Identifying crop water stress using deep learning models

Neural Computing and Applications - The identification of water stress is a major challenge for timely and effective irrigation to ensure global food security and sustainable agriculture. Several...     

Surrogate modeling for spacecraft thermophysical models using deep learning

Neural Computing and Applications - Thermal modeling is a critical technology in spacecraft thermal control systems, where the complex spatially and temporally variable parameters used as inputs to...     

Toward actionable testing of deep learning models

<正>Deep learning has become an important computational paradigm in our daily lives with a wide range of applications,from authentication using facial recognition to autonomous driving in smart vehicles. The quality of the deep learning models, i.e., neural architectures with parameters trained over a dataset, is crucial to our daily living and economy.     

Plant leaf disease classification and damage detection system using deep learning models

Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 70% of the rural population in India. The crop variety cultivated in India is very diverse. There are more than 500 crop varieties grown in India. Despite the technological advances, the agricultural practices are still manual and involve less automation than western countries. Most of the diseases affecting a plant will reflect the damage in the leaves. The diseases affecting the plant can thus be identified from the leaf images. This paper presents an automatic plant leaf damage detection and disease identification system. The first stage of the proposed method identifies the type of the disease based on the plant leaf image using DenseNet. The DenseNet model is trained on images categorized according to their nature, i.e., healthy and the type of the disease. This model is then used for testing new leaf images. The proposed DenseNet model produced a classification accuracy of 100%, with fewer images used during the training stage. The second stage identifies the damage in the leaf using deep learning-based semantic segmentation. Each RGB pixel value combination in the image is extracted, and supervised training is performed on the pixel values using the 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The trained model can detect the damage present in the leaves at a pixel level. Evaluation of the proposed semantic segmentation resulted in an accuracy of 97%. The third stage suggests a remedy for the disease based on the disease type and the damage state. The proposed method detects various defects in different plants in the experimental analysis, namely apple, grape, potato, and strawberry. The proposed model is compared with the existing techniques and obtained better performance in comparison with those methods.

     

Detection of weather images by using spiking neural networks of deep learning models

Neural Computing and Applications - The transmission of weather information of a location at certain time intervals affects the living conditions of the people there directly or indirectly....     

Stock prediction using deep learning

Stock market is considered chaotic, complex, volatile and dynamic. Undoubtedly, its prediction is one of the most challenging tasks in time series forecasting. Moreover existing Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approaches fail to provide encouraging results. Meanwhile advances in machine learning have presented favourable results for speech recognition, image classification and language processing. Methods applied in digital signal processing can be applied to stock data as both are time series. Similarly, learning outcome of this paper can be applied to speech time series data. Deep learning for stock prediction has been introduced in this paper and its performance is evaluated on Google stock price multimedia data (chart) from NASDAQ. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that deep learning can improve stock market forecasting accuracy. For this, (2D)²PCA + Deep Neural Network (DNN) method is compared with state of the art method 2-Directional 2-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis (2D)²PCA + Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN). It is found that the proposed method is performing better than the existing method RBFNN with an improved accuracy of 4.8% for Hit Rate with a window size of 20. Also the results of the proposed model are compared with the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and it is found that the accuracy for Hit Rate is improved by 15.6%. The correlation coefficient between the actual and predicted return for DNN is 17.1% more than RBFNN and it is 43.4% better than RNN.     

Assess deep learning models for Egyptian exchange prediction using nonlinear artificial neural networks

Neural Computing and Applications - Financial analysis of the stock market using the historical data is the exigent demand in business and academia. This work explores the efficiency of three deep...     

Pneumonia classification using quaternion deep learning

Pneumonia is an infection in one or both the lungs because of virus or bacteria through breathing air. It inflames air sacs in lungs which fill with fluid which further leads to problems in respiration. Pneumonia is interpreted by radiologists by observing abnormality in lungs in case of fluid in Chest X-Rays. Computer Aided Detection Diagnosis (CAD) tools can assist radiologists by improving their diagnostic accuracy. Such CAD tools use neural networks which are trained on Chest X-Ray dataset to classify a Chest X-Ray into normal or infected with Pneumonia. Convolution neural networks have shown remarkable performance in object detection in an image. Quaternion Convolution neural network (QCNN) is a generalization of conventional convolution neural networks. QCNN treats all three channels (R, G, B) of color image as a single unit and it extracts better representative features and which further improves classification. In this paper, we have trained Quaternion residual network on a publicly available large Chest X-Ray dataset on Kaggle repository and obtained classification accuracy of 93.75% and F-score of .94. We have also compared our performance with other CNN architectures. We found that classification accuracy was higher with Quaternion Residual network when we compared it with a real valued Residual network.

     

Text summarization using unsupervised deep learning

We present methods of extractive query-oriented single-document summarization using a deep auto-encoder (AE) to compute a feature space from the term-frequency (tf) input. Our experiments explore both local and global vocabularies. We investigate the effect of adding small random noise to local tf as the input representation of AE, and propose an ensemble of such noisy AEs which we call the Ensemble Noisy Auto-Encoder (ENAE). ENAE is a stochastic version of an AE that adds noise to the input text and selects the top sentences from an ensemble of noisy runs. In each individual experiment of the ensemble, a different randomly generated noise is added to the input representation. This architecture changes the application of the AE from a deterministic feed-forward network to a stochastic runtime model. Experiments show that the AE using local vocabularies clearly provide a more discriminative feature space and improves the recall on average 11.2%. The ENAE can make further improvements, particularly in selecting informative sentences. To cover a wide range of topics and structures, we perform experiments on two different publicly available email corpora that are specifically designed for text summarization. We used ROUGE as a fully automatic metric in text summarization and we presented the average ROUGE-2 recall for all experiments.     

Efficient classification of the hyperspectral images using deep learning

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Classification techniques applicable to the hyperspectral images do not extract deep features from the hyperspectral image efficiently. In this work, a deep...     

Long-time gap crowd prediction using time series deep learning models with two-dimensional single attribute inputs

Crowd prediction is a crucial aspect of modern life with innumerable applications. By predicting future human occupancy in advance, crowd prediction can support the decision-making processes of facility stakeholders, e.g., the campus operator can schedule facility maintenance during the period of lowest pedestrian flow to eliminate any disturbance. Conventional crowd prediction utilizes statistical models and rule-based data mining techniques, which are tedious in data processing and error-prone. Hence, this study formulates crowd prediction into a time-series analysis based on deep learning. Despite its wide adaptability in various research fields, deep learning-based time series analysis is seldom adopted in crowd prediction. There are two major limitations in previous studies: firstly, the prediction accuracy notably degrades with increased prediction length, and secondly only the temporal pattern along a single time dimension is exploited, i.e., the consecutive time steps in the most recent input data. Therefore, a Long-Time Gap Two-Dimensional method, entitled LT2D-method, is proposed to increase the crowd prediction length of with high accuracy. The LT2D-method is composed of two parts, (1) long-time gap prediction, which extends the prediction length to 240 time steps (1 day) with high accuracy, and (2) 2D inputs method, which exploits the prior knowledge from different time dimensions to further improve the prediction accuracy of long-time gap prediction. The proposed LT2D-method can be generally adapted to deep learning models, such as LSTM, BiLSTM, and GRU, to improve the prediction accuracy. By incorporating the proposed LT2D-method into different baseline models, the accuracy is generally improved by around 22%, demonstrating the robustness and generalizability of our method.     

Survey on performance of deep learning models for detecting road damages using multiple dashcam image resources

Detecting road damage quickly and accurately facilitates the ability of road-maintenance agencies to make timely repairs to road surfaces, maintain optimal road conditions, optimize transportation safety, and minimize transportation costs. An extensive evaluation of eight deep-learning-based road-damage detection models was conducted in this study. Each model was trained on 9493 images sourced from multiple databases. The 16165 instances of road damage in these images were categorized into five types of damage, including longitudinal crack, horizontal crack, alligator damage, pothole-related crack, and line blurring. Two experiments were conducted that identified two models, single shot multi-box detector (SSD) Inception V2 and faster region-based convolutional neural networks (R-CNN) Inception V2, as providing the best balance of road-damage-detection accuracy and image processing time. These experiments demonstrated that increasing the diversity of image sources improved road-damage-detection model performance. In addition to combining data images from different sources with consistently relabeled damage instances, this study released road-damage image data from the road maintenance agency in Zhubei, Hsinchu County, Taiwan for research and other uses, increasing the limited amount of published image data sources and positively impacting future scholarly research into road damage detection.     

基于深度学习的虹膜人脸多特征融合识别

传统多生物特征融合识别方法中人工设计特征提取存在盲目性和差异性,特征融合存在空间不匹配或维度过高等问题,为此提出一种基于深度学习的多生物特征融合识别方法。通过卷积神经网络(convolutional neural networks,CNN)提取人脸和虹膜特征、参数化t-SNE算法特征降维和支持向量机(support vector machine,SVM)分类组合进行融合识别。实验结果表明,该融合识别方法与单一生物特征识别以及其它融合识别方法相比,鲁棒性增强,识别性能提升明显。     

BrC-MCDLM: breast Cancer detection using Multi-Channel deep learning model

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Breast cancer (BrC) is a lethal form of cancer which causes numerous deaths in women across the world. Generally, mammograms and histopathology biopsy images are...     

TRU-NET: a deep learning approach to high resolution prediction of rainfall

Machine Learning - Climate models (CM) are used to evaluate the impact of climate change on the risk of floods and heavy precipitation events. However, these numerical simulators produce outputs...     

Socialized healthcare service recommendation using deep learning

Socialized recommender system recommends reliable healthcare services for users. Ratings are predicted on the healthcare services by merging recommendations given by users who has social relations with the active users. However, existing works did not consider the influence of distrust between users. They recommend items only based on the trust relations between users. We therefore propose a novel deep learning-based socialized healthcare service recommender model, which recommends healthcare services with recommendations given by recommenders with both trust relations and distrust relations with the active users. The influences of recommenders, considering both the node information and the structure information, are merged via the deep learning model. Experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms the existing works on prediction accuracy and prediction coverage simultaneously, even for cold start users or users with very sparse trust relations. It is also computational less expensive.

     

基于深度学习的安卓恶意应用检测

针对传统安卓恶意程序检测技术检测准确率低,对采用了重打包和代码混淆等技术的安卓恶意程序无法成功识别等问题,设计并实现了DeepDroid算法。首先,提取安卓应用程序的静态特征和动态特征,结合静态特征和动态特征生成应用程序的特征向量;然后,使用深度学习算法中的深度置信网络（DBN）对收集到的训练集进行训练,生成深度学习网络;最后,利用生成的深度学习网络对待测安卓应用程序进行检测。实验结果表明,在使用相同测试集的情况下,DeepDroid算法的正确率比支持向量机（SVM）算法高出3.96个百分点,比朴素贝叶斯（Naive Bayes）算法高出12.16个百分点,比K最邻近（KNN）算法高出13.62个百分点。DeepDroid算法结合了安卓应用程序的静态特征和动态特征,采用了动态检测和静态检测相结合的检测方法,弥补了静态检测代码覆盖率不足和动态检测误报率高的缺点,在特征识别的部分采用DBN算法使得网络训练速度得到保证的同时还有很高的检测正确率。