Low-Complexity Alternatives to the Optimal Linear Coding Scheme for Transmitting ARMA Sources

In the era of the Internet of Things, there are many applications where numerous devices are deployed to acquire information and send it to analyse the data and make informed decisions. In these applications, the power consumption and price of the devices are often an issue. In this work, analog coding schemes are considered, so that an ADC is not needed, allowing the size and power consumption of the devices to be reduced. In addition, linear and DFT-based transmission schemes are proposed, so that the complexity of the operations involved is lowered, thus reducing the requirements in terms of processing capacity and the price of the hardware. The proposed schemes are proved to be asymptotically optimal among the linear ones for WSS, MA, AR and ARMA sources.     

Neural Networks for Financial Time Series Forecasting

Financial and economic time series forecasting has never been an easy task due to its sensibility to political, economic and social factors. For this reason, people who invest in financial markets and currency exchange are usually looking for robust models that can ensure them to maximize their profile and minimize their losses as much as possible. Fortunately, recently, various studies have speculated that a special type of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) called Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) could improve the predictive accuracy of the behavior of the financial data over time. This paper aims to forecast: (i) the closing price of eight stock market indexes; and (ii) the closing price of six currency exchange rates related to the USD, using the RNNs model and its variants: the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). The results show that the GRU gives the overall best results, especially for the univariate out-of-sample forecasting for the currency exchange rates and multivariate out-of-sample forecasting for the stock market indexes.     

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis of Industrial Robot Based on Multiclass Mahalanobis-Taguchi System for Imbalanced Data

One of the biggest challenges for the fault diagnosis research of industrial robots is that the normal data is far more than the fault data; that is, the data is imbalanced. The traditional diagnosis approaches of industrial robots are more biased toward the majority categories, which makes the diagnosis accuracy of the minority categories decrease. To solve the imbalanced problem, the traditional algorithm is improved by using cost-sensitive learning, single-class learning and other approaches. However, these algorithms also have a series of problems. For instance, it is difficult to estimate the true misclassification cost, overfitting, and long computation time. Therefore, a fault diagnosis approach for industrial robots, based on the Multiclass Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MMTS), is proposed in this article. It can be classified the categories by measuring the deviation degree from the sample to the reference space, which is more suitable for classifying imbalanced data. The accuracy, G-mean and F-measure are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach on an industrial robot platform. The experimental results show that the proposed approach’s accuracy, F-measure and G-mean improves by an average of 20.74%, 12.85% and 21.68%, compared with the other five traditional approaches when the imbalance ratio is 9. With the increase in the imbalance ratio, the proposed approach has better stability than the traditional algorithms.     

一个模糊关联规则挖掘系统的设计与实现

将模糊技术和概念分层应用到关联规则挖掘中，给出了多层次模糊关联规则挖掘系统的设计和实现的具体方案．并以Fnodmark2000数据库为基础，建立了客户信息主题数据库．建立起系统基本框架，实现了模糊关联规则挖掘算法，使用该算法成功挖掘出客户消费—特征之间的关联规则，并对得到的模糊关联规则作了分析。     

环渤海地区云量的动力过程相似预报方法

利用环渤海35个台站1954-2002年近50年逐日平均总云量和低云量的观测资料,统计关注区域内少云、中等云量、多云的发生情况;再用同期NCEP再分析资料,计算出预报关注区域内与不同云量形成相关性较好的各种不同要素的平均场,依据动力过程相似原理,利用T213数值预报产品相邻24h预报场,以域块距离为依据,建立云量预报模型,制作日平均总云量和低云量4～9天的预报.经过2003-2007年的预报结果与实况资料的对比检验表明:依据动力过程相似方法建立的云量预报模型对日平均总云量和日平均低云量的预报准确率较高;日平均低云量预报准确率要高于日平均总云量;冬半年预报准确率高于夏半年;天空出现少云的预报准确率高于中等云量和多云的情况.     

基于车载激光测距的建筑物立面信息提取

采用车载激光扫描仪等多传感器进行动态测量，各种传感器进行同步数据采集。针对激光扫描仪应用于建筑物立面提取的问题，分析了激光扫描仪数据的特征，建立了建筑物高度提取模型，并开发了相应的立面信息提取系统。     

应用遥感影像更新地理信息若干问题的探讨

首先，针对高空间分辨率卫星遥感影像用于地理信息更新的特点，对信息融合、变化检测、数据挖掘、影像检索等问题进行了研究。遥感影像用于地理信息更新时，一方面应对多源遥感信息进行融合，特别是发展决策层融合算法，另一方面应进行多时相遥感信息融合和变化检测。其次，针对多时相遥感信息融合，提出了一种新的多时相融合处理方法体系，并针对自动信息更新的要求，探讨了遥感数据挖掘应重点解决的问题及其在地理信息自动更新中的应用。最后，面向快速影像提取和检索的需求，研究了基于内容的遥感影像检索技术，并重点分析了检索中能够应用的影像特征。     

基于矢量栅格一体化数据模型与面向对象技术的城市地价动态监测系统

根据矢量栅格一体化数据模型的特点和城市地价动态监测系统的功能需求，在城市地价动态监测系统设计中使用矢量栅格一体化数据模型和连续快照时空数据模型，面向对象的空间数据组织和程序设计方法，以及GIS拓扑数据理论和空间分析技术，高效地实现了地块查询、空间点地价内插计算、地价空间分布的DTM演示、土地级别动态调整等系统功能．还使用栅格趋势探测法解决了一体化数据显示质量较差的问题．     

分布式数据查询优化算法的研究

分布式数据查询是分布式数据库管理系统的核心,而查询优化算法又是查询处理中的关键技术。分布式数据库管理系统的研究始于20世纪70年代中期,在30多年的发展中,取得了丰硕的成果。但由于分布式数据的分散性,使分布式数据查询比集中式数据查询复杂得多。本文对基于关系代数优化的算法进行了探讨和研究,并应用于实例,取得了较好的优化效果。     

Adversarial Data Hiding in Digital Images

In recent studies of generative adversarial networks (GAN), researchers have attempted to combine adversarial perturbation with data hiding in order to protect the privacy and authenticity of the host image simultaneously. However, most of the studied approaches can only achieve adversarial perturbation through a visible watermark; the quality of the host image is low, and the concealment of data hiding cannot be achieved. In this work, we propose a true data hiding method with adversarial effect for generating high-quality covers. Based on GAN, the data hiding area is selected precisely by limiting the modification strength in order to preserve the fidelity of the image. We devise a genetic algorithm that can explore decision boundaries in an artificially constrained search space to improve the attack effect as well as construct aggressive covert adversarial samples by detecting “sensitive pixels” in ordinary samples to place discontinuous perturbations. The results reveal that the stego-image has good visual quality and attack effect. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use covert data hiding to generate adversarial samples based on GAN.