Face recognition (FR) is defined as the process through which people are identified using facial images. This technology is applied broadly in biometrics, security information, accessing controlled areas, keeping of the law by different enforcement bodies, smart cards, and surveillance technology. The facial recognition system is built using two steps. The first step is a process through which the facial features are picked up or extracted, and the second step is pattern classification. Deep learning, specifically the convolutional neural network (CNN), has recently made commendable progress in FR technology. This paper investigates the performance of the pre-trained CNN with multi-class support vector machine (SVM) classifier and the performance of transfer learning using the AlexNet model to perform classification. The study considers CNN architecture, which has so far recorded the best outcome in the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in the past years, more specifically, AlexNet and ResNet-50. In order to determine performance optimization of the CNN algorithm, recognition accuracy was used as a determinant. Improved classification rates were seen in the comprehensive experiments that were completed on the various datasets of ORL, GTAV face, Georgia Tech face, labelled faces in the wild (LFW), frontalized labeled faces in the wild (F_LFW), YouTube face, and FEI faces. The result showed that our model achieved a higher accuracy compared to most of the state-of-the-art models. An accuracy range of 94% to 100% for models with all databases was obtained. Also, this was obtained with an improvement in recognition accuracy up to 39%.

In Requirement Engineering, software requirements are classified into two main categories: Functional Requirement (FR) and Non-Functional Requirement (NFR). FR describes user and system goals. NFR includes all constraints on services and functions. Deeper classification of those two categories facilitates the software development process. There are many techniques for classifying FR; some of them are Machine Learning (ML) techniques, and others are traditional. To date, the classification accuracy has not been satisfactory. In this paper, we introduce a new ensemble ML technique for classifying FR statements to improve their accuracy and availability. This technique combines different ML models and uses enhanced accuracy as a weight in the weighted ensemble voting approach. The five combined models are Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, and Support Vector Classification (SVC). The technique was implemented, trained, and tested using a collected dataset. The accuracy of classifying FR was 99.45%, and the required time was 0.7 s.

Person re-identification systems (person Re-ID) have recently gained more attention between computer vision researchers. They are playing a key role in intelligent visual surveillance systems and have widespread applications like applications for public security. The person Re-ID systems can identify if a person has been seen by a non-overlapping camera over large camera network in an unconstrained environment. It is a challenging issue since a person appears differently under different camera views and faces many challenges such as pose variation, occlusion and illumination changes. Many methods had been introduced for generating handcrafted features aimed to handle person Re-ID problem. In recent years, many studies have started to apply deep learning methods to enhance the person Re-ID performance due the deep learning yielded significant results in computer vision issues. Therefore, this paper is a survey of the recent studies that proposed to improve the person Re-ID systems using deep learning. The public datasets that are used for evaluating these systems are discussed. Finally, the paper addresses future directions and current issues that must be considered toward improving the person Re-ID systems.

Chromosome analysis is an essential task in a cytogenetics lab, where cytogeneticists can diagnose whether there are abnormalities or not. Karyotyping is a standard technique in chromosome analysis that classifies metaphase image to 24 chromosome classes. The main two categories of chromosome abnormalities are structural abnormalities that are changing in the structure of chromosomes and numerical abnormalities which include either monosomy (missing one chromosome) or trisomy (extra copy of the chromosome). Manual karyotyping is complex and requires high domain expertise, as it takes an amount of time. With these motivations, in this research, we used deep learning to automate karyotyping to recognize the common numerical abnormalities on a dataset containing 147 non-overlapped metaphase images collected from the Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research at King Abdulaziz University. The metaphase images went through three stages. The first one is individual chromosomes detection using YOLOv2 Convolutional Neural Network followed by some chromosome post-processing. This step achieved 0.84 mean IoU, 0.9923 AP, and 100% individual chromosomes detection accuracy. The second stage is feature extraction and classification where we fine-tune VGG19 network using two different approaches, one by adding extra fully connected layer(s) and another by replacing fully connected layers with the global average pooling layer. The best accuracy obtained is 95.04%. The final step is detecting abnormality and this step obtained 96.67% abnormality detection accuracy. To further validate the proposed classification method, we examined the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory dataset which is publicly available online and achieved 94.11% accuracy.