Multimedia content analysis is applied in different real-world computer vision applications, and digital images constitute a major part of multimedia data. In last few years, the complexity of multimedia contents, especially the images, has grown exponentially, and on daily basis, more than millions of images are uploaded at different archives such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. To search for a relevant image from an archive is a challenging research problem for computer vision research community. Most of the search engines retrieve images on the basis of traditional text-based approaches that rely on captions and metadata. In the last two decades, extensive research is reported for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), image classification, and analysis. In CBIR and image classification-based models, high-level image visuals are represented in the form of feature vectors that consists of numerical values. The research shows that there is a significant gap between image feature representation and human visual understanding. Due to this reason, the research presented in this area is focused to reduce the semantic gap between the image feature representation and human visual understanding. In this paper, we aim to present a comprehensive review of the recent development in the area of CBIR and image representation. We analyzed the main aspects of various image retrieval and image representation models from low-level feature extraction to recent semantic deep-learning approaches. The important concepts and major research studies based on CBIR and image representation are discussed in detail, and future research directions are concluded to inspire further research in this area.

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Content-Based Image Retrieval and Feature Extraction: A Comprehensive Review

In this paper, we present a transfer learning approach for music classification and regression tasks. We propose to use a pre-trained convnet feature, a concatenated feature vector using the activations of feature maps of multiple layers in a trained convolutional network. We show how this convnet feature can serve as general-purpose music representation. In the experiments, a convnet is trained for music tagging and then transferred to other music-related classification and regression tasks. The convnet feature outperforms the baseline MFCC feature in all the considered tasks and several previous approaches that are aggregating MFCCs as well as low- and high-level music features.

Transfer learning for music classification and regression tasks

This paper proposes a novel approach for driving chemometric analyses from spectroscopic data and based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture. For such purpose, the well‐known 2‐D CNN is adapted to the monodimensional nature of spectroscopic data. In particular, filtering and pooling operations as well as equations for training are revisited. We also propose an alternative to train the resulting 1D‐CNN by means of particle swarm optimization. The resulting trained CNN architecture is successively exploited to extract features from a given 1D spectral signature to feed any regression method. In this work, we resorted to 2 advanced and effective methods, which are support vector machine regression and Gaussian process regression. Experimental results conducted on 3 real spectroscopic datasets show the interesting capabilities of the proposed 1D‐CNN methods.

One‐dimensional convolutional neural networks for spectroscopic signal regression

Colloquially known as coronavirus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has become a matter of grave concern for every country around the world. The rapid growth of the pandemic has wreaked havoc and prompted the need for immediate reactions to curb the effects. To manage the problems, many research in a variety of area of science have started studying the issue. Artificial Intelligence is among the area of science that has found great applications in tackling the problem in many aspects. Here, we perform an overview on the applications of AI in a variety of fields including diagnosis of the disease via different types of tests and symptoms, monitoring patients, identifying severity of a patient, processing covid-19 related imaging tests, epidemiology, pharmaceutical studies, etc. The aim of this paper is to perform a comprehensive survey on the applications of AI in battling against the difficulties the outbreak has caused. Thus we cover every way that AI approaches have been employed and to cover all the research until the writing of this paper. We try organize the works in a way that overall picture is comprehensible. Such a picture, although full of details, is very helpful in understand where AI sits in current pandemonium. We also tried to conclude the paper with ideas on how the problems can be tackled in a better way and provide some suggestions for future works.

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Applications of artificial intelligence in battling against covid-19: A literature review.

Novel Coronavirus pandemic, which negatively affected public health in social, psychological and economical terms, spread to the whole world in a short period of 6 months However, the rate of increase in cases was not equal for every country The measures implemented by the countries changed the daily spreading speed of the disease This was determined by changes in the number of daily cases In this study, the performance of the Random Forest (RF) machine learning algorithm was investigated in estimating the near future case numbers for 190 countries in the world and it is mapped in comparison with actual confirmed cases results The number of confirmed cases between 23/01/2020 - 17/06/2020 were divided into 3 main sub-datasets: training sub-data, testing sub-data (interpolation data) and estimating sub-data (extrapolation data) for the random forest model At the end of the study, it has been found that R2 values for testing sub-data of RF model estimates range between 0843 and 0995 (average R2= 0959), and RMSE values between 14176 and 52618 (mean RMSE = 25938); and that R2 values for estimating sub-data range between 0690 and 0968 (mean R2 = 0914), and RMSE values between 54973 and 250079 (mean RMSE = 90937) These results show that the random forest machine learning algorithm performs well in estimating the number of cases for the near future in case of an epidemic like Novel Coronavirus, which outbreaks suddenly and spreads rapidly

Spatio-temporal estimation of the daily cases of COVID-19 in worldwide using random forest machine learning algorithm.

In this paper, we are working on a pandemic of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). COVID-19 is an infectious disease, it creates severe damage in the lungs. COVID-19 causes illness in humans and has killed many people in the entire world. However, this virus is reported as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) and all countries are trying to control and lockdown all places. The main objective of this work is to solve the five different tasks such as I) Predicting the spread of coronavirus across regions. II) Analyzing the growth rates and the types of mitigation across countries. III) Predicting how the epidemic will end. IV) Analyzing the transmission rate of the virus. V) Correlating the coronavirus and weather conditions. The advantage of doing these tasks to minimize the virus spread by various mitigation, how well the mitigations are working, how many cases have been prevented by this mitigations, an idea about the number of patients that will recover from the infection with old medication, understand how much time will it take to for this pandemic to end, we will be able to understand and analyze how fast or slow the virus is spreading among regions and the infected patient to reduce the spread based clear understanding of the correlation between the spread and weather conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel Support Vector Regression method to analysis five different tasks related to novel coronavirus. In this work, instead of simple regression line we use the supported vectors also to get better classification accuracy. Our approach is evaluated and compared with other well-known regression models on standard available datasets. The promising results demonstrate its superiority in both efficiency and accuracy.

Analysis on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) using machine learning methods

Content based medical image retrieval using dictionary learning

The field of music and speech classification is quite
mature with researchers having settled on the approximate best
discriminative representation. In this regard, Zubair et al. showed
the use of sparse coefficients alongwith SVM to classify audio
signals as music or speech to get a near-perfect classification. In
the proposed method, we go one step further, instead of using
the sparse coefficients with another classifier they are directly
used in a dictionary which is learned using on-line dictionary
learning for music-speech classification. This approach removes
the redundancy of using a separate classifier but also produces
complete discrimination of music and speech on the GTZAN
music/speech dataset. Moreover, instead of the high-dimensional
feature vector space which inherently leads to high computation
time and complicated decision boundary calculation on the part
of SVM, the restricted dictionary size with limited computation
serves the same purpose.

Learning sparse dictionaries for music and speech classification

Classification of medical data is one of the most challenging pattern recognition problems. As stated in literature a single classifier is unable to solve all medical image classification problems due to high sensitivity to noise and other imperfections like data imbalance. So, several individual classifiers have been studied to solve the different types of classification problems arising in medical datasets but all have proven to be useful on some specific datasets. Hence, in this paper, we propose a generic multi-level classification approach for medical datasets using sparsity based dictionary learning and support vector machine approaches. The proposed technique demonstrates the following advantages: 1) gives better performance of classification accuracy over all datasets 2) solves imbalanced data problems 3) needs no fusion and ensemble methods in multi-level classification. The results presented on the 5 standard UCI medical datasets demonstrate that the efficacy of the proposed multi-level classification technique.

Multi-level classification: A generic classification method for medical datasets

There are many clustering methods available and each of them may give a different grouping of datasets. It is proven that hybrid clustering algorithms give efficient results over the other algorithms. In this paper, we propose an efficient hybrid clustering algorithm by combining the features of leader's method which is an incremental clustering method and complete linkage algorithm which is a hierarchical clustering procedure. It is most common to find the dissimilarity between two clusters as the distance between their centorids or the distance between two closest (or farthest) data points. However, these measures may not give efficient clustering results in all cases. So, we propose a new similarity measure, known as cohesion to find the intercluster distance. By using this measure of cohesion, a two level clustering algorithm is proposed, which runs in linear time to the size of input data set. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the clustering procedure by using the leader's algorithm and cohesion similarity measure. The proposed method works in two steps: In the first step, the features of incremental and hierarchical clustering methods are combined to partition the input data set into several smaller subclusters. In the second step, subclusters are merged continuously based on cohesion similarity measure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this framework for the web mining applications.

M. Srinivas

Papers

Analysis on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) using machine learning methods

Content based medical image retrieval using dictionary learning

Learning sparse dictionaries for music and speech classification

Multi-level classification: A generic classification method for medical datasets

Efficient clustering approach using incremental and hierarchical clustering methods