A DATA HIDING SCHEME BASED ON CHAOTIC MAP AND PIXEL PAIRS

Information security is one of the most common areas of study today. In the literature, there are many algorithms developed in the information security. The Least Significant Bit (LSB) method is the most known of these algorithms. LSB method is easy to apply however it is not effective on providing data privacy and robustness. In spite of all its disadvantages, LSB is the most frequently used algorithm in literature due to providing high visual quality. In this study, an effective data hiding scheme alternative to LSB, 2LSBs, 3LSBs and 4LSBs algorithms (known as xLSBs), is proposed. In this method, random numbers which are to be used as indices of pixels of the cover image are obtained from chaotic maps and data hiding process is applied on the values of these pixels by using modulo function. Calculated values are embedded in cover image as hidden data. Success of the proposed data hiding scheme is assessed by Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), payload capacity and quality

A multi-objective route planning model based on genetic algorithm for cuboid surfaces

During a natural disaster, risk management for the evacuation of people in high-rise buildings is very important for saving lives. In the case of fire, all parameters such as detection, lighting, warning systems, etc. for safety must be used interactively. Determination of evacuation conditions and different ways out are important parameters during the fire. In this study, a system is proposed for evacuating people from building with the shortest/safest route, taking into account certain factors to evaluate the current situation of the fire. Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) may be adapted to this real-life problem to protect people in the shortest time finding optimum route. In this study, the system based on Genetic Algorithm is performed using the online information about smoke, heat and safety level, the location of fire and the potential congestion of people in order to evacuate people from the building with safety route. The system contains two- and three-dimensional surface applications to ensure evacuation with optimum distance inside/outside of the building. Results are evaluated considering the evacuation distance. Compared to other methods in the literature, the solution to this problem is improved by adding the evacuation process for the elevator and inside of the building

Epilepsy attacks recognition based on 1D octal pattern, wavelet transform and EEG signals

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have been generally utilized for diagnostic systems. Nowadays artificial intelligence-based systems have been proposed to classify EEG signals to ease diagnosis process. However, machine learning models have generally been used deep learning based classification model to reach high classification accuracies. This work focuses classification epilepsy attacks using EEG signals with a lightweight and simple classification model. Hence, an automated EEG classification model is presented. The used phases of the presented automated EEG classification model are (i) multileveled feature generation using one-dimensional (1D) octal-pattern (OP) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Here, main feature generation function is the presented octal-pattern. DWT is employed for level creation. By employing DWT frequency coefficients of the EEG signal is obtained and octal-pattern generates texture features from raw EEG signal and wavelet coefficients. This DWT and octal-pattern based feature generator extracts 128 × 8 = 1024 (Octal-pattern generates 128 features from a signal, 8 signal are used in the feature generation 1 raw EEG and 7 wavelet low-pass filter coefficients). (ii) To select the most useful features, neighborhood component analysis (NCA) is deployed and 128 features are selected. (iii) The selected features are feed to k nearest neighborhood classifier. To test this model, an epilepsy seizure dataset is used and 96.0% accuracy is attained for five categories. The results clearly denoted the success of the presented octal-pattern based epilepsy classification model

A novel automated tower graph based ECG signal classification method with hexadecimal local adaptive binary pattern and deep learning

Electrocardiography (ECG) signal recognition is one of the popular research topics for machine learning. In this paper, a novel transformation called tower graph transformation is proposed to classify ECG signals with high accuracy rates. It employs a tower graph, which uses minimum, maximum and average pooling methods altogether to generate novel signals for the feature extraction. In order to extract meaningful features, we presented a novel one-dimensional hexadecimal pattern. To select distinctive and informative features, an iterative ReliefF and Neighborhood Component Analysis (NCA) based feature selection is utilized. By using these methods, a novel ECG signal classification approach is presented. In the preprocessing phase, tower graph-based pooling transformation is applied to each signal. The proposed one-dimensional hexadecimal adaptive pattern extracts 1536 features from each node of the tower graph. The extracted features are fused and 15,360 features are obtained and the most discriminative 142 features are selected by the ReliefF and iterative NCA (RFINCA) feature selection approach. These selected features are used as an input to the artificial neural network and deep neural network and 95.70% and 97.10% classification accuracy was obtained respectively. These results demonstrated the success of the proposed tower graph-based method.</p

EEG-based driving fatigue detection using multilevel feature extraction and iterative hybrid feature selection

Brain activities can be evaluated by using Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. One of the primary reasons for traffic accidents is driver fatigue, which can be identified by using EEG signals. This work aims to achieve a highly accurate and straightforward process to detect driving fatigue by using EEG signals. Two main problems, which are feature generation and feature selection, are defined to achieve this aim. This work solves these problems by using two different approaches. Deep networks are efficient feature generators and extract features in low, medium, and high levels. These features can be generated by using multileveled or multilayered feature extraction. Therefore, we proposed a multileveled feature generator that uses a one-dimensional binary pattern (BP) and statistical features together, and levels are created using a one-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (1D-DWT). A five-level fused feature extractor is presented by using BP, statistical features of 1D-DWT together. Moreover, a 2-layered feature selection method is proposed using ReliefF and iterative neighborhood component analysis (RFINCA) to solve the feature selection problem. The goals of the RFINCA are to choose the optimal number of features automatically and use the effectiveness of ReliefF and neighborhood component analysis (NCA) together. A driving fatigue EEG dataset was used as a testbed to denote the effectiveness of eighteen conventional classifiers. According to the experimental results, a highly accurate EEG classification approach is presented. The proposed method also reached 100.0% classification accuracy by using a k-nearest neighborhood classifier.</p

Novel finger movement classification method based on multi-centered binary pattern using surface electromyogram signals

The number of individuals who have lost their fingers in our world is quite high and these individuals experience great difficulties in performing their daily work. Finger movements classification and prediction are one of the hot-topic research areas for biomedical engineering, machine learning and computer sciences. This study purposes finger movements classification and prediction. For this purpose, a novel finger movements classification method is presented by using surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals. To accurately classify these movements, a novel binary pattern like textural feature extractor is presented and this textural micro pattern is called as multi-centered binary pattern (MCBP). In the MCBP, five odd-indexed values of a block are utilized as center. The proposed MCBP based multileveled finger movements classification method evaluate by three cases. In the first case, the raw sEMG signals are utilized as input. In the second and third case, sEMG signals are divided into frames and these frames are utilized as input. A two-layered feature selector is used to choose the most valuable features. The purpose of using these two feature selectors together is to choose the optimum number of features. In the classification phase, two fine-tuned classifiers have been used and they are k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) and support vector machine (SVM). The proposed MCBP based method achieved 99.17%, 99.70% and 99.62% classification rates using SVM classifier according to Case 1, Case 2 and Case3 respectively. The results show that the study is a highly accurate method.</p

LEDPatNet19: Automated Emotion Recognition Model based on Nonlinear LED Pattern Feature Extraction Function using EEG Signals

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals collected from human brains have generally been used to diagnose diseases. Moreover, EEG signals can be used in several areas such as emotion recognition, driving fatigue detection. This work presents a new emotion recognition model by using EEG signals. The primary aim of this model is to present a highly accurate emotion recognition framework by using both a hand-crafted feature generation and a deep classifier. The presented framework uses a multilevel fused feature generation network. This network has three primary phases, which are tunable Q-factor wavelet transform (TQWT), statistical feature generation, and nonlinear textural feature generation phases. TQWT is applied to the EEG data for decomposing signals into different sub-bands and create a multilevel feature generation network. In the nonlinear feature generation, an S-box of the LED block cipher is utilized to create a pattern, which is named as Led-Pattern. Moreover, statistical feature extraction is processed using the widely used statistical moments. The proposed LED pattern and statistical feature extraction functions are applied to 18 TQWT sub-bands and an original EEG signal. Therefore, the proposed hand-crafted learning model is named LEDPatNet19. To select the most informative features, ReliefF and iterative Chi2 (RFIChi2) feature selector is deployed. The proposed model has been developed on the two EEG emotion datasets, which are GAMEEMO and DREAMER datasets. Our proposed hand-crafted learning network achieved 94.58%, 92.86%, and 94.44% classification accuracies for arousal, dominance, and valance cases of the DREAMER dataset. Furthermore, the best classification accuracy of the proposed model for the GAMEEMO dataset is equal to 99.29%. These results clearly illustrate the success of the proposed LEDPatNet19.</p

A novel Discrete Wavelet-Concatenated Mesh Tree and ternary chess pattern based ECG signal recognition method

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals have been widely used to diagnose heart arrhythmias. In order to detect these arrhythmias using ECG signals, many machine learning methods have been presented. In this article, a novel Discrete Wavelet Concatenated Mesh Tree (DW-CMT) and ternary chess pattern (TCP) based ECG signal recognition method is presented. The proposed ECG signal recognition method consists of 4 main steps: pre-processing using DW-CMT, feature extraction using TCP, feature selection, and classification. In the pre-processing step, 15 sub-bands of an ECG signals are generated. By using TCP, features are extracted from the sub-bands of the ECG signal. The extracted features are concatenated in the feature concatenation phase. In order to select distinctive features, the neighborhood component analysis (NCA) based feature selection method is used and the 128 most distinctive features are selected. In order to demonstrate the strength of the extracted and selected features, conventional classifiers which are linear discriminant analysis (LDA), k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), support vector machine (SVM) are used. To test the success of the proposed method, the MIT-BIH dataset and St. Petersburg dataset were used. The 96.60% maximum classification accuracy is achieved for the MIT-BIH dataset using k-NN and 97.80% accuracy is achieved using SVM for St. Petersburg ECG dataset. The obtained results clearly prove the success of the proposed method.</p

EEG-based emotion recognition using tunable Q wavelet transform and rotation forest ensemble classifier

Emotion recognition by artificial intelligence (AI) is a challenging task. A wide variety of research has been done, which demonstrated the utility of audio, imagery, and electroencephalography (EEG) data for automatic emotion recognition. This paper presents a new automated emotion recognition framework, which utilizes electroencephalography (EEG) signals. The proposed method is lightweight, and it consists of four major phases, which include: a reprocessing phase, a feature extraction phase, a feature dimension reduction phase, and a classification phase. A discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) based noise reduction method, which is hereby named multi scale principal component analysis (MSPCA), is utilized during the pre-processing phase, where a Symlets-4 filter is utilized for noise reduction. A tunable Q wavelet transform (TQWT) is utilized as feature extractor. Six different statistical methods are used for dimension reduction. In the classification step, rotation forest ensemble (RFE) classifier is utilized with different classification algorithms such as k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), support vector machine (SVM), artificial neural network (ANN), random forest (RF), and four different types of the decision tree (DT) algorithms. The proposed framework achieves over 93 % classification accuracy with RFE + SVM. The results clearly show that the proposed TQWT and RFE based emotion recognition framework is an effective approach for emotion recognition using EEG signals.</p