Many countries worldwide have poor air quality due to the emission of particulate matter (i.e., PM10 and PM2.5), which has led to concerns about human health impacts in urban areas. In this study, we developed models to predict fine PM concentrations using long short-term memory (LSTM) and deep autoencoder (DAE) methods, and compared the model results in terms of root mean square error (RMSE). We applied the models to hourly air quality data from 25 stations in Seoul, South Korea, for the period from 1 January 2015, to 31 December 2018. Fine PM concentrations were predicted for the 10 days following this period, at an optimal learning rate of 0.01 for 100 epochs with batch sizes of 32 for LSTM model, and DAEs model performed best with batch size 64. The proposed models effectively predicted fine PM concentrations, with the LSTM model showing slightly better performance. With our forecasting model, it is possible to give reliable fine dust prediction information for the area where the user is located.

One of the most influential factors on human health is air pollution, such as the concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 is a damage to a human. Despite the growing interest in air pollution in Korea, it is difficult to obtain accurate information due to the lack of air pollution measuring stations at the place where the user is located. Deep learning is a type of machine learning method has drawn a lot of academic and industrial interest. In this paper, we proposed a deep learning approach for the air pollution prediction in South Korea. We use Stacked Autoencoders model for learning and training data. The experiment results show the performance of the air pollution prediction system and model that proposed.