Object Detection for Cargo Unloading System Based on Fuzzy C Means

With the recent increase in the utilization of logistics and courier services,it is time for research on logistics systems fused with the fourth industry sector.Algorithm studies related to object recognition have been actively conducted in convergence with the emerging artificial intelligence field,but so far,algorithms suitable for automatic unloading devices that need to identify a number of unstructured cargoes require further development.In this study,the object recognition algorithm of the automatic loading device for cargo was selected as the subject of the study,and a cargo object recognition algorithm applicable to the automatic loading device is proposed to improve the amorphous cargo identification performance.The fuzzy convergence algorithm is an algorithm that applies Fuzzy C Means to existing algorithm forms that fuse YOLO(You Only Look Once)and Mask R-CNN(Regions with Convolutional Neuron Networks).Experiments conducted using the fuzzy convergence algorithm showed an average of 33 FPS(Frames Per Second)and a recognition rate of 95%.In addition,there were significant improvements in the range of actual box recognition.The results of this study can contribute to improving the performance of identifying amorphous cargoes in automatic loading devices.

Generating Type 2 Trapezoidal Fuzzy Membership Function Using Genetic Tuning

Fuzzy inference system(FIS)is a process of fuzzy logic reasoning to produce the output based on fuzzified inputs.The system starts with identifying input from data,applying the fuzziness to input using membership functions(MF),generating fuzzy rules for the fuzzy sets and obtaining the output.There are several types of input MFs which can be introduced in FIS,commonly chosen based on the type of real data,sensitivity of certain rule implied and computational limits.This paper focuses on the construction of interval type 2(IT2)trapezoidal shape MF from fuzzy C Means(FCM)that is used for fuzzification process of mamdani FIS.In the process,upper MF(UMF)and lower MF(LMF)of the MF need to be identified to get the range of the footprint of uncertainty(FOU).This paper proposes Genetic tuning process,which is a part of genetic algorithm(GA),to adjust parameters in order to improve the behavior of existing system,especially to enhance the accuracy of the system model.This novel process is a hybrid approach which produces Genetic Fuzzy System(GFS)that helps to enhance fuzzy classification problems and performance.The approach provides a new method for the construction and tuning process of the IT2 MF,based on the FCM outcomes.The result is compared to Gaussian shape IT2 MF and trapezoid IT2 MF generated by the classic GA method.It is shown that the proposed approach is able to outperform the mentioned benchmarked approaches.The work implies a wider range of IT2 MF types,constructed based on FCM outcomes,and an optimum generation of the FOU so that it can be implemented in practical applications such as prediction,analytics and rule-based solutions.

Robot inverse kinematics based on FCM and fuzzy-neural network

Presents a fast and effective method proposed by combining the fuzzy C means (FCM) and the fuzzy neural network for solving robot inverse kinematics, and its successful application to the robot inverse kinematics and concludes from simulation results that this new method not only has high efficiency and accuracy, but also good generalization, and it also overcomes the "dimension disaster" of fuzzy set in a fuzzy neural network fairly well.

A Study of Detection of Outliers for Working and Non-Working Days Air Quality in Kolkata, India: A Case Study

A variety of factors affect air quality, making it a difficult issue. The level of clean air in a certain area is referred to as air quality. It is challenging for conventional approaches to correctly discover aberrant values or outliers due to the significant fluctuation of this sort of data, which is influenced by Climate change and the environment. With accelerating industrial expansion and rising population density in Kolkata City, air pollution is continuously rising. This study involves two phases, in the first phase imputation of missing values and second detection of outliers using Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Functional Data Analysis (FDA), studies to achieve the efficacy of the outlier identification methodology proposed with working days and Nonworking days of the variables NO2, SO2, and O3, which were used for a year in a row in Kolkata, India. The results show how the functional data approach outshines traditional outlier detection methods. The outcomes show that functional data analysis vibrates more than the other two approaches after imputation, and the suggested outlier detector is absolutely appropriate for the precise detection of outliers in highly variable data.

Automatic Segmentation of Liver from Abdominal Computed Tomography Images Using Energy Feature

Liver Segmentation is one of the challenging tasks in detecting and classifying liver tumors from Computed Tomography(CT)images.The segmentation of hepatic organ is more intricate task,owing to the fact that it possesses a sizeable quantum of vascularization.This paper proposes an algorithm for automatic seed point selection using energy feature for use in level set algorithm for segmentation of liver region in CT scans.The effectiveness of the method can be determined when used in a model to classify the liver CT images as tumorous or not.This involves segmentation of the region of interest(ROI)from the segmented liver,extraction of the shape and texture features from the segmented ROI and classification of the ROIs as tumorous or not by using a classifier based on the extracted features.In this work,the proposed seed point selection technique has been used in level set algorithm for segmentation of liver region in CT scans and the ROIs have been extracted using Fuzzy C Means clustering(FCM)which is one of the algorithms to segment the images.The dataset used in this method has been collected from various repositories and scan centers.The outcome of this proposed segmentation model has reduced the area overlap error that could offer the intended accuracy and consistency.It gives better results when compared with other existing algorithms.Fast execution in short span of time is another advantage of this method which in turns helps the radiologist to ascertain the abnormalities instantly.

Road network extraction in classified SAR images using genetic algorithm

Due to the complicated background of objectives and speckle noise, it is almost impossible to extract roads directly from original synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images. A method is proposed for extraction of road network from high-resolution SAR image. Firstly, fuzzy C means is used to classify the filtered SAR image unsupervisedly, and the road pixels are isolated from the image to simplify the extraction of road network. Secondly, according to the features of roads and the membership of pixels to roads, a road model is constructed, which can reduce the extraction of road network to searching globally optimization continuous curves which pass some seed points. Finally, regarding the curves as individuals and coding a chromosome using integer code of variance relative to coordinates, the genetic operations are used to search global optimization roads. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively extract road network from high-resolution SAR images.

Ultrasound liver tumor segmentation using adaptively regularized kernel-based fuzzy C means with enhanced level set algorithm

Purpose-The purpose of this study is to develop a hybrid algorithm for segmenting tumor from ultrasound images of the liver.Design/methodology/approach-After collecting the ultrasound images,contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization approach(CLAHE)is applied as preprocessing,in order to enhance the visual quality of the images that helps in better segmentation.Then,adaptively regularized kernel-based fuzzy C means(ARKFCM)is used to segment tumor from the enhanced image along with local ternary pattern combined with selective level set approaches.Findings-The proposed segmentation algorithm precisely segments the tumor portions from the enhanced images with lower computation cost.The proposed segmentation algorithm is compared with the existing algorithms and ground truth values in terms of Jaccard coefficient,dice coefficient,precision,Matthews correlation coefficient,f-score and accuracy.The experimental analysis shows that the proposed algorithm achieved 99.18% of accuracy and 92.17% of f-score value,which is better than the existing algorithms.Practical implications-From the experimental analysis,the proposed ARKFCM with enhanced level set algorithm obtained better performance in ultrasound liver tumor segmentation related to graph-based algorithm.However,the proposed algorithm showed 3.11% improvement in dice coefficient compared to graph-based algorithm.Originality/value-The image preprocessing is carried out using CLAHE algorithm.The preprocessed image is segmented by employing selective level set model and Local Ternary Pattern in ARKFCM algorithm.In this research,the proposed algorithm has advantages such as independence of clustering parameters,robustness in preserving the image details and optimal in finding the threshold value that effectively reduces the computational cost.

A salient edges detection algorithm of multi-sensor images and its rapid calculation based on PFCM kernel clustering

Multi-sensor image matching based on salient edges has broad prospect in applications, but it is difficult to extract salient edges of real multi-sensor images with noises fast and accurately by using common algorithms. According to the analysis of the features of salient edges, a novel salient edges detection algorithm and its rapid calculation are proposed based on possibility fuzzy C-means （PFCM） kernel clustering using two-dimensional vectors composed of the values of gray and texture. PFCM clustering can overcome the shortcomings that fuzzy C-means （FCM） cluster- ing is sensitive to noises and possibility C-means （PCM） clustering tends to find identical clusters. On this basis, a method is proposed to improve real-time performance by compressing data sets based on the idea of data reduction in the field of mathematical analysis. In addition, the idea that kernel-space is linearly separable is used to enhance robustness further. Experimental results show that this method extracts salient edges for real multi-sensor images with noises more accurately than the algorithm based on force fields and the FCM algorithm; and the proposed method is on average about 56 times faster than the PFCM algorithm in real time and has better robustness.