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Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) defines as non-technical losses the problems that happen during the energy consumption measurement process. A feasible alternative to reduce those losses is the energy consumption reading process performed by customers, called self-reading. This process might be executed across digital platforms such as mobile applications and the customers would register and send consumption information. In this context, the consumption reading using voice is a simple way for the public that has lower affinity for technology to perform self-reading. Therefore, this work proposes an end-to-end speech recognition method applied to the energy consumption measurement that uses a neural network architecture based on Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T). The proposed method uses a modified architecture called Residual Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RRNN-T) which contains a Residual Skip that make its behavior similar to a network shallower than RNN-T by skipping some layers in the training process. That strategy saves computational cost of the inference process and disk space. A spelled sequence of digits is the input of the proposed method that recognizes those digits and outputs the electrical energy consumption reading measured in kilowatts per hour. The dataset used in this work contains 111,224 samples of spelled sequences divided into 70\% for training and 30\% for test. The proposed method obtains 0.05 word error rate (WER) and inference time less than 3 seconds on mobile devices.

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Self-Reading by Speech: An End-to-end Speech Recognition Method Applied to the Energy Consumption Measurement on Mobile Devices

self-reading

energy consumption measurement

audio processing

mobile devices

neural networks

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COLING, the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is one of the premier conferences for natural language processing and computational linguistics. Often grouped within the field of artificial intelligence, but actually pre-dating the development of artificial intelligence, advances in computational linguistics and natural language processing are now some of the major drivers behind the use of artificial intelligence for commercial and social applications – for example, on-line search, machine translation and with voice-assisted conversational devices.

First established in 1965, the biennial COLING conference is held in diverse parts of the globe and attracts participants from both top-ranked research centers and emerging countries. Today, the most important developments in our field are taking place not only in universities and academic research institutes, but also in industrial research departments and in technological startups. COLING conferences provide opportunities for all these communities to showcase their exciting developments.

COLING 2020

COLING, the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is one of the premier conferences for natural language processing and computational linguistics. Often grouped within the field of artificial intelligence, but actually pre-dating the development of artificial intelligence, advances in computational linguistics and natural language processing are now some of the major drivers behind the use of artificial intelligence for commercial and social applications – for example, on-line search, machine translation and with voice-assisted conversational devices.

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The 27th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing.

A digital watermark is an information or signal inserted into a digital content (image, audio, video, document, software) that can be used to determine its ownership, showing who created or sold it, or to ensure its integrity. Typically, the same watermark is added consistently to mark movie collections. Consequently, media with a visible watermark will be eventually susceptible to the necessity of watermark remission, operation that could be an issue. This paper presents two new and very
fast algorithms for watermark detection and removal. The here considered watermarks could be blended, overlaid or added in a continuous form to the digital video on remission treatment. The first of such algorithms use a template matching approach to pre-process the blended watermarks frame-to-frame in the Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) color space, and then improve the detection using a post-processing step. The second algorithm presents two steps as well. Initially, it estimates the structure of a translucent watermark observing the constancy of its gradient magnitude in the area corresponding to the tenth part of each video. Secondly, it uses a sliding window to detect the watermarked in the frames. The results show that watermark detection by both algorithms has high sensitivity. Moreover, they are very fast when compared with other methods especially those based on deep learning

Watermark Detection and Clearance in Video Using Simple Signal and Image Processing Techniques

Interpretability of machine learning models: application for lawsuit prediction in the energy sector

Robust Scene Understanding Via Real-Time Approximate Bayesian Computations

Modern Architecture for Core Video Understanding

Meta-Learning Applications in Digital Image Processing

Learning to "see" touch

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