Improved Shark Smell Optimization Algorithm for Human Action Recognition

Human Action Recognition(HAR)in uncontrolled environments targets to recognition of different actions froma video.An effective HAR model can be employed for an application like human-computer interaction,health care,person tracking,and video surveillance.Machine Learning(ML)approaches,specifically,Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)models had beenwidely used and achieved impressive results through feature fusion.The accuracy and effectiveness of these models continue to be the biggest challenge in this field.In this article,a novel feature optimization algorithm,called improved Shark Smell Optimization(iSSO)is proposed to reduce the redundancy of extracted features.This proposed technique is inspired by the behavior ofwhite sharks,and howthey find the best prey in thewhole search space.The proposed iSSOalgorithmdivides the FeatureVector(FV)into subparts,where a search is conducted to find optimal local features fromeach subpart of FV.Once local optimal features are selected,a global search is conducted to further optimize these features.The proposed iSSO algorithm is employed on nine(9)selected CNN models.These CNN models are selected based on their top-1 and top-5 accuracy in ImageNet competition.To evaluate the model,two publicly available datasets UCF-Sports and Hollywood2 are selected.

Deep Learning-Based Classification of Fruit Diseases:An Application for Precision Agriculture

Agriculture is essential for the economy and plant disease must be minimized.Early recognition of problems is important,but the manual inspection is slow,error-prone,and has high manpower and time requirements.Artificial intelligence can be used to extract fruit color,shape,or texture data,thus aiding the detection of infections.Recently,the convolutional neural network(CNN)techniques show a massive success for image classification tasks.CNN extracts more detailed features and can work efficiently with large datasets.In this work,we used a combined deep neural network and contour feature-based approach to classify fruits and their diseases.A fine-tuned,pretrained deep learning model(VGG19)was retrained using a plant dataset,from which useful features were extracted.Next,contour features were extracted using pyramid histogram of oriented gradient(PHOG)and combined with the deep features using serial based approach.During the fusion process,a few pieces of redundant information were added in the form of features.Then,a“relevance-based”optimization technique was used to select the best features from the fused vector for the final classifications.With the use of multiple classifiers,an accuracy of up to 99.6%was achieved on the proposed method,which is superior to previous techniques.Moreover,our approach is useful for 5G technology,cloud computing,and the Internet of Things(IoT).

A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for the Classification of Superhero Fashion Products:An Application for Medical-Tech Classification

Comic character detection is becoming an exciting and growing research area in the domain of machine learning.In this regard,recently,many methods are proposed to provide adequate performance.However,most of these methods utilized the custom datasets,containing a few hundred images and fewer classes,to evaluate the performances of their models without comparing it,with some standard datasets.This article takes advantage of utilizing a standard publicly dataset taken from a competition,and proposes a generic data balancing technique for imbalanced dataset to enhance and enable the in-depth training of the CNN.In addition,to classify the superheroes efficiently,a custom 17-layer deep convolutional neural network is also proposed.The computed results achieved overall classification accuracy of 97.9%which is significantly superior to the accuracy of competition’s winner.

A Blockchain Based Framework for Stomach Abnormalities Recognition

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy(WCE)is an imaging technology,widely used in medical imaging for stomach infection recognition.However,a one patient procedure takes almost seven to eight minutes and approximately 57,000 frames are captured.The privacy of patients is very important and manual inspection is time consuming and costly.Therefore,an automated system for recognition of stomach infections from WCE frames is always needed.An existing block chain-based approach is employed in a convolutional neural network model to secure the network for accurate recognition of stomach infections such as ulcer and bleeding.Initially,images are normalized in fixed dimension and passed in pre-trained deep models.These architectures are modified at each layer,to make them safer and more secure.Each layer contains an extra block,which stores certain information to avoid possible tempering,modification attacks and layer deletions.Information is stored in multiple blocks,i.e.,block attached to each layer,a ledger block attached with the network,and a cloud ledger block stored in the cloud storage.After that,features are extracted and fused using a Mode value-based approach and optimized using a Genetic Algorithm along with an entropy function.The Softmax classifier is applied at the end for final classification.Experiments are performed on a private collected dataset and achieve an accuracy of 96.8%.The statistical analysis and individual model comparison show the proposed method’s authenticity.

Customer Prioritization for Medical Supply Chain During COVID-19 Pandemic

During COVID-19,the escalated demand for various pharmaceutical products with the existing production capacity of pharmaceutical companies has stirred the need to prioritize its customers in order to fulfill their demand.This study considers a two-echelon pharmaceutical supply chain considering various pharma-distributors as its suppliers and hospitals,pharmacies,and retail stores as its customers.Previous studies have generally considered a balanced situation in terms of supply and demand whereas this study considers a special situation of COVID-19 pandemic where demand exceeds supply Various criteria have been identified from the literature that influences the selection of customers.A questionnaire has been developed to collect primary data from pharmaceutical suppliers pertaining to customerselection criteria.These criteria have been prioritized with respect to eigenvalues obtained from Principal Component Analysis and also validated with the experts’domain-related knowledge using Analytical Hierarchy Process.Profit potential appeared to be the most important criteria of customer selection followed by trust and service convenience brand loyalty,commitment,brand awareness,brand image,sustainable behavior,and risk.Subsequently,Multi Criteria Decision Analysis has been performed to prioritize the customerselection criteria and customers with respect to selection criteria.Three experts with seven and three and ten years of experience have participated in the study.Findings of the study suggest large hospitals,large pharmacies,and small retail stores are the highly preferred customers.Moreover,findings of prioritization of customer-selection criteria fromboth Principal Component Analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process are consistent.Furthermore,this study considers the experience of three experts to calculate an aggregate score of priorities to reach an effective decision.Unlike traditional supply chain problems of supplier selection,this study considers a selection of customers and is useful for procurement and supply chain managers to prioritize customers while considering multiple selection criteria.