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Edge preserving filter is the basis of many computational photography and image processing. This can be achieved by global optimization method or local filtering method. Generally, the filtering results of global optimization methods are better than that of local filtering methods, and local filtering methods usually run much faster than global optimization methods. In this paper, a globally optimized method called iterative self-guided image filter (isGIF) is extended based on the assumptions of the guided image filter (GIF), which can produce high-quality edge-preserving filtering results by using the input image itself as the guidance image. Some comparisons with other edge-aware filters are presented to show the advantages of our method. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our filter generates images with better visual quality, while reducing/avoiding halo artifacts in the final image, and the running time is competitive.

Improving the robustness of the soft sensor model of industrial processes is an important yet challenging problem for a large amount of noise interference and missing data in practical industrial data. In this article, an adversarial training-based deep supervised variational autoencoder (Adv-DSVAE) is proposed to enhance the performance of industrial soft sensor models. Specifically, a supervised variational autoencoder (SVAE) is first designed to extract the quality-relevant feature representation. Then, a deep SVAE (DSVAE) model is constructed by stacking the hidden features extracted by SVAE, such that a high-level output-related feature representation can be captured. In this way, the missing data situation can be handled by the probabilistic latent feature representation extracted in DSVAE. To improve the robustness of a DSVAE-based soft sensor model, an adversarial training method is designed, in which adversarial examples are generated by adding perturbations to the last hidden feature of DSVAE, such that the model can perform well on both clean and perturbed feature representations. We further provide theoretical convergence analysis for the proposed Adv-DSVAE to guarantee its successful practical application. The ablation studies confirm that industrial quality prediction using the adversarial training strategy can ensure better robustness. Case studies on both the debutanizer column process and the real-world aluminum electrolysis process validate the superiority of Adv-DSVAE.

Industrial predictive modeling plays an important role in process control and optimization. Industrial process data arisen in the real-world applications often involves nonlinear and temporal characters, which are two main challenges for accurate industrial predictive modeling. While the previous transformer-based industrial predictive models only considered the temporal information of the industrial time-series data, however, the different importance of the process variables is generally ignored. In this article, we propose a novel dual cross-attention-based transformer (DCAFormer) to capture both the cross-time dependencies and the cross-variable dependencies in parallel for better predictability. Specifically, the proposed DCAFormer is composed of a cross-time self-attention layer and a cross-variable self-attention layer. The cross-variable self-attention is developed to capture multivariate correlations by inverting the input time series into variate tokens. The destationary cross-time self-attention is employed to extract the intrinsic nonstationary information into the temporal dependencies from the time-series data. The comparative as well as the ablation experiments are conducted on the real-world aluminum electrolysis process. The experimental results show that DCAFormer achieves better prediction performance than other competitive transformer models.

Accurate identification of multimodal Superheat Degree (SD) plays a critical decision-making role in Aluminum Electrolysis Process (AEP). Because the labeled SD data are scarce and annotation is expensive in real-world AEP, it is a challenge to develop a well-behaved SD identification model. In this paper, a Contrastive Anchors-based Label Propagation (CALP) algorithm is proposed to construct a Deep Semi-Supervised Learning (DSSL) model, called CALP-DSSL, for better identifying SD by utilizing large-scale unlabeled data and limited labeled data. Specifically, to improve the reliability of affinity graph and its affinity matrix, positive anchors and negative anchors are generated by estimating the uncertainty of label predictions, which can guide the correct direction of inferring pseudo-labels. For tackling the unsupervised domain adaptation problems existing in AEP, we propose a Variational Information Domain Adaptation (VIDA) module using the pseudo-labels generated by CALP to fine-tune the deep Variational Information Bottleneck (VIB) network. Finally, the overall CALP-DSSL model is trained by the Mini-Batch Incremental Learning (MBIL) technique in local level. It matches the nearest neighbors based on batch embedded features, which provides more distinct information flow during subsequent label propagation to construct the affinity graph. Benchmark datasets verify the superiority of CALP algorithm. Case study on a real-world AEP shows that CALPDSSL model improves the accuracy of SD identification over other state-of-art DSSL methods. Our source code is available at https://github.com/wjiecsu/CALP-DSSL. Note to Practitioners—The focus of this paper is to develop a well-behaved SD identification model based on the improved deep semi-Supervised learning (CALP-DSSL) model. In this model, a Contrastive Anchors based-Label Propagation (CALP) algorithm is used to predict pseudo-labels to construct DSSL model for improving the reliability of the generated pseudolabels. In this way, a Variational Information Domain Adaption (VIDA) module is constructed to solve the domain shift problems existed in the unstable working conditions. Moreover, the overall model is trained by Mini-Batch Incremental Learning (MBIL) strategy to build better underlying representation for supporting effective label propagation.

Concentrate grade and recovery are key production indexes (KPIs) for industrial flotation process. To establish the soft sensor model of the concentrate grade and recovery, a lot of froth image features are extracted as the input variables. However, these image features contain some redundant and irrelevant features. To improve the efficiency without degrading the performance of the soft sensor model, a sensitive feature selection (FS) method is proposed in this article. Sensitivity coefficient is defined to weigh the attribute significance of features to label, which is calculated by gray correlation analysis. Then, the criterion of sensitive FS based on minimal-redundancy-maximal-relevance (mRMR) is proposed. To solve the FS problem, a multiswarm particle swarm optimization (PSO) with collaborative search PSO (CS-PSO) is developed. Information exchange mechanism among three particle swarms in CS is proposed to improve the search effect and search accuracy. Self-adjusting structure RBFNN (SA-RBFNN) is employed to establish the soft sensor model to predict the concentrate grade based on the selected froth image features. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by the industrial flotation process data by comparing with other methods.

Deep learning models are increasingly being used as effective techniques for industrial process modeling. However, decisions generated from deep learning models can hardly to interpret and cannot provide convinced results to users. To break the traditional tradeoff between accuracy and interpretability of deep neural network for industrial process modeling, we propose a deep probabilistic network-based knowledge-guided framework, which injects external knowledge into the deep neural network to guide its training process. In this framework, a deep probabilistic regression model (DPRM) is first developed to learn Gaussian latent feature representation yet establish regression relationship. Then, the external knowledge represented by fuzzy rules, which can evaluate the fitness of current network output and characterize constraints of the process, is encoded into a same structured Gaussian latent feature representation. We propose to inject the feature representation of external knowledge into DPRM using Kullback–Leibler divergence between two Gaussian distributions. The proposed knowledge-guided framework is evaluated on the Tennessee Eastman Process and the real-world aluminum electrolysis process. Experimental results highlight that our proposed approach achieves better prediction performance than the compared methods, also interprets the results.

The purpose of texture smoothing is to preserve the prominent structure in the image while smoothing the salient texture. However, the existing methods are difficult to achieve a satisfactory balance between filtering out salient textures and preserving weak edge structures and small structures. To this end, we propose a structure-preserving texture smoothing method via scale-aware bilateral total variation. First, the joint bilateral filter is introduced to construct the window bilateral variation, and combined with the window total variation, a regularizer called the bilateral total variation is formed, which accurately quantifies the characteristics of texture and structure, to finely smooth salient textures while preserving weak edge structures and small structures. Subsequently, we proposed a scale-aware scheme to make the proposed regularizer more powerful in preserving small structures and adopted an optimization scheme to convert the original non-convex optimization problem into a least squares regression problem. The effectiveness of the proposed regularizer is verified in the dataset. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in texture smoothing and other applications compared to other state-of-the-art approaches.