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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most common reasons for blindness in the working-age population of world. Diabetic Retinopathy is an eye disease, which occurs with long-standing untreated diabetes. Progression to vision impairment can be slowed down or stopped if DR is detected on time; In detection or screening of DR, automatic methods can play an important role. In this paper, we proposed a novel method to detect hard exudates with high accuracy with respect to lesion level. In the present method we initially detected the possible candidate exudate lesions by using the back ground subtraction methodology. Following the subsequent steps, in the last stage of algorithm we removed the false exudate lesion detections using the de-correlation stretch based method. We tested our algorithm on publicly available DiaretDB database, which contains the ground truth for all images. We achieved high performance results such as sensitivity of 0.87 and F-Score of 0.78 and Positive Predict Value (PPV) of 0.76 for hard exudate lesion level detection, compared to the existing state of art techniques.

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Forest fires are the most frequent phenomenon during the summer season in India, and especially in the hilly terrains of Uttarakhand forests. Remote sensing sensors such as Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) with coarse spatial resolution on board different satellites were used to detect the forest fires across the world. Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data has the better spatial resolution (30m) as compared with the MODIS and VIIRS, therefore useful to detect the smaller fires. Nainital district in Uttarakhand state was severely affected by the massive forest fire events occurred during April-May, 2016. The main objective of the study is to identify the potential of Landsat-8 data in detecting the forest fire for varying topographic region like Nainital. Landsat-8 data acquired on 28 th April 2016 and 1 st May 2016 has been used in this study. The results obtained from Landsat-8 data are compared with the MODIS fire products and showed an improvement in the detection of small fires.

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We propose flexible-architecture for soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoder with radix-2/4/8 modes to support multiple data-rates. This work presents designs of major internal blocks of SISO decoder using extensive steering logic to support multiple radix operating-modes. These architectures enable efficient clock-gating of our decoder for low-power consumption in different operating modes. Subsequently, we have aggregated eight SISO decoders with quadratic-permutation-polynomial (QPP) interleavers/de-interleavers to design parallel-turbo decoder architecture which can operate in multi-radix mode. Suggested SISO decoder is ASIC synthesized and post-layout simulated in UMC 65 nm-CMOS process. Performance analyses in AWGN channel environment showed that the bit-error-rate (BER) of 10 -4 could be achieved at 5 dB and 0.8 dB for SISO and turbo decoders respectively. Implementation result shows that the suggested SISO decoder could achieve throughput in the range 270-810 Mbps with the corresponding power consumption range of 12.24-37.67 mW. In comparison to the state-of-the-art, our design achieved 38% higher throughput and 61% lower power consumption. Similarly, our multi-radix parallel-turbo decoder is hardware prototyped in 28 nm-CMOS Zynq-FPGA board. It delivers a range of data-rates from 80-320 Mbps operating at 160 MHz of clock frequency for 8 iterations.

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Emotion evoked by an advertisement plays a key role in influencing brand recall and eventual consumer choices. Automatic ad affect recognition has several useful applications. However, the use of content-based feature representations does not give insights into how affect is modulated by aspects such as the ad scene setting, salient object attributes and their interactions. Neither do such ap- proaches inform us on how humans prioritize visual information for ad understanding. Our work addresses these lacunae by decom- posing video content into detected objects, coarse scene structure, object statistics and actively attended objects identified via eye- gaze. We measure the importance of each of these information channels by systematically incorporating related information into ad affect prediction models. Contrary to the popular notion that ad affect hinges on the narrative and the clever use of linguistic and social cues, we find that actively attended objects and the coarse scene structure better encode affective information as compared to individual scene objects or conspicuous background elements.

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Bug report filing is a major part of software maintenance. Due to the asynchronous nature of the bug filing process, duplicate bug reports are filed. Detecting duplicate bug reports is an important aspect of software maintenance since the same bug should not be assigned to different developers. In this poster, we present Deep Word Embedding Network for computing similarity between two bug reports for the task of duplicate bug report detection. We propose to learn a two step model to calculate similarity between two bug reports by means of word embeddings and a deep neural network. We run experiments on two large datasets of Mozilla Project and Open Office Project and compare the proposed approach with baselines and related approaches. Through this initial work, we show that a combination of word embeddings and deep neural networks can be used to improve duplicate bug report detection.

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Several designer controllable parameters and their effect on various specifications like switching time, sampling speed and input amplitude of all-optical Binary Delta Sigma Modulator (BDSM) are analyzed and possibility of enhancing the performance is discussed.

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In this paper we discuss the VLSI implementation of the new radix-2 Decimation In Time (DIT) Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm with reduced arithmetic complexity which is based on scaling the twiddle factor. Some signal processing require high performance FFT processors and to meet these performance requirements, the processor needs to be pipelined and parallelized. An optimized ASIC design is derived from this new radix-2 algorithm with fewer multipliers and adopted a complete parallel and pipelined architecture for hardware implementation of a 64 point FFT. The implementation results show that the proposed architecture significantly reduces the hardware area by 13.74 percent and power consumption by 16 percent when compared to the standard FFT architecture. Simulation of design units is done in Xilinx ISE WebPack 13.1 and synthesized using Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler.

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In this paper, we design and evaluate a convolutional autoencoder that perturbs an input face image to impart privacy to a subject. Specifically, the proposed autoencoder transforms an input face image such that the transformed image can be successfully used for face recognition but not for gender classification. In order to train this autoencoder, we propose a novel training scheme, referred to as semiadversarial training in this work. The training is facilitated by attaching a semi-adversarial module consisting of an auxiliary gender classifier and an auxiliary face matcher to the autoencoder. The objective function utilized for training this network has three terms: one to ensure that the perturbed image is a realistic face image; another to ensure that the gender attributes of the face are confounded; and a third to ensure that biometric recognition performance due to the perturbed image is not impacted. Extensive experiments confirm the efficacy of the proposed architecture in extending gender privacy to face images.

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An effective news recommendation system should harness the his- torical information of the user based on her interactions as well as the content of the articles. In this paper we propose a novel deep learning model for news recommendation which utilizes the content of the news articles as well as the sequence in which the articles were read by the user. To model both of these information, which are essentially of different types, we propose a simple yet effective architecture which utilizes a 3-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network which takes the word embeddings of the articles present in the user history as its input. Using such a method en- dows the model with the capability to automatically learn spatial (features of a particular article) as well as temporal features (fea- tures across articles read by a user) which signify the interest of the user. At test time, we use this in combination with a 2-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for recommending articles to users. On a real-world dataset our method outperformed strong baselines which also model the news recommendation problem using neural networks.

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Science journalism is the art of conveying a detailed scientific research paper in a form that nonscientists can understand and appreciate while ensuring that its underlying information is conveyed accurately. It aims to transform jargon-laden scientific articles into a form that a common reader can comprehend while ensuring that the meaning of the article is retained. It plays a crucial role in making scientific content suitable for consumption by the public at large. Recent advances in Deep Learning research and it’s applications in natural language processing have made way to impressive results in Natural Language Generation. We leverage these advances to explore the possibility of their use in journalism, science journalism in particular, as comprehension of scientific content is much harder challenge than most of the other forms of content, like shorthand, which journalists use while writing articles. In this work, we introduce the problem of automated science journalism and present ways to automate some parts of the workflow by automatically generating the ‘title’ of a blog version of a scientific paper. We have built a corpus of 87, 328 pairs of research papers and their corresponding blogs from two science news aggregators and have used it to build ScienceBlogger - a pipeline-based architecture consisting of a two-stage mechanism to generate the blog titles. To demonstrate the models, we built an interactive tool, where a user can give abstract and title of a research paper, which would be processed by our APIs to produce a blog title, along with some relevant information about the model used for the generation. Evaluation using standard metrics indicate viability of the proposed system.