scholarly journals The rationale for ensemble and meta-algorithmic architectures in signal and information processing

Author(s):  
Steven J. Simske

We are living through an historic era in computing. As the price of data storage and processing continues to plummet, we are moving closer to a world where exhaustive search makes sense for certain types of intelligent systems. Signal and image processing are two related domains that benefit from this ubiquity of data storage and computing power. In this paper, a new, more collaborative, approach to solving signal and image processing tasks is built from the ground up to take into account the reality of this new age of data and computing superfluity. Starting with the mature field of ensemble methods and moving to the more-recently introduced field of meta-algorithmics, systems can be designed which are by nature to specifically incorporate new machine-learning technologies. These are more robust, more accurate, more adaptive, and ultimately less costly to build and maintain than the traditional machine-learning approaches. Applications to image and signal processing will then be discussed. Combined, these examples illustrate a new meta-architectural approach to the creation of machine intelligence systems.

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1055
Author(s):  
Qian Sun ◽  
William Ampomah ◽  
Junyu You ◽  
Martha Cather ◽  
Robert Balch

Machine-learning technologies have exhibited robust competences in solving many petroleum engineering problems. The accurate predictivity and fast computational speed enable a large volume of time-consuming engineering processes such as history-matching and field development optimization. The Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) project desires rigorous history-matching and multi-objective optimization processes, which fits the superiorities of the machine-learning approaches. Although the machine-learning proxy models are trained and validated before imposing to solve practical problems, the error margin would essentially introduce uncertainties to the results. In this paper, a hybrid numerical machine-learning workflow solving various optimization problems is presented. By coupling the expert machine-learning proxies with a global optimizer, the workflow successfully solves the history-matching and CO2 water alternative gas (WAG) design problem with low computational overheads. The history-matching work considers the heterogeneities of multiphase relative characteristics, and the CO2-WAG injection design takes multiple techno-economic objective functions into accounts. This work trained an expert response surface, a support vector machine, and a multi-layer neural network as proxy models to effectively learn the high-dimensional nonlinear data structure. The proposed workflow suggests revisiting the high-fidelity numerical simulator for validation purposes. The experience gained from this work would provide valuable guiding insights to similar CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 3068
Author(s):  
Soumaya Dghim ◽  
Carlos M. Travieso-González ◽  
Radim Burget

The use of image processing tools, machine learning, and deep learning approaches has become very useful and robust in recent years. This paper introduces the detection of the Nosema disease, which is considered to be one of the most economically significant diseases today. This work shows a solution for recognizing and identifying Nosema cells between the other existing objects in the microscopic image. Two main strategies are examined. The first strategy uses image processing tools to extract the most valuable information and features from the dataset of microscopic images. Then, machine learning methods are applied, such as a neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) for detecting and classifying the Nosema disease cells. The second strategy explores deep learning and transfers learning. Several approaches were examined, including a convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier and several methods of transfer learning (AlexNet, VGG-16 and VGG-19), which were fine-tuned and applied to the object sub-images in order to identify the Nosema images from the other object images. The best accuracy was reached by the VGG-16 pre-trained neural network with 96.25%.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 2717
Author(s):  
Nusrat Rouf ◽  
Majid Bashir Malik ◽  
Tasleem Arif ◽  
Sparsh Sharma ◽  
Saurabh Singh ◽  
...  

With the advent of technological marvels like global digitization, the prediction of the stock market has entered a technologically advanced era, revamping the old model of trading. With the ceaseless increase in market capitalization, stock trading has become a center of investment for many financial investors. Many analysts and researchers have developed tools and techniques that predict stock price movements and help investors in proper decision-making. Advanced trading models enable researchers to predict the market using non-traditional textual data from social platforms. The application of advanced machine learning approaches such as text data analytics and ensemble methods have greatly increased the prediction accuracies. Meanwhile, the analysis and prediction of stock markets continue to be one of the most challenging research areas due to dynamic, erratic, and chaotic data. This study explains the systematics of machine learning-based approaches for stock market prediction based on the deployment of a generic framework. Findings from the last decade (2011–2021) were critically analyzed, having been retrieved from online digital libraries and databases like ACM digital library and Scopus. Furthermore, an extensive comparative analysis was carried out to identify the direction of significance. The study would be helpful for emerging researchers to understand the basics and advancements of this emerging area, and thus carry-on further research in promising directions.


Author(s):  
Nathan Lau ◽  
Lex Fridman ◽  
Brett J. Borghetti ◽  
John D. Lee

As machine learning approaches ubiquity in industrial systems and consumer products, human factors research must attend to machine learning, specifically on how intelligent systems built on machine learning are different from early generations of automated systems, and what these differences mean for human-system interaction, design, evaluation and training. This panel invites five researchers in different domains to discuss how human factors can contribute to machine learning research and applications, as well as how machine learning presents both challenges and contributions for human factors.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Parkyn

Emerging heterogeneous computing, computing at the edge, machine learning and AI at the edge technology drives approaches and techniques for processing and analysing onboard instrument data in near real-time. The author has used edge computing and neural networks combined with high performance heterogeneous computing platforms to accelerate AI workloads. Heterogeneous computing hardware used is readily available, low cost, delivers impressive AI performance and can run multiple neural networks in parallel. Collecting, processing and machine learning from onboard instruments data in near real-time is not a trivial problem due to data volumes, complexities of data filtering, data storage and continual learning. Little research has been done on continual machine learning which aims at a higher level of machine intelligence through providing the artificial agents with the ability to learn from a non-stationary and never-ending stream of data. The author has applied the concept of continual learning to building a system that continually learns from actual boat performance and refines predictions previously done using static VPP data. The neural networks used are initially trained using the output from traditional VPP software and continue to learn from actual data collected under real sailing conditions. The author will present the system design, AI, and edge computing techniques used and the approaches he has researched for incremental training to realise continual learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1267-1273
Author(s):  
Cigdem Beyan ◽  
Howard I Browman

Abstract Machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, offers various methods that can be applied in marine science. It supports data-driven learning, which can result in automated decision making of de novo data. It has significant advantages compared with manual analyses that are labour intensive and require considerable time. Machine learning approaches have great potential to improve the quality and extent of marine research by identifying latent patterns and hidden trends, particularly in large datasets that are intractable using other approaches. New sensor technology supports collection of large amounts of data from the marine environment. The rapidly developing machine learning subfield known as deep learning—which applies algorithms (artificial neural networks) inspired by the structure and function of the brain—is able to solve very complex problems by processing big datasets in a short time, sometimes achieving better performance than human experts. Given the opportunities that machine learning can provide, its integration into marine science and marine resource management is inevitable. The purpose of this themed set of articles is to provide as wide a selection as possible of case studies that demonstrate the applications, utility, and promise of machine learning in marine science. We also provide a forward-look by envisioning a marine science of the future into which machine learning has been fully incorporated.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabal Poudel ◽  
Alfredo Illanes ◽  
Debdoot Sheet ◽  
Michael Friebe

The thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands in the human body, which is involved in several body mechanisms like controlling protein synthesis and the body's sensitivity to other hormones and use of energy sources. Hence, it is of prime importance to track the shape and size of thyroid over time in order to evaluate its state. Thyroid segmentation and volume computation are important tools that can be used for thyroid state tracking assessment. Most of the proposed approaches are not automatic and require long time to correctly segment the thyroid. In this work, we compare three different nonautomatic segmentation algorithms (i.e., active contours without edges, graph cut, and pixel-based classifier) in freehand three-dimensional ultrasound imaging in terms of accuracy, robustness, ease of use, level of human interaction required, and computation time. We figured out that these methods lack automation and machine intelligence and are not highly accurate. Hence, we implemented two machine learning approaches (i.e., random forest and convolutional neural network) to improve the accuracy of segmentation as well as provide automation. This comparative study intends to discuss and analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different algorithms. In the last step, the volume of the thyroid is computed using the segmentation results, and the performance analysis of all the algorithms is carried out by comparing the segmentation results with the ground truth.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isonkobong Christopher Udousoro

Due to the complexity of data, interpretation of pattern or extraction of information becomes difficult; therefore application of machine learning is used to teach machines how to handle data more efficiently. With the increase of datasets, various organizations now apply machine learning applications and algorithms. Many industries apply machine learning to extract relevant information for analysis purposes. Many scholars, mathematicians and programmers have carried out research and applied several machine learning approaches in order to find solution to problems. In this paper, we focus on general review of machine learning including various machine learning techniques. These techniques can be applied to different fields like image processing, data mining, predictive analysis and so on. The paper aims at reviewing machine learning techniques and algorithms. The research methodology is based on qualitative analysis where various literatures is being reviewed based  on machine learning.


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