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Applications of Soft Computing in Mobile and Wireless Communications
Soft computing is a synergistic combination of artificial intelligence methodologies to model and solve real world problems that are either impossible or too difficult to model mathematically. Furthermore, the use of conventional modeling techniques demands rigor, precision and certainty, which carry computational cost. On the other hand, soft computing utilizes computation, reasoning and inference to reduce computational cost by exploiting tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth and approximation. In addition to computational cost savings, soft computing is an excellent platform for autonomic computing, owing to its roots in artificial intelligence. Wireless communication networks are associated with much uncertainty and imprecision due to a number of stochastic processes such as escalating number of access points, constantly changing propagation channels, sudden variations in network load and random mobility of users. This reality has fuelled numerous applications of soft computing techniques in mobile and wireless communications. This paper reviews various applications of the core soft computing methodologies in mobile and wireless communications
An Efficient Method for online Detection of Polychronous Patterns in Spiking Neural Network
Polychronous neural groups are effective structures for the recognition of
precise spike-timing patterns but the detection method is an inefficient
multi-stage brute force process that works off-line on pre-recorded simulation
data. This work presents a new model of polychronous patterns that can capture
precise sequences of spikes directly in the neural simulation. In this scheme,
each neuron is assigned a randomized code that is used to tag the post-synaptic
neurons whenever a spike is transmitted. This creates a polychronous code that
preserves the order of pre-synaptic activity and can be registered in a hash
table when the post-synaptic neuron spikes. A polychronous code is a
sub-component of a polychronous group that will occur, along with others, when
the group is active. We demonstrate the representational and pattern
recognition ability of polychronous codes on a direction selective visual task
involving moving bars that is typical of a computation performed by simple
cells in the cortex. The computational efficiency of the proposed algorithm far
exceeds existing polychronous group detection methods and is well suited for
online detection.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure
IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Biologically Inspired Image Processing Challenges and Future Directions
Human kind is exposed to large amounts of data. According to statistics, more than 80% of information received by humans comes from the visual system. Therefore, image information processing is not only an important research topic but also a challenging task. The unique information processing mechanism of the human visual system provides it with fast, accurate, and efficient image processing capabilities. At present, many advanced image analysis and processing techniques have been widely used in image communication, geographic information systems, medical image analysis, and virtual reality. However, there is still a large gap between these technologies and the human visual system. Therefore, building an image system research mechanism based on the biological vision system is an attractive but difficult target. Although it is a challenge, it can also be considered as an opportunity which utilizes biologically inspired ideas. Meanwhile, through the integration of neural biology, biological perception mechanisms, and computer science and mathematical science, related research can bridge biological vision and computer vision. Finally, the biologically inspired image analysis and processing system is expected to be built on the basis of further consideration of the learning mechanism of the human brain
Personal Identification Using Ultrawideband Radar Measurement of Walking and Sitting Motions and a Convolutional Neural Network
This study proposes a personal identification technique that applies machine
learning with a two-layered convolutional neural network to spectrogram images
obtained from radar echoes of a target person in motion. The walking and
sitting motions of six participants were measured using an ultrawideband radar
system. Time-frequency analysis was applied to the radar signal to generate
spectrogram images containing the micro-Doppler components associated with limb
movements. A convolutional neural network was trained using the spectrogram
images with personal labels to achieve radar-based personal identification. The
personal identification accuracies were evaluated experimentally to demonstrate
the effectiveness of the proposed technique.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, and 3 table
Transcending conventional biometry frontiers: Diffusive Dynamics PPG Biometry
In the first half of the 20th century, a first pulse oximeter was available
to measure blood flow changes in the peripheral vascular net. However, it was
not until recent times the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal used to monitor
many physiological parameters in clinical environments. Over the last decade,
its use has extended to the area of biometrics, with different methods that
allow the extraction of characteristic features of each individual from the PPG
signal morphology, highly varying with time and the physical states of the
subject. In this paper, we present a novel PPG-based biometric authentication
system based on convolutional neural networks. Contrary to previous approaches,
our method extracts the PPG signal's biometric characteristics from its
diffusive dynamics, characterized by geometric patterns image in the (p,
q)-planes specific to the 0-1 test. The diffusive dynamics of the PPG signal
are strongly dependent on the vascular bed's biostructure, which is unique to
each individual, and highly stable over time and other psychosomatic
conditions. Besides its robustness, our biometric method is anti-spoofing,
given the convoluted nature of the blood network. Our biometric authentication
system reaches very low Equal Error Rates (ERRs) with a single attempt, making
it possible, by the very nature of the envisaged solution, to implement it in
miniature components easily integrated into wearable biometric systems.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 4 table
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