Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Data Hiding for High Security Secret Image Sharing

The main aim of this work is to improve the security of data hiding forsecret image sharing. The privacy and security of digital information have becomea primary concern nowadays due to the enormous usage of digital technology.The security and the privacy of users’ images are ensured through reversible datahiding techniques. The efficiency of the existing data hiding techniques did notprovide optimum performance with multiple end nodes. These issues are solvedby using Separable Data Hiding and Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization(SDHAPSO) algorithm to attain optimal performance. Image encryption, dataembedding, data extraction/image recovery are the main phases of the proposedapproach. DFT is generally used to extract the transform coefficient matrix fromthe original image. DFT coefficients are in float format, which assists in transforming the image to integral format using the round function. After obtainingthe encrypted image by data-hider, additional data embedding is formulated intohigh-frequency coefficients. The proposed SDHAPSO is mainly utilized for performance improvement through optimal pixel location selection within the imagefor secret bits concealment. In addition, the secret data embedding capacityenhancement is focused on image visual quality maintenance. Hence, it isobserved from the simulation results that the proposed SDHAPSO techniqueoffers high-level security outcomes with respect to higher PSNR, security level,lesser MSE and higher correlation than existing techniques. Hence, enhancedsensitive information protection is attained, which improves the overall systemperformance.

A multi-sensor-based distributed real-time measurement system for glacier deformation

Glacier disasters occur frequently in alpine regions around the world,but the current conventional geological disaster measurement technology cannot be directly used for glacier disaster measurement.Hence,in this study,a distributed multi-sensor measurement system for glacier deformation was established by integrating piezoelectric sensing,coded sensing,attitude sensing technology and wireless communication technology.The traditional Modbus protocol was optimized to solve the problem of data identification confusion of different acquisition nodes.Through indoor wireless transmission,adaptive performance analysis,error measurement experiment and landslide simulation experiment,the performance of the measurement system was analyzed and evaluated.Using unmanned aerial vehicle technology,the reliability and effectiveness of the measurement system were verified on the site of Galongla glacier in southeastern Tibet,China.The results show that the mean absolute percentage errors were only 1.13%and 2.09%for the displacement and temperature,respectively.The distributed glacier deformation real-time measurement system provides a new means for the assessment of the development process of glacier disasters and disaster prevention and mitigation.

ADAPTABLE DESIGN IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

A newly emerging design pattern, named as adaptable design （AD）, which aims at developing products that are adaptable from design to post-life cycle, is discussed. AD consists of four main phases： product modeling, design platform, specific design and product redesign. A new process-based design data model （PDDM） is presented which is organized according to the principles of convenient knowledge extraction, data representation, layout, sharing and reuse. Based on the PDDM, a universal design platform for product family development is established, which has characters of modularity, parameter-driven, variant design, etc. The framework of the platform is also proposed as a conceptual structure and overall logical organization for generating a family of products. AD methodology is successfully applied to develop a family of tunnel boring machine （TBM） for different engineering projects, with the efficiency of our developing team being greatly increased.

Research on Key Technologies of Electronic Shelf Labels Based on LoRa

The demand for Electronic Shelf Labels(ESL),according to the Internet of Things(IoT)paradigm,is expected to grow considerably in the immediate future.Various wireless communication standards are currently contending to gain an edge over the competition and provide the massive connectivity that will be required by a world in which everyday objects are expected to communicate with each other.Low-Power Wide-Area Networks(LPWANs)are continuously gaining momentum among these standards,mainly thanks to their ability to provide long-range coverage to devices,exploiting license-free frequency bands.The main theme of this work is one of the most prominent LPWAN technologies,LoRa.The purpose of this research is to provide long-range,less intermediate node,less energy dissipation,and a cheaper ESL system.Much research has already been done on designing the LoRaWAN network,not capable to make a reliable network.LoRa is using different gateways to transmit the same data,collision,data jamming,and data repetition are expected.According to the transmission behavior of LoRa,50%of data is lost.In this paper,the Improved Backoff Algorithm with synchronization technique is used to decrease overlapping and data loss.Besides,the improved Adaptive Data Rate algorithm(ADR)avoids the collision in concurrently transmitted data by using different Spreading Factors(SFs).The allocation of SF has the main role in designing LoRa based network to minimize the impact of the intra-interference,cost function,and Euclidean distance.For this purpose,the K-means machine learning algorithm is used for clustering.The data rate model is using an intra-slicing technique based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation(MLE).The data rate model includes three critical communication slices,High Critical Communication(HCC),Medium Critical Communication(MCC),and Low Critical Communication(LCC),having the specified number of End devices(EDs),payload budget delay,and data rate.Finally,different combinations of gateways are used to build ESL for 200 electronic shelf labels.

Artifact suppression and analysis of brain activities with electroencephalography signals

Brain-computer interface is a communication system that connects the brain with computer （or other devices） but is not dependent on the normal output of the brain （i.e., peripheral nerve and muscle）. Electro-oculogram is a dominant artifact which has a significant negative influence on further analysis of real electroencephalography data. This paper presented a data adaptive technique for artifact suppression and brain wave extraction from electroencephalography signals to detect regional brain activities. Empirical mode decomposition based adaptive thresholding approach was employed here to suppress the electro-oculogram artifact. Fractional Gaussian noise was used to determine the threshold level derived from the analysis data without any training. The purified electroencephalography signal was composed of the brain waves also called rhythmic components which represent the brain activities. The rhythmic components were extracted from each electroencephalography channel using adaptive wiener filter with the original scale. The regional brain activities were mapped on the basis of the spatial distribution of rhythmic components, and the results showed that different regions of the brain are activated in response to different stimuli. This research analyzed the activities of a single rhythmic component, alpha with respect to different motor imaginations. The experimental results showed that the proposed method is very efficient in artifact suppression and identifying individual motor imagery based on the activities of alpha component.

Theoretical convergence analysis of complex Gaussian kernel LMS algorithm

With the vigorous expansion of nonlinear adaptive filtering with real-valued kernel functions,its counterpart complex kernel adaptive filtering algorithms were also sequentially proposed to solve the complex-valued nonlinear problems arising in almost all real-world applications.This paper firstly presents two schemes of the complex Gaussian kernel-based adaptive filtering algorithms to illustrate their respective characteristics.Then the theoretical convergence behavior of the complex Gaussian kernel least mean square（LMS） algorithm is studied by using the fixed dictionary strategy.The simulation results demonstrate that the theoretical curves predicted by the derived analytical models consistently coincide with the Monte Carlo simulation results in both transient and steady-state stages for two introduced complex Gaussian kernel LMS algonthms using non-circular complex data.The analytical models are able to be regard as a theoretical tool evaluating ability and allow to compare with mean square error（MSE） performance among of complex kernel LMS（KLMS） methods according to the specified kernel bandwidth and the length of dictionary.

Data Driven Model-Free Adaptive Control Method for Quadrotor Trajectory Tracking Based on Improved Sliding Mode Algorithm

In order to solve the problems of dynamic modeling and complicated parameters identification of trajectory tracking control of the quadrotor,a data driven model-free adaptive control method based on the improved sliding mode control(ISMC)algorithm is designed,which does not depend on the precise dynamic model of the quadrotor.The design of the general sliding mode control(SMC)algorithm depends on the mathematical model of the quadrotor and has chattering problems.In this paper,according to the dynamic characteristics of the quadrotor,an adaptive update law is introduced and a saturation function is used to improve the SMC.The proposed control strategy has an inner and an outer loop control structures.The outer loop position control provides the required reference attitude angle for the inner loop.The inner loop attitude control ensures rapid convergence of the attitude angle.The effectiveness and feasibility of the algorithm are verified by mathematical simulation.The mathematical simulation results show that the designed model-free adaptive control method of the quadrotor is effective,and it can effectively realize the trajectory tracking control of the quadrotor.The design of the controller does not depend on the kinematic and dynamic models of the unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV),and has high control accuracy,stability,and robustness.

A Novel Similarity Measure to Induce Semantic Classes and Its Application for Language Model Adaptation in a Dialogue System

In this paper,we propose a novel co-occurrence probabilities based similarity measure for inducing semantic classes.Clustering with the new similarity measure outperforms the widely used distance based on Kullback-Leibler divergence in precision,recall and F1 evaluation.In our experiments,we induced semantic classes from unannotated in-domain corpus and then used the induced classes and structures to generate large in-domain corpus which was then used for language model adaptation.Character recognition rate was improved from 85.2% to 91%.We imply a new measure to solve the lack of domain data problem by first induction then generation for a dialogue system.