scholarly journals An Intelligent Classification Model for Surface Defects on Cement Concrete Bridges

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinsong Zhu ◽  
Jinbo Song

This paper mainly improves the visual geometry group network-16 (VGG-16), which is a classic convolutional neural network (CNN), to classify the surface defects on cement concrete bridges in an accurate manner. Specifically, the number of fully connected layers was reduced by one, and the Softmax classifier was replaced with a Softmax classification layer with seven defect tags. The weight parameters of convolutional and pooling layers were shared in the pre-trained model, and the rectified linear unit (ReLU) function was taken as the activation function. The original images were collected by a road inspection vehicle driving across bridges on national and provincial highways in Jiangxi Province, China. The images on surface defects of cement concrete bridges were selected, and divided into a training set and a test set, and preprocessed through morphology-based weight adaptive denoising. To verify its performance, the improved VGG-16 was compared with traditional shallow neural networks (NNs) like the backpropagation neural network (BPNN), support vector machine (SVM), and deep CNNs like AlexNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet on the same sample dataset of surface defects on cement concrete bridges. Judging by mean detection accuracy and top-5 accuracy, our model outperformed all the contrastive methods, and accurately differentiated between images with seven classes of defects such as normal, cracks, fracturing, plate fracturing, corner rupturing, edge/corner exfoliation, skeleton exposure, and repairs. The results indicate that our model can effectively extract the multi-layer features from surface defect images, which highlights the edges and textures. The research findings shed important new light on the detection of surface defects and classification of defect images.

Sensors ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Zakaria El Mrabet ◽  
Niroop Sugunaraj ◽  
Prakash Ranganathan ◽  
Shrirang Abhyankar

Power system failures or outages due to short-circuits or “faults” can result in long service interruptions leading to significant socio-economic consequences. It is critical for electrical utilities to quickly ascertain fault characteristics, including location, type, and duration, to reduce the service time of an outage. Existing fault detection mechanisms (relays and digital fault recorders) are slow to communicate the fault characteristics upstream to the substations and control centers for action to be taken quickly. Fortunately, due to availability of high-resolution phasor measurement units (PMUs), more event-driven solutions can be captured in real time. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach for determining fault characteristics using samples of fault trajectories. A random forest regressor (RFR)-based model is used to detect real-time fault location and its duration simultaneously. This model is based on combining multiple uncorrelated trees with state-of-the-art boosting and aggregating techniques in order to obtain robust generalizations and greater accuracy without overfitting or underfitting. Four cases were studied to evaluate the performance of RFR: 1. Detecting fault location (case 1), 2. Predicting fault duration (case 2), 3. Handling missing data (case 3), and 4. Identifying fault location and length in a real-time streaming environment (case 4). A comparative analysis was conducted between the RFR algorithm and state-of-the-art models, including deep neural network, Hoeffding tree, neural network, support vector machine, decision tree, naive Bayesian, and K-nearest neighborhood. Experiments revealed that RFR consistently outperformed the other models in detection accuracy, prediction error, and processing time.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 7212
Author(s):  
Jungryul Seo ◽  
Teemu H. Laine ◽  
Gyuhwan Oh ◽  
Kyung-Ah Sohn

As the number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) increases, the effort needed to care for these patients increases as well. At the same time, advances in information and sensor technologies have reduced caring costs, providing a potential pathway for developing healthcare services for AD patients. For instance, if a virtual reality (VR) system can provide emotion-adaptive content, the time that AD patients spend interacting with VR content is expected to be extended, allowing caregivers to focus on other tasks. As the first step towards this goal, in this study, we develop a classification model that detects AD patients’ emotions (e.g., happy, peaceful, or bored). We first collected electroencephalography (EEG) data from 30 Korean female AD patients who watched emotion-evoking videos at a medical rehabilitation center. We applied conventional machine learning algorithms, such as a multilayer perceptron (MLP) and support vector machine, along with deep learning models of recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures. The best performance was obtained from MLP, which achieved an average accuracy of 70.97%; the RNN model’s accuracy reached only 48.18%. Our study results open a new stream of research in the field of EEG-based emotion detection for patients with neurological disorders.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianghui Wen ◽  
Yeshu Liu ◽  
Yu Shi ◽  
Haoran Huang ◽  
Bing Deng ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Long-chain non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is closely related to many biological activities. Since its sequence structure is similar to that of messenger RNA (mRNA), it is difficult to distinguish between the two based only on sequence biometrics. Therefore, it is particularly important to construct a model that can effectively identify lncRNA and mRNA. Results First, the difference in the k-mer frequency distribution between lncRNA and mRNA sequences is considered in this paper, and they are transformed into the k-mer frequency matrix. Moreover, k-mers with more species are screened by relative entropy. The classification model of the lncRNA and mRNA sequences is then proposed by inputting the k-mer frequency matrix and training the convolutional neural network. Finally, the optimal k-mer combination of the classification model is determined and compared with other machine learning methods in humans, mice and chickens. The results indicate that the proposed model has the highest classification accuracy. Furthermore, the recognition ability of this model is verified to a single sequence. Conclusion We established a classification model for lncRNA and mRNA based on k-mers and the convolutional neural network. The classification accuracy of the model with 1-mers, 2-mers and 3-mers was the highest, with an accuracy of 0.9872 in humans, 0.8797 in mice and 0.9963 in chickens, which is better than those of the random forest, logistic regression, decision tree and support vector machine.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingxin Liu ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Guannan Li ◽  
Anling Liu

Spectral characteristics play an important role in the classification of oil film, but the presence of too many bands can lead to information redundancy and reduced classification accuracy. In this study, a classification model that combines spectral indices-based band selection (SIs) and one-dimensional convolutional neural networks was proposed to realize automatic oil films classification using hyperspectral remote sensing images. Additionally, for comparison, the minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) was tested for reducing the number of bands. The support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and Hu’s convolutional neural networks (CNN) were trained and tested. The results show that the accuracy of classifications through the one dimensional convolutional neural network (1D CNN) models surpassed the accuracy of other machine learning algorithms such as SVM and RF. The model of SIs+1D CNN could produce a relatively higher accuracy oil film distribution map within less time than other models.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Dequan Guo ◽  
Gexiang Zhang ◽  
Hui Peng ◽  
Jianying Yuan ◽  
Prithwineel Paul ◽  
...  

In recent years, diseases of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular have attracted much attention due to main causes in death in human beings. To reduce mortality, there are lots of efforts which are focused on early diagnosis and prevention. It is an important reference index for cardiovascular diseases through the endovascular membrane in carotid artery by medical ultrasound images. The paper proposes a method which finds the region of interest (ROI) by convolutional neural network, segments and measures intima-media membrane mainly using support vector machine (SVM). Essentially, the task of detecting the membrane is one target detection problem. This paper adopts the strategy, named Yon Only Look Once (YOLO), a new detection algorithm, and follows the convolution neural network algorithm based on end-to-end training. Firstly, sufficient samples are extracted according to certain characteristics in the special region. It can be trained by the SVM classification model. Then the ROI is processed and all the pixels are classified into boundary points and non-boundary points through the classification model. Thirdly, the boundary points are selected to obtain the accurate boundary and calculate the intima-media thickness (IMT). In experiments, two hundred ultrasound images are tested, and the results verify that our algorithm is consistent with the results by ground truth (GT). The detection speed of the algorithm in this paper is in real time, and it has high generalization characteristics. The algorithm computes the intima-media thickness in ultrasound images accurately and quickly with 95% consistence to ground truth.


2015 ◽  
Vol 734 ◽  
pp. 543-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Hua Li ◽  
Di Liu

The aluminum plate surface defects recognition method of BP neural network is studied based on target detection .In order to detect the defects, the target image is binaried by adaptive threshold method. After binarizing the target image, three kinds of image feature, including geometric feature, grayscale feature and shape feature, are extracted from the target image and its corresponding binary image. The defects classification model based on back-propagation neural network utilizes three layers neural network structure model and the hyperbolic tangent function of S function as the activation function, the number of neurons in hidden layer is confirmed by experiments. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of BP neural network classification model as high as 94%, this can meet our requirements.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Boudewijn van Leeuwen ◽  
Zalán Tobak ◽  
Ferenc Kovács

AbstractClassification of multispectral optical satellite data using machine learning techniques to derive land use/land cover thematic data is important for many applications. Comparing the latest algorithms, our research aims to determine the best option to classify land use/land cover with special focus on temporary inundated land in a flat area in the south of Hungary. These inundations disrupt agricultural practices and can cause large financial loss. Sentinel 2 data with a high temporal and medium spatial resolution is classified using open source implementations of a random forest, support vector machine and an artificial neural network. Each classification model is applied to the same data set and the results are compared qualitatively and quantitatively. The accuracy of the results is high for all methods and does not show large overall differences. A quantitative spatial comparison demonstrates that the neural network gives the best results, but that all models are strongly influenced by atmospheric disturbances in the image.


Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byeongcheol Kang ◽  
Kyungbook Lee

Training image (TI) has a great influence on reservoir modeling as a spatial correlation in the multipoint geostatistics. Unlike the variogram of the two-point geostatistics that is mathematically defined, there is a high degree of geological uncertainty to determine a proper TI. The goal of this study is to develop a classification model for determining the proper geological scenario among plausible TIs by using machine learning methods: (a) support vector machine (SVM), (b) artificial neural network (ANN), and (c) convolutional neural network (CNN). After simulated production data are used to train the classification model, the most possible TI can be selected when the observed production responses are put into the trained model. This study, as far as we know, is the first application of CNN in which production history data are composed as a matrix form for use as an input image. The training data are set to cover various production trends to make the machine learning models more reliable. Therefore, a total of 800 channelized reservoirs were generated from four TIs, which have different channel directions to consider geological uncertainty. We divided them into training, validation, and test sets of 576, 144, and 80, respectively. The input layer comprised 800 production data, i.e., oil production rates and water cuts for eight production wells over 50 time steps, and the output layer consisted of a probability vector for each TI. The SVM and CNN models reasonably reduced the uncertainty in modeling the facies distribution based on the reliable probability for each TI. Even though the ANN and CNN had roughly the same number of parameters, the CNN outperformed the ANN in terms of both validation and test sets. The CNN successfully classified the reference model’s TI with about 95% probability. This is because the CNN can grasp the overall trend of production history. The probabilities of TI from the SVM and CNN were applied to regenerate more reliable reservoir models using the concept of TI rejection and reduced the uncertainty in the geological scenario successfully.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
S. Jeyalaksshmi ◽  
S. Prasanna

In real life scenario, facial expressions and emotions are nothing but responses to the external and internal events of human being. In Human Computer Interaction (HCI), recognition of end user’s expressions and emotions from the video streaming plays very important role. In such systems it is required to track the dynamic changes in human face movements quickly in order to deliver the required response system. In real time applications, this Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is very helpful like physical fatigue detection based on facial detection and expressions such as driver fatigue detection in order to prevent the accidents on road. Face expression based physical fatigue analysis or detection is out of scope of this work, but this work proposed a Simultaneous Evolutionary Neural Network (SENN) classification scheme is proposed for recognising human emotion or expression. In this work, at first, automatically detects and tracks facial landmarks in videos, and face is detected by using enhanced adaboost algorithm with haar features. Then, in order to describe facial expression modifications, geometric features are taken out and the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is extracted to improve the detection accuracy and it has a much lower-dimensional size. With the aim of examining the temporal facial expression modifications, we apply SENN probabilistic classifiers, which examine the facial expressions in individual frames, and after that promulgate the likelihoods during the course of the video to take the temporal features of facial expressions such as glad, sad, anger, and fear feelings. The experimental results show that the performance of proposed SENN scheme is attained better results compared than existing recognition schemes like Time-Delay Neural Network with Support Vector Regression (TDNN-SVR) and SVR. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sohaib ◽  
Jong-Myon Kim

Boiler heat exchange in thermal power plants involves tubes to transfer heat from the fuel to the water. Boiler tube leakage can cause outages and huge power generation loss. Therefore, early detection of leaks in boiler tubes is necessary to avoid such accidents. In this study, a boiler tube leak detection and classification mechanism was designed using wavelet packet transform (WPT) analysis of the acoustic emission (AE) signals acquired from the boiler tube and a fully connected deep neural network (FC-DNN). WPT analysis of the AE signals enabled the extraction of features associated with the different conditions of the boiler tube, that is, normal and leak conditions. The deep neural network (DNN) effectively explores the salient information from the wavelet packet features through a deep architecture instead of considering shallow networks, such as k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) and support vector machines (SVM). This enhances the classification performance of the leak identification and classification model developed. The proposed model yielded a 99.2 % average classification accuracy when tested with AE signals from the boiler tube. The experimental results prove the efficacy of the proposed model for boiler tube leak detection and classification.


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