Development of a Fingerprint-based Gender Detection System using an Optimised Convolutional Neural Network

Pest and disease management plays a significant role in minimizing losses to crops, particularly in citrus fruit production. Traditional methods for detecting and classifying infected citrus fruits are complex and tasking, while Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) offer promising solutions but still face challenges such as high computational requirements and data dependency. Therefore, this study developed an improved convolution neural network for infected citrus fruit detection and classification system using Coati Optimization Algorithm (COA). A dataset of 1,790 citrus images, containing samples of black spot, greening spot, citrus canker, and healthy fruits, was acquired from www.kaggle.com. The images underwent preprocessing involving cropping to remove unwanted elements, conversion to grayscale to simplify processing, normalization to enhance data consistency and reduce redundancy, and filtering to minimize noise. An optimized CNN model was formulated using COA to tune the hyperparameters (weight and learning rate) of CNN to produce Coati Optimization Algorithm–based Convolutional Neural Network (COA-CNN). The preprocessed images serve as input to the COA-CNN model. The COA-CNN was used for the extraction of edges, corners, texture, patterns and shapes, and classification of citrus fruits as infected or healthy. The developed system was implemented using MATLAB R(2023a). The system’s performance was evaluated using accuracy, false positive rate, sensitivity, specificity, and recognition time. A comparative analysis of CNN and COA-CNN was also carried out. The accuracy, false positive rate, sensitivity, specificity, and recognition time for CNN were 95.83%, 6.02%, 96.63%, 93.98% and 202.17 s, respectively, while the corresponding values for COA-CNN were 96.92%, 4.22%, 97.41%, 95.78% and 136.86 s. This research showed that COA-CNN performed better and is recommended for citrus disease detection and classification systems.

Texture classification is an active area of research in the field of pattern recognition. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have a remarkable capability of recognizing patterns and are one of the most efficient deep learning techniques. But, finding the optimal values of the different hyperparameters of the CNN is a major challenge. Nature-inspired algorithms (NIAs) are the meta-heuristic algorithms well-known for their optimizing capability. Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a recent nature-inspired algorithm (NIA) that is inspired by the hunting behaviour of the humpback whales. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning technique for texture recognition using a CNN optimized through WOA. We apply WOA at the two different levels in the CNN: In the convolutional layer (for optimizing the values of the filters), and in the fully-connected layer (for optimizing the values of the weights and biases). For examining the performance of our technique, we apply it to the following three benchmark texture datasets: Kylberg v1.0, Brodatz, and Outex_TC_00012. Our model performs better than the most of the existing methods for the Kylberg and the Outex_TC_00012 datasets and gives competitive results for the Brodatz dataset. It is evident from the results that our model has the potential for application in the field of texture recognition.

<title>Abstract</title> In today’s digital era, the proliferation of online services has rendered networks increasingly vulnerable to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, which can severely disrupt availability and cause significant economic and reputational losses. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), as a promising paradigm for programmable and flexible network management, offers both opportunities and challenges in mitigating such threats. However, the centralized architecture of SDN controllers exposes them to being prime targets for DDoS attacks, demanding advanced detection mechanisms. Traditional detection systems, often signature-based or threshold-based, struggle with novel or complex attack patterns, producing high false positive rates and insufficient detection accuracy. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a hybrid model that integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for feature extraction with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for hyperparameter tuning, tailored for DDoS detection in SDN environments. The CNN leverages deep learning capabilities to automatically capture spatial patterns in traffic data, while PSO optimizes model parameters to enhance detection precision and reduce false alarms. Mathematical formulation of PSO is introduced to optimize CNN hyperparameters, achieving a 0.8% improvement in accuracy over baseline CNN. Experimental evaluations conducted in an SDN testbed using Mininet and the POX controller demonstrate that the proposed CNN-PSO model significantly outperforms baseline CNN and traditional machine learning approaches. The hybrid model achieves higher accuracy, improved F1-scores, and reduced false positive rates, confirming its potential as a scalable and intelligent defense mechanism against evolving DDoS threats in modern network infrastructures.

The identification of agricultural lands is crucial for sustainable development in rural areas. In this paper, an augmented model that utilizes multimodal satellite-based data samples for identifying agricultural lands via incremental learning. The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is used for augmenting collected images and data samples to enhance the accuracy of the model under real-time conditions. To identify agricultural lands, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are trained on the augmented data samples. Additionally, the incorporation of Q-Learning for continuous optimization of the model to enhance its efficiency and effectiveness in identifying agricultural lands. The proposed model offers many edges over existing methods. Firstly, the use of multimodal satellite-based data samples allows for a comprehensive and accurate analysis of agricultural lands. Secondly, the incorporation of the Whale Optimization Algorithm enables the augmentation of collected data samples, leading to improved accuracy and reliability of the model. Thirdly, Deep CNNs allows the extraction of complex features from the data, leading to more accurate identification of agricultural lands. Finally, the use of Q-Learning ensures that the model is continuously optimized to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. The need for this work arises from the limitations of existing methods in accurately identifying agricultural lands. Traditional methods based on manual surveys and visual interpretation are time-consuming, expensive, and prone to errors. Moreover, existing automated methods often lack the ability to analyse multimodal satellite-based data samples and fail to provide accurate results. Based on these observations, the proposed augmented model offers a promising solution for identifying agricultural lands for sustainable development. The use of multimodal satellite-based data samples, WOA, Deep CNNs, and Q-Learning allows for an accurate and efficient analysis of agricultural lands, which can aid in sustainable development planning and decision-making operations.

E-commerce industries nowadays implement the latest AI and ML techniques to improve their own performance and prediction accuracy. This helps to gain a huge profit from the online market. Ant Colony Optimization, Genetic algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, Neural Network, and Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) help many E-commerce industries for upgradation of their predictive performance. These algorithms provide optimum results in various applications, such as stock price prediction, prediction of drug–target interaction, and user ratings of similar products in E-commerce sites. In this study, customer reviews play an important role in prediction analysis. People show much interest in buying a lot of services and products suggested by other customers which ultimately increases the net profit. In this work, a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) is proposed which is useful to optimize the prediction accuracy of an e-commerce Web site. This method shows that CNN is used to optimize hyperparameters of GWO algorithm using an appropriate coding scheme. Accurate model results are verified by comparing them to PSO results whose hyperparameters have been optimized by CNN in Amazon's customer review dataset. Here, experimental outcome proves that this proposed system using the GWO algorithm achieves superior execution in terms of accuracy, precision, recovery, etc., in prediction analysis when compared to the existing systems.KeywordsPrediction analysisE-commerceMachine Learning (ML)Grey wolf optimizationParticle swarm optimization and CNN

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) allows systems to interpret emotions in human speech, creating more natural and responsive interactions between people and machines. Due to the complex nature of emotion detection, several deep learning techniques have been utilized, yet limited research have focused on optimizing key hyperparameters of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for a more efficient system. Hence, this research optimized CNN with Mantis Search Algorithm (MSA) due to its ease of implementation, ability to preserve population diversity during the optimization process, ability to escape from the local optima and balance between exploration and exploitation operators. Audio data for four emotions: anger, fear, happiness and neutrality were acquired from Toronto Emotional Speech Set (TESS) available on Kaggle.com. The audio data were then converted into text using speech-to-text code and preprocessed using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques: tokenization, removal of stop words, lemmatization, removal of punctuations and lowercase conversion. Mantis Search Algorithm was then applied to optimize CNN for optimal selection of filter size and learning rate. The optimized CNN (MSA-CNN) was implemented using MATLAB R2023a software. The performance of the system was evaluated and compared with CNN classifier using False Positive Rate (FPR), Specificity (Spec), Sensitivity (Sen), Precision (Prec), Accuracy (Acc), and Recognition Time (RT). The optimized speech emotion recognition system showed improved values over CNN on all the metrics considered.

&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Biomedicine plays a crucial role in medical research, particularly in optimizing techniques for disease prediction. However, selecting effective optimization methods and managing vast amounts of medical data pose significant challenges. This study introduces a novel optimization technique, integrated bioinformatics optimization model (IBOM) for disease diagnosis, incorporating data mining to efficiently store large datasets for future analysis. Various optimization algorithms, such as whale optimization algorithm (WOA), multi-verse optimization (MVO), genetic algorithm (GA), and ant colony optimization (ACO), were compared with the proposed method. The evaluation focused on metrics like accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, precision, F-score, error, receiver operating characteristic (ROC), and false positive rate (FPR) using 5-fold cross-validation. Results indicated that the 5-fold cross-validation method achieved superior performance with metrics: 98.61% accuracy, 96.59% specificity, 88.63% sensitivity, 99.30% precision, 92.31% F-score, 10.80% error, 92.61% ROC, and a 3.00% FPR. This method was found to be the most effective, achieving an accuracy of 0.92 in disease diagnosis compared to other optimization techniques.&lt;/span&gt;

Parkinson’s disease and cleft lip and palate of pathological speech diagnosis using deep convolutional neural networks evolved by IPWOA

The diagnosis and categorization of skin cancer, as well as the difference in skin textures and injuries, is a tough undertaking. Manually detecting skin lesions from dermoscopy images seems to be a difficult and cumbersome challenge. Recent advancements in the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence for clinical applications have shown significant increase in precision and processing time. A lot of attention is given to deep learning models because they are effective at identifying cancer cells. The diagnosis and accuracy levels can be greatly increased by categorizing benign and malignant dermoscopy images. This work suggests an automated classification system based on a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) in order to precisely perform multi-classification. The DCNN's structure was thoughtfully created by arranging a number of layers that are in charge of uniquely extracting different features from skin lesions. In this paper, we proposed a deep learning approach to tackle the three main tasks-deep extraction of features (task1) using transfer learning, selection of features (task2)-using metaheuristic algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), and Gorilla Troop Optimization (GTO) as a feature selector, the extensive feature set is optimized, and the amount of features is reduced to within the range, and a two-level classification (task3) was proposed that are emerging in the field of skin lesion image processing. On the HAM10000 dataset, the proposed deep learning frameworks were assessed. The accuracy achieved on the dataset is 93.58 percent. The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) techniques in terms of accuracy. The suggested technique is however highly scalable.

Chapter 26 - Optimizing CNN architecture using whale optimization algorithm for lung cancer detection

Fuzzy systems (FSs) have been extensively applied to automatic control, pattern recognition, and decision analysis. However, a common bottleneck is encountered in the derivation of fuzzy rules, which is often difficult, time consuming, and relies on expert knowledge. To automate the design of FSs, many metaheuristic learning algorithms have been proposed. One major optimization category uses Swarm Intelligence (SI) model (Kennedy et al., 2001). The SI technique studies collective behavior in decentralized systems. Its development was based on mimicking the social behavior of animals or insects in an effort to find the optima in the problem space. SI models are initialized with a population of random solutions. One well-known SI model is particle swarm optimization (PSO) (Kennedy & Eberhart, 1995). Many modified PSO models have been proposed and successfully applied to different optimization problems (Clerc & Kennedy, 2002; Bergh & Engelbrecht, 2004; Ratnaweera et al., 2004; Juang, 2004; Kennedy & Mendes, 2006; Parrott & Li, 2006; Chen & Li, 2007). FS design using PSO has also been proposed in several studies (Juang, 2004; Chatterjee et al., 2005; Juang et al., 2007; Araujo & Coelho, 2008; Sharma et al., 2009). Another well-known SI is ant colony optimization (ACO) (Dorigo & Stutzle, 2004). The ACO technique is inspired by real ant colony observations. It is a multi-agent approach that was originally proposed to solve difficult discrete combinatorial optimization problems, such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) (Dorigo et al., 1996; Dorigo & Gambardella, 1997). In the original ACO meta-heuristic, artificial ant colonies cooperate to find good solutions for difficult discrete optimization problems. Different ACO models have been applied to FS design problems (Cassillas et al., 2000; Cassillas et al., 2005; Mucientes & Casillas; 2007; Juang & Lo, 2007; Juang et al., 2008; Juang & Lu; 2009). In (Cassillas et al.,2000; Mucientes & Casillas; 2007; Juang et al., 2008; Juang & Lu; 2009), the FS input space was partitioned in grid type with antecedent part parameters of an FS manually assigned in advance. In (Juang & Lo, 2007), the FS input space was flexibly partitioned using a fuzzy clustering-like algorithm in order to reduce the total number of rules. For all of these studies, the consequent part parameters were optimized in discrete space using ACO. Since only the consequent part parameters are optimized, and the optimization space is restricted to be discrete, the designed FSs are unsuitable for problems where high accuracy is a major concern. Source: Fuzzy Systems, Book edited by: Ahmad Taher Azar, ISBN 978-953-7619-92-3, pp. 216, February 2010, INTECH, Croatia, downloaded from SCIYO.COM

Introduction: Recent studies have acknowledged the potential of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in distinguishing healthy and morbid samples by using heart sound analyses. Unfortunately the performance of CNNs is highly dependent on the filtering procedure which is applied to signal in their convolutional layer. The present study aimed to address this problem by applying filter bank learning concept in CNNs. Material and Methods: In proposed method, the filter bank of CNN is updated based on a cross-entropy minimization rule to extract higher-level features from spectral characteristics of the heart sound signal. The deeper level of the extracted features in parallel with their spectral-based nature leads to better discrimination between healthy and morbid heart sounds. The proposed method was applied to three different heart sound datasets of PASCAL-A, PASCAL-B, and Kaggle, including normal and abnormal categories. Results: The proposed method obtained a true positive rate (TPR) between minimally 86% and maximally 96% (if FPR=0%) among all the examined datasets. In addition, the false-positive rate (FPR) was obtained as 7-8% (if TPR=100%) among the mentioned datasets. Finally, the accuracy was achieved in the range of 93-98% when the FPR was 0% and within the range of 96-96.5% when the TRP was 100%. Conclusion: Increased TPR in the proposed method (96% for the proposed method vs. 87% for CNN) in parallel with a decrease in its FPR (7% for the proposed method vs. 10% for CNN) showed the proposed method's superiority against its well-known alternative in automated self-assessment of the heart.

A hybrid modified step Whale Optimization Algorithm with Tabu Search for data clustering

Cloud computing provides computing resources like software and hardware as a service by the network for several users. Task scheduling is one of the main problems to attain cost-effective execution. The main purpose of task scheduling is to allocate tasks to resources so that it can optimize one or more criteria. Since the problem of task scheduling is one of the Nondeterministic Polynomial-time (NP)-hard problems, meta-heuristic algorithms have been widely employed for solving task scheduling problems. One of the new bio-inspired meta-algorithms is Seagull Optimization Algorithm (SOA). In this paper, we proposed an energy-aware and cost-efficient SOA-based Task Scheduling (SOATS) algorithm. The aims of proposed algorithm to make a trade-off between five objectives (i.e., energy consumption, makespan, cost, waiting time, and load balancing) using a fewer number of iterations. The experiment results by comparing with several meta-heuristic algorithms (i.e., Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA)) prove that the proposed technique performs better in solving task scheduling problem. Moreover, we compared the proposed algorithm with well-known scheduling methods: Cost-based Job Scheduling (CJS), Moth Search Algorithm based Differential Evolution (MSDE), and Fuzzy-GA (FUGE). In the heavily loaded environment, the SOATS algorithm improved energy consumption and cost saving by 10 and 25%, respectively.

This paper presents conceptual comparison among spotted hyena optimiser, grey wolf optimiser, particle swarm optimisation, ant colony optimisation, gravitational search algorithm, bat algorithm, moth flame optimisation, and whale optimisation algorithm. The behaviour of these algorithms is mathematical modelled to show the optimisation process. Twenty-three benchmark test functions are used to validate the performance of these algorithms. The exploration and exploitation of these algorithms are analysed using convergence curve. The experimental results depict that spotted hyena optimiser and grey wolf optimiser give optimal solutions as compared to the other algorithms. Furthermore, these algorithms are tested on five constrained engineering design problems. Experimental results reveal the applicability of these algorithms in real-life engineering design problems.