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Data-Centric Image Super-Resolution In Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Challenges And Opportunities, Mamata Shrestha
Data-Centric Image Super-Resolution In Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Challenges And Opportunities, Mamata Shrestha
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Super-resolution has emerged as a crucial research topic in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) where it plays an important role in understanding and analysis of complex, qualitative, and quantitative characteristics of tissues at high resolutions. Deep learning techniques have been successful in achieving state-of-the-art results for super-resolution. These deep learning-based methods heavily rely on a substantial amount of data. Additionally, they require a pair of low-resolution and high-resolution images for supervised training which is often unavailable. Particularly in MRI super-resolution, it is often impossible to have low-resolution and high-resolution training image pairs. To overcome this, existing methods for …
Uavs And Deep Neural Networks: An Alternative Approach To Monitoring Waterfowl At The Site Level, Zachary J. Loken
Uavs And Deep Neural Networks: An Alternative Approach To Monitoring Waterfowl At The Site Level, Zachary J. Loken
LSU Master's Theses
Understanding how waterfowl respond to habitat restoration and management activities is crucial for evaluating and refining conservation delivery programs. However, site-specific waterfowl monitoring is challenging, especially in heavily forested systems such as the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV)—a primary wintering region for ducks in North America. I hypothesized that using uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) coupled with deep learning-based methods for object detection would provide an efficient and effective means for surveying non-breeding waterfowl on difficult-to-access restored wetland sites. Accordingly, during the winters of 2021 and 2022, I surveyed wetland restoration easements in the MAV using a UAV equipped with a dual …
Rosas: Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection With Contamination-Resilient Continuous Supervision, Hongzuo Xu, Yijie Wang, Guansong Pang, Songlei Jian, Ning Liu, Yongjun Wang
Rosas: Deep Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection With Contamination-Resilient Continuous Supervision, Hongzuo Xu, Yijie Wang, Guansong Pang, Songlei Jian, Ning Liu, Yongjun Wang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods leverage a few anomaly examples to yield drastically improved performance compared to unsupervised models. However, they still suffer from two limitations: 1) unlabeled anomalies (i.e., anomaly contamination) may mislead the learning process when all the unlabeled data are employed as inliers for model training; 2) only discrete supervision information (such as binary or ordinal data labels) is exploited, which leads to suboptimal learning of anomaly scores that essentially take on a continuous distribution. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel semi-supervised anomaly detection method, which devises contamination-resilient continuous supervisory signals. Specifically, we propose a mass interpolation method …
Photovoltaic Cells For Energy Harvesting And Indoor Positioning, Hamada Rizk, Dong Ma, Mahbub Hassan, Moustafa Youssef
Photovoltaic Cells For Energy Harvesting And Indoor Positioning, Hamada Rizk, Dong Ma, Mahbub Hassan, Moustafa Youssef
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We propose SoLoc, a lightweight probabilistic fingerprinting-based technique for energy-free device-free indoor localization. The system harnesses photovoltaic currents harvested by the photovoltaic cells in smart environments for simultaneously powering digital devices and user positioning. The basic principle is that the location of the human interferes with the lighting received by the photovoltaic cells, thus producing a location fingerprint on the generated photocurrents. To ensure resilience to noisy measurements, SoLoc constructs probability distributions as a photovoltaic fingerprint at each location. Then, we employ a probabilistic graphical model for estimating the user location in the continuous space. Results show that SoLoc can …
Deep Learning-Based Text Recognition Of Agricultural Regulatory Document, Hua Leong Fwa, Farn Haur Chan
Deep Learning-Based Text Recognition Of Agricultural Regulatory Document, Hua Leong Fwa, Farn Haur Chan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this study, an OCR system based on deep learning techniques was deployed to digitize scanned agricultural regulatory documents comprising of certificates and labels. Recognition of the certificates and labels is challenging as they are scanned images of the hard copy form and the layout and size of the text as well as the languages vary between the various countries (due to diverse regulatory requirements). We evaluated and compared between various state-of-the-art deep learningbased text detection and recognition model as well as a packaged OCR library – Tesseract. We then adopted a two-stage approach comprising of text detection using Character …
Deep Learning For Anomaly Detection: A Review, Guansong Pang, Chunhua Shen, Longbing Cao, Anton Van Den Hengel
Deep Learning For Anomaly Detection: A Review, Guansong Pang, Chunhua Shen, Longbing Cao, Anton Van Den Hengel
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Anomaly detection, a.k.a. outlier detection or novelty detection, has been a lasting yet active research area in various research communities for several decades. There are still some unique problem complexities and challenges that require advanced approaches. In recent years, deep learning enabled anomaly detection, i.e., deep anomaly detection, has emerged as a critical direction. This article surveys the research of deep anomaly detection with a comprehensive taxonomy, covering advancements in 3 high-level categories and 11 fine-grained categories of the methods. We review their key intuitions, objective functions, underlying assumptions, advantages, and disadvantages and discuss how they address the aforementioned challenges. …
Visual Descriptor Extraction From Patent Figure Captions: A Case Study Of Data Efficiency Between Bilstm And Transformer, Xin Wei, Jian Wu, Kehinde Ajayi, Diane Oyen
Visual Descriptor Extraction From Patent Figure Captions: A Case Study Of Data Efficiency Between Bilstm And Transformer, Xin Wei, Jian Wu, Kehinde Ajayi, Diane Oyen
Computer Science Faculty Publications
Technical drawings used for illustrating designs are ubiquitous in patent documents, especially design patents. Different from natural images, these drawings are usually made using black strokes with little color information, making it challenging for models trained on natural images to recognize objects. To facilitate indexing and searching, we propose an effective and efficient visual descriptor model that extracts object names and aspects from patent captions to annotate benchmark patent figure datasets. We compared two state-of-the-art named entity recognition (NER) models and found that with a limited number of annotated samples, the BiLSTM-CRF model outperforms the Transformer model by a significant …
Stock Market Trend Forecasting Based On Multiple Textual Features: A Deep Learning Method, Zhenda Hu, Zhaoxia Wang, Seng-Beng Ho, Ah-Hwee Tan
Stock Market Trend Forecasting Based On Multiple Textual Features: A Deep Learning Method, Zhenda Hu, Zhaoxia Wang, Seng-Beng Ho, Ah-Hwee Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Stock market trend forecasting is a valuable and challenging research task for both industry and academia. In order to explore the influence of stock news information on the stock market trend, a textual embedding construction method is proposed to encode multiple textual features, including topic features, sentiment features, and semantic features extracted from stock news textual content. In addition, a deep learning method is designed by using financial data and multiple textual features obtained from multiple news textual embeddings for short-term stock market trend prediction. For evaluation, extensive experiments on real stock market data are conducted. The experimental results illustrate …
Unveiling The Mystery Of Api Evolution In Deep Learning Frameworks: A Case Study Of Tensorflow 2, Zejun Zhang, Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xiaoxue Ren, John C. Grundy
Unveiling The Mystery Of Api Evolution In Deep Learning Frameworks: A Case Study Of Tensorflow 2, Zejun Zhang, Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xiaoxue Ren, John C. Grundy
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
API developers have been working hard to evolve APIs to provide more simple, powerful, and robust API libraries. Although API evolution has been studied for multiple domains, such as Web and Android development, API evolution for deep learning frameworks has not yet been studied. It is not very clear how and why APIs evolve in deep learning frameworks, and yet these are being more and more heavily used in industry. To fill this gap, we conduct a large-scale and in-depth study on the API evolution of Tensorflow 2, which is currently the most popular deep learning framework. We first extract …
Neural Methods For Answer Passage Retrieval Over Sparse Collections, Daniel Cohen
Neural Methods For Answer Passage Retrieval Over Sparse Collections, Daniel Cohen
Doctoral Dissertations
Recent advances in machine learning have allowed information retrieval (IR) techniques to advance beyond the stage of handcrafting domain specific features. Specifically, deep neural models incorporate varying levels of features to learn whether a document answers the information need of a query. However, these neural models rely on a large number of parameters to successfully learn a relation between a query and a relevant document.
This reliance on a large number of parameters, combined with the current methods of optimization relying on small updates necessitates numerous samples to allow the neural model to converge on an effective relevance function. This …
Single And Differential Morph Attack Detection, Baaria Chaudhary
Single And Differential Morph Attack Detection, Baaria Chaudhary
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Face recognition systems operate on the assumption that a person's face serves as the unique link to their identity. In this thesis, we explore the problem of morph attacks, which have become a viable threat to face verification scenarios precisely because of their inherent ability to break this unique link. A morph attack occurs when two people who share similar facial features morph their faces together such that the resulting face image is recognized as either of two contributing individuals. Morphs inherit enough visual features from both individuals that both humans and automatic algorithms confuse them. The contributions of this …
Early Detection Of Fake News On Social Media, Yang Liu
Early Detection Of Fake News On Social Media, Yang Liu
Dissertations
The ever-increasing popularity and convenience of social media enable the rapid widespread of fake news, which can cause a series of negative impacts both on individuals and society. Early detection of fake news is essential to minimize its social harm. Existing machine learning approaches are incapable of detecting a fake news story soon after it starts to spread, because they require certain amounts of data to reach decent effectiveness which take time to accumulate. To solve this problem, this research first analyzes and finds that, on social media, the user characteristics of fake news spreaders distribute significantly differently from those …
Neural Models For Information Retrieval Without Labeled Data, Hamed Zamani
Neural Models For Information Retrieval Without Labeled Data, Hamed Zamani
Doctoral Dissertations
Recent developments of machine learning models, and in particular deep neural networks, have yielded significant improvements on several computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition tasks. Progress with information retrieval (IR) tasks has been slower, however, due to the lack of large-scale training data as well as neural network models specifically designed for effective information retrieval. In this dissertation, we address these two issues by introducing task-specific neural network architectures for a set of IR tasks and proposing novel unsupervised or \emph{weakly supervised} solutions for training the models. The proposed learning solutions do not require labeled training data. Instead, …
End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning For Multi-Agent Collaborative Exploration, Zichen Chen, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan
End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning For Multi-Agent Collaborative Exploration, Zichen Chen, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Exploring an unknown environment by multiple autonomous robots is a major challenge in robotics domains. As multiple robots are assigned to explore different locations, they may interfere each other making the overall tasks less efficient. In this paper, we present a new model called CNN-based Multi-agent Proximal Policy Optimization (CMAPPO) to multi-agent exploration wherein the agents learn the effective strategy to allocate and explore the environment using a new deep reinforcement learning architecture. The model combines convolutional neural network to process multi-channel visual inputs, curriculum-based learning, and PPO algorithm for motivation based reinforcement learning. Evaluations show that the proposed method …
Image Retrieval Using Image Captioning, Nivetha Vijayaraju
Image Retrieval Using Image Captioning, Nivetha Vijayaraju
Master's Projects
The rapid growth in the availability of the Internet and smartphones have resulted in the increase in usage of social media in recent years. This increased usage has thereby resulted in the exponential growth of digital images which are available. Therefore, image retrieval systems play a major role in fetching images relevant to the query provided by the users. These systems should also be able to handle the massive growth of data and take advantage of the emerging technologies, like deep learning and image captioning. This report aims at understanding the purpose of image retrieval and various research held in …
Clinical Big Data And Deep Learning: Applications, Challenges, And Future Outlooks, Ying Yu, Liangliang Liu, Yaohang Li, Jianxin Wang
Clinical Big Data And Deep Learning: Applications, Challenges, And Future Outlooks, Ying Yu, Liangliang Liu, Yaohang Li, Jianxin Wang
Computer Science Faculty Publications
The explosion of digital healthcare data has led to a surge of data-driven medical research based on machine learning. In recent years, as a powerful technique for big data, deep learning has gained a central position in machine learning circles for its great advantages in feature representation and pattern recognition. This article presents a comprehensive overview of studies that employ deep learning methods to deal with clinical data. Firstly, based on the analysis of the characteristics of clinical data, various types of clinical data (e.g., medical images, clinical notes, lab results, vital signs and demographic informatics) are discussed and details …
Deepfacade: A Deep Learning Approach To Facade Parsing, Hantang Liu, Jialiang Zhang, Jianke Zhu, Steven C. H. Hoi
Deepfacade: A Deep Learning Approach To Facade Parsing, Hantang Liu, Jialiang Zhang, Jianke Zhu, Steven C. H. Hoi
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The parsing of building facades is a key component to the problem of 3D street scenes reconstruction, which is long desired in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based method for segmenting a facade into semantic categories. Man-made structures often present the characteristic of symmetry. Based on this observation, we propose a symmetric regularizer for training the neural network. Our proposed method can make use of both the power of deep neural networks and the structure of man-made architectures. We also propose a method to refine the segmentation results using bounding boxes generated by the Region …
A Compare-Aggregate Model For Matching Text Sequences, Shuohang Wang, Jing Jiang
A Compare-Aggregate Model For Matching Text Sequences, Shuohang Wang, Jing Jiang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Many NLP tasks including machine comprehension, answer selection and text entailment require the comparison between sequences. Matching the important units between sequences is a key to solve these problems. In this paper, we present a general "compare-aggregate" framework that performs word-level matching followed by aggregation using Convolutional Neural Networks. We particularly focus on the different comparison functions we can use to match two vectors. We use four different datasets to evaluate the model. We find that some simple comparison functions based on element-wise operations can work better than standard neural network and neural tensor network.