Load Forecasting has an important role in load generation, scheduling, planning etc. in power system. Different computational intelligent techniques are used in Short Term Load Forecasting (STLF) to make it more effec...
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Load Forecasting has an important role in load generation, scheduling, planning etc. in power system. Different computational intelligent techniques are used in Short Term Load Forecasting (STLF) to make it more effective. Neural Networks (NN) is an effective mapping algorithm that can map complex input-output relationships, which is an important technique to do STLF having existing dataset. Usually a proper NN is sufficient to achieve accepted level of performance. But different load dataset may bear some irregular nature of load demand scenario due to having special events, where accuracy of NN suffers significantly. To enhance the performance for those situations, the authors propose a hybrid STLF approach-Neural Networks and Fuzzy (NNF) method. The authors first try to select the best possible trained NN and do STLF. Considering historical data trend and of existing errors of NN solution, for those special days, NNF determine the Load Change trend. Fuzzy Inference Rules (FIR) have been developed to further improvement by fuzzy method. In fuzzy part the NNF apply FIR on two inputs: STLF of NN and Load Change trend, to enhance the performance of STLF for special events. To evaluate the proposed method it is applied on the dataset of Regional Power Control Center of Saudi Electricity Company, Western Operation Area (SEC-WOA). Since the authors deal with the daily load dataset of Saudia Arabia of Hijri years (Arabian years), Hajj has been chosen as one of the anomalous load scenario. Empirical results show that for Hajj event of Hijri 1428 year, the accuracy of STLF by NN is approximately 6.37%, whereas proposed NNF can decline the error at only 1.92%.
The auto industry has developed fast in the last 100 years. Although it brings us convenience, more and more traffic accidents are happening every day. There are many factors which can cause a car accident. Based on t...
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The auto industry has developed fast in the last 100 years. Although it brings us convenience, more and more traffic accidents are happening every day. There are many factors which can cause a car accident. Based on the record of a large number of accidents, fatigue is one of the most important factors. Additionally, driver's distraction and conversations with passengers during driving can lead to serious results. In this paper, a real-time vision-based model is proposed for monitoring driver's unsafe states, including fatigue state, distraction state and talking state, etc. By analyzing driver's real-time face vision, a method for detecting driver's fatigue, distraction and talking states is given. Also, the model is its extreme high speed and very simple equipment. It can run at about 20 frames per second in video with 640*480 resolutions on a normal computer platform.
Service robots deployed in domestic environments generally need the capability to deal with articulated objects such as doors and drawers in order to fulfill certain mobile manipulation tasks. This however, requires, ...
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(纸本)9781424450381;9781424450404
Service robots deployed in domestic environments generally need the capability to deal with articulated objects such as doors and drawers in order to fulfill certain mobile manipulation tasks. This however, requires, that the robots are able to perceive the articulation models of such objects. In this paper, we present an approach for detecting, tracking, and learning articulation models for cabinet doors and drawers without using artificial markers. Our approach uses a highly efficient and sampling-based approach to rectangle detection in depth images obtained from a self-developed active stereo system. The robot can use the generative models learned for the articulated objects to estimate their articulation type, their current configuration, and to make predictions about possible configurations not observed before. We present experiments carried out on real data obtained from our active stereo system. The results demonstrate that our technique is able to learn accurate articulation models. We furthermore provide a detailed error analysis based on ground truth data obtained in a motion capturing studio.
Meta-heuristics are efficient techniques for solving large scale optimization problems in which traditional mathematical techniques are impractical or provide sub-optimal solutions. The Shuffled Frog Leaping algorithm...
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M-FISH (Multiplex Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization) is a multichannel chromosome imaging technique that allows the color discrimination of human chromosomes. Although M-FISH facilitates the visual detection of chromo...
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M-FISH (Multiplex Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization) is a multichannel chromosome imaging technique that allows the color discrimination of human chromosomes. Although M-FISH facilitates the visual detection of chromosome rearrangements, the success of this technique largely depends on the accuracy of the pixel-by-pixel classification. In this study, we present a semi unsupervised method for M-FISH chromosome image classification. First, we segment the chromosome pixels using an automated thresholding procedure. Five features for each pixel are extracted, describing the intensity of the five channels. These features are then normalized. Second, we employed the K-means algorithm in order to cluster the chromosome pixels into the 24 chromosome classes. We have used the emission information for each chromosome class in order to initialize the cluster centers. Our method has been tested on the ADIR M-FISH database and an overall accuracy of 72.48% is achieved. This methods that use training set to build the classifiers, while our method does not use a training set.
Many companies employ line production system (LPS) for producing their products in large volume. The design and installation of LPS takes enormous amount of time and costs. If any fatal troubles become obvious after t...
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Many companies employ line production system (LPS) for producing their products in large volume. The design and installation of LPS takes enormous amount of time and costs. If any fatal troubles become obvious after the line installation, they cause heavy monetary and temporal damages to the companies. Whereas discovering any trouble spots during design phase is a crucial challenge, the advanced detection of the troubles is a very difficult issue. We propose an LPS simulator allowing user to prototype a planned production line in a 3D virtual environment and put it in action for detecting potential trouble spots and bottlenecks before the installation. In this paper, we describe principal functions of the proposed system including virtual prototyping for designing and verifying a production line in a 3D virtual space and real-time and batch simulation functions based on 3D computer graphics.
The process of gene selection for the cancer classification faces with a major problem due to the properties of the data such as the small number of samples compared to the huge number of genes, irrelevant genes, and ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424459841;9780769539737
The process of gene selection for the cancer classification faces with a major problem due to the properties of the data such as the small number of samples compared to the huge number of genes, irrelevant genes, and noisy data. Hence, this paper aims to select a near-optimal (small) subset of informative genes that is most relevant for the cancer classification. To achieve the aim, a three-stage method has been proposed. It has three stages: (1) pre-selecting genes using a filter method; (2) optimizing the gene subset using a multi-objective hybrid method; (3) analyzing the frequency of appearance of each gene. By performing experiments on three public gene expression data sets, classification accuracies and the number of selected genes of the proposed method are better than those of other experimented methods and previous works. A list of informative genes in the final gene subsets is also presented for biological usage.
3 dimensional computer graphics (3DCG) becomes an easily accessible technology for general public. Average PC users can design and embed high quality 3DCG images and animations in their work. They must, however, study...
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3 dimensional computer graphics (3DCG) becomes an easily accessible technology for general public. Average PC users can design and embed high quality 3DCG images and animations in their work. They must, however, study text books and related web pages with captured 2D images for understanding 3DCG theories and graphics programming to become a good designer. They must also master complex 3D operations specific to a dedicated software tool for acquiring appropriate authoring skills. These efforts require enormous amount of time and impose a heavy burden on the users. To solve the problem, we have been developing a 3DCG learning support system enabling the users to intuitively acquire knowledge and skills necessary for 3DCG contents authoring and graphics programming. In this paper, we describe the concept, implementation method, and evaluation of the proposed system.
The Transport Control Protocol (TCP) has been widely used in wired and wireless Internet applications such as FTP, email and HTTP. However, performances of traditional TCP congestion algorithms degrade significantly w...
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The Transport Control Protocol (TCP) has been widely used in wired and wireless Internet applications such as FTP, email and HTTP. However, performances of traditional TCP congestion algorithms degrade significantly when deployed over wireless networks. In this paper, we proposed an improved TCP congestion control algorithm for wireless networks, named TCP-FIT, and compared its performance with existing state-of-the-art congestion control algorithms as well as an application layer Parallel TCP scheme. Experiment results show significant performance improvement, good fairness and lower end-to-end latency for TCP-FIT.
Choosing the right feature for motion based activity spotting is not a trivial task. Often, features derived by intuition or that proved to work well in previous work are used. While feature selection algorithms allow...
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Choosing the right feature for motion based activity spotting is not a trivial task. Often, features derived by intuition or that proved to work well in previous work are used. While feature selection algorithms allow automatic decision, definition of features remains a manual task. We conduct a comparative study of features with very different origin. To this end, we propose a new type of features based on polynomial approximation of signals. The new feature type is compared to features used routinely for motion based activity recognition as well as to recently proposed body-model based features. Experiments were performed on three different, large datasets allowing a thorough, in-depth analysis. They not only show the respective strengths of the different feature types but also their complementarity resulting in improved performance through combination. It shows that each feature type with its individual and complementary strengths and weaknesses can improve results by combination.
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