Haifei Zhang

The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), a non-invasive EEG modality, is a prominent approach for brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) due to its high signal-to-noise ratio and minimal user training. However, its practical utility is often hampered by susceptibility to noise, artifacts, and concurrent brain activities, complicating signal decoding. To address this, we propose a novel hybrid deep learning model that integrates a multi-channel restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) with a convolutional neural network (CNN). The framework comprises two main modules: a feature extraction module and a classification module. The former employs a multi-channel RBM to unsupervisedly learn latent feature representations from multi-channel EEG data, effectively capturing inter-channel correlations to enhance feature discriminability. The latter leverages convolutional operations to further extract spatiotemporal features, constructing a deep discriminative model for the automatic recognition of SSVEP signals. Comprehensive evaluations on multiple public datasets demonstrate that our proposed method achieves competitive performance compared to various benchmarks, particularly exhibiting superior effectiveness and robustness in short-time window scenarios.

To address the issues of lacking scientific references for film investment decisions and low prediction accuracy of single models, this paper integrates the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm with a fully connected neural network (FCNN) to construct the XGBoost-FCNN model. First, the Bayesian optimization algorithm is used to tune the hyperparameters of XGBoost. A two-stage optimization strategy combining particle swarm optimization and Bayesian optimization is employed to optimize the hyperparameters of FCNN. Then, the sequence least squares planning algorithm is used to minimize the error between the prediction values of the two models, thereby determining the model fusion weights. Finally, experimental results based on 7,668 publicly available IMDb data points from the Kaggle platform demonstrate that the model achieved an R ² value of 0.7240 on the test set, with MAE of 0.7048, MAPE of 4.5858, MSE of 1.0678, and RMSE of 1.0334. This indicates that the experimental model outperforms XGBoost, FCNN, and gradient_boost models in terms of stability and accuracy, demonstrating a certain degree of resistance to overfitting and providing a feasible solution for movie box office prediction.

With the development of artificial intelligence, reinforcement-learning-based intelligent control algorithms, which generally learn control strategies through trial and error, have received more attention in the automation equipment and manufacturing fields. Although they can intelligently adjust their control strategy without the need for human effort, the most relevant algorithms for servo motors only consider the overall performance, while ignoring the risks in special cases. Therefore, overcurrent problems are often triggered in the training process of the reinforcement learning agent. This can damage the motors’ service life and even burn it out directly. To solve this problem, in this study we propose a risk-sensitive intelligent control algorithm based on value distribution, which uses the quantile function to model the probability distribution of cumulative discount returns and employs the condition value at risk to measure the loss caused by overcurrent. The agent can accordingly learn a control strategy that is more sensitive to environmental restrictions and avoid the overcurrent problem. The performance is verified on three different servo motors with six control tasks, and the experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve fewer overcurrent occurrences than others in most cases.

Servo motors play an important role in automation equipment and have been used in several manufacturing fields. However, the commonly used control methods need their parameters to be set manually, which is rather difficult, and this means that these methods generally cannot adapt to changes in operation conditions. Therefore, in this study, we propose an intelligent control method for a servo motor based on reinforcement learning and that can train an agent to produce a duty cycle according to the servo error between the current state and the target speed or torque. The proposed method can adjust its control strategy online to reduce the servo error caused by a change in operation conditions. We verify its performance on three different servo motors and control tasks. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve smaller servo errors than others in most cases.

In order to improve the segmentation effect of brain tumor images and address the issue of feature information loss during convolutional neural network (CNN) training, we present an MRI brain tumor segmentation method that leverages an enhanced U-Net architecture. First, the ResNet50 network was used as the backbone network of the improved U-Net, the deeper CNN can improve the feature extraction effect. Next, the Residual Module was enhanced by incorporating the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM). To increase characterization capabilities, focus on important features and suppress unnecessary features. Finally, the cross-entropy loss function and the Dice similarity coefficient are mixed to compose the loss function of the network. To solve the class unbalance problem of the data and enhance the tumor area segmentation outcome. The method's segmentation performance was evaluated using the test set. In this test set, the enhanced U-Net achieved an average Intersection over Union (IoU) of 86.64% and a Dice evaluation score of 87.47%. These values were 3.13% and 2.06% higher, respectively, compared to the original U-Net and R-Unet models. Consequently, the proposed enhanced U-Net in this study significantly improves the brain tumor segmentation efficacy, offering valuable technical support for MRI diagnosis and treatment.

The traditional Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm has been widely used in continuous action spaces, but it still suffers from the problems of easily falling into local optima and large error fluctuations. Aiming at these deficiencies, this paper proposes a dual-actor-dual-critic DDPG algorithm (DN-DDPG). First, on the basis of the original actor-critic network architecture of the algorithm, a critic network is added to assist the training, and the smallest Q value of the two critic networks is taken as the estimated value of the action in each update. Reduce the probability of local optimal phenomenon; then, introduce the idea of dual-actor network to alleviate the underestimation of value generated by dual-evaluator network, and select the action with the greatest value in the two-actor networks to update to stabilize the training of the algorithm process. Finally, the improved method is validated on four continuous action tasks provided by MuJoCo, and the results show that the improved method can reduce the fluctuation range of error and improve the cumulative return compared with the classical algorithm.

Aiming at the demand of industrial instrument reading, this study proposes a method of industrial instrument classification and reading recognition based on YOLOv3. Given that industrial meters can be divided into pointer meters and digital meters according to the dial type, this method conducts a reading study for each of the two types of meters. Firstly, the YOLOv3 model is trained to recognize and detect the meter types and classify the meters according to the values of the obtained classes. The pointer meter uses a Hough circle to detect the dial, extracts the scale and the pointer, calculates the angle between the 0 scale line and the pointer, and obtains the reading of the pointer meter. The digital meter extracts the digits by finding the contours of the dial and the digit area and then uses a support vector machine (SVM) to identify the extracted digits and output the readings of the digital meter. Through the test, the mean average precision (mAP) of the recognition model in this study is 93.73%. The absolute error of pointer meter reading is less than 0.1 in general, and the maximum relative error is 0.35%. The accuracy of the digital meter reading is 99.7%. The proposed method can accurately read the value of the instrument and meet the needs of industrial production.