Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods

The evolution of the internet and its accessibility in the twenty-first century has resulted in a tremendous increase in the use of social media platforms.Some social media sources contribute to the propagation of fake news that has no real validity,but they accumulate over time and begin to appear in the feed of every consumer producing even more ambiguity.To sustain the value of social media,such stories must be distinguished from the true ones.As a result,an automated system is required to save time and money.The classification of fake news and misinformation from social media data corpora is the subject of this research.Several preprocessing and data improvement procedures are used to gather and preprocess two fake news datasets.Deep text features are extracted using word embedding models Word2vec and Global Vectors for Word representation while textual features are extracted using n-gram approaches named Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and Bag of Words from both datasets individually.Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)is also employed to derive embedded representations from the input data.Finally,three Machine Learning(ML)and two Deep Learning(DL)algorithms are utilized for fake news classification.BERT also carries out the classification of embedded outcomes generated by it in parallel with the ML and DL models.In terms of overall performance,the DL-based Convolutional Neural Network stands out in the case of the first while BERT performs better in the case of the second dataset.

A Novel Database Watermarking Technique Using Blockchain as Trusted Third Party

With widespread use of relational database in various real-life applications,maintaining integrity and providing copyright protection is gaining keen interest of the researchers.For this purpose,watermarking has been used for quite a long time.Watermarking requires the role of trusted third party and a mechanism to extract digital signatures(watermark)to prove the ownership of the data under dispute.This is often inefficient as lots of processing is required.Moreover,certain malicious attacks,like additive attacks,can give rise to a situation when more than one parties can claim the ownership of the same data by inserting and detecting their own set of watermarks from the same data.To solve this problem,we propose to use blockchain technology—as trusted third party—along with watermarking for providing a means of rights protection of relational databases.Using blockchain for writing the copyright information alongside watermarking helps to secure the watermark as changing the blockchain is very difficult.This way,we combined the resilience of our watermarking scheme and the strength of blockchain technology—for protecting the digital rights information from alteration—to design and implement a robust scheme for digital right protection of relational databases.Moreover,we also discuss how the proposed scheme can also be used for version control.The proposed technique works with nonnumeric features of relational database and does not target only selected tuple or portion(subset)from the database for watermark embedding unlike most of the existing techniques;as a result,the chances of subset selection containing no watermark decrease automatically.The proposed technique employs zerowatermarking approach and hence no intentional error(watermark)is added to the original dataset.The results of the experiments proved the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

A Particle Swarm Optimization Based Deep Learning Model for Vehicle Classification

Image classification is a core field in the research area of image proces-sing and computer vision in which vehicle classification is a critical domain.The purpose of vehicle categorization is to formulate a compact system to assist in real-world problems and applications such as security,traffic analysis,and self-driving and autonomous vehicles.The recent revolution in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence has provided an immense amount of support for image processing related problems and has overtaken the conventional,and handcrafted means of solving image analysis problems.In this paper,a combina-tion of pre-trained CNN GoogleNet and a nature-inspired problem optimization scheme,particle swarm optimization(PSO),was employed for autonomous vehi-cle classification.The model was trained on a vehicle image dataset obtained from Kaggle that has been suitably augmented.The trained model was classified using several classifiers;however,the Cubic SVM(CSVM)classifier was found to out-perform the others in both time consumption and accuracy(94.8%).The results obtained from empirical evaluations and statistical tests reveal that the model itself has shown to outperform the other related models not only in terms of accu-racy(94.8%)but also in terms of training time(82.7 s)and speed prediction(380 obs/sec).