scholarly journals A Neural Network in Convolution with Constant Error Carousel Based Long Short Term Memory for Better Face Recognition

Author(s):  
P. Ramaraj

Unconstrained face identification, facial periocular recognition, facial land marking and pose prediction, facial expression recognition, 3D facial model design, and other facial-related problems require robust face detection in the wild. Despite the fact that the face recognition issue has been researched intensively for decades with different commercial implementations, it nevertheless faces problems in certain real-world scenarios due to multiple obstacles, such as severe facial occlusions, incredibly low resolutions, intense lighting, exceptionally pose inconsistencies, picture or video compression artefacts, and so on. To solve the problems described above, a face detection technique called Convolution Neural Network with Constant Error Carousel dependent Long Short Term Memory (CNN-CEC-LSTM) is proposed in this paper. This research implemented a novel network structure and designed a special feature extraction that employs a self-channel attention (SCA) block and a self-spatial attention (SSA) block that adaptively aggregates the feature maps in both channel and spatial domains to learn the inter-channel and inter-spatial connection matrices; additionally, matrix multiplications are conducted for a This approach first smoothed the initial image with a Gaussian filter before measuring the gradient image. The Canny-Kirsch Method edge detection algorithm was then used to identify human face edges. The proposed method is evaluated against two recent difficult face detection databases, including the IIT Kanpur Dataset. The experimental findings indicate that the proposed approach outperforms the most current cutting-edge face recognition approaches.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Dana-Mihaela Petroșanu ◽  
Alexandru Pîrjan

The accurate forecasting of the hourly month-ahead electricity consumption represents a very important aspect for non-household electricity consumers and system operators, and at the same time represents a key factor in what regards energy efficiency and achieving sustainable economic, business, and management operations. In this context, we have devised, developed, and validated within the paper an hourly month ahead electricity consumption forecasting method. This method is based on a bidirectional long-short-term memory (BiLSTM) artificial neural network (ANN) enhanced with a multiple simultaneously decreasing delays approach coupled with function fitting neural networks (FITNETs). The developed method targets the hourly month-ahead total electricity consumption at the level of a commercial center-type consumer and for the hourly month ahead consumption of its refrigerator storage room. The developed approach offers excellent forecasting results, highlighted by the validation stage’s results along with the registered performance metrics, namely 0.0495 for the root mean square error (RMSE) performance metric for the total hourly month-ahead electricity consumption and 0.0284 for the refrigerator storage room. We aimed for and managed to attain an hourly month-ahead consumed electricity prediction without experiencing a significant drop in the forecasting accuracy that usually tends to occur after the first two weeks, therefore achieving a reliable method that satisfies the contractor’s needs, being able to enhance his/her activity from the economic, business, and management perspectives. Even if the devised, developed, and validated forecasting solution for the hourly consumption targets a commercial center-type consumer, based on its accuracy, this solution can also represent a useful tool for other non-household electricity consumers due to its generalization capability.


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