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Air pollution is a concern to the health of all living beings. It is essential to check on the quality of air in the surroundings. This article presents an IoT-based real-time air quality index (AQI) estimation technique using images and weather sensors on Indian rods. A mixture of image features, i.e., traffic density, visibility, and sensor features, i.e., temperature and humidity, were used to predict the AQI. Object detection and localization-based Deep Learning (DL) method along with image processing techniques were used to extract image features while an Machine Learning (ML) model was trained on those features to estimate the AQI. In order to conduct this experiment, a dataset containing 5048 images along with co-located AQI values across different seasons was collected by driving on the roads of Hyderabad city in India. The experimental results report an overall accuracy of 82% for AQI prediction. Index Terms—Air Quality, CNN, Edge computing, Machine Learning.

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How does the brain represent different modes of information? Can we design a system that can automatically understand what the user is thinking? We can make progress towards answering such questions by studying brain recordings from devices such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The brain encoding problem aims to automatically generate fMRI brain representations given a stimulus. The brain decoding problem is the inverse problem of reconstructing the stimuli given the fMRI brain representation. Both the brain encoding and decoding problems have been studied in detail in the past two decades and the foremost attraction of studying these solutions is that they serve as additional tools for basic research in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. Recently, inspired by the effectiveness of deep learning models for natural language processing and computer vision, such models have been applied for neuroscience as well. In this tutorial, we plan to discuss different kinds of stimulus representations, and popular encoding and decoding architectures in detail. The tutorial will provide a working knowledge of the state of the art methods for encoding and decoding, a thorough understanding of the literature, and a better understanding of the benefits and limitations of encoding/decoding with deep learning. Encoding models that accurately predict brain activity have several practical applications in evaluation and diagnosis of neurological conditions and thus also help designing therapies for brain damage. Invertible encoding models enable principled formulation of brain decoding models which in turn are useful for designing brain-machine or brain-computer interfaces. Recent advances in the use of pretrained deep network models enable us to use them as priors for brain decoding tasks. Deep learning models are useful for improving accuracy but also offer the flexibility of decoding across a gamut of tasks and domains.

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The hearing challenged communities all over the world face difficulties to communicate with others. Machine translation has been one of the prominent technologies to facilitate communication with the deaf and hard of hearing community worldwide. We have explored and formulated the fundamental rules of Indian Sign Language(ISL) and implemented them as a translation mechanism of English Text to Indian Sign Language glosses. According to the formulated rules and sub-rules, the source text structure is identified and transferred to the target ISL gloss. This target language is such that it can be easily converted to videos using the Indian Sign Language dictionary. This research work also mentions the intermediate phases of the transfer process and innovations in the process such as Multi-Word Expression detection and synonym substitution to handle the limited vocabulary size of Indian Sign Language while producing semantically accurate translations.

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Automatic extraction of “significant” components of a legal contract, has the potential to simplify the end user’s comprehension. In essence, “significant” pieces of information have 1) information pertaining to material/practical details about a specific contract and 2) information that is novel or comes as a “surprise” for a specific type of contract. It indicates that the significance of a component may be defined at an individual contract level and at a contract-type level. A component, sentence, or paragraph, may be considered significant at a contract level if it contains contract-specific information (CSI), like names, dates, or currency terms. At a contract-type level, components that deviate significantly from the norm for the type may be considered significant (type-specific information (TSI)). In this paper, we present approaches to extract “significant” components from a contract at both these levels. We attempt to do this by identifying patterns in a pool of documents of the same kind. Consequently, in our approach, the solution is formulated in two parts: identifying CSI using a BERT-based contract-specific information extractor and identifying TSI by scoring sentences in a contract for their likelihood. In this paper, we even describe the annotated corpus of contract documents that we created as a first step toward the development of such a language-processing system. We also release a dataset of contract samples containing sentences belonging to CSI and TSI.

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3𝐷 fingerprint capture is less sensitive to skin moisture levels and avoids skin deformation, which is common in contact-based sensors, in addition to capturing depth information. Unfortunately, its adoption is limited due to high cost and system complexity. Photometric stereo provides an opportunity to build low-cost, simple sensors capable of high-quality 3𝐷 capture. However, it assumes that the surface being imaged is lambertian (unlike our fingers). We introduce the Split and Knit algorithm (SnK), a 3𝐷 reconstruction pipeline based on the photometric stereo for finger surfaces. It introduces an efficient way of estimating the direct illumination component, thus allowing us to do a higher-quality reconstruction of the entire finger surface. The algorithm also introduces a novel method to obtain the overall finger shape under NIR illumination, all using a single camera. Finally, we combine the overall finger shape and the ridge-valley point cloud to obtain a 3𝐷 finger phalange. The high-quality 3𝐷 reconstruction also results in better matching accuracy of the captured fingerprints. 1

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In this paper, four low-cost CO2 sensors are evaluated for IoT-based indoor air pollution monitoring. Specifically, CO2 sensors SCD30, Prana Air, MHZ14, and T6713 are evaluated against a standard reference Aeroqual S-500 device. The experiment was carried out in an indoor environment inside one of the labs in IIIT Hyderabad, India. It is shown that calibration is needed for some of these low-cost devices locally even though the sensors may be factory calibrated. For calibration, simple and widely-used machine learning algorithms are employed such as linear regression, least absolute deviation, random forest, support vector regression, and Gaussian regression. The parameters considered to assess the performance of these sensors are coefficient of determination (R 2 ), coefficient of variability (Cv), and root mean square error (RMSE). After calibration with a reference sensor, it is observed that these low-cost sensors operate well. Index Terms—IoT, Determination coefficient, Low-cost CO2 sensor, Coefficient of variability, Root mean square error.

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This paper proposes an IoT and machine learning (ML)-based novel method to estimate the air quality index (AQI) using traffic data in real-time. With the help of particulate matter (PM) monitoring nodes deployed in fifteen locations with diverse traffic scenarios of Indian roads, and using digital map service providers, a rich traffic dataset with approximately 210,000 samples has been collected. Three different ML models, namely random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and multilayer perceptron (MLP), are trained on this dataset to predict the AQI category into five levels. The experimental results show an accuracy of 82.60% with the F1-score of 83.67% on the complete dataset. Apart from this, ML models were also trained on individual node datasets, and the behavior of AQI levels was observed. Index Terms—AQI Estimation, Traffic Data, Machine Learning, IoT

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The current experimental data allow for a sub-TeV colorless weak-singlet scalar or pseudoscalar. If such a singlet field is present together with TeV-range vectorlike top and bottom partners, there is a possibility that the heavy quarks decay dominantly to the singlet state and a third-generation quark, and the singlet state decays to quark and boson pairs. Such a possibility may arise in various models but it has not been explored experimentally, especially in the context of vectorlike-quark searches. We consider some minimal models, covering the possible weak representations of the top and bottom partners, that can be mapped to many well-motivated ultraviolet-complete theories. We chart out the possible interesting and unexplored signatures of the exotic decay of vectorlike quarks and identify benchmark points representing different signal topologies for the high luminosity LHC. We perform a general scan of the …

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This paper considers a low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite-based topology for an internet-of-things (IoT) network, where multiple IoT devices broadcast the information to all the visible satellites over a shared channel using slotted ALOHA. The satellites selectively decode-and-forward (DF) the information from the IoT devices over orthogonal channels to the ground station (GS), which does maximal ratio combining (MRC). For decoding at the satellites, capture and successive interference cancellation (SIC) schemes are considered. For the considered topology, the closed-form expressions are derived for the end-to-end outage probability (OP) for an arbitrary number of IoT devices and satellites in the capture model and for the two-device, two satellite case in the case of the SIC model. The expressions are derived for both independent and non-identically distributed (inid) and independent and identically distributed (iid) uplink channels. The OP is analyzed as a function of the parameters like the number of satellites, the number of devices, and the desired data rate. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach leverages the benefits of mega-LEO satellites to make the topology feasible and attractive for low-powered and low-complexity IoT networks.

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This paper proposes a deep learning (DL)-based algorithm which is used for improving the performance of digit detection from internet-of-things (IoT)-based analog water meters. The DL algorithm is trained on a rich dataset of over 160,000 images collected from six water nodes deployed at locations with different environmental conditions. A detailed comparison between the proposed DL and machine learning (ML) algorithm is made based on detection accuracy, feature analysis, error analysis, and computational complexity analysis. It is observed that compared to the ML model, the proposed DL model maintained a higher detection accuracy and is more generalized in terms of feature extraction, which makes the algorithm robust.