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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 …
Towards Interpretable Machine Learning With Applications To Clinical Decision Support, Zhicheng Cui
Towards Interpretable Machine Learning With Applications To Clinical Decision Support, Zhicheng Cui
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Machine learning models have achieved impressive predictive performance in various applications such as image classification and object recognition. However, understanding how machine learning models make decisions is essential when deploying those models in critical areas such as clinical prediction and market analysis, where prediction accuracy is not the only concern. For example, in the clinical prediction of ICU transfers, in addition to accurate predictions, doctors need to know the contributing factors that triggered the alert, which factors can be quickly altered to prevent the ICU transfer. While interpretable machine learning has been extensively studied for years, challenges remain as among …
Graph Deep Learning: Methods And Applications, Muhan Zhang
Graph Deep Learning: Methods And Applications, Muhan Zhang
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The past few years have seen the growing prevalence of deep neural networks on various application domains including image processing, computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, self-driving cars, game playing, social networks, bioinformatics, and healthcare etc. Due to the broad applications and strong performance, deep learning, a subfield of machine learning and artificial intelligence, is changing everyone's life.Graph learning has been another hot field among the machine learning and data mining communities, which learns knowledge from graph-structured data. Examples of graph learning range from social network analysis such as community detection and link prediction, to relational machine learning such as …
Falcon: Framework For Anomaly Detection In Industrial Control Systems, Subin Sapkota
Falcon: Framework For Anomaly Detection In Industrial Control Systems, Subin Sapkota
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used to control physical processes in the nation's critical infrastructures. They are composed of subsystems that control physical processes by analyzing the information received from the sensors. Based on the state of the process, the controller issues control commands to the actuators. These systems are utilized in a wide variety of operations such as water treatment plants, power, and manufacturing, etc. While the safety and security of these systems are of high concern, recent reports have shown an increase in targeted attacks that are aimed at manipulating the physical processes to cause catastrophic consequences. This …
Scatter Reduction By Exploiting Behaviour Of Convolutional Neural Networks In Frequency Domain, Carlos Ivan Jerez Gonzalez
Scatter Reduction By Exploiting Behaviour Of Convolutional Neural Networks In Frequency Domain, Carlos Ivan Jerez Gonzalez
Theses and Dissertations
In X-ray imaging, scattered radiation can produce a number of artifacts that greatly
undermine the image quality. There are hardware solutions, such as anti-scatter grids.
However, they are costly. A software-based solution is a better option because it is
cheaper and can achieve a higher scatter reduction. Most of the current software-based
approaches are model-based. The main issues with them are the lack of flexibility, expressivity, and the requirement of a model. In consideration of this, we decided to apply
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), since they do not have any of the previously
mentioned issues.
In our approach we split …
Learning To Detect Pedestrians By Watching Videos, Andrew Y. Chen
Learning To Detect Pedestrians By Watching Videos, Andrew Y. Chen
Theses and Dissertations
The field of deep learning has experienced a resurgence in the recent years, particularly resulting with the advent of AlexNet. Supervised learning is currently the most common and practical machine learning method. The struggle with employing supervised learning to approach problems is that it requires training data. Sufficient training data is correlated with performance for deep learning models. The issue is that preparing the training data can be a tedious and labor intensive task, especially on a large scale. The purpose of this paper is to determine how efficient a machine can learn when trained on automatically annotated data. The …
Detecting Phone-Related Pedestrian Behavior Using A Two-Branch Convolutional Neural Network, Humberto Saenz
Detecting Phone-Related Pedestrian Behavior Using A Two-Branch Convolutional Neural Network, Humberto Saenz
Theses and Dissertations
With the wide use of smart phones, distraction has become a major safety concern to roadway users. The distracted phone-use behaviors among pedestrians, like Texting, Game Playing and Phone Calls, have caused increasing fatalities and serious injuries. With the increasing usage of driver monitor systems on intelligent vehicles, distracted driver behaviors can be efficiently detected and warned. However, the research of phone-related distracted behavior by pedestrians has not been systemically studied. It is desired to improve both the driving and pedestrian safety by automatically discovering the phone-related pedestrian distracted behaviors. In this thesis, we propose a new computer vision-based method …
Social Media Sentiment Analysis With A Deep Neural Network: An Enhanced Approach Using User Behavioral Information, Ahmed Sulaiman M. Alharbi
Social Media Sentiment Analysis With A Deep Neural Network: An Enhanced Approach Using User Behavioral Information, Ahmed Sulaiman M. Alharbi
Dissertations
Sentiment analysis on social media such as Twitter has become a very important and challenging task. Due to the characteristics of such data (including tweet length, spelling errors, abbreviations, and special characters), the sentiment analysis task in such an environment requires a non-traditional approach. Moreover, social media sentiment analysis constitutes a fundamental problem with many interesting applications, such as for Business Intelligence, Medical Monitoring, and National Security. Most current social media sentiment classification methods judge the sentiment polarity primarily according to textual content and neglect other information on these platforms. In this research, we propose deep learning based frameworks that …
Detecting Digitally Forged Faces In Online Videos, Neilesh Sambhu
Detecting Digitally Forged Faces In Online Videos, Neilesh Sambhu
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
We use Rossler’s FaceForensics dataset of 1004 online videos and their corresponding forged counterparts [1] to investigate the ability to distinguish digitally forged facial images from original images automatically with deep learning. The proposed convolutional neural network is much smaller than the current state-of-the-art solutions. Nevertheless, the network maintains a high level of accuracy (99.6%), all while using the entire FaceForensics dataset and not including any temporal information. We implement majority voting and show the impact on accuracy (99.67%), where only 1 video of 300 is misclassified. We examine why the model misclassified this one video. In terms of tuning …
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, …
Efficient Self-Supervised Deep Sensorimotor Learning In Robotics, Takeshi Takahashi
Efficient Self-Supervised Deep Sensorimotor Learning In Robotics, Takeshi Takahashi
Doctoral Dissertations
Deep learning has been successful in a variety of applications, such as object recognition, video games, and machine translation. Deep neural networks can automatically learn important features given large training datasets. However, the success of deep learning in robotic systems in the real world is still limited mainly because obtaining large datasets and labeling are costly. As a result, much of the successful work in deep learning has been limited to domains where large datasets are readily available or easily collected. To address this issue, I propose a framework for acquiring re-usable skills efficiently combining intrinsic motivation and the control …
Machine Learning Models For Efficient And Robust Natural Language Processing, Emma Strubell
Machine Learning Models For Efficient And Robust Natural Language Processing, Emma Strubell
Doctoral Dissertations
Natural language processing (NLP) has come of age. For example, semantic role labeling (SRL), which automatically annotates sentences with a labeled graph representing who did what to whom, has in the past ten years seen nearly 40% reduction in error, bringing it to useful accuracy. As a result, a myriad of practitioners now want to deploy NLP systems on billions of documents across many domains. However, state-of-the-art NLP systems are typically not optimized for cross-domain robustness nor computational efficiency. In this dissertation I develop machine learning methods to facilitate fast and robust inference across many common NLP tasks. First, …
Exploiting Approximation, Caching And Specialization To Accelerate Vision Sensing Applications, Nguyen Loc Huynh
Exploiting Approximation, Caching And Specialization To Accelerate Vision Sensing Applications, Nguyen Loc Huynh
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Over the past few years, deep learning has emerged as state-of-the-art solutions for many challenging computer vision tasks such as face recognition, object detection, etc. Despite of its outstanding performance, deep neural networks (DNNs) are computational intensive, which prevent them to be widely adopted on billions of mobile and embedded devices with scarce resources. To address that limitation, we
focus on building systems and optimization algorithms to accelerate those models, making them more computational-efficient.
First, this thesis explores the computational capabilities of different existing processors (or co-processors) on modern mobile devices. It recognizes that by leveraging the mobile Graphics Processing …
Semi-Supervised Regression With Generative Adversarial Networks Using Minimal Labeled Data, Greg Olmschenk
Semi-Supervised Regression With Generative Adversarial Networks Using Minimal Labeled Data, Greg Olmschenk
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This work studies the generalization of semi-supervised generative adversarial networks (GANs) to regression tasks. A novel feature layer contrasting optimization function, in conjunction with a feature matching optimization, allows the adversarial network to learn from unannotated data and thereby reduce the number of labels required to train a predictive network. An analysis of simulated training conditions is performed to explore the capabilities and limitations of the method. In concert with the semi-supervised regression GANs, an improved label topology and upsampling technique for multi-target regression tasks are shown to reduce data requirements. Improvements are demonstrated on a wide variety of vision …
Applied Deep Learning In Intelligent Transportation Systems And Embedding Exploration, Xiaoyuan Liang
Applied Deep Learning In Intelligent Transportation Systems And Embedding Exploration, Xiaoyuan Liang
Dissertations
Deep learning techniques have achieved tremendous success in many real applications in recent years and show their great potential in many areas including transportation. Even though transportation becomes increasingly indispensable in people’s daily life, its related problems, such as traffic congestion and energy waste, have not been completely solved, yet some problems have become even more critical. This dissertation focuses on solving the following fundamental problems: (1) passenger demand prediction, (2) transportation mode detection, (3) traffic light control, in the transportation field using deep learning. The dissertation also extends the application of deep learning to an embedding system for visualization …
Deep Learning For Crack-Like Object Detection, Kaige Zhang
Deep Learning For Crack-Like Object Detection, Kaige Zhang
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Cracks are common defects on surfaces of man-made structures such as pavements, bridges, walls of nuclear power plants, ceilings of tunnels, etc. Timely discovering and repairing of the cracks are of great significance and importance for keeping healthy infrastructures and preventing further damages. Traditionally, the cracking inspection was conducted manually which was labor-intensive, time-consuming and costly. For example, statistics from the Central Intelligence Agency show that the world’s road network length has reached 64,285,009 km, of which the United States has 6,586,610 km. It is a huge cost to maintain and upgrade such an immense road network. Thus, fully automatic …
Model Augmented Deep Neural Networks For Medical Image Reconstruction Problems, Hongquan Zuo
Model Augmented Deep Neural Networks For Medical Image Reconstruction Problems, Hongquan Zuo
Theses and Dissertations
Solving an ill-posed inverse problem is difficult because it doesn't have a unique solution. In practice, for some important inverse problems, the conventional methods, e.g. ordinary least squares and iterative methods, cannot provide a good estimate. For example, for single image super-resolution and CT reconstruction, the results of these conventional methods cannot satisfy the requirements of these applications. While having more computational resources and high-quality data, researchers try to use machine-learning-based methods, especially deep learning to solve these ill-posed problems. In this dissertation, a model augmented recursive neural network is proposed as a general inverse problem method to solve these …
Model-Based Deep Autoencoders For Characterizing Discrete Data With Application To Genomic Data Analysis, Tian Tian
Dissertations
Deep learning techniques have achieved tremendous successes in a wide range of real applications in recent years. For dimension reduction, deep neural networks (DNNs) provide a natural choice to parameterize a non-linear transforming function that maps the original high dimensional data to a lower dimensional latent space. Autoencoder is a kind of DNNs used to learn efficient feature representation in an unsupervised manner. Deep autoencoder has been widely explored and applied to analysis of continuous data, while it is understudied for characterizing discrete data. This dissertation focuses on developing model-based deep autoencoders for modeling discrete data. A motivating example of …
Statistical Machine Learning Methods For Mining Spatial And Temporal Data, Fei Tan
Statistical Machine Learning Methods For Mining Spatial And Temporal Data, Fei Tan
Dissertations
Spatial and temporal dependencies are ubiquitous properties of data in numerous domains. The popularity of spatial and temporal data mining has thus grown with the increasing prevalence of massive data. The presence of spatial and temporal attributes not only provides complementary useful perspectives, but also poses new challenges to the representation and integration into the learning procedure. In this dissertation, the involved spatial and temporal dependencies are explored with three genres: sample-wise, feature-wise, and target-wise. A family of novel methodologies is developed accordingly for the dependency representation in respective scenarios.
First, dependencies among discrete, continuous and repeated observations are studied …
Deep Morphological Neural Networks, Yucong Shen
Deep Morphological Neural Networks, Yucong Shen
Theses
Mathematical morphology is a theory and technique applied to collect features like geometric and topological structures in digital images. Determining suitable morphological operations and structuring elements for a give purpose is a cumbersome and time-consuming task. In this paper, morphological neural networks are proposed to address this problem. Serving as a non-linear feature extracting layers in deep learning frameworks, the efficiency of the proposed morphological layer is confirmed analytically and empirically. With a known target, a single-filter morphological layer learns the structuring element correctly, and an adaptive layer can automatically select appropriate morphological operations. For high level applications, the proposed …
Incorporating Figure Captions And Descriptive Text Into Mesh Term Indexing: A Deep Learning Approach, Xindi Wang
Incorporating Figure Captions And Descriptive Text Into Mesh Term Indexing: A Deep Learning Approach, Xindi Wang
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
The exponential increase of available documents online makes document classification an important application in natural language processing. The goal of text classification is to automatically assign categories to documents. Traditional text classifiers depend on features, such as, vocabulary and user-specified information which mainly relies on prior knowledge. In contrast, deep learning automatically learns effective features from data instead of adopting human-designed features. In this thesis, we specifically focus on biomedical document classification. Beyond text information from abstract and title, we also consider image and table captions, as well as paragraphs associated with images and tables, which we demonstrate to be …
Music Mood Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Revanth Akella
Music Mood Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Revanth Akella
Master's Projects
Grouping music into moods is useful as music is migrating from to online streaming services as it can help in recommendations. To establish the connection between music and mood we develop an end-to-end, open source approach for mood classification using lyrics. We develop a pipeline for tag extraction, lyric extraction, and establishing classification models for classifying music into moods. We investigate techniques to classify music into moods using lyrics and audio features. Using various natural language processing methods with machine learning and deep learning we perform a comparative study across different classification and mood models. The results infer that features …
Robust Lightweight Object Detection, Siddharth Kumar
Robust Lightweight Object Detection, Siddharth Kumar
Master's Projects
Object detection is a very challenging problem in computer vision and has been a prominent subject of research for nearly three decades. There has been a promising in- crease in the accuracy and performance of object detectors ever since deep convolutional networks (CNN) were introduced. CNNs can be trained on large datasets made of high resolution images without flattening them, thereby using the spatial information. Their superior learning ability also makes them ideal for image classification and object de- tection tasks. Unfortunately, this power comes at the big cost of compute and memory. For instance, the Faster R-CNN detector required …
Using Computer Vision To Quantify Coral Reef Biodiversity, Niket Bhodia
Using Computer Vision To Quantify Coral Reef Biodiversity, Niket Bhodia
Master's Projects
The preservation of the world’s oceans is crucial to human survival on this planet, yet we know too little to begin to understand anthropogenic impacts on marine life. This is especially true for coral reefs, which are the most diverse marine habitat per unit area (if not overall) as well as the most sensitive. To address this gap in knowledge, simple field devices called autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) have been developed, which provide standardized samples of life from these complex ecosystems. ARMS have now become successful to the point that the amount of data collected through them has outstripped …
Intelligent Log Analysis For Anomaly Detection, Steven Yen
Intelligent Log Analysis For Anomaly Detection, Steven Yen
Master's Projects
Computer logs are a rich source of information that can be analyzed to detect various issues. The large volumes of logs limit the effectiveness of manual approaches to log analysis. The earliest automated log analysis tools take a rule-based approach, which can only detect known issues with existing rules. On the other hand, anomaly detection approaches can detect new or unknown issues. This is achieved by looking for unusual behavior different from the norm, often utilizing machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) models. In this project, we evaluated various ML and DL techniques used for log anomaly detection. We …
Optimizing E-Commerce Product Classification Using Transfer Learning, Rashmeet Kaur Khanuja
Optimizing E-Commerce Product Classification Using Transfer Learning, Rashmeet Kaur Khanuja
Master's Projects
The global e-commerce market is snowballing at a rate of 23% per year. In 2017, retail e-commerce users were 1.66 billion and sales worldwide amounted to 2.3 trillion US dollars, and e-retail revenues are projected to grow to 4.88 trillion USD in 2021. With the immense popularity that e-commerce has gained over past few years comes the responsibility to deliver relevant results to provide rich user experience. In order to do this, it is essential that the products on the ecommerce website be organized correctly into their respective categories. Misclassification of products leads to irrelevant results for users which not …
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 …
Machine Learning Versus Deep Learning For Malware Detection, Parth Jain
Machine Learning Versus Deep Learning For Malware Detection, Parth Jain
Master's Projects
It is often claimed that the primary advantage of deep learning is that such models can continue to learn as more data is available, provided that sufficient computing power is available for training. In contrast, for other forms of machine learning it is claimed that models ‘‘saturate,’’ in the sense that no additional learning can occur beyond some point, regardless of the amount of data or computing power available. In this research, we compare the accuracy of deep learning to other forms of machine learning for malware detection, as a function of the training dataset size. We experiment with a …
Chatbots With Personality Using Deep Learning, Susmit Gaikwad
Chatbots With Personality Using Deep Learning, Susmit Gaikwad
Master's Projects
Natural Language Processing (NLP) requires the computational modelling of the complex relationships of the syntax and semantics of a language. While traditional machine learning methods are used to solve NLP problems, they cannot imitate the human ability for language comprehension. With the growth in deep learning, these complexities within NLP are easier to model, and be used to build many computer applications. A particular example of this is a chatbot, where a human user has a conversation with a computer program, that generates responses based on the user’s input. In this project, we study the methods used in building chatbots, …
Stock Market Prediction Using Ensemble Of Graph Theory, Machine Learning And Deep Learning Models, Pratik Patil
Stock Market Prediction Using Ensemble Of Graph Theory, Machine Learning And Deep Learning Models, Pratik Patil
Master's Projects
Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is the cornerstone of the modern financial theory and it states that it is impossible to predict the price of any stock using any trend, fundamental or technical analysis. Stock trading is one of the most important activities in the world of finance. Stock price prediction has been an age-old problem and many researchers from academia and business have tried to solve it using many techniques ranging from basic statistics to machine learning using relevant information such as news sentiment and historical prices. Even though some studies claim to get prediction accuracy higher than a random …