scholarly journals Traffic Monitoring System Based on Deep Learning and Seismometer Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 4590
Author(s):  
Ahmad Bahaa Ahmad ◽  
Takeshi Tsuji

Currently, vehicle classification in roadway-based techniques depends mainly on photos/videos collected by an over-roadway camera or on the magnetic characteristics of vehicles. However, camera-based techniques are criticized for potentially violating the privacy of vehicle occupants and exposing their identity, and vehicles can evade detection when they are obscured by larger vehicles. Here, we evaluate methods of identifying and classifying vehicles on the basis of seismic data. Vehicle identification from seismic signals is considered a difficult task because of interference by various noise. By analogy with techniques used in speech recognition, we used different artificial intelligence techniques to extract features of three, different-sized vehicles (buses, cars, motorcycles) and seismic noise. We investigated the application of a deep neural network (DNN), a convolutional neural network (CNN), and a recurrent neural network (RNN) to classify vehicles on the basis of vertical-component seismic data recorded by geophones. The neural networks were trained on 5580 unprocessed seismic records and achieved excellent training accuracy (99%). They were also tested on large datasets representing periods as long as 1 month to check their stability. We found that CNN was the most satisfactory approach, reaching 96% accuracy and detecting multiple vehicle classes at the same time at a low computational cost. Our findings show that seismic methods can be used for traffic monitoring and security purposes without violating the privacy of vehicle occupants, offering greater efficiency and lower costs than current methods. A similar approach may be useful for other types of transportation, such as vessels and airplanes.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Mitre-Hernandez ◽  
Rodolfo Ferro-Perez ◽  
Francisco Gonzalez-Hernandez

BACKGROUND Mental health effects during COVID-19 quarantine need to be handled because patients, relatives, and healthcare workers are living with negative emotional behaviors. The clinical disorders of depression and anxiety are evoking anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and reducing happiness. Therefore, track emotions with the help of psychologists on online consultations –to reduce the risk of contagion– will go a long way in assisting with mental health. The human micro-expressions can describe genuine emotions of people and can be captured by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) models. But the challenge is to implement it under the poor performance of a part of society's computers and the low speed of internet connection. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to create a useful and usable web application to record emotions in a patient’s card in real-time, achieving a small data transfer, and a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) model with a low computational cost. METHODS To validate the low computational cost premise, firstly, we compare DNN architectures results, collecting the floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), the Number of Parameters (NP) and accuracy from the MobileNet, PeleeNet, Extended Deep Neural Network (EDNN), Inception- Based Deep Neural Network (IDNN) and our proposed Residual mobile-based Network (ResmoNet) model. Secondly, we compare the trained models' results in terms of Main Memory Utilization (MMU) and Response Time to complete the Emotion recognition (RTE). Finally, we design a data transfer that includes the raw data of emotions and the basic text information of the patient. The web application was evaluated with the System Usability Scale (SUS) and a utility questionnaire by psychologists and psychiatrists (experts). RESULTS All CNN models were set up using 150 epochs for training and testing comparing the results for each variable in ResmoNet with the best model. It was obtained that ResmoNet has 115,976 NP less than MobileNet, 243,901 FLOPS less than MobileNet, and 5% less accuracy than EDNN (95%). Moreover, ResmoNet used less MMU than any model, only EDNN overcomes ResmoNet in 0.01 seconds for RTE. Finally, with our model, we develop a web application to collect emotions in real-time during a psychological consultation. For data transfer, the patient’s card and raw emotional data have 2 kb with a UTF-8 encoding approximately. Finally, according to the experts, the web application has good usability (73.8 of 100) and utility (3.94 of 5). CONCLUSIONS A usable and useful web application for psychologists and psychiatrists is presented. This tool includes an efficient and light facial emotion recognition model. Its purpose is to be a complementary tool for diagnostic processes.


Geophysics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-77
Author(s):  
Hanchen Wang ◽  
Tariq Alkhalifah

The ample size of time-lapse data often requires significant event detection and source location efforts, especially in areas like shale gas exploration regions where a large number of micro-seismic events are often recorded. In many cases, the real-time monitoring and locating of these events are essential to production decisions. Conventional methods face considerable drawbacks. For example, traveltime-based methods require traveltime picking of often noisy data, while migration and waveform inversion methods require expensive wavefield solutions and event detection. Both tasks require some human intervention, and this becomes a big problem when too many sources need to be located, which is common in micro-seismic monitoring. Machine learning has recently been used to identify micro-seismic events or locate their sources once they are identified and picked. We propose to use a novel artificial neural network framework to directly map seismic data, without any event picking or detection, to their potential source locations. We train two convolutional neural networks on labeled synthetic acoustic data containing simulated micro-seismic events to fulfill such requirements. One convolutional neural network, which has a global average pooling layer to reduce the computational cost while maintaining high-performance levels, aims to classify the number of events in the data. The other network predicts the source locations and other source features such as the source peak frequencies and amplitudes. To reduce the size of the input data to the network, we correlate the recorded traces with a central reference trace to allow the network to focus on the curvature of the input data near the zero-lag region. We train the networks to handle single, multi, and no event segments extracted from the data. Tests on a simple vertical varying model and a more realistic Otway field model demonstrate the approach's versatility and potential.


Author(s):  
Tapabrata Ray

Surrogate-assisted optimization frameworks are of great use in solving practical computationally expensive process-design-optimization problems. In this chapter, a framework for design optimization is introduced that makes use of neural-network-based surrogates in lieu of actual analysis to arrive at optimum process parameters. The performance of the algorithm is studied using a number of mathematical benchmarks to instill confidence on its performance before reporting the results of a springback minimization problem. The results clearly indicate that the framework is able to report optimum designs with a substantially low computational cost while maintaining an acceptable level of accuracy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 1211-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y X Zhao ◽  
Y Li ◽  
B J Yang

SUMMARY One of the difficulties in desert seismic data processing is the large spectral overlap between noise and reflected signals. Existing denoising algorithms usually have a negative impact on the resolution and fidelity of seismic data when denoising, which is not conducive to the acquisition of underground structures and lithology related information. Aiming at this problem, we combine traditional method with deep learning, and propose a new feature extraction and denoising strategy based on a convolutional neural network, namely VMDCNN. In addition, we also build a training set using field seismic data and synthetic seismic data to optimize network parameters. The processing results of synthetic seismic records and field seismic records show that the proposed method can effectively suppress the noise that shares the same frequency band with the reflected signals, and the reflected signals have almost no energy loss. The processing results meet the requirements of high signal-to-noise ratio, high resolution and high fidelity for seismic data processing.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Xin Long ◽  
XiangRong Zeng ◽  
Zongcheng Ben ◽  
Dianle Zhou ◽  
Maojun Zhang

The increase in sophistication of neural network models in recent years has exponentially expanded memory consumption and computational cost, thereby hindering their applications on ASIC, FPGA, and other mobile devices. Therefore, compressing and accelerating the neural networks are necessary. In this study, we introduce a novel strategy to train low-bit networks with weights and activations quantized by several bits and address two corresponding fundamental issues. One is to approximate activations through low-bit discretization for decreasing network computational cost and dot-product memory. The other is to specify weight quantization and update mechanism for discrete weights to avoid gradient mismatch. With quantized low-bit weights and activations, the costly full-precision operation will be replaced by shift operation. We evaluate the proposed method on common datasets, and results show that this method can dramatically compress the neural network with slight accuracy loss.


Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Rui Hu ◽  
Prasanna Balaprakash

Abstract Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated good performance in learning highly non-linear relationships in large datasets, thus have been considered as a promising surrogate modeling tool for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). On the other hand, quantifying the predictive uncertainty in DNNs is still a challenging problem. The Bayesian neural network (BNN), a sophisticated method assuming the weights of the DNNs follow certain uncertainty distributions, is considered as a state-of-the-art method for the UQ of DNNs. However, the method is too computationally expensive to be used in complicated DNN architectures. In this work, we utilized two more methods for the UQ of complicated DNNs, i.e. Monte Carlo dropout and deep ensemble. Both methods are computationally efficient and scalable compared to BNN. We applied these two methods to a densely connected convolutional network, which is developed and trained as a coarse-mesh turbulence closure relation for reactor safety analysis. In comparison, the corresponding BNN with the same architecture is also developed and trained. The computational cost and uncertainty evaluation performance of these three UQ methods are comprehensively investigated. It is found that the deep ensemble method is able to produce reasonable uncertainty estimates with good scalability and relatively low computational cost compared to BNN.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Martín ◽  
Emil J. Khatib ◽  
Pedro Lázaro ◽  
Raquel Barco

Measuring traffic in real time is one of the main functionalities of Smart Cities. To reduce the costs of deployment and operation, traffic measurement with mobile devices has been widely studied. In this paper, a traffic monitoring system using mobile devices is proposed. The proposed algorithm has the advantage of having a very low computational cost, allowing most of the pre-processing to be done in the mobile device and therefore making possible the centralized collection of a massive number of measurements. The proposed system is composed of three algorithms; a map-matching algorithm to correct minor location errors, a Virtual Inductive Loop that estimates the traffic and a traffic data collector that aggregates the information from many devices and combines it with other information sources. The system has been tested in a real scenario, comparing its accuracy with a traditional traffic sensor, showing its accuracy.


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