Machine Learning for Signals of Interests (ML4SoTs)—Theories, Algorithms, Applications and Beyond

A special issue of Signals (ISSN 2624-6120).

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Dear Colleagues, 

Special Issue: Machine Learning for Signals of Interests (ML4SoTs)—Theories, Algorithms, Applications, and beyond.

Signals and their processing are ubiquitous in our daily life. In a broad sense, signals can refer to anything conveying information about an object of interest and exist in a variety of formats of data.

Signals are things of interest that are observed, measured, and recorded for further study and analysis for certain specific purposes and/or interests. Examples range from biological and neurophysiological signals  (e.g., electroencephalography (EEG),  electrocardiogram (ECG)) to industry signals (e.g., those recorded in wind power plants) and observations of weather/climate and space weather.

Recent years have witnessed the marriage of ML and signal processing, bringing a variety of new techniques for analyzing signals of interest more effectively. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform showing the advancements of signal analysis techniques aided by ML approaches, facilitating the publication and dissemination of research findings from scientists and researchers who work in the interface and frontier of ML and signal processing and analysis.

The Special Issue, ML4SoTs, encourages submissions that focus on machine learning for a wide range of signals of interest. Proposed fields of applications include but are not limited to:

  • Anomaly and outlier detection from signals;
  • Fault detection and diagnosis based on signals;
  • Feature selection and feature extraction from signals and time series;
  • Interpretable and explainable models for signals of things;
  • Machine learning for signals of things;
  • Modeling and analysis of signals and time series;
  • Signal modeling and forecasting;
  • Signal processing and system identification;
  • Signal segmentation, clustering, and pattern recognition;
  • Transparent, interpretable, and parsimonious complex systems and signals;
  • Wavelet for signal modeling and system identification.

Dr. Hua-Liang Wei
Dr. Zhao-Hua Liu
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Keywords

  • signal processing
  • system identification
  • data modeling
  • dynamic systems and signals
  • signals of things
  • machine learning
  • prediction
  • forecasting
  • fault diagnosis
  • anomaly detection

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Language Inference Using Elman Networks with Evolutionary Training
by Nikolaos Anastasopoulos, Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Evangelos Dermatas and Evangelos Karvounis
Signals 2022, 3(3), 611-619; https://doi.org/10.3390/signals3030037 - 6 Sep 2022
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In this paper, a novel Elman-type recurrent neural network (RNN) is presented for the binary classification of arbitrary symbol sequences, and a novel training method, including both evolutionary and local search methods, is evaluated using sequence databases from a wide range of scientific [...] Read more.
In this paper, a novel Elman-type recurrent neural network (RNN) is presented for the binary classification of arbitrary symbol sequences, and a novel training method, including both evolutionary and local search methods, is evaluated using sequence databases from a wide range of scientific areas. An efficient, publicly available, software tool is implemented in C++, accelerating significantly (more than 40 times) the RNN weights estimation process using both simd and multi-thread technology. The experimental results, in all databases, with the hybrid training method show improvements in a range of 2% to 25% compared with the standard genetic algorithm. Full article
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Deep Learning Beehive Monitoring System for Early Detection of the Varroa Mite
by George Voudiotis, Anna Moraiti and Sotirios Kontogiannis
Signals 2022, 3(3), 506-523; https://doi.org/10.3390/signals3030030 - 28 Jul 2022
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One of the most critical causes of colony collapse disorder in beekeeping is caused by the Varroa mite. This paper presents an embedded camera module supported by a deep learning algorithm for the process of early detecting of Varroa infestations. This is achieved [...] Read more.
One of the most critical causes of colony collapse disorder in beekeeping is caused by the Varroa mite. This paper presents an embedded camera module supported by a deep learning algorithm for the process of early detecting of Varroa infestations. This is achieved using a deep learning algorithm that tries to identify bees inside the brood frames carrying the mite in real-time. The end-node device camera module is placed inside the brood box. It is equipped with offline detection in remote areas of limited network coverage or online imagery data transmission and mite detection over the cloud. The proposed deep learning algorithm uses a deep learning network for bee object detection and an image processing step to identify the mite on the previously detected objects. Finally, the authors present their proof of concept experimentation of their approach that can offer a total bee and varroa detection accuracy of close to 70%. The authors present in detail and discuss their experimental results. Full article
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