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Automated and accurate detection of power quality (PQ) events is important from the point of view of safety as well as maintaining the reliability of the power transmission and distribution network. However, detection of multiple PQ events in a noisy environment is challenging task. Another important issue is the choice of meaningful features that can directly influence the accuracy of PQ detection. Considering these two aforesaid facts, this paper presents a novel framework for automated classification of PQ signals in a noisy environment employing cross Stockwell Transform (XST). The XST proposed in this paper has better noise suppression capability compared to conventional Stockwell Transform. Here, XST was used to convert 1D PQ signals to 2D time–frequency (T–F) images. To improve the accuracy of PQ detection, an automated feature extraction method employing deep learning is implemented in this work. The noise free T–F images obtained using XST were fed as inputs to several pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for deep feature extraction. Transfer learning technique was implemented to reduce the computational cost. The extracted deep features were further undergone selection using one-way analysis of variance test followed by false discovery rate correction. The statistically significant deep features were subsequently fed to three benchmark machine learning classifiers for classification of PQ signals. In addition, tests were also carried out on real-life PQ signals to verify the practicability of the proposed framework. Investigations revealed that the proposed method returned mean accuracy of 99.72% and 96.45% for classification of simulated and real-life PQ signals, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cardiac-related disorders are rapidly growing throughout the world. Accurate classification of cardiovascular diseases is an important research topic in healthcare. During COVID-19, auscultating heart sounds was challenging as health workers and doctors wear protective clothing, and direct contact with patients can spread the outbreak. Thus, contactless auscultation of heart sound is necessary. In this paper, a low-cost ear contactless stethoscope is designed where auscultation is done with the help of a bluetooth-enabled micro speaker instead of an earpiece. The PCG recordings are further compared with other standard electronic stethoscopes like Littman 3 M. This work is made to improve the performance of deep learning-based classifiers like recurrent neural networks (RNN) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) for different valvular heart problems using tuning of hyperparameters like learning rate of optimizers, dropout rate, and hidden layer. Hyper-parameter tuning is used to optimize the performances of various deep learning models and their learning curves for real-time analysis. The acoustic, time, and frequency domain features are used in this research. The investigation is made on the heart sounds of normal and diseased patients available from the standard data repository to train the software models. The proposed CNN-based inception network model achieved an accuracy of 99.65 ± 0.06% on the test dataset with a sensitivity of 98.8 ± 0.05% and specificity of 98.2 ± 0.19%. The proposed hybrid CNN-RNN architecture attained 91.17 ± 0.03% accuracy on test data after hyperparameter optimization, whereas the LSTM-based RNN model achieved 82.32 ± 0.11% accuracy. Finally, the evaluated results were compared with machine learning algorithms, and the improved CNN-based Inception Net model is the most effective among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a novel deep learning-based approach for financial chart patterns classification. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made notable achievements in image recognition and computer vision applications. These networks are usually based on two-dimensional convolutional neural networks (2D CNNs). In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of one-dimensional convolutional neural networks (1D CNNs) for the classification of chart patterns from financial time series. The proposed 1D CNN model is compared against support vector machine, extreme learning machine, long short-term memory, rule-based and dynamic time warping. Experimental results on synthetic datasets reveal that the accuracy of 1D CNN is highest among all the methods evaluated. Results on real datasets also reveal that chart patterns identified by 1D CNN are also the most recognized instances when they are compared to those classified by other methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The monitoring of physical activities and recognition of motion disorders belong to important diagnostical tools in neurology and rehabilitation. The goal of the present paper is in the contribution to this topic by (1) analysis of accelerometric signals recorded by wearable sensors located at specific body positions and by (2) implementation of deep learning methods to classify signal features. This paper uses the general methodology to analysis of accelerometric signals acquired during cycling at different routes followed by the global positioning system. The experimental dataset includes 850 observations that were recorded by a mobile device in the spine area (L3 verterbra) for cycling routes with the different slope. The proposed methodology includes the use of deep learning convolutional neural networks with five layers applied to signal values transformed into the frequency domain without specification of any signal features. The accuracy of discrimination between different motion patterns for the uphill and downhill cycling and recognition of 4 classes associated with different route slopes was 96.6% with the loss criterion of 0.275 for sigmoidal activation functions. These results were compared with those evaluated for selected sets of features estimated for each observation and classified by the support vector machine, Bayesian methods, and the two-layer neural network. The best cross-validation error of 0.361 was achieved for the two-layer neural network model with the sigmoidal and softmax transfer functions. Our methodology suggests that deep learning neural networks are efficient in the assessment of motion activities for automated data processing and have a wide range of applications, including rehabilitation, early diagnosis of neurological problems, and possible use in engineering as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this world, travelling is the daily routine to reach the desired places such as schools, hospitals, offices and so on. Everyone makes use of their vehicles like two-wheelers or four-wheelers to reach the destination. Vehicle condition plays a major role which includes many parameters such as tyre condition, engine overheating, low fuel mileage. This paper concentrates on the examination of tyre track design for deformities. The mileage of a vehicle relies upon different components. However, it depends on different parameters like street condition, tyre weight and numerous others. For smooth driving and for safe traffic reasons, the auspicious maintenance of tyres plays a vital task. Consequently, the likelihood of prediction of tyre imperfections is assumed to play a vital role to fleet proprietors, government and tyre makers. Researchers make use of recent technologies such as machine learning and deep learning concepts to provide a solution to various real-life problems. The creation of a weighted quality-based convolutional neural network with the purpose of discovery of imperfections on tyres by the examination of pictures of tyre track designs is being proposed. The proposed system with the accessible data-set made public by different tyre producers is included for evaluation. The consequences of our tests demonstrate that it is conceivable to predict the deformities and durability of a tyre from its track designs through a weighted quality-based convolutional neural network. The proposed methodology is used to identify the group of feature values from the tyre image. These kinds of feature values are utilized to implement the dissimilarity of the feature related pixels. The number of epochs is varied as a callback mechanism has been used to validate the proposed model. Binary accuracy and mean absolute error are the best metrics to evaluate the performance which are discussed in the results section. Also, precision, recall and F-measure are used as validation parameters for the proposed model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classification of hyperspectral image (HSI) is widely used for the study of remotely sensed images. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are one of the most commonly chosen deep learning algorithms for visual data analysis. The HSI classification framework based on the CNN is presented in this paper. Since the imbalance between the high dimension of HSI input data and the limited amount of labeled training data would induce overfitting, current convolutional networks are fairly superficial for HSI classification. To stop the limited efficiency of feature learning, a new HSI classification network called Residual Spectral Spatial-Channel Attention Network (RSS-CAN) is proposed. By utilizing the "shortcut connection" framework, RSS-CAN can use deeper layers to extract more succinct and efficient features. Furthermore, attention mechanism is used to emphasize meaningful features. In addition, we revised an HSI dataset called Shandong Feicheng. The resolution and pixel quantity of this dataset are significantly greater. In order to check its variety, it has been contrasted with state-of-the-art approaches. Experimental results with widely used hyperspectral image datasets demonstrate that, our proposed method has achieved better performance in comparison with state-of-the-art classifiers and conventional deep learning-based classifiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]