scholarly journals A low-cost machine learning process for gait measurement using biomechanical sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 100346
Author(s):  
Farah Abdel Khalek ◽  
Marc Hartley ◽  
Eric Benoit ◽  
Stephane Perrin ◽  
Luc Marechal ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Jorge Muruzabal

Ensemble rule based classification methods have been popular for a while in the machine-learning literature (Hand, 1997). Given the advent of low-cost, high-computing power, we are curious to see how far can we go by repeating some basic learning process, obtaining a variety of possible inferences, and finally basing the global classification decision on some sort of ensemble summary. Some general benefits to this idea have been observed indeed, and we are gaining wider and deeper insights on exactly why this is the case in many fronts of interest.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiannan Duan ◽  
Jianchao Lee ◽  
Jinhong Gao ◽  
Jiayuan Chen ◽  
Yachao Lian ◽  
...  

<p>Machine learning (ML) has brought significant technological innovations in many fields, but it has not been widely embraced by most researchers of natural sciences to date. Traditional understanding and promotion of chemical analysis cannot meet the definition and requirement of big data for running of ML. Over the years, we focused on building a more versatile and low-cost approach to the acquisition of copious amounts of data containing in a chemical reaction. The generated data meet exclusively the thirst of ML when swimming in the vast space of chemical effect. As proof in this study, we carried out a case for acute toxicity test throughout the whole routine, from model building, chip preparation, data collection, and ML training. Such a strategy will probably play an important role in connecting ML with much research in natural science in the future.</p>


Author(s):  
Jonas Austerjost ◽  
Robert Söldner ◽  
Christoffer Edlund ◽  
Johan Trygg ◽  
David Pollard ◽  
...  

Machine vision is a powerful technology that has become increasingly popular and accurate during the last decade due to rapid advances in the field of machine learning. The majority of machine vision applications are currently found in consumer electronics, automotive applications, and quality control, yet the potential for bioprocessing applications is tremendous. For instance, detecting and controlling foam emergence is important for all upstream bioprocesses, but the lack of robust foam sensing often leads to batch failures from foam-outs or overaddition of antifoam agents. Here, we report a new low-cost, flexible, and reliable foam sensor concept for bioreactor applications. The concept applies convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a state-of-the-art machine learning system for image processing. The implemented method shows high accuracy for both binary foam detection (foam/no foam) and fine-grained classification of foam levels.


Fermentation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Summerson ◽  
Claudia Gonzalez Viejo ◽  
Damir D. Torrico ◽  
Alexis Pang ◽  
Sigfredo Fuentes

The incidence and intensity of bushfires is increasing due to climate change, resulting in a greater risk of smoke taint development in wine. In this study, smoke-tainted and non-smoke-tainted wines were subjected to treatments using activated carbon with/without the addition of a cleaving enzyme treatment to hydrolyze glycoconjugates. Chemical measurements and volatile aroma compounds were assessed for each treatment, with the two smoke taint amelioration treatments exhibiting lower mean values for volatile aroma compounds exhibiting positive ‘fruit’ aromas. Furthermore, a low-cost electronic nose (e-nose) was used to assess the wines. A machine learning model based on artificial neural networks (ANN) was developed using the e-nose outputs from the unsmoked control wine, unsmoked wine with activated carbon treatment, unsmoked wine with a cleaving enzyme plus activated carbon treatment, and smoke-tainted control wine samples as inputs to classify the wines according to the smoke taint amelioration treatment. The model displayed a high overall accuracy of 98% in classifying the e-nose readings, illustrating it may be a rapid, cost-effective tool for winemakers to assess the effectiveness of smoke taint amelioration treatment by activated carbon with/without the use of a cleaving enzyme. Furthermore, the use of a cleaving enzyme coupled with activated carbon was found to be effective in ameliorating smoke taint in wine and may help delay the resurgence of smoke aromas in wine following the aging and hydrolysis of glycoconjugates.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3338
Author(s):  
Ivan Vajs ◽  
Dejan Drajic ◽  
Nenad Gligoric ◽  
Ilija Radovanovic ◽  
Ivan Popovic

Existing government air quality monitoring networks consist of static measurement stations, which are highly reliable and accurately measure a wide range of air pollutants, but they are very large, expensive and require significant amounts of maintenance. As a promising solution, low-cost sensors are being introduced as complementary, air quality monitoring stations. These sensors are, however, not reliable due to the lower accuracy, short life cycle and corresponding calibration issues. Recent studies have shown that low-cost sensors are affected by relative humidity and temperature. In this paper, we explore methods to additionally improve the calibration algorithms with the aim to increase the measurement accuracy considering the impact of temperature and humidity on the readings, by using machine learning. A detailed comparative analysis of linear regression, artificial neural network and random forest algorithms are presented, analyzing their performance on the measurements of CO, NO2 and PM10 particles, with promising results and an achieved R2 of 0.93–0.97, 0.82–0.94 and 0.73–0.89 dependent on the observed period of the year, respectively, for each pollutant. A comprehensive analysis and recommendations on how low-cost sensors could be used as complementary monitoring stations to the reference ones, to increase spatial and temporal measurement resolution, is provided.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Carlos Lassance ◽  
Vincent Gripon ◽  
Antonio Ortega

Deep Learning (DL) has attracted a lot of attention for its ability to reach state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks. The core principle of DL methods consists of training composite architectures in an end-to-end fashion, where inputs are associated with outputs trained to optimize an objective function. Because of their compositional nature, DL architectures naturally exhibit several intermediate representations of the inputs, which belong to so-called latent spaces. When treated individually, these intermediate representations are most of the time unconstrained during the learning process, as it is unclear which properties should be favored. However, when processing a batch of inputs concurrently, the corresponding set of intermediate representations exhibit relations (what we call a geometry) on which desired properties can be sought. In this work, we show that it is possible to introduce constraints on these latent geometries to address various problems. In more detail, we propose to represent geometries by constructing similarity graphs from the intermediate representations obtained when processing a batch of inputs. By constraining these Latent Geometry Graphs (LGGs), we address the three following problems: (i) reproducing the behavior of a teacher architecture is achieved by mimicking its geometry, (ii) designing efficient embeddings for classification is achieved by targeting specific geometries, and (iii) robustness to deviations on inputs is achieved via enforcing smooth variation of geometry between consecutive latent spaces. Using standard vision benchmarks, we demonstrate the ability of the proposed geometry-based methods in solving the considered problems.


Author(s):  
Pratyush Kaware

In this paper a cost-effective sensor has been implemented to read finger bend signals, by attaching the sensor to a finger, so as to classify them based on the degree of bent as well as the joint about which the finger was being bent. This was done by testing with various machine learning algorithms to get the most accurate and consistent classifier. Finally, we found that Support Vector Machine was the best algorithm suited to classify our data, using we were able predict live state of a finger, i.e., the degree of bent and the joints involved. The live voltage values from the sensor were transmitted using a NodeMCU micro-controller which were converted to digital and uploaded on a database for analysis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Niko Murrell ◽  
Ryan Bradley ◽  
Nikhil Bajaj ◽  
Julie Whitney ◽  
George T.-C. Chiu

Sales forecasting is an important when it comes to companies who are engaged in retailing, logistics, manufacturing, marketing and wholesaling. It allows companies to allocate resources efficiently, to estimate revenue of the sales and to plan strategies which are better for company’s future. In this paper, predicting product sales from a particular store is done in a way that produces better performance compared to any machine learning algorithms. The dataset used for this project is Big Mart Sales data of the 2013.Nowadays shopping malls and Supermarkets keep track of the sales data of the each and every individual item for predicting the future demand of the customer. It contains large amount of customer data and the item attributes. Further, the frequent patterns are detected by mining the data from the data warehouse. Then the data can be used for predicting the sales of the future with the help of several machine learning techniques (algorithms) for the companies like Big Mart. In this project, we propose a model using the Xgboost algorithm for predicting sales of companies like Big Mart and founded that it produces better performance compared to other existing models. An analysis of this model with other models in terms of their performance metrics is made in this project. Big Mart is an online marketplace where people can buy or sell or advertise your merchandise at low cost. The goal of the paper is to make Big Mart the shopping paradise for the buyers and a marketing solutions for the sellers as well. The ultimate aim is the complete satisfaction of the customers. The project “SUPERMARKET SALES PREDICTION” builds a predictive model and finds out the sales of each of the product at a particular store. The Big Mart use this model to under the properties of the products which plays a major role in increasing the sales. This can also be done on the basis hypothesis that should be done before looking at the data


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