Argel Bandala

Prof. Dr. Argel Bandala


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Academic Career Length

15Years (2012-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 November 2020 in International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics
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Ronnie Concepcion IIRonnie Concepcion II
Ronnie Concepcion II
Jonnel Dorado AlejandrinoJonnel Dorado Alejandrino
Jonnel Dorado Alejandrino
SLSandy Cruz Lauguico
Sandy Cruz Lauguico
RTRogelio Ruzcko Tobias
Rogelio Ruzcko Tobias
EDWIN Salle SYBINGCOEDWIN Salle SYBINGCO
EDWIN Salle SYBINGCO
ABArgel Bandala
Argel Bandala
Identifying the plant's developmental growth stages from seed leaf is crucial to understand plant science and cultivation management deeply. An efficient vision-based system for plant growth monitoring entails optimum segmentation and classification algorithms. This study presents coupled color-based superpixels and multifold watershed transformation in segmenting lettuce plant from complicated background taken from smart farm aquaponic system, and machine learning models used to classify lettuce plant growth as vegetative, head development and for harvest based on phytomorphological profile. Morphological computations were employed by feature extraction of the number of leaves, biomass area and perimeter, convex area, convex hull area and perimeter, major and minor axis lengths of the major axis length the dominant leaf, and length of plant skeleton. Phytomorphological variations of biomass compactness, convexity, solidity, plant skeleton, and perimeter ratio were included as inputs of the classification network. The extracted Lab color space information from the training image set undergoes superpixels overlaying with 1,000 superpixel regions employing K-means clustering on each pixel class. Six-level watershed transformation with distance transformation and minima imposition was employed to segment the lettuce plant from other pixel objects. The accuracy of correctly classifying the vegetative, head development, and harvest growth stages are 88.89%, 86.67%, and 79.63%, respectively. The experiment shows that the test accuracy rates of machine learning models were recorded as 60% for LDA, 85% for ANN, and 88.33% for QSVM. Comparative analysis showed that QSVM bested the performance of optimized LDA and ANN in classifying lettuce growth stages. This research developed a seamless model in segmenting vegetation pixels, and predicting lettuce growth stage is essential for plant computational phenotyping and agricultural practice optimization.

1 November 2019
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MRMarife A. Rosales
Marife A. Rosales
ABArgel Bandala
Argel Bandala
RVRyan Vicerra
Ryan Vicerra
Elmer Pamisa DadiosElmer Pamisa Dadios
Elmer Pamisa Dadios
This paper is focused on the development of an intelligent system to identify if one person is stress or not stress using physiological parameters through machine learning. In this study, the dataset was acquired from three hundred (300) male and female participants ages 18 to 25. The gathered dataset is composed of five (5) features (i.e. heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, galvanic skin response and gender). An intelligent system was developed using machine learning algorithms for classification such as Linear Regression (LR), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) using Python IDE with sci-kit learn machine learning libraries. Google Colaboratory (Colab) was utilized to perform optimization using Gridsearch to identify the best parameters of each algorithm. Feature selection methods are implemented to identify the most significant features related to stress condition of one person. After optimization, the results showed that SVM has the best performance to classify if one person is stress or not stress with optimized training-testing accuracy score of 95.00% - 96.67%.

1 November 2012
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LBLeo S. Bartolome
Leo S. Bartolome
ABArgel Bandala
Argel Bandala
CLCesar Llorente
Cesar Llorente
Elmer Pamisa DadiosElmer Pamisa Dadios
Elmer Pamisa Dadios
An automated vehicle logging system is introduced in this paper. The system utilizes character recognition through images captured from the entrance of a parking area. These images are processed to extract the licensed plates of any vehicle entering the parking area. Extracted plates images are then converted into numerical forms devised by researchers to fit the requirements of the artificial neural network. From the numbered plate, each character is then extracted to produce their distinct features. Character recognition engine is primarily implemented using feed forward neural networks. There are 50 input neurons which are defined by resizing each character into 25×25 pixel image and summing all the pixel values in each row and each columns resulting to 50 sums. After which a numerical value will be produce and will signify a character equivalent. Characters are recognized separately. This process is done until all of the characters are recognized. Afterwards, these characters are then concatenated to produce the plate number identity. The system is trained using 5860 sets of training data yielding a system with 0.0001645724% error.

1 November 2019
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CRClaire Receli M. Renosa
Claire Receli M. Renosa
ABArgel Bandala
Argel Bandala
RVRyan Vicerra
Ryan Vicerra
the purpose of this study is to create an artificial neural network (ANN) that can classify a person’s level of confusion using Electroencephalography (EEG) data, more specifically, using the power spectrum of all the brain wave frequencies. This could help people in understanding the complicated mechanisms present in the brain, including the role that each specific brain wave signal plays in the formation of different cognitive activities in one’s mind such as confusion and workload. This study is categorized as a cognitive-affective state research, inspired by its current possible application to different existing societal fields such as education and gaming industries. The processing platforms used to process and interpret the dataset used in this research are Microsoft Excel and MATLAB software, applying frequency-based analysis and standard averaging methods fit for EEG data classification and artificial neural network modeling.

16 November 2020
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VAVincent Jan D. Almero
Vincent Jan D. Almero
Ronnie Concepcion IIRonnie Concepcion II
Ronnie Concepcion II
Jonnel Dorado AlejandrinoJonnel Dorado Alejandrino
Jonnel Dorado Alejandrino
ABArgel Bandala
Argel Bandala
JEJason L. Espanola
Jason L. Espanola
Elmer Pamisa DadiosElmer Pamisa Dadios
Elmer Pamisa Dadios
Dehazing through Dark Channel Prior (DCP), originally developed for land-based images, has translated its potential for improving the quality of underwater images. However, the DCP default parameters, which are just adapted from land-based applications, may not be applicable for underwater images. Such constraint limits the capability of this restoration algorithm to improve the quality of an underwater image; the values of these parameters must be searched for each underwater image. A proposed approach on the parameter values assignment problem is to conduct an optimized search based on Genetic Algorithm. The presentation of this proposed approach focuses on the Genetic Algorithm processes: chromosome encoding, fitness function development, and selection, mutation, and crossover, to perform an effective search of the best solution out of a pool of possible solutions. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that utilization of optimized combination of DCP parameters, achieves images of higher quality in comparison to the utilization of established default DCP parameters.

1 December 2017
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AFArvin Hidalgo Fernando
Arvin Hidalgo Fernando
ABArgel Bandala
Argel Bandala
LLLaurence Gan Lim
Laurence Gan Lim
AMArchie B. Maglaya
Archie B. Maglaya
NLNadine Ledesma
Nadine Ledesma
EGEngr. Jeremias Gonzaga
Engr. Jeremias Gonzaga
In this paper, a fuzzy logic controller was design and develop to control the temperature, relative humidity and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) inside the prototype tomato growth chamber. The model was develop to automatically adjust the inside parameters to obtain the optimum tomato plant environment condition. The growth chamber fuzzy logic controller was modeled using the MATLAB fuzzy logic tool box. In this research we design a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) to control the environment parameters in the growth chamber. In order to provide the most suitable conditions for the growth of the tomato plant and might minimize energy consumption.