This work deals with the classification methods used in the knowledge discovery from data process and discusses the possibilities of their validation and comparison. Through experiments, the work focuses on the analysis of four selected methods: Naive Bayes classificator, decision tree, neural network and SVM. Factors influencing basic characteristics such as training speed, classification speed, accuracy are examined. A part of the thesis is a desktop application, which is a tool for training, testing and validation of individual methods. Eleven reference data sets are selected for experimental purposes. At the end of this work experimental results of comparison and observed characteristics of classification methods are summarized.

Táto práca sa zaoberá problematikou identifikácie sieťových zariadení na základe ich chovania v sieti. S neustále sa zvyšujúcim počtom zariadení na sieti je neustále dôležitejšia schopnosť identifikovať zariadenia z bezpečnostných dôvodov. Táto práca ďalej pojednáva o základoch počítačových sietí a metódach, ktoré boli využívané v minulosti na identifikáciu sieťových zariadení. Následne sú popísané algoritmy využívané v strojovom učení a taktiež sú popísané ich výhody i nevýhody. Nakoniec, táto práca otestuje dva tradičné algorithmy strojového učenia a navrhuje dva nové prístupy na identifikáciu sieťových zariadení. Výsledný navrhovaný algoritmus v tejto práci dosahuje 89% presnosť identifikácii sieťových zariadení na reálnej dátovej sade s viac ako 10000 zariadeniami.

Reducing unscheduled maintenance is important for aircraft operators. There are significant costs if flights must be delayed or cancelled, for example, if spares are not available and have to be shipped across the world. This thesis describes three methods of aircraft health condition monitoring and prediction; one for system monitoring, one for forecasting and one combining the two other methods for a complete monitoring and prediction process. Together, the three methods allow organizations to forecast possible failures. The first two use decision trees for decision-making and genetic optimization to improve the performance of the decision trees and to reduce the need for human interaction. Decision trees have several advantages: the generated code is quickly and easily processed, it can be altered by human experts without much work, it is readable by humans, and it requires few resources for learning and evaluation. The readability and the ability to modify the results are especially important; special knowledge can be gained and errors produced by the automated code generation can be removed. A large number of data sets is needed for meaningful predictions. This thesis uses two data sources: first, data from existing aircraft sensors, and second, sound and vibration data from additionally installed sensors. It draws on methods from the field of big data and machine learning to analyse and prepare the data sets for the prediction process.

Many metropolitan cities motivate people to exploit public bike-sharing programs as alternative transportation for many reasons. Due to its’ popularity, multiple types of research on optimizing public bike-sharing systems is conducted on city-level, neighborhood-level, station-level, or user-level to predict the public bike demand. Previously, the research on the public bike demand prediction primarily focused on discovering a relationship with weather as an external factor that possibly impacted the bike usage or analyzing the bike user trend in one aspect. This work hypothesizes two external factors that are likely to affect public bike demand: weather and air pollution. This study uses a public bike data set, daily temperature, precipitation data, and air condition data to discover the trend of bike usage using multiple machine learning techniques such as Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, and Random Forest. After conducting the research, each algorithm’s output is evaluated with performance comparisons such as accuracy, precision, or sensitivity. As a result, Random Forest is an efficient classifier for the bike demand prediction by weather and precipitation, and Decision Tree performs best for the bike demand prediction by air pollutants. Also, the three class labelings in the daily bike demand has high specificity, and is easy to trace the trend of the public bike system.

本論文は第二言語話者の発話を高精度で認識するための音素セットの構成方法に関する研究結果を述べている．本論文では，第二言語話者の発話をネイティブ話者の発話とは異なる音響特徴量の頻度分布を持つ情報源とみなし，これを表現する適切な音素セットを構築する手法を提案している．具体的には，対象とする第二言語と母語との調音位置や調音様式などの類似性に加え，同音異義語の発生による単語識別性能の低下を総合した基準に基づき，最適な音素セットを決定する．提案手法を日本人学生の英語発話の音声認識に適用し，種々の条件下で認識精度の向上を検証した． / This dissertation focuses on the problem caused by confused mispronunciation to improve the recognition performance of second language speech. A novel method considering integrated acoustic and linguistic features is proposed to derive a reduced phoneme set for L2 speech recognition. The customized phoneme set is created with a phonetic decision tree (PDT)-based top-down sequential splitting method that utilizes the phonological knowledge between L1 and L2. The dissertation verifies the efficacy of the proposed method for Japanese English and shows that the feasibility of building a speech recognizer with the proposed method is able to alleviate the problem caused by confused mispronunciation by second language speakers. / 博士(工学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

The understanding of what motivates a customer to pay more for a product or service has al-ways been a fundamental question in business. To the end of answering this question, revenue management is a business practice that revolves around using analytics to predict consumer behavior and willingness-to-pay. It has been a common practice within the commercial airline and hospitality industries for over 30 years, allowing adopters to reach their service capacity with increased profit margins. In this thesis, we investigated the possibility to apply revenue management to the last mile delivery industry, an industry that provides the service of delivering goods from e-commerce companies to the consumer’s front door. To achieve this objective, a revenue management framework was conceived, detailing the interaction between the customer and a dynamic pricing model. The model itself was a product of a machine learning model, intended to segment the customers and predict the willingness-to-pay of each customer segment. The performance of this model was tested through a quantitative study on synthetic buyers, subject to parameters that influence their willingness-to-pay. It was observed that the model was able to distinguish between different types of customers, yielding a pricing policy that increased profits by 7.5% in comparison to fixed price policies. It was concluded that several factors may impact the customer’s willingness-to-pay within the last mile delivery industry. Amongst these, the convenience that the service provides and the disparity between the price of the product and the price of the service were the most notable. However, the magnitude of considering these parameters was never determined. Finally, em-ploying dynamic pricing has the potential to increase the availability of the service, enabling a wider audience to afford the service. / Vad som motiverar en kund att betala mer för en tjänst eller en produkt har länge varit ett centralt koncept inom affärslivet. Intäktsoptimering är en affärspraxis som strävar efter att besvara den frågan, genom att med analytiska verktyg mäta och förutse betalningsviljan hos kunden. Intäktsoptimering har länge varit framträdande inom flyg- och hotellbranschen, där företag som anammat strategin har möjlighets att öka försäljningsvinsten. I detta examensarbete undersöker vi möjligheten att applicera intäktsoptimering på sista milen industrin, en industri som leverar köpta produkten hem till kunden. För att uppnå detta har vi tagit fram ett ramverk för informationsflöden inom intäktsoptimering som beskriver hur kunder interagerar med en dynamisk prissättningsmodell. Denna prissättningsmodell framställs genom maskininlärning med avsikt att segmentera kundbasen, för att sedan förutse betalningsviljan hos varje kundsegment. Modellens prestanda mättes genom en kvantitativ studie på syntetiska kunder som beskrivs av parametrar som påverkar betalningsviljan. Studien påvisade att modellen kunde skilja på betalningsviljan hos olika kunder och resulterade i en genomsnittlig vinstökning på 7.5% i jämförelse med statiska prissättningsmodeller. Det finns mänga olika faktorer som spelar in på kundens betalningsvilja inom sista milen industrin. Bekvämlighet och skillnader i priset på produkten som levereras och tjänsten att leverera produkten är två anmärkningsvärda faktorer. Hur stor inverkan faktorerna som beskrivs i detta examensarbete, har på betalningsviljan, förblev obesvarat. Slutligen uppmärksammades möjligheten att, med hjälp av dynamisk prissättning, öka tillgängligheten av tjänsten då flera kunder kan ha råd med en prissättning som överväger deras betalningsvilja.

<p dir="ltr">The rapid development of machine learning techniques makes it possible to manipulate or synthesize video and audio information while introducing nearly indetectable artifacts. Most media forensics methods analyze the high-level data (e.g., pixels from videos, temporal signals from audios) decoded from compressed media data. Since media manipulation or synthesis methods usually aim to improve the quality of such high-level data directly, acquiring forensic evidence from these data has become increasingly challenging. In this work, we focus on media forensics techniques using the metadata in media formats, which includes container metadata and coding parameters in the encoded bitstream. Since many media manipulation and synthesis methods do not attempt to hide metadata traces, it is possible to use them for forensics tasks. First, we present a video forensics technique using metadata embedded in MP4/MOV video containers. Our proposed method achieved high performance in video manipulation detection, source device attribution, social media attribution, and manipulation tool identification on publicly available datasets. Second, we present a transformer neural network based MP3 audio forensics technique using low-level codec information. Our proposed method can localize multiple compressed segments in MP3 files. The localization accuracy of our proposed method is higher compared to other methods. Third, we present an H.264-based video device matching method. This method can determine if the two video sequences are captured by the same device even if the method has never encountered the device. Our proposed method achieved good performance in a three-fold cross validation scheme on a publicly available video forensics dataset containing 35 devices. Fourth, we present a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approach for the analysis of MP4/MOV metadata trees. The proposed method is trained using Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), which increased the robustness of the proposed method and makes it capable of handling missing/unseen data. Fifth, we present an efficient approach to compute the spectrogram feature with MP3 compressed audio signals. The proposed approach decreases the complexity of speech feature computation by ~77.6% and saves ~37.87% of MP3 decoding time. The resulting spectrogram features lead to higher synthetic speech detection performance.</p>

Noise pollution is a big health hazard for people living in urban areas, and its effects on humans is a growing field of research. One of the major contributors to urban noise pollution is the noise generated by traffic. Noise simulations can be made in order to build noise maps used for noise management action plans, but in order to test their accuracy real measurements needs to be done, in this case in the form of noise measurements taken adjacent to a road. The aim of this project is to test machine learning based methods in order to develop a robust way of detecting and classifying vehicle noise in sparse traffic conditions. The primary focus is to detect traffic noise events, and the secondary focus is to classify what kind of vehicle is producing the noise. The data used in this project comes from sensors installed on a testbed at a street in southern Stockholm. The sensors include a microphone that is continuously measuring the local noise environment, a radar that detects each time a vehicle is passing by, and a camera that also detects a vehicle by capturing its license plate. Only sparse traffic noises are considered for this thesis, as such the audio recordings used are those where the radar has only detected one vehicle in a 40 second window. This makes the data gathered weakly labeled. The resulting detection method is a two-step process: First, the unsupervised learning method k-means is implemented for the generation of strong labels. Second, the supervised learning method random forest or support vector machine uses the strong labels in order to classify audio features. The detection system of sparse traffic noise achieved satisfactory results. However, the unsupervised vehicle classification method produced inadequate results and the clustering could not differentiate different vehicle classes based on the noise data. / Buller är en stor hälsorisk för människor som bor i stadsområden, och dess effekter på människor är ett växande forskningsfält. En av de största bidragen till stadsbuller är oljud som genereras av trafiken. Man kan utföra simuleringar i syfte att skapa bullerkartor som kan användas till planer för att minska dessa ljud. För att testa deras noggrannhet måste verkliga mätningar tas, i detta fall i formen av ljudmätningar tagna intill en väg. Syftet med detta projekt är att testa maskininlärningsmetoder för att utveckla ett robust sätt att detektera och klassificera fordonsljud i glesa trafikförhållanden. Primärt fokus ligger på att detektera bullerhändelser från trafiken, och sekundärt fokus är att försöka klassificera vilken typ av fordon som producerade ljudet. Datan som används i detta projekt kommer från sensorer installerade på en testbädd på en gata i södra Stockholm. Sensorerna inkluderar en mikrofon som kontinuerligt mäter den lokala ljudmiljön, en radar som detekterar varje gång ett fordon passerar, och en kamera som också detekterar ett fordon genom att ta bild på dess registreringsskylt. Endast ljud från gles trafik kommer att beaktas och användas i detta arbete, och därför används bara de ljudinspelningar där radarn har upptäckt ett enskilt fordon under ett 40 sekunders intervall. Detta gör att den insamlade datan har svaga etiketter. Den resulterande detekteringsmetoden är en tvåstegsprocess: För det första används den oövervakade inlärningsmetoden k-means för att generera starka etiketter. För det andra används de starka etiketterna av den övervakade inlärningsmetoden slumpmässig beslutsskog eller stödvektormaskin i syfte att klassificera ljudegenskaper. Detekteringssystemet av glest trafikljud uppnådde tillfredsställande resultat. Däremot producerade den oövervakade klassificeringsmetoden för fordonsljud otillräckliga resultat, och klustringen kunde inte urskilja mellan olika fordonsklasser baserat på ljuddatan.

The field of crisis management and humanitarian assistance has been one of the major fields of development for governmental and common best European practices in the last decades. The European Union as a major humanitarian stakeholder has taken great effort to strengthen the response in case of humanitarian disasters. This work addresses the feasibility and possible benefits of using machine learning in the prediction of the impact severity of a disaster as a model-driven data analysis in comparison to data-driven reference models for early response coordination and preparedness. In comparison to classical data analysis systems the feasibility of earthquake impact prediction based on machine learning models is evaluated and further debated.

This thesis deals with a comparison of classification methods. At first, these classification methods based on machine learning are described, then a classifier comparison system is designed and implemented. This thesis also describes some classification tasks and datasets on which the designed system will be tested. The evaluation of classification tasks is done according to standard metrics. In this thesis is presented design and implementation of a classifier that is based on the principle of evolutionary algorithms.