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Face Image Set Recognition Based On Improved HOG-NMF and Convolutional Neural Networks

Objective Face recognition can be affected by unfavorable factors such as illumination, posture and expression, but the face image set is a collection of people’s various angles, different illuminations and even different expressions, which can effectively reduce these adverse effects and get higher face recognition rate. In order to make the face image set have higher recognition rate, a new method of combining face image set recognition is proposed, which combines an improved Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Method The method firstly segments the face images to be identified and performs HOG to extract features of the segmented images. Secondly, calculate the information entropy contained in each block as a weight coefficient of each block to form a new HOG features, and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is applied to reduce HOG features. Then the reduced-dimensional HOG features are modeled as image sets which keep your face details as much as possible. Finally, the modeled image sets are classified by using a convolutional neural network. Result The experimental results show that compared with the simple CNN method and the HOG-CNN method, the recognition rate of the method on the CMU PIE face set is increased by about 4%~10%. Conclusion The method proposed in this paper has more details of the face, overcomes the adverse effects, and improves the accuracy.

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Deep Discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machine (DDRBM) for Robust Face Spoofing Detection

Biometrics emerged as a robust solution for security systems. Despite, nowadays criminals are developing techniques to accurately simulate biometric traits of valid users, process known as spoofing attack, in order to circumvent the biometric applications. Face is among the main biometric characteristics, being extremely convenient for users given its non-intrusive capture by means of digital cameras. However, face recognition systems are the ones that most suffer with spoofing attacks since such cameras, in general, can be easily fooled with common printed photographs. In this sense, countermeasure techniques should be developed and integrated to the traditional face recognition systems in order to prevent such frauds. Among the main neural networks for face spoofing detection is the discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) which, besides of efficiency, achieves great results in attack detection by learning the distributions of real and fake facial images. However, it is known that deeper neural networks present better accuracy results in many tasks. In this context, we propose a novel model called Deep Discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machine (DDRBM) applied to face spoofing detection. Results on the NUAA dataset show a significative improvement in performance when compared to the accuracy rates of a traditional discriminative RBM on attack detection.

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Effect of Noise Pollution Among Milling Machine Operators in North-West Nigeria.

Commercial activities are mostly centralized to main markets in many towns and cities of the Northern part of Nigeria. Such central markets constitute the noisiest part of the towns. Yet, there is no evidence that the workers and traders in such markets are aware of the challenges excessive noise pollution pose to their health. This problem serves as the basis for this research, which investigated the major source of noise pollution in Kebbi central market and make recommendation to improve the wellbeing of the people in the market.The market was divided into thirteen sections based on activities. These sections were visited twice a day for two weeks to measure their sound levels. The sound level was measured with a CEM digital noise level meter with an accuracy of ±3.5dB@1KHz. Thereafter, an ergonomic observation assessment of the noisiest section was carried out. The assessment was carried out based on rapid entire body assessment (REBA) methodology. The average sound intensity in all the sections exceeded the recommended safe sound level of 40dB. However, only the sound intensity at the grain and spice milling section (89.13 dB) exceeded the noise harmfulness level of 85dB. Operators were encouraged to use ear muffs or earplugs to minimise the exposure to harmful noise level. Proper electrification of the section was also recommended to minimise the use of internal combustion engines. The findings emphasised the need for government and relevant authorities to carry out occupational safety awareness among workers in the non-formal sector of the society.

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