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In recent years, several new methods for missing data estimation have been developed. Real world datasets possess the properties of big data being volume, velocity and variety. With an increase in volume which includes sample size and dimensionality, existing imputation methods have become less effective and accurate. Much attention has been given to narrow Artificial Intelligence frameworks courtesy...
Estimating depth from a single RGB image is an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. State-of-the-art deep learning methods can now estimate accurate 2D depth maps, but when the maps are projected into 3D, they lack local detail and are often highly distorted. We propose a fast-to-train two-streamed CNN that predicts depth and depth gradients, which are then fused together into an accurate and...
The average time a resource needs to process incoming requests in a monitored workload mix is a key parameter of stochastic performance models. Direct measurement of these resource demands is usually infeasible due to instrumentation overheads causing measurement interferences and perturbation in production environments.Thus, a number of statistical estimation approaches (e.g., based on optimization,...
Blind deblurring consists a long studied task, however the outcomes of generic methods are not effective in real world blurred images. Domain-specific methods for deblurring targeted object categories, e.g. text or faces, frequently outperform their generic counterparts, hence they are attracting an increasing amount of attention. In this work, we develop such a domain-specific method to tackle deblurring...
This paper investigates direct beamformer estimation in dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) system with the objective of weighted sum rate maximization. For a given TDD frame, base stations (BS) are allocated to either uplink or downlink based on the instantaneous traffic state. The weighted sum mean-squared error minimization framework is used to obtain the decentralized iterative solution for...
The problem of preference functions model development for multiple criteria decision-making is considered based on machine-learning approach. It is assumed that the training sample for a plurality of objects, for which decisions are made, is formed from a set of measured features or the particular criteria and the matrix of pairwise comparisons. The problem of constructing a linear preference function...
To determine investment and cost estimation scientifically and simplify the investment estimating preparation, an improved BP neural network estimation model with GA optimization is proposed, based on the learning process of standard BP neural network. Our scheme set initial weight and whitening positioning coefficient as genetic population. The coefficients are optimized according to the principle...
Stochastic gradient algorithms are the main focus of large-scale optimization problems and led to important successes in the recent advancement of the deep learning algorithms. The convergence of SGD depends on the careful choice of learning rate and the amount of the noise in stochastic estimates of the gradients. In this paper, we propose an adaptive learning rate algorithm, which utilizes stochastic...
This paper extends the idea of Universum learning to regression problems. We propose new Universum-SVM formulation for regression problems that incorporates a priori knowledge in the form of additional data samples. These additional data samples, or Universum samples, belong to the same application domain as the training samples, but they follow a different distribution. Several empirical comparisons...
We herein propose an evolutionary multi-agent system (EMAS for short) to build an ensemble of surrogates for prediction. In our EMAS, we employ six kinds of basic surrogates, including Gaussian process, Kriging model, polynomial response surface, radial basis function, radial basis function neural network, and support vector regression machine. We define each surrogate as one agent and co-evolve parameters...
This paper presents an exemplar-based image completion via a new quality measure based on phaseless texture features. The proposed method derives a new quality measure obtained by monitoring errors caused in power spectra, i.e., errors of phaseless texture features, converged through phase retrieval. Even if a target patch includes missing pixels, this measure enables selection of the best matched...
Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is a popular framework for supervised dimension reduction, aiming at reducing the dimensionality of input data while information on output data is maximally maintained. On the other hand, in many recent supervised classification learning tasks, it is conceivable that the balance of samples in each class varies between the training and testing phases. Such a phenomenon,...
This paper defines a method of determining the direction of arrival of signals using RBFNN (Radial Basis Function Neural Network), based on data obtained by the automated acquisition, optimization and processing of received signals from the linear antenna array composed of two elements, implemented in Matlab.
Machine learning is a very promising way of solving some image processing tasks. However, existing approaches fails at integrating feature selection within the learning task. This paper introduces a new two stage learning algorithm called near infinitely linear combination (NILC) that performs at the same time variable selection and error minimization. Empirical evidence reported on different document...
The nearest subspace classifier (NSC) assumes that the samples of every class lie on a separate subspace and it is possible to classify a test sample by computing the distance between the test sample and the subspaces. The sparse representation based classification (SRC) generalizes the NSC - it assumes that the samples of any class can lie on a union of subspaces. By calculating the distance between...
This paper addresses the training signal design for the channel estimation in two-way multiple-input-and-multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems, where the channels are correlated. We first derive the backward channel estimator with the optimal training signal sent by the relay node. Given the estimated backward channels and the probabilistic knowledge of the estimation error, we mainly focus on the...
This paper proposes a nonparametric density estimation-based information-space partitioning and symbolization technique for capturing and representing the underlying statistical behavior in dynamic data-driven application systems (DDDAS). In contrast with existing tools that address alphabet-size selection and partitioning in two separate steps, the proposed technique jointly determines both the number...
Medical literature have recognized physical activity as a key factor for a healthy life due to its remarkable benefits. However, there is a great variety of physical activities and not all of them have the same effects on health nor require the same effort. As a result, and due to the ubiquity of commodity devices able to track users' motion, there is an increasing interest on performing activity...
In this paper we present an approach to hand pose estimation that combines both discriminative and modelbased methods to overcome the limitations of each technique in isolation. A Randomised Decision Forests (RDF) is used to provide an initial estimate of the regions of the hand. This initial segmentation provides constraints to which a 3D model is fitted using Rigid Body Dynamics. Model fitting is...
This paper presents a modeling technique of sequential batch reactor (SBR) for aerobic granular sludge (AGS) using artificial neural network (ANN). A SBR fed with synthetic wastewater was operated at high temperature of 50˚C to study the formation of AGS for simultaneous organics and nutrients removal in 60 days. The feed forward neural network (FFNN) was used to model the nutrients removal process...
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