The increasing interest in Support Vector Machines (SVMs) over the past 15 years is described. Methods are illustrated using simulated case studies, and 4 experimental case studies, namely mass spectrometry for studying pollution, near infrared analysis of food, thermal analysis of polymers and UV/visible spectroscopy of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The basis of SVMs as two-class classifiers is s...

The technique of support vector regression is applied to the problem of estimating the chromaticity of the light illuminating a scene from a color histogram of an image of the scene. Illumination estimation is fundamental to white balancing digital color images and to understanding human color constancy. Under controlled experimental conditions, the support vector method is shown to perform bet...

In this article, we provide some preliminary theoretical analysis and extended practical experiments of a novel regression method proposed recently which is based on representing regression problems as classification ones with duplicated and shifted data. The main results regard partial equivalency of Bayes solutions for regression problems and the transformed classification ones, and improved ...

Generation and load balance is required in the economic scheduling of generating units in the smart grid. Variable energy generations particularly from wind and solar energy resources are witnessing a rapid boost, and, it is anticipated that with a certain level of their penetration, they become noteworthy sources of uncertainty. As in the case of load demand, energy forecasting can also be use...

We develop an intuitive geometric framework for support vector regression (SVR). By examining when ǫ-tubes exist, we show that SVR can be regarded as a classification problem in the dual space. Hard and soft ǫ-tubes are constructed by separating the convex or reduced convex hulls respectively of the training data with the response variable shifted up and down by ǫ. A novel SVR model is proposed...

From optimizing a car’s performance, encouraging safer driving to accurate insurance pricing, it is desirable to be able to identify a driver by his driving style. Using a car data supplied by MetroMile Inc., driving styles were analyzed and core features were extracted. Two learning models were investigated and evaluated:support vector machine (SVM) and multinomial logistic regression. High ac...

this paper is concerned with the development of a novel classifier for automatic mass detection of mammograms, based on contourlet feature extraction in conjunction with statistical and fuzzy classifiers. in this method, mammograms are segmented into regions of interest (roi) in order to extract features including geometrical and contourlet coefficients. the extracted features benefit from...

This paper attempts to predict heavy metals (Pb, Zn and Cu) in the groundwater from Arak city, using support vector regression model(SVR) by taking major elements (HCO3, SO4) in the groundwater from Arak city. 150 data samples and several models were trained and tested using collected data to determine the optimum model in which each model involved two inputs and three outputs. This SVR model f...