AIR POLLUTANTS CONCENTRATION PREDICTION BASED ON TRANSFER LEARNING AND RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Fong Iat Hang ◽  
Simon Fong
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Concentration Of Air Pollutants

Air pollution poses a great threat to human health, and people are paying more and more attention to the prediction of air pollution. Prediction of air pollution helps people plan for their outdoor activities and helps protect human health. In this article, long-short term memory recurrent neural networks were used to predict the future concentration of air pollutants in Macau. In addition, meteorological data and data on the concentration of air pollutants were used. Moreover, in Macau, some air quality monitoring stations have less observed data, and some AQMSs less observed data of certain types of air pollutants. Therefore, the transfer learning and pre-trained neural networks were used to assist AQMSs with less observed data to generate neural network with high prediction accuracy. In this thesis, in most cases, LSTM RNNs initialized with transfer learning methods have higher prediction accuracy, used less training time than randomly initialized recurrent neural networks.

scholarly journals The Impact of Atmospheric Pollutants on Human Health and Economic Loss Assessment

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1628
Author(s):  
Houli Zhang ◽  
Shibing You ◽  
Miao Zhang ◽  
Difei Liu ◽  
Xuyan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Air Pollutant ◽  
Atmospheric Pollutants ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Air Pollution Control ◽  
The Impact

The impact of air pollution on human health is becoming increasingly severe, and economic losses are a significant impediment to economic and social development. This paper investigates the impact of air pollutants on the respiratory system and its action mechanism by using information on inpatients with respiratory diseases from two IIIA (highest) hospitals in Wuhan from 2015 to 2019, information on air pollutants, and meteorological data, as well as relevant demographic and economic data in China. This paper describes the specific conditions of air pollutant concentrations and respiratory diseases, quantifies the degree of correlation between the two, and then provides a more comprehensive assessment of the economic losses using descriptive statistical methods, the generalized additive model (GAM), cost of illness approach (COI), and scenario analysis. According to the findings, the economic losses caused by PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, and CO exposure are USD 103.17 million, USD 70.54 million, USD 98.02 million, USD 40.35 million, and USD 142.38 million, for a total of USD 454.46 billion, or approximately 0.20% of Wuhan’s GDP in 2019. If the government tightens control of major air pollutants and meets the WHO-recommended criterion values, the annual evitable economic losses would be approximately USD 69.4 million or approximately 0.03% of Wuhan’s GDP in 2019. As a result, the relevant government departments must strengthen air pollution control to mitigate the impact of air pollution on population health and the associated economic losses.

scholarly journals Ambient Air Pollution Forecasting System using Deep Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 4161-4165
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Air Contamination ◽  
Forecasting System ◽  
Concentration Of Air Pollutants

Air pollution is a major problem that has been recognized throughout the world. Harmful impacts of air contamination include hypersensitive reactions such as throat irritation, itchy eyes, nose, and some other serious problems. In recent years, the number of fatalities occurred due to air pollution has been increasing dramatically. In this paper, various air pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide, Methane or natural gas, LPG, and air quality at different places of city are measured using sensors. Further, the detected values are then used in the prediction of future values. The evolution of deep neural networks and Internet of Things made this possible to detect and forecast the concentration of pollutants underlying in the air. We use a special module called pyFirmata firmware which is used to connect the Arduino with python and upload the data into csv file on Jupyter Notebook. Here, the data collected is univariate i.e. it varies with only time. Though there are many statistical models to predict time series datasets such as ARIMA, their efficiency is low. Deep Neural Networks works well for predicting univariate as well as time series datasets. Hence, the Keras sequential model is employed to predict the hourly future values of air pollutants based on previous readings. The final results of prediction are compared with the actual values and error is calculated. As a result, the level of air pollutants at a particular hour can be predicted. The concentration of air pollutants in coming years, month or week helps us to reduce its concentration to lesser than the harmful or toxic range.

scholarly journals The modification effect of temperature on the relationship between air pollutants and daily incidence of influenza in Ningbo, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Yujie Meng ◽  
Hejia Song ◽  
Ran Niu ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Modification Effect ◽  
Incidence Risk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Although exposure to air pollution has been linked to many health issues, few studies have quantified the modification effect of temperature on the relationship between air pollutants and daily incidence of influenza in Ningbo, China. Methods The data of daily incidence of influenza and the relevant meteorological data and air pollution data in Ningbo from 2014 to 2017 were retrieved. Low, medium and high temperature layers were stratified by the daily mean temperature with 25th and 75th percentiles. The potential modification effect of temperature on the relationship between air pollutants and daily incidence of influenza in Ningbo was investigated through analyzing the effects of air pollutants stratified by temperature stratum using distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM). Stratified analysis by sex and age were also conducted. Results Overall, a 10 μg/m3 increment of O3, PM2.5, PM10 and NO2 could increase the incidence risk of influenza with the cumulative relative risk of 1.028 (95% CI 1.007, 1.050), 1.061 (95% CI 1.004, 1.122), 1.043 (95% CI 1.003, 1.085), and 1.118 (95% CI 1.028, 1.216), respectively. Male and aged 7–17 years were more sensitive to air pollutants. Through the temperature stratification analysis, we found that temperature could modify the impacts of air pollution on daily incidence of influenza with high temperature exacerbating the impact of air pollutants. At high temperature layer, male and the groups aged 0–6 years and 18–64 years were more sensitive to air pollution. Conclusion Temperature modified the relationship between air pollution and daily incidence of influenza and high temperature would exacerbate the effects of air pollutants in Ningbo.

scholarly journals Transfer Learning with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Remaining Useful Life Estimation

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansi Zhang ◽  
Honglei Wang ◽  
Shaobo Li ◽  
Yuxin Cui ◽  
Zhonghao Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Good Prediction ◽  
Useful Life

Prognostics, such as remaining useful life (RUL) prediction, is a crucial task in condition-based maintenance. A major challenge in data-driven prognostics is the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient number of samples of failure progression. However, for traditional machine learning methods and deep neural networks, enough training data is a prerequisite to train good prediction models. In this work, we proposed a transfer learning algorithm based on Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural networks for RUL estimation, in which the models can be first trained on different but related datasets and then fine-tuned by the target dataset. Extensive experimental results show that transfer learning can in general improve the prediction models on the dataset with a small number of samples. There is one exception that when transferring from multi-type operating conditions to single operating conditions, transfer learning led to a worse result.

scholarly journals Recurrent Neural Networks for Narrowband Signal Detection in the Time-Frequency Domain

2004 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 483-486
Author(s):  
David Brodrick ◽  
Douglas Taylor ◽  
Joachim Diederich
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Signal Detection ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Radio Frequency Interference ◽  
Recurrent Networks ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Narrowband Signal ◽  
Radio Signals

A recurrent neural network was trained to detect the time-frequency domain signature of narrowband radio signals against a background of astronomical noise. The objective was to investigate the use of recurrent networks for signal detection in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, though the problem is closely analogous to the detection of some classes of Radio Frequency Interference in radio astronomy.

scholarly journals The interaction between structure and meaning in sentence comprehension: Recurrent neural networks and reading times

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan L. Frank ◽  
John Hoeks
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Garden Path ◽  
Word Predictability ◽  
Syntactic Ambiguities ◽  
Potential Object

Recurrent neural network (RNN) models of sentence processing have recently displayed a remarkable ability to learn aspects of structure comprehension, as evidenced by their ability to account for reading times on sentences with local syntactic ambiguities (i.e., garden-path effects). Here, we investigate if these models can also simulate the effect of semantic appropriateness of the ambiguity's readings. RNNs-based estimates of surprisal of the disambiguating verb of sentences with an NP/S-coordination ambiguity (as in `The wizard guards the king and the princess protects ...') show identical patters to human reading times on the same sentences: Surprisal is higher on ambiguous structures than on their disambiguated counterparts and this effect is weaker, but not absent, in cases of poor thematic fit between the verb and its potential object (`The teacher baked the cake and the baker made ...'). These results show that an RNN is able to simultaneously learn about structural and semantic relations between words and suggest that garden-path phenomena may be more closely related to word predictability than traditionally assumed.

scholarly journals Binary and Multiclass Text Classification by Means of Separable Convolutional Neural Network

Inventions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Elena Solovyeva ◽  
Ali Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Activation Functions ◽  
Fully Connected ◽  
Fully Connected Networks

In this paper, the structure of a separable convolutional neural network that consists of an embedding layer, separable convolutional layers, convolutional layer and global average pooling is represented for binary and multiclass text classifications. The advantage of the proposed structure is the absence of multiple fully connected layers, which is used to increase the classification accuracy but raises the computational cost. The combination of low-cost separable convolutional layers and a convolutional layer is proposed to gain high accuracy and, simultaneously, to reduce the complexity of neural classifiers. Advantages are demonstrated at binary and multiclass classifications of written texts by means of the proposed networks under the sigmoid and Softmax activation functions in convolutional layer. At binary and multiclass classifications, the accuracy obtained by separable convolutional neural networks is higher in comparison with some investigated types of recurrent neural networks and fully connected networks.

scholarly journals PREDICTING DAILY PM2.5 USING WEIGHTED LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY NEURAL NETWORK MODEL

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B3-2020 ◽  
pp. 1451-1455
Author(s):  
H. Fan ◽  
M. Yang ◽  
F. Xiao ◽  
K. Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Wind Condition ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Long Short Term Memory ◽  
Pm2.5 Concentration

Abstract. Over the past few decades, air pollution has caused serious damage on public health, thus making accurate predictions of PM2.5 crucial. Due to the transportation of air pollutants among areas, the PM2.5 concentration is strongly spatiotemporal correlated. However, the distribution of air pollution monitoring sites is not even, making the spatiotemporal correlation between the central site and surrounding sites varies with different density of sites, and this was neglected by most existing methods. To tackle this problem, this study proposed a weighted long short-term memory neural network extended model (WLSTME), which addressed the issue that how to consider the effect of the density of sites and wind condition on the spatiotemporal correlation of air pollution concentration. First, several the nearest surrounding sites were chosen as the neighbour sites to the central station, and their distance as well as their air pollution concentration and wind condition were input to multi-layer perception (MLP) to generate weighted historical PM2.5 time series data. Second, historical PM2.5 concentration of the central site and weighted PM2.5 series data of neighbour sites were input into LSTM to address spatiotemporal dependency simultaneously and extract spatiotemporal features. Finally, another MLP was utilized to integrate spatiotemporal features extracted above with the meteorological data of central site to generate the forecasts future PM_2.5 concentration of the central site. Daily PM_2.5 concentration and meteorological data on Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei from 2015 to 2017 were collected to train models and evaluate the performance. Experimental results with 3 other methods showed that the proposed WLSTME model has the lowest RMSE (40.67) and MAE (26.10) and the highest p (0.59). This finding confirms that WLSTME can significantly improve the PM2.5 prediction accuracy.

scholarly journals ELMAN-RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK FOR LOAD SHEDDING OPTIMIZATION

SINERGI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Widi Aribowo
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Power System ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Load Shedding ◽  
Feed Forward Neural Network ◽  
Linear Problems ◽  
Elman Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
And Control

Load shedding plays a key part in the avoidance of the power system outage. The frequency and voltage fluidity leads to the spread of a power system into sub-systems and leads to the outage as well as the severe breakdown of the system utility.  In recent years, Neural networks have been very victorious in several signal processing and control applications.  Recurrent Neural networks are capable of handling complex and non-linear problems. This paper provides an algorithm for load shedding using ELMAN Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Elman has proposed a partially RNN, where the feedforward connections are modifiable and the recurrent connections are fixed. The research is implemented in MATLAB and the performance is tested with a 6 bus system. The results are compared with the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Combining Genetic Algorithm with Feed Forward Neural Network (hybrid) and RNN. The proposed method is capable of assigning load releases needed and more efficient than other methods. 

scholarly journals Prediction of the Pollutants Concentration Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (SE) ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mousavian ◽  
Hady Zarei Mahmodabady ◽  
Aboutaleb Ghadami Jadval Ghadam
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Regression Methods ◽  
Tangent Function ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

Air pollution is one of the most important environmental issues that annual causes to mortality large number of people around the world. So, investigating, measuring, and predicting the concentrations of different pollutants in various areas play an important role in preventing the production of this pollutant sand planning to reduce them by people and relevant authorities. One of the new models that play an important role in measuring and predicting pollution is artificial neural network or regression methods. Therefore, this study is trying to predict air pollution in Yasouj by using artificial neural network in 2014. Because the evidences showed that Yasouj due to uncontrolled growth of industrial and urban transport is subject to various air pollutants such as carbon monoxide and particulate matter. Overall, the results of the assessment and prediction of concentration of pollutants of Yasouj by artificial neural network showed that sigmoid transfer function to the hyperbolic tangent function is more efficient in measuring the concentration of pollutants.  

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