Improving the similarity search between images of agricultural products: An approach based on fuzzy rough theory

Many methods have been presented in recent years for identifying the quality of agricultural products using machine vision that due to the huge amount of redundant information and noisy data of images of products, the retrieval accuracy and speed of such methods were not much acceptable. All of them try to provide approaches to extract efficient features and determine optimal methods to measure similarity between images. One of the basic problems of these methods is determination of desirable features of the user as well as using an appropriate similarity measure. This study tries to recognize the importance of each feature according to user’s opinion in every feedback stage through using weighted feature vector, rough theory and fuzzy logic for identifying important features and finding a higher accuracy in retrieval result. The proposed method is compared with fuzzy color histogram, combined approach and fuzzy neighborhood entropy characterized by color location. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method has higher applicability in image marketing compared to the existing methods.

Evaluation of interaction between housing infrastructure resilience factors against flood hazard based on rough DEMATEL approach

Purpose Housing infrastructure is the basic need for people of a community and due to disaster many houses may severaly damaged. Stakeholders and decision makers should focus on this issue and make the infrastructure more resilient against natural hazards. As dependency plays a very important role in resilience, it is important to study the dependencies and correlations among the housing infrastructure resilience factors. The evaluation of dependencies involve vagueness due to subjective judgement of experts. Design/methodology/approach In this work, the interaction between the housing infrastructure resilience factors are evaluated by using two different approaches such as crisp DEMATEL (Decision-Making and Trial Evaluation Laboratory) and rough DEMATEL (intregated crisp DEMATEL and rough set theory), where rough theory addressed the involvement of vagueness. These two approaches are compared with each other to find the effectiveness of rough DEMATEL over crisp DEMATEL. Findings The important factors of housing infrastructure resilience are identified by using both the approaches against flood hazard. Research limitations/implications The limitation of rough DEMATEL method is that it does not differentiate the type of influence such as positive or negative. Practical implications The outcome of the work will helps the stakeholders and ecission makers to make the infrastructure more resilient. Originality/value This study identify the imporatnat resilience factors of housing infrastructure against flood hazard by using two methodologies.

Rough margin-based ν-twin support tensor machine in pattern recognition

In Rough margin-based ν-Twin Support Vector Machine (Rν-TSVM) algorithm, the rough theory is introduced. Rν-TSVM gives different penalties to the corresponding misclassified samples according to their positions, so it avoids the overfitting problem to some extent. While the input data is a tensor, Rν-TSVM cannot handle it directly and may not utilize the data information effectively. Therefore, we propose a novel classifier based on tensor data, termed as Rough margin-based ν-Twin Support Tensor Machine (Rν-TSTM). Similar to Rν-TSVM, Rν-TSTM constructs rough lower margin, rough upper margin and rough boundary in tensor space. Rν-TSTM not only retains the superiority of Rν-TSVM, but also has its unique advantages. Firstly, the data topology is retained more efficiently by the direct use of tensor representation. Secondly, it has better classification performance compared to other classification algorithms. Thirdly, it can avoid overfitting problem to a great extent. Lastly, it is more suitable for high dimensional and small sample size problem. To solve the corresponding optimization problem in Rν-TSTM, we adopt the alternating iteration method in which the parameters corresponding to the hyperplanes are estimated by solving a series of Rν-TSVM optimization problem. The efficiency and superiority of the proposed method are demonstrated by computational experiments.

A Rough Set Theory Approach for Rule Generation and Validation Using RSES

Despite significant progress in e-learning technology over previous years, in view of huge sizes of data and databases, efficient knowledge extraction techniques are still required to make e-learning effective tool for delivery of learning. Rough set theory approach provides an effective technique for extraction of knowledge out of massive data. In order to provide effective support to learners, it is essential to know individual style of learning for each learner. For determining learning style of each learner, one is required to extract essentials of style of learning from a large number of parameters including academic background, profession, time available etc. In such scenario, rough theory proves a useful tool. In this paper, a rough set theory approach is proposed for determining learning styles of learners efficiently, so that based on the style, a learner may be provided learning support on the basis of requirement of the learner. These is achieved by eliminating redundant and ambiguous data and by generating reduct set, core set and rules from the given data. The results of this study are validated through RSES software by using same rough set analysis.

Knowledge Acquisition of Interval Set-Valued Based on Granular Computing

The technique of a new extension of fuzzy rough theory using partition of interval set-valued is proposed for granular computing during knowledge discovery in this paper. The natural intervals of attribute values in decision system to be transformed into multiple sub-interval of [0,1]are given by normalization. And some characteristics of interval set-valued of decision systems in fuzzy rough set theory are discussed. The correctness and effectiveness of the approach are shown in experiments. The approach presented in this paper can also be used as a data preprocessing step for other symbolic knowledge discovery or machine learning methods other than rough set theory.

Granular Space Reduction to aβMultigranulation Fuzzy Rough Set

Multigranulation rough set is an extension of classical rough set, and optimistic multigranulation and pessimistic multigranulation are two special cases of it.βmultigranulation rough set is a more generalized multigranulation rough set. In this paper, we first introduce fuzzy rough theory intoβmultigranulation rough set to construct aβmultigranulation fuzzy rough set, which can be used to deal with continuous data; then some properties are discussed. Reduction is an important issue of multigranulation rough set, and an algorithm of granular space reduction toβmultigranulation fuzzy rough set for preserving positive region is proposed. To test the algorithm, experiments are taken on five UCI data sets with different values ofβ. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.