scholarly journals Solid Domestic Waste classification using Image Processing and Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Otero Gomez ◽  
Mauricio Toro ◽  
William Hoyos Morales

This research concentrates on a bounded version of the waste image classification problem. It focuses on determining the more useful approach when working with two kinds of feature vectors, one construed using pixel values and the second construed from a Bag of Features (BoF). Several image processing techniques such as object centering, pixel value re scaling and edge filtering are applied. Logistic Regression, K Nearest Neighbors, and Support Vector Machines are used as classification algorithms. Experiments demonstrate that object centering significantly improves models’ performance when working with pixel values. Moreover, it is determined that by generating sufficiently simple data relations the BoF approach achieves superior overall results. The Support Vector Machine achieved a 0.9 AUC Score and 0.84 accuracy score.

Author(s):  
Hedieh Sajedi ◽  
Mehran Bahador

In this paper, a new approach for segmentation and recognition of Persian handwritten numbers is presented. This method utilizes the framing feature technique in combination with outer profile feature that we named this the adapted framing feature. In our proposed approach, segmentation of the numbers into digits has been carried out automatically. In the classification stage of the proposed method, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) are used. Experimentations are conducted on the IFHCDB database consisting 17,740 numeral images and HODA database consisting 102,352 numeral images. In isolated digit level on IFHCDB, the recognition rate of 99.27%, is achieved by using SVM with polynomial kernel. Furthermore, in isolated digit level on HODA, the recognition rate of 99.07% is achieved by using SVM with polynomial kernel. The experiments illustrate that applying our proposed method resulted higher accuracy compared to previous researches.


Author(s):  
Aishwarya .R

Abstract: Lung cancer has been a major contribution to mortality rates world-wide for many years now. There is a need for early diagnosis of lung cancer which if implemented, will help in reducing mortality rates. Recently, image processing techniques have been widely applied in various medical facilities for accurate detection and diagnosis of abnormality in the body images like in various cancers such as brain tumour, breast tumour and lung tumour. This paper is a development of an algorithm based on medical image processing to segment the lung tumour in CT images due to the lack of such algorithms and approaches used to detect tumours. The work involves the application of different image processing tools in order to arrive at the desired result when combined and successively applied. The segmentation system comprises different steps along the process. First, Image preprocessing is done where some enhancement is done to enhance and reduce noise in images. In the next step, the different parts in the images are separated to be able to segment the tumour. In this phase threshold value was selected automatically. Then morphological operation (Area opening) is implemented on the thresholded image. Finally, the lung tumour is accurately segmented by subtracting the opened image from the thresholded image. Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is used to classify the lung tumour into 4 different types: Adenocarcinoma(AC), Large Cell Carcinoma(LCC) Squamous Cell Carcinoma(SCC), and No tumour (NT). Keywords: Lung tumour; image processing techniques; segmentation; thresholding; image enhancement; Support Vector Machine; Machine learning;


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syeda Nadia Firdaus

This thesis explores machine learning models based on various feature sets to solve the protein structural class prediction problem which is a significant classification problem in bioinformatics. Knowledge of protein structural classes contributes to an understanding of protein folding patterns, and this has made structural class prediction research a major topic of interest. In this thesis, features are extracted from predicted secondary structure and hydropathy sequence using new strategies to classify proteins into one of the four major structural classes: all-α, all-β, α/β, and α+β. The prediction accuracy using these features compares favourably with some existing successful methods. We use Support Vector Machines (SVM), since this learning method has well-known efficiency in solving this classification problem. On a standard dataset (25PDB), the proposed system has an overall accuracy of 89% with as few as 22 features, whereas the previous best performing method had an accuracy of 88% using 2510 features.


The Lung Cancer is a most common cancer which causes of death to people. Early detection of this cancer will increase the survival rate. Usually, cancer detection is done manually by radiologists that had resulted in high rate of False Positive (FP) and False Negative (FN) test results. Currently Computed Tomography (CT) scan is used to scan the lung, which is much efficient than X-ray. In this proposed system a Computer Aided Detection (CADe) system for detecting lung cancer is used. This proposed system uses various image processing techniques to detect the lung cancer and also to classify the stages of lung cancer. Thus the rates of human errors are reduced in this system. As the result, the rate of obtaining False positive and (FP) False Negative (FN) has reduced. In this system, MATLAB have been used to process the image. Region growing algorithm is used to segment the ROI (Region of Interest). The SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier is used to detect lung cancer and to identify the stages of lung cancer for the segmented ROI region. This proposed system produced 98.5 % accuracy when compared to other existing system


Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irvin Hussein Lopez-Nava ◽  
Matias Garcia-Constantino ◽  
Jesus Favela

Activity recognition is an important task in many fields, such as ambient intelligence, pervasive healthcare, and surveillance. In particular, the recognition of human gait can be useful to identify the characteristics of the places or physical spaces, such as whether the person is walking on level ground or walking down stairs in which people move. For example, ascending or descending stairs can be a risky activity for older adults because of a possible fall, which can have more severe consequences than if it occurred on a flat surface. While portable and wearable devices have been widely used to detect Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), few research works in the literature have focused on characterizing only actions of human gait. In the present study, a method for recognizing gait activities using acceleration data obtained from a smartphone and a wearable inertial sensor placed on the ankle of people is introduced. The acceleration signals were segmented based on the automatic detection of strides, also called gait cycles. Subsequently, a feature vector of the segmented signals was extracted, which was used to train four classifiers using the Naive Bayes, C4.5, Support Vector Machines, and K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms. Data was collected from seven young subjects who performed five gait activities: (i) going down an incline, (ii) going up an incline, (iii) walking on level ground, (iv) going down stairs, and (v) going up stairs. The results demonstrate the viability of using the proposed method and technologies in ambient assisted living contexts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Afonso ◽  
André Neves ◽  
Carlos Viegas Damásio ◽  
João Moura Pires ◽  
Fernando Birra ◽  
...  

Every year, wildfires strike the Portuguese territory and are a concern for public entities and the population. To prevent a wildfire progression and minimize its impact, Fuel Management Zones (FMZs) have been stipulated, by law, around buildings, settlements, along national roads, and other infrastructures. FMZs require monitoring of the vegetation condition to promptly proceed with the maintenance and cleaning of these zones. To improve FMZ monitoring, this paper proposes the use of satellite images, such as the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, along with vegetation indices and extracted temporal characteristics (max, min, mean and standard deviation) associated with the vegetation within and outside the FMZs and to determine if they were treated. These characteristics feed machine-learning algorithms, such as XGBoost, Support Vector Machines, K-nearest neighbors and Random Forest. The results show that it is possible to detect an intervention in an FMZ with high accuracy, namely with an F1-score ranging from 90% up to 94% and a Kappa ranging from 0.80 up to 0.89.


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