Video traffic analytics for large scale surveillance

The video traffic analysis is the most important issue for large scale surveillance. In the large scale surveillance system, huge amount of live digital video data is submitted to the storage servers through the number of externally connected scalable components. The system also contains huge amount of popular and unpopular old videos in the archived storage servers. The video data is delivered to the viewers, partly or completely on demand through a compact system. In real time, huge amount of video data is imported to the viewer’s node for various analysis purposes. The viewers use a number of interactive operations during the real time tracking suspect. The compact video on demand system is used in peer to peer mesh type hybrid architecture. The chunk of video objects move fast through the real time generated compact topological space. Video traffic analytics is required to transfer compressed multimedia data efficiently. In this work, we present a dynamically developed topological space, using mixed strategy by game approach to move the video traffic faster. The simulation results are well addressed in real life scenario.     

A New Link Failure Resilient Priority Based Fair Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Distributed Systems

This paper aims towards designing a new token-based mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems. In some of the earlier work, token based algorithms for mutual exclusion are proposed for the distributed environment assuming inverted tree topology. In a wireless setup, such a stable, hierarchical topology is quite unrealistic due to frequent link failures. The proposed token-based algorithm works for processes with assigned priorities on any directed graph topology with or without cycles. The proposed algorithm, in spite of considering priorities of processes, ensures liveness in terms of token requests from low priority processes. Moreover, the algorithm keeps control message traffic reasonably low. The simulation results exhibit the performance of the proposed algorithm under varied contexts besides presenting a comparative performance with other recent algorithms for mutual exclusion like FAPP (Fairness Algorithm for Priority Process).     

Post-Synthetic Modification of Metal–Organic Frameworks Toward Applications

Post-synthetic modification (PSM) of metal–organic framework (MOF) compounds is a useful technique for preparing new MOFs that can exhibit or enhance many of the properties of the parent MOFs. PSM can be carried out by a number of approaches such as modifying the linker (ligand) and/or metal node, and adsorption/exchange of guest species. The surface environment of the MOF can be modified to increase structural stability as well as introducing desired properties. There is considerable scope in widening the applications of the MOF with compatible metal or ligand employing the PSM. This review focuses on the recent developments of modified materials through PSM, which augers well for the chemical modification and functionalization of MOFs. In this review, different types of PSM methods are presented in an orderly manner, and the diverse applications of resultant frameworks are described and discussed.     

Assessment of the nutritional quality of fish cultured in Samdihi,an open cast coalpit at the Raniganj Coal Field areas,West Bengal,India

The present study assessed the nutritional quality of four major teleostean fishes (Catla catla; Labeo rohita; Notopterus notopterus and Oreochromis niloticus) cultured in the Samdihi, an opencast coalpit (OCP). The physicochemical parameters were within the pisciculture standard limits, and the heavy metal contents of the fish were within safe concentrations and below the target hazard quotient (THQ) level (<1). The zooplankton abundance and density were sufficient as food item for the fish faunas. Ash and moisture contents confirmed the good quality of the fish as food. The results of the other analysed nutritional parameters indicated the total protein content was highest in the herbivorous fish Labeo rohita (85.32 ± 0.61 mg/g), compared to Catla catla, Notopterus notopterus and Oreochromis niloticus (50.34 ± 0.43, 71.32 ± 0.49 and 75.14 ± 0.53 mg/g, respectively). The order of decreasing lipid content was Notopterus notopterus > Catla catla > Labeo rohita > Oreochromis niloticus (7.04 ± 1.02 > 6.01 ± 0.01 > 1.83 ± 0.03 > 1.46 ± 0.04%). The percentage of carbohydrates was highest in the omnivorous Oreochromis niloticus (18.2 ± 0.8), followed by Notopterus notopterus, Catla catla and Labeo rohita (15.1 ± 0.7, 13.9 ± 0.5 and 9.4 ± 0.4, respectively). The sodium content was higher in the column feeders Labeo rohita (82.06 ± 0.61 mg/g) and Notopterus notopterus (81.87 ± 0.61 mg/g) than in the surface feeders Catla catla (69.16 ± 0.55 mg/g) and Oreochromis niloticus (79.33 ± 0.60 mg/g). The potassium content exhibited similar trends, being higher in the column feeders Notopterus notopterus (204.8 ± 1.52 mg/g) and Labeo rohita (199.5 ± 1.81 mg/g) than in the surface feeders Oreochromis niloticus (190.8 ± 1.13 mg/g) and Catla catla (183.2 ± 1.3) mg/g). The trend in iron content was in the order of Oreochromis niloticus > Labeo rohita > Notopterus notopterus > Catla catla (5.60 ± 0.01 > 4.806 ± 0.01 > 4.25 ± 0.01 > 1.303 ± 0.01 mg/g, respectively). The results of the present study highlight the potential and feasibility of conducting pisciculture in the abandoned OCP as a means increasing the economic livelihoods of the core group of people in and around the mining areas of RCF regions. The estimated fish nutritional index (EFNI) analysis also revealed the fish cultured in this OCP exhibited a good nutritional quality standard.     

Studies on carbazole based polyarylates

A novel polyarylate has been synthesized from carbazole and resorcinol by low temperature solution condensation method using as an acceptor-catalytic reagent pyridine. It has been characterized in respect of its structure, thermal stability and dielectric behaviour. The influence of the diphenol moiety on the thermal and the dielectric properties of this polyarylate and the others based on carbazole has been studied.     

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Surfactants: Combination Products of Fatty Acids,Hydroxycarboxylic Acids and Alcohols

The reaction of hydroxycarboxylic acids, such as citric, malic and tartaric species with an excess of fatty acid chlorides produces the corresponding O-acylated hydroxycarboxylic anhydrides in one step and in a near quantitative yield. These molecules are excellent electrophiles which react readily with a variety of nucleophiles including alcohols, diols and polyols. Their reaction with triethylene glycol and triethylene glycol monomethyl ether leads to two series of novel anionic surfactants, which are unsymmetrical gemini surfactants. The determination of their properties (CMC, foaming, HLB) revealed that these molecules are—depending on the chain length of the fatty acid—excellent emulsifiers, and that they also display interesting antimicrobial activity. These novel functional surfactants are of interest for applications in food and personal care products and for the formulation of pharmaceuticals.     

Optimize Task Allocation in Cloud Environment Based on Big-Bang Big-Crunch

Wireless Personal Communications - Efficient resource allocation is indispensable in the current scenario of a service-oriented computing paradigm. Instance allocation to the host and the task...     

Recent progress in carbazole based polymers

This review highlights the recent developments in carbazole based polymer systems which have taken place along three main directions: (a) syntheses of homopolymers, copolymers, copolycondensates and copoly(step) polymers containing pendant carbazole units linked to the main chain directly or through flexible units; (b) chemical modification of these polymer systems to cation radical complexes, nuclear substituted polymeric materials, ion-exchange resins, charge-transfer complexes, copolymeric materials containing donor-acceptor units; and (c) syntheses of polymer systems containing carbazole units in the main chain such as polyamides, polyimides, polyarylates, polysulphones, polymeric azo-dyes, polysiloxanes, polyquinone and miscellaneous carbazole-incorporated polymer systems. These polymers of tailored chemical structures exhibit outstanding and interesting thermal, electrical, photoelectrical, ion-exchange and other physico-chemical properties, which have been discussed and rationalized in the light of the structural characteristics of these polymer systems.     

Robust Threshold Selection for Environment Specific Voice in Speaker Recognition

Wireless Personal Communications - The false accept and&nbsp;false&nbsp;reject are the most vulnerable areas of speaker recognition and speaker authentication process. Speaker verification...     

Enhancing decision combination of face and fingerprint by exploitation of individual classifier space: An approach to multi-modal biometry

This paper presents a new approach to combine decisions from face and fingerprint classifiers for multi-modal biometry by exploiting the individual classifier space on the basis of availability of class-specific information present in the classifier space. We exploit the prior knowledge by training the face classifier using response vectors on a validation set, enhancing class separability (using parametric and nonparametric Linear Discriminant Analysis) in the classifier output space and thereby improving the performance of the face classifier. Fingerprint classifier often does not provide this information due to high sensitivity of available minutiae points, producing partial matches across subjects. The enhanced face and fingerprint classifiers are combined using a sum rule. We also propose a generalized algorithm for multiple classifier combination (MCC) based on our approach. Experimental results show superiority of the proposed method over other existing fusion techniques, such as sum, product, max, min rules, decision template and Dempster–Shafer theory.