Comparative Analysis of Execution of CNN-Based Sanguine Data Transmission with LSB-SS and PVD-SS

The intact data transmission to the authentic user is becoming crucial at every moment in the current era. Steganography; is a technique for concealing the hidden message in any cover media such as image, video; and audio to increase the protection of data. The resilience and imperceptibility are improved by choosing an appropriate embedding position. This paper gives a novel system to immerse the secret information in different videos with different methods. An audio and video steganography with novel amalgamations are implemented to immerse the confidential auditory information and the authentic user’s face image. A hidden message is first included in the audio from the multimedia file; using LSB Technique. The Stego-video is created in the second stage by merging the authorized user’s face into the frame of the video; by using PVD technology. Stego-audio is linked again with the stego-video in the third stage. The incorporated perspective techniques (LSB-SS and PVD-SS algorithms) with more significant data immersing capacity, good robustness and imperceptibility are proposed in this research work. The spread spectrum approach is used to increase the complexity of secret data recognition. Two different video files are tested with different voice files with the results such as PSNR, SSIM, RMSE and MSE as 52.3, 0.9963, 0.0024 and 0.0000059, respectively.     

Flaw detection in radiographic weld images using morphological approach

It is necessary to detect suspected defect regions in the radiographic weld images to find the type of flaw and its causative factors. This requires processing of radiographic images by a suitable approach. This paper presents an approach to process these radiographic weld images of the weld specimens considering morphological aspects of the image. The proposed approach first determines the flaw boundaries by applying the Canny operator after choosing an appropriate threshold value. The boundaries are then fixed using a morphological image processing approach i.e. dilating few similar boundaries and eroding some irrelevant boundaries decided on the basis of pixel characteristics. The flaws detected by this approach are categorized according to their properties.     

Circularly polarized D‐shaped slot antenna for wireless applications

A multiband circularly polarized slot antenna for wireless local area networks (WLAN) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications is designed, studied, and fabricated. Using modified ground plane structure, circular polarized characteristics are realized. An open rectangular loop is introduced on the ground plane to generate orthogonal modes at middle resonance frequency. At higher resonance frequency to improve axial ratio bandwidth, a D‐shaped radiator is used. Thus, the cooperation of modified ground plane, open loop resonator, and D‐shaped radiator improves performance of the antenna at all the required bands. The proposed microstrip antenna generates separate impedance bandwidths to cover frequency bands of WLAN and WiMAX applications. The realized antenna is relatively small in size 40 × 54 mm² or 0.26_ × 0.36_ where _ is the free‐space wavelength at the desired first resonant frequency 2.0 GHz and operates over frequency ranges 26% (2.0‐2.6 GHz), 8.9% (3.21‐3.51 GHz), and 50.6% (3.8‐6.38 GHz). In addition, the antenna exhibits 5% (2.32‐2.44 GHz), 5.8% (3.3‐3.5 GHz), and 5.2% (5.61‐5.91 GHz) Circular Polarization bandwidth, making it suitable for WLAN and WiMAX applications.     

Optical Fibre-Enabled Photoswitching for Localised Activation of an Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Drug

Local activation of an anti-cancer drug when and where needed can improve selectivity and reduce undesirable side effects. Photoswitchable drugs can be selectively switched between active and inactive states by illumination with light; however, the clinical development of these drugs has been restricted by the difficulty in delivering light deep into tissue where needed. Optical fibres have great potential for light delivery in vivo, but their use in facilitating photoswitching in anti-cancer compounds has not yet been explored. In this paper, a photoswitchable chemotherapeutic is switched using an optical fibre, and the cytotoxicity of each state is measured against HCT-116 colorectal cancer cells. The performance of optical-fibre-enabled photoswitching is characterised through its dose response. The UV–Vis spectra confirm light delivered by an optical fibre effectively enables photoswitching. The activated drug is shown to be twice as effective as the inactive drug in causing cancer cell death, characterised using an MTT assay and fluorescent microscopy. This is the first study in which a photoswitchable anti-cancer compound is switched using an optical fibre and demonstrates the feasibility of using optical fibres to activate photoswitchable drugs for potential future clinical applications.