26 Result(s)
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**an-Zheng Tan
Engineering
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigation of the Effect of Polyvinyl Acetate Coating on Multiple U‐shaped Fibre Optic Sensors in Different Solution Conditions
U-shaped fibre optic sensors (FOSs) have been developed by many researchers in view of the low-cost and miniaturised size. The sensitivity of the FOS towards refractive index (RI) changes is affected by the fi...
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Data Augmentation Using Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Networks
Computer-aided diagnosis technology based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) is one of the focuses of medical imaging research. However, it is not easy to obtain medical image data, which brings great diff...
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An improved brain emotional learning algorithm for accurate and efficient data analysis
To overcome the deficiencies of high computational complexity and low convergence speed in traditional neural networks, a novel bio-inspired machine learning algorithm named brain emotional learning (BEL) is i...
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2DPCA versus PCA for face recognition
Dimensionality reduction methods play an important role in face recognition. Principal component analysis (PCA) and two-dimensional principal component analysis (2DPCA) are two kinds of important methods in th...
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Comprehensive predictive control of neutral-point voltage balancing for back-to-back three-level NPC converters
A comprehensive predictive strategy was proposed for the neutral-point balancing control of back-to-back three-level converters. The phase currents at both sides and the DC-link capacitor voltages were measure...
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Hybrid particle swarm optimization with chaotic search for solving integer and mixed integer programming problems
A novel chaotic search method is proposed, and a hybrid algorithm combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) with this new method, called CLSPSO, is put forward to solve 14 integer and mixed integer programmi...
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A composite particle swarm algorithm for global optimization of multimodal functions
During the last decade, many variants of the original particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm have been proposed for global numerical optimization, but they usually face many challenges such as low solutio...
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A fuzzy logic resource allocation and memory cell pruning based artificial immune recognition system
In order to improve the resource allocation mechanism of artificial immune recognition system (AIRS) and decrease the memory cells, a fuzzy logic resource allocation and memory cell pruning based AIRS (FPAIRS)...
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Human action recognition based on chaotic invariants
A new human action recognition approach was presented based on chaotic invariants and relevance vector machines (RVM). The trajectories of reference joints estimated by skeleton graph matching were adopted for...
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Novel design concepts for network intrusion systems based on dendritic cells processes
An abstraction and an investigation to the worth of dendritic cells (DCs) ability to collect, process and present antigens are presented. Computationally, this ability is shown to provide a feature reduction m...
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A decision hyper plane heuristic based artificial immune network classification algorithm
Most of the developed immune based classifiers generate antibodies randomly, which has negative effect on the classification performance. In order to guide the antibody generation effectively, a decision hyper...
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Hybrid particle swarm optimization with differential evolution and chaotic local search to solve reliability-redundancy allocation problems
In order to solve reliability-redundancy allocation problems more effectively, a new hybrid algorithm named CDEPSO is proposed in this work, which combines particle swarm optimization (PSO) with differential e...
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Contrast enhancement of medical ultrasound imaging with reversal phase-inversion pulse technology
A new ultrasound contrast imaging technique was proposed for eliminating the harmonic components from the emission signal transmitted by the broadband ultrasonic system. Reversal phase-inversion pulse was used...
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A QoS-aware vertical handoff algorithm based on predictive network information
In converged heterogeneous wireless networks, vertical handoff is an important issue in radio resource management and occurs when an end user switches from one network to another (e.g., from wireless local are...
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Color image segmentation using mean shift and improved ant clustering
To improve the segmentation quality and efficiency of color image, a novel approach which combines the advantages of the mean shift (MS) segmentation and improved ant clustering method is proposed. The regions...
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Continuous query scheduler based on operators clustering
Data stream management system (DSMS) provides convenient solutions to the problem of processing continuous queries on data streams. Previous approaches for scheduling these queries and their operators assume t...
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Adaptive template filter method for image processing based on immune genetic algorithm
To preserve the original signal as much as possible and filter random noises as many as possible in image processing, a threshold optimization-based adaptive template filtering algorithm was proposed. Unlike c...
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A novel particle swarm optimizer without velocity: Simplex-PSO
A simplex particle swarm optimization (simplex-PSO) derived from the Nelder-Mead simplex method was proposed to optimize the high dimensionality functions. In simplex-PSO, the velocity term was abandoned and i...
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Elitism-based immune genetic algorithm and its application to optimization of complex multi-modal functions
A novel immune genetic algorithm with the elitist selection and elitist crossover was proposed, which is called the immune genetic algorithm with the elitism (IGAE). In IGAE, the new methods for computing anti...
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ACS algorithm-based adaptive fuzzy PID controller and its application to CIP-I intelligent leg
Based on the ant colony system (ACS) algorithm and fuzzy logic control, a new design method for optimal fuzzy PID controller was proposed. In this method, the ACS algorithm was used to optimize the input/outpu...
