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In solving change detection problem, unsupervised methods are usually preferred to their supervised counterparts due to the difficulty of producing labelled data. Nevertheless, in this paper, a supervised deep learning‐based method is presented for change detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. A Deep Belief Network (DBN) was employed as the deep architecture in the proposed method, and the training process of this network included unsupervised feature learning followed by supervised network fine‐tuning. From a general perspective, the trained DBN produces a change detection map as the output. Studies on DBNs demonstrate that they do not produce ideal output without a proper dataset for training. Therefore, the proposed method in this study provided a dataset with an appropriate data volume and diversity for training the DBN using the input images and those obtained from applying the morphological operators on them. The great computational volume and the time‐consuming nature of simulation are the drawbacks of deep learning‐based algorithms. To overcome such disadvantages, a method was introduced to greatly reduce computations without compromising the performance of the trained DBN. Experimental results indicated that the proposed method had an acceptable implementation time in addition to its desirable performance and high accuracy.

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Computational intelligence is employed to solve factual and complicated global problems, though neural networks (NNs) and evolutionary computing have also affected these issues. Biometric traits are applicable for detecting crime in security systems because they offer attractive features such as stability and uniqueness. Although various methods have been proposed for this objective, feature shortcomings such as computational complexity, long run times, and high memory consumption remain. The current study proposes a novel human iris recognition approach based on a multi-layer perceptron NN and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithms to train the network in order to increase generalisation performance. A combination of these algorithms was used as a classifier. A pre-processing step was performed on the iris images to improve the results and two-dimensional gabor kernel feature extraction was applied. The data was normalised, trained, and tested using the proposed method. A PSO algorithm was applied to train the NN for data classification. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than many other well-known techniques. The benchmark Chinese Academy of Science and Institute of Automation (CASIA)-iris V3 and Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) machine learning repository datasets were used for testing and comparison.

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