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An Evolutionary-Based Image Classification Approach Through Facial Attributes, Seli̇m Yilmaz, Cemi̇l Zalluhoğlu Jan 2021

An Evolutionary-Based Image Classification Approach Through Facial Attributes, Seli̇m Yilmaz, Cemi̇l Zalluhoğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the recent developments in technology, there has been a significant increase in the studies on analysisof human faces. Through automatic analysis of faces, it is possible to know the gender, emotional state, and even theidentity of people from an image. Of them, identity or face recognition has became the most important task whichhas been studied for a long time now as it is crucial to take measurements for public security, credit card verification,criminal identification, and the like. In this study, we have proposed an evolutionary-based framework that relies ongenetic programming algorithm to evolve a binary- and multilabel image classifier …

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Swft: Subbands Wavelet For Local Features Transform Descriptor For Cornealdiseases Diagnosis, Samer Al-Salihi, Sezgi̇n Aydin, Nebras Hussein Jan 2021

Swft: Subbands Wavelet For Local Features Transform Descriptor For Cornealdiseases Diagnosis, Samer Al-Salihi, Sezgi̇n Aydin, Nebras Hussein

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Human cornea is the front see-through shield of the eye. It refracts light onto the retina to induce vision.Therefore, any defect in the cornea may lead to vision disturbance. This deficiency is estimated by sets of topographicalimages measured, and assessed by an ophthalmologist. Consequently, an important priority is the early and accuratediagnosis of diseases that may affect corneal integrity through the use of machine learning algorithms. Images producedby a Pentacam device can be subjected to rotation or some distortion during acquisition; therefore, accurate diagnosisrequires the use of local features in the image. Accordingly, a new algorithm called subbands wavelet for …

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Design Of A Compact Wearable Ultrawideband Mimo Antenna With Improved Portisolation, Amit Baran Dey, Utkarsh Bhatt, Wasim Arif Jan 2021

Design Of A Compact Wearable Ultrawideband Mimo Antenna With Improved Portisolation, Amit Baran Dey, Utkarsh Bhatt, Wasim Arif

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This study presents a compact dual element wearable ultrawideband (UWB) multi-in multi-out (MIMO)antenna with increased port isolation. The suggested design consists of a jeans substrate in which a tree-fashioned stubcomprising of eight branches is introduced in the middle position of the partially etched antenna ground for improvingthe characteristics of port isolation. The proposed design occupies the frequency spectrum operating from 1.71 to12.63 GHz (impedance bandwidth of around 152.3%) and satisfies the bandwidth demands for WiMAX (3.2-3.8 GHz),WLAN (5.15-5.35/5.72-4.85 GHz), the C Downlink-uplink bands (3.7-4.2/5.9-6.425GHz), ITU bands (8-8.5GHz) andthe downlink defense band (7.2-7.5GHz). The antenna is able to maintain isolation between …

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Heuristic Based Binary Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm To Solve Unitcommitment Problem, Muhammad Shahid, Tahir Nadeem Malik, Ahsan Said Jan 2021

Heuristic Based Binary Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm To Solve Unitcommitment Problem, Muhammad Shahid, Tahir Nadeem Malik, Ahsan Said

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The unit commitment problem in power system is a highly nonlinear, nonconvex, multiconstrained, complex,highly dimensional, mixed integer and combinatorial generation selection problem. The phenomenon of committing anddecommitting represents a discrete problem that requires binary/discrete optimization techniques to tackle with unitcommitment optimization problem. The key functions of the unit commitment optimization problem involve decidingwhich units to commit and then to decide their optimum power (economic dispatch). This paper confers a binarygrasshopper optimization algorithm to solve the unit commitment optimization problem under multiple constraints.The grasshopper optimization algorithm is a metaheuristic, multiple solutions-based algorithm inspired by the naturalswarming behavior of grasshopper towards food. …

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Maritime Automatic Target Recognition For Ground-Based Scanning Radars By Usingsequential Range Profiles, Baki̇ Bati, Nevci̇han Duru Jan 2021

Maritime Automatic Target Recognition For Ground-Based Scanning Radars By Usingsequential Range Profiles, Baki̇ Bati, Nevci̇han Duru

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Classification of marine targets using radar data products has become an important area for modern researchsociety. However, due to several reasons such as the similarity between ship structures and spatial specifications,classification of marine targets constitutes a challenging problem. In almost all of the studies, this problem has beenhandled by focusing on a single instance of range profiles or synthetic aperture radar data. However, this approachis seen to achieve only a particular success. This study introduces a novel classification approach that is shown toprovide additional classification enhancements by exploiting the extra information extracted from sequential rangeprofiles generated by ground-based marine surveillance …

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A Novel Pulse Plethysmograph Signal Analysis Method For Identification Of Myocardial Infarction, Dilated Cardiomyopathy, And Hypertension, Muhammad Umar Khan, Sumair Aziz Jan 2021

A Novel Pulse Plethysmograph Signal Analysis Method For Identification Of Myocardial Infarction, Dilated Cardiomyopathy, And Hypertension, Muhammad Umar Khan, Sumair Aziz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Cardiac diseases (CDs) are one of the leading causes of the growing global mortality rate. Early detectionof CDs is necessary to avoid a high increase in the mortality rate. Machine learning-based computer-aided diagnosisof CDs using various physiological signals has recently been used by researchers. Since pulse plethysmograph (PuPG)signal contains a wealth of information about cardiac pathologies, therefore, this paper presents an expert system designfor the automatic diagnosis of cardiac disorders like hypertension, dilated cardiomyopathy and myocardial infarctionusing a novel fingertip PuPG signal analysis. The proposed system first performs signal denoising of raw PuPG sensordata using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). After …

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Analysis Of Shielding Effectiveness By Optimizing Aperture Dimensions Of Arectangular Enclosure With Genetic Algorithm, Sunay Güler, Si̇bel Yeni̇kaya Jan 2021

Analysis Of Shielding Effectiveness By Optimizing Aperture Dimensions Of Arectangular Enclosure With Genetic Algorithm, Sunay Güler, Si̇bel Yeni̇kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) has now become a substantial challenge more than any other time sincethe number of electric vehicles (EV) increased rapidly. The electric driving system in an EV consists of power electroniccomponents supplied by high voltage battery source. They are both source and victim of potential electromagneticinterference (EMI) since fast switching process occurs inside them. Electromagnetic shielding provides a significantprotection against EMI for any electrical and electronic components inside the vehicle. In this paper, analysis of shieldingeffectiveness (SE) by optimizing aperture dimensions of a rectangular enclosure is investigated. Realistic dimensions of theshielding enclosure of an inverter component are employed. …

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Haze-Level Prior Approach To Enhance Object Visibility Under Atmosphericdegradation, Vijaya Lakshmi Thirumala, Venkata Satyanarayana Karanam, Pratap Reddy Lankireddy, Aruna Kumari Kakumani, Rakesh Kumar Yacharam Jan 2021

Haze-Level Prior Approach To Enhance Object Visibility Under Atmosphericdegradation, Vijaya Lakshmi Thirumala, Venkata Satyanarayana Karanam, Pratap Reddy Lankireddy, Aruna Kumari Kakumani, Rakesh Kumar Yacharam

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Outdoor captured scenes are degraded by atmospheric particles and water droplets. Due to scattering andabsorption effects in the atmosphere, degraded images lose contrast and color fidelity. Performances of the computervision algorithms are bound to suffer from low-contrast scene radiance. In many single-image dehazing models, thelarger the deviation in estimation of the key parameters such as transmission map and atmospheric light, the higherthe halo artifacts and loss of fine details in the dehazed image. The available models assume that the scattering lightis independent of wavelength, as the size of the atmospheric particles is larger compared to the wavelength of light.The model …

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Neural Relation Extraction: A Review, Mehmet Aydar, Özge Bozal, Furkan Özbay Jan 2021

Neural Relation Extraction: A Review, Mehmet Aydar, Özge Bozal, Furkan Özbay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Neural relation extraction discovers semantic relations between entities from unstructured text using deeplearning methods. In this study, we make a clear categorization of the existing relation extraction methods in termsof data expressiveness and data supervision, and present a comprehensive and comparative review. We describe theevaluation methodologies and the datasets used for model assessment. We explicitly state the common challenges inrelation extraction task and point out the potential of the pretrained models to solve them. Accordingly, we investigateadditional research directions and improvement ideas in this field.

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A Nonlinear Disturbance Observer Scheme For Discrete Time Control Systems, Mehmet Önder Efe, Coşku Kasnakoğlu Jan 2021

A Nonlinear Disturbance Observer Scheme For Discrete Time Control Systems, Mehmet Önder Efe, Coşku Kasnakoğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a modification to the original disturbance observer based control (DOBC) scheme byredefining the lowpass filter using a nonlinear element. The proposed technique improves the disturbance predictionperformance for both small and large magnitude disturbance signals. The contribution of the current work is to unfoldthe stability and performance conditions under the proposed modification. A comparative set of simulation studies arediscussed and it is seen that the proposed modification results in smaller disturbance prediction error energy and smallertracking error energy when the plant model is discrete time and uncertain.

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A Novel Approach Of Order Diminution Using Time Moment Concept With Routharray And Salp Swarm Algorithm, Nafees Ahamad, Afzal Sikander Jan 2021

A Novel Approach Of Order Diminution Using Time Moment Concept With Routharray And Salp Swarm Algorithm, Nafees Ahamad, Afzal Sikander

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In control engineering, there may be two systems that have the same input-output characteristic with differentdegrees of complexity. This concept leads to order diminution(OD) of a large scale system. In this article, the authorspropose a new hybrid order diminution technique based on the time moment matching method with the Routh arrayconcept and a recently developed fast and accurate salp swarm optimization (SSO) technique. The proposed methodcombines the advantages of both the classical method of OD and the optimization technique. The unknown coe?icient ofthe divisor of the reduced system is obtained by exploring the time moment matching methodology with the Routh …

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Learning Multiview Deep Features From Skeletal Sign Language Videos Forrecognition, Ashraf Ali Shaik, Venkata Durga Prasad Mareedu, Venkata Vijaya Kishore Polurie Jan 2021

Learning Multiview Deep Features From Skeletal Sign Language Videos Forrecognition, Ashraf Ali Shaik, Venkata Durga Prasad Mareedu, Venkata Vijaya Kishore Polurie

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The most challenging objective in machine translation of sign language has been the machine?s inability tolearn interoccluding finger movements during an action process. This work addresses the problem of teaching a deeplearning model to recognize differently oriented skeletal data. The multi-view 2D skeletal sign language video data isobtained using 3D motion-captured system. A total of 9 signer views were used for training the proposed network andthe 6 for testing and validation. In order to obtain multi-view deep features for recognition, we proposed an end-to-endtrainable multistream convolutional neural network (CNN) with late feature fusion. The fused multiview features arethen inputted to …

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Analytical Modeling And Study On Noise Characteristics Of Rotor Eccentric Spmsmwith Unequal Magnetic Poles Structure, Pengpeng Xia, Shenbo Yu, Rutong Dou, Fengchen Zhai Jan 2021

Analytical Modeling And Study On Noise Characteristics Of Rotor Eccentric Spmsmwith Unequal Magnetic Poles Structure, Pengpeng Xia, Shenbo Yu, Rutong Dou, Fengchen Zhai

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

he establishment of the analytical model of the rotor eccentric surface-mounted permanent magnet syn-chronous motor (SPMSM) with unequal magnetic poles structure will be beneficial to calculating the magnetic field andstudying noise characteristics quickly. Based on the equivalent surface current (ESC) method and equivalent boundarymethod, the analytical model of the rotor eccentric SPMSM with unequal magnetic poles structure is proposed. Duringthe modeling process, the magnetic field produced by a permanent magnet (PM) is obtained using the ESC method, andthe effect on the air gap magnetic field, which arised from stator, is replaced with the concentric current sheet (CCS)magnetic field. And, the …

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Pfecc: A Precise Feedback-Based Explicit Congestion Control Algorithm In Nameddata Networking, Hui Li Jan 2021

Pfecc: A Precise Feedback-Based Explicit Congestion Control Algorithm In Nameddata Networking, Hui Li

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Named data networking (NDN), as a future Internet architecture that is a promising alternative to TCP/IPnetworks, has the new features of connectionless, in-network cache, and hop-by-hop forwarding, which makes thecongestion control algorithms of traditional TCP/IP networks unable to be directly applied to NDN. In addition, sincethe optimal size of the sending window cannot be determined, the existing window-based congestion control algorithmsgenerally use the AIMD-like window adjustment algorithm, which cannot achieve the optimal throughput. In thispaper, we propose a precise feedback-based, multipath-aware congestion control algorithm PFECC, which is inspiredby Accel-Brake Control algorithm. PFECC considers the influence of Interest flows, uses a …

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On The Outage Performance Of Swipt-Noma-Crs With Imperfect Sic And Csi, Ferdi̇ Kara Jan 2021

On The Outage Performance Of Swipt-Noma-Crs With Imperfect Sic And Csi, Ferdi̇ Kara

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a nonorthogonal multiple access based cooperative relaying system (NOMA-CRS) is consideredto increase spectral efficiency. Besides, the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is proposedfor the relay in NOMA-CRS. In SWIPT-NOMA-CRS, three different energy harvesting (EH) protocols, power sharing(PS), time sharing (TS) and ideal protocols are implemented. The outage performances of the SWIPT-NOMA-CRSare studied for all three EH protocols. In the analysis, to represent practical/reasonable scenarios, imperfect successiveinterference canceler (SIC) and imperfect channel state information (CSI) are taken into consideration. The derivedoutage probability (OP) expressions are validated via computer simulations. Besides, the OP for the benchmark scheme,NOMA-CRS …

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Turkish Sign Language Recognition Based On Multistream Data Fusion, Cemi̇l Gündüz, Hüseyi̇n Polat Jan 2021

Turkish Sign Language Recognition Based On Multistream Data Fusion, Cemi̇l Gündüz, Hüseyi̇n Polat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Sign languages are nonverbal, visual languages that hearing- or speech-impaired people use for communication.Aside from hands, other communication channels such as body posture and facial expressions are also valuable insign languages. As a result of the fact that the gestures in sign languages vary across countries, the significance ofcommunication channels in each sign language also differs. In this study, representing the communication channels usedin Turkish sign language, a total of 8 different data streams-4 RGB, 3 pose, 1 optical flow-were analyzed. Inception3D was used for RGB and optical flow; and LSTM-RNN was used for pose data streams. Experiments were conductedby …

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An Adaptive Element Division Algorithm For Accurate Evaluation Of Singular Andnear Singular Integrals In 3d, Hakan Bayindir, Besi̇m Baranoğlu, Ali̇ Yazici Jan 2021

An Adaptive Element Division Algorithm For Accurate Evaluation Of Singular Andnear Singular Integrals In 3d, Hakan Bayindir, Besi̇m Baranoğlu, Ali̇ Yazici

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

An adaptive algorithm for evaluation of singular and near singular integrals in 3D is presented. The algorithmis based on successive adaptive/selective subdivisions of the element until a prescribed error criteria is met. For evaluatingthe integrals in each subdivision, Gauss quadrature is applied. The method is computationally simple, memory efficientand can be applied for both triangular and quadrilateral elements, including the elements with nonplanar and/or curvedsurfaces. To assess the method, several examples are discussed. It has shown that the algorithm performs well forsingular and near-singular integral examples presented in the paper and evaluates the integrals with very high accuracy.

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Dual Bit Control Low-Power Dynamic Content Addressable Memory Design For Iotapplications, V V Satyanarayana Satti, Sridevi Sriadibhatla Jan 2021

Dual Bit Control Low-Power Dynamic Content Addressable Memory Design For Iotapplications, V V Satyanarayana Satti, Sridevi Sriadibhatla

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The Internet of things (IoT) is an emerging area in the semiconductor industry for low-power and high-speedapplications. Many search engines of IoT applications require low power consumption and high-speed content addressablememory (CAM) devices for the transmission of data packets between servers and end devices. A CAM is a hardwaredevice used for transfer of packets in a network router with high speed at the cost of power consumption. In this paper,a new dual bit control precharge free (PF) dynamic content addressable memory (DCAM) has been introduced. Theproposed design uses a new charge control circuitry, which is used to control the dual …

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Relational-Grid-World: A Novel Relational Reasoning Environment And An Agentmodel For Relational Information Extraction, Faruk Küçüksubaşi, Eli̇f Sürer Jan 2021

Relational-Grid-World: A Novel Relational Reasoning Environment And An Agentmodel For Relational Information Extraction, Faruk Küçüksubaşi, Eli̇f Sürer

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents are often designed specifically for a particular problem and they generallyhave uninterpretable working processes. Statistical methods-based agent algorithms can be improved in terms ofgeneralizability and interpretability using symbolic artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as logic programming. Inthis study, we present a model-free RL architecture that is supported with explicit relational representations of theenvironmental objects. For the first time, we use the PrediNet network architecture in a dynamic decision-making problemrather than image-based tasks, and multi-head dot-product attention network (MHDPA) as a baseline for performancecomparisons. We tested two networks in two environments -i.e., the baseline box-world environment and …

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A Topological Overview Of Microgrids: From Maturity To The Future, Ayşe Kübra Erenoğlu, Semanur Sancar, Ozan Erdi̇nç, Mustafa Bağriyanik Jan 2021

A Topological Overview Of Microgrids: From Maturity To The Future, Ayşe Kübra Erenoğlu, Semanur Sancar, Ozan Erdi̇nç, Mustafa Bağriyanik

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The concept of microgrid (MG) has attracted great attention from the system operators for increasing operational effectiveness as well as providing more reliable, sustainable and economic power system. In this paper, a comprehensive investigation is presented to shine new light on evaluating changes in MG operation from maturity to the future. A great deal of literature studies consisting of the traditional MG architecture, encountered challenges and proposed solutions for overcoming them are all examined in detail. Also, the impact of highly integrated renewable-based energy sources into the power system is analysed by current studies. Moreover, modern MG architecture is extensively …

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Chaos In Metaheuristic Based Artificial Intelligence Algorithms:A Short Review, Gökhan Atali, İhsan Pehli̇van, Bi̇lal Gürevi̇n, Hali̇l İbrahi̇m Şeker Jan 2021

Chaos In Metaheuristic Based Artificial Intelligence Algorithms:A Short Review, Gökhan Atali, İhsan Pehli̇van, Bi̇lal Gürevi̇n, Hali̇l İbrahi̇m Şeker

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Metaheuristic based artificial intelligence algorithms are commonly used in the solution of optimization problems. Another area -besides engineering systems- where chaos theory is widely employed is optimization problems. Being applied easily and not trapping in local optima, chaos-based search algorithms have attracted great attention. For example, it has been reported that when random number sequences generated from different chaotic systems are replaced with parameter values in bioinspired and swarm intelligence algorithms, an increase in the performance of metaheuristic algorithms is observed. Many scientific studies on developing hybrid algorithms in which metaheuristic algorithms and chaos theory are used together are already …

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Efficient Power Macromodeling Approach For An Ip-Based Soc System Usingdiscrete Water Cycle Algorithm, Faisal Siddiq, Yaseer Arafat Durrani Jan 2021

Efficient Power Macromodeling Approach For An Ip-Based Soc System Usingdiscrete Water Cycle Algorithm, Faisal Siddiq, Yaseer Arafat Durrani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Low-power consumption is becoming a crucial concern that cannot be neglected in system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Low-power solutions help designers to provide a powerful methodology to analyze, estimate, and optimize today's power concerns. Early estimation of power at a high level reduces the redesign cycle and turn-around time. Power dissipation is a function of input patterns and their characteristics. This paper describes a power estimation technique by using predefined statistical characteristics-based input patterns, which gives the average power dissipation of individual intellectual property (IP) blocks and interconnects/buses in an SoC system design. During the power estimation phase, the discrete water cycle …

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The Effect Of Demand Response Control On Stability Delay Margins Of Loadfrequency Control Systems With Communication Time-Delays, Deni̇z Kati̇poğlu, Şahi̇n Sönmez, Saffet Ayasun, Ausnain Naveed Jan 2021

The Effect Of Demand Response Control On Stability Delay Margins Of Loadfrequency Control Systems With Communication Time-Delays, Deni̇z Kati̇poğlu, Şahi̇n Sönmez, Saffet Ayasun, Ausnain Naveed

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper studies the effect of dynamic demand response (DR) control on stability delay margins of load frequency control (LFC) systems including communication time-delays. A DR control loop is included in each control area, called as LFC-DR system and Rekasius substitution is utilized to identify stability margins for various proportionalintegral (PI) gains and participation ratios of the secondary and DR control loops. The purpose of Rekasius substitution technique is to obtain purely complex roots on the imaginary axis of the time-delayed LFC-DR system. This substitution first converts the characteristic equation of the LFC-DR system including delay-dependent exponential terms into an …

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Using Eeg To Detect Driving Fatigue Based On Common Spatial Pattern Andsupport Vector Machine, Li Wang, David Johnson, Yingzi Lin Jan 2021

Using Eeg To Detect Driving Fatigue Based On Common Spatial Pattern Andsupport Vector Machine, Li Wang, David Johnson, Yingzi Lin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

To investigate the correlation between electroencephalogram (EEG) and driving fatigue states, this study used machine learning algorithms to detect driving fatigue based on EEG. 14 channels of EEG data were collected from thirty-four healthy subjects in this research at Northeastern University. Each subject participated in two scenarios (baseline and fatigue scenarios). Subjective ratings of fatigue levels were also obtained from the subjects using the NASA-Task Load Index (TLX). The common spatial pattern (CSP) algorithm was used to extract features from the raw EEG data. The support vector machine (SVM) was used as the classifier in the design of the machine …

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Class Distribution-Aware Adaptive Margins And Cluster Embedding For Classification Of Fruit And Vegetables At Supermarket Self-Checkouts, Khurram Hameed, Douglas Chai, Alexander Rassau Jan 2021

Class Distribution-Aware Adaptive Margins And Cluster Embedding For Classification Of Fruit And Vegetables At Supermarket Self-Checkouts, Khurram Hameed, Douglas Chai, Alexander Rassau

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The complex task of vision based fruit and vegetables classification at a supermarket self-checkout poses significant challenges. These challenges include the highly variable physical features of fruit and vegetables i.e. colour, texture shape and size which are dependent upon ripeness and storage conditions in a supermarket as well as general product variation. Supermarket environments are also significantly variable with respect to lighting conditions. Attempting to build an exhaustive dataset to capture all these variations, for example a dataset of a fruit consisting of all possible colour variations, is nearly impossible. Moreover, some fruit and vegetable classes have significant similar physical …

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The Digitization Of Court Processes In African Regional And Subregional Judicial Institutions, Frederic Drabo Jan 2021

The Digitization Of Court Processes In African Regional And Subregional Judicial Institutions, Frederic Drabo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite information technology (IT) officers’ multiple efforts to develop reliable and efficient electronic justice (e-justice) systems, digitizing court processes still presents several quality challenges associated with IT infrastructure and literacy issues. Grounded in the principles of total quality management, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to identify strategies and best practices IT officers in African regional economic communities (REC) use for digitizing regional and subregional court processes to improve African e-justice systems. The participants included four IT officers working as assistant computer system analysts (ACSA), computer system analysts (CSA), and heads of IT (HIT) in regional and …

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Artificial Intelligence Method For The Forecast And Separation Of Total And Hvac Loads With Application To Energy Management Of Smart And Nze Homes, Rosemary E. Alden, Huangjie Gong, Evan S. Jones, Cristinel Ababei, Dan M. Ionel Jan 2021

Artificial Intelligence Method For The Forecast And Separation Of Total And Hvac Loads With Application To Energy Management Of Smart And Nze Homes, Rosemary E. Alden, Huangjie Gong, Evan S. Jones, Cristinel Ababei, Dan M. Ionel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Separating the HVAC energy use from the total residential load can be used to improve energy usage monitoring and to enhance the house energy management systems (HEMS) for existing houses that do not have dedicated HVAC circuits. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to separate the HVAC dominant load component from the house load. The proposed method utilizes deep learning techniques and the physical relationship between HVAC energy use and weather. It employs novel long short-term memory (LSTM) encoder-decoder machine learning (ML) models, which are developed based on future weather data input in place of weather forecasts. In …

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Reducing Attack Vulnerabilities Through Decentralized Event-Triggered Control, Paul Griffioen, Raffaele Romagnoli, Bruce H. Krogh, Bruno Sinopoli Jan 2021

Reducing Attack Vulnerabilities Through Decentralized Event-Triggered Control, Paul Griffioen, Raffaele Romagnoli, Bruce H. Krogh, Bruno Sinopoli

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Decentralized control systems are widely used in a number of situations and applications. In order for these systems to function properly and achieve their desired goals, information must be propagated between agents, which requires connecting to a network. To reduce vulnerabilities to attacks that may be carried out through the network, we design an event-triggered mechanism for network connection and communication that minimizes the amount of time agents must be connected to the network, in turn decreasing communication costs. This mechanism is a function of only local information and ensures stability for the overall system in attack-free scenarios. Our approach …

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Resilient Control In The Presence Of Man-In-The-Middle Attacks, Paul Griffioen, Raffaele Romagnoli, Bruce H. Krogh, Bruno Sinopoli Jan 2021

Resilient Control In The Presence Of Man-In-The-Middle Attacks, Paul Griffioen, Raffaele Romagnoli, Bruce H. Krogh, Bruno Sinopoli

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Cyber-physical systems, which are ubiquitous in modern critical infrastructure, oftentimes rely on sending actuation commands and sensor measurements over a network, subjecting this information to potential man-in-the-middle attacks. These attacks can take the form of denial of service attacks or integrity attacks. Previous approaches at ensuring the resiliency of the overall control system against these types of attacks have leveraged functional redundancy in the system, including resilient estimation and reconfigurable control. However, these approaches are only able to ensure resiliency up to a particular subset of the actuator commands and sensor measurements being compromised. In contrast, we introduce a resiliency …

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A Surrogate Weather Generator For Estimating Natural Gas Design Day Conditions, David J. Kaftan, George Corliss, Richard J. Povinelli, Ronald H. Brown Jan 2021

A Surrogate Weather Generator For Estimating Natural Gas Design Day Conditions, David J. Kaftan, George Corliss, Richard J. Povinelli, Ronald H. Brown

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Natural gas customers rely upon utilities to provide gas for heating in the coldest parts of winter. Heating capacity is expensive, so utilities and end users (represented by commissions) must agree on the coldest day on which a utility is expected to meet demand. The return period of such a day is long relative to the amount of weather data that are typically available. This paper develops a weather resampling method called the Surrogate Weather Resampler, which creates a large dataset to support analysis of extremely infrequent events. While most current methods for generating weather data are based on simulation, …

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