INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH -GRANTHAALAYAH

13-19

Authors: Shanthi. S, Vinothini. K. R2 ,R. Manikandan

Shadow detection and removal is an important task when dealing with color outdoor images. Shadows are generated by a local and relative absence of light. Most shadow detection and segmentation methods are based on image analysis. However, some factors will affect the detection result due to the complexity of the circumstances. In this paper, a new algorithm for shadow detection and isolation of buildings in high-resolution panchromatic satellite imagery is proposed. This algorithm is based on tailoring the traditional model of the geometric active contours such that the new model of the contours is systematically biased toward segmenting the shadow and the dark regions in the image. Feature extraction a type of dimensionality reduction that efficiently represents interesting parts of an image as a compact feature vector. This approach is useful when image sizes are large and a reduced feature representation is required to quickly complete tasks such as image matching and retrieval.

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Authors: Ramya. R,Vinothini. K. R,R. Manikandan

Image enhancement is a process of improving the quality of image by improving its feature. Image contrast enrichment techniques have been largely studied in the past decades. Traffic sign disclosure and realization has been fully prepared for a great past. Traffic board detection and text recognition still leaving a protest in computer view due to its various group and the vast changeability of the data illustrated in them. The essential function can be to make an automated index of the traffic panels placed in a road to holding its care and to aid drivers. Then the figure are defined as a “bag of visual words” and restricted to applying support vector machines. Completely our own text detection and recognition method is tested on those images where a traffic board has been disclosure in system to naturally read and save the data details in the panels. Leading driver aid scheme could also use from text recognition for automated traffic signs and panels description. This visual appearance categorization method is a new approach for traffic panel detection in the state of the art. We propose a language model partly based on a dynamic dictionary for a limited geographical area using a reverse geocoding service. Experimental results on real images from Google Street View prove the efficiency of the proposed method and give way to using street-level images for different applications on ITS.

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Authors: Azureen binti Abd Aziz , PM Dr Parilah binti Md Shah

The government has declared that all Malaysians that no one; both in rural and urban areas; would be divested from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development. This calls for a need for teachers nationwide to make essential adjustments to the teaching and learning process. This paper takes a closer gaze on the obstructions faced by teachers in integrating ICT tools in teaching English language in the classrooms. This study aspires at determining why the teachers do not use ICT in the classrooms even they were utterly encouraged by sufficient technical supports.10 English teachers from a Secondary School were interviewed and their views and thoughts were discussed. The findings exposed that even the school is highly resourced with ICT tools and facilities, obstructions such as lack of time, amount of workload, lack of ICT skills and teachers’ negative attitudes towards ICT were hindering the teachers to incorporate ICT in their teaching. However, the teachers should be competent to shape and systematize their learning environment in non-traditional ways by merging the ICT with new pedagogy.

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Authors: UNNIKRISHNAN.P

Stress is a physical and emotional reaction when everyone encounters the various challenges of life. It will lead to mental unrest.Stress is the body’s automatic response to any physical or mental demand placed on it. Stress is a negative concept and creates a negative mental attitude in the mind of individuals. The various reasons for stress in organizations are over work load, role ambiguity, role conflict, isolation, lack of family-social support etc. Moderate stress relating to job aspects is essential because it helps to improve the performance of employees. But over stress leads to mental dissatisfaction, conflict, absenteeism, turnover etc.so every organizations must care their employees from having over stress. Division of work, prioritizing & organizing, yoga &meditation, balanced time schedule, improving emotional intelligence etc are some of the ways to minimize stress .The concept of motivation can be effectively used to remove stress from our organization .Different motivational techniques such as financial incentives, appreciation, personal encouragement, training and development programs ,seminar & workshops etc. will helps to throw away stress from organizations , if complete stress had been removed ,and motivation is given , a complete & strategic organizational change will takes place in organization..