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As information systems become more widespread, data security becomes increasingly important. While traditional encryption methods provide effective protection against unauthorized access, they often struggle with multimedia data like images and videos. This necessitates specialized image encryption approaches. With the rise of mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, lightweight image encryption algorithms are crucial for resource-constrained environments. These algorithms have applications in various domains, including medical imaging and surveillance systems. However, the biggest challenge of lightweight algorithms is balancing strong security with limited hardware resources. This work introduces a novel nonlinear matrix permutation approach applicable to both confusion and diffusion phases in lightweight image encryption. The proposed method utilizes three different chaotic maps in harmony, namely a 2D Zaslavsky map, 1D Chebyshev map, and 1D logistic map, to generate number sequences for permutation and diffusion. Evaluation using various metrics confirms the method's efficiency and its potential as a robust encryption framework. The proposed scheme was tested with 14 color images in the SIPI dataset. This approach achieves high performance by processing each image in just one iteration. The developed scheme offers a significant advantage over its alternatives, with an average NPCR of 99.6122, UACI of 33.4690, and information entropy of 7.9993 for 14 test images, with an average correlation value as low as 0.0006 and a vast key space of 2 800 . The evaluation results demonstrated that the proposed approach is a viable and effective alternative for lightweight image encryption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on the neural machine translation task for the TR-EN language pair, which is considered a low-resource language pair. We investigated fine-tuning strategies for pre-trained language models. Specifically, we explored the effectiveness of parameter-efficient adapter methods for fine-tuning multilingual pre-trained language models. Various combinations of LoRA and bottleneck adapters were experimented with. The combination of LoRA and bottleneck adapters demonstrated superior performance compared to other methods. This combination required only 5% of the pre-trained language model to be fine-tuned. The proposed method enhances parameter efficiency and reduces computational costs. Compared to the full fine-tuning of the multilingual pre-trained language model, it showed only a 3% difference in the BLEU score. Thus, nearly the same performance was achieved at a significantly lower cost. Additionally, models using only bottleneck adapters performed worse despite having a higher parameter count. Although adding LoRA to pre-trained language models alone did not yield sufficient performance, the proposed method improved machine translation. The results obtained are promising, particularly for low-resource language pairs. The proposed method requires less memory and computational load while maintaining translation quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many advanced models have been proposed for automatic surface defect inspection. Although CNN-based methods have achieved superior performance among these models, it is limited to extracting global semantic details due to the locality of the convolution operation. In addition, global semantic details can achieve high success for detecting surface defects. Recently, inspired by the success of Transformer, which has powerful abilities to model global semantic details with global self-attention mechanisms, some researchers have started to apply Transformer-based methods in many computer-vision challenges. However, as many researchers notice, transformers lose spatial details while extracting semantic features. To alleviate these problems, in this paper, a transformer-based Hybrid Attention Gate (HAG) model is proposed to extract both global semantic features and spatial features. The HAG model consists of Transformer (Trans), channel Squeeze-spatial Excitation (sSE), and merge process. The Trans model extracts global semantic features and the sSE extracts spatial features. The merge process which consists of different versions such as concat, add, max, and mul allows these two different models to be combined effectively. Finally, four versions based on HAG-Feature Fusion Network (HAG-FFN) were developed using the proposed HAG model for the detection of surface defects. The four different datasets were used to test the performance of the proposed HAG-FFN versions. In the experimental studies, the proposed model produced 83.83%, 79.34%, 76.53%, and 81.78% mIoU scores for MT, MVTec-Texture, DAGM, and AITEX datasets. These results show that the proposed HAGmax-FFN model provided better performance than the state-of-the-art models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the digital age, where data is a valuable commodity, securing sensitive information has become a growing concern. Image encryption techniques play an essential role in protecting visual data from unauthorized access and ensuring privacy. However, with limited computing capacity in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, standard encryption algorithms are not feasible, rendering lightweight methods mandatory. This study proposes a novel Corner Traversal algorithm, an alternative to existing pixel scrambling techniques. The proposed algorithm demonstrably outperforms its counterparts in both higher confusion and lower time complexity, making it remarkably efficient. Integrated with chaos-based diffusion methods, this algorithm forms a comprehensive encryption scheme. The proposed lightweight image encryption scheme utilizing the Corner Traversal algorithm successfully passed rigorous statistical and differential security analysis. Compared to similar schemes, the proposed encryption scheme employing the Corner Traversal algorithm in the confusion phase distinguishes itself through exceptional NPCR (99.6093 for Lenna) and UACI (33.4648 for Lenna) values. Combined with other evaluation criteria, this method demonstrably meets the stringent security requirements of IoT systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Histopathology, vital in diagnosing medical conditions, especially in cancer research, relies on analyzing histopathology images (HIs). Nuclei segmentation, a key task, involves precisely identifying cell nuclei boundaries. Manual segmentation by pathologists is time‐consuming, prompting the need for robust automated methods. Challenges in segmentation arise from HI complexities, necessitating advanced techniques. Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have transformed nuclei segmentation. This study emphasizes feature extraction, introducing the ConvNext Mixer‐based Encoder‐Decoder (CNM‐ED) model. Unlike traditional CNN based models, the proposed CNM‐ED model enables the extraction of spatial and long context features to address the inherent complexities of histopathology images. This method leverages a multi‐path strategy using a traditional CNN architecture as well as different paths focused on obtaining customized long context features using the ConvNext Mixer block structure that combines ConvMixer and ConvNext blocks. The fusion of these diverse features in the final segmentation output enables improved accuracy and performance, surpassing existing state‐of‐the‐art segmentation models. Moreover, our multi‐level feature extraction strategy is more effective than models using self‐attention mechanisms such as SwinUnet and TransUnet, which have been frequently used in recent years. Experimental studies were conducted using five different datasets (TNBC, MoNuSeg, CoNSeP, CPM17, and CryoNuSeg) to analyze the performance of the proposed CNM‐ED model. Comparisons were made with various CNN based models in the literature using evaluation metrics such as accuracy, AJI, macro F1 score, macro intersection over union, macro precision, and macro recall. It was observed that the proposed CNM‐ED model achieved highly successful results across all metrics. Through comparisons with state‐art‐of models from the literature, the proposed CNM‐ED model stands out as a promising advancement in nuclei segmentation, addressing the intricacies of histopathological images. The model demonstrates enhanced diagnostic capabilities and holds the potential for significant progress in medical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Retinal blood vessels are directly or indirectly associated with many diseases. The retinal blood vessels consist of artery and vein vessels. With the automatic correct identification of these vessels, many diseases can be prevented. In this paper, a method is proposed to separate between arteries and veins on retinal blood vessel images. In the proposed method, firstly, the image preprocessing step is applied. Then, image patches are obtained from pre-processed retinal fundus images. These patches are prepared as input to the deep learning network architecture. The proposed deep learning network architecture is presented as a new CNN architecture. This architecture decides whether the blood vessel pixels in the fundus image are arteries or veins. The proposed method was evaluated on publicly available given DRIVE, INSPIRE datasets, and the recently created LES-AV dataset. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by using the most commonly used sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy performance measures. The accuracy measure for all vessel pixels is 0.9110 for DRIVE, 0.9654 for INSPIRE, and 0.9531 for LES-AV dataset. The proposed method is compared with other state-of-the-art artery/vein separation methods. The experimental results of the proposed method are promising. This method is suitable for automatic artery/vein separation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Big data collection means collecting large volumes of data to have insight into better business decisions and greater customer satisfaction. Securing big data is difficult not just because of the large amount of data it handles, but also because of the continuous streaming of data, multiple types of data, and cloud-based data storage. Additionally, traditional security and privacy methods are insufficient due to large data volume, speed, and data from different sources. In this study, we focused on the security and privacy issues of big data. To this end, many related articles published in the literature have been extensively examined. Moreover, within the scope of big data, data security and privacy practices, current technologies, and methods are presented. Furthermore, we present an analysis of the security requirements of big data and the elimination of security vulnerabilities against cyber attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detection of surface defects in manufacturing systems is crucial for product quality. Detection of surface defects with high accuracy can prevent financial and time losses. Recently, efforts to develop high-performance automatic surface defect detection systems using computer vision and machine-learning methods have become prominent. In line with this purpose, this paper proposed a novel approach based on Depth-wise Squeeze and Excitation Block-based Efficient-Unet (DSEB-EUNet) for automatic surface defect detection. The proposed model consists of an encoder–decoder, the basic structure of the Unet architecture, and a Depth-wise Squeeze and Excitation Block added to the skip-connection of Unet. First, in the encoder part of the proposed model, low-level and high-level features were obtained by the EfficientNet network. Then, these features were transferred to the Depth-wise Squeeze and Excitation Block. The proposed DSEB based on the combination of Squeeze-Excitation and Depth-wise Separable Convolution enabled to reveal of critical information by weighting the features with a lightweight gating mechanism for surface defect detection. Besides, in the decoder part of the proposed model, the structure called Multi-level Feature Concatenated Block (MFCB) transferred the weighted features to the last layers without losing spatial detail. Finally, pixel-level defect detection was performed using the sigmoid function. The proposed model was tested using three general datasets for surface defect detection. In experimental works, the best F1-scores for MT, DAGM, and AITEX datasets using the proposed DSEB-EUNet architecture were 89.20%, 85.97%, and 90.39%, respectively. These results showed the proposed model outperforms higher performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classification in hyperspectral remote sensing images (HRSIs) is a challenging process in image analysis and one of the most popular topics. In recent years, many methods have been proposed to solve the HRSIs classification problem. Compared to traditional machine learning methods, deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), is commonly used in the classification of HRSIs. Deep learning-based methods based on CNNs show remarkable performance in HRSIs classification and greatly support the development of classification technology. In this study, a method in which the Hybrid 3D/2D Complete Inception module and the Hybrid 3D/2D CNN method are used together has been proposed to solve the HRSIs classification problem. In the proposed method, multi-level feature extraction is performed by using multiple convolution layers with the Inception module. This improves the performance of the network. Conventional CNN-based methods use 2D CNN for feature extraction. However, only spatial features are extracted with 2D CNN. 3D CNN is used to extract spatial-spectral features. However, 3D CNN is computationally complex. Therefore, in the proposed method, a hybrid approach is used by first using 3D CNN and then 2D CNN. This reduces computational complexity and extracts more spatial features. In addition, PCA is used as a preprocessing step for optimum spectral band extraction in the proposed method. The proposed method has been tested using Indian pines, Salinas, University of Pavia, HyRANK-Loukia and Houston datasets, which are frequently used in studies for HRSIs classification. The overall accuracy of the proposed method in these five datasets are 99.83%, 100%, 100%, 90.47% and 98.93%, respectively. These results reveal that the proposed method provides higher classification performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Hyperspectral remote sensing images (HRSI) are 3D image cubes that contain hundreds of spectral bands and have two spatial dimensions and one spectral dimension. HRSI analysis are commonly used in a wide variety of applications such as object detection, precision agriculture and mining. HRSI classification purposes to assign each pixel in HRSI to a unique class. Deep learning is seen as an effective method to improve HRSI classification. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly used in remote sensing field. In this study, a hybrid 3D residual spatial–spectral convolution network (3D-RSSCN) is proposed to extract deep spatiospectral features using 3D CNN and ResNet18 architecture. Simultaneously spatiospectral features extraction is provided using 3D CNN. In deeper CNNs, ResNet architecture is used to achieve higher classification performance as the number of layers increases. In addition, thanks to the ResNet architecture, problems such as degradation and vanishing gradient that may occur in deep networks are overcome. The high dimensionality of the HRSIs increases the computational complexity. Thus, most of studies apply dimension reduction as preprocessing. In the proposed study, principal component analysis (PCA) is used as the preprocessing step for optimum spectral band extraction. The proposed 3D-RSSCN method is tested with Indian pines, Pavia University and Salinas datasets and compared against various deep learning-based methods (SAE, RPNet, 2D CNN, 3D CNN, M3D CNN, HybridSN, FC3D CNN, SSRN, FuSENet, S3EResBoF). As a result of the applications, the best classification accuracy among these methods compared in all datasets is obtained with the proposed 3D-RSSCN. The proposed 3D-RSSCN method has the best accuracy and time performance in classifying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The control of surface defects is of critical importance in manufacturing quality control systems. Today, automatic defects detection using imaging and deep learning algorithms has produced more successful results than manual inspections. Thanks to these automatic applications, manufacturing systems will increase the production quality, and thus financial losses will be prevented. However, since the appearance and dimensions of the defects on the surface are very variable, automatic surface defect detection is a complex problem. In this study, multi-dimensional feature extraction-based deep encoder–decoder network (MFE-DEDNet) network developed to solve such problems. An effective encoder–decoder model with lower parameters compared to the state-of-the-art methods is developed using the depthwise separable convolutions (DSC) layers in the proposed model. In addition, the 3D spectral and spatial features extract (3DFE) module of the proposed model is developed to extract deep spectral and spatial features, as well as deep semantic features. During the combination of these features, the multi-input attention gate (MIAG) module is used so that important details are not lost. As a result, the proposed MFE-DEDNet model based on these structures enabled the extraction of powerful and effective features for defect detection in surface datasets containing few images. In experimental studies, MVTec and MT datasets were used to evaluate the performance of the MFE-DEDNet. The experimental results achieved 80.01% and 56% mean intersection-over-union (mIoU) scores for the MT and MVTec datasets, respectively. In these results, it was observed that the proposed model produced higher success compared to other state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

English is accepted as an academic language in the world. This necessitates the use of English in their academic studies for speakers of other languages. Even when these researchers are competent in the use of the English language, some mistakes may occur while writing an academic article. To solve this problem, academicians tend to use automatic translation programs or get assistance from people with an advanced level of English. This study offers an expert system to enable assistance to the researchers throughout their academic article writing process. In this study, Turkish which is considered among low-resource languages is used as the source language. The proposed model combines the transformer encoder-decoder architecture model with the pre-trained Sci-BERT language model via the shallow fusion method. The model uses a Fully Attentional Network Layer instead of a Feed-Forward Network Layer in the known shallow fusion method. In this way, a higher success rate could be achieved by increasing the attention at the word level. Different metrics were used to evaluate the created model. The model created as a result of the experiments reached 45.1 BLEU and 73.2 METEOR scores. In addition, the proposed model achieved 20.12 and 20.56 scores, respectively, with the zero-shot translation method in the World Machine Translation (2017–2018) test datasets. The proposed method could inspire other low-resource languages to include the language model in the translation system. In this study, a corpus composed entirely of academic sentences is also introduced to be used in the translation system. The corpus consists of 1.2 million parallel sentences. The proposed model and corpus are made available to researchers on our GitHub page. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eye gaze tracking is an increasingly important technology in the field of human-computer interaction. Individuals' preferences, tendencies, and attention can be measured by processing the data obtained from face and eye images. This technology is used in advertising, market research, web page design, education, learning methods, and various neurological-psychiatric studies of medical research. Many different methods have been used in eye gaze tracking tasks. Today, commonly model-shape and appearance-based methods are used. Model-shape based methods require less workload than appearance-based methods. But it is more sensitive to environmental conditions. Appearance-based methods require powerful hardware, but they are less susceptible to environmental conditions. Developments in technology have paved the way for applying appearance-based models in eye gaze tracking. In this paper, a CNN-based real-time eye tracking system was designed to overcome environmental problems in eye gaze tracking. The designed system is used to determine the areas of interest of the user in web pages. The performance of the designed CNN-based system is evaluated during the training and testing phases. In the training phase, the difference between the desired and determined points on the screen is 32 pixels and in testing phase, the difference between the desired and determined points on the screen is 53 pixels. The results of the test trials have shown that the proposed system could be used successfully in eye tracking studies on web pages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Melanoma is considered the deadliest form of skin cancer, and the number of cases is increasing day by day. The early diagnosis of melanoma is critical, as it significantly increases the patient's chance of survival. However, distinguishing melanoma from other skin lesion types by the physician can be a complicated process due to the diversity of its structural and textural features. Numerous computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been developed to assist the physician in detecting melanoma during recent years. The segmentation is a critical step for CAD systems, as it directly contributes to the performance of both feature extraction and classification steps. The optimization of the hyperparameters of deep learning methods is a challenging research topic. In this paper, the Bayesian optimized SegNet approach is proposed for precise skin lesion segmentation. The proposed method is obtained competitive results with the latest skin lesion segmentation methods. The hyperparameters optimized SegNet has achieved the best results with the average Jaccard Index of 84.9 on ISBI2016 and 74.5 on ISBI2017 dataset. Experimental results indicate the validity of Bayesian optimized SegNet. In this study, it has been observed that the bayesian hyperparameter optimization in the SegNet, which is the latest deep learning architecture, increased the segmentation performance of the SegNet by 16% in the ISBI2016 dataset and by 7% in the ISBI2017 dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we proposed Multi-model LSTM-based Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (MLP-CNNs) as an ensemble majority voting classifier for the detection of plant diseases and pests. The proposed hybrid model is based on the combination of LSTM network with pre-trained CNN models. Specifically, in transfer learning, we adopted deep feature extraction from various fully connected layers of these pre-trained deep models. AlexNet, GoogleNet and DenseNet201 models are used in this work for feature extraction. The extracted deep features are then fed into the LSTM layer in order to construct a robust hybrid model for apple disease and pest detection. Later, the output predictions of three LSTM layers determined the class labels of the input images by majority voting classifier. In addition, we use an automatic scheme for determining the best choice of the network parameters of the LSTM layer. The experiments are carried out using data consisting of real-time apple disease and pest images from Turkey and the accuracy rates are calculated for performance evaluation. The experimental results show that by using the proposed ensemble combination structure, the results are comparable to, or better than, the pre-trained deep architectures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Optic disc localization offers an important clue in detecting other retinal components such as the macula, fovea, and retinal vessels. With the correct detection of this area, sudden vision loss caused by diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy can be prevented. Therefore, there is an increase in computer-aided diagnosis systems in this field. In this paper, an automated method for detecting optic disc localization is proposed. In the proposed method, the fundus images are moved from RGB color space to a new color space by using an artificial bee colony algorithm. In the new color space, the localization of the optical disc is clearer than in the RGB color space. In this method, a matrix called the feature matrix is created. This matrix is obtained from the color pixel values of the image patches containing the optical disc and the image patches not containing the optical disc. Then, the conversion matrix is created. The initial values of this matrix are randomly determined. These two matrices are processed in the artificial bee colony algorithm. Ultimately, the conversion matrix becomes optimal and is applied over the original fundus images. Thus, the images are moved to the new color space. Thresholding is applied to these images, and the optic disc localization is obtained. The success rate of the proposed method has been tested on three general datasets. The accuracy success rate for the DRIVE, DRIONS, and MESSIDOR datasets, respectively, is 100%, 96.37%, and 94.42% for the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Plant diseases and pests cause significant losses in agriculture, with economic, ecological and social implications. Therefore, early detection of plant diseases and pests via automated methods are very important. Recent machine learning-based studies have become popular in the solution of agricultural problems such as plant diseases. In this work, we present two classification models based on deep feature extraction from pre-trained convolutional neural networks. In the proposed models, we fine-tune and combine six state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks and evaluate them on the given problem both individually and as an ensemble. Finally, the performances of different combinations based on the proposed models are calculated using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. In order to verify the validity of the proposed model, we collected Turkey-PlantDataset, consisting of unconstrained photographs of 15 kinds of disease and pest images observed in Turkey. According to the obtained performance results, the accuracy scores are calculated as 97.56% using the majority voting ensemble model and 96.83% using the early fusion ensemble model. The results demonstrate that the proposed models reach or exceed state-of-the-art results for this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Image processing-based fire/flame detection has become popular in recent years. In this paper, a novel fire/flame detection system based on a new conversion matrix and artificial bee colony algorithm was presented. Flame and non-flame image pixel values were combined to have a new feature matrix. A conversion matrix was generated randomly. The conversion matrix was multiplied by the feature matrix. The error of this multiplication result was calculated using the K-means clustering algorithm. The conversion matrix was updated until getting desired performance using artificial bee colony algorithm. At the end of the updating process, updated conversion matrix was multiplied with all images in the dataset to move all images to new color space. The final images were converted into binary images. Otsu method was used to get binary images. These binary images were compared with the corresponding ground truth images in the dataset. The aim of this comparison is to calculate the similarity ratio of the two images. This ratio shows the extent to which the original image features are preserved. A forest fire dataset was used which has 500 forest fire images. It is publicly available and called as Corsican Fire Database. Jaccard and Dice similarity measure parameters were used to evaluate the proposed system performance and compared with other similar study such as particle swarm optimization. Evaluated mean Jaccard index value was 0.76, and mean Dice index value was 0.85. This evaluation was made for 500 images. These results provide that this system can be used in fire/flame detection systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The timely and accurate diagnosis of plant diseases plays an important role in preventing the loss of productivity and loss or reduced quantity of agricultural products. In order to solve such problems, methods based on machine learning can be used. In recent years, deep learning, which is especially widely used in image processing, offers many new applications related to precision agriculture. In this study, we evaluated the performance results using different approaches of nine powerful architectures of deep neural networks for plant disease detection. Transfer learning and deep feature extraction methods are used, which adapt these deep learning models to the problem at hand. The utilized pretrained deep models are considered in the presented work for feature extraction and for further fine-tuning. The obtained features using deep feature extraction are then classified by support vector machine (SVM), extreme learning machine (ELM), and K-nearest neighbor (KNN) methods. The experiments are carried out using data consisting of real disease and pest images from Turkey. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and F1-score are all calculated for performance evaluation. The evaluation results show that deep feature extraction and SVM/ELM classification produced better results than transfer learning. In addition, the fc6 layers of the AlexNet, VGG16, and VGG19 models produced better accuracy scores when compared to the other layers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The brain cancer treatment process depends on the physician's experience and knowledge. For this reason, using an automated tumor detection system is extremely important to aid radiologists and physicians to detect brain tumors. The proposed method has three stages, which are preprocessing, the extreme learning machine local receptive fields (ELM-LRF) based tumor classification, and image processing based tumor region extraction. At first, nonlocal means and local smoothing methods were used to remove possible noises. In the second stage, cranial magnetic resonance (MR) images were classified as benign or malignant by using ELM-LRF. In the third stage, the tumors were segmented. The purpose of the study was using only cranial MR images, which have a mass, in order to save the physician's time. In the experimental studies the classification accuracy of cranial MR images is 97.18%. Evaluated results showed that the proposed method's performance was better than the other recent studies in the literature. Experimental results also proved that the proposed method is effective and can be used in computer aided brain tumor detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which uses the combination of the wavelet signal processing, entropy and neural networks (NN) to efficiently extract the features from processed data predicting the chemical oxygen demand (COD) parameter of a wastewater treatment plant. Some basic properties of the wavelet decomposition, used methods, and NNs are reviewed. The entropy and intelligent model is described. The effectiveness of the proposed model is described. In conclusion, this study presents the usage of wavelet and NN for predicting COD parameter of a wastewater treatment plant.

This article presents a study regarding aeration efficiency in stepped cascade aerators by using the Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System. The obtained model was tested with experimental data and the test results showed that Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System estimates the aeration efficiency in stepped cascade aerators. It also discusses the process termed re-aeration or aeration, the physical process of oxygen transfer or oxygen absorption from the atmosphere which acts to replenish the used oxygen.