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Object recognition and detection is an area of study, within intelligence and computer vision. It finds applications in fields such as surveillance, detailed activity analysis, robotics and object tracking. The primary focus of research papers in this domain revolves around enhancing the precision of object identification and detection regardless of whether the objects are located indoors or outdoors. To address this challenge, a new approach involving the utilization of SIFT features for information extraction has been proposed. Our approach encompasses two components; the implementation of dimensionality reduction through principal component analysis (PCA) to eliminate redundancies; secondly the incorporation of feature vector encoding using fisher encoding techniques. The RGB-D dataset employed contains 300 objects across scenarios with emphasis on colored aspects rather than depth. The SIFT features are categorized using a support vector machine (SVM) into 7 classes. When compared to using SIFT features integrating them with encoding methods notably enhances recall, precision and F1-score by than 30% through fisher encoding and PCA techniques. The study concludes with an evaluation based on n-cross validation methodology along, with detailed experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to address the detection of COVID-19 by developing an accurate and efficient diagnostic system using chest X-ray images. The research utilizes open-source Kaggle data comprising four categories: COVID-19, Lung-Opacity, Normal, and Viral Pneumonia. The proposed system employs convolutional neural networks (CNNs), including VGG19, RNN-LSTM, and inceptionv3. Results vary among the methodologies, with VGG19 achieving 26% accuracy, RNN-LSTM attaining 25% accuracy (28% with preprocessing), and inceptionv3 with histogram equalization achieving 83% accuracy. A CNN designed from scratch demonstrates the highest performance, with an accuracy of 93% (96% with histogram equalization). The findings emphasize the potential of AI techniques in enhancing disease diagnosis, particularly in distinguishing COVID-19 from other conditions, thereby facilitating timely and effective interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examining facial expressions is a crucial aspect that garners attention due to its significance in divulging emotional states. This study delves into employing a robust deep learning method for automatically analyzing and identifying facial emotions in images. The chosen technique revolves around the convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm. A dataset containing images of individuals, each exhibiting distinct facial expressions, was curated. The emotions in these images were categorized into seven groups (angry, disgust, fear, happy, neutral, sad, surprise) based on the depicted emotional states. The approach comprises four primary steps: preprocessing the input facial images, utilizing image adjustments and data augmentation, employing the Viola and Jones technique for face detection and landmark localization, creating a numerical feature vector from the registered image for feature extraction, and inputting the extracted features into the CNN for classification. The proposed CNN model underwent application to classify facial emotions within the image dataset. Additionally, a pretrained VGG-16 model was incorporated into the classification process for facial images. A comparative analysis between the proposed CNN approach and the pretrained VGG-16 model revealed that the latter outperformed the former in terms of accuracy rate and loss function values when determining individuals’ facial expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Botnets are today recognized as one of the most advanced vulnerability threats. Botnets control a huge percentage of network traffic and PCs. They have the ability to remotely control PCs (zombie machines) by their creator (BotMaster) via Command and Control (C&C) framework. They are the keys to a variety of Internet attacks such as spams, DDOS, and spreading malwares. This study proposes a number of machine learning techniques for detecting botnet assaults via IoT networks to help researchers in choosing the suitable ML algorithm for their applications. Using the BoT-IoT dataset, six different machine learning methods were evaluated: REPTree, RandomTree, RandomForest, J48, metaBagging, and Naive Bayes. Several measures, including accuracy, TPR, FPR, and many more, have been used to evaluate the algorithms' performance. The six algorithms were evaluated using three different testing situations. Scenario-1 tested the algorithms utilizing all of the parameters presented in the BoT-IoT dataset, scenario-2 used the IG feature reduction approach, and scenario-3 used extracted features from the attacker's received packets. The results revealed that the assessed algorithms performed well in all three cases with slight differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plant diseases represent one of the critical issues which lead to a major decrease in the quantity and quality of crops. Therefore, the early detection of plant diseases can avoid any losses or damage to these crops. This paper presents an image processing and a deep learning-based automatic approach that classifies the diseases that strike the apple leaves. The proposed system has been tested using over 18,000 images from the Apple Diseases Dataset by PlantVillage, including images of healthy and affected apple leaves. We applied the VGG-16 architecture to a pre-trained unlabeled dataset of plant leave images. Then, we used some other deep learning pre-trained architectures, including Inception-V3, ResNet-50, and VGG-19, to solve the visualization-related problems in computer vision, including object classification. These networks can train the images dataset and compare the achieved results, including accuracy and error rate between those architectures. The preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed Inception V3 and VGG-16 approaches. The obtained results demonstrate that Inception V3 achieves an accuracy of 92.42% with an error rate of 0.3037%, while the VGG-16 network achieves an accuracy of 91.53% with an error rate of 0.4785%. The experiments show that these two deep learning networks can achieve satisfying results under various conditions, including lighting, background scene, camera resolution, size, viewpoint, and scene direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body is unable to properly regulate blood sugar levels. It can occur when the body does not produce enough insulin or when cells become resistant to insulin's effects. There are two main types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2, which have different causes and risk factors. Early detection of diabetes allows for early intervention and management of the condition. This can help prevent or delay the development of serious complications associated with diabetes. Early diagnosis also allows for individuals to make lifestyle changes to prevent the progression of the disease. Healthcare systems play a vital role in the management and treatment of diabetes. They provide access to diabetes education, regular check-ups, and necessary medications for individuals with diabetes. They also provide monitoring and management of diabetes-related complications, such as heart disease, kidney failure, and neuropathy. Through early detection, prevention and management programs, healthcare systems can help improve the quality of life and outcomes for people with diabetes. Current initiatives in healthcare systems for diabetes may fail due to lack of access to education and resources for individuals with diabetes. There may also be inadequate follow-up and monitoring for those who have been diagnosed, leading to poor management of the disease and lack of prevention of complications. Additionally, current initiatives may not be tailored to specific cultural or demographic groups, resulting in a lack of effectiveness for certain populations. In this study, we developed a diabetes prediction system using a healthcare framework. The system employs various machine learning methods, such as K-nearest neighbors, decision tree, deep learning, SVM, random forest, AdaBoost and logistic regression. The performance of the system was evaluated using the PIMA Indians Diabetes dataset and achieved a training accuracy of 82% and validation accuracy of 80%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Virtual reality is an important technology that is fast gaining global attention in different spheres of life particularly in the education sector. In view of this, this study designs a distance learning system for spoken English based on virtual reality, firstly, the overall design of the teaching system and the hardware and software of the system are designed, then a double-supervised signal convolutional neural network algorithm is proposed for the speech data recognition function of the system, and finally the testing of the system performance and the simulation analysis of the algorithm are carried out. The results show that the step response curve of the system designed in this study is gradually stabilized after 11s of operation, although there are certain fluctuations in the initial stage; the speaking scoring function of the system is more influenced by the sampling period T. When T is at 3 and 4, the speaking scoring speed of the teaching system is 33s~42s, which is significantly better than other intervals. The number of information submission and feedback was approximately the same and the interaction activity was very high after students used the system designed in this study, reflecting that student were more motivated to learn spoken English after using the system. The final loss rate using Goog Le Net is smaller and more convergent compared to the loss rate of the other three CNN models trained. The convolutional neural network algorithm constructed in this study has a very high accuracy rate in the recognition of English speech data, which is significantly better than other recognition models. To a certain extent, this study can provide guidance for the construction of English-speaking distance learning system, and more needs of users can be considered in future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chest and lung diseases are among the most serious chronic diseases in the world, and they occur as a result of factors such as smoking, air pollution, or bacterial infection, which would expose the respiratory system and chest to serious disorders. Chest diseases lead to a natural weakness in the respiratory system, which requires the patient to take care and attention to alleviate this problem. Countries are interested in encouraging medical research and monitoring the spread of communicable diseases. Therefore, they advised researchers to perform studies to curb the diseases' spread and urged researchers to devise methods for swiftly and readily detecting and distinguishing lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a hybrid architecture of contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) and deep convolutional network for the classification of lung diseases. We used X-ray images to create a convolutional neural network (CNN) for early identification and categorization of lung diseases. Initially, the proposed method implemented the support vector machine to classify the images with and without using CLAHE equalizer. The obtained results were compared with the CNN networks. Later, two different experiments were implemented with hybrid architecture of deep CNN networks and CLAHE as a preprocessing for image enhancement. The experimental results indicate that the suggested hybrid architecture outperforms traditional methods by roughly 20% in terms of accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotional intelligence is the automatic detection of human emotions using various intelligent methods. Several studies have been conducted on emotional intelligence, and only a few have been adopted in education. Detecting student emotions can significantly increase productivity and improve the education process. This paper proposes a new deep learning method to detect student emotions. The main aim of this paper is to map the relationship between teaching practices and student learning based on emotional impact. Facial recognition algorithms extract helpful information from online platforms as image classification techniques are applied to detect the emotions of student and/or teacher faces. As part of this work, two deep learning models are compared according to their performance. Promising results are achieved using both techniques, as presented in the Experimental Results Section. For validation of the proposed system, an online course with students is used; the findings suggest that this technique operates well. Based on emotional analysis, several deep learning techniques are applied to train and test the emotion classification process. Transfer learning for a pre-trained deep neural network is used as well to increase the accuracy of the emotion classification stage. The obtained results show that the performance of the proposed method is promising using both techniques, as presented in the Experimental Results Section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Users in the same network can trace the data being transmitted amongst users and other users to the internet using many available online tools such as packet sniffers and many packets capturing tools, the need to make the data resistible to be read comes obvious. The proposed solution is to encrypt the data using inscription algorithm. In this paper, we propose a solution to protect Network Clients from other Clients in the same network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]