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Image Segmentation Using OpenMP and Its Application in Plant Species Classification
M Nordin A Rahman,Ahmad Fakhri Ab. Nasir,Nashriyah Mat,A Rasid Mamat 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Software Engineering and Vol.9 No.5
Segmentation is very important in early stage of image processing pipelines. Final results of image processing are strongly depending on the initial image segmentation quality. A good quality result often comes at the price of high computational cost including computation speed. Image segmentation requires long computation task caused by sequential processing of huge sizes of image and complex tasks. Nowadays, multi-core architectures are emerging as an attractive platform for parallel processing because it has two or more independent cores in a single physical package and their comparatively low cost. In this paper, two parallelization strategies (fine-grain and coarse-grain approach) are proposed for computing leaf image segmentation. The Canny Edge Detector and Otsu thresholding methods are used due to their wide range of usage for leaf segmentation in plant classification. The implementation is developed under multi-core architecture with shared memory multiprocessors. The OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing), an API (Application Programming Interface) is utilized for writing multi-threaded applications in shared memory architecture. The comparative study with two parallelization strategies is discussed further in this paper.
A Multi-Layer Perceptron Approach for Customer Churn Prediction
Mohammad Ridwan Ismail,Mohd Khalid Awang,M Nordin A Rahman,Mokhairi Makhtar 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Vol.10 No.7
Nowadays, the telecommunication industries are facing substantial competition among the providers in order to capture new customers. Many providers have faced a loss of profitability due to the existing customers migrating to other providers. Customer retention program is one of the main strategies adopted in order to keep customers loyal to their provider. However, it requires a high cost and therefore the best strategy that companies could practice is to focus on identifying the customers that have the potential to churn at an early stage. The limited amount of research on investigating customer churn using machine learning techniques has lead this research to explore the potential of an artificial neural network to improve customer churn prediction. The research proposes Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) neural network approach to predict customer churn in one of the leading Malaysian’s telecommunication companies. The results are compared against the most popular churn prediction techniques such as Multiple Regression Analysis and Logistic Regression Analysis. The result has proven the supremacy of neural network (91.28% of prediction accuracy) over the statistical models in prediction tasks. Overall, the findings suggest that a neural network learning algorithm could offer a viable alternative to statistical predictive approaches in customer churn prediction.
The Study on the Accuracy of Classifiers for Water Quality Application
Rosaida Rosly,Mokhairi Makhtar,Mohd Khalid Awang,M Nordin A Rahman,Mustafa Mat Deris 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of u- and e- Service, Scienc Vol.8 No.3
Dirty water is the world's biggest health risk. When water from rain roads into rivers, it picks up toxic chemicals, dirt, trash and disease-carrying organisms along the way. Many of our water resources lack basic protections, making them vulnerable to pollution from factory farms and industrial plants. Due to that, a classification model is needed to present the quality of the water environment. In this paper, the data mining techniques are used in this research by applying the classification method for water quality application. Various classifiers were studied in order to find the most accurate classifier for the dataset. This paper presents the comparison of accuracies for the five classifiers (NB, MLP, J48, SMO, and IBk) based on a 10-fold cross validation as a test method with respect to water quality from the datasets of Kinta River, Perak Malaysia. This study also explores which classifier is suitable to classify the dataset. The selected attributes used in this study were: DO Sat, DO Mgl, BOD Mgl, COD Mgl, TS Mgl, DO Index, AN Index, SS Index, Class, and Degree of pollution. The data consisted of 166 instances and obtained from the East Coast Environmental Research Institute (ESERI) of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA). The result of MLP and IBk performed better than other classifiers for Kinta River dataset because these classifiers showed the highest accuracy with the same percentage of 91.57%. In the future, we will propose the multiclassifier approach by introducing a fusion at a classification level between these classifiers to get a higher accuracy of classification.