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Event detection and summarization in soccer videos using bayesian network and copula
, Article IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology ; Volume 24, Issue 2 , February , 2014 , Pages 291-304 ; ISSN: 10518215 ; Karimian, M ; Kasaei, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
Semantic video analysis and automatic concept extraction play an important role in several applications; including content-based search engines, video indexing, and video summarization. As the Bayesian network is a powerful tool for learning complex patterns, a novel Bayesian network-based method is proposed for automatic event detection and summarization in soccer videos. The proposed method includes efficient algorithms for shot boundary detection, shot view classification, mid-level visual feature extraction, and construction of the related Bayesian network. The method contains of three main stages. In the first stage, the shot boundaries are detected. Using the hidden Markov model, the...
BNQM: A Bayesian Network based QoS Model for Grid service composition
, Article Expert Systems with Applications ; Volume 42, Issue 20 , 2015 , Pages 6828-6843 ; 09574174 (ISSN) ; Pedram, H ; Abolhassani, H ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2015
Abstract
The QoS attributes of Grid services play important roles in several tasks in Grid computing such as QoS-aware service composition, service negotiation, resource management, service discovery and scheduling. By considering the dynamic aspects of the Grid environments and also the uncertainty related to Grid services, in this paper, we present BNQM, a Bayesian network based probabilistic QoS Model for Grid service composition. Application of Bayesian network in QoS management makes it possible to indicate the conditional independence relationships among QoS attributes and to provide an effective probabilistic approach to predict new values for some QoS attributes while others are changed....
A new real-coded Bayesian optimization algorithm based on a team of learning automata for continuous optimization
, Article Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines ; Vol. 15, Issue. 2 , 2014 , pp. 169-193 ; ISSN: 13892576 ; Beigy, H ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
Estimation of distribution algorithms have evolved as a technique for estimating population distribution in evolutionary algorithms. They estimate the distribution of the candidate solutions and then sample the next generation from the estimated distribution. Bayesian optimization algorithm is an estimation of distribution algorithm, which uses a Bayesian network to estimate the distribution of candidate solutions and then generates the next generation by sampling from the constructed network. The experimental results show that the Bayesian optimization algorithms are capable of identifying correct linkage between the variables of optimization problems. Since the problem of finding the...
A probabilistic multi-label classifier with missing and noisy labels handling capability
, Article Pattern Recognition Letters ; Volume 89 , 2017 , Pages 18-24 ; 01678655 (ISSN) ; Soleymani Baghshah, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2017
Abstract
Multi-label classification with a large set of labels is a challenging task. Label-Space Dimension Reduction (LSDR) is the most popular approach that addresses this problem. LSDR methods project the high-dimensional label vectors onto a low-dimensional space that can be predicted from the feature space. Many LSDR methods assume that the training data provide complete label vector for all training samples while this assumption is usually violated particularly when label vectors are high dimensional. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model that has an effective mechanism to handle missing and noisy labels. In the proposed Bayesian network model, a set of auxiliary random variables,...
Efficient performance monitoring of building central heating system using Bayesian Network method
, Article Journal of Building Engineering ; Volume 26 , 2019 ; 23527102 (ISSN) ; Aramoun, F ; Esbati, S ; Saboohi, Y ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2019
Abstract
Central heating system faults affect building energy consumption and indoor thermal comfort significantly. The interdependencies among system components and multiple failure modes present a challenge for system health diagnostics and prognostics. A reliable diagnosis and prognosis can only be ensured when all component conditions are monitored with minimum uncertainty. In this regard, sensors should be selected based on their priority in providing system health information. Currently, most of the research on sensor optimization models optimize sensors position and orientation. However, in this study sensor type is optimized as well. In addition, the proposed method is based on the Bayesian...
Extraction of Important Events in Football Videos Using Video Summarization Techniques
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Kasaei, Shohreh (Supervisor)
Abstract
Semantic video analysis and automatic concept extraction play an important role in several application including designing content-based search engines, video indexing, and video summarization. Since constructing an appropriate summarized video requires extraction of internal video concepts, video summarization is considered as an application of semantic analysis. The proposed system contains three main stages. In the first stage, the shot boundaries are detected, then using the hidden Markov model (HMM), the video is segmented into larger semantic units, called “play-break” sequences. In the next stage, several features are extracted from each of these units. Finally, in the last stage, in...
Designing an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm based on Learning Automata
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Beigy, Hamid (Supervisor)
Abstract
Evolutionary algorithms are a type of stochastic optimization techniques influenced by genetics and natural evolution. Once the set of candidate solutions has been selected, a new generation is sampled by using recombination (crossover) and mutation operators to the candidate solutions. Public, fixed, problem independent mutation and recombination operators frequently lead to missing building blocks, knowledge of the relationship between variables and result in converging to a local optimum. A method to prevent disruption of building blocks is using the estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs). The experimental results show that EDAs is capable to identify correct linkage between the...
System risk importance analysis using bayesian networks
, Article International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering ; Volume 25, Issue 1 , 2018 ; 02185393 (ISSN) ; Baradaran Kazemzade, R. B ; Akhavan Niaki, S. T ; Zio, E ; Sharif University of Technology
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
2018
Abstract
Importance measures (IMs) are used for risk-informed decision making in system operations, safety, and maintenance. Traditionally, they are computed within fault tree (FT) analysis. Although FT analysis is a powerful tool to study the reliability and structural characteristics of systems, Bayesian networks (BNs) have shown explicit advantages in modeling and analytical capabilities. In this paper, the traditional definitions of IMs are extended to BNs in order to have more capability in terms of system risk modeling and analysis. Implementation results on a case study illustrate the capability of finding the most important components in a system. © 2018 World Scientific Publishing Company
Dynamic risk assessment of decommissioning offshore jacket structures
, Article Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE, 17 June 2018 through 22 June 2018 ; Volume 3 , 2018 ; 9780791851227 (ISBN) ; Khorasanchi, M ; Kurt, R. E ; Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division ; Sharif University of Technology
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
2018
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The need to develop an integrated dynamic safety and risk analysis model for decommissioning offshore jacket structures is driven by the risky, expensive and complex nature of the operation. Many of the existing risk analysis techniques applicable to offshore assets failed to recognise and capture evolving risks during different stages of the decommissioning operation. This paper describes risk-based safety model to conduct quantitative risk analysis for offshore jacket decommissioning failure. First, a bow-tie technique is developed to model the accident cause-consequence relationship. Subsequently, a Bayesian belief network is used to update the failure probabilities of the contributing...
Improved K2 algorithm for Bayesian network structure learning
, Article Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence ; Volume 91 , 2020 ; Beigy, H ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2020
Abstract
In this paper, we study the problem of learning the structure of Bayesian networks from data, which takes a dataset and outputs a directed acyclic graph. This problem is known to be NP-hard. Almost most of the existing algorithms for structure learning can be classified into three categories: constraint-based, score-based, and hybrid methods. The K2 algorithm, as a score-based algorithm, takes a random order of variables as input and its efficiency is strongly dependent on this ordering. Incorrect order of variables can lead to learning an incorrect structure. Therefore, the main challenge of this algorithm is strongly dependency of output quality on the initial order of variables. The main...
Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks, Using Machine Learning Approaches
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Manzuri, Mohammad Taghi (Supervisor)
Abstract
Gene regulatory network consists of a set of genes; interacting with each other via their protein products. Such interations lead to the regulation of the genes’ production rate. A breakdown in the regulatory process, may lead to some kinds of diseases. Therefore, understanding the gene regulatory process, is beneficial for both diagnosis and treatment. In this thesis, gene regulatory networks are modeled by the means of dynamic Bayesian networks. We have used sampling based methods, in order to learn the network structure. As these methos have a very high computational cost; we have used a correlation test to prune the search space. This way, an undirected network skeleton is obtained; for...
Tracking of Human Sperm Cell using a Dynamic Bayesian Network Based Framework
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Vosoughi Vahdat, Bijan (Supervisor) ; Salman Yazdi, Reza (Co-Supervisor)
Abstract
Infertility is an important problem to deal in medicine. In every four couples, on average, one couple is affected by infertility in developing countries. In the majority of cases, the infertility of men has a relationship with spermatozoa and semen, and can be measured by semen and spermatozoa analysis for more advanced diagnosis and treatments. Analysis of the movement patterns of spermatozoa were performed by expert screeners earlier, but nowadays, many of these analyzes are performed using computer-based systems called computer assisted sperm analysis (CASA). The benefits of using CASA instead of expert screeners are achieving system-independency and numerical results at the end of the...
Probabilistic Reasoning in Collaborative Filtering
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Izadi, Mohammad (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this thesis the usage of probabilistic reasoning in collaborative filtering is investigated. The problem of predicting users' rating is formulated as a Bayesian decision problem and a generative probabilistic model is used in order to find the optimal decision. Two different probabilistic models are considered: user based model and rating based model. In user based model prediction of ratings is based on structural learning of Bayesian networks. In rating based model, we assume a predefined Bayesian network represents the joint distribution over model variables and rating prediction is carried out using McMc inference method. MovieLens dataset is chosen to evaluate and compare the results...
Determination of a Decision-Making Framework for Environmental Flow Using Bayesian Network Method (Case Study: Shadegan Wetland)
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Abrishamchi, Ahmad (Supervisor)
Abstract
Environmental flows supply critical contributions to wetland health and economic development, while wetlands are one of the richest ecosystems due to diversity of the ecological species. The Shadegan Wetland is the located in the south-west of Iran, at the top of the Persian Gulf. It is the largest wetland of the country with an area of almost 400,000 hectares. The wetland plays a significant role, both hydrological and ecological in the natural functioning of the northern coast of the Gulf. Moreover, Shadegan Protected Zone is of high economic and social importance, as its vegetation is assumed the main source of feeding the wildlife species. On the other hand, the wetland has the potential...
Applications of Hidden Markov Models in Activity Recognition in an Ambient Intelligent Environment
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Rabiei, Hamid Reza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an environment in which devices are embedded and connected to each other with a communication network, working in concert to predict users’ wishes according to the context of the environment (devices and people) to help them with their everyday activities. An ambient intelligent environment should be context-aware. One of the most complicated problems in context-aware computations is recognition of the activities in which users of the environment are engaged. These activities could be recognized by means of the information hidden in communication networks of the devices, especially different sensors embedded in the environment to ease up the process. Most of...
Credit Scoring of Commercial Loan Applicants in Iranian Banking Industry, A Comparative Analysis of Bayesian Approach, Logit, and Neural Networks
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Zamani, Shiva (Supervisor) ; Bahramgiri, Mohsen (Supervisor)
Abstract
The development of effective models for classification problems, such as the problem of selecting which credit applicants to accept, has been the subject of intense research for decades. Many static and dynamic methods, ranging from statistical classifiers to decision trees, nearest-neighbor methods, and neural networks, have already been proposed to tackle this problem and to assist decision making in the area of consumer and commercial credit. Given the profusion of modeling and data management techniques, it is often the case that which model has the more appropriate outputs in classification of the same problem. Among the stated methods although the latter, Neural Networks, is powerful...
The transiting system GJ1214: High-precision defocused transit observations and a search for evidence of transit timing variation
, Article Astronomy and Astrophysics ; Volume 549 , 2012 ; 00046361 (ISSN) ; Hardis, S ; Hinse, T. C ; Jørgensen, U. G ; Mancini, L ; Southworth, J ; Alsubai, K. A ; Bozza, V ; Browne, P ; Burgdorf, M. J ; Calchi Novati, S ; Dodds, P ; Dominik, M ; Fang, X. S ; Finet, F ; Gerner, T ; Gu, S. H ; Hundertmark, M ; Jessen Hansen, J ; Kains, N ; Kerins, E ; Kjeldsen, H ; Liebig, C ; Lund, M. N ; Lundkvist, M ; Mathiasen, M ; Nesvorný, D ; Nikolov, N ; Penny, M. T ; Proft, S ; Rahvar, S ; Ricci, D ; Sahu, K. C ; Scarpetta, G ; Schäfer, S ; Schönebeck, F ; Snodgrass, C ; Skottfelt, J ; Surdej, J ; Tregloan Reed, J ; Wertz, O ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
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Aims. We present 11 high-precision photometric transitobservations of the transiting super-Earth planet GJ≠1214≠b. Combining these data with observations from other authors, we investigate the ephemeris for possible signs of transit timing variations (TTVs) using a Bayesian approach. Methods. The observations were obtained using telescope-defocusing techniques, and achieve a high precision with random errors in the photometry as low as 1 mmag per point. To investigate the possibility of TTVs in the light curve, we calculate the overall probability of a TTV signal using Bayesian methods. Results. The observations are used to determine the photometric parameters and the physical properties...
Distributed binary majority voting via exponential distribution
, Article IET Signal Processing ; Volume 10, Issue 5 , 2016 , Pages 532-542 ; 17519675 (ISSN) ; Golestani, S. J ; Sharif University of Technology
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Abstract
In the binary majority voting problem, each node initially chooses between two alternative choices. The goal is to design a distributed algorithm that informs nodes which choice is in majority. In this study, the authors formulate this problem as a hypothesis testing problem and propose fixed-size and sequential solutions using classical and Bayesian approaches. In the sequential version, the proposed mechanism enables nodes to test which choice is in majority, successively in time. Hence, termination of the algorithm is embedded within it, contrary to the existing approaches which require a monitoring algorithm to indicate the termination. This property makes the algorithm more efficient in...
A fast method for prior probability selection based on maximum entropy principle and Gibbs sampler
, Article 2007 9th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA 2007, Sharjah, 12 February 2007 through 15 February 2007 ; 2007 ; 1424407796 (ISBN); 9781424407798 (ISBN) ; Kasaei, S ; Khabbazian, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2007
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One of the problems in Bayesian inference is the prior selection. We can categorize different methods for selecting prior into two main groups: informative and non-informative. Here, we have considered an informative method called filters random filed and minimax entropy (FRAME). Despite of its theoretical interest, that method introduces a huge amount of computational burden, which makes it very unsuitable for real-time applications. The main critical point of the method is its parameter estimation part, which plays a major role in its very low speed. In this paper, we have introduced a fast method for parameter estimation to fasten the FRAME approach. Although the kernel of our approach is...
Constructing the Bayesian network for components reliability importance ranking in composite power systems
, Article International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems ; Volume 43, Issue 1 , 2012 , Pages 474-480 ; 01420615 (ISSN) ; Ebrahimi, A ; Fotuhi Firuzabad, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
In this paper, Bayesian Network (BN) is used for reliability assessment of composite power systems with emphasis on the importance of system components. A simple approach is presented to construct the BN associated with a given power system. The approach is based on the capability of the BN to learn from data which makes it possible to be applied to large power systems. The required training data is provided by state sampling using the Monte Carlo simulation. The constructed BN is then used to perform different probabilistic assessments such as ranking the criticality and importance of system components from reliability perspective. The BN is also used to compute the frequency and...