Big Data Analytics:Deep Content-Based Prediction with Sampling Perspective

The world of information technology is more than ever being flooded with huge amounts of data,nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes every day.This large stream of data is called big data,and the amount is increasing each day.This research uses a technique called sampling,which selects a representative subset of the data points,manipulates and analyzes this subset to identify patterns and trends in the larger dataset being examined,and finally,creates models.Sampling uses a small proportion of the original data for analysis and model training,so that it is relatively faster while maintaining data integrity and achieving accurate results.Two deep neural networks,AlexNet and DenseNet,were used in this research to test two sampling techniques,namely sampling with replacement and reservoir sampling.The dataset used for this research was divided into three classes:acceptable,flagged as easy,and flagged as hard.The base models were trained with the whole dataset,whereas the other models were trained on 50%of the original dataset.There were four combinations of model and sampling technique.The F-measure for the AlexNet model was 0.807 while that for the DenseNet model was 0.808.Combination 1 was the AlexNet model and sampling with replacement,achieving an average F-measure of 0.8852.Combination 3 was the AlexNet model and reservoir sampling.It had an average F-measure of 0.8545.Combination 2 was the DenseNet model and sampling with replacement,achieving an average F-measure of 0.8017.Finally,combination 4 was the DenseNet model and reservoir sampling.It had an average F-measure of 0.8111.Overall,we conclude that both models trained on a sampled dataset gave equal or better results compared to the base models,which used the whole dataset.

Sparse Crowd Flow Analysis of Tawaaf of Kaaba During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the entire world and has put forth high demand for techniques that remotely manage crowd-related tasks.Video surveillance and crowd management using video analysis techniques have significantly impacted today’s research,and numerous applications have been developed in this domain.This research proposed an anomaly detection technique applied to Umrah videos in Kaaba during the COVID-19 pandemic through sparse crowd analysis.Managing theKaaba rituals is crucial since the crowd gathers from around the world and requires proper analysis during these days of the pandemic.The Umrah videos are analyzed,and a system is devised that can track and monitor the crowd flow in Kaaba.The crowd in these videos is sparse due to the pandemic,and we have developed a technique to track the maximum crowd flow and detect any object(person)moving in the direction unlikely of the major flow.We have detected abnormal movement by creating the histograms for the vertical and horizontal flows and applying thresholds to identify the non-majority flow.Our algorithm aims to analyze the crowd through video surveillance and timely detect any abnormal activity tomaintain a smooth crowd flowinKaaba during the pandemic.

A Deep Learning Approach for Crowd Counting in Highly Congested Scene

With the rapid progress of deep convolutional neural networks,several applications of crowd counting have been proposed and explored in the literature.In congested scene monitoring,a variety of crowd density estimating approaches has been developed.The understanding of highly congested scenes for crowd counting during Muslim gatherings of Hajj and Umrah is a challenging task,as a large number of individuals stand nearby and,it is hard for detection techniques to recognize them,as the crowd can vary from low density to high density.To deal with such highly congested scenes,we have proposed the Congested Scene Crowd Counting Network(CSCC-Net)using VGG-16 as a core network with its first ten layers due to its strong and robust transfer learning rate.A hole dilated convolutional neural network is used at the back end to widen the relevant field to extract a large range of information from the image without losing its original resolution.The dilated convolution neural network is mainly chosen to expand the kernel size without changing other parameters.Moreover,several loss functions have been applied to strengthen the evaluation accuracy of the model.Finally,the entire experiments have been evaluated using prominent data sets namely,ShanghaiTech parts A,B,UCF_CC_50,and UCF_QNRF.Our model has achieved remarkable results i.e.,68.0 and 9.0 MAE on ShanghaiTech parts A,B,199.1 MAE on UCF_CC_50,and 99.8 on UCF_QNRF data sets respectively.

Learning Patterns from COVID-19 Instances

Coronavirus disease,which resulted from the SARS-CoV-2 virus,has spread worldwide since early 2020 and has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization(WHO).Coronavirus disease is also termed COVID-19.It affects the human respiratory system and thus can be traced and tracked from the Chest X-Ray images.Therefore,Chest X-Ray alone may play a vital role in identifying COVID-19 cases.In this paper,we propose a Machine Learning(ML)approach that utilizes the X-Ray images to classify the healthy and affected patients based on the patterns found in these images.The article also explores traditional,and Deep Learning(DL)approaches for COVID-19 patterns from Chest X-Ray images to predict,analyze,and further understand this virus.The experimental evaluation of the proposed approach achieves 97.5% detection performance using the DL model for COVID-19 versus normal cases.In contrast,for COVID-19 versus Pneumonia Virus scenario,we achieve 94.5% accurate detections.Our extensive evaluation in the experimental section guides and helps in the selection of an appropriate model for similar tasks.Thus,the approach can be used for medical usages and is particularly pertinent in detecting COVID-19 positive patients using X-Ray images alone.

Hajj Crowd Management Using CNN-Based Approach

Hajj as the Muslim holy pilgrimage,attracts millions of humans to Mecca every year.According to statists,the pilgrimage has attracted close to 2.5 million pilgrims in 2019,and at its peak,it has attracted over 3 million pilgrims in 2012.It is considered as the world’s largest human gathering.Safety makes one of the main concerns with regards to managing the large crowds and ensuring that stampedes and other similar overcrowding accidents are avoided.This paper presents a crowd management system using image classification and an alarm system for managing the millions of crowds during Hajj.The image classification system greatly relies on the appropriate dataset used to train the Convolutional neural network(CNN),which is the deep learning technique that has recently attracted the interest of the research community and industry in varying applications of image classification and speech recognition.The core building block of CNN is is a convolutional layer obtained by the getting CNN trained with patches bearing designated features of the trainee mages.The algorithm is implemented,using the Conv2D layers to activate the CNN as a sequential network.Thus,creating a 2D convolution layer having 64 filters and drop out of 0.5 makes the core of a CNN referred to as a set of KERNELS.The aim is to train the CNN model with mapped image data,and to make it available for use in classifying the crowd as heavily-crowded,crowded,semi-crowded,light crowded,and normal.The utility of these results lies in producing appropriate signals for proving helpful in monitoring the pilgrims.Counting pilgrims from the photos will help the authorities to determine the number of people in certain areas.The results demonstrate the utility of agent-based modeling for Hajj pilgrims.