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Grammatical Error Correction In Thai Sentences For Deaf Students, Supachan Traitruengsakul Jan 2024

Grammatical Error Correction In Thai Sentences For Deaf Students, Supachan Traitruengsakul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Deaf students encounter challenges in written communication due to errors such as insertion, deletion, disorder, misusage, and misspellings. Grammatical error correction (GEC) technology can help mitigate these issues. However, existing GEC models are primarily trained on online resources from second-language hearing learners. In contrast, sentences written by deaf students suffer from a variety of errors not typically found elsewhere. To address this issue, we create the Thai Deaf Corpus (TDC), focusing on identifying and analyzing errors among deaf students in grades 7-12 across four deaf schools. Additionally, we introduce a two-stage system for the Thai-GEC model, automatically detecting and correcting …


Affinity-Based Multi-Character Storyboard Generation Using Rewrite Rules, Ram Sukkirtkijpibul Jan 2024

Affinity-Based Multi-Character Storyboard Generation Using Rewrite Rules, Ram Sukkirtkijpibul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

A game story contains interactions between characters as well as the game world. Certain genres of games such as Visual Novels and Role-Playing Games rely on their stories to attract players. There were several proposed algorithms for story generation. They focused mainly on story generation for one main character. To our knowledge, there has not been a generator with support for multiple main characters, where each main character has their own storyline that could overlap with other main characters’ stories. With multiple main characters, players can see the game world through different viewpoints, thus getting more immersed into the game's …


Prediction Of Daily Outpatient Volume Using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition And Long - Short Term Memory, During The Incident, Teeraphat Buengbongkoch Jan 2024

Prediction Of Daily Outpatient Volume Using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition And Long - Short Term Memory, During The Incident, Teeraphat Buengbongkoch

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Effective hospital resource management is essential for controlling service costs and enhancing workforce efficiency, particularly during abnormal situations that cause sudden fluctuations in patient volumes. Hospitals often encounter difficulties in managing resources and predicting patient numbers due to uncertain and volatile data. Accurate patient volume predictions during such times can enable hospitals to allocate resources effectively, maintaining appropriate costs and optimizing workforce efficiency.This research presents a solution for predicting daily outpatient visits at a private hospital in Thailand during the COVID-19 outbreak, serving as a case study. The proposed method employs Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) to preprocess data by …


Scene Cut Detection In Short Videos Using Pre-Processing Techniques And Convolutional Neural Networks, Nina Lawankowit Jan 2024

Scene Cut Detection In Short Videos Using Pre-Processing Techniques And Convolutional Neural Networks, Nina Lawankowit

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study presents a comprehensive approach to scene cut detection in videos using a combination of frame extraction and a Convolutional Neural Network (VGG16 model) with a Color Histogram method to prevent raw video file reconstruction. The main dataset contains 167,490 frames collected from various users on TikTok for the scene cut detection model development. However, since this research utilizes a modular design that consists of data preparation, data pre-processing, and model implementation stages, it promotes efficient use of resources and guarantees data safety. The results demonstrate that the model performs excellently in recognizing scene cuts. Specifically, video frames with …


Enhancing Financial Market Predictions In Taiwan: A Hybrid Approach Of Traditional Analysis And Machine Learning Techniques, Tse Lin Liu Jan 2024

Enhancing Financial Market Predictions In Taiwan: A Hybrid Approach Of Traditional Analysis And Machine Learning Techniques, Tse Lin Liu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In the evolving landscape of financial markets, this study explores the predictive power of traditional panel regression and modern machine learning models, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest (RF), in forecasting stock returns in the Taiwanese market. Utilizing a dataset of 54 Taiwanese companies from 2015 to 2023, the research integrates financial ratios and machine learning algorithms to assess their effectiveness in predicting market trends. The findings reveal that traditional panel regression often outperforms machine learning models in terms of stability and consistency of returns, challenging the assumption that complex algorithms inherently provide superior …


Egg Shape As A Generalized Radial Basis Function For Discard-After-Learn Method In Streaming Data, Warawut Nualplaud Jan 2024

Egg Shape As A Generalized Radial Basis Function For Discard-After-Learn Method In Streaming Data, Warawut Nualplaud

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Radial Basis Function is commonly used as the decision boundaries for supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms due to its simplicity. But the symmetric property of the circular or elliptic shapes could deteriorate the fitness of the boundaries when the distribution of the data is asymmetric, especially in the data stream processing where the distribution of the data is temporal.In this thesis, we propose a new 2-dimensional data capsule structure using Yamamoto’s egg function. This structure can adjust its shape to be symmetric (i.e., circular or elliptic) or asymmetric (i.e., egg-shaped) depending on the configuration of its parameters, allowing it to …


Weight Shifting Based Pruning For Convolutional Neural Networks, Panuwat Threethanuchai Jan 2024

Weight Shifting Based Pruning For Convolutional Neural Networks, Panuwat Threethanuchai

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The paper presents an adaptation of the novel self-recovering technique known as weight shifting for application in the pruning of nodes from the fully-connected layers of convolutional neural networks. The proposed methodology involves a binary search strategy to identify the optimal subset of nodes for removal, facilitating efficient redistribution of node weights using the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse. The proposed methodology was evaluated by across multiple data sets, including CIFAR-100, Food101, Stanford Cars, and Flowers102. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed methodology is able to maintain high accuracy and top-k categorical accuracy performance with minimal reductions even after pruning a significant …


Mass-Ratio-Convex-Combination-Of-Average-Absolute-Deviation-And-Interquartile-Range Based Outlier Factor For Anomaly Scoring, Zehong Fan Jan 2024

Mass-Ratio-Convex-Combination-Of-Average-Absolute-Deviation-And-Interquartile-Range Based Outlier Factor For Anomaly Scoring, Zehong Fan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Anomaly detection is increasingly essential across various sectors, including fraud detection, cybersecurity, and industrial process monitoring, where it serves as an early warning system to identify unusual patterns in data. This research presents a novel, parameter-free anomaly scoring algorithm designed to assign scores to data points without the need for user-defined parameters. The algorithm calculates anomaly scores based on the statistical dispersion of the mass-ratio distribution, utilizing five key measures: variance, range, interquartile range (IQR), average absolute deviation (AAD), and the combination of AAD and IQR. The performance of the proposed Mass-Ratio-Convex-Combination-Of-Average-Absoulte-Deviation-And-Interquartile-Range Based Outlier Factor for anomaly scoring algorithm called …


การสร้างแอนิเมชัน 3 มิติ ของใบหน้าขณะพูดภาษาไทยสําหรับใช้ในการพัฒนาเกม, ภัทรานิษฐ์ มุสิกะประยูร Jan 2024

การสร้างแอนิเมชัน 3 มิติ ของใบหน้าขณะพูดภาษาไทยสําหรับใช้ในการพัฒนาเกม, ภัทรานิษฐ์ มุสิกะประยูร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

โครงงานมหาบัณฑิตนี้จึงเสนอวิธีการสร้างแอนิเมชัน 3 มิติ ของใบหน้าขณะพูดภาษาไทยสำหรับใช้ในการพัฒนาเกม ในการสร้างแบบจำลองเพื่อทำนายการเคลื่อนไหวของใบหน้าขณะพูดภาษาไทย ได้ใช้ชุดข้อมูลออดิโอวิชวล TSynC-3miti: Audiovisual Speech Synthesis Database from Found Data ร่วมกับแนวคิดจาก งานวิจัย A Decision Tree Framework for Spatiotemporal Sequence Prediction ที่ได้เสนอวิธีการสำหรับการทำนายลำดับข้อมูลที่มีจำนวนมิติสูงและต่อเนื่อง โดยใช้เทคนิคการแบ่งย่อยด้วยหน้าต่างเลื่อนร่วมกับวิธีการรวมกลุ่มของต้นไม้ตัดสินใจ ซึ่งสามารถนำมาประยุกต์ใช้ในการสร้างแอนิเมชันสำหรับการพูดได้ ในการทำนายการเคลื่อนไหวของใบหน้าขณะพูดภาษาไทยในโครงงานมหาบัณฑิตนี้ จะใช้ข้อมูลนำเข้าเป็นลำดับของสัญลักษณ์โฟเนติก จากจึงต้องมีการเตรียมชุดข้อมูลใหม่จากชุดข้อมูลออิดิโอวิชวล TSynC-3miti จากนั้นนำชุดข้อมูลไปฝึกสอนโมเดล และพัฒนาเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการสร้างแอนิเมชัน โดยเป็นรูปแบบของส่วนเสริมสำหรับใช้ในเกมเอนจิน Unreal Engine โดยรับอินพุตเป็นข้อความภาษาไทย และจะได้ค่าการเคลื่อนไหวใบหน้ามาอ้างอิงบนใบหน้าของตัวละครในแต่ละช่วงเวลา ผลลัพธ์ของการทำงานของส่วนเสริมนี้จะได้เป็นแอนิเมชัน 3 มิติของโมเดลตัวละคร MetaHuman ที่สามารถพูดภาษาไทยได้อย่างสมจริง โดยผลการทดสอบพบว่าแอนิเมชันมีความสมจริงจากมุมมองทั้งหน้าตรงและหน้าเอียง โดยมุมมองหน้าเอียงดูสมจริงมากกว่า และการออกเสียงแต่ละโฟเนติกมีความสมจริงเช่นกัน


Zero-Shot Adaptation Of Molecular Generative Adversarial Network For Specific Protein Targets, Ravipas Aphikulvanich Jan 2024

Zero-Shot Adaptation Of Molecular Generative Adversarial Network For Specific Protein Targets, Ravipas Aphikulvanich

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Drug discovery, crucial for identifying new potential drug candidates to treat diseases and improve health, is increasingly enhanced by deep learning approaches such as molecular generation models. However, creating drug candidates with desired properties, such as the quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (QED), synthetic accessibility (SA), and binding affinity (BA), remains a significant challenge, especially when training generative models for specific protein targets with limited pharmaceutical data. Addressing these challenges, this thesis presents Mol-Zero-GAN, a novel framework designed to generate drug candidates tailored to specific protein targets without additional data by employing zero-shot adaptation techniques and Bayesian optimization (BO). By fine-tuning …


Machine Learning Model For Skill Level Prediction Inmultiplayer Online Battle Arena, Vachirawit Pepatang Jan 2024

Machine Learning Model For Skill Level Prediction Inmultiplayer Online Battle Arena, Vachirawit Pepatang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The ranked matchmaking system in MOBA games like DotA 2 matches players with similar skill levels, enhancing enjoyment, fairness, and competitiveness. However, current MOBA ranking systems calculate a player's ranking based on match outcomes rather than the player's individual performance, resulting in unfairness for players who perform better or worse than the rest of the team. Therefore, it is necessary to use multiple match data to correctly rate players' skills. Additionally, boosting leads to players using accounts that do not match their actual skill level. This causes negative experiences for other players and ultimately makes the game less enjoyable. This …


Winner Prediction Model For Basketball Matches Based On Statistical Data Of Teams, Players, And Line-Ups, Chanin Witheesawas Jan 2024

Winner Prediction Model For Basketball Matches Based On Statistical Data Of Teams, Players, And Line-Ups, Chanin Witheesawas

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

NBA league in the United States for professional basketball league is considered the world-famous basketball league with the highest money circulation. Basketball players around the world would rather join the league. Also, many entrepreneurs would like to become a sponsor of a basketball team in the NBA league to increase the business opportunities leading to higher revenue especially a sponsor of a team that wins the NBA championship more than other teams. Therefore, every NBA team must develop a proper strategic plan to win the NBA championship. Hence, it is the beginning of this thesis to use seven popular machine …


Machine Learning For Increasing Productivity In Shrimp Hatchery, Boonyapron Kaowleg Jan 2024

Machine Learning For Increasing Productivity In Shrimp Hatchery, Boonyapron Kaowleg

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The quality of shrimp hatcheries directly impacts the survival and growth of shrimp during the grow-out stage, with poor hatchery conditions increasing the risk of infections and reducing overall productivity. This study explores the potential of machine learning to enhance productivity in shrimp hatcheries in Thailand, focusing on improving the accuracy of hatchery success predictions. Four machine learning models were developed and compared to predict shrimp hatchery outcomes based on historical data. Data were collected from multiple sources, which presented challenges in terms of variability, missing values, and the need for extensive pre-processing. The results showed that the random forest …


Streaming Image Classification Using Class-Wise Incremental Learning And Pre-Trained Convolution Neural Network, Kongkan Kalakan Jan 2024

Streaming Image Classification Using Class-Wise Incremental Learning And Pre-Trained Convolution Neural Network, Kongkan Kalakan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Learning in deep learning architectures for computer vision is a resource-intensive process. Although the accuracy of state-of-the-art models has improved over time, these methods still require significant time and memory to process large datasets, particularly in the context of streaming image data. The necessity to store and reprocess old data each time new data is introduced leads to inefficient resource usage. A more efficient approach is to learn from data in chunks and discard the previously processed data. However, this strategy often results in catastrophic forgetting. In this study, we propose a novel algorithm called CNN-SCIL, which enhances the Streaming …


Identifying Unsafety Gesture Of Drivers Using Deep Learning, Yibei Bai Jan 2024

Identifying Unsafety Gesture Of Drivers Using Deep Learning, Yibei Bai

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis presents the use of deep learning to identify two unsafe gestures of drivers: (1) holding the wheel with one hand and performing an action with the other hand, and (2) talking on the phone while driving. These gestures can distract the driver, potentially leading to accidents. Four models were compared and evaluated. Additionally, the study introduces the Driver Action Expression (DAE) dataset, collected through a road driving experiment focusing on driver behavior. The issue of imbalanced data was considered. The Xception model shows the best performance compared to other models, leading to its selection as the primary model …


Informing The State Of Process Modeling And Automation Of Blood Banking And Transfusion Services Through A Systematic Mapping Study, Shaima' Abdallah Elhaj, Yousra Odeh, Dina Tbaishat, Anwar Rjoop, Asem Mansour, Mohammed Odeh Jan 2024

Informing The State Of Process Modeling And Automation Of Blood Banking And Transfusion Services Through A Systematic Mapping Study, Shaima' Abdallah Elhaj, Yousra Odeh, Dina Tbaishat, Anwar Rjoop, Asem Mansour, Mohammed Odeh

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Purpose: The current state of the art in process modeling of blood banking and transfusion services is not well grounded; methodological reviews are lacking to bridge the gap between such blood banking and transfusion processes (and their models) and their automation. This research aims to fill this gap with a methodological review. Methods: A systematic mapping study was adopted, driven by five key research questions. Identified research studies were accepted based on fulfilling the following inclusion criteria: 1) research studies should focus on blood banking and transfusion process modeling since the late 1970s; and 2) research studies should focus on …


Assessing The Impact Of Chatbot-Human Personality Congruence On User Behavior: A Chatbot-Based Advising System Case, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Mohamed Bahja, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Justin Thomas, Amina Alkazemi, Joao Negreiros Jan 2024

Assessing The Impact Of Chatbot-Human Personality Congruence On User Behavior: A Chatbot-Based Advising System Case, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Mohamed Bahja, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Justin Thomas, Amina Alkazemi, Joao Negreiros

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Chatbot personality has been demonstrated to influence user behavior, such as trust and intended engagement. However, previous research on chatbot-user personality congruence’s influence on user behavior is scant despite its significance in human-human conversations. This study explores the effect of chatbot-human personality trait congruence on user behavior in the context of a chatbot-based advising system. In this study, 54 college students interacted with chatbots with three different personalities (extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) and rated their trust, usage intention, and intended engagement with the chatbots. Additionally, 18 participants were interviewed to gain further insights into their perceptions and evaluations of the …


Diagnostic Performance Of Ai-Based Models Versus Physicians Among Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Feras Al-Obeidat, Wael Hafez, Muneir Gador, Nesma Ahmed, Marwa Muhammed Abdeljawad, Antesh Yadav, Asrar Rashed Jan 2024

Diagnostic Performance Of Ai-Based Models Versus Physicians Among Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Feras Al-Obeidat, Wael Hafez, Muneir Gador, Nesma Ahmed, Marwa Muhammed Abdeljawad, Antesh Yadav, Asrar Rashed

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Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common primary liver cancer that requires early diagnosis due to its poor prognosis. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have facilitated hepatocellular carcinoma detection using multiple AI models; however, their performance is still uncertain. Aim: This meta-analysis aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of different AI models with that of clinicians in the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma. Methods: We searched the PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases for eligible studies. The R package was used to synthesize the results. The outcomes of various studies were aggregated using fixed-effect and random-effects models. …


Infusing Commonsense Via Knowledge Bases In Multipurpose Robotic Task Organization, Rafael Omar Hidalgo Jan 2024

Infusing Commonsense Via Knowledge Bases In Multipurpose Robotic Task Organization, Rafael Omar Hidalgo

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This research explores the innovative integration of commonsense knowledge (CSK) within AI systems, with a particular focus on domestic robotics. At the heart of this study is the Robo- CSK-Organizer, a groundbreaking system that utilizes a classical knowledge base, namely ConceptNet, to enhance robotic decision-making through sophisticated object organization and classification. This system is contrasted with a ChatGPT-based organizer, examining their performance in terms of ambiguity resolution, consistency in object placement, adaptability to task classifications, and crucially, in explainability, a key aspect of XAI (Explainable AI). Through a combination of controlled experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis, the study demonstrates that …


Deepfakes In Court: How Judges Can Proactively Manage Alleged Ai-Generated Material In National Security Cases, Abhishek Dalal, Chongyang Gao, Paul W. Grimm, Maura R. Grossman, Daniel W. Linna Jr., Chiara Pulice, V. S. Subrahmanian, John Tunheim Jan 2024

Deepfakes In Court: How Judges Can Proactively Manage Alleged Ai-Generated Material In National Security Cases, Abhishek Dalal, Chongyang Gao, Paul W. Grimm, Maura R. Grossman, Daniel W. Linna Jr., Chiara Pulice, V. S. Subrahmanian, John Tunheim

Faculty Scholarship

Dall-E. ChatGPT GPT-4. Words that did not exist in the English lexicon just a few years ago are now commonplace. With the widespread availability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, specifically Generative AI, whether in the context of text, audio, video, imagery, or even combinations of these, it is inevitable that trials related to national security will involve evidentiary issues raised by Generative AI. We must confront two possibilities: first, that evidence presented is AI-generated and not real and, second, that other evidence is genuine but alleged to be fabricated. Technologies designed to detect AI-generated content have proven to be unreliable, …


Human Psychology And Robot Evidence In The Courtroom, Alternative Dispute Resolution, And Agency Proceedings, Sara Sun Beale, Hayley Lawrence Jan 2024

Human Psychology And Robot Evidence In The Courtroom, Alternative Dispute Resolution, And Agency Proceedings, Sara Sun Beale, Hayley Lawrence

Faculty Scholarship

In human–robot interactions in legal proceedings, human responses to robot-generated evidence will present unique challenges to the accuracy of litigation as well as ancillary goals such as fairness and transparency, though it may also enhance accuracy in other respects. The most important feature of human–robot interactions is the human tendency to anthropomorphize robots, which can generate misleading impressions and be manipulated by designing robots to make them appear more trustworthy and believable. Although robot-generated evidence may also offer unique advantages, there are concerns about the degree to which the traditional methods of testing the accuracy of evidence, particularly cross-examination, will …


A Survey On Artificial Intelligence In Cybersecurity For Smart Agriculture: State-Of-The-Art, Cyber Threats, Artificial Intelligence Applications, And Ethical Concerns, Guma Ali, Maad M. Mijwil, Bosco Apparatus Buruga, Mostafa Abotaleb, Ioannis Adamopoulos Jan 2024

A Survey On Artificial Intelligence In Cybersecurity For Smart Agriculture: State-Of-The-Art, Cyber Threats, Artificial Intelligence Applications, And Ethical Concerns, Guma Ali, Maad M. Mijwil, Bosco Apparatus Buruga, Mostafa Abotaleb, Ioannis Adamopoulos

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things devices are revolutionizing the smart agriculture industry by increasing production, sustainability, and profitability as connectivity becomes increasingly ubiquitous. However, the industry has become a popular target for cyberattacks. This survey investigates the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving cybersecurity in smart agriculture (SA). The relevant literature for the study was gathered from Nature, Wiley Online Library, MDPI, ScienceDirect, Frontiers, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IGI Global, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Google Scholar. Of the 320 publications that fit the search criteria, 180 research papers were ultimately chosen for this investigation. The review …


Evaluating Blockchain Cybersecurity Based On Tree Soft And Opinion Weight Criteria Method Under Uncertainty Climate, Florentin Smarandache, Mona Mohamed, Michael Gr. Voskoglou Jan 2024

Evaluating Blockchain Cybersecurity Based On Tree Soft And Opinion Weight Criteria Method Under Uncertainty Climate, Florentin Smarandache, Mona Mohamed, Michael Gr. Voskoglou

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In the era of digital transformation (DT), many digital technologies have emerged and have had a positive impact on society. Nevertheless, because of certain issues with existing technologies, innovative technology has developed to eradicate them. Fog computing (FC) plays a vital role as an intermediate between edge layer and cloud computing (CC) to resolve limited resources and capabilities. In the same vein, blockchain technology (BCT) is responsible for resolving privacy and security issues that IoT suffers from. Due to using cryptography rules and hashing which is utilized in BCT to prevent any trickery. Hence, BC shows promise as a possible …


Privobfnet: A Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Model For Data Protection, Chiat Pin Tay, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Thivya Kandappu Jan 2024

Privobfnet: A Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Model For Data Protection, Chiat Pin Tay, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Thivya Kandappu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The use of social media has made it easy to communicate and share information over the internet. However, it also brings issues such as data privacy leakage, which can be exploited by recipients with malicious intentions to harm the sender. In this paper, we propose a deep neural network that analyzes user’s image for privacy sensitive content and automatically locates sensitive regions for obfuscation. Our approach relies solely on image level annotations and learns to (a) predict an overall privacy score, (b) detect sensitive attributes and (c) demarcate the sensitive regions for obfuscation, in a given input image. We validated …


A Secure And Robust Knowledge Transfer Framework Via Stratified-Causality Distribution Adjustment In Intelligent Collaborative Services, Ju Jia, Siqi Ma, Lina Wang, Yang Liu, Robert H. Deng Jan 2024

A Secure And Robust Knowledge Transfer Framework Via Stratified-Causality Distribution Adjustment In Intelligent Collaborative Services, Ju Jia, Siqi Ma, Lina Wang, Yang Liu, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The rapid development of device-edge-cloud collaborative computing techniques has actively contributed to the popularization and application of intelligent service models. The intensity of knowledge transfer plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of intelligent services. However, the existing knowledge transfer methods are mainly implemented through data fine-tuning and model distillation, which may cause the leakage of data privacy or model copyright in intelligent collaborative systems. To address this issue, we propose a secure and robust knowledge transfer framework through stratified-causality distribution adjustment (SCDA) for device-edge-cloud collaborative services. Specifically, a simple yet effective density-based estimation is first employed to obtain …


Causal Disentangled Recommendation Against User Preference Shifts, Wenjie Wang, Xinyu Lin, Liuhui Wang, Fuli Feng, Yunshan Ma, Tat‑Seng Chua Jan 2024

Causal Disentangled Recommendation Against User Preference Shifts, Wenjie Wang, Xinyu Lin, Liuhui Wang, Fuli Feng, Yunshan Ma, Tat‑Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recommender systems easily face the issue of user preference shifts. User representations will become outof-date and lead to inappropriate recommendations if user preference has shifted over time. To solve theissue, existing work focuses on learning robust representations or predicting the shifting pattern. Therelacks a comprehensive view to discover the underlying reasons for user preference shifts. To understand thepreference shift, we abstract a causal graph to describe the generation procedure of user interaction sequences.Assuming user preference is stable within a short period, we abstract the interaction sequence as a set ofchronological environments. From the causal graph, we find that the changes …


Glance To Count: Learning To Rank With Anchors For Weakly-Supervised Crowd Counting, Zheng Xiong, Liangyu Chai, Wenxi Liu, Yongtuo Liu, Sucheng Ren, Shengfeng He Jan 2024

Glance To Count: Learning To Rank With Anchors For Weakly-Supervised Crowd Counting, Zheng Xiong, Liangyu Chai, Wenxi Liu, Yongtuo Liu, Sucheng Ren, Shengfeng He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Crowd image is arguably one of the most laborious data to annotate. In this paper, we devote to reduce the massive demand of densely labeled crowd data, and propose a novel weakly-supervised setting, in which we leverage the binary ranking of two images with highcontrast crowd counts as training guidance. To enable training under this new setting, we convert the crowd count regression problem to a ranking potential prediction problem. In particular, we tailor a Siamese Ranking Network that predicts the potential scores of two images indicating the ordering of the counts. Hence, the ultimate goal is to assign appropriate …


Cooperative Trucks And Drones For Rural Last-Mile Delivery With Steep Roads, Jiuhong Xiao, Ying Li, Zhiguang Cao, Jianhua Xiao Jan 2024

Cooperative Trucks And Drones For Rural Last-Mile Delivery With Steep Roads, Jiuhong Xiao, Ying Li, Zhiguang Cao, Jianhua Xiao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The cooperative delivery of trucks and drones promises considerable advantages in delivery efficiency and environmental friendliness over pure fossil fuel fleets. As the prosperity of rural B2C e-commerce grows, this study intends to explore the prospect of this cooperation mode for rural last-mile delivery by developing a green vehicle routing problem with drones that considers the presence of steep roads (GVRPD-SR). Realistic energy consumption calculations for trucks and drones that both consider the impacts of general factors and steep roads are incorporated into the GVRPD-SR model, and the objective is to minimize the total energy consumption. To solve the proposed …


Affinity Uncertainty-Based Hard Negative Mining In Graph Contrastive Learning, Chaoxi Niu, Guansong Pang, Ling Chen Jan 2024

Affinity Uncertainty-Based Hard Negative Mining In Graph Contrastive Learning, Chaoxi Niu, Guansong Pang, Ling Chen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Hard negative mining has shown effective in enhancing self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) on diverse data types, including graph CL (GCL). The existing hardness-aware CL methods typically treat negative instances that are most similar to the anchor instance as hard negatives, which helps improve the CL performance, especially on image data. However, this approach often fails to identify the hard negatives but leads to many false negatives on graph data. This is mainly due to that the learned graph representations are not sufficiently discriminative due to oversmooth representations and/or non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.) issues in graph data. To tackle this …


Remote Multi-Person Heart Rate Monitoring With Smart Speakers: Overcoming Separation Constraint, Ngoc Doan Thu Tran, Dong Ma, Rajesh Krishna Balan Jan 2024

Remote Multi-Person Heart Rate Monitoring With Smart Speakers: Overcoming Separation Constraint, Ngoc Doan Thu Tran, Dong Ma, Rajesh Krishna Balan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Heart rate is a key vital sign that can be used to understand an individual’s health condition. Recently, remote sensing techniques, especially acoustic-based sensing, have received increasing attention for their ability to non-invasively detect heart rate via commercial mobile devices such as smartphones and smart speakers. However, due to signal interference, existing methods have primarily focused on monitoring a single user and required a large separation between them when monitoring multiple people. These limitations hinder many common use cases such as couples sharing the same bed or two or more people located in close proximity. In this paper, we present …