Identifying and Detecting Currency through Image Processing with Convolutional Neural Network

With the rise of crimes associated with Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), security reinforcement by surveillance techniques has been a hot topic on the security agenda. As a result, cameras are frequently installed with ATMs, so as to capture the facial images of users. The main objective is to support follow-up criminal investigations in the event of an incident. However, in the case of miss-use, the user’s face is often occluded. Therefore, face occlusion detection has become very important to prevent crimes connected with ATM usage. Traditional approaches to solving the problem typically comprise a succession of steps: localization, segmentation, feature extraction and recognition. This paper proposes an end-to-end facial occlusion detection framework, which is robust and effective by combining region proposal algorithm and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The framework utilizes a coarse-to-fine strategy, which consists of two CNNs. The first CNN detects the head element within an upper body image while the second distinguishes which facial part is occluded from the head image. In comparison with previous approaches, the usage of CNN is optimal from a system point of view as the design is based on the end-to-end principle and the model operates directly on image pixels. For evaluation purposes, a face occlusion database consisting of over 50[Formula: see text]000 images, with annotated facial parts, was used. Experimental results revealed that the proposed framework is very effective. Using the bespoke face occlusion dataset, Aleix and Robert (AR) face dataset and the Labeled Face in the Wild (LFW) database, we achieved over 85.61%, 97.58% and 100% accuracies for head detection when the Intersection over Union-section (IoU) is larger than 0.5, and 94.55%, 98.58% and 95.41% accuracies for occlusion discrimination, respectively.

In recent years, convolutional neural networks have been widely used in image processing and have shown good results. Particularly useful was their ability to automatically extract image features (textures and shapes of objects). The article proposes a method that improves the accuracy and speed of recognition of an ultra-precise neural network based on image recognition of people’s faces. At first, a recurrent neural network is introduced into the convolutional neural network, thereby studying the characteristics of the image more deeply. Deep image characteristics are studied in parallel using a convolutional and recurrent neural network. In line with the idea of skipping the ResNet convolution layer, a new ShortCut3- ResNet residual module is built. A double optimization model is created to fully optimize the convolution process. A study of the influence of various parameters of a convolutional neural network on network performance is demonstrated, also analyzed using simulation experiments. As a result, the optimal parameters of the convolutional neural network are established. Ex- periments show that the method presented in this paper can study various images of people’s faces regardless of age, gender, and also improves the accuracy of feature extraction and image recognition ability.

Among the list of dreadful diseases, 'Brain Tumor and Brain Cancer' is one of them. According to survival rate, after the detection of cancerous Brain or Central Nervous System (CNS) tumor, 34% of men and 36% of women survive at least 5 years. Therefore, 'Early Detection of tumor' can be a savior for so many lives and artificial intelligence will make the way very accurate and appropriate. A new non-invasive approach to detect brain tumors in early-stage, cost-efficiently with the lowest risk factor is-'Liquid Biopsy'. It is a technique for analyzing non-solid biological tissue, i.e. - blood, plasma, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). As human inspection maybe error full and inaccurate, in this paper, we have used 'k-means clustering' in 'Image Processing' as visual perception of artificial intelligence for detection of 'CTC' and we have used the technique 'Convolutional Neural Network' (CNN) for ctDNA detection and 'Support Vector Machine'(SVM) algorithm for classification of ctDNA and normal cell-free DNA (cfDNA). 'ctDNA' could provide clues for growth factor of cancerous cells, type of tumors, location, etc. Therefore, our work provides a new way to early detection and a new prospect for early cure.

Rapid and accurate phenotypic screening of rice germplasms is crucial for identifying potential sources of rice sheath blight resistance. However, visual and/or caliper-based estimations of coalescing, necrotic, diseased lesions of rice sheath blight (ShB)-infected plants are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and subject to human rater subjectivity. Here, we propose the use of RGB images and image processing techniques to quantify ShB disease progression in terms of lesion height and diseased area. To be specific, we developed a Pixel Color- and Coordinate-based K-Means Clustering (PCC-KMC) algorithm utilizing the Mahalanobis distance metric, aimed at accurately segmenting symptomatic and non-symptomatic regions within rice stem images. The performance of PCC-KMC, combined with manual classification of the segmented regions, was evaluated using Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient (ρc) by comparing its results to visual measurements of ShB lesion height (cm) and to lesion/diseased area (cm2) measured using ImageJ. Low bias (Cb) and high precision (r) were observed for absolute lesion height (Cb = 0.93, r = 0.94) and absolute symptomatic area (Cb = 0.98, r = 0.97) studies. Furthermore, to automatically classify the segmented regions produced by the PCC-KMC algorithm, we employed a convolutional neural network (CNN). Unlike conventional CNNs that require fixed-size image inputs, our CNN is designed to take the RGB histogram of each segmented region (a 1000 by 3 representation) as input and determine whether the region corresponds to ShB infection. This design effectively handles the arbitrary sizes and irregular shapes of segmentation regions generated by PCC-KMC. Our CNN was trained based on an 85%:15% composition for the training and testing dataset from a total of 168 ShB-infected stem sample images, recording 92% accuracy and 0.21 loss. PCC-KMC-CNN also showed high accuracy and precision for the absolute lesion height (Cb = 0.86, r = 0.90) and absolute diseased area (Cb = 0.99, r = 0.97) studies, indicating that PCC-KMC combined with automatic CNN-based classification performs very effectively. These results demonstrate that the potential of our methodology to serve as an alternative to the traditional visual-based ShB disease severity assessment and can be considered to be utilized for lab-scale, high-throughput phenotyping of rice ShB.

Abstract: This research aims to develop a method for detecting leaf spot disease in oil palm seedlings using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Leaf spot disease in oil palm seedlings can hinder growth and production. CNN has proven effective in image processing and classification, particularly in plant disease detection. In this study, we utilized a dataset of images containing oil palm seedling leaves infected with leaf spot disease and healthy leaves. We performed data processing, built a CNN model, and conducted hyperparameter tuning. The test results demonstrate that the developed CNN model achieves high accuracy in recognizing and distinguishing between oil palm seedling leaves infected with leaf spot disease and healthy ones. This research contributes to the development of plant disease detection technology that can support economic growth in the oil palm plantation sector. Keywords: Convolutional Neural Network, image processing, leaf spot disease detection, oil palm seedlings. Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan metode deteksi penyakit bercak pada bibit kelapa sawit menggunakan Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Bibit kelapa sawit yang terinfeksi penyakit bercak dapat menghambat pertumbuhan dan produksi kelapa sawit. Metode CNN telah terbukti efektif dalam pengolahan citra dan klasifikasi, khususnya dalam deteksi penyakit pada tanaman. Dalam penelitian ini, kami menggunakan dataset citra daun bibit kelapa sawit yang terinfeksi penyakit bercak dan yang normal. Kami melakukan processing data, membangun model CNN, dan melakukan tuning hyperparameter. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa model CNN yang dikembangkan memiliki akurasi yang tinggi dalam mengenali dan membedakan citra daun bibit kelapa sawit yang terinfeksi penyakit bercak dan yang normal. Penelitian ini memberikan kontribusi dalam pengembangan teknologi deteksi penyakit tanaman yang dapat mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi di sektor perkebunan kelapa sawit. Kata kunci: bibit kelapa sawit, Convolutional Neural Network, deteksi penyakit bercak, pengolahan citra.

Identification of crops is an important topic in the agricultural domain. Hyperspectral remote sensing data are very useful for crop feature extraction and classification. Remote sensing data is an unstructured data and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can work on unstructured data efficiently. This paper presents an evaluation of CNN for crop classification using the Indian Pines standard dataset obtained from the AVIRIS sensor and the study area dataset obtained from the EO-1hyperion sensor. Optimized CNN has been tuned by training the model on different parameters. It has been compared with two classification algorithms: Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Convolutional Autoencoder. According to the test results, the proposed optimized CNN model provided better results as compared to the other two methods. CNN has given 97 ± 0.58% overall accuracy for the Indian Pines standard dataset and 78 ± 2.43% for our study area dataset.

The visually challenged people lack the ability to perform activities for daily living in general and instrumental daily living activities in particular. The major problems faced by visually challenged people and elderly people with low vision in pursuing money transactions are to distinguish between an original and fake currency note and identify the correct denomination of the given currency note. This paper proposes a hand held portable device that implements a currency recognition algorithm developed using customized Convolution neural networks. The proposed device has the ability to distinguish between original and fake currency notes and recognize the denomination of the currency notes. Further, it sends the information regarding the currency denomination by an audio feedback to the visually challenged user thus enabling him to do money transactions on his own. The performance of the proposed system is verified under real time by giving it to the actual user and the accuracy of the proposed system is found to be 97.4% executed within 10 s of time.

paper, we focus on exploring the relationship between weave patterns and their mechanical properties in woven fiber composites through Machine Learning. Specifically, we explore the interactions between woven architectures and in-plane stiffness properties through Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Our research is important for exploring how woven composite’s pattern is related to its mechanical properties and accelerating woven composite design as well as optimization. We focus on two tasks: (1) Stiffness prediction: Predicting in-plane stiffness properties for given weave patterns. Our DCNN extracts high-level features through several convolutional and fully connected layers to determine the final predictions. (2) Weave pattern prediction: Predicting weave patterns for target stiffness properties, which can be treated as the reverse task of the first one. Due to many-to-one mapping between weave patterns and the composite properties, we utilize a Decoder Neural Network as our baseline model and compare its performance with GAN and Genetic Algorithm. We represent the weave patterns as 2D checkerboard models and use finite element analysis (FEA) to determine in-plane stiffness properties, which serve as input data for our ML framework. We show that: (1) for stiffness prediction, DCNN can predict stiffness values for a given weave pattern with relatively high accuracy (above 93%); (2) for weave pattern prediction, the GAN model gives the best prediction accuracy (above 92%) while Decoder Neural Network has the best time efficiency. HAOTIAN FENG

By studying the effects of different types of feed forward neural networks in different fields, the applicable environment of different neural networks can be judged, which will make it easier for people to choose appropriate neural network when it's needed. To achieve this, in this article I summarize and classify the existing neural network experiences and feedback results, and compare the data before and after using the neural network. The data shows that BP networks can improve the resolution or accuracy of problems with no obvious influencing factors. Convolutional networks can increase the accuracy of image processing to more than 95%, and RBF networks can calculate high-precision data curves. Thus, it can be concluded that the BP network is suitable for solving problems with unclear influencing factors, the convolutional network has more image processing problems, and the RBF network has a higher frequency of use when higher results are required.

The Part 1 prequel to this review evaluated the evolution of modelling techniques used in evaluation of fruit quality over the past three decades and noted a progression towards the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this review, Part 2, the use of CNNs for NIR fruit quality evaluation is explored, given the success of CNNs in various other fields, such as image, video, speech, and audio processing, and the availability of large (open source) datasets of fruit spectra and reference quality attribute, which is required for the training of CNN models. The review provides an overview of deep learning and the CNN architectures and techniques used in NIR spectroscopy for regression modelling, with advantages and disadvantages identified. Studies using CNN for NIR based fruit quality evaluation are then critically examined. Eight publications have presented on models using the same open-source mango dry matter calibration and test set, enabling inter-method comparisons. CNN models have been demonstrated to be accurate, precise and robust. Techniques of transfer learning for CNN models offer an alternative solution to model updating and calibration transfer methods applied in traditional chemometrics. The review has highlighted crucial areas that require resolution and exploration in this application through future research, including, (i) data requirements for training a CNN (ii) optimal spectral pre-processing for CNN (iii) CNN architecture and hyper-parameter selection and tuning for fruit quality evaluation (iv) CNN model interpretability and explainability. Future studies must conduct clearer comparison to partial least squares (PLS) regression and shallow ANNs to better assess the prospective benefit of using CNN, a more complex model. The potential for visualisation of spectra relevance to the CNN model using techniques such as GradCam, currently employed in visualising 2D-CNN models, remains to be explored.

—Brain tumor detection is a critical aspect of neurooncology, where timely and accurate diagnosis significantly impacts patient outcomes. Traditional imaging techniques, while useful, are often limited by variations in image quality, illumination inconsistencies, and the complex nature of brain tumors themselves, which vary widely in size, shape, and texture. This paper presents a deep learning- based approach to brain tumor detection using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combined with advanced image processing methods. Our methodology involves preprocessing brain MRI scans using histogram equalization, morphological operations, and data augmentation to address illumination issues and enhance the tumor region. Following preprocessing, the images are fed into a CNN, where transfer learning from the Sequential model is applied to improve classification accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate high recall and precision rates, affirming the model’s robustness in detecting brain tumors in MRI images. This approach not only addresses the challenge of inconsistent MRI scan quality but also reduces the risk of misclassification, showing promise for clinical application. Keywords— Brain Tumor Detection, Computer-aided Diagnosis, Computer Vision, Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Image Processing, Transfer Learning.

The study presents the results of the development and testing of deep learning neural network architectures, which demonstrate high accuracy rates in classifying neurophysiological data, in particular hemodynamic brain activation patterns obtained by functional near-infrared spectroscopy, during solving mathematical problems on spatial-numerical associations. The analyzed signal represents a multidimensional time series of oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin dynamics. Taking the specificity of the fNIRS signal into account, a comparative analysis of 2 types of neural network architectures was carried out: (1) architectures based on recurrent neural networks: recurrent neural network with long short-term memory, recurrent neural network with long short-term memory with fully connected layers, bidirectional recurrent neural network with long short-term memory, convolutional recurrent neural network with long short-term memory; (2) architectures based on convolutional neural networks with 1D convolutions: convolutional neural network, fully convolutional neural network, residual neural network. Trained long short-term memory recurrent neural network architectures showed worse results in accuracy in comparison with 1D convolutional neural network architectures. Residual neural network (model_Resnet) demonstrated the highest accuracy rates in three experimental conditions more than 88% in detecting age-related differences in brain activation during spatial-numerical association tasks considering the individual characteristics of the respondents’ signal.

ArchCam: Real time expert system for suspicious behaviour detection in ATM site

Application of machine learning algorithms in the domain of financial engineering

The report presents an algorithm for constructing a convolutional hierarchical neural network classifier, which is a modification of the algorithm for constructing hierarchical neural network classifiers suggested before. The original algorithm was designed to exploit intrinsic class hierarchy to build a class tree with a neural network in each node classifying groups of initial classes (in a non-terminal node) or a subset of original classes (in a terminal node). The convolutional modification utilizes convolutional neural networks instead of regular fully connected networks in order to apply the model to image classification tasks. Use of class hierarchy for image classification should reduce the number of adjusted neural network parameters compared to deep convolutional neural networks, and therefore it should reduce training and inference time. In this context the algorithm may be compared with some pruning techniques. The convolutional hierarchical neural network classifier inherits some hyperparameters of a conventional hierarchical neural network classifier, like the activation threshold and the threshold by the share of voting patterns. The goal of this study was to explore different strategies of choosing these hyperparameters. To test these strategies, we used the CIFAR-10 dataset. Also, for demonstration purposes we apply the convolutional hierarchical neural network classifier to the CIFAR-100 dataset.