scholarly journals AI-Based Early Change Detection in Smart Living Environments

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
pp. 3549
Author(s):  
Giovanni Diraco ◽  
Alessandro Leone ◽  
Pietro Siciliano

In the smart environments we live today, a great variety of heterogeneous sensors are being increasingly deployed with the aim of providing more and more value-added services. This huge availability of sensor data, together with emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for Big Data analytics, can yield a wide array of actionable insights to help older adults continue to live independently with minimal support of caregivers. In this regard, there is a growing demand for technological solutions able to monitor human activities and vital signs in order to early detect abnormal conditions, avoiding the caregivers’ daily check of the care recipient. The aim of this study is to compare state-of-the-art machine and deep learning techniques suitable for detecting early changes in human behavior. At this purpose, specific synthetic data are generated, including activities of daily living, home locations in which such activities take place, and vital signs. The achieved results demonstrate the superiority of unsupervised deep-learning techniques over traditional supervised/semi-supervised ones in terms of detection accuracy and lead-time of prediction.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4486
Author(s):  
Niall O’Mahony ◽  
Sean Campbell ◽  
Lenka Krpalkova ◽  
Anderson Carvalho ◽  
Joseph Walsh ◽  
...  

Fine-grained change detection in sensor data is very challenging for artificial intelligence though it is critically important in practice. It is the process of identifying differences in the state of an object or phenomenon where the differences are class-specific and are difficult to generalise. As a result, many recent technologies that leverage big data and deep learning struggle with this task. This review focuses on the state-of-the-art methods, applications, and challenges of representation learning for fine-grained change detection. Our research focuses on methods of harnessing the latent metric space of representation learning techniques as an interim output for hybrid human-machine intelligence. We review methods for transforming and projecting embedding space such that significant changes can be communicated more effectively and a more comprehensive interpretation of underlying relationships in sensor data is facilitated. We conduct this research in our work towards developing a method for aligning the axes of latent embedding space with meaningful real-world metrics so that the reasoning behind the detection of change in relation to past observations may be revealed and adjusted. This is an important topic in many fields concerned with producing more meaningful and explainable outputs from deep learning and also for providing means for knowledge injection and model calibration in order to maintain user confidence.


Author(s):  
Ezz El-Din Hemdan ◽  
Manjaiah D. H.

Big Data Analytics has become an important paradigm that can help digital investigators to investigate cybercrimes as well as provide solutions to malware and threat prediction, detection and prevention at an early stage. Big Data Analytics techniques can use to analysis enormous amount of generated data from new technologies such as Social Networks, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things to understand the committed crimes in addition to predict the new coming severe attacks and crimes in the future. This chapter introduce principles of Digital Forensics and Big Data as well as exploring Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning benefits and advantages that can help the digital investigators to develop and propose new techniques and methods based on Big Data Analytics using Deep Learning techniques that can be adapted to the unique context of Digital Forensics as well as support performing digital investigation process in forensically sound and timely fashion manner.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhashish Goswami ◽  
Abhimanyu Kumar

Abstract The present elaboration of Big-data research studies relying upon Deep-learning methods had revitalized the decision-making mechanism in the business sectors and the enterprise domains. The firms' operational parameters also have the dependency of the Big-data analytics phase, their way of managing the data, and to evolve the outcomes of Big-data implementation by using the Deep-learning algorithms. The present enhancements in the Deep-learning approaches in Big-data applications facilitate the decision-making process such as the information-processing to the employees, analytical potentials augmentation, and in the transition to having more innovative work. In this DL-approach, the robust-patterns of the data-predictions resulted from the unstructured information by conceptualizing the Decision-making methods. Hence this paper elaborates the above statements stating the impact of the Deep-learning process utilizing the Big-data to operate in the enterprise and Business sectors. Also this study provides a comprehensive survey of all the Deep-learning techniques illustrating the efficiency of Big-Data processing on having the impacts of operational parameters, concentrating the data-dimensionality factors and the Big-data complications rectifying by utilizing the DL-algorithms, usage of Machine-learning or deep-learning process for the decision-making mechanism in the Enterprise sectors and business sectors, the predictions of the Big-data analytics resulting to the decision parameters within the organisations, and in the management of larger scale of datasets in Big-data analytics processing by utilizing the Deep-learning implementations. The comparative analysis of the reviewed studies has also been described by comparing existing approaches of Deep-learning methodologies in employing Big-data analytics.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihao Tan ◽  
Jiawei Shi ◽  
Rongjie Lv ◽  
Qingyuan Li ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
...  

Cotton is one of the most economically important crops in the world. The fertility of male reproductive organs is a key determinant of cotton yield. The anther dehiscence or indehiscence directly determine the probability of fertilization in cotton. Thus, the rapid and accurate identification of cotton anther dehiscence status is important for judging anther growth status and promoting genetic breeding research. The development of computer vision technology and the advent of big data have prompted the application of deep learning techniques to agricultural phenotype research. Therefore, two deep learning models (Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5) were proposed to detect the number and dehiscence status of anthers. The single-stage model based on YOLOv5 has higher recognition efficiency and the ability to deploy to the mobile end. Breeding researchers can apply this model to terminals to achieve a more intuitive understanding of cotton anther dehiscence status. Moreover, three improvement strategies of Faster R-CNN model were proposed, the improved model has higher detection accuracy than YOLOv5 model. In addition, the percentage of dehiscent anther of randomly selected 30 cotton varieties were observed from cotton population under normal temperature and high temperature (HT) conditions through the integrated Faster R-CNN model and manual observation. The result showed HT varying decreased the percentage of dehiscent anther in different cotton lines, consistent with the manual method. Thus, this system can help us to rapid and accurate identification of HT-tolerant cotton.


Author(s):  
M. Schmitt ◽  
L. H. Hughes ◽  
X. X. Zhu

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> While deep learning techniques have an increasing impact on many technical fields, gathering sufficient amounts of training data is a challenging problem in remote sensing. In particular, this holds for applications involving data from multiple sensors with heterogeneous characteristics. One example for that is the fusion of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and optical imagery. With this paper, we publish the <i>SEN1-2</i> dataset to foster deep learning research in SAR-optical data fusion. <i>SEN1-2</i> comprises 282;384 pairs of corresponding image patches, collected from across the globe and throughout all meteorological seasons. Besides a detailed description of the dataset, we show exemplary results for several possible applications, such as SAR image colorization, SAR-optical image matching, and creation of artificial optical images from SAR input data. Since <i>SEN1-2</i> is the first large open dataset of this kind, we believe it will support further developments in the field of deep learning for remote sensing as well as multi-sensor data fusion.</p>


Author(s):  
Maryam M. Najafabadi ◽  
Flavio Villanustre ◽  
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar ◽  
Naeem Seliya ◽  
Randall Wald ◽  
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