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An Automated Eye Disease Recognition System From Visual Content Of Facial Imagesusing Machine Learning Techniques, Ashrafi Akram, Rameswar Debnath Jan 2020

An Automated Eye Disease Recognition System From Visual Content Of Facial Imagesusing Machine Learning Techniques, Ashrafi Akram, Rameswar Debnath

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Many eye diseases like cataracts, trachoma, or corneal ulcer can cause vision problems. Progression of these eye diseases can only be prevented if they are recognized accurately at the early stage. Visually observable symptoms differ a lot among these eye diseases. However, a wide variety of symptoms is necessary to be analyzed for the accurate detection of eye diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to provide an automated eye disease recognition system using visually observable symptoms applying digital image processing techniques and machine learning techniques such as deep convolution neural network (DCNN) and support vector machine (SVM). …


Correlation Coefficients Of Pythagorean Hesitant Fuzzy Sets And Their Applicationto Radar Lpi Performance Evaluation, Cheng Xiu Yang, Qianzhe Wang, Weidong Peng, Shaoting Pei Jan 2020

Correlation Coefficients Of Pythagorean Hesitant Fuzzy Sets And Their Applicationto Radar Lpi Performance Evaluation, Cheng Xiu Yang, Qianzhe Wang, Weidong Peng, Shaoting Pei

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Evaluating low probability of intercept (LPI) performance is the first step to design parameters and arrange radar resources. In the evaluation process it is hard to rely on the intercept receiver?s working scenarios and operating parameters. On the other hand, indicators that affect the LPI performance of radiating side are difficult to consider comprehensively. Thus, building an effective evaluation system is crucial. This research considers the natural parameters of radar extracted from a radiating scenario. Subsequently, a number of criteria are selected, including spatial, time, frequency domain, polarization status, energy status, and waveform features. A multidomain radar LPI performance evaluation …


Piezoresistive Disposable Weight Sensor With Increased Sensitivity, Kuter Erdi̇l, Tuğçe Ayraç, Ömer Gökalp Akcan, Yi̇ği̇t Dağhan Gökdel Jan 2020

Piezoresistive Disposable Weight Sensor With Increased Sensitivity, Kuter Erdi̇l, Tuğçe Ayraç, Ömer Gökalp Akcan, Yi̇ği̇t Dağhan Gökdel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This study presents the design, simulation, implementation, and experimental characterization of a paperbased perforated disposable weight sensor system with a double piezoresistive layer. The demonstrated system is designed to achieve highly sensitive weight sensing operations with low-cost materials. For that purpose, the main fabrication material of the proposed disposable sensor is selected as a 289 $\mu$m thick Strathmore 400 series Bristol paper. Approximately 48 $\mu$m thick piezoresistive graphite paste is coated onto both sides of the paper-based cantilever beam with the aim of acquiring more sensitive weight-sensing capability. Additionally, the proposed paper-based structure has rows of closely spaced perforations at …


A Fast Text Similarity Measure For Large Document Collections Using Multireference Cosine And Genetic Algorithm, Hamid Mohammadi, Seyed Hossein Khasteh Jan 2020

A Fast Text Similarity Measure For Large Document Collections Using Multireference Cosine And Genetic Algorithm, Hamid Mohammadi, Seyed Hossein Khasteh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

One of the critical factors that make a search engine fast and accurate is a concise and duplicate free index. In order to remove duplicate and near-duplicate (DND) documents from the index, a search engine needs a swift and reliable DND text document detection system. Traditional approaches to this problem, such as brute force comparisons or simple hash-based algorithms, are not suitable as they are not scalable and are not capable of detecting near-duplicate documents effectively. In this paper, a new signature-based approach to text similarity detection is introduced, which is fast, scalable, and reliable and needs less storage space. …


Accurate Indoor Positioning With Ultra-Wide Band Sensors, Taner Arsan Jan 2020

Accurate Indoor Positioning With Ultra-Wide Band Sensors, Taner Arsan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Ultra-wide band is one of the emerging indoor positioning technologies. In the application phase, accuracy and interference are important criteria of indoor positioning systems. Not only the method used in positioning, but also the algorithms used in improving the accuracy is a key factor. In this paper, we tried to eliminate the effects of off-set and noise in the data of the ultra-wide band sensor-based indoor positioning system. For this purpose, optimization algorithms and filters have been applied to the raw data, and the accuracy has been improved. A test bed with the dimensions of 7.35 m × 5.41 m …


Development Of A Supervised Classification Method To Construct 2d Mineral Mapson Backscattered Electron Images, Mahmut Camalan, Mahmut Çavur Jan 2020

Development Of A Supervised Classification Method To Construct 2d Mineral Mapson Backscattered Electron Images, Mahmut Camalan, Mahmut Çavur

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) can be used to obtain mineral maps from backscattered electron (BSE) images of particles. This paper proposes an alternative methodology that includes random forest classification, a prospective machine learning algorithm, to develop mineral maps from BSE images. The results show that the overall accuracy and kappa statistic of the proposed method are 97% and 0.94, respectively, proving that random forest classification is accurate. The accuracy indicators also suggest that the proposed method may be applied to classify minerals with similar appearances under BSE imaging. Meanwhile, random forest predicts fewer middling particles with binary and ternary …


Prediction Of Railway Switch Point Failures By Artificial Intelligence Methods, Burak Arslan, Hasan Ti̇ryaki̇ Jan 2020

Prediction Of Railway Switch Point Failures By Artificial Intelligence Methods, Burak Arslan, Hasan Ti̇ryaki̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In recent years, railway transport has been preferred intensively in local and intercity freight and passenger transport. For this reason, it is of utmost importance that railway lines are operated in an uninterrupted and safe manner. In order to carry out continuous operation, all systems must continue to operate with maximum availability. In this study, data were collected from switch motors, which are the important equipment of railways, and the related equipment and these data were evaluated with sector experience and the results related to the failure status of the switch points were revealed. The obtained results were processed with …


Design And Characterization Of A Compact Single-Layer Multibeam Array Antennausing An 8×8 Butler Matrix For 5g Base Station Applications, Intan Izafina Idrus, Tarik Abdul Latef, Narendra Kumar Aridas, Mohamad Sofian Abu Talip, Yoshihide Yamada, Tengku Faiz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, Tharek Abd. Rahman Jan 2020

Design And Characterization Of A Compact Single-Layer Multibeam Array Antennausing An 8×8 Butler Matrix For 5g Base Station Applications, Intan Izafina Idrus, Tarik Abdul Latef, Narendra Kumar Aridas, Mohamad Sofian Abu Talip, Yoshihide Yamada, Tengku Faiz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, Tharek Abd. Rahman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A multibeam array antenna employing a Butler matrix is a promising solution for fifth generation (5G) base stations. Due to inaccurate phase differences between output ports in the Butler matrix, the radiation characteristics could show incorrect main beam directions. In addition, the literature has also reported the issue of high amplitude imbalance in the Butler matrix. This paper presents a single-layer multibeam array antenna fed by an 8×8 Butler matrix operating at 28 GHz for 5G base station applications' a more cost-effective solution for large-scale production. The Butler matrix consists of twelve quadrature hybrids, sixteen crossovers, and eight phase shifters. …


Convolutional Auto Encoders For Sentence Representation Generation, Ali̇ Mert Ceylan, Vecdi̇ Aytaç Jan 2020

Convolutional Auto Encoders For Sentence Representation Generation, Ali̇ Mert Ceylan, Vecdi̇ Aytaç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, we have proposed an alternative approach for sentence modeling problem. The difficulty of the choice of answer, the semantically related questions and the lack of syntactic closeness of the answers give rise to the difficulty of selecting the answer. The deep learning field has recently achieved a pivotal success in semantic analysis, machine translation, and text summaries. The essence of this work, inspired by the human orthographic processing mechanism and using multiple convolution filters with pre-rendered 2-Dimension (2D) representations of sentences, input or output size is to learn the basic features of the language without concerns. For …


Measurement Based Threat Aware Drone Base Station Deployment, Alper Akarsu, Tolga Gi̇ri̇ci̇ Jan 2020

Measurement Based Threat Aware Drone Base Station Deployment, Alper Akarsu, Tolga Gi̇ri̇ci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Unmanned aerial vehicles are gaining importance with many civilian and military applications. Especially the surveillance, search/rescue, and military operations may have to be carried out in extremely constrained environments. In such scenarios, drone base stations (DBSs) have to provide communication services to the people at the ground. The ground users may have no access to the global positioning system (GPS); therefore, their locations have to be estimated using alternative techniques. Besides there may be threats in the environment, such as shooters. In this work, we address the problem of optimal DBS deployment under the aforementioned constraints. We propose a novel …


Fast Adaptive Reclosing In Double-Circuit Transmission Lines For Improving Powersystem Stability Based On Harmonic Analysis Scheme, Mohsen Jannati, Ali Akbar Akbari Jan 2020

Fast Adaptive Reclosing In Double-Circuit Transmission Lines For Improving Powersystem Stability Based On Harmonic Analysis Scheme, Mohsen Jannati, Ali Akbar Akbari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

An appropriate method is proposed for identifying permanent faults from transient faults in double-circuit transmission lines. This method could be used in adaptive single phase auto-reclosures in order to diagnose between permanent and transient faults, determine extinguishing time of the secondary arc, and calculate issuing time of reclosing commands during the occurrence of transient single phase to ground faults. The proposed method is based on harmonic analysis of the adjacent healthy circuit and could be an effective solution for blocking permanent disconnection of the power flow, improving stability, and maintaining the power network synchronism. In this paper, transient and permanent …


Chemical Disease Relation Extraction Task Using Genetic Algorithm With Two Novelvoting Methods For Classifier Subset Selection, Stanley Chika Onye, Nazi̇fe Di̇mi̇li̇ler, Ari̇f Akkeleş Jan 2020

Chemical Disease Relation Extraction Task Using Genetic Algorithm With Two Novelvoting Methods For Classifier Subset Selection, Stanley Chika Onye, Nazi̇fe Di̇mi̇li̇ler, Ari̇f Akkeleş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Biomedical relation extraction is an important preliminary step for knowledge discovery in the biomedical domain. This paper proposes a multiple classifier system (MCS) for the extraction of chemical-induced disease relations. A genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to select classifier ensembles from a pool of base classifiers. Moreover, the voting method used for combining the members of each of the ensembles is also selected during evolution in the GA framework. The performances of the MCSs are determined by the algorithms used for selecting the classifiers, the diversity among the selected classifiers, and the voting method used in the classifier combination. The …


Investigation On Leakage Current, Erosion, And Hydrophobic Performance Ofhigh-Voltage Insulator Coatings Of Different Thicknesses, Suat İlhan, Zeynelabi̇di̇n Aslan Jan 2020

Investigation On Leakage Current, Erosion, And Hydrophobic Performance Ofhigh-Voltage Insulator Coatings Of Different Thicknesses, Suat İlhan, Zeynelabi̇di̇n Aslan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Room-temperature vulcanizing (RTV) silicone rubber is used as a high-voltage insulator coating to enhance the pollution performance of conventional insulators, and the electrical performance of RTV coating depends on the several parameters. The present study shows the effects of the thickness on the leakage current, erosion, and hydrophobic performance of high-voltage insulator coating. Several different thicknesses of RTV silicone rubber were taken into consideration on porcelain substrates. Erosion and leakage current performances of the samples were evaluated by using inclined-plane tests (IPTs) based on the IEC 60587 standard. Eroded masses and fundamental and harmonic components of the leakage currents were …


A Population Based Simulated Annealing Algorithm For Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, İlhan İlhan Jan 2020

A Population Based Simulated Annealing Algorithm For Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, İlhan İlhan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most discussed and researched topics nowadays. The VRP is briefly defined as the problem of identifying the best route to reduce distribution costs and improve the quality of service provided to customers. The Capacitated VRP (CVRP) is one of the most commonly researched among the VRP types. Therefore, the CVRP was studied in this paper and a new population based simulated annealing algorithm was proposed. In the algorithm, three different route development operators were used, which are exchange, insertion and reversion operators. It was tested on 63 well-known benchmark instances in …


Design Of A Spurious-Free Rf Frequency Synthesizer For Fast-Settling Receivers, Hi̇lmi̇ Kayhan Yilmaz, Serkan Topaloğlu Jan 2020

Design Of A Spurious-Free Rf Frequency Synthesizer For Fast-Settling Receivers, Hi̇lmi̇ Kayhan Yilmaz, Serkan Topaloğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A tunable reference clock frequency topology is presented as a spur reduction application for frequency synthesizers of fast frequency hopping spread spectrum systems. The method was verified by measurements on a designed hardware operating at L-band frequencies. This spur reduction method is based on optimizing the reference clock frequency of synthesizers to mitigate spurs. By using the spur reduction method, the power of spurious signals was reduced up to 57 dB. The performance of the spur reduction method was also analyzed at different loop-filter configurations. Smaller lock time was obtained by enlarging the bandwidth of the loop filter up to …


Optimization Of Real-World Outdoor Campaign Allocations, Fatmanur Akdoğan Uzun, Doğan Altan, Ercan Peker, Mahmut Altuğ Üstün, Sanem Sariel Jan 2020

Optimization Of Real-World Outdoor Campaign Allocations, Fatmanur Akdoğan Uzun, Doğan Altan, Ercan Peker, Mahmut Altuğ Üstün, Sanem Sariel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we investigate the outdoor campaign allocation problem (OCAP), which asks for the distribution of campaign items to billboards considering a number of constraints. In particular, for a metropolitan city with a large number of billboards, the problem becomes challenging. We propose a genetic algorithm-based method to allocate campaign items effectively, and we compare our results with those of nonlinear integer programming and greedy approaches. Real-world data sets are collected with the given constraints of the price class ratios of billboards located in İstanbul and the budgets of the given campaigns. The methods are evaluated in terms of …


Analysis Of Acoustic Sensor Placement For Pd Location In Power Transformer, Khairul Nadiah Khalid, Muhammad Nur Khairul Hafizi Rohani, Baharuddin Ismail, Muzamir Isa, Chang Yii Chai, Wan Nurul Auni Wan Muhammad Jan 2020

Analysis Of Acoustic Sensor Placement For Pd Location In Power Transformer, Khairul Nadiah Khalid, Muhammad Nur Khairul Hafizi Rohani, Baharuddin Ismail, Muzamir Isa, Chang Yii Chai, Wan Nurul Auni Wan Muhammad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Partial discharge (PD) is an abnormal activity that occurs in high-voltage components, such as power cables, switchgear, machines, and power transformers. Such activity needs to be diagnosed for the equipment to last longer as PD could harm the insulation and potentially lead to asset destruction from time to time. Moving one or more externally mounted acoustic sensors to different locations on the transformer tank is commonly used in order to detect and locate PD signal occurring in the power transformer. However, this procedure may lead to less accuracy in PD identification. Therefore, this research paper presents an analysis of acoustic …


Adjustable Testing Setup For A Single-Loop Optoelectronic Oscillator With Anelectrical Bandpass Filter, Mehmet Alp Ilgaz, Andrej Lavric, Temitope Odedeyi, Izzat Darwazeh, Bostjan Batagelj Jan 2020

Adjustable Testing Setup For A Single-Loop Optoelectronic Oscillator With Anelectrical Bandpass Filter, Mehmet Alp Ilgaz, Andrej Lavric, Temitope Odedeyi, Izzat Darwazeh, Bostjan Batagelj

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper we present a novel method to measure the free spectral range (FSR) and side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of an optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) by adjusting the optical fiber length using an optical path selector and signal source analyzer. We have designed a setup for a single-loop OEO operating around 5 GHz and 10 GHz that features electrical bandpass filters for side-mode suppression. The proposed approach makes it possible to evaluate the FSR and SMSR of OEOs with different optical fiber paths without requiring the changing of fiber spools or optical connectors. This approach could be useful for testbeds …


Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process And Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Formultiobjective Plug-In Electric Vehicles Charging Coordination With Time-Of-Usetariff, Junaid Bin Fakhrul Islam, Mir Toufikur Rahman, Hazlie Mokhlis, Mohamadariff Othman, Tengku Fiaz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, Hasmaini Mohamad Jan 2020

Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process And Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Formultiobjective Plug-In Electric Vehicles Charging Coordination With Time-Of-Usetariff, Junaid Bin Fakhrul Islam, Mir Toufikur Rahman, Hazlie Mokhlis, Mohamadariff Othman, Tengku Fiaz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, Hasmaini Mohamad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are gaining popularity as an alternative vehicle in the past few years. The charging activities of PEVs impose extra electrical load on residential distribution system as well as increasing operational cost. There are multiple conflicting requirements and constraints during the charging activities. Therefore, this paper presents multiobjective PEV charging coordination based on weighted sum technique to provide simultaneous benefits to the power utilities and PEV users. The optimization problem of the proposed coordination is solved using binary particle swam optimization. The objectives of the coordination are to (i) minimize daily power loss, (ii) maximize power delivery …


Low Harmonic 12-Pulse Rectifier With A Circulating Current Shaping Circuit, Jingfang Wang, Xuliang Yao, Qi Guan, Changji Deng, Shiyan Yang Jan 2020

Low Harmonic 12-Pulse Rectifier With A Circulating Current Shaping Circuit, Jingfang Wang, Xuliang Yao, Qi Guan, Changji Deng, Shiyan Yang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes a four-star 12-pulse diode rectifier with a circulating current shaping circuit (CCSC) on the DC side to decrease the input current harmonics effectively. The type of circulating current that can eliminate the input current harmonics is analysed and its waveform parameters are derived. The effects of triangular circulating current on the harmonics of the input current are analysed, and the harmonic suppression mechanism of the triangular circulating current is revealed. This scheme has excellent harmonic suppression capability, and the capacity of CCSC is only 2.35% of output power of the 12-pulse rectifier. Thus, this scheme is cost …


Deep Temporal Motion Descriptor (Dtmd) For Human Action Recognition, Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Aun Irtaza, Sergio A. Velastin Jan 2020

Deep Temporal Motion Descriptor (Dtmd) For Human Action Recognition, Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Aun Irtaza, Sergio A. Velastin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Spatiotemporal features have significant importance in human action recognition, as they provide the actor's shape and motion characteristics specific to each action class. This paper presents a new deep spatiotemporal human action representation, the deep temporal motion descriptor (DTMD), which shares the attributes of holistic and deep learned features. To generate the DTMD descriptor, the actor?s silhouettes are gathered into single motion templates by applying motion history images. These motion templates capture the spatiotemporal movements of the actor and compactly represent the human actions using a single 2D template. Then deep convolutional neural networks are used to compute discriminative deep …


Peak Shaving And Technical Loss Minimization In Distribution Grids: Atime-Of-Use-Based Pricing Approach For Distribution Service Tariffs, Osman Bülent Tör, Mahmut Erkut Cebeci̇, Mehmet Koç, Saaed Teimourzadeh, Deren Atli, Simona Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bara Jan 2020

Peak Shaving And Technical Loss Minimization In Distribution Grids: Atime-Of-Use-Based Pricing Approach For Distribution Service Tariffs, Osman Bülent Tör, Mahmut Erkut Cebeci̇, Mehmet Koç, Saaed Teimourzadeh, Deren Atli, Simona Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bara

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deployment of time-of-use (ToU)-based retail energy tariffs (i.e. tariff for energy consumption- not the tariff for distribution service) is a common practice to incentivize consumers to use more energy at off-peak times. Distribution service tariffs (DSTs) are usually time-independent, which results in insensitivity of load to the distribution service cost. However, DST can also be time-dependent, which is studied in this paper. This study presents a methodology to address the effect of ToU pricing (i.e. time-dependent) of DSTs on peak shaving and technical loss minimization in power distribution grids. Here, the main focus is to assess the level of consumers' …


The Impact Of Text Preprocessing On The Prediction Of Review Ratings, Muhi̇tti̇n Işik, Hasan Dağ Jan 2020

The Impact Of Text Preprocessing On The Prediction Of Review Ratings, Muhi̇tti̇n Işik, Hasan Dağ

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the increase of e-commerce platforms and online applications, businessmen are looking to have a rating and review system through which they can easily reveal the feelings of customers related to their products and services. It is undeniable from the statistics that online ratings and reviews attract new customers as well as increase sales by means of providing confidence, ratification, opinions, comparisons, merchant credibility, etc. Although considerable research has been devoted to the sentiment analysis for review classification, rather less attention has been paid to the text preprocessing which is a crucial step in opinion mining especially if convenient preprocessing …


Deep Neural Network Based M-Learning Model For Predicting Mobile Learners'performance, Muhammad Adnan, Asad Habib, Jawad Ashraf, Shafaq Mussadiq, Arsalan Ali Jan 2020

Deep Neural Network Based M-Learning Model For Predicting Mobile Learners'performance, Muhammad Adnan, Asad Habib, Jawad Ashraf, Shafaq Mussadiq, Arsalan Ali

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The use of deep learning (DL) techniques for mobile learning is an emerging field aimed at developing methods for finding mobile learners' learning behavior and exploring important learning features. The learning features (learning time, learning location, repetition rate, content types, learning performance, learning time duration, and so on) act as fuel to DL algorithms based on which DL algorithms can classify mobile learners into different learning groups. In this study, a powerful and efficient m-learning model is proposed based on DL techniques to model the learning process of m-learners. The proposed m-learning model determines the impact of independent learning features …


Comparative Analysis Of Classification Techniques For Network Fault Management, Mohammed Madi, Fidaa Jarghon, Yousef Fazea, Omar Almomani, Adeeb Saaidah Jan 2020

Comparative Analysis Of Classification Techniques For Network Fault Management, Mohammed Madi, Fidaa Jarghon, Yousef Fazea, Omar Almomani, Adeeb Saaidah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Network troubleshooting is a significant process. Many studies were conducted about it. The first step in the troubleshooting procedures is represented in collecting information. It's collected in order to identify the problems. Syslog messages which are sent by almost all network devices include a massive amount of data that concern the network problems. Based on several studies, it was found that analyzing syslog data (which) can be a guideline for network problems and their causes. The detection of network problems can become more efficient if the detected problems have been classified based on the network layers. Classifying syslog data requires …


Feature Points-Based Image Registration Between Satellite Imagery And Aerialimages Of Agricultural Land, Mohsin Abbas, Sajid Saleem, Fazli Subhan, Abdul Bais Jan 2020

Feature Points-Based Image Registration Between Satellite Imagery And Aerialimages Of Agricultural Land, Mohsin Abbas, Sajid Saleem, Fazli Subhan, Abdul Bais

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Rapid advancement in remote sensing sensors has resulted in an enormous increase in the use of satellite imagery (SI) and images taken from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of remote sensing applications. These applications include urban planning, environment monitoring, map updating, change detection, and precision agriculture. This paper focuses on an agricultural application of SI and UAV images. SI-UAV images possess high temporal, textural, and intensity differences due to rapid changes in agricultural crops with the passage of time. Feature points such as scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB), and speeded-up robust …


Implicit Relation-Based Question Answering To Answer Simple Questions Overdbpedia, Maryam Jamehshourani, Afsaneh Fatemi, Mohammadali Nematbakhsh Jan 2020

Implicit Relation-Based Question Answering To Answer Simple Questions Overdbpedia, Maryam Jamehshourani, Afsaneh Fatemi, Mohammadali Nematbakhsh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

RDF-based question answering systems give users the capability of natural language querying over RDF data. In order to respond to natural language questions, it is necessary that the main concept of the question be interpreted correctly, and then it is mapped to RDF data. A natural language question includes entities, classes, and implicit and explicit relationships. In this article, by focusing on identification and mapping of implicit relationships in the question (in addition to the explicit relationships), the mapping step has been improved. In the proposed solution (IRQA), entities and implicit/explicit relationships are identified by means of the provided rules …


Analysis Of Condition Number And Position Estimation Error For Multiangulationposition Estimation System, Sa'id Musa Yarima, Ahmad Zuri Sha'ameri, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro Jan 2020

Analysis Of Condition Number And Position Estimation Error For Multiangulationposition Estimation System, Sa'id Musa Yarima, Ahmad Zuri Sha'ameri, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A passive wireless positioning system could be used to detect the location of low-level airborne targets such as drones or unmanned aircraft systems from the electromagnetic emission detected at spatially deployed ground receiving stations (GRSs). The multiangulation system proposed in this paper makes use of the angle of arrival (AOA) of the transmitted signal from the target to estimate its position through a 2-stage process. The AOA is the positiondependent signal parameter (PDSP) obtained from the target emission in the first stage, and using the PDSP and GRSs, the target location is estimated in the second stage by the angulation …


Combining Metadata And Co-Citations For Recommending Related Papers, Shahbaz Ahmad, Muhammad Tanvir Afzal Jan 2020

Combining Metadata And Co-Citations For Recommending Related Papers, Shahbaz Ahmad, Muhammad Tanvir Afzal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Identification of relevant documents is performed to keep track of the state-of-the-art methods and relies on research paper recommender systems. The proposed approaches for these systems can be classified into categories like content-based, collaborative filtering-based, and bibliographic information-based approaches. The content-based approaches exploit the full text of articles and provide more promising results than other approaches. However, most content is not freely available because of subscription requirements. Therefore, the scope of content-based approaches is limited. In such scenarios, the best possible alternative could be the exploitation of other openly available resources. Therefore, this research explores the possible use of metadata …


Fault Identification Of Catenary Dropper Based On Improved Capsnet, Jianpeng Bian, Jiaxing Hao, Shuai Zhao, Weijing Hua, Shichuang Gao Jan 2020

Fault Identification Of Catenary Dropper Based On Improved Capsnet, Jianpeng Bian, Jiaxing Hao, Shuai Zhao, Weijing Hua, Shichuang Gao

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Traditional fault identification algorithms applied to catenary dropper suffer from various problems due to its small contact area. These problems include misidentification and lower recognition rate of the faulty dropper. Compared with the traditional convolutional neural network, the vector is utilized as the input of the capsule network (CapsNet) for the first time, which can well retain the feature information such as the direction and angle of the target, and is more suitable for identifying the dropper under complex background. Therefore, this paper proposes a dropper fault identification algorithm based on improved capsule network. The convolutional layer of traditional 9×9 …