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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quantitative Analysis of Cognitive Load Test While Driving in a VR vs Non-VR Environment
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) based cognitive load assessment has been a topic of significant research for quite some time, especially that considering a driving scenario. And as methods for human-computer in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Dynamical Phase Synchronization Based Approach to Study the Effects of Long-Term Alcoholism on Functional Connectivity Dynamics
The paper attempts to investigate the changes in the brain network dynamics between alcoholic and non-alcoholic groups using electroencephalographic signals. A novel entropy-based technique is proposed in this...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neural Network Based Gesture Recognition for Elderly Health Care Using Kinect Sensor
A simple method to detect gestures revealing muscle and joint pain is described in this paper. Kinect Sensor is used for data acquisition. This sensor only processes twenty joint coordinates in three dimension...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Feature Selection of Motor Imagery EEG Signals Using Firefly Temporal Difference Q-Learning and Support Vector Machine
Electroencephalograph (EEG) based Brain-computer Inter- face (BCI) research provides a non-muscular communication to drive assistive devices using movement related signals, generated from the motor activation ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Emotion Recognition System by Gesture Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets
Gestures have been called the leaky source of emotional information. Also gestures are easy to retrieve from a distance by ordinary cameras. Thus as many would agree gestures become an important clue to the em...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Protein Function Prediction Using Adaptive Swarm Based Algorithm
The center of attention of the research in bioinformatics has been towards understanding the biological mechanisms and protein functions. Recently high throughput experimental methods have provided many protei...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Adaptive Memetic Algorithm for Multi-robot Path-Planning
This paper provides a novel approach to design an adaptive memetic algorithm by utilizing the composite benefits of Differential Evolution for global search and Q-learning for local refinement. The performance...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of General Type-2 Fuzzy Set in Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression
This paper proposes a new technique for emotion recognition of an unknown subject using General Type-2 Fuzzy sets (GT2FS). The proposed technique includes two steps- first, a type-2 fuzzy face-space is created...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Emotion Recognition from the Lip-Contour of a Subject Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm
This paper provides an alternative approach to emotion recognition from the outer lip-contour of the subjects. Subjects exhibit their emotions through their facial expressions, and the lip region is segmented ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Efficient Algorithm to Computing Max-Min Post-inverse Fuzzy Relation for Abductive Reasoning
This paper provides an alternative formulation to computing the max-min post-inverse fuzzy relation by minimizing a heuristic (objective) function to satisfy the inherent constraints of the problem. An algorit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of Swarm Intelligence to a Two-Fold Optimization Scheme for Trajectory Planning of a Robot Arm
Motion planning of a robotic arm has been an important area of research for the last decade with the growing application of robot arms in medical science and industries. In this paper the problem of motion pla...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-Robot Box-Pushing Using Non-dominated Sorting Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm
The paper provides a new approach to multi-robot box pushing using a proposed Non-dominated Sorting Bee Colony (NSBC) optimization algorithm. The proposed scheme determines time-, energy- and friction-optimal ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Improved Differential Evolution Scheme for Noisy Optimization Problems
Differential Evolution (DE) is a simple and surprisingly efficient algorithm for global optimization over continuous spaces. It has reportedly outperformed many versions of EA and other search heuristics when ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Algorithm for Automatic Species Identification Using Principal Component Analysis
This paper describes a novel scheme for automatic identification of a species from its genomic data. Random samples of a given length (10,000 elements) are taken from a genome sequence of a particular species....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Evolutionary SPDE Breeding-Based Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimizer: Application in Coordination of Robot Ants for Camera Coverage Area Optimization
In this paper we propose a new Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimizer model based on particle swarm, with breeding concepts from novel evolutionary algorithms. The hybrid PSO combines traditional velocity and positio...