In this paper we present a high performance Deep Learning architecture based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed architecture is effective as it is capable of recognizing and analyzing with high accuracy different Sign language datasets. The sign language recognition is one of the most important tasks that will change the lives of deaf people by facilitating their daily life and their integration into society. Our approach was trained and tested on an American Sign Language (ASL) dataset, Irish Sign Alphabets (ISL) dataset and Arabic Sign Language Alphabet (ArASL) dataset and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by providing a recognition rate of 99% for ASL and ISL, and 98% for ArASL.

This paper proposes a novel algorithm that accurately predicts market trends and trading entry points for US 30-year-treasury bonds using a hybrid approach of 1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1DCNN), Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM), and XGBoost algorithms. We compared the performance of various strategies using 1DCNN and LSTM and found that existing state-of-the-art methods based on LSTM have excellent results in market movement prediction tasks, but the effectiveness of 1DCNN and LSTM in terms of trading entry point and market perturbations has not been studied thoroughly. We demonstrate, through experiments that our proposed 1DCNN-BiLSTM-XGBoost algorithm combined with moving averages crossover effectively mitigates noise and market perturbations, leading to high accuracy in spotting trading entry points and trend signals for US 30-year-treasury-bonds. Our experimental study shows that the proposed approach achieves an average of 0.0001% Root Mean Squared Error and 100% R-Square, making it a promising method for predicting the market trends and trading entry points.

The accumulation of plastic objects in the Earth’s environment will adversely affect wildlife, wildlife habitat, and humans. The huge amount of unrecycled plastic ends up in landfill and thrown into unregulated dump sites. In many cases, specifically in the developing countries, plastic waste is thrown into rivers, streams and oceans. In this work, we employed the power of deep learning techniques in image processing and classification to recognize plastic waste. Our work aims to identify plastic texture and plastic objects in images in order to reduce plastic waste in the oceans, and facilitate waste management. For this, we use transfer learning in two ways: in the first one, a pre-trained CNN model on ImageNet is used as a feature extractor, then an SVM classifier for classification, the second strategy is based on fine tuning the pre-trained CNN model. Our approach was trained and tested using two (02) challenging datasets one is a texture recognition dataset and the other is for object detection, and achieves very satisfactory results using two (02) deep learning strategies.

Deep learning methods have achieved significant success in various applications, including trend signal prediction in financial markets. However, most existing approaches only utilize price action data. In this paper, we propose a novel system that incorporates multiple data sources and market correlations to predict the trend signal of Ethereum cryptocurrency. We conduct experiments to investigate the relationship between price action, candlestick patterns, and Ethereum-Bitcoin correlation, aiming to achieve highly accurate trend signal predictions. We evaluate and compare two different training strategies for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), one based on transfer learning and the other on training from scratch. Our proposed 1-Dimensional CNN (1DCNN) model can also identify inflection points in price trends during specific periods through the analysis of statistical indicators. We demonstrate that our model produces more reliable predictions when utilizing multiple data representations. Our experiments show that by combining different types of data, it is possible to accurately identify both inflection points and trend signals with an accuracy of 98%.