Nasrin Bayat

Nasrin Bayat, Elham Rastegari, Qifeng Li

In this paper, we propose a novel gait recognition method based on a bag-of-words feature representation method. The algorithm is trained, tested and evaluated on a unique human gait data consisting of 93 individuals who walked with comfortable pace between two end points during two different sessions. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model, the results are compared with the outputs of the classification using extracted features. As it is presented, the proposed method results in significant improvement accuracy compared to using common statistical features, in all the used classifiers.

Nasrin Bayat

In the present study, a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based Demand Response (DR) model, using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to predict load is proposed. The electrical load and climatological data of a residential area in Austin city in Texas are used as the inputs of the ANN. Then, the outcomes with the day-ahead prices data are used to solve the load shifting and cost reduction problem. According to the results, the proposed model has the ability to decrease payment costs and peak load.