Mealiness degrades the quality of apples and plays an important role in fruit market. Therefore, the use of reliable and rapid sensing techniques for nondestructive measurement and sorting of fruits is necessary. In this study, the potential of acoustic signals of rolling apples on an inclined plate as a new technique for nondestructive detection of Red Delicious apple mealiness was investigate...

We propose the “generalized min-max” (GMM) kernel as a measure of data similarity, where data vectors can have both positive and negative entries. GMM is positive definite as there is an associate hashing method named “generalized consistent weighted sampling” (GCWS) which linearizes this (nonlinear) kernel. A natural competitor of GMM is the radial basis function (RBF) kernel, whose correspond...

The present study proposes a new radial basis function which is derived based on an idea of mapping data into a high dimensional feature space which is known as Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) and then performing Radial Basis Function (RBF) network in the feature space. Orthogonal Least Squares (OLS) method is employed to select a suitable set of centers (regressors) from a large set of...

The selection of hyper-parameters plays an important role to the performance of least-squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs). In this paper, a novel hyper-parameter selection method for LS-SVMs is presented based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO). The proposed method does not need any priori knowledge on the analytic property of the generalization performance measure and can be used t...

A frequently used method to handle scattered data approximation problems on different structures is the interpolation by linear combinations of a single positive definite kernel. Here the underlying positive definite kernel is responsible for the quality of the common estimates of the two main issues in this approximation process. Firstly the approximation error and secondly the stability of th...

Based on the radial basis functions (RBF) and T-Trefftz solution, this paper presents a new meshless method for numerically solving various partial differential equation systems. First, the analog equation method (AEM) is used to convert the original patial differential equation to an equivalent Poisson’s equation. Then, the radial basis functions (RBF) are employed to approxiamate the inhomoge...

The focus of the paper is the problem of learning kernel operators from empirical data. We cast the kernel design problem as the construction of an accurate kernel from simple (and less accurate) base kernels. We use the boosting paradigm to perform the kernel construction process. To do so, we modify the booster so as to accommodate kernel operators. We also devise an efficient weak-learner fo...

Credit scoring models are very important tools for financial institutions to make credit granting decisions. In the last few decades, many quantitative methods have been used for the development of credit scoring models with focus on maximizing classification accuracy. This paper proposes the credit scoring models with the area under receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) maximization b...

OBJECTIVES Diabetes is increasing in worldwide prevalence, toward epidemic levels. Diabetic neuropathy, one of the most common complications of diabetes mellitus, is a serious condition that can lead to amputation. This study used a multicategory support vector machine (MSVM) to predict diabetic peripheral neuropathy severity classified into four categories using patients' demographic character...

Volume rendering with splatting most commonly decomposes a volume dataset into a field of overlapping radial basis function (RBF) kernels, such as Gaussians. The rendering effort is directly related to the number of RBFs in the volume and the degree of RBF overlap in the rasterization phase. Much work has been done that seeks to lower the number of RBFs by replacing a neighborhood of kernels wi...