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FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in many application areas, due to the capability of automatically extracting and aggregating spatial and channel-wise features from images. Most recent studies have c... Read More about FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation.

Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The use of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems (HFS) has been well acknowledged as a good approach in reducing the complexity and improving the interpretability of fuzzy logic systems (FLS). Over the past years, many fuzzy logic toolkits have been made availa... Read More about Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox.

An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Recent years have seen a surge in interest in non-singleton fuzzy systems. These systems enable the direct modelling of uncertainty affecting systems' inputs using the fuzzification stage. Moreover, recent work has shown how different composition app... Read More about An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems.

FuzzyR: An Extended Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for the R Programming Language (2020)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents an R package FuzzyR which is an extended fuzzy logic toolbox for the R programming language. FuzzyR is a continuation of the previous Fuzzy R toolboxes such as FuzzyToolkitUoN. Whilst keeping existing functionalities of the previo... Read More about FuzzyR: An Extended Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for the R Programming Language.

A Hybrid Evolutionary Strategy to Optimise Early-Stage Cancer Screening (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Current methods to identify cutoff values for tumour-associated molecules (antigens) discrimination are based on statistics and brute force. These methods applied to cancer screening problems are very inefficient, especially with large data sets with... Read More about A Hybrid Evolutionary Strategy to Optimise Early-Stage Cancer Screening.

Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Most real-world environments are subject to different sources of uncertainty which may vary in magnitude over time. We propose that while Type-1 (T1) Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic System (NSFLSs) have the potential to tackle uncertainty within the input... Read More about Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels.

A Novel Weighted Combination Method for Feature Selection using Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper, we propose a novel weighted combination feature selection method using bootstrap and fuzzy sets. The proposed method mainly consists of three processes, including fuzzy sets generation using bootstrap, weighted combination of fuzzy set... Read More about A Novel Weighted Combination Method for Feature Selection using Fuzzy Sets.

On the Concept of Meaningfulness in Constrained Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Constrained type-2 fuzzy sets have been proposed as a tool to model type-2 fuzzy sets starting from a type-1 generator set with uncertainty. This constrained representation only defines as acceptable the embedded sets that have the same shape as the... Read More about On the Concept of Meaningfulness in Constrained Type-2 Fuzzy Sets.

Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study (2018)
Conference Proceeding

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly more interested in designing an interpretable Fuzzy Logic System (FLS). Many studies have claimed that reducing the complexity of FLSs can lead to improved model interpretability. That is, reducin... Read More about Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study.

Noise Parameter Estimation for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Real-world environments face a wide range of noise (uncertainty) sources and gaining insight into the level of noise is a critical part of many applications. While Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (NSFLSs), in particular recently introduced advanced... Read More about Noise Parameter Estimation for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems.

Exploring subsethood to determine firing strength in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Real world environments face a wide range of sources of noise and uncertainty. Thus, the ability to handle various uncertainties, including noise, becomes an indispensable element of automated decision making. Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (NSFLS... Read More about Exploring subsethood to determine firing strength in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems.

Exploring Constrained Type-2 fuzzy sets (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Fuzzy logic has been widely used to model human reasoning thanks to its inherent capability of handling uncertainty. In particular, the introduction of Type-2 fuzzy sets added the possibility of expressing uncertainty even on the definition of the me... Read More about Exploring Constrained Type-2 fuzzy sets.

Direct Application of Convolutional Neural Network Features to Image Quality Assessment (2018)
Conference Proceeding

© 2018 IEEE. We take advantage of the popularity of deep con-volutional neural networks (CNNs) and have developed a very simple image quality assessment method that rivals state of the art. We show that convolutional layer outputs (deep features) of... Read More about Direct Application of Convolutional Neural Network Features to Image Quality Assessment.

Comparison of fuzzy integral-fuzzy measure based ensemble algorithms with the state-of-the-art ensemble algorithms (2018)
Conference Proceeding

The Fuzzy Integral (FI) is a non-linear aggregation operator which enables the fusion of information from multiple sources in respect to a Fuzzy Measure (FM) which captures the worth of both the individual sources and all their possible combinations.... Read More about Comparison of fuzzy integral-fuzzy measure based ensemble algorithms with the state-of-the-art ensemble algorithms.

Visual landmark sequence-based indoor localization (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a method that uses common objects as landmarks for smartphone-based indoor localization and navigation. First, a topological map marking relative positions of common objects such as doors, stairs and toilets is generated from floo... Read More about Visual landmark sequence-based indoor localization.

Determining firing strengths through a novel similarity measure to enhance uncertainty handling in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Non-singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems have the potential to tackle uncertainty within the design of fuzzy systems. The inference process has a major role in determining results, being partly based on the interaction of input and antecedent fuzzy sets (in... Read More about Determining firing strengths through a novel similarity measure to enhance uncertainty handling in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems.

Vehicle incident hot spots identification: An approach for big data (2017)
Conference Proceeding

In this work we introduce a fast big data approach for road incident hot spot identification using Apache Spark. We implement an existing immuno-inspired mechanism, namely SeleSup, as a series of MapReduce-like operations. SeleSup is composed of a nu... Read More about Vehicle incident hot spots identification: An approach for big data.

Type-1 and interval type-2 ANFIS: a comparison (2017)
Conference Proceeding

In a previous paper, we proposed an extended ANFIS architecture and showed that interval type-2 ANFIS produced larger errors than type-1 ANFIS on the well-known IRIS classification problem. In this paper, more experiments on both synthetic and real-w... Read More about Type-1 and interval type-2 ANFIS: a comparison.

A new dynamic approach for non-singleton fuzzification in noisy time-series prediction (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Non-singleton fuzzification is used to model uncertain (e.g. noisy) inputs within fuzzy logic systems. In the standard approach, assuming the fuzzification type is known, the observed [noisy] input is usually considered to be the core of the input fu... Read More about A new dynamic approach for non-singleton fuzzification in noisy time-series prediction.

Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems are a well known category of decision making problem that has received much attention in the literature, with a key approach being the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPS... Read More about Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS.