Feature Visualization Based Stacked Convolutional Neural Network for Human Body Detection in a Depth Image

Author(s):  
Xiao Liu ◽  
Ling Mei ◽  
Dakun Yang ◽  
Jianhuang Lai ◽  
Xiaohua Xie
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zhao ◽  
Qian Mao ◽  
Zheng Zhao ◽  
Tongyi Dou ◽  
Zhiguo Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractBackgroundAn increasing number of studies reported that exogenous miRNAs (xenomiRs) can be detected in animal bodies, however, some others reported negative results. Some attributed this divergence to the selective absorption of plant-derived xenomiRs by animals.ResultsHere, we analyzed 166 plant-derived xenomiRs reported in our previous study and 942 non-xenomiRs extracted from miRNA expression profiles of four species of commonly consumed plants. Employing statistics analysis and cluster analysis, our study revealed the potential sequence specificity of plant-derived xenomiRs. Furthermore, a random forest model and a one-dimensional convolutional neural network model were trained using miRNA sequence features and raw miRNA sequences respectively and then employed to predict unlabeled plant miRNAs in miRBase. A total of 241 possible plant-derived xenomiRs were predicted by both models. Finally, the potential functions of these possible plant-derived xenomiRs along with our previously reported ones in human body were analyzed.ConclusionsOur study, for the first time, presents the systematic plant-derived xenomiR sequences analysis and provides evidence for selective absorption of plant miRNA by human body, which could facilitate the future investigation about the mechanisms underlying the transference of plant-derived xenomiR.


Author(s):  
T. Mizoguchi ◽  
A. Ishii ◽  
H. Nakamura

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In this paper, we propose a new method for specifying individual tree species based on depth and curvature image creation from point cloud captured by terrestrial laser scanner and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Given a point cloud of an individual tree, the proposed method first extracts the subset of points corresponding to a trunk at breast-height. Then branches and leaves are removed from the extracted points by RANSAC -based circle fitting, and the depth image is created by globally fitting a cubic polynomial surface to the remaining trunk points. Furthermore, principal curvatures are estimated at each scanned point by locally fitting a quadratic surface to its neighbouring points. Depth images clearly capture the bark texture involved by its split and tear-off, but its computation is unstable and may fail to acquire bark shape in the resulting images. In contrast, curvature estimation enables stable computation of surface concavity and convexity, and thus it can well represent local geometry of bark texture in the curvature images. In comparison to the depth image, the curvature image enables accurate classification for slanted trees with many branches and leaves. We also evaluated the effectiveness of a multi-modal approach for species classification in which depth and curvature images are analysed together using CNN and support vector machine. We verified the superior performance of our proposed method for point cloud of Japanese cedar and cypress trees.</p>


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 2353
Author(s):  
Xinyan Sun ◽  
Zhenye Li ◽  
Tingting Zhu ◽  
Chao Ni

Grading the quality of fresh cut flowers is an important practice in the flower industry. Based on the flower maturing status, a classification method based on deep learning and depth information was proposed for the grading of flower quality. Firstly, the RGB image and the depth image of a flower bud were collected and transformed into fused RGBD information. Then, the RGBD information of a flower was set as inputs of a convolutional neural network to determine the flower bud maturing status. Four convolutional neural network models (VGG16, ResNet18, MobileNetV2, and InceptionV3) were adjusted for a four-dimensional (4D) RGBD input to classify flowers, and their classification performances were compared with and without depth information. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy was improved with depth information, and the improved InceptionV3 network with RGBD achieved the highest classification accuracy (up to 98%), which means that the depth information can effectively reflect the characteristics of the flower bud and is helpful for the classification of the maturing status. These results have a certain significance for the intelligent classification and sorting of fresh flowers.


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