{"title":"Fusing Acoustic and Electroencephalographic Modalities for User-Independent Emotion Prediction","authors":"S. Ntalampiras, F. Avanzini, L. A. Ludovico","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00018","url":null,"abstract":"Search and retrieval of multimedia content based on the evoked emotion comprises an interesting scientific field with numerous applications. This paper proposes a method that fuses two heterogeneous modalities, i.e. music and electroencephalographic signals, both for predicting emotional dimensions in the valence-arousal plane and for addressing four binary classification tasks, namely i.e. high/low arousal, positive/negative valence, high/low dominance, high/low liking. The proposed solution exploits Mel-scaled and EEG spectrograms feeding a k-medoids clustering scheme based on canonical correlation analysis. A thorough experimental campaign carried out on a publicly available dataset confirms the efficacy of such an approach. Despite its low computational cost, it was able to surpass state of the art results, and most importantly, in a user-independent manner.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122261378","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":"IEEE ICCC 2019 Program Committee","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/iccc.2019.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iccc.2019.00012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","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":"131375825","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":"Message from the IEEE ICCC 2019 Chairs","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/iccc.2019.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iccc.2019.00011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"406 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":"127597990","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}
Ruba AlOmari, Miguel Vargas Martin, Shane MacDonald, Christopher Bellman
{"title":"Using EEG to Predict and Analyze Password Memorability","authors":"Ruba AlOmari, Miguel Vargas Martin, Shane MacDonald, Christopher Bellman","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00019","url":null,"abstract":"Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have given us insight into the human brain, and as sensors grow cheaper and smaller, and devices get more connected, more researchers from new domains are motivated to use BCIs. In this 19-participant lab study, we use off-the-shelf BCIs to investigate password memorability and recall. We record electroencephalogram (EEG) potentials collected by BCIs upon presenting passwords of different characteristics to participants while asking them to memorize these passwords, and then recall them. Features from the EEG signals are extracted in three domains: power spectrum from the frequency domain, statistics from the time domain, and wavelet coefficients from the time-frequency domain. Lasso feature selection method is used, and the selected parameters and feature subsets are submitted for classification with two classes, recalled and not recalled, based on the user's subsequent recall of the passwords. Results show discriminating features of EEG signals in the two different classes, achieving a classification accuracy of 88%. Our results indicate that it may be possible to predict subsequent password recall based on EEG activity during password presentation.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","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":"130627749","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}
J. Sirrianni, X. Liu, Md Mahfuzer Rahman, Douglas Adams
{"title":"An Opinion Diversity Enhanced Social Connection Recommendation Re-Ranking Method Based on Opinion Distance in Cyber Argumentation with Social Networking","authors":"J. Sirrianni, X. Liu, Md Mahfuzer Rahman, Douglas Adams","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00029","url":null,"abstract":"The quality of crowd wisdom extracted from online communities decreases as the community becomes less ideologically diverse, which is an issue in many online spaces. One cause of this decline is that users tend not to engage with diverse, idea-challenging content that contrasts their prior opinions. However, they do tend to engage with content endorsed by their social connections, even if it goes against their personal opinion. Thus, by increasing the diversity of opinion in a user's social network, they will likely engage with more diverse content. We are developing a cyber argumentation system with social networking and present a social connection recommendation re-ranking method that promotes opinion diversity. We use artificial intelligence and data mining techniques to mine and analyze user opinions from argumentation data on important issues, then use furthest opinion distance to re-rank the recommendations. Our method is designed to easily integrate with existing social connection recommenders, which preserves platform specific criteria. We compare the opinion diversity of recommendations from five types of social connection recommendation methods, with and without our re-ranking method, on a large empirical dataset. Our results show that our method improves the recommended diversity by around 15% for five existing social connection recommendation methods, while only reordering around 50% of the initial social connection recommendations.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"696 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":"132707167","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":"Criteria for Learning without Forgetting in Artificial Neural Networks","authors":"R. Karn, P. Kudva, I. Elfadel","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00027","url":null,"abstract":"Task progressive learning without catastrophic forgetting using artificial neural networks (ANNs) has demonstrated viability and promise. Due to the large number of ANN hyper-parameters, a model already trained over a group of tasks can further learn a new task without forgetting the previous tasks. Several algorithms have been proposed for progressive learning, including synaptic weight consolidation, ensemble, rehearsal, and sparse coding. One major problem with such methods is that they fail to detect the congestion in the ANN shared parameter space to indicate the saturation of the existing network and its inability to add new tasks using progressive learning. The detection of such saturation is especially needed to avoid the catastrophic forgetting of old trained task and the concurrent loss in their generalization quality. In this paper, we address such problem and propose a methodology for ANN congestion detection. The methodology is based on computing the Hessian of the ANN loss function at the optimal weights for a group of previously learned tasks. Since the Hessian calculation is compute-intensive, we provide a set of approximation heuristics that are computationally efficient. The algorithms are implemented and analyzed in the context of two cloud network security datasets, namely, UNSW-NB15 and AWID, as well as the MNIST image recognition dataset. Results show that the proposed congestion metrics give an accurate assessment of the ANN progressive learning capacity for these various datasets. Furthermore, the results show that models that have more features exhibit higher congestion thresholds and are therefore more amenable to progressive learning.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"38 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":"131796915","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}
S. Calo, D. Verma, Maroun Touma, Franck Le, Douglas M. Freimuth, E. Nahum
{"title":"An AI Enabled System for Distributed System Characterization","authors":"S. Calo, D. Verma, Maroun Touma, Franck Le, Douglas M. Freimuth, E. Nahum","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00015","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the constituent components of a distributed system and how they are interacting is in general a very difficult problem. It requires the accumulation of evidence bearing on alternative propositions and decision functions for each of the set of attributes that characterize the elements of the system and their operation. In general, the outcome depends not only on the state of the accumulated evidence but also on the cost of acquiring this evidence; and, the accuracy of the decision functions and the process for combining their outputs. In this paper we describe a characterization system that was developed for identifying IoT devices present in an IP environment based on interpretations of the network traffic that is being generated. We argue that the architecture can be applied to address many kinds of similar problems by changing the analytics and the manners in which they are interconnected.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"45 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132089368","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":"Bargaining Compatible Explanations","authors":"B. Apolloni, Aamna Al Shehhi, E. Damiani","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00028","url":null,"abstract":"Within the framework of ensemble methods, we investigate on a compatible learning scheme, denoted as learning by gossip with the aim of assessing its feasibility when facing a rather complex target function. Compatibility is in terms of probability that the learned function could be actually at the basis of the observed training set, hence an explanation of it. Feasibility is in terms of the related MSE on test sets. We base or conclusions on both theoretical and numerical arguments that are tossed on a well known benchmark.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"29 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":"127889429","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}
Keith Grueneberg, Bongjun Ko, D. Wood, Xiping Wang, Dean Steuer, Yeonsup Lim
{"title":"IoT Data Management System for Rapid Development of Machine Learning Models","authors":"Keith Grueneberg, Bongjun Ko, D. Wood, Xiping Wang, Dean Steuer, Yeonsup Lim","doi":"10.1109/ICCC.2019.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCC.2019.00021","url":null,"abstract":"Capturing and managing the data needed to build effective machine learning models for custom IoT environments requires a great deal of effort. The amount of data generated from IoT devices is abundant, but tools to find datasets appropriate for the desired models are lacking. This paper presents a data capture system and data management catalog with solutions addressing the challenges of curating IoT data applied to purpose-built machine learning deployments.","PeriodicalId":262923,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)","volume":"32 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":"122339859","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}