{"title":"Developing a Statistical Turkish Sign Language Translation System for Primary School Students","authors":"Buse Buz, Tunga Güngör","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778246","url":null,"abstract":"As the access to information in the education domain increases, new technologies are developing for school children. However, deaf and dumb children still have limited access to the information, especially in their school lives. One of the most important reasons for this problem is the lack of studies in the Sign Language domain. In this paper, we propose a novel method for translation from Turkish to Turkish Sign Language for primary school students using the statistical machine translation approach. To the best of our approach, this is the first work that applies statistical translation to Turkish Sign Language. A parallel corpus is compiled from the books published by Ministry of National Education of Turkey. The results of the system were tested using different evaluation metrics. We observe that the results obtained are motivating for new studies.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131959254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recen Özaln, Çağrı Kaymak, Özal Yıldırım, A. Uçar, Y. Demir, C. Güzelı̇ş
{"title":"An Implementation of Vision Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot Locomotion","authors":"Recen Özaln, Çağrı Kaymak, Özal Yıldırım, A. Uçar, Y. Demir, C. Güzelı̇ş","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778209","url":null,"abstract":"Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) exhibits a promising approach for controlling humanoid robot locomotion. However, only values relating sensors such as IMU, gyroscope, and GPS are not sufficient robots to learn their locomotion skills. In this article, we aim to show the success of vision based DRL. We propose a new vision based deep reinforcement learning algorithm for the locomotion of the Robotis-op2 humanoid robot for the first time. In experimental setup, we construct the locomotion of humanoid robot in a specific environment in the Webots software. We use Double Dueling Q Networks (D3QN) and Deep Q Networks (DQN) that are a kind of reinforcement learning algorithm. We present the performance of vision based DRL algorithm on a locomotion experiment. The experimental results show that D3QN is better than DQN in that stable locomotion and fast training and the vision based DRL algorithms will be successfully able to use at the other complex environments and applications.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133267981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PokerBot: Hand Strength Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Angela Ramirez, Solomon Reinman, Narges Norouzi","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778267","url":null,"abstract":"We sought to explore the problem of teaching a reinforcement learning agent how to play Texas Hold ‘Em (THE), a popular poker game played with a standard 52-card deck. This is an interesting problem because THE, and poker in general, is an incomplete information game in which the best strategy must take into account a significant amount of uncertainty, and for which the input vector of relevant information could be potentially very large. The final product of our research is a simplistic but elegant application of reinforcement learning, with various approaches yielding promising results within the context of THE.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131395532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Taskiran, Mehmet Killioglu, N. Kahraman, Ç. Erdem
{"title":"Face Recognition Using Dynamic Features Extracted from Smile Videos","authors":"M. Taskiran, Mehmet Killioglu, N. Kahraman, Ç. Erdem","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778400","url":null,"abstract":"Biometric systems measure and analyze the physical and behavioral characteristics of individuals. Facial biometry has become one of the most preferred biometric methods in recent years due to the fact that it can be used in applications, which do not require the cooperation of the user. In facial recognition systems, which use images recorded under controlled conditions, the use of physical properties is sufficient for face recognition. However, physical features may not be sufficient for face recognition using images recorded under challenging conditions. In such cases, behavioral characteristics of the face may provide additional information. In this study, we extract dynamic features of the face from expressive face videos and use them for face recognition. Experimental results on the UvA-NEMO smile database, which contains 400 subjects, show that dynamic face features carry identity-related information and can be used for face recognition.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121310448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Offline Signature Identification and Verification Using Capsule Network","authors":"Dilara Gumusbas, T. Yıldırım","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778228","url":null,"abstract":"In offline signature identification and verification systems, hand -crafted feature extraction methods, such as local binary patterns, have recently been set aside for automatic feature extraction methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNN). Although these CNN-based algorithms often obtain satisfying results, they require either many samples to find the best data representations or pre-trained network weights. To obviate the necessity of many samples as well as pre-trained weights, Capsule Network has recently claimed to achieve the best data representation using only a limited amount of data. This network not only obtains many variations of limited input samples via affine transformations in the algorithm but also uses hierarchical layers to select the most informative features without losing the exact informational position of the others. It is from this point of view that this paper first aims to evaluate performances of Capsule Network and the CNN-based equivalent model for the signature identification task. This evaluation is done under two lower resolutions than is usual to understand whether texture patterns are still staying as informative as they usually are for both algorithms. While Capsule Network achieves 98,8% and 98,6 % accuracies for 64×64 and 32×32 input resolutions, respectively, CNN obtains 55,4% and 54,7% accuracies. The second aim of the paper is to generalize the capability of Capsule Network concerning the verification task. Through this evaluation, the capability of Capsule Network is shown to obtain better feature extraction and classification results compared to the CNN-based equivalent model for the verification task as well as the identification task.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Efficient and Affordable Web-based Prototyping and Testing Platform for Analog Sensors","authors":"Jiannan Zhai, Chancey Kelly, J. Hallstrom","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778323","url":null,"abstract":"In the Internet of Things (loT) era, technology offers the ability to collect and understand information collected from the nature and environment around us. As an essential component of reliable sensing, sensors play a vital role in any IoT system. The point of departure for our work is the anticipated potential of an efficient, low-cost prototyping and testing platform for analog sensors. In this paper, we explore the fundamental building blocks of such a system: an accurate, configurable analog front end, a light-weight communication component, and efficient data-centric middleware, and a user-friendly web portal.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121123524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved Background Subtraction-based Moving Vehicle Detection by Optimizing Morphological Operations using Machine Learning","authors":"Zakaria Charouh, M. Ghogho, Z. Guennoun","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778263","url":null,"abstract":"Object detection represents the most important component of Automated Vehicular Surveillance (AVS) systems. Moving vehicle detection based on background subtraction, with fixed morphological parameters, is a popular approach in AVS systems. However, the performance of such an approach deteriorates in the presence of sudden illumination changes in the scene. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method to adjust in real-time the morphological parameters to the illumination changes in the scene. The method is based on machine learning. The features used in the machine learning models are first, second, third and fourth-order statistics of the grayscale images, and the outputs are the appropriate morphological parameters. The resulting background subtraction-based object detection is shown to be robust to illumination changes, and to significantly outperform the conventional approach. Further, artificial neural network (ANN) is shown to provide better performance than Naive Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbours models.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126721513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sentiment Analysis through Transfer Learning for Turkish Language","authors":"S. Akin, Tuğba Yıldız","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778305","url":null,"abstract":"Sentiment Analysis (SA) has received much attention in recent years. In this paper, we proposed a model based on the transfer learning technique to address SA problem. First, we utilize word embeddings that are trained on 322K documents from Turkish Wikipedia. The model employs a regular Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) with dropout. Secondly, we fine-tuned the pre-trained language model on two different target datasets (restaurant and product reviews) independently. Finally, the LSTM is trained to classify reviews according to positive and negative sentiments and its associated performance is assessed. This study is also considered to be the important attempt that uses transfer learning by applying a fine-tuning technique and deep learning architecture to address SA problem for Turkish Language.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128517947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Method for Detecting and Analyzing the Sentiment of Tweets Containing Fuzzy Sentiment Phrases","authors":"H. Phan, N. Nguyen, Van Cuong Tran, D. Hwang","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778360","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to the development and dissemination of Twitter, an increasing number of users' opinions about various topics are being published on Twitter and have become a significant data source for numerous applications; one of the most popular is tweet sentiment analysis. Many researchers have tried to solve this problem with different methods. However, previous studies have only focused on sentiment analysis of general tweets without considering a divide-and-conquer strategy. Meanwhile, a large number of tweets contains fuzzy sentiment phrases. Thus, effectively solving fuzzy sentiment phrases may help to significantly improve the performance of sentiment analysis methods. In this study, we concentrate only on the detection and sentiment analysis problem of a specific tweet type that contains fuzzy sentiment phrases. The results show that the proposed method performs relatively well in both tasks.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130232517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dagmawi Neway Mekuria, Paolo Sernani, Nicola Falcionelli, A. Dragoni
{"title":"A Probabilistic Multi-Agent System Architecture for Reasoning in Smart Homes","authors":"Dagmawi Neway Mekuria, Paolo Sernani, Nicola Falcionelli, A. Dragoni","doi":"10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778306","url":null,"abstract":"Uncertainty is inevitable in ambient assisted living (AAL) environments as sensors may read inaccurate data or due to the existence of unobserved variables for privacy reasons. Furthermore, the dynamic nature of the home environment and vague human communications may result in ambiguous, incomplete and inconsistent contextual information, which ultimately lead the smart home system into uncertainty. This paper aims to tackle some of these challenges, in particular, uncertainty due to vague human communication and missing information in ambient environments. For this, we proposed a probabilistic multi-agent system architecture for reasoning in smart homes by utilizing the notion of multiagent systems (MAS) technologies and probabilistic logic programming techniques. Accordingly, this study shows how the probabilistic reasoning technique enables the agents to reason under uncertainty. Furthermore, it discusses how the intelligent agents enhance their decision-making process by exchanging information about missing data or unobservable variables using agent interaction protocols. In general, the study demonstrates that the combination of MAS technologies and probabilistic logic programming can help in building a reasoning system, which is capable of performing well under vague inhabitant commands and missing information in a partially observable environment.","PeriodicalId":262143,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123628907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}