One of the most commonly reported disabilities is vision loss,which can be diagnosed by an ophthalmologist in order to determine the visual system of a patient.This procedure,however,usually requires an appointment wi...One of the most commonly reported disabilities is vision loss,which can be diagnosed by an ophthalmologist in order to determine the visual system of a patient.This procedure,however,usually requires an appointment with an ophthalmologist,which is both time-consuming and expensive process.Other issues that can arise include a lack of appropriate equipment and trained practitioners,especially in rural areas.Centered on a cognitively motivated attribute extraction and speech recognition approach,this paper proposes a novel idea that immediately determines the eyesight deficiency.The proposed system uses an adaptive filter bank with weighted mel frequency cepstral coefficients for feature extraction.The adaptive filter bank implementation is inspired by the principle of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio that is aware of its environment and adapts to statistical variations in the input stimuli by learning from the environment.Comparative performance evaluation demonstrates the potential of our automated visual acuity test method to achieve comparable results to the clinical ground truth,established by the expert ophthalmologist’s tests.The overall accuracy achieved by the proposed model when compared with the expert ophthalmologist test is 91.875%.The proposed method potentially offers a second opinion to ophthalmologists,and serves as a cost-effective pre-screening test to predict eyesight loss at an early stage.展开更多
The Flying Ad-hoc Networks(FANETs)is characterized by the transition from a single large Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)to multiple small UAVs connected in an ad-hoc fashion.Since high mobility is the core feature of suc...The Flying Ad-hoc Networks(FANETs)is characterized by the transition from a single large Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)to multiple small UAVs connected in an ad-hoc fashion.Since high mobility is the core feature of such networks,they are prone to route breaks within the links.The issue of connectivity loss can be coped with,to some extent,by making use of omnidirectional antennas.Such modification,however,curtails Quality-of-Service(QoS)requirements of networks in terms of bandwidth,media access delay,coverage and others.Alternately,directional antennas have advantages over omnidirectional antennas such as improved transmission range,spatial reuse and high throughput.Nevertheless,its introduction raises location-dependent issues to the Medium Access Control(MAC)protocol.This calls for an efficient MAC protocol that can cater to new directional antenna models and,at the same time,can counter the constraints associated with the dynamic UAVs.Therefore,in this article,we consider a UAV interconnection mechanism that lets the UAVs execute the communication tasks using the directional MAC protocol.The technique is advantageous as compared to the approach of utilizing the MAC protocol using omnidirectional antennas.The scheme is being implemented as a case study for Industry 4.0 inventory and traceability applications in the warehouse.For modeling and simulation purposes,we use the Optimized Network Engineering Tool(OPNET)and aim to seek an evaluation with respect to throughput,media access delay,retransmission attempts and data dropped.The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.展开更多
文摘One of the most commonly reported disabilities is vision loss,which can be diagnosed by an ophthalmologist in order to determine the visual system of a patient.This procedure,however,usually requires an appointment with an ophthalmologist,which is both time-consuming and expensive process.Other issues that can arise include a lack of appropriate equipment and trained practitioners,especially in rural areas.Centered on a cognitively motivated attribute extraction and speech recognition approach,this paper proposes a novel idea that immediately determines the eyesight deficiency.The proposed system uses an adaptive filter bank with weighted mel frequency cepstral coefficients for feature extraction.The adaptive filter bank implementation is inspired by the principle of spectrum sensing in cognitive radio that is aware of its environment and adapts to statistical variations in the input stimuli by learning from the environment.Comparative performance evaluation demonstrates the potential of our automated visual acuity test method to achieve comparable results to the clinical ground truth,established by the expert ophthalmologist’s tests.The overall accuracy achieved by the proposed model when compared with the expert ophthalmologist test is 91.875%.The proposed method potentially offers a second opinion to ophthalmologists,and serves as a cost-effective pre-screening test to predict eyesight loss at an early stage.
文摘The Flying Ad-hoc Networks(FANETs)is characterized by the transition from a single large Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)to multiple small UAVs connected in an ad-hoc fashion.Since high mobility is the core feature of such networks,they are prone to route breaks within the links.The issue of connectivity loss can be coped with,to some extent,by making use of omnidirectional antennas.Such modification,however,curtails Quality-of-Service(QoS)requirements of networks in terms of bandwidth,media access delay,coverage and others.Alternately,directional antennas have advantages over omnidirectional antennas such as improved transmission range,spatial reuse and high throughput.Nevertheless,its introduction raises location-dependent issues to the Medium Access Control(MAC)protocol.This calls for an efficient MAC protocol that can cater to new directional antenna models and,at the same time,can counter the constraints associated with the dynamic UAVs.Therefore,in this article,we consider a UAV interconnection mechanism that lets the UAVs execute the communication tasks using the directional MAC protocol.The technique is advantageous as compared to the approach of utilizing the MAC protocol using omnidirectional antennas.The scheme is being implemented as a case study for Industry 4.0 inventory and traceability applications in the warehouse.For modeling and simulation purposes,we use the Optimized Network Engineering Tool(OPNET)and aim to seek an evaluation with respect to throughput,media access delay,retransmission attempts and data dropped.The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
