Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. An Efficient Method for Indian Vehicle Number Plate Extraction

   • M. N. Veena, T. Vasudev

   Pages 1-10

3. Facial Boundary Image Reconstruction Using Elliptical Approximation and Convex Hull

   • A. Bindu, C. N. Ravi Kumar, S. Harsha, N. Bhaskar

   Pages 11-23

4. South Indian Handwritten Script Identification at Block Level from Trilingual Script Document Based on Gabor Features

   • Mallikarjun Hangarge, Gururaj Mukarambi, B. V. Dhandra

   Pages 25-33

5. Indic Language Machine Translation Tool: English to Kannada/Telugu

   • Mallamma V. Reddy, M. Hanumanthappa

   Pages 35-49

6. Real-Time Stereo Camera Calibration Using Stereo Synchronization and Erroneous Input Image Pair Elimination

   • M. S. Shashi Kumar, N. Avinash

   Pages 51-61

7. Topic Modeling for Content Based Image Retrieval

   • Hemant Misra, Anuj K. Goyal, Joemon M. Jose

   Pages 63-76

8. Texture in Classification of Pollen Grain Images

   • D. S. Guru, S. Siddesha, S. Manjunath

   Pages 77-89

9. Representation and Classification of Medicinal Plant Leaves: A Symbolic Approach

   • Y. G. Naresh, H. S. Nagendraswamy

   Pages 91-102

10. Linear Discriminant Analysis for 3D Face Recognition Using Radon Transform

    • P. S. Hiremath, Manjunath Hiremath

    Pages 103-113

11. Fusion of Texture Features and SBS Method for Classification of Tobacco Leaves for Automatic Harvesting

    • P. B. Mallikarjuna, D. S. Guru

    Pages 115-126

12. Stacked Classifier Model with Prior Resampling for Lung Nodule Rating Prediction

    • Vinay Kumar, Ashok Rao, G. Hemanthakumar

    Pages 127-138

13. A Comparative Analysis of Intensity Based Rotation Invariant 3D Facial Landmarking System from 3D Meshes

    • Parama Bagchi, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Mita Nasipuri, Dipak Kr. Basu

    Pages 139-153

14. Thermal Human Face Recognition Based on Haar Wavelet Transform and Series Matching Technique

    • Ayan Seal, Suranjan Ganguly, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Mita Nasipuri, Dipak Kr. Basu

    Pages 155-167

15. A Hybrid Approach for Enhancing the Security of Information Content of an Image

    • Kumar Jalesh, S. Nirmala

    Pages 169-180

16. Recognition of Limited Vocabulary Kannada Words Through Structural Pattern Matching: An Experimentation on Low Resolution Images

    • S. A. Angadi, M. M. Kodabagi

    Pages 181-194

17. Stained Blood Cell Detection and Clumped Cell Segmentation Useful for Malaria Parasite Diagnosis

    • Dhanya Bibin, P. Punitha

    Pages 195-207

18. A Novel Approach for Shot Boundary Detection in Videos

    • D. S. Guru, Mahamad Suhil, P. Lolika

    Pages 209-220

19. Enhancing COCOA Framework for Tracking Multiple Objects in the Presence of Occlusion in Aerial Image Sequences

    • Vindhya P. Malagi, Vinuta V. Gayatri, Krishnan Rangarajan, D. R. Ramesh Babu

    Pages 221-228

20. User Dependent Features in Online Signature Verification

    • D. S. Guru, K. S. Manjunatha, S. Manjunath

    Pages 229-240

ICMCCA 2012 is the first International Conference on Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Applications and the theme of the Conference is chosen as ‘Multimedia Processing and its Applications’. Multimedia processing has been an active research area contributing in many frontiers of today’s science and technology. This book presents peer-reviewed quality papers on multimedia processing, which covers a very broad area of science and technology. The prime objective of the book is to familiarize readers with the latest scientific developments that are taking place in various fields of multimedia processing and is widely used in many disciplines such as Medical Diagnosis, Digital Forensic, Object Recognition, Image and Video Analysis, Robotics, Military, Automotive Industries, Surveillance and Security, Quality Inspection, etc. The book will assist the research community to get the insight of the overlapping works which are being carried out across the globe at many medical hospitals and institutions, defense labs, forensic labs, academic institutions, IT companies and security & surveillance domains. It also discusses latest state-of-the-art research problems and techniques and helps to encourage, motivate and introduce the budding researchers to a larger domain of multimedia.

• Computer Vision
• ICMCCA 2012
• Image Processing
• Multimedia Mining
• Pattern Recognition
• Video Analytics

• Master of Computer Applications, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

  Punitha P. Swamy

• Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, India

  Devanur S. Guru

Dr. Punitha P. Swamy is currently associated as a Professor with the Department of Master of Computer Applications at the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Her research interests include Image processing and pattern recognition, content based image retrieval, diversity and re-ranking, spatial reasoning, video analytics – shot segmentation, video summarization, story segmentation, intelligent vehicles – sign board recognition, license plate recognition, data mining, machine intelligence, document image analysis – skew detection and correction, archival and retrieval. Previously, Dr. Punitha was a Post Doctoral Researcher within the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group in the Department of Computing Science, Glasgow, Scotland from 2006-2010. During her tenure at University of Glasgow, she collaborated with many research teams and published many research articles. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Mysore in 2006. Dr. Punitha completed her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, Mysore in 1999 and 2001, respectively. She has published more than 45 research articles in refereed international journals like IEEE Transactions, PR and PRL and Conference Proceedings like SIGIR, ECIR, CIVR, ACM. She has been identified as an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management and as a reviewer for top journals of IEEE Transactions, PRL and for many Conference Proceedings.

Dr. D. S. Guru is associated as an Associate Professor with the Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore. He has completed his Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Mysore in 2000. He has published more than 200 research papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. He has served as a Program Chair for International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, 2009, Mysore. Eleven students have received Doctorate under hissupervision and seven more students are presently under his able guidance. Dr. Guru has been identified as a reviewer for the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters, Journal of Pattern Recognition, Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Journal of Image and Vision Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

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