Predicting Bus Travel Times In Washington, Dc Using Artificial Neural Networks (Anns),
2021
Howard University
Predicting Bus Travel Times In Washington, Dc Using Artificial Neural Networks (Anns), Stephen Arhin, Babin Manandhar, Hamdiat Baba Adam, Adam Gatiba
Mineta Transportation Institute
Washington, DC is ranked second among cities in terms of highest public transit commuters in the United States, with approximately 9% of the working population using the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Metrobuses to commute. Deducing accurate travel times of these metrobuses is an important task for transit authorities to provide reliable service to its patrons. This study, using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), developed prediction models for transit buses to assist decision-makers to improve service quality and patronage. For this study, we used six months of Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) data for six Washington …
Efficient Retrieval Of Matrix Factorization-Based Top-K Recommendations: A Survey Of Recent Approaches,
2021
Singapore Management University
Efficient Retrieval Of Matrix Factorization-Based Top-K Recommendations: A Survey Of Recent Approaches, Dung D. Le, Hady W. Lauw
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Top-k recommendation seeks to deliver a personalized list of k items to each individual user. An established methodology in the literature based on matrix factorization (MF), which usually represents users and items as vectors in low-dimensional space, is an effective approach to recommender systems, thanks to its superior performance in terms of recommendation quality and scalability. A typical matrix factorization recommender system has two main phases: preference elicitation and recommendation retrieval. The former analyzes user-generated data to learn user preferences and item characteristics in the form of latent feature vectors, whereas the latter ranks the candidate items based on the …
Time Period-Based Top-K Semantic Trajectory Pattern Query,
2021
Singapore Management University
Time Period-Based Top-K Semantic Trajectory Pattern Query, Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The sequences of user check-ins form semantic trajectories that represent the movement of users through time, along with the types of POIs visited. Extracting patterns in semantic trajectories can be widely used in applications such as route planning and trip recommendation. Existing studies focus on the entire time duration of the data, which may miss some temporally significant patterns. In addition, they require thresholds to define the interestingness of the patterns. Motivated by the above, we study a new problem of finding top-k semantic trajectory patterns w.r.t. a given time period and categories by considering the spatial closeness of POIs. …
Spectral Tensor Train Parameterization Of Deep Learning Layers,
2021
Singapore Management University
Spectral Tensor Train Parameterization Of Deep Learning Layers, A. Obukhov, M. Rakhuba, A. Liniger, Zhiwu Huang, S. Georgoulis, D. Dai, Van Gool L.
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We study low-rank parameterizations of weight matrices with embedded spectral properties in the Deep Learning context. The low-rank property leads to parameter efficiency and permits taking computational shortcuts when computing mappings. Spectral properties are often subject to constraints in optimization problems, leading to better models and stability of optimization. We start by looking at the compact SVD parameterization of weight matrices and identifying redundancy sources in the parameterization. We further apply the Tensor Train (TT) decomposition to the compact SVD components, and propose a non-redundant differentiable parameterization of fixed TT-rank tensor manifolds, termed the Spectral Tensor Train Parameterization (STTP). We …
Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact Of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence In Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments,
2021
University of New Mexico - School of Law
Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact Of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence In Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin
Faculty Scholarship
Issues of racial inequality and violence are front and center in today’s society, as are issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). This Article, written by a law professor who is also a computer scientist, takes a deep dive into understanding how and why hacked and rogue AI creates unlawful and unfair outcomes, particularly for persons of color.
Black Americans are disproportionally featured in criminal justice, and their stories are obfuscated. The seemingly endless back-to-back murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and heartbreakingly countless others have finally shaken the United States from its slumbering journey towards intentional criminal justice …
Feature Extraction And Design In Deep Learning Models,
2021
Old Dominion University
Feature Extraction And Design In Deep Learning Models, Daniel Perez
Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The selection and computation of meaningful features is critical for developing good deep learning methods. This dissertation demonstrates how focusing on this process can significantly improve the results of learning-based approaches. Specifically, this dissertation presents a series of different studies in which feature extraction and design was a significant factor for obtaining effective results. The first two studies are a content-based image retrieval system (CBIR) and a seagrass quantification study in which deep learning models were used to extract meaningful high-level features that significantly increased the performance of the approaches. Secondly, a method for change detection is proposed where the …
Homophily Outlier Detection In Non-Iid Categorical Data,
2021
Singapore Management University
Homophily Outlier Detection In Non-Iid Categorical Data, Guansong Pang, Longbing Cao, Ling Chen
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Most of existing outlier detection methods assume that the outlier factors (i.e., outlierness scoring measures) of data entities (e.g., feature values and data objects) are Independent and Identically Distributed (IID). This assumption does not hold in real-world applications where the outlierness of different entities is dependent on each other and/or taken from different probability distributions (non-IID). This may lead to the failure of detecting important outliers that are too subtle to be identified without considering the non-IID nature. The issue is even intensified in more challenging contexts, e.g., high-dimensional data with many noisy features. This work introduces a novel outlier …
Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking With Recursive Inference,
2021
Singapore Management University
Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking With Recursive Inference, Lizi Liao, Tongyao Zhu, Le Hong Long, Tat-Seng Chua
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Multi-domain dialogue state tracking (DST) is a critical component for monitoring user goals during the course of an interaction. Existing approaches have relied on dialogue history indiscriminately or updated on the most recent turns incrementally. However, in spite of modeling it based on fixed ontology or open vocabulary, the former setting violates the interactive and progressing nature of dialogue, while the later easily gets affected by the error accumulation conundrum. Here, we propose a Recursive Inference mechanism (ReInf) to resolve DST in multi-domain scenarios that call for more robust and accurate tracking capability. Specifically, our agent reversely reviews the dialogue …
Mixed Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation And Domain Alignment,
2021
Singapore Management University
Mixed Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation And Domain Alignment, Lixi Deng, Jingjing Chen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Qianru Sun, Sheng Tang, Yongdong Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Mixed dish is a food category that contains different dishes mixed in one plate, and is popular in Eastern and Southeast Asia. Recognizing the individual dishes in a mixed dish image is important for health related applications, e.g. to calculate the nutrition values of the dish. However, most existing methods that focus on single dish classification are not applicable to the recognition of mixed dish images. The main challenge of mixed dish recognition comes from three aspects: a wide range of dish types, the complex dish combination with severe overlap between different dishes and the large visual variances of same …
Cross-Topic Rumor Detection Using Topic-Mixtures,
2021
Singapore Management University
Cross-Topic Rumor Detection Using Topic-Mixtures, Weijieying Ren, Jing Jiang, Ling Min Serena Khoo, Hai Leong Chieu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
There has been much interest in rumor detection using deep learning models in recent years. A well-known limitation of deep learning models is that they tend to learn superficial patterns, which restricts their generalization ability. We find that this is also true for cross-topic rumor detection. In this paper, we propose a method inspired by the “mixture of experts” paradigm. We assume that the prediction of the rumor class label given an instance is dependent on the topic distribution of the instance. After deriving a vector representation for each topic, given an instance, we derive a “topic mixture” vector for …
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Using Graph Theoretical Anomaly Detection And Machine Learning,
2021
Old Dominion University
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Using Graph Theoretical Anomaly Detection And Machine Learning, Goksel Kucukkaya
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The cyber domain is a great business enabler providing many types of enterprises new opportunities such as scaling up services, obtaining customer insights, identifying end-user profiles, sharing data, and expanding to new communities. However, the cyber domain also comes with its own set of risks. Cybersecurity risk assessment helps enterprises explore these new opportunities and, at the same time, proportionately manage the risks by establishing cyber situational awareness and identifying potential consequences. Anomaly detection is a mechanism to enable situational awareness in the cyber domain. However, anomaly detection also requires one of the most extensive sets of data and features …
Learning To Fuse Asymmetric Feature Maps In Siamese Trackers,
2021
Beijing Institute of Technology
Learning To Fuse Asymmetric Feature Maps In Siamese Trackers, Wencheng Han, Xingping Dong, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ling Shao, Jianbing Shen
Computer Vision Faculty Publications
Recently, Siamese-based trackers have achieved promising performance in visual tracking. Most recent Siamese-based trackers typically employ a depth-wise cross-correlation (DW-XCorr) to obtain multi-channel correlation information from the two feature maps (target and search region). However, DW-XCorr has several limitations within Siamese-based tracking: it can easily be fooled by distractors, has fewer activated channels and provides weak discrimination of object boundaries. Further, DW-XCorr is a handcrafted parameter-free module and cannot fully benefit from offline learning on large-scale data. We propose a learnable module, called the asymmetric convolution (ACM), which learns to better capture the semantic correlation information in offline training on …
Deep Gaussian Processes For Few-Shot Segmentation,
2021
Linköping University & Zenseact Ab
Deep Gaussian Processes For Few-Shot Segmentation, Joakim Johnander, Johan Edstedt, Martin Danelljan, Michael Felsberg, Fahad Shahbaz Khan
Computer Vision Faculty Publications
Few-shot segmentation is a challenging task, requiring the extraction of a generalizable representation from only a few annotated samples, in order to segment novel query images. A common approach is to model each class with a single prototype. While conceptually simple, these methods suffer when the target appearance distribution is multi-modal or not linearly separable in feature space. To tackle this issue, we propose a few-shot learner formulation based on Gaussian process (GP) regression. Through the expressivity of the GP, our approach is capable of modeling complex appearance distributions in the deep feature space. The GP provides a principled way …
On Generating Transferable Targeted Perturbations,
2021
Australian National University
On Generating Transferable Targeted Perturbations, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Fatih Porikli
Computer Vision Faculty Publications
While the untargeted black-box transferability of adversarial perturbations has been extensively studied before, changing an unseen model's decisions to a specific 'targeted' class remains a challenging feat. In this paper, we propose a new generative approach for highly transferable targeted perturbations (TTP). We note that the existing methods are less suitable for this task due to their reliance on class-boundary information that changes from one model to another, thus reducing transferability. In contrast, our approach matches the perturbed image 'distribution' with that of the target class, leading to high targeted transferability rates. To this end, we propose a new objective …
Orthogonal Projection Loss,
2021
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Orthogonal Projection Loss, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Muzammal Naseer, Munawar Hayat, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan
Computer Vision Faculty Publications
Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance on a range of classification tasks, with softmax cross-entropy (CE) loss emerging as the de-facto objective function. The CE loss encourages features of a class to have a higher projection score on the true class-vector compared to the negative classes. However, this is a relative constraint and does not explicitly force different class features to be well-separated. Motivated by the observation that ground-truth class representations in CE loss are orthogonal (one-hot encoded vectors), we develop a novel loss function termed 'Orthogonal Projection Loss' (OPL) which imposes orthogonality in the feature space. OPL augments …
Analysis Of Inflammation, Metabolic And Clinical Markers In Predicting Fat Mass In Hiv-Positive Males Using Artificial Neural Network,
2021
Universiti Malaya
Analysis Of Inflammation, Metabolic And Clinical Markers In Predicting Fat Mass In Hiv-Positive Males Using Artificial Neural Network, Nurul Farhah Shamsuddin
Student Works (2020-2029)
Increased inflammation has been discovered in people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which has been associated with the development and advancement of metabolic diseases. Immune activation and inflammation have been revealed to affect the redistribution of fat in people living with HIV (PLWH) whether the individual is on treatment with antiretroviral therapy (ART) or treatment naïve. Therefore, the assessment of body fat composition of PLWH based on markers of inflammation is important to develop keen diagnosis and prognosis of medical conditions facing by these patients, for example lipodystrophy syndrome, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia and diabetes mellitus. The purpose of this …
Survey On Quantum Circuit Compilation For Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers: Artificial Intelligence To Heuristics,
2021
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Survey On Quantum Circuit Compilation For Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers: Artificial Intelligence To Heuristics, Janusz Kusyk, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Muharrem Umit Uyar
Publications and Research
Computationally expensive applications, including machine learning, chemical simulations, and financial modeling, are promising candidates for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computers. In these problems, one important challenge is mapping a quantum circuit onto NISQ hardware while satisfying physical constraints of an underlying quantum architecture. Quantum circuit compilation (QCC) aims to generate feasible mappings such that a quantum circuit can be executed in a given hardware platform with acceptable confidence in outcomes. Physical constraints of a NISQ computer change frequently, requiring QCC process to be repeated often. When a circuit cannot directly be executed on a quantum hardware due to its …
An Improved Social Force Model For Crowd Simulation,
2021
School of information and control engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China;
An Improved Social Force Model For Crowd Simulation, Changhua Li, Yang Jing, Zhijie Li
Journal of System Simulation
Abstract: In view of the traditional social force model, it is difficult to deal with the problems of single pedestrian trajectory and loose crowd in the process of crowd evacuation, and an improved social force model is proposed. Based on the original social force model, the movement trajectory of the person is changed by considering the choice of the movement direction The intensity of panic and attraction in the process of pedestrian evacuation is considered to reproduce the self-organizing behavior in the process of pedestrian evacuation, and the simulations are performed in individual and group mode. The authenticity of the …
Guaranteed Cost Preview And Repetitive Control For Uncertain Linear Discrete Time-Delay Systems,
2021
School of information engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China;
Guaranteed Cost Preview And Repetitive Control For Uncertain Linear Discrete Time-Delay Systems, Yonghong Lan, Jinlin He
Journal of System Simulation
Abstract: For a class of uncertain linear discrete time-delay systems, a design method for guaranteed cost preview and repetitive controller is proposed . By introducing a repetitive controller in the forward channel to improve the tracking accuracy of the system, L-order difference operators are used to construct an augmented error system that contains preview information but does not include time delay, and the design problem of guaranteed cost preview and repetitive controller is converted into an output feedback adjustment problem. Using the Lyapunov stability theory and the linear matrix inequality method, the sufficient conditions for guaranteeing the asymptotic stability of …
Sar Image Target Recognition Based On Across Convolution Network Feature Fusion,
2021
School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China;
Sar Image Target Recognition Based On Across Convolution Network Feature Fusion, Xinyang Feng, Shao Chao
Journal of System Simulation
Abstract: Convolutional neural networks have been widely used in the field of synthetic aperture radar image target recognition. Based on the LeNet-5 neural network model, a SAR image target recognition method are initialized across convolution network feature fusion is proposed. The LeNet-5 network parameters on the basis of MNIST handwritten data. The deep and shallow features of the SAR image are extracted, and the principal component analysis on the shallow features is performed to obtain key category information. Deep features and shallow features are fused and are classified and recognised by sent to collaborative representation. Experimental results show that …
