Mosquitoes are responsible for the most number of deaths every year throughout the world. Bangladesh is also a big sufferer of this problem. Dengue, malaria, chikungunya, zika, yellow fever etc are caused by dangerous mosquito bites. The main three types of mosquitoes which are found in Bangladesh are aedes, anopheles and culex. Their identification is crucial to take the necessary steps to kill them in an area. Hence, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model is developed so that the mosquitoes could be classified from their images. We prepared a local dataset consisting of 442 images, collected from various sources. An accuracy of 70% has been achieved by running the proposed CNN model on the collected dataset. However, after augmentation of this dataset which becomes 3,600 images, the accuracy increases to 93%. We also showed the comparison of some methods with the CNN method which are VGG-16, Random Forest, XGboost and SVM. Our proposed CNN method outperforms these methods in terms of the classification accuracy of the mosquitoes. Thus, this research forms an example of humanitarian technology, where data science can be used to support mosquito classification, enabling the treatment of various mosquito borne diseases.

Emojis are like small icons or images used to express our sentiments or feelings via text messages. They are extensively used in different social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. We considered hand-drawn emojis to classify them into 8 classes in this research paper. Hand-drawn emojis are the emojis drawn in any digital platform or in just a paper with a pen. This paper will enable the users to classify the hand-drawn emojis so that they could use them in any social media without any confusion. We made a local dataset of 500 images for each class summing a total of 4000 images of handdrawn emojis. We presented a system which could recognise and classify the emojis into 8 classes with a convolutional neural network model. The model could favorably recognise as well as classify the hand-drawn emojis with an accuracy of 97%. Some pre-trained CNN models like VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, MobileNetV2, InceptionV3 and Xception are also trained on the dataset to compare the accuracy and check whether they are better than the proposed one. On the other hand, machine learning models like SVM, Random Forest, Adaboost, Decision Tree and XGboost are also implemented on the dataset.