Measurements, Models, Systems and Design

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Automatic classification of power quality disturbances using optimal feature selection based algorithm

The development of renewable energy sources and power electronic converters in conventional power systems leads to Power Quality (PQ) disturbances. This research aims at automatic detection and classification of single and multiple PQ disturbances using a novel optimal feature selection based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). DWT is used for the extraction of useful features, which are used to distinguish among different PQ disturbances by an ANN classifier. The performance of the classifier solely depends on the feature vector used for the training. Therefore, this research is required for the constructive feature selection based classification system. In this study, an Artificial Bee Colony based Probabilistic Neural Network (ABCPNN) algorithm has been proposed for optimal feature selection. The most common types of single PQ disturbances include sag, swell, interruption, harmonics, oscillatory and impulsive transients, flicker, notch and spikes. Moreover, multiple disturbances consisting of combination of two disturbances are also considered. The DWT with multi-resolution analysis has been applied to decompose the PQ disturbance waveforms into detail and approximation coefficients at level eight using Daubechies wavelet family. Various types of statistical parameters of all the detail and approximation coefficients have been analysed for feature extraction, out of which the optimal features have been selected using ABC algorithm. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been analysed with different architectures of ANN such as multilayer perceptron and radial basis function neural network. The PNN has been found to be the most suitable classifier. The proposed algorithm is tested for both PQ disturbances obtained from the parametric equations and typical power distribution system models using MATLAB/Simulink and PSCAD/EMTDC. The PQ disturbances with uniformly distributed noise ranging from 20 to 50 dB have also been analysed. The experimental results show that the proposed ABC-PNN based approach is capable of efficiently eliminating unnecessary features to improve the accuracy and performance of the classifier

Soft Computing Tool Approach for Texture Classification Using Discrete Cosine Transform

Texture can be considered as a repeating pattern of local variation of pixel intensities. Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients of texture images. As DCT works on gray level images, the color scheme of each image is transformed into gray levels. For classifying the images using DCT, two popular soft computing techniques namely neurocomputing and neuro-fuzzy computing are used. A feedforward neural network is used to train the backpropagation learning algorithm and an evolving fuzzy neural network to classify the textures. The soft computing models were trained using 80% of the texture data and the remaining was used for testing and validation purposes. A performance comparison was made among the soft computing models for the texture classification problem. In texture classification the goal is to assign an unknown sample image to a set of known texture classes. It is observed that the proposed neuro-fuzzy model performed better than the neural network

Recent Advances in Steganography

Steganography is the art and science of communicating which hides the existence of the communication. Steganographic technologies are an important part of the future of Internet security and privacy on open systems such as the Internet. This book's focus is on a relatively new field of study in Steganography and it takes a look at this technology by introducing the readers various concepts of Steganography and Steganalysis. The book has a brief history of steganography and it surveys steganalysis methods considering their modeling techniques. Some new steganography techniques for hiding secret data in images are presented. Furthermore, steganography in speeches is reviewed, and a new approach for hiding data in speeches is introduced

Detection of Malignant Tumour in Mammography Images Using Artificial Neural Networks with Fuzzy Rules

Breast cancer is a collection of cancer cells that starts in the breast cells and it expands from tissue of breast. Now a day Mammogram is one technique to detect the breast cancer earlyusing x-ray image of breast and it is used to reduce the deaths of breast cancer. This breast cancer disease is curable if discovered starting stage. This paper studies different methods utilized for the detection of breast cancer using mammogram classification. In this paper, the feature extraction and classification of mammogram image can be done by the artificial neural networks. Different kinds of feature extraction from mammogram image to detecting the bread cancer contains shape, position and surface features etc., this image feature extraction is significant in classification of image. By utilizing the image processing these image features are extracted. Image segmentation is performed for feature extraction of mammogram image, in this process image is partitioned into multiple segments, therefore when change the image representation into something that is more significant and simple to examine. Here the fuzzy rules are introduced to process the related data from cases of breast cancer in mammogram image in order to give the risk diagnosis of breast cancer. The preprocessing method is used to sustain an effectiveness of image by correct and adjusting the mammogram image and also it is used to improve the image quality and create it ready for additional working by reducing the unrelated noise to provide new brightness value in output image it is called as filtration and unwanted parts of background of mammogram image is eliminated. Some techniques are discussed for mammogram image classification to earlier detection of breast cancer