scholarly journals A Survey of Convolutional Neural Networks on Edge with Reconfigurable Computing

Algorithms ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário P. Véstias
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Reconfigurable Computing ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
High Performance ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
The Cost

The convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most used deep learning models for image detection and classification, due to its high accuracy when compared to other machine learning algorithms. CNNs achieve better results at the cost of higher computing and memory requirements. Inference of convolutional neural networks is therefore usually done in centralized high-performance platforms. However, many applications based on CNNs are migrating to edge devices near the source of data due to the unreliability of a transmission channel in exchanging data with a central server, the uncertainty about channel latency not tolerated by many applications, security and data privacy, etc. While advantageous, deep learning on edge is quite challenging because edge devices are usually limited in terms of performance, cost, and energy. Reconfigurable computing is being considered for inference on edge due to its high performance and energy efficiency while keeping a high hardware flexibility that allows for the easy adaption of the target computing platform to the CNN model. In this paper, we described the features of the most common CNNs, the capabilities of reconfigurable computing for running CNNs, the state-of-the-art of reconfigurable computing implementations proposed to run CNN models, as well as the trends and challenges for future edge reconfigurable platforms.

scholarly journals Single-Cell Phenotype Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 998-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Dürr ◽  
Beate Sick
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Misclassification Rate ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Phenotype Classification

Deep learning methods are currently outperforming traditional state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms in diverse applications and recently even surpassed human performance in object recognition. Here we demonstrate the potential of deep learning methods to high-content screening–based phenotype classification. We trained a deep learning classifier in the form of convolutional neural networks with approximately 40,000 publicly available single-cell images from samples treated with compounds from four classes known to lead to different phenotypes. The input data consisted of multichannel images. The construction of appropriate feature definitions was part of the training and carried out by the convolutional network, without the need for expert knowledge or handcrafted features. We compare our results against the recent state-of-the-art pipeline in which predefined features are extracted from each cell using specialized software and then fed into various machine learning algorithms (support vector machine, Fisher linear discriminant, random forest) for classification. The performance of all classification approaches is evaluated on an untouched test image set with known phenotype classes. Compared to the best reference machine learning algorithm, the misclassification rate is reduced from 8.9% to 6.6%.

scholarly journals Investigating Deep Feedforward Neural Networks for Classification of Transposon-Derived piRNAs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisson Hayasi da Costa ◽  
Renato Augusto C. dos Santos ◽  
Ricardo Cerri
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Feedforward Neural Networks ◽  
The State ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Large Application

AbstractPIWI-Interacting RNAs (piRNAs) form an important class of non-coding RNAs that play a key role in the genome integrity through the silencing of transposable elements. However, despite their importance and the large application of deep learning in computational biology for classification tasks, there are few studies of deep learning and neural networks for piRNAs prediction. Therefore, this paper presents an investigation on deep feedforward networks models for classification of transposon-derived piRNAs. We analyze and compare the results of the neural networks in different hyperparameters choices, such as number of layers, activation functions and optimizers, clarifying the advantages and disadvantages of each configuration. From this analysis, we propose a model for human piRNAs classification and compare our method with the state-of-the-art deep neural network for piRNA prediction in the literature and also traditional machine learning algorithms, such as Support Vector Machines and Random Forests, showing that our model has achieved a great performance with an F-measure value of 0.872, outperforming the state-of-the-art method in the literature.

scholarly journals AN APPROACH TO ACCELERATE THE TRAINING OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS BY TUNING THE HYPERPARAMETERS OF LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
P. RADIUK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Video Processing ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Random Search ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Training Time

Over the last decade, a set of machine learning algorithms called deep learning has led to significant improvements in computer vision, natural language recognition and processing. This has led to the widespread use of a variety of commercial, learning-based products in various fields of human activity. Despite this success, the use of deep neural networks remains a black box. Today, the process of setting hyperparameters and designing a network architecture requires experience and a lot of trial and error and is based more on chance than on a scientific approach. At the same time, the task of simplifying deep learning is extremely urgent. To date, no simple ways have been invented to establish the optimal values of learning hyperparameters, namely learning speed, sample size, data set, learning pulse, and weight loss. Grid search and random search of hyperparameter space are extremely resource intensive. The choice of hyperparameters is critical for the training time and the final result. In addition, experts often choose one of the standard architectures (for example, ResNets and ready-made sets of hyperparameters. However, such kits are usually suboptimal for specific practical tasks. The presented work offers an approach to finding the optimal set of hyperparameters of learning ZNM. An integrated approach to all hyperparameters is valuable because there is an interdependence between them. The aim of the work is to develop an approach for setting a set of hyperparameters, which will reduce the time spent during the design of ZNM and ensure the efficiency of its work. In recent decades, the introduction of deep learning methods, in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has led to impressive success in image and video processing. However, the training of CNN has been commonly mostly based on the employment of quasi-optimal hyperparameters. Such an approach usually requires huge computational and time costs to train the network and does not guarantee a satisfactory result. However, hyperparameters play a crucial role in the effectiveness of CNN, as diverse hyperparameters lead to models with significantly different characteristics. Poorly selected hyperparameters generally lead to low model performance. The issue of choosing optimal hyperparameters for CNN has not been resolved yet. The presented work proposes several practical approaches to setting hyperparameters, which allows reducing training time and increasing the accuracy of the model. The article considers the function of training validation loss during underfitting and overfitting. There are guidelines in the end to reach the optimization point. The paper also considers the regulation of learning rate and momentum to accelerate network training. All experiments are based on the widespread CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.

Sanitizing hidden activations for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Tianshi Mu ◽  
Kequan Lin ◽  
Huabing Zhang ◽  
Jian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Amplification Effect ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adversarial Examples

Deep learning is gaining significant traction in a wide range of areas. Whereas, recent studies have demonstrated that deep learning exhibits the fatal weakness on adversarial examples. Due to the black-box nature and un-transparency problem of deep learning, it is difficult to explain the reason for the existence of adversarial examples and also hard to defend against them. This study focuses on improving the adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks. We first explore how adversarial examples behave inside the network through visualization. We find that adversarial examples produce perturbations in hidden activations, which forms an amplification effect to fool the network. Motivated by this observation, we propose an approach, termed as sanitizing hidden activations, to help the network correctly recognize adversarial examples by eliminating or reducing the perturbations in hidden activations. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we conduct experiments on three widely used datasets: MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, and also compare with state-of-the-art defense techniques. The experimental results show that our sanitizing approach is more generalized to defend against different kinds of attacks and can effectively improve the adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks.

scholarly journals Multiscale Convolutional Neural Networks for Hand Detection

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyang Yan ◽  
Yizhang Xia ◽  
Jeremy S. Smith ◽  
Wenjin Lu ◽  
Bailing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Hand Tracking ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Hand Detection ◽  
Still Images ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
Gesture Analysis

Unconstrained hand detection in still images plays an important role in many hand-related vision problems, for example, hand tracking, gesture analysis, human action recognition and human-machine interaction, and sign language recognition. Although hand detection has been extensively studied for decades, it is still a challenging task with many problems to be tackled. The contributing factors for this complexity include heavy occlusion, low resolution, varying illumination conditions, different hand gestures, and the complex interactions between hands and objects or other hands. In this paper, we propose a multiscale deep learning model for unconstrained hand detection in still images. Deep learning models, and deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in particular, have achieved state-of-the-art performances in many vision benchmarks. Developed from the region-based CNN (R-CNN) model, we propose a hand detection scheme based on candidate regions generated by a generic region proposal algorithm, followed by multiscale information fusion from the popular VGG16 model. Two benchmark datasets were applied to validate the proposed method, namely, the Oxford Hand Detection Dataset and the VIVA Hand Detection Challenge. We achieved state-of-the-art results on the Oxford Hand Detection Dataset and had satisfactory performance in the VIVA Hand Detection Challenge.

scholarly journals Image Steganalysis via Diverse Filters and Squeeze-and-Excitation Convolutional Neural Network

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Feng Liu ◽  
Xuan Zhou ◽  
Xuehu Yan ◽  
Yuliang Lu ◽  
Shudong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Image Steganalysis ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Effective Network ◽  
Convolution Filters

Steganalysis is a method to detect whether the objects contain secret messages. With the popularity of deep learning, using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), steganalytic schemes have become the chief method of combating steganography in recent years. However, the diversity of filters has not been fully utilized in the current research. This paper constructs a new effective network with diverse filter modules (DFMs) and squeeze-and-excitation modules (SEMs), which can better capture the embedding artifacts. As the essential parts, combining three different scale convolution filters, DFMs can process information diversely, and the SEMs can enhance the effective channels out from DFMs. The experiments presented that our CNN is effective against content-adaptive steganographic schemes with different payloads, such as S-UNIWARD and WOW algorithms. Moreover, some state-of-the-art methods are compared with our approach to demonstrate the outstanding performance.

scholarly journals High Performance Gesture Recognition via Effective and Efficient Temporal Modeling

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yi ◽  
Feng Ni ◽  
Yuexin Ma ◽  
Xinge Zhu ◽  
Yuankai Qi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Temporal Modeling ◽  
Spatiotemporal Features ◽  
Public Datasets

State-of-the-art hand gesture recognition methods have investigated the spatiotemporal features based on 3D convolutional neural networks (3DCNNs) or convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM). However, they often suffer from the inefficiency due to the high computational complexity of their network structures. In this paper, we focus instead on the 1D convolutional neural networks and propose a simple and efficient architectural unit, Multi-Kernel Temporal Block (MKTB), that models the multi-scale temporal responses by explicitly applying different temporal kernels. Then, we present a Global Refinement Block (GRB), which is an attention module for shaping the global temporal features based on the cross-channel similarity. By incorporating the MKTB and GRB, our architecture can effectively explore the spatiotemporal features within tolerable computational cost. Extensive experiments conducted on public datasets demonstrate that our proposed model achieves the state-of-the-art with higher efficiency. Moreover, the proposed MKTB and GRB are plug-and-play modules and the experiments on other tasks, like video understanding and video-based person re-identification, also display their good performance in efficiency and capability of generalization.

End-to-end, sequence-to-sequence probabilistic visual odometry through deep neural networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 513-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sen Wang ◽  
Ronald Clark ◽  
Hongkai Wen ◽  
Niki Trigoni
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Visual Odometry ◽  
Feature Representation ◽  
Geometric Information ◽  
Geometric Problem ◽  
End To End

This paper studies visual odometry (VO) from the perspective of deep learning. After tremendous efforts in the robotics and computer vision communities over the past few decades, state-of-the-art VO algorithms have demonstrated incredible performance. However, since the VO problem is typically formulated as a pure geometric problem, one of the key features still missing from current VO systems is the capability to automatically gain knowledge and improve performance through learning. In this paper, we investigate whether deep neural networks can be effective and beneficial to the VO problem. An end-to-end, sequence-to-sequence probabilistic visual odometry (ESP-VO) framework is proposed for the monocular VO based on deep recurrent convolutional neural networks. It is trained and deployed in an end-to-end manner, that is, directly inferring poses and uncertainties from a sequence of raw images (video) without adopting any modules from the conventional VO pipeline. It can not only automatically learn effective feature representation encapsulating geometric information through convolutional neural networks, but also implicitly model sequential dynamics and relation for VO using deep recurrent neural networks. Uncertainty is also derived along with the VO estimation without introducing much extra computation. Extensive experiments on several datasets representing driving, flying and walking scenarios show competitive performance of the proposed ESP-VO to the state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating a promising potential of the deep learning technique for VO and verifying that it can be a viable complement to current VO systems.

scholarly journals Evaluating Late Blight Severity in Potato Crops Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Machine Learning Algorithms

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Duarte-Carvajalino ◽  
Diego Alzate ◽  
Andrés Ramirez ◽  
Juan Santa-Sepulveda ◽  
Alexandra Fajardo-Rojas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Phytophthora Infestans ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Multilayer Perceptron ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Potato Crops

This work presents quantitative prediction of severity of the disease caused by Phytophthora infestans in potato crops using machine learning algorithms such as multilayer perceptron, deep learning convolutional neural networks, support vector regression, and random forests. The machine learning algorithms are trained using datasets extracted from multispectral data captured at the canopy level with an unmanned aerial vehicle, carrying an inexpensive digital camera. The results indicate that deep learning convolutional neural networks, random forests and multilayer perceptron using band differences can predict the level of Phytophthora infestans affectation on potato crops with acceptable accuracy.

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