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    Gearbox fault diagnosis based on Multi-Scale deep residual learning and stacked LSTM model
    (Elsevier B.V., 2021) Ravikumar, K.N.; Yadav, A.; Kumar, H.; Gangadharan, K.V.; Narasimhadhan, A.V.
    Fault diagnosis methods based on signal analysis techniques are widely used to diagnose faults in gear and bearing. This paper introduces a fault diagnosis model that includes a multi-scale deep residual learning with a stacked long short-term memory (MDRL-SLSTM) to address sequence data in a gearbox health prediction task in an internal combustion (IC) engine. In the MDRL-SLSTM network, CNN and residual learning is firstly utilized for local feature extraction and dimension reduction. The experiment is carried out on the gearbox of an IC engine setup, two datasets are used; one is from bearing and the other from 2nd driving gear of gearbox. To reduce the number of parameters, down-sampling is carried out on input data before giving to the architecture. The model achieved better diagnostic performance with vibration data of gearbox. Classification accuracy of 94.08% and 94.33% are attained on bearing datasets and 2nd driving gear of gearbox respectively. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
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    Recent advancements of CFD and heat transfer studies in pyrolysis: A review
    (Elsevier B.V., 2023) Dadi, V.S.; Sridevi, V.; Tanneru, H.K.; Busigari, R.R.; Ramesh, P.; Kulkarni, A.; Mishra, G.; Basak, T.
    There is a pressing need to process the solid waste by using pyrolysis technology due to its uniqueness to produce various solid, liquid and gaseous products. However, further understanding of pyrolysis process is needed. Most importantly, the role of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in pyrolysis is to be thoroughly investigated. In recent times, there has been significant progress in the research works aligned with evaluating the role of CFD in biomass pyrolysis. Hence, the current review manuscript focusses the current state of the art in the application of CFD tools to multi-scale biomass pyrolysis systems. Modeling of fluid and heat transport in conventional pyrolysis reactors, microwave-assisted pyrolysis reactors, and solar-assisted pyrolysis reactors for the conversion of biomass have been critically analyzed. The theoretical basis and the practical applicability of the CFD models to efficiently emulate and predict the overall complexity of pyrolysis process for the multi-scale and multi-phase nature of biomass have been discussed. However, the validity and accuracy of the CFD models needs to be enhanced. In the future directions, the steps for expanding the applicability of these theoretical and computational models have been outlined. This review would provide detailed understanding of CFD role in pyrolysis process conducted in various reactor systems. © 2023 Elsevier B.V.
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    Latent fingerprint segmentation using multi-scale attention U-Net
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2024) Akhila, P.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Latent fingerprints are the fingerprints lifted from crime scene surfaces. Segmentation of latent fingerprints from the background is an important preprocessing task which is challenging due to the poor quality of the fingerprints. Though fingerprint segmentation approaches based on their orientation and frequency are reported in the literature, they could not adequately address the problem. We propose a latent fingerprint segmentation model based on the U-Net attention network in this work. We added the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) layer to the network to facilitate multi-scale fingerprint segmentation. Our approach could effectively segment the latent fingerprint region from the background and even detect occluded and partial fingerprints with simple network architecture. To evaluate the performance, we have compared our results with the manual ground truth using NIST SD27A dataset. Our segmentation model has improved matching accuracy on the NIST SD27A dataset. © 2024 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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    End-to-end latent fingerprint enhancement using multi-scale Generative Adversarial Network
    (Elsevier B.V., 2024) Pramukha, R.N.; Akhila, P.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Latent fingerprint enhancement is paramount as it dramatically influences matching accuracy. This process is often challenging due to varying structured noise and background patterns. The prints may be of arbitrary sizes and scales with a high degree of occlusion. There is a need for creating an end-to-end system that handles different conditions reliably to streamline this often lengthy and tricky process. In this work, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based architecture that effectively captures multi-scale context using Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP). We have trained the network on a synthetically generated dataset, carefully designed to represent real-world latent prints. By avoiding the reconstruction of spurious ridges and only enhancing valid ridges, we avoid the generation of false minutiae, leading to better matching performance. We obtained state-of-the-art results in Sensor to Latent matching using the IIITD MOLF and Latent to Latent Matching using IIITD Latent datasets. © 2024 Elsevier B.V.