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Predicting early signs of illness in older adults by utilizing a continuous, unobtrusive nursing home monitoring system has been shown to increase the quality of life and decrease the cost of care. Illness prediction is based on sensor data such as motion and bed and uses algorithms such as support vector machine (SVM) or k-nearest neighbor (kNN). One of the greatest challenges in developing prediction...
This paper proposed a novel method to improve automatic age estimation from human faces. Three types of feature extraction algorithms are used, such as Extended Curvature Gabor Filter (ECG), Completed Local Binary Pattern (CLBP), and Local Directional Pattern (LDP). While the ECG is applied to the entire human face, CLBP and LDP are only applied to blocks with randomized scales, positions and orientations...
Recently, the combination of classification systems with semi-supervised learning has attracted researchers in several fields. Usually, for tasks with high complexity such as handwriting based age prediction, individual systems, using one classifier associated with specific data features, cannot provide satisfactory performance. In this paper, we investigate the contribution of the Co-training approach,...
Uncertainty based active learning has been well studied for selecting informative samples to improve the performance of the classifier. One of the simplest strategy is that we always select samples with top largest uncertainties for a query. However, the selected samples may be very similar to each other, which results in little information added to update the classifier. In other words, we should...
Representation of data is very important in case of machine learning. Better the representation, the classifiers will give better results. Contractive autoencoders are used to learn the representation of data which are robust to small changes in the input. This paper uses contractive autoencoder and SVM classifier for handwritten Devanagari numerals recognition. The accuracy obtained using CAE+SVM...
In this paper, we presented an improved vehicle detection algorithm based on object proposals. In the training part, by using Selective Search algorithm, we firstly segment the vehicle areas in the sample set as positive examples, other regions as negative examples. Then PHOG (Pyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradient) features of the positive samples and negative ones after separately being labeled...
This paper aims to develop an effective flower classification approach using the technology of feature extraction. With this regard, a fused descriptor based on Pyramid Histogram of Visual Words (PHOW) is used to extract the color, texture and contour information of flower image. Secondly, Dictionary Learning and Locality-constrained Linear Coding (LLC) are operated on PHOW feature and then images...
This paper presents an approach for gender recognition from single channel EEG signal. For this purpose, approximately 24 hour-long EEG data, obtained during daily routine activities including sleep, was used. First, cepstrum coefficients of EEG signals were obtained in the frequency domain to construct the features SET. Second, a machine learning step was performed using these features with Support...
In consideration of the harm to society, hiding narcotics in human bodies should be investigate strictly. While the automatic detection method is absent nowadays, and the inspection rate by human eyes is low. So we introduce a new method based on directional fractal dimension texture feature extraction and support vector machine(SVM) to classify the inspection x-ray images. Using this method, the...
Ultrasound image is one of the modalities that is widely used to examine the abnormality of thyroid gland since it is relatively low-cost and safety. Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is usually used by radiologists to determine the thyroid nodule whether malignant or benign. Commonly, malignancy of thyroid nodule determined based on shape feature. This research proposes a scheme for classifying...
In this paper, we explored the development of an anxiety detection (AnD) system using the respiratory signal as its input. Time and frequency domain statistical features derived from breath-to-breath (BB) interval series of respiratory signal is input to a support vector machine (SVM) backend classifier. We used data from normative population, individuals with anxiety disorders and regular meditators...
Essays in different text genres have different ideas and writing method. Prediction the text genres firstly will help get a better accuracy when predicting the success of literary or finding the beautiful words and sentences in the essay. And it will help set a different standard for different text genres when scoring the writing by computer. Words and structure can be effective in discriminating...
Based on the spectral data from SDSS, Kernel Support Vector Machines (K-SVM) is applied to classify quasars from other celestial body. Firstly, the basic theory of the SVM(Support Vector Machine) with relaxation factor and kernel function is introduced. Then, the main parameters are designed and selected. Finally, the method is applied to the classification and identification of the quasars. The classification...
At present, it is a great challenge that solving high-dimension and text sparsity problems in short text classification. To resolve these problems, this paper proposes a method which takes the correlation between lexical items and tags before completing Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) topic model. Meanwhile, this paper adjusts parameters of Support Vector Machine(SVM) to find the optimal values by...
Stereotypic behaviours are present in both human and nonhuman primates. Usually, these behaviours are a welfare indicator. However, the stereotypic behaviours may be also a symptom of some mental disorder in the humans. A specific case is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The individuals with ASD may exhibit stereotypic behaviours through some gestures. The classic stereotyped gestures of autism are:...
Aiming at the deception phenomena in the electric power market that disorder the power trading, the early warning problem of power users' credit risk in the power market was studied. To solve the problem, an early warning model based on SVM (Support Vector Machine) was purposed. First the evaluation criteria system and grading standard were discussed in detail. Secondly the early warning model based...
High dimensionality of feature space is a problem in supervised machine learning. Redundant or superfluous features either slow down the training process or dilute the quality of classification. Many methods are available in literature for dimensionality reduction. Earlier studies explored a discernibility matrix (DM) based reduct calculation for dimensionality reduction. Discernibility matrix works...
Support Vector Machines (SVM) is a widely used technique for classifying high-dimensional data, especially in security and intelligence categorization. However, the performance of SVM can be adversely affected by poorly selected parameter values. Current approaches to SVM parameter selection mainly rely on extensive cross validation or anecdotal information, which can be inefficient and ineffective...
Support vector machine (SVM) has good generalization performance and is suitable for solving small sample classification problems, so it is often used in the fault diagnosis for aero engine gas path. In this paper, the traditional genetic algorithm and the idea of simulated annealing are combined to optimize the parameters of SVM, and a fault diagnosis method of aero engine gas path based on parameter...
This paper presents a grid search approach to optimize the kernel's parameters for the support vector machines classifier. The most encountered three kernels are considered: linear, radial basis, and sigmoid. We show that the optimization of parameters improves the recognition performance for audio signals classification, especially in the case of sigmoid kernel. The behavior of the model is very...
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