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Attention Augmented Residual Network For Tomato Disease Detection Andclassification, Getinet Yilma Abawatew, Seid Belay, Kumie Gedamu, Maregu Assefa, Melese Ayalew, Ariyo Oluwasanmi, Zhiguang Qin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deep learning techniques help agronomists efficiently identify, analyze, and monitor tomato health. CNN (convolutional neural network) locality constraint and existing small train sample adversely influenced disease recognition performance. To alleviate these challenges, we proposed a discriminative feature learning attention augmented residual (AAR) network. The AAR network contains a stacked pre-activated residual block that learns deep coarse level features with locality context, whereas the attention block captures salient feature sets while maintaining the global relationship in data points, attention features augment the learning of the residual block. We used conditional variational generative adversarial network (CVGAN) image reconstruction network and augmentation techniques …

Pause For A Cybersecurity Cause: Assessing The Influence Of A Waiting Period On User Habituation In Mitigation Of Phishing Attacks, Amy Antonucci

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Social engineering costs organizations billions of dollars a year. Social engineering exploits the weakest link of information security systems, the people who are using them. Phishing is a form of social engineering in which the perpetrator depends on the victim’s instinctual thinking towards an email designed to create a fear or excitement response. It is well-documented in literature that users continue to click on phishing emails costing them and their employers significant monetary resources and data loss. Training does not appear to mitigate the effects of phishing much; other solutions are necessary to mitigate phishing.

Kahneman introduced the concepts of …

A Study Of Factors That Influence Symbol Selection On Augmentative And Alternative Communication Devices For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder, William Todd Dauterman

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) each year. Given the complexity of ASD and how it is manifested in individuals, the execution of proper interventions is difficult. One major area of concern is how individuals with ASD who have limited communication skills are taught to communicate using Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices (AAC). AACs are portable electronic devices that facilitate communication by using audibles, signs, gestures, and picture symbols. Traditionally, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are the primary facilitators of AAC devices and help establish the language individuals with …

A Novel Design Of Current Differencing Transconductance Amplifier With Hightransconductance Gain And Enhanced Bandwidth, Shireesh Kumar Rai, Rishikesh Pandey, Bharat Garg, Sujit Patel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, transconductance gain of current differencing transconductance amplifier (CDTA) has been boosted by using a novel approach. Transconductance is generally varied by two well-known techniques. In the first technique, bias current of differential pair MOSFETs is varied whereas in the second technique, aspect ratios of differential pair MOSFETs are changed. The drawbacks of first technique are limited range of transconductance and higher power dissipation whereas second technique restricts dynamic range, output swing and bandwidth of CDTA. To overcome these drawbacks, 2 new structures of CDTA, namely high transconductance gain CDTAs (HTG-CDTA-I & HTG-CDTA-II) have been proposed. HTG-CDTA-I utilizes …

Mismatch Error Shaping Of Dac Unit Elements In Multibit $\Delta$$\Sigma$ Modulators Using A Novel Unified Adc/Dac, Leila Sharifi, Omid Hashemipour

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a unified analog to digital converter (ADC) and digital to analog converter (DAC) for multibit $\Delta\Sigma$ modulators. The unified ADC/DAC circuit provides error shaping for mismatches between DAC unit elements. Hence, the dynamic element matching (DEM) circuit or digital calibration is not required resulting in the area and power saving as well as the elimination of the excess loop delay introduced by DEM circuit. Incorporating a 6-bit unified ADC/DAC, the $\Delta\Sigma$ modulator achieves 16.15-bit resolution utilizing only a second order loop filter and oversampling ratio of 40. The proposed modulator is simulated in a 65-nm CMOS process. …

Codec-Aware Video Delivery Over Sdns, Obinna Izima, Ruairi Defrein, Ali Malik

Conference papers

To guarantee quality of delivery for video streaming over software defined networks, efficient predictors and adaptive routing frameworks are required. We demonstrate an agent that predicts video quality of delivery metrics in a scalable way using a bespoke codec-aware learning model. We also demonstrate the integration of this agent with an adaptive framework for centrally controlled software-defined networks that re-configures network operational paths in response to the learning agent, ensuring that good quality of delivery of video is maintained during periods of congestion. The demo scenario highlights the feasibility, scalability and accuracy of the framework

Improving Employees’ Compliance With Password Policies, Enas Albataineh

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Employees’ lack of compliance with password policies increases password susceptibility, which leads to financial damages to the organizations as a result of information disclosure, fraud, and unauthorized transactions. However, few studies have examined what motivates employees to comply with password policies.

The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study was to examine what factors influence employees’ compliance with password policies. A theoretical model was developed based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), General Deterrence Theory (GDT), Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), and Psychological Ownership Theory to explain employees’ compliance with password policies.

A non-probability convenience sample was employed. The sample consisted of …

Mixed Carrier Communication For Sixth-Generation Networks :, Ahmed Fahmy Mahmoud Hussein

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Recently, research on sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has gained significant interest. By 2030, it is expected that 6G will introduce revolutionary applications and services. Thus, 6G is likely to expand across all available spectrum, including terahertz (THz) and optical frequency bands. Although 5G will offer a massive upgrade to the spectrum, the technology does not provide solutions to support a vast multitude of services and devices simultaneously.Motivated by the heterogeneity of wireless technologies, devices, and services, the Mixed Carrier Communication (MCC) concept is introduced for the first time. MCC is a novel concept that supports the 6G vision by enabling …

Distributed Denial Of Service Attack Detection In Cloud Computing Using Hybridextreme Learning Machine, Gopal Singh Kushwah, Virender Ranga

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

One of the major security challenges in cloud computing is distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In these attacks, multiple nodes are used to attack the cloud by sending huge traffic. This results in the unavailability of cloud services to legitimate users. In this research paper, a hybrid machine learning-based technique has been proposed to detect these attacks. The proposed technique is implemented by combining the extreme learning machine (ELM) model and the blackhole optimization algorithm. Various experiments have been performed with the help of four benchmark datasets namely, NSL KDD, ISCX IDS 2012, CICIDS2017, and CICDDoS2019, to evaluate the …

A Novel Hybrid Global Optimization Algorithm Having Training Strategy: Hybridtaguchi-Vortex Search Algorithm, Mustafa Saka, Meli̇h Çoban, İbrahi̇m Eke, Suleyman Sungur Tezcan, Müslüm Cengi̇z Taplamacioğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a novel hybrid Taguchi-vortex search algorithm (HTVS) is proposed for solving global optimization problems. Taguchi orthogonal approximation and vortex search algorithm (VS) are hybridized in presenting method. In HTVS, orthogonal arrays in the Taguchi method are trained and obtained better solutions are used to find global optima in VS. Thus, HTVS has better relation between exploration and exploitation, and it exhibits more powerful approximation to find global optimum value. Proposed HTVS algorithm is applied to sixteen well-known benchmark optimization test functions with different dimensions. The results are compared with the Taguchi orthogonal array approximation (TOAA), vortex search …

A Novel Approach For Intrusion Detection Systems: V-Ids, Kenan İnce

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a security mechanism that detects abnormal activities in a network. An ideal IDS must detect intrusion attempts and maybe categorize them for further research and keep false-positive analysis at a very low level. IDSs are used in the analysis of network traffic data at all sizes. Studies on this subject focused on machine learning techniques. Even though the performance rates are high, it is seen that processes such as data understanding, preprocessing, and consistency tests are time-consuming and laborious. For this reason, the use of deep learning (DL) models that automatically perform the mentioned …

Performance Improvement Speed Control Of Ipmsm Drive Based On Nonlinearcurrent Control, Muhammad Usama, Jaehong Kim

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Recently model predictive control (MPC) scheme emerges as an efficient current control technique for dynamic performance of motor drives. For excellent dynamic performance, maximum torque per ampere (MTPA) control technique is utilized to achieve maximum torque while using minimum current constrain in contrast to conventional qaxis current control. Model predictive current control (MPCC) scheme alongside MTPA control is employed to replace the traditional constant gain proportional-integral (PI) current control and a nonlinear hysteresis current (HC) control schemes. The PI and hysteresis current controller offers satisfactory performance at ideal conditions but, with variable speed and load conditions, these control schemes cause …

Zero Knowledge Based Data Deduplication Using In-Line Block Matching Protocolfor Secure Cloud Storage, Vivekrabinson Kanagamani, Muneeswaran Karuppiah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the area of cloud computing, data deduplication enables the cloud server to store a single copy of data by eliminating redundant files to improve storage and network efficiency. Proof-of-ownership (PoW) is a cryptographic function that verifies the user who really owns the data. Most of the existing schemes have tried to solve the deduplication problem by providing the same encryption key for identical data. However, these schemes suffer from dynamic changes in ownership management. In this paper, we propose an in-line block matching (IBM) protocol based on zero-knowledge proof for deduplication with dynamic ownership management, which eliminates the unauthorized …

Bagging Ensemble For Deep Learning Based Gender Recognition Using Test-Timeaugmentation On Large-Scale Datasets, Taner Danişman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

We present a bagging ensemble of convolutional networks in combination with the test-time augmentation technique to improve performance on the cross-dataset gender recognition problem. The bagging ensemble combines the predictions from multiple homogeneous models into the ensemble prediction. Augmentation techniques are often used in the learning phase of the CNNs to improve the generalization ability. On the other hand, test-time augmentation is not a common method used in the testing phase of the learned model. We conducted experiments on models trained using different hyperparameters. We augmented the test data and combine the predictive outputs from these network models. Experiments performed …

Shapeshifter: A Morphable Microprocessor For Low Power, Nazli Tokatli, İsa Ahmet Güney, Sercan Sari, Merve Güney, Uğur Nezi̇r, Gürhan Küçük

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A composite core contains large and small heterogeneous microengines. The most important property of composite cores is their ability to select the most proper microengine for running applications to save power without sacrificing too much performance. To achieve this, a composite core tries to predict the performance of the passive microengine by collecting various processor statistics from the active microengine at runtime. In the method proposed in the literature, the microengine, which is more ideal for running the rest of the application, is determined by a migrationdecision circuitry that is bound to collected statistics and complex functions, which are run …

Combined System Identification And Robust Control Of A Gimbal Platform, Mehmet Baskin, Mehmet Kemal Leblebi̇ci̇oğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Gimbaled imaging systems require very high performance inertial stabilization loops to achieve clear image acquisition, precise pointing, and tracking performance. Therefore, higher bandwidths become essential to meet recent increased performance demands. However, such systems often posses flexible dynamics around target bandwidth and time delay of gyroscope sensors which put certain limit to achievable bandwidths. For inertial stabilization loops, widely used design techniques have difficulty in achieving large bandwidth and satisfying required robustness simultaneously. Clearly, high performance control design hinges on accurate control-relevant model set. For that reason, combined system identification and robust control method is preferred. In the system identification …

Wavelet-Based Super Resolution Using Pansharpened Multispectral Images, Vi̇ldan Atalay Aydin, Hassan Foroosh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Several remote sensing applications require high-spatial-high-spectral resolution multispectral (MS) images. However, most MS sensors provide low-spatial-high-spectral resolution MS images together with high-spatial-low-spectral resolution panchromatic (PAN) bands. In order to increase the spatial resolution of MS bands to the resolution of PAN images and to obtain high-spatial/spectral resolution MS bands, either MS and PAN images are fused (i.e., pansharpening) or super resolution (SR) is performed using MS bands only. Nevertheless, existing methods do not utilize the available temporal and spatial information together. In this paper, we propose a multiframe SR algorithm using high-spatial/spectral resolution MS images (i.e., pansharpened), taking advantage of …

Classification Of Neonatal Jaundice In Mobile Application With Noninvasive Imageprocessing Methods, Firat Hardalaç, Mustafa Aydin, Uğurhan Kutbay, Kubi̇lay Ayturan, Anil Akyel, Ati̇ka Çağlar, Bo Hai̇, Fati̇h Mert

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This study aims a mobile support system to aid health care professionals in hospitals or in regions far away from hospitals to utilize noninvasive image processing methods for classification of neonatal jaundice. A considerably low processing cost is aimed to be attained by developing an algorithm that could work on a mobile device with low-end camera and processor capabilities within this study. In this context, an algorithm with low cost is developed performing detection of most meaningful parameters by a multiple input single output regression model and correlation.The advantage of the proposed method is that it can estimate bilirubin with …

Fast Hardware-Oriented Algorithm For 3d Positioning In Line-Of-Sight And Singlebounced Non-Line-Of-Sight Environments, Cem Yağli, Emre Özen, Ari̇f Akkeleş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The ability to find the location of a mobile object and track it in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) space is an indispensable feature of wireless communication systems. In particular, the increase in demand for using self-navigation technology in unmanned vehicles is attracting additional attention to this area of research. The methods and techniques developed for these systems compete in terms of simplicity, performance, and accuracy. However, the majority of solutions focus on only one of these performance metrics and are not applicable to the projected systems. In this study, a new location estimation solution that satisfies all three performance …

Clustering Ensemble Selection Based On The Extended Jaccard Measure, Hajar Khalili, Mohsen Rabbani, Ebrahim Akbari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Clustering ensemble selection has shown high efficiency in the improvement of the quality of clustering solutions. This technique comprises two important metrics: diversity and quality. It has been empirically proved that ensembles of higher effectiveness can be achieved through taking into consideration the diversity and quality simultaneously. However, the relationships between these two metrics in base clusterings have remained uncertain. This paper suggests a new hierarchical selection algorithm using a diversity/quality measure based on the Jaccard similarity measure. In the proposed algorithm, the selection of the subsets of the clustering partitions is done based on their diversity measures. The proposed …

Detecting And Correcting Automatic Speech Recognition Errors With A New Model, Recep Si̇nan Arslan, Necaatti̇n Barişçi, Nursal Arici, Sabri̇ Koçer

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The purpose of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is to recognize speech signals obtained from people and convert them into text so that they can be processed by a computer. Although many ASR applications are versatile and widely used in the real world, they still generate relatively inaccurate results. They tend to generate spelling errors in recognized words, especially in noisy environments, in situations where the vocabulary size is increased, and at times when the input speech is of poor quality. The permanent presence of errors in ASR systems has led to the need to find alternative methods for automatic …

Exploring The Attention Process Differentiation Of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd) Symptomatic Adults Using Artificial Intelligence Onelectroencephalography (Eeg) Signals, Gökhan Güney, Esra Kisacik, Canan Kalaycioğlu, Görkem Saygili

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) onset in childhood and its symptoms can last up till adulthood. Recently, electroencephalography (EEG) has emerged as a tool to investigate the neurophysiological connection of ADHD and the brain. In this study, we investigated the differentiation of attention process of healthy subjects with or without ADHD symptoms under visual continuous performance test (VCPT). In our experiments, artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm achieved 98.4% classification accuracy with 0.98 sensitivity when P2 event related potential (ERP) was used. Additionally, our experimental results showed that fronto-central channels were the most contributing. Overall, we conclude that the attention …

Evaluation Of Mother Wavelets On Steady-State Visually-Evoked Potentials Fortriple-Command Brain-Computer Interfaces, Ebru Sayilgan, Yilmaz Kemal Yüce, Yalçin İşler

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wavelet transform (WT) is an important tool to analyze the time-frequency structure of a signal. The WT relies on a prototype signal that is called the mother wavelet. However, there is no single universal wavelet that fits all signals. Thus, the selection of mother wavelet function might be challenging to represent the signal to achieve the optimum performance. There are some studies to determine the optimal mother wavelet for other biomedical signals; however, there exists no evaluation for steady-state visually-evoked potentials (SSVEP) signals that becomes very popular among signals manipulated for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) recently. This study aims to explore, …

Privacy Preserving Hybrid Recommender System Based On Deep Learning, Sangeetha Selvaraj, Sudha Sadasivam Gangadharan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deep learning models are widely being used to provide relevant recommendations in hybrid recommender systems. These hybrid systems combine the advantages of both content based and collaborative filtering approaches. However, these learning systems hamper the user privacy and disclose sensitive information. This paper proposes a privacy preserving deep learning based hybrid recommender system. In hybrid deep neural network, user?s side information such as age, location, occupation, zip code along with user rating is embedded and provided as input. These embedding?s pose a severe threat to individual privacy. In order to eliminate this breach of privacy, we have proposed a private …

On The Closed-Form Evaluation Of The Po Integral Using The Radon Transforminterpretation For Linear Triangles, Aslihan Aktepe, Hüseyi̇n Arda Ülkü

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This letter presents the complete mathematical formulation for the closed-form evaluation of the time domain physical optics (PO) integral on linear triangular patches using Radon transform (RT) interpretation. The incident field is assumed to be an impulsively excited plane wave and scattered fields are observed at far-zone. The PO integral is evaluated in closed-form as the intersection of the triangle and the plane formed by the incident and observation directions. In addition, a formula is suggested for the special case, which occurs if there is no intersection of the plane and all scatterer. Accuracy of the closed-form expressions is demonstrated …

Real-Time Motion Tracking Enhancement Via Data-Fusion Based Particle Filter, Tuğrul Taşci, Numan Çelebi̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Motion tracking is a well-defined yet application-specific problem of computer vision field, mostly entailing real-time constraints. Methods addressing such problems are expected also to ensure achievements such as high accuracy and robustness. A probabilistic estimation-based approach is proposed in this paper, in order to enhance the real-time motion tracking process of an RGB-Depth device, in terms of accuracy. A novel method is presented for tracking handpalm of a moving human subject to this end, under a sequence of assumptions such as indoor environment, single object, smooth movement and stable illumination. Tracking accuracy is improved within a particle filter framework by …

A New Model For Minimizing The Electric Vehicle Battery Capacity In Electrictravelling Salesman Problem With Time Windows, Kazim Erdoğdu, Korhan Karabulut

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The growing pollution in the environment and the negative shift in the global climate compel authorities to take action to protect the environment and human health. Transportation is one of the major contributors to this environmental decay. The harmful gases released to the air by the vehicles using petroleum fuel increase each day. One of the solutions is to make a gradual transition to electric vehicles. A major part of manufacturing an electric vehicle is to produce an efficient electric motor and battery for it. Reducing the manufacturing and operating costs of these components will result in reducing the overall …

Line-Of-Sight Rate Construction For A Roll-Pitch Gimbal Via A Virtualpitch-Yaw Gimbal, Oğuzhan Çi̇fdalöz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a method to construct the line of sight rate of a target with a roll-pitch gimbal and tracker is described. Construction of line-of-sight rate is performed via utilizing a virtual pitch-yaw gimbal. Kinematics of both the roll-pitch and pitch-yaw gimbals are described. A dynamical model for the roll-pitch gimbal is developed, and a nested control structure is designed to control the angular rates and line of sight angles. A kinematic model of the tracker is developed and a tracker controller is designed to keep the target in the field of view. Conversion equations between roll-pitch and pitch-yaw …

Sleep Staging With Deep Structured Neural Net Using Gabor Layer And Dataaugmentation, Ali Erfani Sholeyan, Fereidoun Nowshiravan Rahatabad, Kamal Setaredan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) are two of the most important sleep stages that are considered in many studies. Detection of these two sleep stages will help researchers in many applications to detect sleeprelated diseases and disorders and also in many fields of neuroscience studies such as cognitive impairment and memory consolidation. Since manual sleep staging is time-consuming, subjective, and expensive; designing an efficient automatic sleep scoring system will overcome some of these difficulties. Many studies have proposed automatic sleep staging systems with different methods. In recent years, deep learning methods show their potential in different …

Multiagent Q-Learning Based Uav Trajectory Planning For Effective Situationalawareness, Erdal Akin, Kubi̇lay Demi̇r, Hali̇l Yetgi̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the event of a natural disaster, arrival time of the search and rescue (SAR) teams to the affected areas is of vital importance to save the life of the victims. In particular, when an earthquake occurs in a geographically large area, reconnaissance of the debris within a short-time is critical for conducting successful SAR missions. An effective and quick situational awareness in postdisaster scenarios can be provided via the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, off-the-shelf UAVs suffer from the limited communication range as well as the limited airborne duration due to battery constraints. If telecommunication infrastructure is …