Gait recognition from video streams is a challenging problem in computer vision biometrics due to the subtle differences between gaits and numerous confounding factors. Recent advancements in self-supervised pretraini...
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Sarcasm detection has established itself as one of the more difficult Natural Language Processing tasks, due to the complex nature of sarcasm. This paper aims to benchmark the performance of state-of-the-art models li...
Sarcasm detection has established itself as one of the more difficult Natural Language Processing tasks, due to the complex nature of sarcasm. This paper aims to benchmark the performance of state-of-the-art models like BERT, RoBERTa, ALBERT and GPT-3 when faced with this task. The dataset selected is MUStARD, which has increased in popularity in recent years, especially for multimodal tasks, and is one of the most qualitative and data rich dataset. An untuned GPT-3 based model was selected as the baseline and all the other models were fine-tuned using the textual data present in MUStARD, mainly the context and utterance information. The best performer was found to be the GPT-3 fine-tuned model, with an F1 score of 77. This is in line with the reported feats of GPT-3 based models that have popularized in recent months and reaffirms the superiority of GPT-3. Future avenues of research are then presented and explored, and the conclusions are drawn.
Nowadays there are a variety of methods to assist parking users in finding free sites in parking lots. However, there is no automatic system that takes into account the size of the car looking for a space or whether t...
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A recent report elaborated by European Commission reveals that Romania ranks one of the last positions in European Union in that concerns digitalization of public services. Solutions implemented in other countries (Fi...
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A recent report elaborated by European Commission reveals that Romania ranks one of the last positions in European Union in that concerns digitalization of public services. Solutions implemented in other countries (Finland, Estonia, Latvia and many others) prove this is no longer a theoretical concept but a is real need. In this paper, a functional system implemented in several public administration entities from Romania is presented along with the advantages derived from digitalizing public administration services.
We can obtain valuable information about the human brain using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). This paper describes the theoretical basis associated with this neuroimaging method through a custom-made p...
We can obtain valuable information about the human brain using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). This paper describes the theoretical basis associated with this neuroimaging method through a custom-made prototype of a single-channel fNIRS device. The optodes were soldered to a milled Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and enclosed in a 3D printed housing. Using this fNIRS device, we performed a preliminary study to measure emotional responses from participants. Our results suggest that fNIRS allows for accurate measurement of emotions evoked by positive and negative images.
This research focuses on exploring the exponential $$H_\infty $$ stability of general conformable nonlinear system. In order to address the nonlinearity inherent in the system, a polynomial fuzzy (PF) method is employ...
This research focuses on exploring the exponential $$H_\infty $$ stability of general conformable nonlinear system. In order to address the nonlinearity inherent in the system, a polynomial fuzzy (PF) method is employed. Modeling a general conformable nonlinear system within the polynomial framework reduces the number of fuzzy rules compared to the classical Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy (TSF). Furthermore, controlling such a complex system, which accounts for perturbations, employs a PF model instead TSF model to describe its nonlinear dynamics, and incorporates a general conformable derivative instead of an integer-order one, is significantly more challenging, and remains unaddressed in previous studies. In this paper, a PF controller is designed in the form of sum of squares (SOS) to enhance the resilience against perturbations and ensure the exponential stability of the proposed model. The proposed SOS can be solved numerically, and partially symbolically, using the recently developed SOSTOOLS. In order to ensure the $$H_\infty $$ performance, a generalized criterion is defined for the general conformable nonlinear system. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a numerical example is provided.
Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, and it is caused by a variety of dermatological conditions. Identifying abnormalities from skin images is an important pre-diagnostic step to assist physicians in...
Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, and it is caused by a variety of dermatological conditions. Identifying abnormalities from skin images is an important pre-diagnostic step to assist physicians in determining the patient’s condition. Thus, to aid dermatologists in the diagnosis process, we proposed five CNN-based classification approaches namely ResNet-101, DenseNet-121, GoogLeNet, VGG16, and MobileNetV2 architectures on which the transfer learning process was applied. The HAM10000-N database consisting of 7,120 images, which was obtained from the original HAM10000 dataset through an augmentation process, was used to train the proposed methods. Moreover, the images from the HAM10000-N were pre-processed by removing hair with the DullRazor algorithm. To evaluate and compare the performance of all networks five metrics were calculated: accuracy, precision, recall, and Fl-score. The best results for the seven-class classification of the HAM10000-N dataset were obtained for DenseNet-121 architecture with 87% accuracy, 0.871 precision, 0.87 recall and 0.872 F1-score.
Introduction . The innovative concept on applying touchscreen controls on the flight deck design had been discussed for a long time. However, there are some potential risks on touchscreen applications constrained by t...
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Introduction . The innovative concept on applying touchscreen controls on the flight deck design had been discussed for a long time. However, there are some potential risks on touchscreen applications constrained by the issues associated with turbulence and pilots’ inadvertent activation. Research questions . This research aims to evaluate human-computer interactions and handling quality using touchscreens as inceptor in flight operations. Method . The scenario was set to conduct an instrument landing on the final approach using Future System Simulator (FSS). There are 8 commercial pilots (flight hours M = 4475.0, SD = 2742.1) using three different inceptors including traditional sidestick, touchscreen and gamepad for ILS landing. Results . There was a significant difference among three inceptors on handling quality in both landing without turbulence (F (2,14) = 6.25, p =.01, η p 2 = .47) and landing with turbulence (F (2,14) = 3.93, p =.04, η p 2 = .36) scenarios. Furthermore, post Hoc comparisons revealed that the handling quality of touchscreen was significantly lower than sidestick and gamepad. Discussion . By analyzing participants’ empirical experiences, the touchscreen inceptor was rated as the lowest handling quality among three inceptors due to the novel and lack of practice effects in flight operations. However, there is a potential on the information supply for touchscreen inceptor based on pilots’ feedbacks. Conclusion . Touchscreens provide numerous benefits for making flight decks simpler, but the usage as an inceptor is still in its infancy and there are still lots of problems that need to be fixed. Future Systems Simulator (FSS) is a highly reconfigurable modular flight simulator that allows pilots/researchers to explore the potential on future flight decks design for single pilot operations. There are some potential benefits on the implementation touchscreen inceptor for future flight deck design if the human-centred design principle can be integr
Handwritten signatures hold paramount importance in legal, financial, and administrative domains, necessitating the development of robust signature recognition tools for forensic applications. This paper introduces a ...
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(数字)9798350373974
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(纸本)9798350373981
Handwritten signatures hold paramount importance in legal, financial, and administrative domains, necessitating the development of robust signature recognition tools for forensic applications. This paper introduces a handwritten signature recognition (HSR) model employing Parallel Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) tailored for forensic endeavors. Utilizing the parallel processing capabilities of CNN, our proposed approach adeptly analyzes and extracts discriminative features from handwritten signature images to facilitate precise recognition. In addition, we leverage several transfer learning techniques by parallelizing proven pre-trained CNNs. Extensive experimentation validates the efficacy of our approach on a standard dataset, demonstrating high accuracy and resilience in signature recognition tasks. The proposed approach exhibits substantial promise in augmenting forensic investigations by automating signature verification processes, thereby bolstering fraud detection efforts and upholding the integrity of legal documentation.
Feature engineering is a crucial step in building well-performing machine learning pipelines. However, manually constructing highly predictive features is time-consuming and requires domain knowledge. Although the res...
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(纸本)9781665480468
Feature engineering is a crucial step in building well-performing machine learning pipelines. However, manually constructing highly predictive features is time-consuming and requires domain knowledge. Although the research area of automated feature engineering has attracted much interest lately, both in academia and industry, the scalability and efficiency of the existing systems and tools are still practically unsatisfactory. This paper presents a scalable and interpretable automated feature engineering framework, BigFeat, that optimizes input features’ quality to maximize the predictive performance according to a user-defined metric. BigFeat employs a dynamic feature generation and selection mechanism that constructs a set of expressive features that improve the prediction performance while retaining interpretability. Extensive experiments are conducted, and the results show that BigFeat provides superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art automated feature engineering framework, AutoFeat, on a wide range of datasets. We show that BigFeat significantly improves the F1-Score of 8 classifiers by 4.59%, on average. In addition, the performance improvement achieved by integrating BigFeat into different AutoML frameworks is higher than that achieved by integrating AutoFeat into the same frameworks. Besides, the scalability of BigFeat is confirmed by its linear complexity, parallel design, and execution time which is, on average, 22x faster than AutoFeat.
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