Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has become popular for smart meters in recent years due to its low cost installation and maintenance. However, it requires efficient and robust machine learning models to disaggregate the respective electrical appliance energy from the mains. This study investigated NILM in the form of direct point-to-point multiple and single target regression models using convolutional neural networks. Two model architectures have been utilized and compared using five different metrics on two benchmarking datasets (ENERTALK and REDD). The experimental results showed that multi-target disaggregation setting is more complex than single-target disaggregation. For multi-target setting of ENERTALK dataset, the highest individual F1-score is 95.37% and the overall average F1-score is 75.00%. Better results were obtained for the multi-target setting of the other dataset with higher overall average F1-score of 83.32%. Additionally, the robustness and knowledge transfer capability of the models through cross-appliance and cross-domain disaggregation was demonstrated by training for a specific appliance on a specific data, and testing for a different appliance, house and dataset. The proposed models can also disaggregate simultaneous operating appliances with higher F1-scores.
First-break (FB) picking is an important and necessary step in seismic data processing and there is a need to develop precise and accurate auto-picking solutions. Our investigation in this study includes eight machine learning models. We use 1195 raw traces to extract several features and train for accurate picking and monitoring the performance of each model using well-defined evaluation metrics. Careful investigation of the scores shows that a single metric alone is not sufficient to evaluate the arrival picking models in real-time. Correlation analysis of predicted probabilities and predicted classes of machine learning models confirm that the performance metrics that use predicted probabilities have higher score value than those that use predicted classes. Our study which incorporates comparisons of different machine learning models based on different performance metrics, training time, and feature importance indicates that the approach we developed in this study is helpful and provides an opportunity to determine the real-time suitability of different methodologies for automatic FB arrival picking with clear deep insight. Based on performance scores, we bench-marked the Extra Tree classifier as the most efficient model for FB arrival picking with accuracy and F1score above 95%.
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