Evaluation of the robusticity of mutual fund performance in Ghana using Enhanced Resilient Backpropagation Neural Network(ERBPNN)and Fast Adaptive Neural Network Classifier(FANNC)

Mutual fund investment continues to play a very important role in the world financial markets especially in developing economies where the capital market is not very matured and tolerant of small scale investors.The total mutual fund asset globally as at the end of 2016 was in excess of$40.4 trillion.Despite its success there are uncertainties as to whether mutual funds in Ghana obtain optimal performance relative to their counterparts in United States,Luxembourg,Ireland,France,Australia,United Kingdom,Japan,China and Brazil.We contribute to the extant literature on mutual fund performance evaluation using a collection of more sophisticated econometric models.We selected six continuous historical years that is 2010-2011,2012-2013 and 2014-2015 to construct a mutual fund performance evaluation model utilizing the fast adaptive neural network classifier(FANNC),and to compare our results with those from an enhanced resilient back propagation neural networks(ERBPNN)model.Our FANNC model outperformed the existing models in terms of processing time and error rate.This makes it ideal for financial application that involves large volume of data and routine updates.

An Adaptive Classifier Based Approach for Crowd Anomaly Detection

Crowd Anomaly Detection has become a challenge in intelligent video surveillance system and security.Intelligent video surveillance systems make extensive use of data mining,machine learning and deep learning methods.In this paper a novel approach is proposed to identify abnormal occurrences in crowded situations using deep learning.In this approach,Adaptive GoogleNet Neural Network Classifier with Multi-Objective Whale Optimization Algorithm are applied to predict the abnormal video frames in the crowded scenes.We use multiple instance learning(MIL)to dynamically develop a deep anomalous ranking framework.This technique predicts higher anomalous values for abnormal video frames by treating regular and irregular video bags and video sections.We use the multi-objective whale optimization algorithm to optimize the entire process and get the best results.The performance parameters such as accuracy,precision,recall,and F-score are considered to evaluate the proposed technique using the Python simulation tool.Our simulation results show that the proposed method performs better than the conventional methods on the public live video dataset.

RADAR HRRP RECOGNITION BASED ON THE MINIMUM KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE CRITERION

To relax the target aspect sensitivity and use more statistical information of the High Range Resolution Profiles (HRRPs), in this paper, the average range profile and the variance range profile are extracted together as the feature vectors for both training data and test data representa-tion. And a decision rule is established for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) based on the mini-mum Kullback-Leibler Distance (KLD) criterion. The recognition performance of the proposed method is comparable with that of Adaptive Gaussian Classifier (AGC) with multiple test HRRPs, but the proposed method is much more computational efficient. Experimental results based on the measured data show that the minimum KLD classifier is effective.

Diagnosis of Neem Leaf Diseases Using Fuzzy-HOBINM and ANFIS Algorithms

This paper proposes an approach to detecting diseases in neem leaf that uses a Fuzzy-Higher Order Biologically Inspired Neuron Model(F-HOBINM)and adaptive neuro classifier(ANFIS).India exports USD 0.28-million worth of neem leaf to the UK,USA,UAE,and Europe in the form of dried leaves and powder,both of which help reduce diabetesrelated issues,cardiovascular problems,and eye disorders.Diagnosing neem leaf disease is difficult through visual interpretation,owing to similarity in their color and texture patterns.The most common diseases include bacterial blight,Colletotrichum and Alternaria leaf spot,blight,damping-off,powdery mildew,Pseudocercospora leaf spot,leaf web blight,and seedling wilt.However,traditional color and texture algorithms fail to identify leaf diseases due to irregular lumps and surfaces,and rough ridges,as the classification time involved takes as long as a week.The proposed F-HOBINM algorithm recognizes the leaf intensity through the leaky capacitor,and uses subjective intensity and physical stimulus to interpret the diagnosis.Further,the processed leaf images from the HOBINM algorithm are applied to the ANFIS classifier to identify neem leaf diseases.The experimental results show 92.18%accuracy from a database of 1,462 neem leaves.

Radar automatic target recognition based on feature extraction for complex HRRP

Radar high-resolution range profile （HRRP） has received intensive attention from the radar automatic target recognition （RATR） community. Usually, since the initial phase of a complex HRRP is strongly sensitive to target position variation, which is referred to as the initial phase sensitivity in this paper, only the amplitude information in the complex HRRP, called the real HRRP in this paper, is used for RATR, whereas the phase information is discarded. However, the remaining phase information except for initial phases in the complex HRRP also contains valuable target discriminant information. This paper proposes a novel feature extraction method for the complex HRRP. The extracted complex feature vector, referred to as the complex feature vector with difference phases, contains the difference phase information between range cells but no initial phase information in the complex HRRR According to the scattering center model, the physical mechanism of the proposed complex feature vector is similar to that of the real HRRP, except for reserving some phase information independent of the initial phase in the complex HRRP. The recognition algorithms, frame-template establishment methods and preprocessing methods used in the real HRRP-based RATR can also be applied to the proposed complex feature vector-based RATR. Moreover, the components in the complex feature vector with difference phases approximate to follow Gaussian distribution, which make it simple to perform the statistical recognition by such complex feature vector. The recognition experiments based on measured data show that the proposed complex feature vector can obtain better recognition performance than the real HRRP if only the cell interval parameters are properly selected.