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Vol. 5, No. 2, Jun. 2009  

1. A Survey of Face Recognition Techniques
   Rabia Jafri, Hamid R Arabnia
   Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 41-68, Jun. 2009  
   https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.2.041
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   Keywords: Face Recognition, Person Identification, Biometrics
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   Face recognition presents a challenging problem in the field of image analysis and computer vision, and as such has received a great deal of attention over the last few years because of its many applications in various domains. Face recognition techniques can be broadly divided into three categories based on the face data acquisition methodology: methods that operate on intensity images; those that deal with video sequences; and those that require other sensory data such as 3D information or infra-red imagery. In this paper, an overview of some of the well-known methods in each of these categories is provided and some of the benefits and drawbacks of the schemes mentioned therein are examined. Furthermore, a discussion outlining the incentive for using face recognition, the applications of this technology, and some of the difficulties plaguing current systems with regard to this task has also been provided. This paper also mentions some of the most recent algorithms developed for this purpose and attempts to give an idea of the state of the art of face recognition technology.


2. Autonomic Self Healing-Based Load Assessment for Load Division in OKKAM Backbone Cluster
   Junaid Ahsenali Chaudhry
   Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 69-76, Jun. 2009  
   https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.2.069
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   Keywords: Self Healing Systems, Load Estimation and Balancing, OKKAM, Entity Naming System
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   Self healing systems are considered as cognation-enabled sub form of fault tolerance system. But our experiments that we report in this paper show that self healing systems can be used for performance optimization, configuration management, access control management and bunch of other functions. The exponential complexity that results from interaction between autonomic systems and users (software and human users) has hindered the deployment and user of intelligent systems for a while now. We show that if that exceptional complexity is converted into self-growing knowledge (policies in our case), can make up for initial development cost of building an intelligent system. In this paper, we report the application of AHSEN (Autonomic Healing-based Self management Engine) to in OKKAM Project infrastructure backbone cluster that mimics the web service based architecture of u-Zone gateway infrastructure. The ¡®blind¡¯ load division on per-request bases is not optimal for distributed and performance hungry infrastructure such as OKKAM. The approach adopted assesses the active threads on the virtual machine and does resource estimates for active processes. The availability of a certain server is represented through worker modules at load server. Our simulation results on the OKKAM infrastructure show that the self healing significantly improves the performance and clearly demarcates the logical ambiguities in contemporary designs of self healing infrastructures proposed for large scale computing infrastructures.


3. A Scalable Wireless Body Area Network for Bio-Telemetry
   Adnan Saeed, Miad Faezipour, Mehrdad Nourani, Subhash Banerjee, Gil Lee, Gopal Gupta, Lakshman Tamil
   Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 77-86, Jun. 2009  
   https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.2.077
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   Keywords: Body Area Network, Plug-and-Play Biosensors, Telemedicine, Ubiquitous Computing, ECG Monitoring, ECG Feature Extraction
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   In this paper, we propose a framework for the real-time monitoring of wireless biosensors. This is a scalable platform that requires minimum human interaction during set-up and monitoring. Its main components include a biosensor, a smart gateway to automatically set up the body area network, a mechanism for delivering data to an Internet monitoring server, and automatic data collection, profiling and feature extraction from bio-potentials. Such a system could increase the quality of life and significantly lower healthcare costs for everyone in general, and for the elderly and those with disabilities in particular.


4. Bidding Strategically for Scheduling in Grid Systems
   Babak-Naddaf, Jafar-Habibi
   Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 87-96, Jun. 2009  
   https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.2.087
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   Keywords: grid computing, Grid Scheduling, Resource Allocation, Auction Model
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   Grid computing is a new technology which involves efforts to create a huge source of processing power by connecting computational resources throughout the world. The key issue of such environments is their resource allocation and the appropriate job scheduling strategy. Several approaches to scheduling in these environments have been proposed to date. Market driven scheduling as a decentralized solution for such complicated environments has introduced new challenges. In this paper the bidding problem with regard to resources in the reverse auction resource allocation model has been investigated and the new bidding strategies have been proposed and investigated.


5. Differentiated Services Based Admission Control and Multi Path Routing Algorithm for IPv6
   Muhammad Omer Farooq, Sadia Aziz
   Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 97-104, Jun. 2009  
   https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.2.097
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   Keywords: Differentiated Services (DiffServ), Admission Control, IPv6, QoS Routing, QoS Architecture
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   In this paper we propose a Differentiated Services Based Admission Control and Routing Algorithm for IPv6 (ACMRA). The basic DiffServ architecture lacks an admission control mechanism, the injection of more QoS sensitive traffic into the network can cause congestion at the core of the network. Our Differentiated Services Based Admission Control and Routing Algorithm for IPv6 combines the admission control phase with the route finding phase, and our routing protocol has been designed in a way to work alongside DiffServ based networks. The Differentiated Services Based Admission Control and Routing Algorithm for IPv6 constructs label switched paths in order to provide rigorous QoS provisioning. We have conducted extensive simulations to validate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed admission control and routing algorithm. Simulation Results show that the Differentiated Services Based Admission Control and Routing Algorithm for IPv6 provides an excellent packet delivery ratio, reduces the control packets¡¯ overhead, and makes use of the resources present on multiple paths to the destination network, while almost each admitted flow shows compliance with its Service Level Agreement.


6. GPU-based Stereo Matching Algorithm with the Strategy of Population-based Incremental Learning
   Dong-Hu Nie, Kyu-Phil Han, Heng-Suk Lee
   Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 105-116, Jun. 2009  
   https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.2009.5.2.105
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   Keywords: Image filtering, Performance Evaluation, General-Purpose Computation Based on GPU, GPU, Population-Based Incremental Learning
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   To solve the general problems surrounding the application of genetic algorithms in stereo matching, two measures are proposed. Firstly, the strategy of simplified population-based incremental learning (PBIL) is adopted to reduce the problems with memory consumption search inefficiency£¬and a scheme for controlling the distance of neighbors for disparity smoothness is inserted to obtain a wide-area consistency of disparities. In addition, an alternative version of the proposed algorithm, without the use of a probability vector, is also presented for simpler set-ups. Secondly, programmable graphics-hardware (GPU) consists of multiple multi-processors and has a powerful parallelism which can perform operations in parallel at low cost. Therefore, in order to decrease the running time further, a model of the proposed algorithm, which can be run on programmable graphics-hardware (GPU), is presented for the first time. The algorithms are implemented on the CPU as well as on the GPU and are evaluated by experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm offers better performance than traditional BMA methods with a deliberate relaxation and its modified version in terms of both running speed and stability. The comparison of computation times for the algorithm both on the GPU and the CPU shows that the former has more speed-up than the latter, the bigger the image size is.