Performance Estimation Method on IoT-Cloud Environments Using Hybrid Deep Neural Network

Author(s):  
Yunsik Son ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa H. Tawfeek ◽  
Karim El-Basyouny

Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) are regression models used to predict the expected number of collisions as a function of various traffic and geometric characteristics. One of the integral components in developing SPFs is the availability of accurate exposure factors, that is, annual average daily traffic (AADT). However, AADTs are not often available for minor roads at rural intersections. This study aims to develop a robust AADT estimation model using a deep neural network. A total of 1,350 rural four-legged, stop-controlled intersections from the Province of Alberta, Canada, were used to train the neural network. The results of the deep neural network model were compared with the traditional estimation method, which uses linear regression. The results indicated that the deep neural network model improved the estimation of minor roads’ AADT by 35% when compared with the traditional method. Furthermore, SPFs developed using linear regression resulted in models with statistically insignificant AADTs on minor roads. Conversely, the SPF developed using the neural network provided a better fit to the data with both AADTs on minor and major roads being statistically significant variables. The findings indicated that the proposed model could enhance the predictive power of the SPF and therefore improve the decision-making process since SPFs are used in all parts of the safety management process.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (13) ◽  
pp. 194-1-194-6
Author(s):  
Koichi Taguchi ◽  
Manabu Hashimoto ◽  
Kensuke Tobitani ◽  
Noriko Nagata

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geon Lee ◽  
Hong Kim

This paper proposes a personalized head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method based on deep neural networks by using anthropometric measurements and ear images. The proposed method consists of three sub-networks for representing personalized features and estimating the HRTF. As input features for neural networks, the anthropometric measurements regarding the head and torso are used for a feedforward deep neural network (DNN), and the ear images are used for a convolutional neural network (CNN). After that, the outputs of these two sub-networks are merged into another DNN for estimation of the personalized HRTF. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, objective and subjective evaluations are conducted. For the objective evaluation, the root mean square error (RMSE) and the log spectral distance (LSD) between the reference HRTF and the estimated one are measured. Consequently, the proposed method provides the RMSE of −18.40 dB and LSD of 4.47 dB, which are lower by 0.02 dB and higher by 0.85 dB than the DNN-based method using anthropometric data without pinna measurements, respectively. Next, a sound localization test is performed for the subjective evaluation. As a result, it is shown that the proposed method can localize sound sources with higher accuracy of around 11% and 6% than the average HRTF method and DNN-based method, respectively. In addition, the reductions of the front/back confusion rate by 12.5% and 2.5% are achieved by the proposed method, compared to the average HRTF method and DNN-based method, respectively.


2018 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dazhen Lin ◽  
Fan Lin ◽  
Yanping Lv ◽  
Feipeng Cai ◽  
Donglin Cao

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunsik Son ◽  
Junho Jeong ◽  
YangSun Lee

A virtual machine with a conventional offloading scheme transmits and receives all context information to maintain program consistency during communication between local environments and the cloud server environment. Most overhead costs incurred during offloading are proportional to the size of the context information transmitted over the network. Therefore, the existing context information synchronization structure transmits context information that is not required for job execution when offloading, which increases the overhead costs of transmitting context information in low-performance Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. In addition, the optimal offloading point should be determined by checking the server’s CPU usage and network quality. In this study, we propose a context management method and estimation method for CPU load using a hybrid deep neural network on a cloud-based offloading service that extracts contexts that require synchronization through static profiling and estimation. The proposed adaptive offloading method reduces network communication overheads and determines the optimal offloading time for low-computing-powered IoT devices and variable server performance. Using experiments, we verify that the proposed learning-based prediction method effectively estimates the CPU load model for IoT devices and can adaptively apply offloading according to the load of the server.


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