Offline Handwritten Character & Numeral Recognition A Kernel Based Approach

Automatic Character Recognition for the handwritten Indic script has listed up as most the challenging area for research in the field of pattern recognition. Although a great amount of research work has been reported, but all the state-of-art methods are limited with optimal features. This article aims to suggest a well-defined recognition model which harnessed upon handwritten Odia characters and numerals by implementing a novel process of decomposition in terms of 3rd level Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) to get higher dimension feature vector. After that, Kernel-Principal Component Analysis (K-PCA) considered to obtained optimal features from FDCT feature. Finally, the classification is performed by using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) on handwritten Odia character and numeral dataset from both NIT Rourkela and IIT Bhubaneswar. The outcome of proposed scheme outperforms better as compared to existing model with optimized Gaussian kernel-based feature set.

OPTIMAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE PATTERN MATRIX FOR PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS IN TECHNICAL DIAGNOSTICS BASED ON EXPERT ESTIMATIONS

In the field of technical diagnostics, many tasks are solved by using automated classification. For this, such classifiers like probabilistic neural networks fit best owing to their simplicity. To obtain a probabilistic neural network pattern matrix for technical diagnostics, expert estimations or measurements are commonly involved. The pattern matrix can be deduced straightforwardly by just averaging over those estimations. However, averages are not always the best way to process expert estimations. The goal is to suggest a method of optimally deducing the pattern matrix for technical diagnostics based on expert estimations. The main criterion of the optimality is maximization of the performance, in which the subcriterion of maximization of the operation speed is included. First of all, the maximal width of the pattern matrix is determined. The width does not exceed the number of experts. Then, for every state of an object, the expert estimations are clustered. The clustering can be done by using the k-means method or similar. The centroids of these clusters successively form the pattern matrix. The optimal number of clusters determines the probabilistic neural network optimality by its performance maximization. In general, most results of the error rate percentage of probabilistic neural networks appear to be near-exponentially decreasing as the number of clustered expert estimations is increased. Therefore, if the optimal number of clusters defines a too “wide” pattern matrix whose operation speed is intolerably slow, the performance maximization implies a tradeoff between the error rate percentage minimum and maximally tolerable slowness in the probabilistic neural network operation speed. The optimal number of clusters is found at an asymptotically minimal error rate percentage, or at an acceptable error rate percentage which corresponds to maximally tolerable slowness in operation speed. The optimality is practically referred to the simultaneous acceptability of error rate and operation speed.

Comparative numerical analysis of Bayesian decision rule and probabilistic neural network for pattern recognition

At present, neural networks are increasingly used to solve many problems instead of traditional methods for solving them. This involves comparing the neural network and the traditional method for specific tasks. In this paper, computer modeling of the Bayesian decision rule and the probabilistic neural network is carried out in order to compare their operational characteristics for recognizing Gaussian patterns. Recognition of four and six images (classes) with the number of features from 1 to 6 was simulated in cases where the images are well and poorly separated. The sizes of the training and test samples are chosen quiet big: 500 implementations for each image. Such characteristics as training time of the decision rule, recognition time on the test sample, recognition reliability on the test sample, recognition reliability on the training sample were analyzed. In framework of these conditions it was found that the recognition reliability on the test sample in the case of well separated patterns and with any number of the instances is close to 100 percent for both decision rules. The neural network loses 0,1–16 percent to Bayesian decision rule in the recognition reliability on the test sample for poorly separated patterns. The training time of the neural network exceeds the training time of the Bayesian decision rule in 4–5 times and the recognition time – in 4–6 times. As a result, there are no obvious advantages of the probabilistic neural network over the Bayesian decision rule in the problem of Gaussian pattern recognition. The existing generalization of the Bayesian decision rule described in the article is an alternative to the neural network for the case of non-Gaussian patterns.

Probabilistic Neural Network based Managing Algorithm for Building Automation System

A building automation system is a centralized intelligent system, which controls the operation of energy, security, water, and safety by the help of hardware and software modules. The general software modules employed for automation process have an algorithm with pre-determined decisions. However, such pre-determined decision algorithms won’t work in a proper manner at all situations like a human brain. Therefore a human biological inspired algorithms are developed in recent days and termed as neural network algorithms. The Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) is a kind of artificial neural network algorithm which has the ability to take decisions same as like of human brains in an efficient way. Hence a building automation system is proposed in the work based on PNN for verifying the effectiveness of neural network algorithms over the traditional pre-determined decision making algorithms. The experimental work is further extended to verify the performances of the basic neural network algorithm called Convolution Neural Network (CNN).

Elements Influencing sEMG-Based Gesture Decoding: Muscle Fatigue, Forearm Angle and Acquisition Time

The surface Electromyography (sEMG) signal contains information about movement intention generated by the human brain, and it is the most intuitive and common solution to control robots, orthotics, prosthetics and rehabilitation equipment. In recent years, gesture decoding based on sEMG signals has received a lot of research attention. In this paper, the effects of muscle fatigue, forearm angle and acquisition time on the accuracy of gesture decoding were researched. Taking 11 static gestures as samples, four specific muscles (i.e., superficial flexor digitorum (SFD), flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU), extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) and finger extensor (FE)) were selected to sample sEMG signals. Root Mean Square (RMS), Waveform Length (WL), Zero Crossing (ZC) and Slope Sign Change (SSC) were chosen as signal eigenvalues; Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) were used to construct classification models, and finally, the decoding accuracies of the classification models were obtained under different influencing elements. The experimental results showed that the decoding accuracy of the classification model decreased by an average of 7%, 10%, and 13% considering muscle fatigue, forearm angle and acquisition time, respectively. Furthermore, the acquisition time had the biggest impact on decoding accuracy, with a maximum reduction of nearly 20%.

Application of Probabilistic Neural Networks Using High-Frequency Components’ Differential Current for Transformer Protection Schemes to Discriminate between External Faults and Internal Winding Faults in Power Transformers

Internal and external faults in a power transformer are discriminated in this paper using an algorithm based on a combination of a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and a probabilistic neural network (PNN). DWT decomposes high-frequency fault components using the maximum coefficients of a ¼ cycle DWT as input patterns for the training process in a decision algorithm. A division algorithm between a zero sequence of post-fault differential current waveforms and the differential current coefficient in the ¼ cycle DWT is used to detect the maximum ratio and faults. The simulation system uses various study cases based on Thailand’s electricity transmission and distribution systems. The simulation results demonstrated that the PNN and BPNN are effectively implemented and perform fault detection with satisfactory accuracy. However, the PNN method is most suitable for detecting internal and external faults, and the maximum coefficient algorithm is the most effective in detecting the fault. This study will be useful in differential protection for power transformers.