Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is a very challenging task due to the varying nature of facial expressions, occlusions, illumination, pose variations, cultural and gender differences, and many other aspects that cause a drastic degradation in quality of facial images. In this paper, an anti-aliased deep convolution network (AA-DCN) model has been developed and proposed to explore how anti-aliasing can increase and improve recognition fidelity of facial emotions. The AA-DCN model detects eight distinct emotions from image data. Furthermore, their features have been extracted using the proposed model and numerous classical deep learning algorithms. The proposed AA-DCN model has been applied to three different datasets to evaluate its performance: The Cohn-Kanade Extending (CK+) database has been utilized, achieving an ultimate accuracy of 99.26% in (5 min, 25 s), the Japanese female facial expressions (JAFFE) obtained 98% accuracy in (8 min, 13 s), and on one of the most challenging FER datasets; the Real-world Affective Face (RAF) dataset; reached 82%, in low training time (12 min, 2s). The experimental results demonstrate that the anti-aliased DCN model is significantly increasing emotion recognition while improving the aliasing artifacts caused by the down-sampling layers.

The present paper proposes a new methodology for license plate (LP) recognition in the state of the art of image processing algorithms and an optimized neutrosophic set (NS) based on genetic algorithm (GA). First of all, we have performed some image processing techniques such as edge detection and morphological operations in order to utilize the (LP) localization. In addition, we have extracted the most salient features by implementing a new methodology using (GA) for optimizing the (NS) operations. The use of (NS) decreases the indeterminacy on the (LP) images. Moreover, k-means clustering algorithm has been applied to segment the (LP) characters. Finally, we have applied connected components labeling analysis (CCLA) algorithm for identifying the connected pixel regions and grouping the appropriate pixels into components to extract each character effectively. Several performance indices have been calculated in order to measure the system efficiency such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, dice, and jaccard coefficients. Moreover, we have created a database for all detected and recognized (LP) for testing purposes. Experimental results show that the proposed methodology has the ability to be suitable for both (Arabic –Egyptian) and English (LP). The proposed system achieves high degree of recognition accuracy for the whole system according to the following case studies; (i) for a high resolution Egyptian (LP), the proposed system achieves about 96.67% accuracy of correct recognition, (ii) for a low resolution-corrupted English (LP), the proposed system achieves about 94.27% accuracy. In addition, we have applied the proposed system on some sort of image disturbance i.e. (flash in image, external noise, and illumination variation), the proposed system achieves about 92.5% accuracy of correct identification. However, traditional methods achieve about 79% accuracy of correct identification in the presence of such image degradations. This reflects how the proposed system is generalized, optimized, and proposes high degree of recognition accuracy.

The apodization function has a significant impact on the state of the art of group delay, dispersion compensation, and acceptable decrease in side lobes in the spectrum of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) reflection. Accordingly, the Bragg grating length would be considered the backbone parameter in order to achieve a distinguishable performance. Here, the utilization influence of the presence of FBG is considered a dispersion compensator. In addition, we have implemented a tuned uniform-apodized FBG methodology according to various apodization functions. Common apodization functions have been studied and tested effectively. Experimental results show that the proposed raised cosine apodized function has scored the highest reflectivity with 50% reduction in the side lobe level and the narrowest bandwidth among all tested functions. Moreover, simulations for this function were performed with various lengths of grating. It is demonstrated that the reflection spectrum value is fixed at 100% at grating lengths greater than or equal to 28 mm and the minimum dispersion value is realized.