Abstract: Skin colour is often being used as a cue for face detection, recognition, tracking in videos and other skin-based biometrics. Over the years, there has been a lot of works done and is still on in skin detection for face detection and other video analytical purposes. Thus, there is a call for the availability
Abstract: All academic activities produce records such as statements of result, testimonials, certificates and transcripts, most of which are stored in manual file cabinets and relational databases. With the growing importance of academic records in Nigeria, it has become imperative to protect them from falsification and accidental modification. Though the use of relational databases has
Abstract: Software product line engineering (SPLE) is a paradigm, which promotes the production of families of software-intensive products that share a common domain, rather than individual systems development. This is achieved by embracing the ideas of mass customization and software reuse of core assets. SPLE focuses on exploiting similarities within a set of software products
Abstract: Clinical diagnosis and monitoring are gradually shifting into the homes of patients. These are now easily attained because of increased efforts geared towards creation of more approximate medical diagnostic reasoning algorithms (MDRAs). Researchers have crafted different medical algorithms for developing healthcare delivery systems, with most of these algorithms being built on the knowledge clinicians
Abstract: In medicine, the best diagnostician are held in high esteem, in the case of pregnant women correct diagnosis of bleeding in late pregnancy (after age of viability) makes a difference between life and death for the mother and/or baby. Information gathering from patient by clinicians during diagnostic procedures requires some skills to adequately collect
Abstract: Millions of homes are being equipped with smart devices (e.g. smart meters, sensors etc.) which generate massive volumes of fine-grained and indexical data that can be analyzed to support smart city services. In this paper, we propose to refine a model and introduce distributed learning of big data mining from multiple smart houses in
Abstract: Conventional air conditioner systems do not rely on occupancy. Due to this, excessive power is being wasted and humans are being exposed to building-related syndromes’ (known as sick building syndrome) through air – condition. This paper proposed a new wearable control strategy for use in an office or a single room, such that the
Abstract: Nowadays, Web-Usability is becoming of paramount important to various organizations all over the world in carrying out their academic and non- academic activities at affordable cost, irrespective of distance, time or location. In spite of this, web designers and developers do not take into consideration socio demographic background of various website users, who happen