Aggressive driving behaviour classification using smartphone's accelerometer sensor

Aggressive driving is the most common factor of road accidents, and millions of lives are compromised every year. Early detection of aggressive driving behaviour can reduce the risks of accidents by taking preventive measures. The smartphone's accelerometer sensor data is mostly used for driving behavioural detection. In recent years, many research works have been published concerning to behavioural analysis, but the state of the art shows that still, there is a need for a more reliable prediction system because individually, each method has it's own limitations like accuracy, complexity etc. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes a heterogeneous ensemble technique that uses random forest, artificial neural network and dynamic time wrapping techniques along with weighted voting scheme to obtain the final result. The experimental results show that the weighted voting ensemble technique outperforms to all the individual classifiers with average marginal gain of 20%

Email classification via intention-based segmentation

Email is the most popular way of personal and official communication among people and organizations. Due to untrusted virtual environment, email systems may face frequent attacks like malware, spamming, social engineering, etc. Spamming is the most common malicious activity, where unsolicited emails are sent in bulk, and these spam emails can be the source of malware, waste resources, hence degrade the productivity. In spam filter development, the most important challenge is to find the correlation between the nature of spam and the interest of the users because the interests of users are dynamic. This paper proposes a novel dynamic spam filter model that considers the changes in the interests of users with time while handling the spam activities. It uses intention-based segmentation to compare different segments of text documents instead of comparing them as a whole. The proposed spam filter is a multi-tier approach where initially, the email content is divided into segments with the help of part of speech (POS) tagging based on voices and tenses. Further, the segments are clustered using hierarchical clustering and compared using the vector space model. In the third stage, concept drift is detected in the clusters to identify the change in the interest of the user. Later, the classification of ham emails into various categories is done in the last stage. For experiments Enron dataset is used and the obtained results are promising

Person tracking with non-overlapping multiple cameras

Monitoring and tracking of any target in a surveillance system is an important task. When these targets are human then this problem comes under person identification and tracking. At present, large scale smart video surveillance system is an essential component for any commercial or public campus. Since field of view (FOV) of a camera is limited; for large area monitoring, multiple cameras are needed at different locations. This paper proposes a novel model for tracking a person under multiple non-overlapping cameras. It builds the reference signature of the person at the beginning of the tracking system to match with the upcoming signatures captured by other cameras within the specified area of observation with the help of trained support vector machine (SVM) between two cameras. For experiments, wide area re-identification dataset (WARD) and a real-time scenario have been used with color, shape and texture features for person's re-identification

Gesture recognition by learning local motion signatures using smartphones

In recent years, gesture or activity recognition is an important area of research for the modern health care system. An activity is recognized by learning from human body postures and signatures. Presently all smartphones are equipped with accelerometer and gyroscopes sensors, and the reading of these sensors can be utilized as an input to a classifier to predict the human activity. Although the human activity recognition gained a notable scientific interest in recent years, still accuracy, scalability and robustness need significant improvement to cater as a solution of most of the real world problems. This paper aims to fill the identified research gap and proposes Grid Search based Logistic Regression and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree multistage prediction model. UCI-HAR dataset has been used to perform Gesture recognition by learning local motion signatures. The proposed approach exhibits improved accuracy over preexisting techniques concerning to human activity recognition

Privacy Control In Social Networks By Trust Aware Link Prediction

Social networks are exceedingly common in today’s society. A social network site is an online platform where people build social relations with others and share information. For the last two decades, rapid growth in the number of users and applications with these social networking sites, make the security as the most challenging issue. In this virtual environment, some greedy people intentionally perform illegal activities by accessing others’ private information. This paper proposes a novel approach to detect the illegal access of a particular’s information by using trustaware link prediction. The facebook dataset is used for experiments and the results justify the robustness andtrustworthiness of the proposed model