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Edges are intensity change, which occur on the boundary between two regions in an image. Edges can be used as feature descriptors of an object. Hence, edge detection plays an important role in computer vision applications. This paper presents the application of sparse banded filter matrices in edge detection. The filter design is formulated in terms of banded matrices. The sparsity property of the designed filter leads to efficient computation. In our proposed method, we applied sparse banded high-pass filter row-wise and column-wise to extract the vertical and the horizontal edges of the image respectively. The proposed technique is experimented on standard images and the results are compared with the state-of-the-art methods. The visual comparison of the experimental results shows that the proposed approach for edge extraction based on sparse banded filter matrices produces result comparable to the existing methods. The advantage of the proposed approach is that the continuous edges are attained without any parameter tuning.

The paper presents a fast, reliable and efficient method for improving hyperspectral image classification aided by segmentation. The Multinomial Logistic Regression(MLR) algorithm can be extended to a semi-supervised learning of the posterior class distribution using unlabeled samples actively selected from the dataset. Classification results obtained from regression model is improved by performing a maximum a posteriori segmentation as it considers the spatial information of the hyperspectral image. The addition of the spatial processing step prior to the above mentioned classification scheme improves the overall accuracy of the process. The accuracies obtained before and after applying the preprocessing are compared.

Weather parameters are critical parameter which is to be considered for understanding atmospheric variation. The aim of this paper is to see how the parameter values fluctuates for three decades. Three decade information is isolated into two and K-means machine learning calculation is utilized for bunching the divided data. Then how the information focuses are conveyed around the centroid of every sectioned data group is confirmed. At long last the group for initial one and half decade is compared with the second one and half decade to know how the information focuses are strayed in dynamic year. This gathering is validated with silhouette value.

Smart grid is a complete automation system, where large pool of sensors is embedded in the existing power grids system for controlling and monitoring it by utilizing modern information technologies. The data collected from these sensors are huge and have all the characteristics to be called as Big Data. The Smart-grid can be made more intelligent by processing and deriving new information from these data in real time. This paper presents Apache spark as a unified cluster computing platform which is suitable for storing and performing Big Data analytics on smart grid data for applications like automatic demand response and real time pricing.

Implementation of data mining algorithms with low cost is one of the challenging tasks in the present world of massively increasing data. The key idea of this paper is to utilize the functionalities of Mathematica which is freely accessible on Raspberry Pi for the purpose of implementing Multi-label classification algorithm with low cost. With the facilities available in Mathematica software for Raspberry Pi, the line of code required for implementing data mining algorithms can be reduced sufficiently. Use of Random Kitchen Sink algorithm improves the accuracy of Multi-label classification and brings improvement in terms of memory usage for large dataset.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions often collect large volumes of imagery data. However, not all images will have useful information, or be of sufficient quality. Manually sorting these images and selecting useful data are both time consuming and prone to interpreter bias. Deep neural network algorithms are capable of processing large image datasets and can be trained to identify specific targets. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) consist of two competing networks, Generator and Discriminator that can analyze, capture, and copy the variations within a given dataset. In this study, we selected a variant of GAN called Conditional-GAN that incorporates an additional label parameter, for identifying epiphytes in photos acquired by a UAV in forests within Costa Rica. We trained the network with 70%, 80%, and 90% of 119 photos containing the target epiphyte, Werauhia kupperiana (Bromeliaceae) and validated the algorithm’s performance using a validation data that were not used for training. The accuracy of the output was measured using structural similarity index measure (SSIM) index and histogram correlation (HC) coefficient. Results obtained in this study indicated that the output images generated by C-GAN were similar (average SSIM = 0.89–0.91 and average HC 0.97–0.99) to the analyst annotated images. However, C-GAN had difficulty to identify when the target plant was away from the camera, was not well lit, or covered by other plants. Results obtained in this study demonstrate the potential of C-GAN to reduce the time spent by botanists to identity epiphytes in images acquired by UAVs.

Semantic Textual Similarity measures similarity between pair of texts, even though the similar context is projected using different words. This work attempted to incorporate the context space of the sentence from that sentence alone. It proposes combination of Word2Vec and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to represent the sentence as context embedding vector in context space. Distance and correlation values between context embedding vector pairs used as a features for Support Vector Regression to built the domain independent similarity measuring model. The proposed model yielding performance 0.41 in terms of correlation.

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is one of the toughest challenges to doctors in-making right decisions due to its skimpy symptoms and complexity. We have analyzed IHD data from 65 patients to provide an aid for decision-making. Decision trees give potent structural information about the data and thereby serve as a powerful data mining tool. Support vector machines serve as excellent classifiers and predictors and can do so with high accuracy. Our tree based classifier uses non-linear proximal support vector machines (PSVM). The accuracy is very high (100% for training data) and the tree is small and precise.