scholarly journals Detection of Computer Graphics Using Attention-Based Dual-Branch Convolutional Neural Network from Fused Color Components

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 4743
Author(s):  
Peisong He ◽  
Haoliang Li ◽  
Hongxia Wang ◽  
Ruimei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass Filter ◽  
Generalized Patterns ◽  
Color Components

With the development of 3D rendering techniques, people can create photorealistic computer graphics (CG) easily with the advanced software, which is of great benefit to the video game and film industries. On the other hand, the abuse of CGs has threatened the integrity and authenticity of digital images. In the last decade, several detection methods of CGs have been proposed successfully. However, existing methods cannot provide reliable detection results for CGs with the small patch size and post-processing operations. To overcome the above-mentioned limitation, we proposed an attention-based dual-branch convolutional neural network (AD-CNN) to extract robust representations from fused color components. In pre-processing, raw RGB components and their blurred version with Gaussian low-pass filter are stacked together in channel-wise as the input for the AD-CNN, which aims to help the network learn more generalized patterns. The proposed AD-CNN starts with a dual-branch structure where two branches work in parallel and have the identical shallow CNN architecture, except that the first convolutional layer in each branch has various kernel sizes to exploit low-level forensics traces in multi-scale. The output features from each branch are jointly optimized by the attention-based fusion module which can assign the asymmetric weights to different branches automatically. Finally, the fused feature is fed into the following fully-connected layers to obtain final detection results. Comparative and self-analysis experiments have demonstrated the better detection capability and robustness of the proposed detection compared with other state-of-the-art methods under various experimental settings, especially for image patch with the small size and post-processing operations.

Segmentation of cancer cell in histopathologic images of breast cancer and lesion area in skin cancer images using convolutional neural networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 520-528
Author(s):  
Saber Fooladi ◽  
Hassan Farsi ◽  
sajad Mohamadzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Digital Pathology ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass Filter ◽  
Significant Difference

Background: Pathological analysis plays an important role in the diagnosis, prediction and planning of cancer treatment. Using digital pathology, ie, scanning and storing digital parts of patient tissue, tools for analyzing these complex images now can be developed. Doctors use a computer diagnostic system from an intelligent assistant to accurately diagnose. These systems have great benefits in improving treatment efficacy. Methods: In this study, the deep neural network classifier has been used with the help of the Tensor Flow framework and the use of the Keras-library. Input images are initially transmitted from a low pass filter to reduce noise effects. The pre-processed images are then imported into a convolutional neural network. Results: The results of the research reveal a significant difference in the accuracy values between different methods with the proposed method, which in some cases indicates an increase of more than 14.18% in the accuracy of the diagnosis. Another advantage of the proposed method is to provide high sensitivity to histopathologic images, which shows an increase of 12 to 18 percent compared to other studies. The reason for this is the excellence of extracting high-level features through convolutional neural network, which is accompanied by a reduction in the size of the feature vector. Conclusion: The results showed a accuracy of %98.6 for skin lesions and %96.1 accuracy for breast cancer histopathologic findings, which offers promising results compared to the results of other studies.

scholarly journals Robust and fast post-processing of single-shot spin qubit detection events with a neural network

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Struck ◽  
Javed Lindner ◽  
Arne Hollmann ◽  
Floyd Schauer ◽  
Andreas Schmidbauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Bayesian Inference ◽  
Rabi Oscillation ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Measured Signal ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Readout Signal ◽  
Spin Qubit

AbstractEstablishing low-error and fast detection methods for qubit readout is crucial for efficient quantum error correction. Here, we test neural networks to classify a collection of single-shot spin detection events, which are the readout signal of our qubit measurements. This readout signal contains a stochastic peak, for which a Bayesian inference filter including Gaussian noise is theoretically optimal. Hence, we benchmark our neural networks trained by various strategies versus this latter algorithm. Training of the network with 106 experimentally recorded single-shot readout traces does not improve the post-processing performance. A network trained by synthetically generated measurement traces performs similar in terms of the detection error and the post-processing speed compared to the Bayesian inference filter. This neural network turns out to be more robust to fluctuations in the signal offset, length and delay as well as in the signal-to-noise ratio. Notably, we find an increase of 7% in the visibility of the Rabi oscillation when we employ a network trained by synthetic readout traces combined with measured signal noise of our setup. Our contribution thus represents an example of the beneficial role which software and hardware implementation of neural networks may play in scalable spin qubit processor architectures.

scholarly journals Enhanced Convolutional-Neural-Network Architecture for Crop Classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4292
Author(s):  
Mónica Y. Moreno-Revelo ◽  
Lorena Guachi-Guachi ◽  
Juan Bernardo Gómez-Mendoza ◽  
Javier Revelo-Fuelagán ◽  
Diego H. Peluffo-Ordóñez
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Classification Error ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Processing Step ◽  
Crop Classification

Automatic crop identification and monitoring is a key element in enhancing food production processes as well as diminishing the related environmental impact. Although several efficient deep learning techniques have emerged in the field of multispectral imagery analysis, the crop classification problem still needs more accurate solutions. This work introduces a competitive methodology for crop classification from multispectral satellite imagery mainly using an enhanced 2D convolutional neural network (2D-CNN) designed at a smaller-scale architecture, as well as a novel post-processing step. The proposed methodology contains four steps: image stacking, patch extraction, classification model design (based on a 2D-CNN architecture), and post-processing. First, the images are stacked to increase the number of features. Second, the input images are split into patches and fed into the 2D-CNN model. Then, the 2D-CNN model is constructed within a small-scale framework, and properly trained to recognize 10 different types of crops. Finally, a post-processing step is performed in order to reduce the classification error caused by lower-spatial-resolution images. Experiments were carried over the so-named Campo Verde database, which consists of a set of satellite images captured by Landsat and Sentinel satellites from the municipality of Campo Verde, Brazil. In contrast to the maximum accuracy values reached by remarkable works reported in the literature (amounting to an overall accuracy of about 81%, a f1 score of 75.89%, and average accuracy of 73.35%), the proposed methodology achieves a competitive overall accuracy of 81.20%, a f1 score of 75.89%, and an average accuracy of 88.72% when classifying 10 different crops, while ensuring an adequate trade-off between the number of multiply-accumulate operations (MACs) and accuracy. Furthermore, given its ability to effectively classify patches from two image sequences, this methodology may result appealing for other real-world applications, such as the classification of urban materials.

scholarly journals Automatic Handgun Detection with Deep Learning in Video Surveillance Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6085
Author(s):  
Jesus Salido ◽  
Vanesa Lomas ◽  
Jesus Ruiz-Santaquiteria ◽  
Oscar Deniz
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Average Precision ◽  
Terrorist Acts

There is a great need to implement preventive mechanisms against shootings and terrorist acts in public spaces with a large influx of people. While surveillance cameras have become common, the need for monitoring 24/7 and real-time response requires automatic detection methods. This paper presents a study based on three convolutional neural network (CNN) models applied to the automatic detection of handguns in video surveillance images. It aims to investigate the reduction of false positives by including pose information associated with the way the handguns are held in the images belonging to the training dataset. The results highlighted the best average precision (96.36%) and recall (97.23%) obtained by RetinaNet fine-tuned with the unfrozen ResNet-50 backbone and the best precision (96.23%) and F1 score values (93.36%) obtained by YOLOv3 when it was trained on the dataset including pose information. This last architecture was the only one that showed a consistent improvement—around 2%—when pose information was expressly considered during training.

AUTOMATED SCREENING OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY WITH OPTIMIZED DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK: ENHANCED MOTH FLAME MODEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 2150005
Author(s):  
ARUN T NAIR ◽  
K. MUTHUVEL
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Blood Vessel ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Gray Level ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Blood Vessel Segmentation

Nowadays, analysis on retinal image exists as one of the challenging area for study. Numerous retinal diseases could be recognized by analyzing the variations taking place in retina. However, the main disadvantage among those studies is that, they do not have higher recognition accuracy. The proposed framework includes four phases namely, (i) Blood Vessel Segmentation (ii) Feature Extraction (iii) Optimal Feature Selection and (iv) Classification. Initially, the input fundus image is subjected to blood vessel segmentation from which two binary thresholded images (one from High Pass Filter (HPF) and other from top-hat reconstruction) are acquired. These two images are differentiated and the areas that are common to both are said to be the major vessels and the left over regions are fused to form vessel sub-image. These vessel sub-images are classified with Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) classifier and the resultant is summed up with the major vessels to form the segmented blood vessels. The segmented images are subjected to feature extraction process, where the features like proposed Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRM) are extracted. As the curse of dimensionality seems to be the greatest issue, it is important to select the appropriate features from the extracted one for classification. In this paper, a new improved optimization algorithm Moth Flame with New Distance Formulation (MF-NDF) is introduced for selecting the optimal features. Finally, the selected optimal features are subjected to Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) model for classification. Further, in order to make the precise diagnosis, the weights of DCNN are optimally tuned by the same optimization algorithm. The performance of the proposed algorithm will be compared against the conventional algorithms in terms of positive and negative measures.

scholarly journals Study of Harmonic Detection Methods under Non-Ideal Conditions in Ship Power Network

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Xiao-Yan Xu ◽  
Janusz Mindykowski ◽  
Tomasz Tarasiuk ◽  
Chen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Phase Lock Loop ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Harmonic Detection ◽  
Phase Voltage ◽  
Rapid Variation ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass Filter ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
In Series

Abstract An improved harmonic detection method based on average arithmetic is proposed. According to the research results, the designed solution uses an LPF (low-pass-filter) and a mean value module connected in series instead of the conventional mean value module, and simultaneously, a three-phase voltage phase-locked module instead of commonly used PLL (phase lock loop) module is applied in order to reduce the influence caused by three-phase distorted voltage and rapid variation of load. The experimental results show that the application of this solution leads to increase in the accuracy of harmonics detection for distorted three-phase voltage and rapid variation of load.

scholarly journals ARPEGE cloud cover forecast post-processing with convolutional neural network

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Dupuy ◽  
Olivier Mestre ◽  
Léo Pfitzner
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Cloud Cover ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Excellent Result ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Post Processing

<p>Cloud cover is a crucial information for many applications such as planning land observation missions from space. However, cloud cover remains a challenging variable to forecast, and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models suffer from significant biases, hence justifying the use of statistical post-processing techniques. In our application, the ground truth is a gridded cloud cover product derived from satellite observations over Europe, and predictors are spatial fields of various variables produced by ARPEGE (Météo-France global NWP) at the corresponding lead time.</p><p>In this study, ARPEGE cloud cover is post-processed using a convolutional neural network (CNN). CNN is the most popular machine learning tool to deal with images. In our case, CNN allows to integrate spatial information contained in NWP outputs. We show that a simple U-Net architecture produces significant improvements over Europe. Compared to the raw ARPEGE forecasts, MAE drops from 25.1 % to 17.8 % and RMSE decreases from 37.0 % to 31.6 %. Considering specific needs for earth observation, special interest was put on forecasts with low cloud cover conditions (< 10 %). For this particular nebulosity class, we show that hit rate jumps from 40.6 to 70.7 (which is the order of magnitude of what can be achieved using classical machine learning algorithms such as random forests) while false alarm decreases from 38.2 to 29.9. This is an excellent result, since improving hit rates by means of random forests usually also results in a slight increase of false alarms.</p>

A STUDY OF DIGITAL WATERMARKING RECOGNITION USING ORTHOGONAL CODE SEQUENCES WITH A BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-465
Author(s):  
Chih-Ta Yen ◽  
Ing-Jr Ding ◽  
Zong-Wei Lai
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Back Propagation Neural Network ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass Filter ◽  
Noise Interference ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Neural Network Algorithm

Digital watermarking is an encryption technology commonly used to protect intellectual property and copyright. In this study, we restored watermarks that had already been affected by noise interference, used the Walsh–Hadamard codes as the watermark identification codes, and applied salt-and-pepper noise and Gaussian noise to destroy watermarks. First method, we used a low-pass filter and median filter to remove noise interferences. The second one, we used a back-propagation neural network algorithm to suppress noises. We removed nearly all noise and recovered the originally embedded watermarks of Walsh–Hadmard codes.

scholarly journals Estimation of Ultrasound Echogenicity Map from B-Mode Images Using Convolutional Neural Network

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 4931
Author(s):  
Che-Chou Shen ◽  
Jui-En Yang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Imaging System ◽  
Speckle Pattern ◽  
Image Resolution ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Point Spread ◽  
Spread Function ◽  
In Silico Simulation ◽  
Tissue Structures

In ultrasound B-mode imaging, speckle noises decrease the accuracy of estimation of tissue echogenicity of imaged targets from the amplitude of the echo signals. In addition, since the granular size of the speckle pattern is affected by the point spread function (PSF) of the imaging system, the resolution of B-mode image remains limited, and the boundaries of tissue structures often become blurred. This study proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) to remove speckle noises together with improvement of image spatial resolution to reconstruct ultrasound tissue echogenicity map. The CNN model is trained using in silico simulation dataset and tested with experimentally acquired images. Results indicate that the proposed CNN method can effectively eliminate the speckle noises in the background of the B-mode images while retaining the contours and edges of the tissue structures. The contrast and the contrast-to-noise ratio of the reconstructed echogenicity map increased from 0.22/2.72 to 0.33/44.14, and the lateral and axial resolutions also improved from 5.9/2.4 to 2.9/2.0, respectively. Compared with other post-processing filtering methods, the proposed CNN method provides better approximation to the original tissue echogenicity by completely removing speckle noises and improving the image resolution together with the capability for real-time implementation.

scholarly journals Spatio-temporal prediction of suspended sediment concentration in the coastal zone using an artificial neural network and a numerical model

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 574-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bhattacharya ◽  
T. van Kessel ◽  
D. P. Solomatine
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Ann Model ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass Filter ◽  
Temporal Prediction ◽  
Artificial Neural

A problem of predicting suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentration on the basis of wind and wave measurements and estimates of bed shear stress done by a numerical model is considered. Data at a location at 10 km offshore from Noordwijk in the Dutch coastal area is used. The time series data have been filtered with a low pass filter to remove short-term fluctuations due to noise and tides and the resulting time series have been used to build an artificial neural network (ANN) model. The accuracy of the ANN model during both storm and calm periods was found to be high. The possibilities to apply the trained ANN model at other locations, where the model is assisted by the correctors based on the ratio of long-term average SPM values for the considered location to that for Noordwijk (for which the model was trained), have been investigated. These experiments demonstrated that the ANN model's accuracy at the other locations was acceptable, which shows the potential of the considered approach.

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