Academic Articles & Research Papers

Deep learning for short-term traffic flow prediction

Deep Learning for Spatio-Temporal Data Mining: A Survey

With the fast development of various positioning techniques such as Global Position System (GPS), mobile devices and remote sensing, spatio-temporal data has become increasingly available nowadays. Mining valuable knowledge from spatio-temp...

Recognition of expiry data on food packages based on improved DBNet

To prevent products with missing character information from reaching the market, manufacturers need an automatic character recognition method. One of the key problems of this recognition method is to recognise text under complex package pat...

A deep-reinforcement learning approach for optimizing homogeneous droplet routing in digital microfluidic biochips

Over the past two decades, digital microfluidic biochips have been in much demand for safety-critical and biomedical applications and increasingly important in point-of-care analysis, drug discovery, and immunoassays, among other areas. How...

A Fast Inference Vision Transformer for Automatic Pavement Image Classification and Its Visual Interpretation Method

Traditional automatic pavement distress detection methods using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require a great deal of time and resources for computing and are poor in terms of interpretability. Therefore, inspired by the successful a...

Evaluation of 3D Vulnerable Objects’ Detection Using a Multi-Sensors System for Autonomous Vehicles

One of the primary tasks undertaken by autonomous vehicles (AVs) is object detection, which comes ahead of object tracking, trajectory estimation, and collision avoidance. Vulnerable road objects (e.g., pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) pose a g...

Rapid Estimation of Static Capacity Based on Machine Learning: A Time-Efficient Approach

With the global surge in electric vehicle (EV) deployment, driven by enhanced environmental regulations and efforts to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, managing the life cycle of Li-ion batteries becomes more critical...

Predicting Ship Waiting Times Using Machine Learning for Enhanced Port Operations

Port congestion and prolonged ship waiting times pose challenges for global trade and increase operational costs and inefficiencies. In this study, a novel machine learning-based predictive approach was proposed to improve port operations b...

Identification of novel serotonin transporter (SERT) inhibitors via large-scale machine learning-based virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations.

Spatially contextualized analysis of energy use for commuting in India

India’s land transport GHG emissions are small in international comparison, but growing exponentially. Understanding of geographically-specific determinants of GHG emissions is crucial to devise low-carbon sustainable development strategies...

MATCHA, a novel regional hydroclimate-chemical reanalysis: System description and evaluation

We present MATCHA (Model for Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry in Asia), a 17-year (2003–2019) regional hydroclimate-chemical reanalysis for Asia (58–140° E, 4– 40° N) at 12 km resolution. MATCHA couples the Weather Research and Forecasti...

A Review on Fairness in Machine Learning

An increasing number of decisions regarding the daily lives of human beings are being controlled by artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) algorithms in spheres ranging from healthcare, transportation, and education to college ad...

An intelligent machine learning paradigm for gyrotactic micro-organism-induced squeezing flow of Eyring–Powell hybrid nanofluids with entropy generation

A novel unsteady squeezing flow of a non-Newtonian ternary hybrid nanofluid is investigated by focusing Eyring–Powell fluid rheology in an infinite channel. The nanofluid consists of AA1072, AA1075, and ZrO2 nanoparticles suspended in blood...

Information disclosure and funding success of green crowdfunding campaigns: a study on GoFundMe

Abstract Crowdfunding has become important in increasing financial support for the development of green technologies. Self-disclosed information significantly affects supporters’ decisions and is important for the success of green project f...

A machine learning based scheme for enhancing the detection of position falsification attacks in vehicular ad hoc networks

Abstract Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are wireless networks established between vehicles and their surrounding infrastructure, enabling the exchange of information. Consequently, many applications that can enhance passengers’ safety a...

Probabilistic daily runoff forecasting in high-altitude cold regions using a hybrid model combining DBO and transformer variants

Study Area: The Tailan River Basin in the Aksu region and the Yulong Kashi River in the Hotan River Basin of Xinjiang are located at respective geographical coordinates of 80°21'44'' to 81°10'14'' E, 40°41'41'' to 42°15'13'' N, and 77.25° t...

A Novel End-to-End Corporate Credit Rating Model Based on Self-Attention Mechanism

In traditional financial analysis discriminant analyses with statistic methods are considered as primary and widely applied corporate credit rating bases in which human impact plays an essential role. Machine learning approaches enormously ...

Interpretable Intersection Control by Reinforcement Learning Agent With Linear Function Approximator

ABSTRACT Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising machine‐learning solution to traffic signal control problems, which have been extensively studied. However, variants of non‐linear, deep artificial neural network (ANN) function approximat...

Hybrid machine learning and 3D numerical modeling-based multi-objective optimization of geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported embankments

Efficient and reliable design of Geosynthetic Reinforced Pile-Supported (GRPS) embankments on soft ground remains challenging due to the complex nonlinear soil–structure interaction and the high computational cost of repeated numerical anal...

Improved railway track faults detection using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient and constant-Q transform features

Abstract Regular inspection of the health of railway tracks is crucial to maintaining reliable and safe train operations. Some factors including cracks, rail discontinuity, ballast issues, burn wheels, super-elevation, loose nuts and bolts,...