tomography system based on charge-coupled device linear image sensors: Particle size measurement
(Elsevier B.V., 2011-08)This paper discussed an optical tomography system based on charge-coupled device (CCD) linear image sensors. The developed system consists of a lighting system, a measurement section and a data acquisition system. Four CCD ...