An adaptive genetic algorithm as a supporting mechanism for microscopy image analysis in a cascade of convolution neural networks

A Novel Forecasting Approach by the GA-SVR-GRNN Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithm for Oil Future Prices

It is hard to forecasting oil future prices accurately, which is affected by some nonlinear, nonstationary, and other chaotic characteristics. Then, a novel GA-SVR-GRNN hybrid deep learning algorithm is put forward for forecasting oil future price. First, a genetic algorithm (GA) is employed for optimizing parameters regarding the support vector regression machine (SVR), and the GA-SVR model is used to forecast oil future price. Further, a generalized regression neural network (GRNN) model is built for the residual series for forecasting. Finally, we obtain the predicted values of the oil future price series forecasted by the GA-SVR-GRNN hybrid deep learning algorithm. According to the simulation, the GA-SVR-GRNN hybrid deep learning algorithm achieves lower MSE, RMSE, MAE, and MAPE relative to the GRNN, GA-SVR, and PSO-SVR models, indicating that the proposed GA-SVR-GRNN hybrid deep learning algorithm can fully reveal the prediction advantages of the GA-SVR and GRNN models in the nonlinear space and is a more accurate and effective method for oil future price forecasting.

Improved CEEMDAN, GA, and SVR Model for Oil Price Forecasting

Accurate prediction of crude oil prices (COPs) is a challenge for academia and industry. Therefore, the present research developed a new CEEMDAN-GA-SVR hybrid model to predict COPs, incorporating complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN), a genetic algorithm (GA), and support vector regression machine (SVR). First, our team utilized CEEMDAN to realize the decomposition of a raw series of COPs into a group of comparatively simpler subseries. Second, SVR was utilized to predict values for every decomposed subseries separately. Owing to the intricate parametric settings of SVR, GA was employed to achieve the parametric optimisation of SVR during forecast. Then, our team assembled the forecasted values of the entire subseries as the forecasted values of the CEEMDAN-GA-SVR model. After a series of experiments and comparison of the results, we discovered that the CEEMDAN-GA-SVR model remarkably outperformed single and ensemble benchmark models, as displayed by a case study finished based on a time series of weekly Brent COPs.

Metaheuristic Parameter Identification of Motors Using Dynamic Response Relations

This article presents the use of the equations of the dynamic response to a step input in metaheuristic algorithm for the parametric estimation of a motor model. The model equations are analyzed, and the relations in steady-state and transient-state are used as delimiters in the search. These relations reduce the number of random parameters in algorithm search and reduce the iterations to find an acceptable result. The tests were implemented in two motors of known parameters to estimate the performance of the modifications in the algorithms. Tests were carried out with three algorithms (Gray Wolf Optimizer, Jaya Algorithm, and Cuckoo Search Algorithm) to prove that the benefits can be extended to various metaheuristics. The search parameters were also varied, and tests were developed with different iterations and populations. The results show an improvement for all the algorithms used, achieving the same error as the original method but with 10 to 50% fewer iterations.

An adaptive locally-coded point cloud classification and segmentation network coupled with genetic algorithm

Local information coding helps capture the fine-grained features of the point cloud. The point cloud coding mechanism should be applicable to the point cloud data in different formats. However, the local features of the point cloud are directly affected by the attributes, size and scale of the object. This paper proposes an Adaptive Locally-Coded point cloud classification and segmentation Network coupled with Genetic Algorithm(ALCN-GA), which can automatically adjust the size of search cube to complete network training. ALCN-GA can adapt to the features of 3D data at different points, whose adjustment mechanism is realized by designing a robust crossover and mutation strategy. The proposed method is tested on the ModelNet40 dataset and S3DIS dataset. Respectively, the overall accuracy and average accuracy is 89.5% and 86.5% in classification, and overall accuracy and mIoU of segmentation is 80.34% and 51.05%. Compared with PointNet, average accuracy in classification and mIoU of segmentation is improved about 10% and 11% severally.

A Novel Image Processing Approach to Enhancement and Compression of X-ray Images

At present, there is an increase in the capacity of data generated and stored in the medical area. Thus, for the efficient handling of these extensive data, the compression methods need to be re-explored by considering the algorithm’s complexity. To reduce the redundancy of the contents of the image, thus increasing the ability to store or transfer information in optimal form, an image processing approach needs to be considered. So, in this study, two compression techniques, namely lossless compression and lossy compression, were applied for image compression, which preserves the image quality. Moreover, some enhancing techniques to increase the quality of a compressed image were employed. These methods were investigated, and several comparison results are demonstrated. Finally, the performance metrics were extracted and analyzed based on state-of-the-art methods. PSNR, MSE, and SSIM are three performance metrics that were used for the sample medical images. Detailed analysis of the measurement metrics demonstrates better efficiency than the other image processing techniques. This study helps to better understand these strategies and assists researchers in selecting a more appropriate technique for a given use case.

Environmental microorganism classification using optimized deep learning model

Rapid environmental microorganism (EM) classification under microscopic images would help considerably identify water quality. Because of the development of artificial intelligence, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has become a major solution for image classification. Three popular CNNs, referred to as ResNet50, Vgg16, and Inception-v3, were transferred to identify the EM images present on the Environmental Microorganism Dataset (EMDS), and EMAD was the small dataset, which only has 294 EM images with 21 EM classes. Besides data augmentation, optimizing the fully connected layer of CNN, i.e., both optimally fine-tuned neuron number and dropout rate, was adopted to enhance the performance produced by CNN. The discussions on the causes of the accuracy improved by optimization are also provided. The results showed that the Inception-v3 model obtained 84.9% of the accuracy and performed better than the other two famous CNNs. Also, the implement of data augmentation enhanced the performance of Inception-v3 on EMDS. To add to that, the optimized Inception-v3 model archived 90.5% of the accuracy, and this result demonstrated the improvement effect obtained by using genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the fully connected layer of the Inception-v3. Therefore, the optimize Inception-v3 with data augmentation process obtained the accuracy of 92.9% and improved almost 21% higher than that obtained from the famous Vgg16. In addition, the optimized Inception-v3 would need less neurons, when compared with that of the optimized Vgg16 possibly. This optimized Inception-v3 could provide a solution to the EM classification in microscope with a digital camera system.

A Comparative Analysis of Object Detection Metrics with a Companion Open-Source Toolkit

Recent outstanding results of supervised object detection in competitions and challenges are often associated with specific metrics and datasets. The evaluation of such methods applied in different contexts have increased the demand for annotated datasets. Annotation tools represent the location and size of objects in distinct formats, leading to a lack of consensus on the representation. Such a scenario often complicates the comparison of object detection methods. This work alleviates this problem along the following lines: (i) It provides an overview of the most relevant evaluation methods used in object detection competitions, highlighting their peculiarities, differences, and advantages; (ii) it examines the most used annotation formats, showing how different implementations may influence the assessment results; and (iii) it provides a novel open-source toolkit supporting different annotation formats and 15 performance metrics, making it easy for researchers to evaluate the performance of their detection algorithms in most known datasets. In addition, this work proposes a new metric, also included in the toolkit, for evaluating object detection in videos that is based on the spatio-temporal overlap between the ground-truth and detected bounding boxes.