This section contains Research and Development projects in Machine Learning and Deep Learning that require original developments. They call on our expertise in Digital Signal Processing, Optimization, Calculus, Linear Algebra.


Automatic Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) leverages the ESC-50 dataset (and its ESC-10 subset) developed by Karol Piczak, as detailed in his paper titled:
"ESC: Dataset for Environmental Sound Classification." by Karol J. Piczak. 2015. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1015–1018. https://doi.org/10.1145/2733373.2806390"
This dataset serves as a foundation for research in audio event recognition.
Advancements in ESC Using Multi-Feature CNNs:
We propose a two-stages classification approach with Multi-feature Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), achieving near-perfect accuracy rates, specifically reaching up to 99%. This high accuracy is attributed to innovative pre-processing techniques that combine mel-spectrograms with complex wavelet transforms (CWT).
Resolution of Remaining Classification Challenges:
A notable challenge in ESC-10 sound classification was the confusion between "sea waves" and "rain" sounds. This issue was addressed by developing an original transformation of the complex CWT, termed aT-CWT. This transformation replaces the phase component of the CWT for stationary and pseudo-stationary sounds with a Gaussian distribution, enhancing the model's ability to differentiate between similar sounding environmental events.
By integrating the aT-CWT transformation, the multi-feature CNN model has now achieved 100% accuracy in classifying environmental sounds from the ESC-10 dataset.
- Rotating machinery Failure Detection: bearings, motors,rotors.
- HVAC Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD): pumps, compressors, valves.
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This project develops an automatic unsupervised classification model to diagnose valve faults in industrial machinery using acoustic signals from an 8-microphone circular array, leveraging the MIMII dataset (CC BY-SA 4.0, Hitachi, Ltd., https://zenodo.org/records/3384388).
We introduced a novel ACSTFT transform, achieving an impressive ROC AUC of 0.99 on the +6dB valve dataset, and trained a CNN-Autoencoder for robust anomaly detection.
Unlike standard MIMII challenge approaches that classify noisy signals directly, we prioritize denoising using MVDR beamforming combined with a custom Generalized Sidelobe Canceler (GSC), transforming the array into a noise-robust “sensor.”
Focused exclusively on valves, this model enhances fault detection in challenging industrial environments, offering a practical solution for machinery monitoring. Explore the code, ROC curves, and spectrograms showcasing our results.
Applications
Novel ACSTFT Transform |
ROC-AUC= 0.99 |
Reconstruction error (MSE) |
MVDR beamforming |
Denoised Valve Sound Signals |


In this project, we are developing effective methods for classifying mitochondrial genomes (DNA sequences) using Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL). This research is ongoing, and we plan to publish our results regularly. As a starting point, we analyzed the paper titled:
"ML-DSP: Machine Learning with Digital Signal Processing for ultrafast, accurate, and scalable genome classification at all taxonomic levels" by Gurjit S. Randhawa , Kathleen A. Hill and Lila Kari. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5571-y
The alignment-free DNA sequence classification approach: ML-DSP, proposed by Gurjit S. Randhawa has proven to be very effective.
By introducing a simple alignment technique alongside short Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), termed ML-FFT + SoftAlign, we have surpassed the performance of ML-DSP, particularly with challenging datasets such as those from Fungi and Insects.
This section is a portfolio of Machine Learning projects with Python and various visualization and analysis tools. Most of these projects were carried out within the framework of IBM certifications. They are presented with Jupyter Notebooks.
Some projects have been improved by incorporating more in-depth data analysis, better graphs, advanced ML techniques.



One Jupyter Notebook includes interactive Folium maps (interactive maps will not display on Github).

🔭 I’m currently working on advanced projects in ML & DL
👯 I’m looking to collaborate on Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
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