结合特征扰动与分配策略的集成辅助多目标优化算法

代理模型利用近似预测代替算法对多目标优化问题的真实评价,大幅减少了算法寻优所需的真实适应度评估次数。为提高代理模型在求解高维问题时的准确性并降低计算开销,提出一种基于特征扰动与分配策略的集成辅助多目标优化算法。将径向基函数网络代理模型与支持向量机回归代理模型作为集成过程中的基模型,降低算法在高维问题上的计算开销。结合特征扰动与基于记忆的影响因子分配策略构建集成代理模型,提高集成准确性。使用集成预测值与不确定信息加权辅助管理集成代理模型,平衡全局搜索与局部探索,增强算法在目标空间中的寻优能力。实验结果表明,该算法在ZDT1~ZDT3和ZDT6测试问题上所得解集的分布性与收敛性相比经典算法更好,并且当决策变量维数增加时,使用集成代理模型相比于Kriging代理模型约减少了90%的适应度评估次数,同时可获得更准确的预测结果。     

Automated detection of glioblastoma tumor in brain magnetic imaging using ANFIS classifier

This article proposes a novel and efficient methodology for the detection of Glioblastoma tumor in brain MRI images. The proposed method consists of the following stages as preprocessing, Non‐subsampled Contourlet transform (NSCT), feature extraction and Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system classification. Euclidean direction algorithm is used to remove the impulse noise from the brain image during image acquisition process. NSCT decomposes the denoised brain image into approximation bands and high frequency bands. The features mean, standard deviation and energy are computed for the extracted coefficients and given to the input of the classifier. The classifier classifies the brain MRI image into normal or Glioblastoma tumor image based on the feature set. The proposed system achieves 99.8% sensitivity, 99.7% specificity, and 99.8% accuracy with respect to the ground truth images available in the dataset.     

Tracking and Analysis of Pedestrian’s Behavior in Public Places

Crowd management becomes a global concern due to increased population in urban areas. Better management of pedestrians leads to improved use of public places. Behavior of pedestrian’s is a major factor of crowd management in public places. There are multiple applications available in this area but the challenge is open due to complexity of crowd and depends on the environment. In this paper, we have proposed a new method for pedestrian’s behavior detection. Kalman filter has been used to detect pedestrian’s using movement based approach. Next, we have performed occlusion detection and removal using region shrinking method to isolate occluded humans. Human verification is performed on each human silhouette and wavelet analysis and particle gradient motion are extracted for each silhouettes. Gray Wolf Optimizer (GWO) has been utilized to optimize feature set and then behavior classification has been performed using the Extreme Gradient (XG) Boost classifier. Performance has been evaluated using pedestrian’s data from avenue and UBI-Fight datasets, where both have different environment. The mean achieved accuracies are 91.3% and 85.14% over the Avenue and UBI-Fight datasets, respectively. These results are more accurate as compared to other existing methods.     

Leveraging Transfer Learning for Spatio-Temporal Human Activity Recognition from Video Sequences

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is an active research area due to its applications in pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, health care, and social sciences. Moreover, dynamic environments and anthropometric differences between individuals make it harder to recognize actions. This study focused on human activity in video sequences acquired with an RGB camera because of its vast range of real-world applications. It uses two-stream ConvNet to extract spatial and temporal information and proposes a fine-tuned deep neural network. Moreover, the transfer learning paradigm is adopted to extract varied and fixed frames while reusing object identification information. Six state-of-the-art pre-trained models are exploited to find the best model for spatial feature extraction. For temporal sequence, this study uses dense optical flow following the two-stream ConvNet and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BiLSTM) to capture long-term dependencies. Two state-of-the-art datasets, UCF101 and HMDB51, are used for evaluation purposes. In addition, seven state-of-the-art optimizers are used to fine-tune the proposed network parameters. Furthermore, this study utilizes an ensemble mechanism to aggregate spatial-temporal features using a four-stream Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), where two streams use RGB data. In contrast, the other uses optical flow images. Finally, the proposed ensemble approach using max hard voting outperforms state-of-the-art methods with 96.30% and 90.07% accuracies on the UCF101 and HMDB51 datasets.     

Effectiveness of Deep Learning Models for Brain Tumor Classification and Segmentation

A brain tumor is a mass or growth of abnormal cells in the brain. In children and adults, brain tumor is considered one of the leading causes of death. There are several types of brain tumors, including benign (non-cancerous) and malignant (cancerous) tumors. Diagnosing brain tumors as early as possible is essential, as this can improve the chances of successful treatment and survival. Considering this problem, we bring forth a hybrid intelligent deep learning technique that uses several pre-trained models (Resnet50, Vgg16, Vgg19, U-Net) and their integration for computer-aided detection and localization systems in brain tumors. These pre-trained and integrated deep learning models have been used on the publicly available dataset from The Cancer Genome Atlas. The dataset consists of 120 patients. The pre-trained models have been used to classify tumor or no tumor images, while integrated models are applied to segment the tumor region correctly. We have evaluated their performance in terms of loss, accuracy, intersection over union, Jaccard distance, dice coefficient, and dice coefficient loss. From pre-trained models, the U-Net model achieves higher performance than other models by obtaining 95% accuracy. In contrast, U-Net with ResNet-50 outperforms all other models from integrated pre-trained models and correctly classified and segmented the tumor region.     

An effective deep learning model for grading abnormalities in retinal fundus images using variational auto-encoders

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) are severe diseases that affect the eyes due to damage in blood vessels. Computer-aided automated grading will help clinicians conduct disease diagnoses at ease. Experiments of automated image processing with deep learning techniques using CNN produce promising results, especially in the medical imaging domain. However, the disease grading tasks in retinal images using CNN struggle to retain high-quality information at the output. A novel deep learning model based on variational auto-encoder to grade DR and DME abnormalities in retinal images is proposed. The objective of the proposed model is to extract the most relevant retinal image features efficiently. It focuses on addressing less relevant candidate region generation and translational invariance present in images. The experiments are conducted in IDRID dataset and evaluated using accuracy, U-kappa, sensitivity, specificity and precision metrics. The results outperform compared with other state-of-art techniques.     

Vortex analysis and flow field optimization for the particle classifier with three rotary cages

The particle classifiers with three rotary cages have significant advantage in powder handling capacity. The flow field inside the classifiers were investigated from the perspective of vortex using Q criterion. Formation process and distribution of the vortices were intuitively exhibited. Structure of the guide cone was further optimized, and the classifying performance of the classifiers was evaluated. The results show that complex vortex structures were formed inside the classifier. The large-scale columnar vortex under the guide cone oscillates irregularly. This unwanted vortex is eliminated by extending the guide cone. The structure of the guide cone has little effect on the cut size, but the optimized guide cone with the long cylinder and cone significantly enhances the separation degree of the fine and coarse particles. The classifier obtains finer silica powder with a median size of 2.5 μm and higher Newton efficiency about 71.5%.     

Skin detection for single images using dynamic skin color modeling

Up-to-date skin detection techniques use adaptive skin color modeling to overcome the varying skin color problem. Most methods for tracking skin regions in videos utilize the correlation between contiguous frames. This paper proposes a new approach for detecting skin in a single image. This approach uses a local skin model to shift a globally trained skin model to adapt the final skin model to the current image. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve better accuracy. Two improvements for speeding up the processing are also discussed.     

基于集成学习的规范化LDA人脸识别

针对人脸识别问题中经常面临的“小样本”问题,在规范化的LDA算法的基础上加以改进,并结合集成学习的方法,利用Adaboost算法,在每一次的迭代过程中引进一个加权函数对难以分离的样本增加权重。增加分类器之间的差异度,从而提高样本在新的特征空间中的可分离性,将识别率提高至98.5%。通过ORL数据库的大量实验表明,该算法比传统算法有更好的性能。     

汉字识别方法综述

分析汉字结构特征及其演变,在汉字字库及汉字识别目标变化的基础上,结合汉字识别过程,研究与比较贝叶斯决策、二次判别函数法、隐马尔科夫模型、神经网络分类器以及支持向量机这5种汉字识别方法的优缺点及适用范围。结果表明,汉字识别方法仍需要在识别目标及特征提取、训练字符集准备方面进行改进。