scholarly journals Shared learning activity labels across heterogeneous datasets

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Juan Ye

Nowadays, the advancement of sensing and communication technologies has led to the possibility of collecting a large amount of sensor data, however, to build a reliable computational model and accurately recognise human activities we still need the annotations on sensor data. Acquiring high-quality, detailed, continuous annotations is a challenging task. In this paper, we explore the solution space on sharing annotated activities across different datasets in order to enhance the recognition accuracies. The main challenge is to resolve heterogeneity in feature and activity space between datasets; that is, each dataset can have a different number of sensors in heterogeneous sensing technologies and deployed in diverse environments and record various activities on different users. To address the challenge, we have designed and developed sharing data and sharing classifiers algorithms that feature the knowledge model to enable computationally-efficient feature space remapping and uncertainty reasoning to enable effective classifier fusion. We have validated the algorithms on three third-party real-world datasets and demonstrated their effectiveness in recognising activities only with annotations from as little as 0.1% of each dataset.

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Nisha Panwar ◽  
Shantanu Sharma ◽  
Guoxi Wang ◽  
Sharad Mehrotra ◽  
Nalini Venkatasubramanian ◽  
...  

Contemporary IoT environments, such as smart buildings, require end-users to trust data-capturing rules published by the systems. There are several reasons why such a trust is misplaced—IoT systems may violate the rules deliberately or IoT devices may transfer user data to a malicious third-party due to cyberattacks, leading to the loss of individuals’ privacy or service integrity. To address such concerns, we propose IoT Notary , a framework to ensure trust in IoT systems and applications. IoT Notary provides secure log sealing on live sensor data to produce a verifiable “proof-of-integrity,” based on which a verifier can attest that captured sensor data adhere to the published data-capturing rules. IoT Notary is an integral part of TIPPERS, a smart space system that has been deployed at the University of California, Irvine to provide various real-time location-based services on the campus. We present extensive experiments over real-time WiFi connectivity data to evaluate IoT Notary , and the results show that IoT Notary imposes nominal overheads. The secure logs only take 21% more storage, while users can verify their one day’s data in less than 2 s even using a resource-limited device.


2018 ◽  
Vol 844 ◽  
pp. 459-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Christophe Loiseau ◽  
Bernd R. Noack ◽  
Steven L. Brunton

We propose a general dynamic reduced-order modelling framework for typical experimental data: time-resolved sensor data and optional non-time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) snapshots. This framework can be decomposed into four building blocks. First, the sensor signals are lifted to a dynamic feature space without false neighbours. Second, we identify a sparse human-interpretable nonlinear dynamical system for the feature state based on the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy). Third, if PIV snapshots are available, a local linear mapping from the feature state to the velocity field is performed to reconstruct the full state of the system. Fourth, a generalized feature-based modal decomposition identifies coherent structures that are most dynamically correlated with the linear and nonlinear interaction terms in the sparse model, adding interpretability. Steps 1 and 2 define a black-box model. Optional steps 3 and 4 lift the black-box dynamics to a grey-box model in terms of the identified coherent structures, if non-time-resolved full-state data are available. This grey-box modelling strategy is successfully applied to the transient and post-transient laminar cylinder wake, and compares favourably with a proper orthogonal decomposition model. We foresee numerous applications of this highly flexible modelling strategy, including estimation, prediction and control. Moreover, the feature space may be based on intrinsic coordinates, which are unaffected by a key challenge of modal expansion: the slow change of low-dimensional coherent structures with changing geometry and varying parameters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 643-659
Author(s):  
Amichay Doitch ◽  
Ram Yazdi ◽  
Tamir Hazan ◽  
Roi Reichart

The best solution of structured prediction models in NLP is often inaccurate because of limited expressive power of the model or to non-exact parameter estimation. One way to mitigate this problem is sampling candidate solutions from the model’s solution space, reasoning that effective exploration of this space should yield high-quality solutions. Unfortunately, sampling is often computationally hard and many works hence back-off to sub-optimal strategies, such as extraction of the best scoring solutions of the model, which are not as diverse as sampled solutions. In this paper we propose a perturbation-based approach where sampling from a probabilistic model is computationally efficient. We present a learning algorithm for the variance of the perturbations, and empirically demonstrate its importance. Moreover, while finding the argmax in our model is intractable, we propose an efficient and effective approximation. We apply our framework to cross-lingual dependency parsing across 72 corpora from 42 languages and to lightly supervised dependency parsing across 13 corpora from 12 languages, and demonstrate strong results in terms of both the quality of the entire solution list and of the final solution. 1


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmy C. Azar ◽  
Martin Simonsson ◽  
Ewert Bengtsson ◽  
Anders Hast

Comparing staining patterns of paired antibodies designed towards a specific protein but toward different epitopes of the protein provides quality control over the binding and the antibodies’ ability to identify the target protein correctly and exclusively. We present a method for automated quantification of immunostaining patterns for antibodies in breast tissue using the Human Protein Atlas database. In such tissue, dark brown dye 3,3′-diaminobenzidine is used as an antibody-specific stain whereas the blue dye hematoxylin is used as a counterstain. The proposed method is based on clustering and relative scaling of features following principal component analysis. Our method is able (1) to accurately segment and identify staining patterns and quantify the amount of staining and (2) to detect paired antibodies by correlating the segmentation results among different cases. Moreover, the method is simple, operating in a low-dimensional feature space, and computationally efficient which makes it suitable for high-throughput processing of tissue microarrays.


Author(s):  
Xin Wu ◽  
Yaoyu Li

When an air compressor is operated at very low flow rate for a given discharge pressure, surge may occur, resulting in large oscillations in pressure and flow in the compressor. To prevent the damage of the compressor, on account of surge, the control strategy employed is typically to operate it below the surge line (a map of the conditions at which surge begins). Surge line is strongly affected by the ambient air conditions. Previous research has developed to derive data-driven surge maps based on an asymmetric support vector machine (ASVM). The ASVM penalizes the surge case with much greater cost to minimize the possibility of undetected surge. This paper concerns the development of adaptive ASVM based self-learning surge map modeling via the combination with signal processing techniques for surge detection. During the actual operation of a compressor after the ASVM based surge map is obtained with historic data, new surge points can be identified with the surge detection methods such as short-time Fourier transform or wavelet transform. The new surge point can be used to update the surge map. However, with increasing number of surge points, the complexity of support vector machine (SVM) would grow dramatically. In order to keep the surge map SVM at a relatively low dimension, an adaptive SVM modeling algorithm is developed to select the minimum set of necessary support vectors in a three-dimension feature space based on Gaussian curvature to guarantee a desirable classification between surge and nonsurge areas. The proposed method is validated by applying the surge test data obtained from a testbed compressor at a manufacturing plant.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Tryphosa Kamatham ◽  
Meena Alzamani ◽  
Allison Dockum ◽  
Siddhartha Sikdar ◽  
Biswarup Mukherjee

Noninvasive methods for estimation of joint and muscle forces have widespread clinical and research applications. Surface electromyography or sEMG provides a measure of the neural activation of muscles which can be used to estimate the force produced by the muscle. However, sEMG based measures of force suffer from poor signal-to-noise ratio and limited spatiotemporal specificity. In this paper, we propose an ultrasound imaging or sonomyography-based approach for estimating continuous isometric force from a sparse set of ultrasound scanlines. Our approach isolates anatomically relevant features from A-mode ultrasound signals, greatly reducing the dimensionality of the feature space and the computational complexity involved in traditional ultrasound-based methods. We evaluate the performance of four regression methodologies for force prediction using the reduced feature set. We also evaluate the feasibility of a practical wearable sonomyography-based system by simulating the effect of transducer placement and varying the number of transducers used in force prediction. Our results demonstrate that Gaussian process regression models outperform other regression methods in predicting continuous force levels from just four equispaced transducers and are tolerant to speckle noise. These findings will aid in the design of wearable sonomyography-based force prediction systems with robust, computationally efficient operation.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 2146
Author(s):  
Mikhail Zymbler ◽  
Elena Ivanova

Currently, big sensor data arise in a wide spectrum of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and Smart City applications. In such subject domains, sensors tend to have a high frequency and produce massive time series in a relatively short time interval. The data collected from the sensors are subject to mining in order to make strategic decisions. In the article, we consider the problem of choosing a Time Series Database Management System (TSDBMS) to provide efficient storing and mining of big sensor data. We overview InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and TimescaleDB, which are among the most popular state-of-the-art TSDBMSs, and represent different categories of such systems, namely native, add-ons over NoSQL systems, and add-ons over relational DBMSs (RDBMSs), respectively. Our overview shows that, at present, TSDBMSs offer a modest built-in toolset to mine big sensor data. This leads to the use of third-party mining systems and unwanted overhead costs due to exporting data outside a TSDBMS, data conversion, and so on. We propose an approach to managing and mining sensor data inside RDBMSs that exploits the Matrix Profile concept. A Matrix Profile is a data structure that annotates a time series through the index of and the distance to the nearest neighbor of each subsequence of the time series and serves as a basis to discover motifs, anomalies, and other time-series data mining primitives. This approach is implemented as a PostgreSQL extension that allows an application programmer both to compute matrix profiles and mining primitives and to represent them as relational tables. Experimental case studies show that our approach surpasses the above-mentioned out-of-TSDBMS competitors in terms of performance since it assumes that sensor data are mined inside a TSDBMS at no significant overhead costs.


10.2196/14267 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. e14267
Author(s):  
Henning Daus ◽  
Timon Bloecher ◽  
Ronny Egeler ◽  
Richard De Klerk ◽  
Wilhelm Stork ◽  
...  

Internet- and mobile-based approaches have become increasingly significant to psychological research in the field of bipolar disorders. While research suggests that emotional aspects of bipolar disorders are substantially related to the social and global functioning or the suicidality of patients, these aspects have so far not sufficiently been considered within the context of mobile-based disease management approaches. As a multiprofessional research team, we have developed a new and emotion-sensitive assistance system, which we have adapted to the needs of patients with bipolar disorder. Next to the analysis of self-assessments, third-party assessments, and sensor data, the new assistance system analyzes audio and video data of these patients regarding their emotional content or the presence of emotional cues. In this viewpoint, we describe the theoretical and technological basis of our emotion-sensitive approach and do not present empirical data or a proof of concept. To our knowledge, the new assistance system incorporates the first mobile-based approach to analyze emotional expressions of patients with bipolar disorder. As a next step, the validity and feasibility of our emotion-sensitive approach must be evaluated. In the future, it might benefit diagnostic, prognostic, or even therapeutic purposes and complement existing systems with the help of new and intuitive interaction models.


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Fakhari Mehrjardi ◽  
Hilmi Sanusi ◽  
Mohd. Alauddin Mohd. Ali

Abstract Estimation of satellite three-axis attitude using only one sensor data presents an interesting estimation problem. A flexible and mathematically effective filter for solving the satellite three-axis attitude estimation problem using two-axis magnetometer would be a challenging option for space missions which are suffering from other attitude sensors failure. Mostly, magnetometers are employed with other attitude sensors to resolve attitude estimation. However, by designing a computationally efficient discrete Kalman filter, full attitude estimation can profit by only two-axis magnetometer observations. The method suggested solves the problem of satellite attitude estimation using linear Kalman filter (LKF). Firstly, all models are generated and then the designed scenario is developed and evaluated with simulation results. The filter can achieve 10e-3 degree attitude accuracy or better on all three axes.


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