Synergizing deep learning for smart video surveillance: cutting-edge approaches to abnormal behavior detection

In recent years, with the advance of Artificial Intelligence, automatic music composition has been demonstrated. However, there are many music genres and music instruments. For a same piece of music, different music instruments would produce different effects. Invented some 2500 years ago, Guzheng is one of the oldest music instruments in China and the world. It has distinct timbres and patterns that cannot be duplicated by other music instruments. Therefore, it is interesting to see whether AI can compose Guzheng music or alike. In this paper we present a method that can automatically compose and play Guzheng music. First, we collect a number of existing Guzheng music pieces and convert them into Music Instrument Digital Interface format. Second, we use these data to train a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and use the trained network to generate new Guzheng music pieces. Next, we use the Reinforcement Learning to optimize the LSTM network by adding special Guzheng playing techniques. Comparing to the existing AI methods, such as LSTM and Generative Adversary Network, our new method is more effective in capturing the characteristics of Guzheng music. According to the evaluations from skilled Guzheng players and general audiences, our Guzheng music is very close to the real Guzheng music. The presented method can also be used to automatically compose the music of other Chinese music instruments.

In this paper, we develop a method based on a deep learning method in financial market prediction, which includes BRICS economies as the test cases. Financial markets are rife with volatility that is affected by a "bed of complexity," coddled by local and distal factors. To leverage these vast datasets both deep learning models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks as well as hybrid architectures are used in this study. The paper evaluates the predictive accuracy of the models, and by so doing, identifies their strengths in predicting temporal dependencies and intricate market patterns. In particular, deep learning techniques are applied to case studies of individual countries in the BRICS to highlight the application of deep learning to disparate country specific problems, such as liquidity crises and market shocks. These findings show that classical statistical methods are outperformed by deep learning systems in a precise and reliable financial forecasting. This research highlights the ability of AI driven systems to change financial decision making processes, improving investor confidence and improving economic stability in BRICS nations. This study also readers the value of deep learning in financial market analysis, especially in economies in the developing countries. Application of techniques and architectures e.g. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that excel at identifying spatial patterns, and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks renowned for their prowess on sequential and time series data, for real world market prediction are explained. In addition, the research discusses hybrid architectures which extend knowledge, fusing strengths of both architectures to improve prediction accuracy and how deep learning develops to solve particular financial challenges. Through reading these notes readers get exposed to data preprocessing techniques such as normalization and feature selection which are important for boosting deep learning performance. The paper also includes an introduction to the evaluation of models using MSE and R-squared values for validating them in terms of reliable outputs. This research combines deep learning theory and practical case study to offer a useful educational resource for students, researchers, and practitioners who want to apply AI in financial forecasting in complex and dynamic global markets.

The prediction of stock price movement direction is significant in financial circles and academic. Stock price contains complex, incomplete, and fuzzy information which makes it an extremely difficult task to predict its development trend. Predicting and analysing financial data is a nonlinear, time-dependent problem. With rapid development in machine learning and deep learning, this task can be performed more effectively by a purposely designed network. This paper aims to improve prediction accuracy and minimizing forecasting error loss through deep learning architecture by using Generative Adversarial Networks. It was proposed a generic model consisting of Phase-space Reconstruction (PSR) method for reconstructing price series and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) which is a combination of two neural networks which are Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) as Generative model and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as Discriminative model for adversarial training to forecast the stock market. LSTM will generate new instances based on historical basic indicators information and then CNN will estimate whether the data is predicted by LSTM or is real. It was found that the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has performed well on the enhanced root mean square error to LSTM, as it was 4.35% more accurate in predicting the direction and reduced processing time and RMSE by 78 secs and 0.029, respectively. This study provides a better result in the accuracy of the stock index. It seems that the proposed system concentrates on minimizing the root mean square error and processing time and improving the direction prediction accuracy, and provides a better result in the accuracy of the stock index.

Hydrate plugging and pipeline leak can impair the normal operation of natural gas pipeline and may lead to serious accidents. Since natural gas pipeline safety monitoring based on active acoustic excitation can detect and locate not only the two abnormal events but also normal components such as valves and pipeline elbows, recognition and classification of these events are of great importance to provide maintenance guidance for the pipeline operators and avoid false alarm. In this article, long short-term memory (LSTM) network is introduced and applied to classify detection signals of hydrate plugging, pipeline leak, and elbow. Adaptive moment estimation (Adam) algorithm is introduced and utilized to accelerate the long short-term memory network convergence in training. Experimental results demonstrate that the network with three layers and 64 units per cell performs the best. The cross-entropy loss in training is 0.0005, and classification accuracies are all 100% in training, validation, and testing which verify the validity of the long short-term memory network. Therefore, the method based on the long short-term memory network and adaptive moment estimation algorithm can work efficiently on pipeline events classification and has great guiding significance for safety assurance of natural gas transmission.

The developed research includes an Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network with IoT sensor data for the management of rice crop irrigation. Optimizing the amount of water required for rice crops is very critical, based on real-time predictions of the actual environmental and soil parameters including moisture, temperature, humidity, and rainfall as well as all other possible related factors. IoT sensors installed in agricultural fields gathered data, which was transmitted to a controller and then uploaded to the cloud for further processing. The training dataset contained 5,600 records. In this research, 70% was used for training and the rest 30% for testing. Three LSTM models were used for analyzing sensor data and predicting the need for irrigation and controlling the irrigation pump accordingly. These were Vanilla LSTM, Stacked LSTM, and Bidirectional LSTM. It was evaluated the performance of the models developed using precision, recall, F1 score, accuracy, and other performance measures such as Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and R<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> Score. Bidirectional LSTM was determined to have the best performance, with MAE at 0.15, RMSE at 0.24, and an R2 score of 0.93, exhibiting high accuracy and predictive power. The Stacked LSTM and Vanilla LSTM also gave fair results, in terms of having R2 values of 0.89 and 0.84, respectively. The number of training and memory used for the computation were also given, with Vanilla LSTM taking least, followed by Stacked LSTM and Bidirectional LSTM. These results suggest that the LSTM networks can potentially be capable of improving the irrigation management such that more water is conserved and, subsequently, more suitable for agricultural productivity.

This paper aims to predict the occurrence of pests and diseases for cotton based on long short term memory (LSTM) network. First, the problem of occurrence of pests and diseases was formulated as time series prediction. Then LSTM was adopted to solve the problem. LSTM is a special kind of recurrent neutral network (RNN), which introduces gate mechanism to prevent the vanished or exploding gradient problem. It has been shown good performance in solving time series problem and can handle the long-term dependency problem, as mentioned in many literatures. The experimental results showed that LSTM performed good on the prediction of occurrence of pests and diseases in cotton fields, and yielded an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.97. The paper further verified that the weather factors indeed have strong impact on the occurrence of pests and diseases, and the LSTM network has great advantage on solving the long-term dependency problem.

Modern decision-making in fixed income asset management benefits from intelligent systems, which involve the use of state-of-the-art machine learning models and appropriate methodologies. We conduct the first study of bond yield forecasting using long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, validating its potential and identifying its memory advantage. Specifically, we model the 10-year bond yield using univariate LSTMs with three input sequences and five forecasting horizons. We compare those with multilayer perceptrons (MLP), univariate and with the most relevant features. To demystify the notion of black box associated with LSTMs, we conduct the first internal study of the model. To this end, we calculate the LSTM signals through time, at selected locations in the memory cell, using sequence-to-sequence architectures, uni and multivariate. We then proceed to explain the states’ signals using exogenous information, for what we develop the LSTM-LagLasso methodology. The results show that the univariate LSTM model with additional memory is capable of achieving similar results as the multivariate MLP using macroeconomic and market information. Furthermore, shorter forecasting horizons require smaller input sequences and vice-versa. The most remarkable property found consistently in the LSTM signals, is the activation/deactivation of units through time, and the specialisation of units by yield range or feature. Those signals are complex but can be explained by exogenous variables. Additionally, some of the relevant features identified via LSTM-LagLasso are not commonly used in forecasting models. In conclusion, our work validates the potential of LSTMs and methodologies for bonds, providing additional tools for financial practitioners.

Emotion recognition based on EEG signals is a critical area within affective computing, with applications in mental health monitoring, human-computer interaction, and neuroadaptive systems. However, accurately classifying emotional states from inherently non-stationary and noisy EEG data remains a major challenge. This study explores the classification of three discrete emotions, Humorous, Sad, and Fearful, elicited through video stimuli, using EEG recordings from six participants acquired via a 19-channel Mitsar amplifier at a 500 Hz sampling rate. Preprocessing steps included bandpass filtering (1–40 Hz), epoch segmentation, and multi-domain feature extraction encompassing statistical measures, spectral features, differential entropy, Hjorth parameters, and hemispheric asymmetry indicators. Data augmentation was applied to balance class distributions, particularly for the underrepresented fear category. The resulting features were normalized and structured to support temporal deep learning and classical machine learning models. The classification performance of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks was evaluated alongside Support Vector Machine (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), and Random Forest (RF) classifiers. While LSTM demonstrated competency in capturing temporal dependencies, especially in fear recognition, SVM achieved the highest overall accuracy, 94.12%, outperforming LSTM at 85.16%, RF at 90.00%, and k-NN at 78.01%. These results suggest that when robust and discriminative features are employed, traditional models like SVM can surpass deep learning methods, particularly in small-scale EEG datasets with limited temporal complexity. This study underscores the importance of aligning model architecture with feature representation and contributes a comparative evaluation framework for EEG-based emotion recognition systems.

ABSTRACTRecently, different fraudulent activities have been reported across different fields like finance, insurance, and banking. Banking fraud is the unauthorized exploitation of credit card information to gain access to funds and purchase products. It involves the manipulation of card details for fake transactions. These fraudulent activities lead to significant financial losses for businesses across various industries. This work presents a model for credit card fraud detection using a hybrid approach that merges stacked autoencoder (SAE) and long short term memory (LSTM) networks and hyper‐parameter optimization by the walrus optimization algorithm (WOA). The SAE is presented to capture automated features and minimize the data dimensionality. The LSTM network is utilized for the identification of fraudulent transactions The WOA is considered for optimizing the hyperparameters of the model and preventing overfitting issues. The proposed SAE‐LSTM‐WOA model is evaluated on three benchmark datasets and attained better accuracies of 99.05% (European Cardholders), 99.03% (German credit data), and 99.17% (Inclusive Indian Fraud Dataset). Thus, the outcomes show the ability of the model to generalize across various data and offer improved reliability in credit card fraud detection cases.

In order for the detection ability of floating small targets in sea clutter to be improved, on the basis of the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) algorithm, the high-frequency parts and low-frequency parts are determined by the energy proportion of the intrinsic mode function (IMF); the high-frequency part is denoised by wavelet packet transform (WPT), whereas the denoised high-frequency IMFs and low-frequency IMFs reconstruct the pure sea clutter signal together. According to the chaotic characteristics of sea clutter, we proposed an adaptive training timesteps strategy. The training timesteps of network were determined by the width of embedded window, and the chaotic long short-term memory network detection was designed. The sea clutter signals after denoising were predicted by chaotic long short-term memory (LSTM) network, and small target signals were detected from the prediction errors. The experimental results showed that the CEEMD-WPT algorithm was consistent with the target distribution characteristics of sea clutter, and the denoising performance was improved by 33.6% on average. The proposed chaotic long- and short-term memory network, which determines the training step length according to the width of embedded window, is a new detection method that can accurately detect small targets submerged in the background of sea clutter.

Video surveillance is an essential tool in maintaining public safety, security, and protecting assets. However, monitoring surveillance footage continuously for extended periods is challenging, and even the most vigilant human operators can miss anomalies or unusual activities that could pose a threat. Automatic Schemes are required to identify abnormalities in surveillance footage. Anomaly detection in surveillance footage is a thought-provoking problematic due to the high dimensionality and complexity of the data. Newly, deep learning-based methods have exposed promising results in detecting anomalies in video streams. Specifically, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks have been extensively used for 0mold temporal dependencies in video data. This paper proposes a novel approach for effective anomaly detection in surveillance footage using Attention Residual Long Short-Term Memory (ARLSTM) networks. The proposed ARLSTM architecture integrates attention mechanisms, residual connections, and LSTMs to improve the detection accuracy of anomalies in surveillance footage. The attention mechanism enables the network to selectively focus on relevant features in the data, while residual connections facilitate the propagation of gradients and alleviate the vanishing gradient problem. Furthermore, the LSTM component allows the network to capture temporal dependencies and model long-term patterns in the data. Investigational outcomes on standard datasets demonstrate that the proposed ARLSTM approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods for irregularity discovery in investigation footage. The proposed approach has potential applications in various domains, including public safety, security, and industrial automation. The proposed ARLSTM approach offers a robust and effective solution for detecting anomalies in surveillance footage. This work demonstrates the potential of deep learning-based approaches for automatic video surveillance and overlays the technique for future research in this field.

This study aimed to improve apple slices’ color and drying kinetics by optimizing the hot-air drying process, utilizing machine and deep learning models. Different steam blanching times (30, 60, 90, and 120 s), drying temperatures (50, 55, 60, 65, and 70 °C), and humidity control methods (full humidity removal or temperature–humidity control) were examined. These factors significantly affected the quality of apple slices. 60 s blanching, 60 °C temperature, and full dehumidification represented the optimal drying conditions for apple slices’ dehydration, achieving better drying kinetics and the best color quality. However, the fastest drying process (40 min) was obtained at a 60 °C drying temperature combined with complete dehumidification after 90 s blanching. Furthermore, machine and deep learning models, including backpropagation (BP), convolutional neural network–long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM), temporal convolutional network (TCN), and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, effectively predicted the moisture content and color variation in apple slices. Among these, LSTM networks demonstrated exceptional predictive performance with an R2 value exceeding 0.98, indicating superior accuracy. This study provides a scientific foundation for optimizing the drying process of apple slices and illustrates the potential application of deep learning in the agricultural processing and engineering fields.

Cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) aims to predict software defects in a target project domain by leveraging information from different source project domains, allowing testers to identify defective modules quickly. However, CPDP models often underperform due to different data distributions between source and target domains, class imbalances, and the presence of noisy and irrelevant instances in both source and target projects. Additionally, standard features often fail to capture sufficient semantic and contextual information from the source project, leading to poor prediction performance in the target project. To address these challenges, this research proposes Smote Correlation and Attention Gated recurrent unit based Long Short-Term Memory optimization (SCAG-LSTM), which first employs a novel hybrid technique that extends the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) with edited nearest neighbors (ENN) to rebalance class distributions and mitigate the issues caused by noisy and irrelevant instances in both source and target domains. Furthermore, correlation-based feature selection (CFS) with best-first search (BFS) is utilized to identify and select the most important features, aiming to reduce the differences in data distribution among projects. Additionally, SCAG-LSTM integrates bidirectional gated recurrent unit (Bi-GRU) and bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) networks to enhance the effectiveness of the long short-term memory (LSTM) model. These components efficiently capture semantic and contextual information as well as dependencies within the data, leading to more accurate predictions. Moreover, an attention mechanism is incorporated into the model to focus on key features, further improving prediction performance. Experiments are conducted on apache_lucene, equinox, eclipse_jdt_core, eclipse_pde_ui, and mylyn (AEEEM) and predictor models in software engineering (PROMISE) datasets and compared with active learning-based method (ALTRA), multi-source-based cross-project defect prediction method (MSCPDP), the two-phase feature importance amplification method (TFIA) on AEEEM and the two-phase transfer learning method (TPTL), domain adaptive kernel twin support vector machines method (DA-KTSVMO), and generative adversarial long-short term memory neural networks method (GB-CPDP) on PROMISE datasets. The results demonstrate that the proposed SCAG-LSTM model enhances the baseline models by 33.03%, 29.15% and 1.48% in terms of F1-measure and by 16.32%, 34.41% and 3.59% in terms of Area Under the Curve (AUC) on the AEEEM dataset, while on the PROMISE dataset it enhances the baseline models’ F1-measure by 42.60%, 32.00% and 25.10% and AUC by 34.90%, 27.80% and 12.96%. These findings suggest that the proposed model exhibits strong predictive performance.

Seismic response prediction of RC bridge piers through stacked long short-term memory network

In recent years, machine learning and Deep Learning have increased and gathered epic success in traditional application domains and new areas of Artificial Intelligence. The performance using Deep Learning has dominated experimental results compared to conventional machine learning algorithms. This paper presents an overview of the progress that has occurred in Deep Learning (DL) concerning some application domains like Autonomous Driving, Healthcare, Voice Recognition, Image Recognition, Advertising, Predicting Natural Calamities, National Stock Exchange and many more. Additionally, deeper insights into several Deep Learning techniques, their working principles, and experimental results are scrutinized. The survey covers Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), Auto-Encoder (AE), Deep Belief Network (DBN), Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL).