A novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which has become a great concern for the world, was identified first in Wuhan city in China. The rapid spread throughout the world was accompanied by an alarming number of infected patients and increasing number of deaths gradually. If the number of infected cases can be predicted in advance, it would have a large contribution to controlling this pandemic in any area. Therefore, this study introduces an integrated model for predicting the number of confirmed cases from the perspective of Bangladesh. Moreover, the number of quarantined patients and the change in basic reproduction rate (the R0-value) can also be evaluated using this model. This integrated model combines the SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Removed) epidemiological model and neural networks. The model was trained using available data from 250 days. The accuracy of the prediction of confirmed cases is almost between 90% and 99%. The performance of this integrated model was evaluated by showing the difference in accuracy between the integrated model and the general SEIR model. The result shows that the integrated model is more accurate than the general SEIR model while predicting the number of confirmed cases in Bangladesh.

Nowadays, the recognition of facial expression draws significant attention in various domains. In view of this, a realtime facial expression recognition system has been developed using a Deep Learning approach, which can classify ten emotions, including angry, disgust, fear, happy, mockery, neutral, sad, surprise, think, and wink. In addition, an integrated expert system has also been developed by integrating Deep Learning with a Belief Rule Base to support the assessment of the overall mental state of a person over a period of time from video streaming data under uncertainty. In this research, data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches are integrated together to assess the mental state of an individual. Such a system could enable the identification of a suspect before committing any crime beforehand by the law enforcement agency. The performance of this integrated system is found reliable than existing methods of facial expression assessment.Contribution-The paper presents a noble method of computing the overall mental condition of a person by integrating CNN and BRBES under uncertainty.

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Researchers around the world are now focused on to make our devices more interactive and trying to make the devices operational with minimal physical contact. In this research, we propose an interactive computer system which can operate without any physical keyboard and mouse. This system can be beneficial to everyone, especially to the paralyzed people who face difficulties to operate physical keyboard and mouse. We used computer vision so that user can type on virtual keyboard using a yellow-colored cap on his fingertip, and can also navigate to mouse controlling system. Once the user is in mouse controlling mode, user can perform all the mouse operations only by showing different number of fingers. We validated both module of our system by a 52 years old paralyzed person and achieved around 80% accuracy on average.

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