Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Based on the case images in the smart city management system, the advantage of deep learning is used to learn image features on its own, an improved deep convolutional neural network algorithm is proposed in this paper, and the algorithm is used to improve the smart city management system (hereinafter referred to as “Smart City Management”). These case images are quickly and accurately classified, the automatic classification of cases is completed in the city management system. ZCA (Zero-phase Component Analysis)-whitening is used to reduce the correlation between image data features, an eight-layer convolutional neural network model is built to classify the whitened images, and rectified linear unit (ReLU) is used in the convolutional layer to accelerate the training process, the dropout technology is used in the pooling layer, the algorithm is prevented from overfitting. Back Propagation (BP) algorithm is used for optimization in the network fine-tuning stage, the robustness of the algorithm is improved. Based on the above method, the two types of case images of road traffic and city appearance environment were subjected to two classification experiments. The accuracy has reached 97.5%, and the F1-Score has reached 0.98. The performance exceeded LSVM (Langrangian Support Vector Machine), SAE (Sparse autoencoder), and traditional CNN (Convolution Neural Network). At the same time, this method conducts four-classification experiments on four types of cases: electric vehicles, littering, illegal parking of motor vehicles, and mess around garbage bins. The accuracy is 90.5%, and the F1-Score is 0.91. The performance still exceeds LSVM, SAE and traditional CNN and other methods.

The recent advancement in remote sensing technologies has resulted in the availability of different imaging modes and higher resolution satellite images. Accessibility of these remote sensing or satellite images, automatic ship detection and tracking has become an important research topic in the field of maritime surveillance. In this paper, a novel method for ship detection using satellite images is proposed. First the preprocessing is carried out to remove the noise from the images using Ship Detection and Tracking (SDT) filter. Then, the land masking (sea-land area separation) and cloud masking is carried out based on the gradient feature extraction using SDT edge detection, along with SDT segmentation. Finally, the ships are identified using the Machine Learning (ML) classifiers like Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest Classifier (RFC), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Logistic Regression (LR), KNN, and Gaussian Naïve Bayes-based classifier based on the features extracted from Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG). The proposed work is cross validated using the Google earth data. Performance of our proposed method is evaluated using the recall and the precision values. Further, for tracking ships, an improved multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT) algorithm is proposed and tested using the Kaggle dataset.

In this paper, we propose a novel person specific fall detection system based on a monocular camera, which can be applied for assisting the independent living of an older adult living alone at home. A single camera covering the living area is used for video recordings of an elderly person’s normal daily activities. From the recorded video data, the human silhouette regions in every frame are then extracted based on the codebook background subtraction technique. Low-dimensionality representative features of extracted silhouetted are then extracted by convolutional neural network-based autoencoder (CNN-AE). Features obtained from the CNN-AE are applied to construct an one class support vector machine (OCSVM) model, which is a data driven model based on the video recordings and can be applied for fall detection. From the comprehensive experimental evaluations on different people in a real home environment, it is shown that the proposed fall detection system can successfully detect different types of falls (falls towards different orientations at different positions in a real home environment) with small false alarms.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently been applied in the domain of cultural exhibition enabling the cultural sites to provide more personal and proactive experiences to their visitors. To come up with valuable services, several solutions to analyze the spatio-temporal trajectories of visitors have been put forward. However, they neither consider the inherent uncertainty of the underlying indoor positioning technologies – Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), RFID, etc. – nor other visitors’ features apart from the spatio-temporal ones (e.g. the level of interaction with the museum displays). For that reason, the present work introduces RECITE, a framework to classify trajectories representing visitors’ actions that copes with the aforementioned limitations of existing solutions. Firstly, RECITE states a novel mapping process for a BLE-based indoor positioning system to accurately detect the visitors’ locations. On top of this mechanism, RECITE includes an ensemble of fuzzy rule classifiers able to tag the visitors’ ongoing trajectories in real time considering both spatio-temporal and other behavioural factors. Finally, the framework has been evaluated in a case of use scenario showing quite promising results.