This paper develops and illustrates a new maximum-likelihood based method for the identification of Hammerstein-Wiener model structures. A central aspect is that a very general situation is considered wherein multivar...
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This paper develops and illustrates a new maximum-likelihood based method for the identification of Hammerstein-Wiener model structures. A central aspect is that a very general situation is considered wherein multivariable data, non-invertible Hammerstein and Wiener nonlinearities, and colored stochastic disturbances both before and after the Wiener nonlinearity are all catered for. The method developed here addresses the blind Wiener estimation problem as a special case. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Although pricing fraud is an important issue for improving service quality of online shopping malls, research on automatic fraud detection has been limited. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised learning method ba...
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Although pricing fraud is an important issue for improving service quality of online shopping malls, research on automatic fraud detection has been limited. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised learning method based on a finite mixture model to identify pricing frauds. We consider two states, normal and fraud, for each item according to whether an item description is relevant to its price by utilizing the known number of item clusters. Two states of an observed item are modeled as hidden variables, and the proposed models estimate the state by using an expectationmaximization (EM) algorithm. Subsequently, we suggest a special case of the proposed model, which is applicable when the number of item clusters is unknown. The experiment results show that the proposed models are more effective in identifying pricing frauds than the existing outlier detection methods. Furthermore, it is presented that utilizing the number of clusters is helpful in facilitating the improvement of pricing fraud detection performances. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper we consider de-interleaving a finite number of stochastic parametric sources. The sources are modeled as independent autoregressive (AR) processes. Based on a Markovian switching policy, we assume that t...
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In this paper we consider de-interleaving a finite number of stochastic parametric sources. The sources are modeled as independent autoregressive (AR) processes. Based on a Markovian switching policy, we assume that the different sources transmit signals on the same single channel, The receiver records the 1-bit quantized version of the transmitted signal and aims to identify the sequence of active sources. Once the source sequence has been identified, the characteristics (parameters) of each source are estimated. We formulate the parametric pulse train de-interleaving problem as a 1-bit quantized Markov modulated AR series, The algorithm proposed in this paper combines Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Binary Time Series (BTS) estimation techniques. Our estimation scheme generalizes Kedem's (1980) binary time series algorithm for linear time series to Markov modulated time series. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Energy detector (ED) is a popular choice for distributed cooperative spectrum sensing because it does not need to be cognizant of the primary user (PU) signal characteristics. However, the conventional ED-based sensin...
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We present an approach for parameter estimation with multirate measurements, with the slow measurements having variable time delays due to laboratory analysis, and also being functions of all the states during the sam...
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We present an approach for parameter estimation with multirate measurements, with the slow measurements having variable time delays due to laboratory analysis, and also being functions of all the states during the sample collection. We formulate a particle filter-based approach under the framework of the expectation maximization algorithm to develop the estimates. The effectiveness and applicability of the proposed method are demonstrated though a simulation example, a hybrid tank experiment and an industrial case study;in each case, the slow and fast measurements are for the same variable. We show that this approach results in improved parameter estimation when the information from the delayed measurements is fused with the fast measurement information.
Slope stability prediction is of primary concern in identifying terrain that is susceptible to landslides and mitigating the damages caused by landslides. In this study, a Naive Bayes Classifier (NBC) was employed to ...
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Slope stability prediction is of primary concern in identifying terrain that is susceptible to landslides and mitigating the damages caused by landslides. In this study, a Naive Bayes Classifier (NBC) was employed to predict slope stability for a slope subjected to circular failures, based on six input factors: slope height (H), slope angle (alpha), cohesion (c), friction angle (phi), unit weight (gamma), and pore pressure ratio (r (u) ). An expectation maximization algorithm was used to perform parameter learning for the NBC with an incomplete data set of 69 slope cases. The model validation with 13 new cases shows that, when compared to the existing empirical approach, the proposed NBC model yields better performance in terms of both accuracy and applicability (i.e., the NBC allows us to determine the probability of slope stability based on any subset of the six input factors).
Background: Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for studying dynamic processes, such as myocardial perfusion, by acquiring data over time frames. Kinetic modeling in PET allows for the estimation of phys...
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Reliable detection of primary user activity increases the opportunity to access temporarily unused bands and prevents harmful interference to the primary system. By extracting a global decision from local sensing resu...
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Reliable detection of primary user activity increases the opportunity to access temporarily unused bands and prevents harmful interference to the primary system. By extracting a global decision from local sensing results, cooperative sensing achieves high reliability against multipath fading. For the effective combining of sensing results, which is generalized by a likelihood ratio test, the fusion center should learn some parameters, such as the probabilities of primary transmission, false alarm, and detection at the local sensors. During the training period in supervised learning, the on/off log of primary transmission serves as the output label of decision statistics from the local sensor. In this paper, we extend unsupervised learning techniques with an expectation maximization algorithm for cooperative spectrum sensing, which does not require an external primary transmission log. Local sensors report binary hard decisions to the fusion center and adjust their operating points to enhance learning performance. Increasing the number of sensors, the joint-expectation step makes a confident classification on the primary transmission as in the supervised learning. Thereby, the proposed scheme provides accurate parameter estimates and a fast convergence rate even in low signal-to-noise ratio regimes, where the primary signal is dominated by the noise at the local sensors.
In cryo-electron microscopy, the data is comprised of noisy 2-D projection images of the 3-D electron scattering intensity of the object where the orientation of the projections is unknown. Often, the images show rand...
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In cryo-electron microscopy, the data is comprised of noisy 2-D projection images of the 3-D electron scattering intensity of the object where the orientation of the projections is unknown. Often, the images show randomly selected objects from a mixture of different types of objects. Objects of different type may be unrelated, e.g., different species of virus, or related, e.g., different conformations of the same species of virus. Due to the low SNR and the 2-D nature of the data, it is challenging to determine the type of the object shown in an individual image. A statistical model and maximum likelihood estimator that computes simultaneous 3-D reconstruction and labels using an expectation maximization algorithm exists but requires extensive computation due to the numerical evaluation of 3-D or 5-D integrations of a square matrix of dimension equal to the number of degrees of freedom in the 3-D reconstruction. By exploiting the geometry of rotations in 3-D, the estimation problem can be transformed so that the inner-most numerical integral has a scalar rather than a matrix integrand. This leads to a dramatic reduction in computation, especially as the number of degrees of freedom in the 3-D reconstruction increases. Numerical examples of the 3-D reconstructions are provided based on synthetic and experimental images where the objects are small spherical viruses.
Predicting conditional probability densities with neural networks requires complex (at least two-hidden-layer) architectures, which normally leads to rather long training times. By adopting the RVFL concept and constr...
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Predicting conditional probability densities with neural networks requires complex (at least two-hidden-layer) architectures, which normally leads to rather long training times. By adopting the RVFL concept and constraining a subset of the parameters to randomly chosen initial values (such that the EM-algorithm can be applied), the training process can be accelerated by about two orders of magnitude. This allows training of a whole ensemble of networks at the same computational costs as would be required otherwise for training a single model. The simulations performed suggest that in this way a significant improvement of the generalization performance can be achieved. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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