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The critical dependence of industrial smart grid systems on cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has made these systems more susceptible to a diverse array of assaults. This consequently puts at risk the integrity of energy data as well as the safety of energy management activities that depend on those data. This study offers a generative federated learning framework for semi-supervised threat detection in an IoT-assisted smart grid system. We refer to this framework as FSEI-Net. A unique semi-supervised edge intelligence network (SEI-Net) is presented in the FSEI-Net to enable semi-supervised training using labeled and unlabeled data in the edge tier. The design of SEI-Net is based on with bidirectional generative convolutional network that can intelligently capture the patterns of threat data from partially labeled smart grid data. We present federated training to enable remote edge servers to work together on training a semi-supervised detector without disclosing their own private local data. This is accomplished through cooperative training. To facilitate communication between cloud and edge layers that is both secure and respectful of users' privacy, a reputation-based block chain is introduced in the FSEI-Net. The outcomes from the practical applications demonstrate that the effectiveness of the proposed FSEI-Net over the most recent cutting-edge detection approaches are valid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the era of modern technology, people may readily communicate through facial expressions, body language, and other means. As the use of the Internet evolves, it may be a boon to the medical fields. Recently, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has provided a broader platform to handle difficulties linked to healthcare, including people's listening and hearing impairment. Although there are many translators that exist to help people of various linguistic backgrounds communicate more effectively. Using kinesics linguistics, one may assess or comprehend the communications of auditory and hearing-impaired persons who are standing next to each other. When looking at the present COVID-19 scenario, individuals are still linked in some way via online platforms; however, persons with disabilities have communication challenges with online platforms. The work provided in this research serves as a communication bridge inside the challenged community and the rest of the globe. The proposed work for Indian Sign Linguistic Recognition (ISLR) uses three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D-CNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) technique for analysis. A conventional hand gesture recognition system involves identifying the hand and its location or orientation, extracting certain essential features and applying an appropriate machine learning algorithm to recognise the completed action. In the calling interface of the web application, WebRTC has been implemented. A teleprompting technology is also used in the web app, which transforms sign language into audible sound. The proposed web app's average recognition rate is 97.21%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, Biometric systems are prevalent for personal recognition. But due to pandemic COVID 19, it is difficult to pursue a touch-based biometric system. To encourage a touchless biometric system, a less constrained multimodal personal identification system using palmprint and dorsal hand vein is presented. Hand based Touchless recognition system gives a higher user-friendly system and avoids the spread of coronavirus. A method using Convolution Neural Networks(CNN) to extract discriminative features from the data samples is proposed. A pre-trained function PCANeT is used in the experiments to show the performance of the system in fusion scheme. This method doesn't require keeping the palm in a specific position or at a certain distance like most other papers. Different patches of ROI are used at two different layers of CNN. Fusion of palmprint and dorsal hand vein is done for final result matching. Both Feature level and score level fusion methods are compared. Results shows the accuracy of upto 98.55% and 98.86% and Equal error rate (EER) of upto 1.22% and 0.93% for score level fusion and feature level fusion, respectively. Our method gives higher accurate results in a less constrained environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The availability of techniques for driver distraction detection has been difficult to put to use because of delays caused due to lag in inferencing the model. Distractions caused due to handheld devices have been major causes of traffic accidents as they affect the decision-making capabilities of the driver and gives them less time to react to difficult situations. Often drivers try to multitask which reduces their reaction time leading to accidents, which can easily be avoided if they had been attentive. As such, problems related to the driver's negligence towards safety a possible solution is to monitor the driver and driving behavior and alerting them if they are distracted. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for detecting when a driver is distracted due to in hand electronic devices which is not only able to detect the distraction with high accuracy but also is energy and memory efficient. Our proposed compressed neural got an accuracy of 0.83 in comparison to 0.86 of heavyweight network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning method has been proposed for automatic classification and localization of nonlinear loads present in an interconnected power system. The identification of nonlinear loads has been previously dealt with the use of Nonlinear Auto Regression neural network with eXogenous inputs (NARX), Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN), Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Fuzzy Logic (FL). However, these techniques had not explored the area of classification of industrial and domestic nonlinear loads in an interconnected power system. Also, a Deep learning-based solution for identification of the type of nonlinear load has not been reported in the literature to date. Hence, to address these shortcomings, an IEEE-9 Bus system with industrial nonlinear loads has been used to obtain various current waveforms with distortions. The recorded current waveforms are transformed into a time-frequency (TF) domain plane, and the obtained images are then fed to the deep learning algorithm. The colored images of the TF plots of each type of nonlinear load in Red-Green-Blue (RGB) index provide the best visual features for extraction. The TF domain signatures of individual events are scaled to a standard size before feeding to the algorithm. Through these TF signatures, unique features were extracted with the deep learning algorithm, and then passed on to different stages of convolution and max-pooling with fully connected layers. The softmax classifier at the end classifies the input data into the type of nonlinear present in the power system. The algorithm, when run at different buses, also identifies the location of the nonlinear load. The proposed methodology avoids the usage of any additional fusion layer for obtaining unique features, reduces the training time and maintains the highest accuracy of 100%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The white corpuscles nucleus segmentation from microscopic blood images is major steps to diagnose blood-related diseases. The perfect and speedy segmentation system assists the hematologists to identify the diseases and take appropriate decision for better treatment. Therefore, fully automated white corpuscles nucleus segmentation model using deep convolution neural network, is proposed in the present study. The proposed model uses the combination of 'binary_cross_entropy' and 'adam' for maintaining learning rate in each network weight. To validate the potential and capability of the above proposed solution, ALL-IDB2 dataset is used. The complete set of images is partitioned into training and testing set and tedious experimentations have been performed. The best performing model is selected and the obtained training and testing accuracy of best performing model is reported as 98.69 % and 99.02 %, respectively. The staging analysis of proposed model is evaluated using sensitivity, specificity, Jaccard index, dice coefficient, accuracy and structure similarity index. The capability of proposed model is compared with performance of the region-based contour and fuzzy-based level-set method for same set of images and concluded that proposed model method is more accurate and effective for clinical purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Person identification using biometric features is an effective method for recognizing and authenticating the identity of a person. Multimodal biometric systems combine different biometric modalities in order to make better predictions as well as for achieving increased robustness. This paper proposes a touchless multimodal person identification model using deep learning techniques by combining the gait and speech modalities. Separate pipelines for both the modalities were developed using Convolutional Neural Networks. The paper also explores various fusion strategies for combining the two pipelines and shows how various metrics get affected with different fusion strategies. Results show that weighted average and product fusion rules work best for the data used in the experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Single biometric modalities like facial features and vein patterns despite being reliable characteristics show limitations that restrict them from offering high performance and robustness. Multimodal biometric systems have gained interest due to their ability to overcome the inherent limitations of the underlying single biometric modalities and generally have been shown to improve the overall performance for identification and recognition purposes. This paper proposes highly accurate and robust multimodal biometric identification as well as recognition systems based on fusion of face and finger vein modalities. The feature extraction for both face and finger vein is carried out by exploiting deep convolutional neural networks. The fusion process involves combining the extracted relevant features from the two modalities at score level. The experimental results over all considered public databases show a significant improvement in terms of identification and recognition accuracy as well as equal error rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole globe is in disarray and debating on unique approaches to stop this viral transmission. Masks are being worn by people all around the world as one of the preventative measures to avoid contracting this sickness. Although some people are following and adopting this precaution, others are not, despite official recommendations from the administration and public health organisations has been announced. In this paper DTLMV2 (Deep Transfer Learning MobileNetV2 for the objective of classification) is proposed - A face mask identification model that can reliably determine whether an individual is wearing a mask or not is suggested and implemented in this work. The model architecture employs the peruse of MobileNetV2, a lightweight Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that requires less computing power and can be readily integrated into computer vision and mobile systems. The computer vision with MobileNet is required to formulate a low-cost mask detection system for a group of people in open spaces that can assist in determining whether a person is wearing a mask or not, as well as function as a surveillance system since it is effective on both real-time pictures and videos. The face recognition model obtained 97.01% accuracy on validation data, 98% accuracy on training data and 97.45% accuracy on testing data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current work aims to facilitate interaction with others to those with the inability to perform activities requiring motor skills or those who cannot speak. It proposes a modus operandi or a system based on Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), which automatically identifies eye blinks in real-time to predict a lexicon. The system implements an auxiliary input that enables individuals to interact with others with the help of a device, where voluntary long blinks help in transition from a counter to a predictive table, while the short blinks are used to make the counter stop and select the lexicon. The system does not require prior manual initialization, special lighting, or previous face detection as it can calibrate it if the user is in the camera region and close. The proposed user interface makes the process of words detection by blinking easier with 74% accuracy. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Early diagnosis of MS is highly desirable as treatments are more effective in preventing MS-related disability when given in the early stages of the disease. The main aim of this research is to predict the occurrence of a second MS-related clinical event, which indicates the conversion of clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) to clinically definite MS (CDMS). In this study, we apply a branch of artificial intelligence known as deep learning and develop a fully automated algorithm primed with convolutional neural network (CNN) that has the ability to learn from MRI scan features. The basic architecture of our algorithm is that of the VGG16 CNN model, but amended such that it can handle MRI DICOM images. A dataset comprised of scans acquired using two different scanners was used for the purposes of verification of the algorithm. A group of 49 patients had volumetric MRI scans taken at onset of the disease and then again one year later using one of the two scanners. In total, this yielded 7360 images which were then used for training, validation, and testing of the algorithm. Initially, these raw images were taken through 4 steps of preprocessing. In order to boost the efficiency of the process, we pretrained our algorithm using the publicly available ADNI dataset used to classify Alzheimer's disease. Finally, we used our preprocessed dataset to train and test the algorithm. Clinical evaluation conducted a year after the first time point revealed that 26 of the 49 patients had converted to CDMS, while the remaining 23 had not. Results of testing showed that our algorithm was able to predict the clinical results with an accuracy of 88.8% and with an area under the curve (AUC) of 91%. A highly accurate algorithm was developed using CNN approach to reliably predict conversion of patients with CIS to CDMS using MRI data from two different scanners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]