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Introduction to EEG- and Speech-Based Emotion Recognition Methods examines the background, methods, and utility of using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to detect and recognize different emotions.By incorporating these methods in brain-computer interface (BCI), we can achieve more natural, efficient communication between humans and computers.

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind \"automated\" services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.

Artificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes provides new, relevant, and practical information on what AI can do in healthcare and how to assess whether AI is improving health outcomes.  With clear insights and a balanced approach, this innovative book offers a one-stop guide on how to design and lead pragmatic real-world AI studies that yield rigorous scientific evidence-all in a manner that is safe and ethical. Daniel Byrne, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research at AVAIL (the Advanced Vanderbilt Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and author of landmark pragmatic studies published in leading medical journals, shares four decades of experience as a biostatistician and AI researcher. Building on his first book, Publishing Your Medical Research, the author gives the reader the competitive advantage in creating reproducible AI research that will be accepted in prestigious high-impact medical journals.

Robotization of production processes and the use of 3D vision systems are currently becoming more and more popular. It allows for more flexibility in the robotic process as well as expands the possibilities of process control, depending on changes in the parameters of the object, its pose, and changes in the process itself. Unfortunately, the use of standard solutions is limited to a relatively small space in which the robot’s vision system operates. The use of the latest solutions in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and external vision systems, in combination with the closed structures of industrial robot control systems, provides advantages by enhancing the digital awareness of the environment of robotic systems. This article presents an example of solving the problem of low digital awareness of the environment of robotic systems resulting from the limited field of view of vision systems used in industrial robots, while maintaining high precision of the systems consisting of the combination of a 3D vision system using a stereovision camera and software with AI elements with the control system of an industrial robot from FANUC and an integrated Robot Vision (iRVision) system to maintain the positioning accuracy of the robot tool.

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has many potential benefits, it has also been shown to suffer from a number of challenges for successful performance in complex real-world environments such as military operations, including brittleness, perceptual limitations, hidden biases, and lack of a model of causation important for understanding and predicting future events. These limitations mean that AI will remain inadequate for operating on its own in many complex and novel situations for the foreseeable future, and that AI will need to be carefully managed by humans to achieve their desired utility. Human-AI Teaming: State-of-the-Art and Research Needs examines the factors that are relevant to the design and implementation of AI systems with respect to human operations. This report provides an overview of the state of research on human-AI teaming to determine gaps and future research priorities and explores critical human-systems integration issues for achieving optimal performance.

The efficient computation of viewpoints for solving vision tasks comprising multi-features (regions of interest) represents a common challenge that any robot vision system (RVS) using range sensors faces. The characterization of valid and robust viewpoints is even more complex within real applications that require the consideration of various system constraints and model uncertainties. Hence, to address some of the challenges, our previous work outlined the computation of valid viewpoints as a geometrical problem and proposed feature-based constrained spaces (C-spaces) to tackle this problem efficiently for acquiring one feature. The present paper extends the concept of C-spaces to consider multi-feature problems using feature cluster constrained spaces (GC-spaces). A GC-space represents a closed-form, geometrical solution that provides an infinite set of valid viewpoints for acquiring a cluster of features satisfying diverse viewpoint constraints. Furthermore, the current study outlines a generic viewpoint planning strategy based on GC-spaces for solving vision tasks comprising multi-feature scenarios effectively and efficiently. The applicability of the proposed framework is validated on two different industrial vision systems used for dimensional metrology tasks.

This research paper presents the proposes a robotic vision system to distinguish the color for the object and his position coordinate, and then sort the object (product) on the right branch conveyor belt according to color in real-time. The system was built based on the HVS mode algorithm for sorting product based on color. Furthermore, the system can be distinguished the object shape and then find his position to picking the object shape and putting on the right branch conveyor belt. The assumptions for the object shape were based on the shape properties, centroid algorithm, and border extraction. Both the object detection and the contour coordinate extraction methods are implemented using a series of image processing techniques. The main goal is met by sorting the object depends on the color feature from a gathering of objects. The robot movement (open and close griper, move up and down the arm, and move to the left and right) controlled by a microcontroller that controls the movement to the right branch conveyor belt. When the color or the object is detected, the microcontroller will initiate the actions of the robot. It was found that the accuracy of results based on the approach that developed in this paper which is 92% for shape sorting and 97% for colors sorting objects.

Wind as a clean and renewable energy source has been used by humans for centuries. However, in recent years with the increase in the number and size of wind turbines, their impact on avifauna has become worrisome. Researchers estimated that in the U.S. up to 500,000 birds die annually due to collisions with wind turbines. This article proposes a system for mitigating bird mortality around wind farms. The solution is based on a stereo-vision system embedded in distributed computing and IoT paradigms. After a bird’s detection in a defined zone, the decision-making system activates a collision avoidance routine composed of light and sound deterrents and the turbine stopping procedure. The development process applies a User-Driven Design approach along with the process of component selection and heuristic adjustment. This proposal includes a bird detection method and localization procedure. The bird identification is carried out using artificial intelligence algorithms. Validation tests with a fixed-wing drone and verifying observations by ornithologists proved the system’s desired reliability of detecting a bird with wingspan over 1.5 m from at least 300 m. Moreover, the suitability of the system to classify the size of the detected bird into one of three wingspan categories, small, medium and large, was confirmed.

The development and application of artificial intelligence have led to the exploitation of low‐power and compact intelligent information‐processing systems integrated with sensing, memory, and neuromorphic computing functions. The 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials with abundant reservoirs for arbitrary stacking based on functions and enabling continued device downscaling offer an attractive alternative for continuously promoting artificial intelligence. In this study, full 2D SnS2/h‐BN/CuInP2S6 (CIPS)‐based ferroelectric field‐effect transistors (Fe‐FETs) and utilized light‐induced ferroelectric polarization reversal to achieve excellent memory properties and multi‐functional sensing‐memory‐computing vision simulations are designed. The device exhibits a high on/off current ratio of over 105, long retention time (>104 s), stable cyclic endurance (>350 cycles), and 128 multilevel current states (7‐bit). In addition, fundamental synaptic plasticity characteristics are emulated including paired‐pulse facilitation (PPF), short‐term plasticity (STP), long‐term plasticity (LTP), long‐term potentiation, and long‐term depression. A ferroelectric optoelectronic reservoir computing system for the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) handwritten digital recognition achieved a high accuracy of 93.62%. Furthermore, retina‐like light adaptation and Pavlovian conditioning are successfully mimicked. These results provide a strategy for developing a multilevel memory and novel neuromorphic vision systems with integrated sensing‐memory‐processing. A novel multi‐functional neuromorphic visual system with optoelectronic synergy based on SnS2/BN/CuInP2S6 full van der Waals ferroelectric field‐effect transistor is reported. The device demonstrates a high switching ratio of 105, multilevel storage states of 128 (7 bits), excellent synaptic plasticity, and an image recognition accuracy of 93.62% based on reservoir computing.

A second edition of the bestselling guide to exploring and mastering deep learning with Keras, updated to include TensorFlow 2.x with new chapters on object detection, semantic segmentation, and unsupervised learning using mutual information.