From a Point Cloud to a Simulation Model—Bayesian Segmentation and Entropy Based Uncertainty Estimation for 3D Modelling

The 3D modelling of indoor environments and the generation of process simulations play an important role in factory and assembly planning. In brownfield planning cases, existing data are often outdated and incomplete especially for older plants, which were mostly planned in 2D. Thus, current environment models cannot be generated directly on the basis of existing data and a holistic approach on how to build such a factory model in a highly automated fashion is mostly non-existent. Major steps in generating an environment model of a production plant include data collection, data pre-processing and object identification as well as pose estimation. In this work, we elaborate on a methodical modelling approach, which starts with the digitalization of large-scale indoor environments and ends with the generation of a static environment or simulation model. The object identification step is realized using a Bayesian neural network capable of point cloud segmentation. We elaborate on the impact of the uncertainty information estimated by a Bayesian segmentation framework on the accuracy of the generated environment model. The steps of data collection and point cloud segmentation as well as the resulting model accuracy are evaluated on a real-world data set collected at the assembly line of a large-scale automotive production plant. The Bayesian segmentation network clearly surpasses the performance of the frequentist baseline and allows us to considerably increase the accuracy of the model placement in a simulation scene.     

A New Deep Dual Temporal Domain Adaptation Method for Online Detection of Bearings Early Fault

With the quick development of sensor technology in recent years, online detection of early fault without system halt has received much attention in the field of bearing prognostics and health management. While lacking representative samples of the online data, one can try to adapt the previously-learned detection rule to the online detection task instead of training a new rule merely using online data. As one may come across a change of the data distribution between offline and online working conditions, it is challenging to utilize the data from different working conditions to improve detection accuracy and robustness. To solve this problem, a new online detection method of bearing early fault is proposed in this paper based on deep transfer learning. The proposed method contains an offline stage and an online stage. In the offline stage, a new state assessment method is proposed to determine the period of the normal state and the degradation state for whole-life degradation sequences. Moreover, a new deep dual temporal domain adaptation (DTDA) model is proposed. By adopting a dual adaptation strategy on the time convolutional network and domain adversarial neural network, the DTDA model can effectively extract domain-invariant temporal feature representation. In the online stage, each sequentially-arrived data batch is directly fed into the trained DTDA model to recognize whether an early fault occurs. Furthermore, a health indicator of target bearing is also built based on the DTDA features to intuitively evaluate the detection results. Experiments are conducted on the IEEE Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Challenge 2012 bearing dataset. The results show that, compared with nine state-of-the-art fault detection and diagnosis methods, the proposed method can get an earlier detection location and lower false alarm rate.     

An Interpretation Architecture for Deep Learning Models with the Application of COVID-19 Diagnosis

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become one of the threats to the world. Computed tomography (CT) is an informative tool for the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients. Many deep learning approaches on CT images have been proposed and brought promising performance. However, due to the high complexity and non-transparency of deep models, the explanation of the diagnosis process is challenging, making it hard to evaluate whether such approaches are reliable. In this paper, we propose a visual interpretation architecture for the explanation of the deep learning models and apply the architecture in COVID-19 diagnosis. Our architecture designs a comprehensive interpretation about the deep model from different perspectives, including the training trends, diagnostic performance, learned features, feature extractors, the hidden layers, the support regions for diagnostic decision, and etc. With the interpretation architecture, researchers can make a comparison and explanation about the classification performance, gain insight into what the deep model learned from images, and obtain the supports for diagnostic decisions. Our deep model achieves the diagnostic result of 94.75%, 93.22%, 96.69%, 97.27%, and 91.88% in the criteria of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value, which are 8.30%, 4.32%, 13.33%, 10.25%, and 6.19% higher than that of the compared traditional methods. The visualized features in 2-D and 3-D spaces provide the reasons for the superiority of our deep model. Our interpretation architecture would allow researchers to understand more about how and why deep models work, and can be used as interpretation solutions for any deep learning models based on convolutional neural network. It can also help deep learning methods to take a step forward in the clinical COVID-19 diagnosis field.     

A Hybrid Method Based on Extreme Learning Machine and Wavelet Transform Denoising for Stock Prediction

The trend prediction of the stock is a main challenge. Accidental factors often lead to short-term sharp fluctuations in stock markets, deviating from the original normal trend. The short-term fluctuation of stock price has high noise, which is not conducive to the prediction of stock trends. Therefore, we used discrete wavelet transform (DWT)-based denoising to denoise stock data. Denoising the stock data assisted us to eliminate the influences of short-term random events on the continuous trend of the stock. The denoised data showed more stable trend characteristics and smoothness. Extreme learning machine (ELM) is one of the effective training algorithms for fully connected single-hidden-layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs), which possesses the advantages of fast convergence, unique results, and it does not converge to a local minimum. Therefore, this paper proposed a combination of ELM- and DWT-based denoising to predict the trend of stocks. The proposed method was used to predict the trend of 400 stocks in China. The prediction results of the proposed method are a good proof of the efficacy of DWT-based denoising for stock trends, and showed an excellent performance compared to 12 machine learning algorithms (e.g., recurrent neural network (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM)).     

Detection of Anomalous Diffusion with Deep Residual Networks

Identification of the diffusion type of molecules in living cells is crucial to deduct their driving forces and hence to get insight into the characteristics of the cells. In this paper, deep residual networks have been used to classify the trajectories of molecules. We started from the well known ResNet architecture, developed for image classification, and carried out a series of numerical experiments to adapt it to detection of diffusion modes. We managed to find a model that has a better accuracy than the initial network, but contains only a small fraction of its parameters. The reduced size significantly shortened the training time of the model. Moreover, the resulting network has less tendency to overfitting and generalizes better to unseen data.     

Deep Learning for Walking Behaviour Detection in Elderly People Using Smart Footwear

The increase in the proportion of elderly in Europe brings with it certain challenges that society needs to address, such as custodial care. We propose a scalable, easily modulated and live assistive technology system, based on a comfortable smart footwear capable of detecting walking behaviour, in order to prevent possible health problems in the elderly, facilitating their urban life as independently and safety as possible. This brings with it the challenge of handling the large amounts of data generated, transmitting and pre-processing that information and analysing it with the aim of obtaining useful information in real/near-real time. This is the basis of information theory. This work presents a complete system aiming at elderly people that can detect different user behaviours/events (sitting, standing without imbalance, standing with imbalance, walking, running, tripping) through information acquired from 20 types of sensor measurements (16 piezoelectric pressure sensors, one accelerometer returning reading for the 3 axis and one temperature sensor) and warn the relatives about possible risks in near-real time. For the detection of these events, a hierarchical structure of cascading binary models is designed and applied using artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms and deep learning techniques. The best models are achieved with convolutional layered ANN and multilayer perceptrons. The overall event detection performance achieves an average accuracy and area under the ROC curve of 0.84 and 0.96, respectively.     

Deep learning neural networks for the third-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation: bright solitons,breathers, and rogue waves

The dimensionless third-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation (alias the Hirota equation) is investigated via deep leaning neural networks. In this paper, we use the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) deep learning method to explore the data-driven solutions (e.g. bright soliton, breather, and rogue waves) of the Hirota equation when the two types of the unperturbated and perturbated (a 2% noise) training data are considered. Moreover, we use the PINNs deep learning to study the data-driven discovery of parameters appearing in the Hirota equation with the aid of bright solitons.     

A physics-constrained deep residual network for solving the sine-Gordon equation

Despite some empirical successes for solving nonlinear evolution equations using deep learning,there are several unresolved issues.First,it could not uncover the dynamical behaviors of some equations where highly nonlinear source terms are included very well.Second,the gradient exploding and vanishing problems often occur for the traditional feedforward neural networks.In this paper,we propose a new architecture that combines the deep residual neural network with some underlying physical laws.Using the sine-Gordon equation as an example,we show that the numerical result is in good agreement with the exact soliton solution.In addition,a lot of numerical experiments show that the model is robust under small perturbations to a certain extent.     

基于多域特征提取和深度学习的声源被动测距*

由于实际海洋环境中存在大量的非高斯噪声,一些基于高斯假设的传统去噪方法在实际海洋环境中性能下降甚至失效。针对非高斯噪声,如α稳定分布噪声、非平稳行船噪声下的脉冲信号的去噪与重构,该文提出一种基于深度学习的方法。去噪模型首先通过学习带噪信号短时傅里叶变换谱与残差谱之间的映射关系以去除环境噪声,之后对去噪信号的时频谱进行逆变换重构脉冲信号。仿真实验结果表明,深度学习模型在非高斯噪声环境下脉冲信号的去噪与重构任务中有着良好的表现,在实测样本上也表现出良好的泛化性,体现了一定的工程应用价值。     

亚波长金属线栅的设计、制备及偏振成像实验研究

针对红外偏振成像系统,运用等效介质理论,在氟化钙基底上设计了周期为200 nm,深度为100 nm的金属铝栅.模拟计算结果表明,设计的金属铝栅在中红外(3—5 μm)和远红外(8—12 μm)双波段范围内,以及±20°的视场范围内能够提供大于35dB的消光比.利用电子束曝光、反应离子束刻蚀、等离子去胶等工艺完成了金属铝栅的制作.将金属铝栅放在中波红外热像仪前,得到了目标轮廓清晰的偏振图像. 关键词： 亚波长衍射光栅 偏振成像 等效介质理论