Healthcare practices include collecting all kinds of patient data which would help the doctor correctly diagnose the health condition of the patient. These data could be simple symptoms observed by the subject, initial diagnosis by a physician or a detailed test result from a laboratory. Thus, these data are only utilized for analysis by a doctor who then ascertains the disease using his/her personal medical expertise. The artificial intelligence has been used with Naive Bayes classification and random forest classification algorithm to classify many disease datasets like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer to check whether the patient is affected by that disease or not. A performance analysis of the disease data for both algorithms is calculated and compared. The results of the simulations show the effectiveness of the classification techniques on a dataset, as well as the nature and complexity of the dataset used.

Due to industrialization and the rising demand for energy, global energy consumption has been rapidly increasing. Recent studies show that the biggest portion of energy is consumed in residential buildings, i.e., in European Union countries up to 40% of the total energy is consumed by households. Most residential buildings and industrial zones are equipped with smart sensors such as metering electric sensors, that are inadequately utilized for better energy management. In this paper, we develop a hybrid convolutional neural network (CNN) with an long short-term memory autoencoder (LSTM-AE) model for future energy prediction in residential and commercial buildings. The central focus of this research work is to utilize the smart meters’ data for energy forecasting in order to enable appropriate energy management in buildings. We performed extensive research using several deep learning-based forecasting models and proposed an optimal hybrid CNN with the LSTM-AE model. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to incorporate the aforementioned models under the umbrella of a unified framework with some utility preprocessing. Initially, the CNN model extracts features from the input data, which are then fed to the LSTM-encoder to generate encoded sequences. The encoded sequences are decoded by another following LSTM-decoder to advance it to the final dense layer for energy prediction. The experimental results using different evaluation metrics show that the proposed hybrid model works well. Also, it records the smallest value for mean square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) when compared to other state-of-the-art forecasting methods over the UCI residential building dataset. Furthermore, we conducted experiments on Korean commercial building data and the results indicate that our proposed hybrid model is a worthy contribution to energy forecasting.

Movies have become one of the major sources of entertainment in the current era, which are based on diverse ideas. Action movies have received the most attention in last few years, which contain violent scenes, because it is one of the undesirable features for some individuals that is used to create charm and fantasy. However, these violent scenes have had a negative impact on kids, and they are not comfortable even for mature age people. The best way to stop under aged people from watching violent scenes in movies is to eliminate these scenes. In this paper, we proposed a violence detection scheme for movies that is comprised of three steps. First, the entire movie is segmented into shots, and then a representative frame from each shot is selected based on the level of saliency. Next, these selected frames are passed from a light-weight deep learning model, which is fine-tuned using a transfer learning approach to classify violence and non-violence shots in a movie. Finally, all the non-violence scenes are merged in a sequence to generate a violence-free movie that can be watched by children and as well violence paranoid people. The proposed model is evaluated on three violence benchmark datasets, and it is experimentally proved that the proposed scheme provides a fast and accurate detection of violent scenes in movies compared to the state-of-the-art methods.

Around the world, agriculture is one of the important sectors of human life in terms of food, business, and employment opportunities. In the farming field, wheat is the most farmed crop but every year, its ultimate production is badly influenced by various diseases. On the other hand, early and precise recognition of wheat plant diseases can decrease damage, resulting in a greater yield. Researchers have used conventional and Machine Learning (ML)-based techniques for crop disease recognition and classification. However, these techniques are inaccurate and time-consuming due to the unavailability of quality data, inefficient preprocessing techniques, and the existing selection criteria of an efficient model. Therefore, a smart and intelligent system is needed which can accurately identify crop diseases. In this paper, we proposed an efficient ML-based framework for various kinds of wheat disease recognition and classification to automatically identify the brown- and yellow-rusted diseases in wheat crops. Our method consists of multiple steps. Firstly, the dataset is collected from different fields in Pakistan with consideration of the illumination and orientation parameters of the capturing device. Secondly, to accurately preprocess the data, specific segmentation and resizing methods are used to make differences between healthy and affected areas. In the end, ML models are trained on the preprocessed data. Furthermore, for comparative analysis of models, various performance metrics including overall accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score are calculated. As a result, it has been observed that the proposed framework has achieved 99.8% highest accuracy over the existing ML techniques.

The prognostics and health management (PHM) plays the main role to handle the risk of failure before its occurrence. Next, it has a broad spectrum of applications including utility networks, energy storage systems (ESS), etc. However, an accurate capacity estimation of batteries in ESS is mandatory for their safe operations and decision making policy. ESS comprises of different storage mechanisms such as batteries, capacitors, etc. Consequently, the measurement of different charging profiles (CPs) has a strong relation to battery capacity. These profiles include temperature (T), voltage (V), and current (I) where the CPs patterns vary as the battery ages with cycles. Consequently, estimating a battery capacity, the conventional methods practice single channel charging profile (SCCP) and hop multiple channel CPs (MCCPs) that cause incorrect battery health estimation. To tackle these issues, this article proposes MCCPs based battery management system (BMS) to estimate batteries health/capacity through the deep learning (DL) concept where the patterns in these CPs are changed as the battery ages with time and cycles. Thus, we deeply investigate both machine learning (ML) and DL based methods to provide a concrete comparative analysis of our method. The adaptive boosting (AB) and support vector regression (SVR) are widely compared with long short-term memory (LSTM), multi-layer perceptron (MLP), bi-directional LSTM (BiLSTM), and convolutional neural network (CNN) to attain the appropriate approach for battery capacity and state of health (SOH) estimation. These approaches have a high learning capability of inter-relation between the battery capacity and variation in CPs patterns. To validate and verify the proposed technique, we use NASA battery dataset and experimentally prove that BiLSTM outperforms all the approaches and obtains the smallest error values for MAE, MSE, RMSE, and MAPE using MCCPs compared to SCCP.

Smart grid technology based on renewable energy and energy storage systems are attracting considerable attention towards energy crises. Accurate and reliable model for electricity prediction is considered a key factor for a suitable energy management policy. Currently, electricity consumption is rapidly increasing due to the rise in human population and technology development. Therefore, in this study, we established a two-step methodology for residential building load prediction, which comprises two stages: in the first stage, the raw data of electricity consumption are refined for effective training; and the second step includes a hybrid model with the integration of convolutional neural network (CNN) and multilayer bidirectional gated recurrent unit (MB-GRU). The CNN layers are incorporated into the model as a feature extractor, while MB-GRU learns the sequences between electricity consumption data. The proposed model is evaluated using the root mean square error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE), and mean absolute error (MAE) metrics. Finally, our model is assessed over benchmark datasets that exhibited an extensive drop in the error rate in comparison to other techniques. The results indicated that the proposed model reduced errors over the individual household electricity consumption prediction (IHEPC) dataset (i.e., RMSE (5%), MSE (4%), and MAE (4%)), and for the appliances load prediction (AEP) dataset (i.e., RMSE (2%), and MAE (1%)).