The field of electronics is skyrocketing like never before. The habitat for the electronic components is a printed circuit board (PCB). With the advent of newer and finer technologies it has almost become impossible to detect the faults in a printed circuit board manually which consumes lot of manpower and time. This paper proposes a simple and cost effective method of fault diagnosis in a PCB using image processing techniques. In addition to fault detection and its classification this paper addresses various problems faced during the pre-processing phase. This paper overcomes the drawbacks of the previous works such as improper orientations of the image and size variations of the image. Basically image subtraction algorithm is used for fault detection. The most commonly occurring faults are concentrated in this work and the same are implemented using MATLAB tool.
Rotation Invariant Face Recognition using RLBP, LPQ and CONTOURLET TransformIRJET Journal
This document discusses rotation invariant face recognition using three feature extraction techniques: Rotated Local Binary Pattern (RLBP), Local Phase Quantization (LPQ), and Contourlet transform. It first extracts features from input face images using these three techniques. It then applies Linear Discriminant Analysis to reduce the feature dimensions. Finally, it uses k-Nearest Neighbors classification to perform face recognition on the Jaffe dataset. Experimental results show that the face recognition accuracy without LDA is 99.06% and increases to 100% when LDA is used for feature dimension reduction.
Analysis of Digital Image Forgery Detection using Adaptive Over-Segmentation ...IRJET Journal
This document proposes two methods for detecting forged regions in digital images: adaptive over-segmentation and feature point matching. Adaptive over-segmentation divides the host image into irregular, non-overlapping blocks to reduce computational complexity compared to overlapping blocks. Feature points are then extracted from each block using SIFT and matched between blocks to identify labeled feature points that indicate suspected forgery regions. Finally, a forgery region extraction algorithm processes the labeled feature points and applies morphological operations to detect the forged regions in the host image. The proposed methods aim to address limitations of prior blocked-based forgery detection techniques by improving efficiency and ability to handle geometric transformations of forged areas.
Fuzzy Logic Based Decision System For PCB Defects CorrectionIJERA Editor
he size, ease of automation, increasing durability and reliability of any circuit being developed. Defect & errors while developments are much obvious. Detecting them is primary part but taking decision for correction of same in testing specimen will be effective or not is much more crucial. Sometimes defect correction in the PCB is much more efficient then reprinting, in terms of time, resource and cost with respect to production. Making decision manually is tiresome & less efficient. So in this paper a novel method of decision making system based on fuzzy logic is proposed which takes decision whether the testing specimen should undergo correction or reprinting. Fuzzy based system takes decision in the way humans do. Results shown for the proposed system are quite promising in decision making.
This document discusses a digital image processing (DIP) based system for identifying defects in industrial materials like steel rods. Images of reference and test samples are taken and compared using techniques like thresholding, histograms, and cell segmentation in MATLAB. Defects are identified by variations between the images. The system is implemented on an FPGA for hardware acceleration. Images of steel rods with and without defects are compared to demonstrate the system's ability to detect cracks. The DIP based approach can replace manual inspection and provides faster quality evaluation of industrial materials compared to software-only methods.
Microarray spot partitioning by autonomously organising maps through contour ...IJECEIAES
In cDNA microarray image analysis, classification of pixels as forefront area and the area covered by background is very challenging. In microarray experimentation, identifying forefront area of desired spots is nothing but computation of forefront pixels concentration, area covered by spot and shape of the spots. In this piece of writing, an innovative way for spot partitioning of microarray images using autonomously organizing maps (AOM) method through C-V model has been proposed. Concept of neural networks has been incorpated to train and to test microarray spots.In a trained AOM the comprehensive information arising from the prototypes of created neurons are clearly integrated to decide whether to get smaller or get bigger of contour. During the process of optimization, this is done in an iterative manner. Next using C-V model, inside curve area of trained spot is compared with test spot finally curve fitting is done.The presented model can handle spots with variations in terms of shape and quality of the spots and meanwhile it is robust to the noise. From the review of experimental work, presented approach is accurate over the approaches like C-means by fuzzy, Morphology sectionalization.
This document presents research on using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect skin lesions from dermoscopic images. The researchers:
1. Developed a CNN (U-Net) to segment skin lesions from images, achieving a Dice coefficient of 0.8689.
2. Used a fine-tuned VGG-16 network to classify images as benign or malignant. They found that using their automatic segmentations as input improved sensitivity over using unaltered images.
3. Concluded that their deep learning approach can help dermatologists diagnose skin cancer, and that automatic segmentation improves classification sensitivity compared to using whole images, even without perfect segmentation. This verifies their hypothesis that segmentation enhances classification.
1) The document proposes analog signal processing as a solution to reduce computation time for image alignment algorithms that have high computational loads.
2) It modifies the Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) algorithm for image alignment by only using the diagonal elements of the template and reference image blocks to calculate correlation. This reduces computations compared to using all pixels.
3) A new imaging architecture is proposed that uses an analog processor to implement the modified NCC algorithm in parallel with digital image acquisition, providing faster computation.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to extract texture
features from facial images using an improved method of
Illumination Invariant Feature Descriptor. The proposed local
ternary Pattern based feature extractor viz., Steady Illumination
Local Ternary Pattern (SIcLTP) has been used to extract texture
features from Indian face database. The similarity matching
between two extracted feature sets has been obtained using Zero
Mean Sum of Squared Differences (ZSSD). The RGB facial images
are first converted into the YIQ colour space to reduce the
redundancy of the RGB images. The result obtained has been
analysed using Receiver Operating Characteristic curve, and is
found to be promising. Finally the results are validated with
standard local binary pattern (LBP) extractor.
Rotation Invariant Face Recognition using RLBP, LPQ and CONTOURLET TransformIRJET Journal
This document discusses rotation invariant face recognition using three feature extraction techniques: Rotated Local Binary Pattern (RLBP), Local Phase Quantization (LPQ), and Contourlet transform. It first extracts features from input face images using these three techniques. It then applies Linear Discriminant Analysis to reduce the feature dimensions. Finally, it uses k-Nearest Neighbors classification to perform face recognition on the Jaffe dataset. Experimental results show that the face recognition accuracy without LDA is 99.06% and increases to 100% when LDA is used for feature dimension reduction.
Analysis of Digital Image Forgery Detection using Adaptive Over-Segmentation ...IRJET Journal
This document proposes two methods for detecting forged regions in digital images: adaptive over-segmentation and feature point matching. Adaptive over-segmentation divides the host image into irregular, non-overlapping blocks to reduce computational complexity compared to overlapping blocks. Feature points are then extracted from each block using SIFT and matched between blocks to identify labeled feature points that indicate suspected forgery regions. Finally, a forgery region extraction algorithm processes the labeled feature points and applies morphological operations to detect the forged regions in the host image. The proposed methods aim to address limitations of prior blocked-based forgery detection techniques by improving efficiency and ability to handle geometric transformations of forged areas.
Fuzzy Logic Based Decision System For PCB Defects CorrectionIJERA Editor
he size, ease of automation, increasing durability and reliability of any circuit being developed. Defect & errors while developments are much obvious. Detecting them is primary part but taking decision for correction of same in testing specimen will be effective or not is much more crucial. Sometimes defect correction in the PCB is much more efficient then reprinting, in terms of time, resource and cost with respect to production. Making decision manually is tiresome & less efficient. So in this paper a novel method of decision making system based on fuzzy logic is proposed which takes decision whether the testing specimen should undergo correction or reprinting. Fuzzy based system takes decision in the way humans do. Results shown for the proposed system are quite promising in decision making.
This document discusses a digital image processing (DIP) based system for identifying defects in industrial materials like steel rods. Images of reference and test samples are taken and compared using techniques like thresholding, histograms, and cell segmentation in MATLAB. Defects are identified by variations between the images. The system is implemented on an FPGA for hardware acceleration. Images of steel rods with and without defects are compared to demonstrate the system's ability to detect cracks. The DIP based approach can replace manual inspection and provides faster quality evaluation of industrial materials compared to software-only methods.
Microarray spot partitioning by autonomously organising maps through contour ...IJECEIAES
In cDNA microarray image analysis, classification of pixels as forefront area and the area covered by background is very challenging. In microarray experimentation, identifying forefront area of desired spots is nothing but computation of forefront pixels concentration, area covered by spot and shape of the spots. In this piece of writing, an innovative way for spot partitioning of microarray images using autonomously organizing maps (AOM) method through C-V model has been proposed. Concept of neural networks has been incorpated to train and to test microarray spots.In a trained AOM the comprehensive information arising from the prototypes of created neurons are clearly integrated to decide whether to get smaller or get bigger of contour. During the process of optimization, this is done in an iterative manner. Next using C-V model, inside curve area of trained spot is compared with test spot finally curve fitting is done.The presented model can handle spots with variations in terms of shape and quality of the spots and meanwhile it is robust to the noise. From the review of experimental work, presented approach is accurate over the approaches like C-means by fuzzy, Morphology sectionalization.
This document presents research on using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect skin lesions from dermoscopic images. The researchers:
1. Developed a CNN (U-Net) to segment skin lesions from images, achieving a Dice coefficient of 0.8689.
2. Used a fine-tuned VGG-16 network to classify images as benign or malignant. They found that using their automatic segmentations as input improved sensitivity over using unaltered images.
3. Concluded that their deep learning approach can help dermatologists diagnose skin cancer, and that automatic segmentation improves classification sensitivity compared to using whole images, even without perfect segmentation. This verifies their hypothesis that segmentation enhances classification.
1) The document proposes analog signal processing as a solution to reduce computation time for image alignment algorithms that have high computational loads.
2) It modifies the Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) algorithm for image alignment by only using the diagonal elements of the template and reference image blocks to calculate correlation. This reduces computations compared to using all pixels.
3) A new imaging architecture is proposed that uses an analog processor to implement the modified NCC algorithm in parallel with digital image acquisition, providing faster computation.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to extract texture
features from facial images using an improved method of
Illumination Invariant Feature Descriptor. The proposed local
ternary Pattern based feature extractor viz., Steady Illumination
Local Ternary Pattern (SIcLTP) has been used to extract texture
features from Indian face database. The similarity matching
between two extracted feature sets has been obtained using Zero
Mean Sum of Squared Differences (ZSSD). The RGB facial images
are first converted into the YIQ colour space to reduce the
redundancy of the RGB images. The result obtained has been
analysed using Receiver Operating Characteristic curve, and is
found to be promising. Finally the results are validated with
standard local binary pattern (LBP) extractor.
Enhanced Optimization of Edge Detection for High Resolution Images Using Veri...ijcisjournal
dge Detection plays a crucial role in Image Processing and Segmentation where a set of algorithms aims
to identify various portions of a digital image at which a sharpened image is observed in the output or
more formally has discontinuities. The contour of Edge Detection also helps in Object Detection and
Recognition. Image edges can be detected by using two attributes such as Gradient and Laplacian. In our
Paper, we proposed a system which utilizes Canny and Sobel Operators for Edge Detection which is a
Gradient First order derivative function for edge detection by using Verilog Hardware Description
Language and in turn compared with the results of the previous paper in Matlab. The process of edge
detection in Verilog significantly reduces the processing time and filters out unneeded information, while
preserving the important structural properties of an image. This edge detection can be used to detect
vehicles in Traffic Jam, Medical imaging system for analysing MRI, x-rays by using Xilinx ISE Design
Suite 14.2.
Enhanced Thinning Based Finger Print RecognitionIJCI JOURNAL
This paper is the implementation of fingerprint recognition system in which the matching is done using the
Minutiae points. The methodology is the extracting & applying matching procedure on the Minutiae points
between the sample fingerprint & fingerprint under question. The main functional blocks of this system
follows steps of Image Thinning, Image Segmentation, Minutiae (feature) point Extraction, & Minutiae
point Matching. The procedure of Enhanced Thinning included for the purpose of decreasing the size of the
memory space used by the fingerprint image database.
PARALLEL GENERATION OF IMAGE LAYERS CONSTRUCTED BY EDGE DETECTION USING MESSA...ijcsit
Edge detection is one of the most fundamental algorithms in digital image processing. Many algorithms have been implemented to construct image layers extracted from the original image based on selecting threshold parameters. Changing theses parameters to get a high quality layer is time consuming. In this paper, we propose two parallel technique, NASHT1 and NASHT2, to generate multiple layers of an input
image automatically to enable the image tester to select the highest quality detected edges. In addition, the
effect of intensive I/O operations and the number of parallel running processes on the performance of the proposed techniques have also been studied.
The document proposes a hybrid technique using Anisotropic Scale Invariant Feature Transform (A-SIFT) and Robust Ensemble Support Vector Machine (RESVM) to accurately identify faces in images. A-SIFT improves upon traditional SIFT by applying anisotropic scaling to extract richer directional keypoints. Keypoints are processed with RESVM and hypothesis testing to increase accuracy above 95% by repeatedly reprocessing images until the threshold is met. The technique was tested on similar and different facial images and achieved better results than SIFT in retrieval time and reduced keypoints.
This document presents a novel edge detection algorithm proposed for mammographic images. It begins with an abstract summarizing the paper's focus on edge detection in mammograms and comparison to other common edge detection methods. It then provides background on edge detection and medical image analysis, describing common gradient and derivative-based edge detection methods. The main body introduces a new two-phase edge detection process called Binary Homogeneity Enhancement Algorithm (BHEA) that homogenizes the mammogram and detects edges by traversing the image horizontally and vertically. Results from the new method are then compared to other common edge detection filters.
Performance Comparison of Face Recognition Using DCT Against Face Recognition...CSCJournals
In this paper, a face recognition system using simple Vector quantization (VQ) technique is proposed. Four different VQ algorithms namely LBG, KPE, KMCG and KFCG are used to generate codebooks of desired size. Euclidean distance is used as similarity measure to compare the feature vector of test image with that of trainee images. Proposed algorithms are tested on two different databases. One is Georgia Tech Face Database which contains color JPEG images, all are of different size. Another database used for experimental purpose is Indian Face Database. It contains color bitmap images. Using above VQ techniques, codebooks of different size are generated and recognition rate is calculated for each codebook size. This recognition rate is compared with the one obtained by applying DCT on image and LBG-VQ algorithm which is used as benchmark in vector quantization. Results show that KFCG outperforms other three VQ techniques and gives better recognition rate up to 85.4% for Georgia Tech Face Database and 90.66% for Indian Face Database. As no Euclidean distance computations are involved in KMCG and KFCG, they require less time to generate the codebook as compared to LBG and KPE
IRJET- Implementation of Gender Detection with Notice Board using Raspberry PiIRJET Journal
1) The document describes a system that uses a Raspberry Pi device with a camera module to implement gender detection.
2) Images captured by the camera are processed through a convolutional neural network to extract facial features and predict gender.
3) The system is intended to address limitations of existing gender detection technologies and provide a low-cost hardware solution using a Raspberry Pi single-board computer.
This document proposes an efficient method for personal identification using iris recognition. It presents a new approach to creating a compact feature vector using wavelet transforms. It also introduces two mechanisms to improve a competitive learning method: initializing weight vectors uniformly and selecting winners based on multiple dimensions. Experimental results showed the proposed system could identify people efficiently and effectively.
IRJET- Video Forgery Detection using Machine LearningIRJET Journal
This document proposes a method to detect video forgery using machine learning. It discusses extracting optical flow and GLCM features from video frames and using them to train a support vector machine classifier. The method segments video frames, applies k-means clustering to group similar regions, and extracts GLCM features for comparison. This allows the system to detect any duplicated or manipulated frames through feature analysis and machine learning classification.
Performance analysis on color image mosaicing techniques on FPGAIJECEIAES
Today, the surveillance systems and other monitoring systems are considering the capturing of image sequences in a single frame. The captured images can be combined to get the mosaiced image or combined image sequence. But the captured image may have quality issues like brightness issue, alignment issue (correlation issue), resolution issue, manual image registration issue etc. The existing technique like cross correlation can offer better image mosaicing but faces brightness issue in mosaicing. Thus, this paper introduces two different methods for mosaicing i.e., (a) Sliding Window Module (SWM) based Color Image Mosaicing (CIM) and (b) Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based CIM on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The SWM based CIM adopted for corner detection of two images and perform the automatic image registration while DCT based CIM aligns both the local as well as global alignment of images by using phase correlation approach. Finally, these two methods performances are analyzed by comparing with parameters like PSNR, MSE, device utilization and execution time. From the analysis it is concluded that the DCT based CIM can offers significant results than SWM based CIM.
Development of Human Tracking System For Video Surveillancecscpconf
Visual surveillance in dynamic scenes, especially for human and some objects is one of the
most active research areas. An attempt has been made to this issue in this work. It has wide
spectrum of promising application including human identification to detect the suspicious
behavior, crowd flux statistics, and congestion analysis using multiple cameras.
In this paper deals with the problem of detecting and tracking multiple moving people in a static
background. Detection of foreground object is done by background subtraction. Detected
objects are identified and analyzed through different blobs. Then tracking is performed by
matching corresponding features of blob. An algorithm has been developed in this perspective
using Angular Deviation of Center of Gravity (ADCG), which gives a satisfying result for segmentation of human object.
We presents a technique for moving objects extraction. There are several different approaches for moving object extraction, clustering is one of object extraction method with a stronger teorical foundation used in many applications. And need high performance in many extraction process of moving object. We compare K-Means and Self-Organizing Map method for extraction moving objects, for performance measurement of moving object extraction by applying MSE and PSNR. According to experimental result that the MSE value of K-Means is smaller than Self-Organizing Map. It is also that PSNR of K-Means is higher than Self-Organizing Map algorithm. The result proves that K-Means is a promising method to cluster pixels in moving objects extraction.
International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES) is a peer reviewed online journal for professionals and researchers in the field of computer science. The main aim is to resolve emerging and outstanding problems revealed by recent social and technological change. IJRES provides the platform for the researchers to present and evaluate their work from both theoretical and technical aspects and to share their views.
EV-SIFT - An Extended Scale Invariant Face Recognition for Plastic Surgery Fa...IJECEIAES
This paper presents a new technique called Entropy based SIFT (EV-SIFT) for accurate face recognition after the plastic surgery. The corresponding feature extracts the key points and volume of the scale-space structure for which the information rate is determined. This provides least effect on uncertain variations in the face since the entropy is the higher order statistical feature. The corresponding EV-SIFT features are applied to the Support vector machine for classification. The normal SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the contrast of the image and the V- SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the volume of the structure. However, the EV- SIFT method provides both the contrast and volume information. Thus EV-SIFT provide better performance when compared with PCA, normal SIFT and VSIFT based feature extraction.
Analog signal processing approach for coarse and fine depth estimationsipij
This document discusses an analog signal processing approach for coarse and fine depth estimation using stereo image pairs. It proposes modifications to existing normalized cross correlation (NCC) and sum absolute differences (SAD) stereo correspondence algorithms to reduce computation time. For the NCC algorithm, it suggests using only the diagonal elements of image blocks to compute correlation, reducing computations from 2D to 1D. For hardware implementation, it presents a new imaging architecture with parallel analog and digital systems, where the analog system performs the computationally intensive NCC algorithm on sensor data in real-time to reduce overall processing time compared to digital-only systems. Experimental results show the modified algorithms can achieve faster computation speeds without compromising performance.
This document provides information about Elysium Technologies Private Limited, an ISO 9001:2008 certified research and development company located in Singapore, Madurai, Trichy, Coimbatore, Kollam, and Cochin. It lists their branch office locations and contact information. The document then provides a list of 12 digital image processing projects available for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Adaptive K-Means Clustering Algorithm for MR Breast Image Segmentation
3D Brain Tumor Segmentation Scheme using K-mean Clustering and Connected Component Labeling Algorithms
Volume Identification and Estimation of MRI Brain Tumor
MRI Breast cancer diagnosis hybrid approach using adaptive Ant-based segmentation and Multilayer Perceptron NN classifier
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new technique called Morphology based technique for Extraction and Detection of blinking Region from gif Images. It begins by introducing the goal of detecting blinking parts in gif images and issues with existing techniques. It then describes the proposed methodology which uses edge detection, morphological operations like closing, and precision/recall metrics to evaluate the technique. The methodology is tested on sample gif images and results show high precision and recall rates, indicating the model is effective at extracting blinking regions.
Defect detection and classification of printed circuit board using MATLABIRJET Journal
1. The document presents a method for detecting and classifying defects on printed circuit boards (PCBs) using MATLAB image processing techniques.
2. Normalized cross-correlation is used to determine if a PCB is defective by comparing it to a reference image. Defective PCB images are then segmented into regions and arithmetic operations are applied to detect defects.
3. The proposed method groups the 14 known PCB defects into 7 classes based on similarities and locations of defects detected. This allows for automated visual inspection and quality control of PCBs.
IRJET - Facial Recognition based Attendance System with LBPHIRJET Journal
This document presents a facial recognition based attendance system using LBPH (Local Binary Pattern Histograms). It begins with an abstract describing the system which takes student attendance using facial identification from classroom camera images. It then discusses related work in attendance and face recognition systems. The proposed system workflow is described involving face detection, feature extraction using LBPH, template matching, and attendance recording. Experimental results demonstrate the system's ability to detect multiple faces and record attendance accurately in an Excel sheet with date/time. The conclusion discusses how the system reduces human effort for attendance and increases learning time compared to traditional methods.
IRJET- Automatic Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Using SRC Classifier from ...IRJET Journal
This document proposes an automatic detection system for diabetic retinopathy using fundus images. It uses image segmentation, feature extraction including gray level co-occurrence matrix and sparse representations classification, and classification to detect lesions. The system was tested on published fundus image databases and achieved accurate segmentation and detection of diabetic retinopathy compared to existing methods. Experimental results using MATLAB showed increasing accuracy with more training iterations. The proposed automated system could help detect diabetic retinopathy at early stages to prevent vision loss.
IRJET- A Plant Identification and Recommendation SystemIRJET Journal
This document describes a plant identification and recommendation system that uses image recognition techniques. The system takes an image of a leaf as input, preprocesses it by resizing, converting to grayscale, and extracting features. It then uses a convolutional neural network with the Inception-v3 model to identify the plant by comparing features to those in its database. Based on the identified plant, it recommends other plants that could grow in that location. The system is implemented as both a mobile app and web application to be accessible anywhere.
Enhanced Optimization of Edge Detection for High Resolution Images Using Veri...ijcisjournal
dge Detection plays a crucial role in Image Processing and Segmentation where a set of algorithms aims
to identify various portions of a digital image at which a sharpened image is observed in the output or
more formally has discontinuities. The contour of Edge Detection also helps in Object Detection and
Recognition. Image edges can be detected by using two attributes such as Gradient and Laplacian. In our
Paper, we proposed a system which utilizes Canny and Sobel Operators for Edge Detection which is a
Gradient First order derivative function for edge detection by using Verilog Hardware Description
Language and in turn compared with the results of the previous paper in Matlab. The process of edge
detection in Verilog significantly reduces the processing time and filters out unneeded information, while
preserving the important structural properties of an image. This edge detection can be used to detect
vehicles in Traffic Jam, Medical imaging system for analysing MRI, x-rays by using Xilinx ISE Design
Suite 14.2.
Enhanced Thinning Based Finger Print RecognitionIJCI JOURNAL
This paper is the implementation of fingerprint recognition system in which the matching is done using the
Minutiae points. The methodology is the extracting & applying matching procedure on the Minutiae points
between the sample fingerprint & fingerprint under question. The main functional blocks of this system
follows steps of Image Thinning, Image Segmentation, Minutiae (feature) point Extraction, & Minutiae
point Matching. The procedure of Enhanced Thinning included for the purpose of decreasing the size of the
memory space used by the fingerprint image database.
PARALLEL GENERATION OF IMAGE LAYERS CONSTRUCTED BY EDGE DETECTION USING MESSA...ijcsit
Edge detection is one of the most fundamental algorithms in digital image processing. Many algorithms have been implemented to construct image layers extracted from the original image based on selecting threshold parameters. Changing theses parameters to get a high quality layer is time consuming. In this paper, we propose two parallel technique, NASHT1 and NASHT2, to generate multiple layers of an input
image automatically to enable the image tester to select the highest quality detected edges. In addition, the
effect of intensive I/O operations and the number of parallel running processes on the performance of the proposed techniques have also been studied.
The document proposes a hybrid technique using Anisotropic Scale Invariant Feature Transform (A-SIFT) and Robust Ensemble Support Vector Machine (RESVM) to accurately identify faces in images. A-SIFT improves upon traditional SIFT by applying anisotropic scaling to extract richer directional keypoints. Keypoints are processed with RESVM and hypothesis testing to increase accuracy above 95% by repeatedly reprocessing images until the threshold is met. The technique was tested on similar and different facial images and achieved better results than SIFT in retrieval time and reduced keypoints.
This document presents a novel edge detection algorithm proposed for mammographic images. It begins with an abstract summarizing the paper's focus on edge detection in mammograms and comparison to other common edge detection methods. It then provides background on edge detection and medical image analysis, describing common gradient and derivative-based edge detection methods. The main body introduces a new two-phase edge detection process called Binary Homogeneity Enhancement Algorithm (BHEA) that homogenizes the mammogram and detects edges by traversing the image horizontally and vertically. Results from the new method are then compared to other common edge detection filters.
Performance Comparison of Face Recognition Using DCT Against Face Recognition...CSCJournals
In this paper, a face recognition system using simple Vector quantization (VQ) technique is proposed. Four different VQ algorithms namely LBG, KPE, KMCG and KFCG are used to generate codebooks of desired size. Euclidean distance is used as similarity measure to compare the feature vector of test image with that of trainee images. Proposed algorithms are tested on two different databases. One is Georgia Tech Face Database which contains color JPEG images, all are of different size. Another database used for experimental purpose is Indian Face Database. It contains color bitmap images. Using above VQ techniques, codebooks of different size are generated and recognition rate is calculated for each codebook size. This recognition rate is compared with the one obtained by applying DCT on image and LBG-VQ algorithm which is used as benchmark in vector quantization. Results show that KFCG outperforms other three VQ techniques and gives better recognition rate up to 85.4% for Georgia Tech Face Database and 90.66% for Indian Face Database. As no Euclidean distance computations are involved in KMCG and KFCG, they require less time to generate the codebook as compared to LBG and KPE
IRJET- Implementation of Gender Detection with Notice Board using Raspberry PiIRJET Journal
1) The document describes a system that uses a Raspberry Pi device with a camera module to implement gender detection.
2) Images captured by the camera are processed through a convolutional neural network to extract facial features and predict gender.
3) The system is intended to address limitations of existing gender detection technologies and provide a low-cost hardware solution using a Raspberry Pi single-board computer.
This document proposes an efficient method for personal identification using iris recognition. It presents a new approach to creating a compact feature vector using wavelet transforms. It also introduces two mechanisms to improve a competitive learning method: initializing weight vectors uniformly and selecting winners based on multiple dimensions. Experimental results showed the proposed system could identify people efficiently and effectively.
IRJET- Video Forgery Detection using Machine LearningIRJET Journal
This document proposes a method to detect video forgery using machine learning. It discusses extracting optical flow and GLCM features from video frames and using them to train a support vector machine classifier. The method segments video frames, applies k-means clustering to group similar regions, and extracts GLCM features for comparison. This allows the system to detect any duplicated or manipulated frames through feature analysis and machine learning classification.
Performance analysis on color image mosaicing techniques on FPGAIJECEIAES
Today, the surveillance systems and other monitoring systems are considering the capturing of image sequences in a single frame. The captured images can be combined to get the mosaiced image or combined image sequence. But the captured image may have quality issues like brightness issue, alignment issue (correlation issue), resolution issue, manual image registration issue etc. The existing technique like cross correlation can offer better image mosaicing but faces brightness issue in mosaicing. Thus, this paper introduces two different methods for mosaicing i.e., (a) Sliding Window Module (SWM) based Color Image Mosaicing (CIM) and (b) Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based CIM on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The SWM based CIM adopted for corner detection of two images and perform the automatic image registration while DCT based CIM aligns both the local as well as global alignment of images by using phase correlation approach. Finally, these two methods performances are analyzed by comparing with parameters like PSNR, MSE, device utilization and execution time. From the analysis it is concluded that the DCT based CIM can offers significant results than SWM based CIM.
Development of Human Tracking System For Video Surveillancecscpconf
Visual surveillance in dynamic scenes, especially for human and some objects is one of the
most active research areas. An attempt has been made to this issue in this work. It has wide
spectrum of promising application including human identification to detect the suspicious
behavior, crowd flux statistics, and congestion analysis using multiple cameras.
In this paper deals with the problem of detecting and tracking multiple moving people in a static
background. Detection of foreground object is done by background subtraction. Detected
objects are identified and analyzed through different blobs. Then tracking is performed by
matching corresponding features of blob. An algorithm has been developed in this perspective
using Angular Deviation of Center of Gravity (ADCG), which gives a satisfying result for segmentation of human object.
We presents a technique for moving objects extraction. There are several different approaches for moving object extraction, clustering is one of object extraction method with a stronger teorical foundation used in many applications. And need high performance in many extraction process of moving object. We compare K-Means and Self-Organizing Map method for extraction moving objects, for performance measurement of moving object extraction by applying MSE and PSNR. According to experimental result that the MSE value of K-Means is smaller than Self-Organizing Map. It is also that PSNR of K-Means is higher than Self-Organizing Map algorithm. The result proves that K-Means is a promising method to cluster pixels in moving objects extraction.
International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES) is a peer reviewed online journal for professionals and researchers in the field of computer science. The main aim is to resolve emerging and outstanding problems revealed by recent social and technological change. IJRES provides the platform for the researchers to present and evaluate their work from both theoretical and technical aspects and to share their views.
EV-SIFT - An Extended Scale Invariant Face Recognition for Plastic Surgery Fa...IJECEIAES
This paper presents a new technique called Entropy based SIFT (EV-SIFT) for accurate face recognition after the plastic surgery. The corresponding feature extracts the key points and volume of the scale-space structure for which the information rate is determined. This provides least effect on uncertain variations in the face since the entropy is the higher order statistical feature. The corresponding EV-SIFT features are applied to the Support vector machine for classification. The normal SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the contrast of the image and the V- SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the volume of the structure. However, the EV- SIFT method provides both the contrast and volume information. Thus EV-SIFT provide better performance when compared with PCA, normal SIFT and VSIFT based feature extraction.
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An Image Based PCB Fault Detection and Its Classification
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An Image Based PCB Fault Detection And Its Classification
Sridhar B K
Master of Technology in Industrial Electronics,
Department of ECE,
Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Mysuru, India
sridharbk15@gmail.com
V Nattarasu
Associate Professor,
Department of ECE,
Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Mysuru,India
nattarasu@gmail.com
Abstract- The field of electronics is skyrocketing like never before. The habitat for the electronic components is a printed circuit board (PCB).
With the advent of newer and finer technologies it has almost become impossible to detect the faults in a printed circuit board manually which
consumes lot of manpower and time. This paper proposes a simple and cost effective method of fault diagnosis in a PCB using image processing
techniques. In addition to fault detection and its classification this paper addresses various problems faced during the pre-processing phase. This
paper overcomes the drawbacks of the previous works such as improper orientations of the image and size variations of the image. Basically
image subtraction algorithm is used for fault detection. The most commonly occurring faults are concentrated in this work and the same are
implemented using MATLAB tool.
Keywords-PCB, fault, orientation,size correction, image subtraction
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I. INTRODUCTION
Industrial automation is one of the booming fields today.
Automation helps in reducing a lot of manpower and time. The
same applies to printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing
industries. One of the highest costs in manufacturing PCBs is
visual inspection which includes various manual methods. So
there is a tradeoff between cost and quality. The quality
assurance is always important in an industry thus it is required
to achieve maximum quality of a product with minimal cost.
Printed circuit defects are those defects which brings a
deviation from the normal characteristics and functionality of
a PCB. Any missing element or any extra elements on the
board which is not intended is referred to as a defect. PCB
defects can be categorized into two types namely functional
defects and structural defects. Functional defects are those
defects which are pertaining to the functionality of the circuit
or the overall system. These are troublesome in nature. The
other kind of the defect is called structural defect. It is also
often referred to as cosmetic defects. Cosmetic defects refer to
the changes in the appearance of the circuit board. The PCB
manufacturing process is based on chemical and mechanical
actions that may damage the intended design. Computer
generated printed circuit board are those images which are
defect free. These are often known as Base images/Template
Images. These are designed as control images to compare with
the image that contains defects.
This paper proposes a method which overcomes the
drawbacks of the existing works such as improper orientations
of the image and size variations of the image. Basically image
subtraction algorithm is used for fault detection. With few
modifications to image subtraction algorithm the faults can be
classified into separate types. The majorly occurring faults in a
PCB are missing conductors, etching, wrong size hole, missing
hole and pinhole. Along with these some problems with the
image orientation and size variation corrections which takes
place during preprocessing phase are addressed in this work.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
[1] This paper has discussed about detection of faults using
image subtraction technique and the classification of the
defects into various groups. They discuss the various possible
ways of fault detection in a PCB alongside defects are
categories into seven groups with a minimum of one defect
and up to a maximum of 4 defects in each group using
MATLAB image processing tools this research separates two
of the existing groups containing two defects each into four
new groups containing one defect each by processing synthetic
images of bare through-hole single layer PCBs. [2] This paper
has proposed a method for defect detection and classification
for the faults in a PCB. Image subtraction algorithm has been
used for finding the defects and separate algorithms with
further modifications have been implemented. In this work a
base image is read and stored. An inspection image is
compared with the stored image and is subtracted to give out
the results. The main algorithm remains the same i.e, image
subtraction. The other subsidiary algorithms are used for
classifying the faults individually rather than in groups. [3]
This paper deals with the fault detection of assembled PCBs
where the inspection is done even after assembling the
components with the PCB. [4] This paper enhances the work
by inspecting the solder pasted PCBs. [5] This work brings up
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the concept of neural networks in order to address the situation
of solder joints inspection combined with sophisticated genetic
algorithm. [6] This paper presents the techniques used to
inspect the defects on Surface Mount PCBs. The technique of
windowing is employed to reduce the amount of redundant
data to be processed and computation time.
Even though there are plenty of algorithms to find the faults in
a PCB using image processing techniques, there are only few
methods to classify those defects and group them. Individual
defects cannot be found out accurately. Thus they are formed
in groups. Thus one can improve the method by increasing the
classification of the faults and enhance the existing group
numbers to a higher number of groups so that one can easily
find which fault has occurred in particular. Also some pre
processing techniques such as image orientation and size
correction can be implemented.
III. METHODOLOGY
A. Problem Statement
The current techniques give focus on defect detection and
defect classification. But our method proposes a system which
addresses few problems such as irregular orientations and
irregular sizes of test images when compared with the master
image. Thus the problem is to correct these preliminary
requisites.
B. Problem Formulation
Various pre processing techniques like orientation correction
and size correction are done in the first phase. The later phase
includes defect detection and followed by defect classification.
Thus it is a three tier procedure.
Figure 1. Pre processing Techniques.
C. System Implementation
The test image is first read in MATLAB environment. For
image orientation correction first we check various angles
such as 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Thus there are 3 test cases
for image orientation correction. Once we are done with image
orientation correction we proceed further for image size
correction. Although it is not a sequential procedure the
figure1 just shows the flow. Thus image size correction is
done to the test image if any.
The previous methods have few drawbacks one of them being
the image orientation. Image orientation is regarded as very
important thing because if the orientation of the images are not
matched with each other it fails to give out the correct results.
The image can be tilted in any direction. As a test case 3
important orientations are addressed in our work. They are
namely 90, 180 and 270 degrees. The algorithm proposes
recursive steps of tilt angle correction. Once it is matched with
the original image, faults can be found out and can be
classified individually.
The other drawback of the existing work is that the arbitrary
sizes of the images which doesn’t give proper results. If the
sizes aren’t properly matched it is impossible to carry out
image subtraction. When the size of the master image doesn’t
match with that of test image this problem occurs. If the image
is of improper size or not cropped properly the pixel values
doesn’t match each other. In such case size correction is
necessarily required for computation failing to which we will
not be able to proceed further.
D. Proposed Algorithm
The proposed methodology for image orientation correction is
carried out by following steps
Import a master image
Read the column values of the master image
Import a test image
Read the column values of the test image
Compare both the values
If the compared values are same then subtract the
images else correct the orientation by some angle of
tilt recursively until both of them match with each
other
The proposed methodology for image size correction is carried
out by following steps
Import a master image
Read the row values of the master image
Import a test image
Read the row values of the test image
Compare both the values
If the compared values are same then subtract the
images else correct the size by comparing each pixel
value with the master image pixel value similar to
windowing technique.
Having done with the preprocessing techniques we enter the
mainstream of PCB faults detection. A PCB can have as many
as 14 different types of faults. 1.Missing conductor 2.Pin hole
3.Wrong size hole 4.Etching Defect 5.Missing hole 6.Breakout
7.Spur 8.Short 9.Open circuit 10.Conductors too close
11.Spurious copper 12.Excessive short 13.Mouse bite
14.Overetch. Out of these some of the most commonly
occurring faults are numbered from 1 to 5 namely Missing
conductor, Pin hole, Wrong size hole, Etching Defect and
Missing hole. So this work mainly concentrates on diagnosing
these faults and classifying them individually rather than in
groups.
Once the pre processing steps are taken care the next step is to
find the defects in the PCB. To find the overall defects in the
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PCB, image subtraction algorithm is employed and thus it is
considered as master algorithm. For further individual
classification of faults separate algorithms are implemented.
These algorithms are referred to as subsidiary algorithms since
each of them are derived from the master algorithm.
Considering two images A and B as master image and test
images respectively, we can perform two kinds of subtraction
operations on them i.e., (A-B) and (B-A). For both the
operations we get two different resultant images. They are
called as positive image and negative image respectively. A
positive image gives the extra unwanted material which gives
one set of faults. A negative image gives the missing material
which gives another set of faults. On combing both of these
faults together we get the overall set of faults.
In the next step we classify the defects into different types
individually. Any missing path of copper in the board is
considered as missing conductor. To classify this fault the
faulty image is imported and is complemented. The
complemented image is subjected to flood fill operation. The
same is subtracted with the negative image. This results in an
image with missing conductors.
Any unnecessary extra material of copper on the master image
is considered as etching defect. Here the master image is
complemented. The complemented image is subjected to flood
fill operation. The same is subtracted with the positive image.
This results in an image with etching defect.
Any undesirable hole like projection that is either partially
filled or completely filled with the copper is referred to as the
hole defect. The completely filled space is referred to as
missing hole. The partially filled space is referred to as wrong
size hole. The etching defect image is retained from the
previous result and is subtracted with positive image. This
results in hole defect classification.
Any tiny dot or a pin point like projection which is regarded as
an undesirable entity on the copper material is referred to as a
pinhole. Any such hole can be considered as connected
component label. Image labeling operation is carried out here.
Each of it can have 4 neighbors or eight neighbors. If such a
kind exists then it is classified as pinhole defect.
Hence the most commonly occurring faults can be diagnosed
and can be classified separately by following the above
algorithms.
IV. RESULTS
Our proposed work takes two input images. One is a master
image and other is a test image or a faulty image. The test
image is subjected to preprocessing corrections thereby
correcting the preliminary requisites for image subtraction
process. Once the images are fit to be subtracted they undergo
image subtraction which gives only one output image. The
output image is further processed to carry out different types
of classification and each of them appears in a separate image
in the MATLAB window. A graphical user interface has been
created for convenience.
Fig 2. Master image
Fig 3. Faulty image
Figure 2 and 3 shows master image and faulty image
respectively. Here both the images are having same
orientations and gives out good results. But if there is
mismatch between the two it fails to give out faithful results.
A. Preprocessing corrections
The different orientations are shown below
Fig 4 (a) Fig 4 (b) Fig 4(c)
Figures 4(a), 4(b) and 4(c) shows 90, 180 and 270 degrees of
rotation respectively.
The angle of rotation of the various test images are with
respect to the master image. These images are subjected to
image orientation correction process to recover the proper
angle.
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Fig 5. Varied size faulty image
The figure5 shows the test image which has a size that is
different from the master image. To address this problem the
test image is subjected to size correction which recovers the
original size. Once both the images match with each other
further procedure is carried out.
Fig 6(a) MATLAB based GUI
The above figure shows a GUI which allows the user to import
the images of his interest. Various push buttons are assigned
for particular operations to be done. A master image can be
imported by clicking the green button titled by its name
signifying that as original image. On pushing the red button
we get a chance to select the faulty image of our interest. It is
not necessary to select the wrong size image simultaneously
but we can select it by clicking wrong size image button. In
order to correct the orientation of the image we need to press
orientation correction button. In order to correct the size of the
image we need to press size correction button. Thus this
completes the preprocessing corrections. The corrected images
are shown as follows.
Fig 6(b). Corrected images during preprocessing phase
The operations were done on different types of test images for
all the three test cases and were found to be correct. Various
images of different sizes were considered. The best case and
the worst case of the faults were also considered and were
successfully tested.
B. Overall defect detection
Once the preprocessing correction steps are taken care the next
step is to find the overall faults in the defective PCB image.
This can be done with the help of image subtraction principle.
Defect detection pushbutton helps to obtain the overall defect
image. Thus an image with total defects can be found out.
Fig 7. Overall defects
On successfully finding the overall faults the next step is to
classify them into which types they belong to. In order to do
defect classification a sequence of operations has to be done
on the overall defect image.
C. Defect classification
The overall defect image just gives the information whether
there exists any fault in the PCB or not. If any fault is present
it is shown in the window otherwise it displays nothing. In the
former case even though it shows the overall defects, it fails to
classify them individually into particular type of fault. So this
is done by defect classification button. On executing that
button the various faults are classified in each window. Each
fault is handled using simple algorithm which follows image
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subtraction algorithm followed by image complementation,
image flood fill operation and image indexing operations as
common procedures with slight difference to each of it. By
implementing each algorithm faults can be classified and
distinguished clearly without any ambiguity.
Fig 8(a) Missing conductor Fig 8(b) Etching defect
Fig 8(c) Hole defects Fig 8(d) Pinhole defect
V. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE
Our work overcomes the existing drawbacks such as improper
orientations of test image with respect to master image and
improper sizes of test image compared to master image. In
addition to that our work successfully detects the defects in a
PCB image and classifies the same accurately. This method
provides less time complexity when compared with other
segmentation procedures. As a future scope one can develop
an IC which can test the PCB and classify the defects in one
single go.
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