Hybrid Metaheuristics Based License Plate Character Recognition in Smart City

Recent technological advancements have been used to improve the quality of living in smart cities.At the same time,automated detection of vehicles can be utilized to reduce crime rate and improve public security.On the other hand,the automatic identification of vehicle license plate(LP)character becomes an essential process to recognize vehicles in real time scenarios,which can be achieved by the exploitation of optimal deep learning(DL)approaches.In this article,a novel hybrid metaheuristic optimization based deep learning model for automated license plate character recognition(HMODL-ALPCR)technique has been presented for smart city environments.The major intention of the HMODL-ALPCR technique is to detect LPs and recognize the characters that exist in them.For effective LP detection process,mask regional convolutional neural network(Mask-RCNN)model is applied and the Inception with Residual Network(ResNet)-v2 as the baseline network.In addition,hybrid sunflower optimization with butterfly optimization algorithm(HSFO-BOA)is utilized for the hyperparameter tuning of the Inception-ResNetv2 model.Finally,Tesseract based character recognition model is applied to effectively recognize the characters present in the LPs.The experimental result analysis of the HMODL-ALPCR technique takes place against the benchmark dataset and the experimental outcomes pointed out the improved efficacy of the HMODL-ALPCR technique over the recent methods.

Chaotic Krill Herd with Deep Transfer Learning-Based Biometric Iris Recognition System

Biometric verification has become essential to authenticate the individuals in public and private places.Among several biometrics,iris has peculiar features and its working mechanism is complex in nature.The recent developments in Machine Learning and Deep Learning approaches enable the development of effective iris recognition models.With this motivation,the current study introduces a novel Chaotic Krill Herd with Deep Transfer Learning Based Biometric Iris Recognition System(CKHDTL-BIRS).The presented CKHDTL-BIRS model intends to recognize and classify iris images as a part of biometric verification.To achieve this,CKHDTL-BIRS model initially performs Median Filtering(MF)-based preprocessing and segmentation for iris localization.In addition,MobileNetmodel is also utilized to generate a set of useful feature vectors.Moreover,Stacked Sparse Autoencoder(SSAE)approach is applied for classification.At last,CKH algorithm is exploited for optimization of the parameters involved in SSAE technique.The proposed CKHDTL-BIRS model was experimentally validated using benchmark dataset and the outcomes were examined under several aspects.The comparison study results established the enhanced performance of CKHDTL-BIRS technique over recent approaches.

Optimal Deep Learning Based Inception Model for Cervical Cancer Diagnosis

Prevention of cervical cancer becomes essential and is carried out by the use of Pap smear images.Pap smear test analysis is laborious and tiresome work performed visually using a cytopathologist.Therefore,automated cervical cancer diagnosis using automated methods are necessary.This paper designs an optimal deep learning based Inception model for cervical cancer diagnosis(ODLIM-CCD)using pap smear images.The proposed ODLIM-CCD technique incorporates median filtering(MF)based pre-processing to discard the noise and Otsu model based segmentation process.Besides,deep convolutional neural network(DCNN)based Inception with Residual Network(ResNet)v2 model is utilized for deriving the feature vectors.Moreover,swallow swarm optimization(SSO)based hyperparameter tuning process is carried out for the optimal selection of hyperparameters.Finally,recurrent neural network(RNN)based classification process is done to determine the presence of cervical cancer or not.In order to showcase the improved diagnostic performance of the ODLIM-CCD technique,a series of simulations occur on benchmark test images and the outcomes highlighted the improved performance over the recent approaches with a superior accuracy of 0.9661.