This paper gives a brief introduction of rough sets theory. Taking the fault diagnosis of the diesel engine valve clearance for example, it discusses about the basic algorithms and methods to extract fault symptoms based on rough sets theory. The conclusion shows the possibility to develop intelligent fault diagnosis with the combined application of fuzzy theory and neural network theory.

It is difficult for a human operator to monitor multiple video streams in real-time surveillance tasks. A variety of machine learning algorithms have been proposed for target tracking, but human intervention is still necessary because the algorithms have limitations to detect and recover from tracking failures. In this paper, we propose a supervisory target tracking method for multi-video surveillance tasks based on hTLD (human-in-the-loop Tracking-Learning-Detection). The human operator can monitor both the original video streams and the calculated confidence values of the tracking results. Human intervention allows to update the training data for TLD whenever a tracking failure is observed, by manually drawing a bounding box or using an eye-tracker to relocate the target. Meanwhile, an interactive on-line learning algorithm is used to learn the relations between the confidence values and the tracking results. In this way, the confidence values help avoid unnecessary intervention caused by false alarms of tracking failures. Experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed method can reduce the task completion time. Interactive learning, eye-tracker, target tracking, TLD.