Enhancing Security and Privacy in Distributed Face Recognition Systems through Blockchain and GAN Technologies

The use of privacy-enhanced facial recognition has increased in response to growing concerns about data securityand privacy in the digital age. This trend is spurred by rising demand for face recognition technology in a varietyof industries, including access control, law enforcement, surveillance, and internet communication. However,the growing usage of face recognition technology has created serious concerns about data monitoring and userprivacy preferences, especially in context-aware systems. In response to these problems, this study provides a novelframework that integrates sophisticated approaches such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Blockchain,and distributed computing to solve privacy concerns while maintaining exact face recognition. The framework’spainstaking design and execution strive to strike a compromise between precise face recognition and protectingpersonal data integrity in an increasingly interconnected environment. Using cutting-edge tools like Dlib for faceanalysis,Ray Cluster for distributed computing, and Blockchain for decentralized identity verification, the proposedsystem provides scalable and secure facial analysis while protecting user privacy. The study’s contributions includethe creation of a sustainable and scalable solution for privacy-aware face recognition, the implementation of flexibleprivacy computing approaches based on Blockchain networks, and the demonstration of higher performanceover previous methods. Specifically, the proposed StyleGAN model has an outstanding accuracy rate of 93.84%while processing high-resolution images from the CelebA-HQ dataset, beating other evaluated models such asProgressive GAN 90.27%, CycleGAN 89.80%, and MGAN 80.80%. With improvements in accuracy, speed, andprivacy protection, the framework has great promise for practical use in a variety of fields that need face recognitiontechnology. This study paves the way for future research in privacy-enhanced face recognition systems, emphasizingthe significance of using cutting-edge technology to meet rising privacy issues in digital identity.

Design and Implementation of Hand Gesture Detection System Using HM Model for Sign Language Recognition Development

Gesture detection is the primary and most significant step for sign language detection and sign language is the communication medium for people with speaking and hearing disabilities. This paper presents a novel method for dynamic hand gesture detection using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) where we detect different English alphabet letters by tracing hand movements. The process involves skin color-based segmentation for hand isolation in video frames, followed by morphological operations to enhance image trajectories. Our system employs hand tracking and trajectory smoothing techniques, such as the Kalman filter, to monitor hand movements and refine gesture paths. Quantized sequences are then analyzed using the Baum-Welch Re-estimation Algorithm, an HMM-based approach. A maximum likelihood classifier is used to identify the most probable letter from the test sequences. Our method demonstrates significant improvements over traditional recognition techniques in real-time, automatic hand gesture recognition, particularly in its ability to distinguish complex gestures. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing gesture-based sign language detection to alleviate the barrier between the deaf and hard-of-hearing community and general people.

FPGA-Based Traffic Sign Recognition for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

This paper presents the implementation of an embedded automotive system that detects and recognizes traffic signs within a video stream. In addition, it discusses the recent advances in driver assistance technologies and highlights the safety motivations for smart in-car embedded systems. An algorithm is presented that processes RGB image data, extracts relevant pixels, filters the image, labels prospective traffic signs and evaluates them against template traffic sign images. A reconfigurable hardware system is described which uses the Virtex-5 Xilinx FPGA and hardware/software co-design tools in order to create an embedded processor and the necessary hardware IP peripherals. The implementation is shown to have robust performance results, both in terms of timing and accuracy.

Number Entities Recognition in Multiple Rounds of Dialogue Systems

As a representative technique in natural language processing(NLP),named entity recognition is used in many tasks,such as dialogue systems,machine translation and information extraction.In dialogue systems,there is a common case for named entity recognition,where a lot of entities are composed of numbers,and are segmented to be located in different places.For example,in multiple rounds of dialogue systems,a phone number is likely to be divided into several parts,because the phone number is usually long and is emphasized.In this paper,the entity consisting of numbers is named as number entity.The discontinuous positions of number entities result from many reasons.We find two reasons from real-world dialogue systems.The first reason is the repetitive confirmation of different components of a number entity,and the second reason is the interception of mood words.The extraction of number entities is quite useful in many tasks,such as user information completion and service requests correction.However,the existing entity extraction methods cannot extract entities consisting of discontinuous entity blocks.To address these problems,in this paper,we propose a comprehensive method for number entity recognition,which is capable of extracting number entities in multiple rounds of dialogues systems.We conduct extensive experiments on a real-world dataset,and the experimental results demonstrate the high performance of our method.

A Novel User Behavior Prediction Model Based on Automatic Annotated Behavior Recognition in Smart Home Systems

User behavior prediction has become a core element to Internet of Things(IoT)and received promising attention in the related fields.Many existing IoT systems(e.g.smart home systems)have been deployed various sensors and the user’s behavior can be predicted through the sensor data.However,most of the existing sensor-based systems use the annotated behavior data which requires human intervention to achieve the behavior prediction.Therefore,it is a challenge to provide an automatic behavior prediction model based on the original sensor data.To solve the problem,this paper proposed a novel automatic annotated user behavior prediction(AAUBP)model.The proposed AAUBP model combined the Discontinuous Solving Order Sequence Mining(DVSM)behavior recognition model and behavior prediction model based on the Long Short Term Memory(LSTM)network.To evaluate the model,we performed several experiments on a real-world dataset tuning the parameters.The results showed that the AAUBP model can effectively recognize behaviors and had a good performance for behavior prediction.

Structure Studies on Host-Guest Recognition Sensory Systems

Rhodamine B-ethylenediamine-beta-cyclodextrins (RhB-beta-CDen) and rhodamine B-beta-cyclodextrins (RhB-beta-CD) form inclusion complexes with many guest molecules, which can be used as nucleic acid probe. In this paper we determined the most stable conformations of RhB-beta-CDen and RhB-beta-CD by molecular mechanics and dynamics simulation. The interaction between RhB-beta-CDen and two guest molecules, 1-borneol and cyclohexanol, have been investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The results show that the interaction between borneol and RhB-beta-CDen is stronger than that between cyclohexanol and RhB-beta-CDen.

MOLTEN SALT PHASE DIAGRAMS CALCULATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK OR PATTERN RECOGNITION-BOND PARAMETERS Part 2.Prediction of phase diagrams of ternary molten salt systems

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Computer recognition of slag property diagrams in ternary systems

In order to take data information from the slag property diagram in a ternarysystem automatically and actually, a picture recognition and drawing software has been developed byVisual Basic 6.0 based on the image coding principle of computer system and the graphicsprogramming method of VB. This software can transform the ternary system isopleth diagram frombitmap format to data file and establish a corresponding database which can be applied to rapidlyretrieve a mass of data and make correlative thermodynamics or kinetics calculation. Besides, itstill has the function of drawing the ternary system diagram which can draw different kinds ofproperty parameters in the same diagram.

A Triplet-Branch Convolutional Neural Network for Part-Based Gait Recognition

Intelligent vision-based surveillance systems are designed to deal with the gigantic volume of videos captured in a particular environment to perform the interpretation of scenes in form of detection,tracking,monitoring,behavioral analysis,and retrievals.In addition to that,another evolving way of surveillance systems in a particular environment is human gait-based surveillance.In the existing research,several methodological frameworks are designed to use deep learning and traditional methods,nevertheless,the accuracies of these methods drop substantially when they are subjected to covariate conditions.These covariate variables disrupt the gait features and hence the recognition of subjects becomes difficult.To handle these issues,a region-based triplet-branch Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)is proposed in this research that is focused on different parts of the human Gait Energy Image(GEI)including the head,legs,and body separately to classify the subjects,and later on,the final identification of subjects is decided by probability-based majority voting criteria.Moreover,to enhance the feature extraction and draw the discriminative features,we have added soft attention layers on each branch to generate the soft attention maps.The proposed model is validated on the CASIA-B database and findings indicate that part-based learning through triplet-branch CNN shows good performance of 72.98%under covariate conditions as well as also outperforms single-branch CNN models.

Scene image recognition with knowledge transfer for drone navigation

In this paper,we study scene image recognition with knowledge transfer for drone navigation.We divide navigation scenes into three macro-classes,namely outdoor special scenes(OSSs),the space from indoors to outdoors or from outdoors to indoors transitional scenes(TSs),and others.However,there are difficulties in how to recognize the TSs,to this end,we employ deep convolutional neural network(CNN)based on knowledge transfer,techniques for image augmentation,and fine tuning to solve the issue.Moreover,there is still a novelty detection prob-lem in the classifier,and we use global navigation satellite sys-tems(GNSS)to solve it in the prediction stage.Experiment results show our method,with a pre-trained model and fine tun-ing,can achieve 91.3196%top-1 accuracy on Scenes21 dataset,paving the way for drones to learn to understand the scenes around them autonomously.

F-generation law and recognition of system law

If a system is not disturbed （or invaded） by some law, there is no doubt that each system will move according to the expected law and keep stable. Although such a fact often appears, some unknown law breaks into the system and leads it into turbulence. Using function one direction S-rough sets, this article gives the concept of the F-generation law in the system, the generation model of the F-generation law and the recognition method of the system law. Function one direction singular rough sets is a new theory and method in recognizing the disturbance law existing in the system and recognizing the system law.

Flotation Control System Based on Recognition of Froth Image

In industrial flotation, froth layer plays an important role and reflects directly whether coal, air, water and reagents match each other properly or not and whether the quality of flotation is good or not. So the supervision and recognition of the state of froth layer is very important in the flotation process. The ash content of clean coal froth was predicted through extracting the features of images of flotation froth. The froth images were classified according to their structure. A control system of adding flotation reagents was established based on the LVQ neural net.

Application of the new pattern recognition system in the new e-nose to detecting Chinese spirits

We present a new pattern recognition system based on moving average and linear discriminant analysis （LDA）, which can be used to process the original signal of the new polymer quartz piezoelectric crystal air-sensitive sensor system we designed, called the new e-nose. Using the new e-nose, we obtain the template datum of Chinese spirits via a new pattern recognition system. To verify the effectiveness of the new pattern recognition system, we select three kinds of Chinese spirits to test, our results confirm that the new pattern recognition system can perfectly identify and distinguish between the Chinese spirits.

A Facial Expression Emotion Recognition Based Human-robot Interaction System

A facial expression emotion recognition based human-robot interaction(FEER-HRI) system is proposed, for which a four-layer system framework is designed. The FEERHRI system enables the robots not only to recognize human emotions, but also to generate facial expression for adapting to human emotions. A facial emotion recognition method based on2D-Gabor, uniform local binary pattern(LBP) operator, and multiclass extreme learning machine(ELM) classifier is presented,which is applied to real-time facial expression recognition for robots. Facial expressions of robots are represented by simple cartoon symbols and displayed by a LED screen equipped in the robots, which can be easily understood by human. Four scenarios,i.e., guiding, entertainment, home service and scene simulation are performed in the human-robot interaction experiment, in which smooth communication is realized by facial expression recognition of humans and facial expression generation of robots within 2 seconds. As a few prospective applications, the FEERHRI system can be applied in home service, smart home, safe driving, and so on.

A chaotic neural network mimicking an olfactory system and its application on image recognition

Based on the research of a biological olfactory system, a novel chaotic neural network model - K set model has been es- tablished. This chaotic neural network not only simulates the real brain activity of an olfactory system, but also presents a novel chaotic concept for signal processing and pattern recognition. The characteristics of the K set models are investigated and show that a KIII model can be used for image pattern classification.

Adaptive bands filter bank optimized by genetic algorithm for robust speech recognition system

Perceptual auditory filter banks such as Bark-scale filter bank are widely used as front-end processing in speech recognition systems.However,the problem of the design of optimized filter banks that provide higher accuracy in recognition tasks is still open.Owing to spectral analysis in feature extraction,an adaptive bands filter bank (ABFB) is presented.The design adopts flexible bandwidths and center frequencies for the frequency responses of the filters and utilizes genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the design parameters.The optimization process is realized by combining the front-end filter bank with the back-end recognition network in the performance evaluation loop.The deployment of ABFB together with zero-crossing peak amplitude (ZCPA) feature as a front process for radial basis function (RBF) system shows significant improvement in robustness compared with the Bark-scale filter bank.In ABFB,several sub-bands are still more concentrated toward lower frequency but their exact locations are determined by the performance rather than the perceptual criteria.For the ease of optimization,only symmetrical bands are considered here,which still provide satisfactory results.

Immune Recognition Method Based on Analogy Reasoning in Intrusion Detection System

In this paper, we propose an analogy based immune recognition method that focuses on the implement of the clone selection process and the negative selection process by means of analogy similarity. This method is applied in an IDS （Intrusion Detection System） following several steps. Firstly, the initial abnormal behaviours sample set is optimized through the combining of the AIS （Artificial Immune System） and the genetic algorithm. Then, the abnormity probability algorithm is raised considering the two sides of abnormality and normality. Finally, an intrusion detection system model is established based on the above algorithms and models.

CHARACTER DETECTION AND RECOGNITION SYSTEM OF BEER BOTTLES

An optical imaging system and a configuration characteristic algorithm are presented to reduce the difficulties in extracting intact characters image with weak contrast, in recognizing characters on fast moving beer bottles. The system consists of a hardware subsystem, including a rotating device, CCD, 16 mm focus lens, a frame grabber card, a penetrating lighting and a computer, and a software subsystem. The software subsystem performs pretreatment, character segmentation and character recognition. In the pretreatment, the original image is filtered with preset threshold to remove isolated spots. Then the horizontal projection and the vertical projection are used respectively to retrieve the character segmentation. Subsequently, the configuration characteristic algorithm is applied to recognize the characters. The experimental results demonstrate that this system can recognize the characters on beer bottles accurately and effectively; the algorithm is proven fast, stable and robust, making it suitable in the industrial environment.

Logistic Regression Based Model for Improving the Accuracy and Time Complexity of ROI’s Extraction in Real Time Traffic Signs Recognition System

Designing accurate and time-efficient real-time traffic sign recognition systems is a crucial part of developing the intelligent vehicle which is the main agent in the intelligent transportation system.Traffic sign recognition systems consist of an initial detection phase where images transportaand colors are segmented and fed to the recognition phase.The most challenging process in such systems in terms of time consumption is the detection phase.The trade off in previous studies,which proposed different methods for detecting traffic signs,is between accuracy and computation time,Therefore,this paper presents a novel accurate and time-efficient color segmentation approach based on logistic regression.We used RGB color space as the domain to extract the features of our hypothesis;this has boosted the speed of our approach since no color conversion is needed.Our trained segmentation classifier was tested on 1000 traffic sign images taken in different lighting conditions.The results show that our approach segmented 974 of these images correctly and in a time less than one-fifth of the time needed by any other robust segmentation method.