Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2017)

An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Based on IR-UWB.- Obstacle Detection Algorithm by Stereoscopic Image Processing : Navigation Assistance for the Blind and Visually Impaired.- A Simultaneous Topic and Sentiment Classification of Tweets.- Local Directional Multi Radius Binary Pattern: Novel Descriptor for Face Recognition Application.- Content-based Image Retrieval Approach Using Color and Texture Applied to Two Databases (Coil-100 and Wang).- Shape Classification Using B-spline Approximation and Contour Based Shape Descriptors.- An Image Processing Based Framework Using Crowdsourcing for a Successful Suspect Investigation.- Recognition and Classification of Arabic Fricative Consonants.- Cancer Classification Using Gene Expression Profiling: Application of the Filter Approach with the Clustering Algorithm.