scholarly journals Oestrus Analysis of Sows Based on Bionic Boars and Machine Vision Technology

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1485
Author(s):  
Kaidong Lei ◽  
Chao Zong ◽  
Xiaodong Du ◽  
Guanghui Teng ◽  
Feiqi Feng
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Machine Vision ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Average Duration ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Contact Duration ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Sparse Autoencoder ◽  
Accuracy Rates ◽  
Interactive Behaviour

This study proposes a method and device for the intelligent mobile monitoring of oestrus on a sow farm, applied in the field of sow production. A bionic boar model that imitates the sounds, smells, and touch of real boars was built to detect the oestrus of sows after weaning. Machine vision technology was used to identify the interactive behaviour between empty sows and bionic boars and to establish deep belief network (DBN), sparse autoencoder (SAE), and support vector machine (SVM) models, and the resulting recognition accuracy rates were 96.12%, 98.25%, and 90.00%, respectively. The interaction times and frequencies between the sow and the bionic boar and the static behaviours of both ears during heat were further analysed. The results show that there is a strong correlation between the duration of contact between the oestrus sow and the bionic boar and the static behaviours of both ears. The average contact duration between the sows in oestrus and the bionic boars was 29.7 s/3 min, and the average duration in which the ears of the oestrus sows remained static was 41.3 s/3 min. The interactions between the sow and the bionic boar were used as the basis for judging the sow’s oestrus states. In contrast with the methods of other studies, the proposed innovative design for recyclable bionic boars can be used to check emotions, and machine vision technology can be used to quickly identify oestrus behaviours. This approach can more accurately obtain the oestrus duration of a sow and provide a scientific reference for a sow’s conception time.

OFFLINE YORÙBÁ HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION USING GEOMETRIC FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIER

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 504
Author(s):  
Matthias Omotayo Oladele ◽  
Temilola Morufat Adepoju ◽  
Olaide ` Abiodun Olatoke ◽  
Oluwaseun Adewale Ojo
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Support Vector Machine Classifier ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Geometric Features ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Yoruba Language

Yorùbá language is one of the three main languages that is been spoken in Nigeria. It is a tonal language that carries an accent on the vowel alphabets. There are twenty-five (25) alphabets in Yorùbá language with one of the alphabets a digraph (GB). Due to the difficulty in typing handwritten Yorùbá documents, there is a need to develop a handwritten recognition system that can convert the handwritten texts to digital format. This study discusses the offline Yorùbá handwritten word recognition system (OYHWR) that recognizes Yorùbá uppercase alphabets. Handwritten characters and words were obtained from different writers using the paint application and M708 graphics tablets. The characters were used for training and the words were used for testing. Pre-processing was done on the images and the geometric features of the images were extracted using zoning and gradient-based feature extraction. Geometric features are the different line types that form a particular character such as the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines. The geometric features used are the number of horizontal lines, number of vertical lines, number of right diagonal lines, number of left diagonal lines, total length of all horizontal lines, total length of all vertical lines, total length of all right slanting lines, total length of all left-slanting lines and the area of the skeleton. The characters are divided into 9 zones and gradient feature extraction was used to extract the horizontal and vertical components and geometric features in each zone. The words were fed into the support vector machine classifier and the performance was evaluated based on recognition accuracy. Support vector machine is a two-class classifier, hence a multiclass SVM classifier least square support vector machine (LSSVM) was used for word recognition. The one vs one strategy and RBF kernel were used and the recognition accuracy obtained from the tested words ranges between 66.7%, 83.3%, 85.7%, 87.5%, and 100%. The low recognition rate for some of the words could be as a result of the similarity in the extracted features.

scholarly journals An intelligent machine vision system for detecting surface defects on packing boxes based on support vector machine

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1102-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wu ◽  
Yanjie Lu
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Machine Vision ◽  
Defect Detection ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Ideal Condition ◽  
Product Packaging

Defects in product packaging are one of the key factors that affect product sales. Traditional defect detection depends primarily on artificial vision detection. With the rapid development of machine vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and other technologies, industrial automation detection has become an inevitable trend because machine vision technology can greatly improve accuracy and efficiency; therefore, it is of great practical value to study automatic detection technology of the surface defects encountered in packaging boxes. In this study, machine vision and machine learning were combined to examine a surface defect detection method based on support vector machine where defective products are eliminated by a sorting robot system. After testing, the support vector machine training model using radial basis function kernel detects three kinds of defects at the same time under the ideal condition of parameter selection, and the effective detection rate is 98.0296%.

Detection and Classification of Watermelon Seeds Exterior Quality Based on LS-SVM Using Machine Vision

2013 ◽  
Vol 278-280 ◽  
pp. 727-730
Author(s):  
Xiai Chen ◽  
Shuang Ke ◽  
Ling Wang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Machine Vision ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Machine Vision System ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Surface Irregularities

A machine vision system was developed to investigate the detection of watermelon seeds exterior quality. The main characteristics of watermelon seeds appearance including area, perimeter, roughness and minimum enclosing rectangle were calculated by image analysis. Least square support vector machine optimized by genetic algorithm was applied for the classification of watermelon seeds exterior quality, and the broken seeds, normal seeds and high-quality seeds were distinguished finally. The surface irregularities defects of watermelon seeds were detected by machine vision grid laser. The experimental results show that the watermelon seeds exterior quality could be well detected and classified by machine vision based on least squares support vector machine.

scholarly journals Diagnosis of Melanoma Based on the Sparse Auto-Encoder for Feature Extraction

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
Nadia Smaoui Zghal ◽  
Marwa Zaabi ◽  
Houda Derbel
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Support Vector Machine Classifier ◽  
Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Suspected Case ◽  
K Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Unsupervised Deep Learning ◽  
Sparse Autoencoder ◽  
Experimental Findings

Aims: Skin cancer is a fairly critical disease all over the world and especially in Western countries and America. However, if it is perceived and treated early, it is quite often curable. The main risk factors for melanoma are exposure to UV rays, the presence of many moles, and heredity. For this reason, this work focuses on the issue of automatic diagnosis of melanoma. The aim is to extract significant features from pixels of the images based on an unsupervised deep learning technique which is the sparse autoencoder method. Methodology: A preprocessing phase is required to remove the artifacts and enhance the contrast of the images before proceeding with the feature extraction. Once the characteristics are extracted automatically, the support vector machine classifier and the k-nearest neighbors are applied for the classification phase. The objective is to differentiate between 3 categories: melanoma, suspected case, and non-melanoma. Finally, the PH2 database is used to test the proposed approaches (200 images are presented in this dataset: 80 atypical nevi, 80 common nevi, and 40 melanoma). Results: The obtained results in terms of specificity, accuracy, and sensitivity present noticeable performances with the support vector machine classifier (achieved 94 % overall accuracy) and the k-nearest neighbors (92 %). Conclusion: This study's experimental findings showed that the best performance was obtained by the approach based on a deep sparse autoencoder combined with support vector machine.

scholarly journals Deep Feature Autoextraction Method for Intrapulse Data of Radar Emitter Signal

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shiqiang Wang ◽  
Caiyun Gao ◽  
Chang Luo ◽  
Huiyong Zeng ◽  
Guimei Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Support Vector Machine Classifier ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Large Signal ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Deep Feature ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Sparse Autoencoder

Concerned with the problems that the extracted features are the absence of objectivity for radar emitter signal intrapulse data because of relying on priori knowledge, a novel method is proposed. First, this method gets the sparse autoencoder by adding certain restrain to the autoencoder. Second, by optimizing the sparse autoencoder and confirming the training scheme, intrapulse deep features are autoextracted with encoder layer parameters. The method extracts the eigenvectors of six typical radar emitter signals and uses them as inputs to a support vector machine classifier. The experimental results show that the method has higher accuracy in the case of large signal-to-noise ratio. The simulation verifies that the extracted features are feasible.

143 Predicting pork color scores using machine vision and support vector machine technologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (suppl_2) ◽  
pp. 67-67
Author(s):  
X. Sun ◽  
J. M. Young ◽  
J. H. Liu ◽  
L. A. Bachmeier ◽  
R. Somers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Machine Vision ◽  
Support Vector
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