scholarly journals Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (25) ◽  
pp. E5716-E5725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sadegh Norouzzadeh ◽  
Anh Nguyen ◽  
Margaret Kosmala ◽  
Alexandra Swanson ◽  
Meredith S. Palmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Camera Trap ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Manual Task ◽  
In The Wild

Having accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information about the location and behavior of animals in the wild would improve our ability to study and conserve ecosystems. We investigate the ability to automatically, accurately, and inexpensively collect such data, which could help catalyze the transformation of many fields of ecology, wildlife biology, zoology, conservation biology, and animal behavior into “big data” sciences. Motion-sensor “camera traps” enable collecting wildlife pictures inexpensively, unobtrusively, and frequently. However, extracting information from these pictures remains an expensive, time-consuming, manual task. We demonstrate that such information can be automatically extracted by deep learning, a cutting-edge type of artificial intelligence. We train deep convolutional neural networks to identify, count, and describe the behaviors of 48 species in the 3.2 million-image Snapshot Serengeti dataset. Our deep neural networks automatically identify animals with >93.8% accuracy, and we expect that number to improve rapidly in years to come. More importantly, if our system classifies only images it is confident about, our system can automate animal identification for 99.3% of the data while still performing at the same 96.6% accuracy as that of crowdsourced teams of human volunteers, saving >8.4 y (i.e., >17,000 h at 40 h/wk) of human labeling effort on this 3.2 million-image dataset. Those efficiency gains highlight the importance of using deep neural networks to automate data extraction from camera-trap images, reducing a roadblock for this widely used technology. Our results suggest that deep learning could enable the inexpensive, unobtrusive, high-volume, and even real-time collection of a wealth of information about vast numbers of animals in the wild.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Optimization Algorithms for Deep Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (13) ◽  
pp. 2052013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derya Soydaner
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Optimization Algorithms ◽  
Gradient Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Basic Optimization ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Image Datasets

In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of deep learning. Deep neural networks have proved their success in many areas. However, the optimization of these networks has become more difficult as neural networks going deeper and datasets becoming bigger. Therefore, more advanced optimization algorithms have been proposed over the past years. In this study, widely used optimization algorithms for deep learning are examined in detail. To this end, these algorithms called adaptive gradient methods are implemented for both supervised and unsupervised tasks. The behavior of the algorithms during training and results on four image datasets, namely, MNIST, CIFAR-10, Kaggle Flowers and Labeled Faces in the Wild are compared by pointing out their differences against basic optimization algorithms.

Deep distributed convolutional neural networks: Universality

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 895-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding-Xuan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Mathematical Foundation ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fully Connected

Deep learning based on structured deep neural networks has provided powerful applications in various fields. The structures imposed on the deep neural networks are crucial, which makes deep learning essentially different from classical schemes based on fully connected neural networks. One of the commonly used deep neural network structures is generated by convolutions. The produced deep learning algorithms form the family of deep convolutional neural networks. Despite of their power in some practical domains, little is known about the mathematical foundation of deep convolutional neural networks such as universality of approximation. In this paper, we propose a family of new structured deep neural networks: deep distributed convolutional neural networks. We show that these deep neural networks have the same order of computational complexity as the deep convolutional neural networks, and we prove their universality of approximation. Some ideas of our analysis are from ridge approximation, wavelets, and learning theory.

scholarly journals A Deep Learning Approach for Malware and Software Piracy Threat Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 7757-7762
Author(s):  
K. Aldriwish
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Software Piracy ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Threat Detection ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Combined Model ◽  
Security Of Iot

Internet of Things (IoT) -based systems need to be up to date on cybersecurity threats. The security of IoT networks is challenged by software piracy and malware attacks, and much important information can be stolen and used for cybercrimes. This paper attempts to improve IoT cybersecurity by proposing a combined model based on deep learning to detect malware and software piracy across the IoT network. The malware’s model is based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs). Apart from this, TensorFlow Deep Neural Networks (TFDNNs) are introduced to detect software piracy threats according to source code plagiarism. The investigation is conducted on the Google Code Jam (GCJ) dataset. The conducted experiments prove that the classification performance achieves high accuracy of about 98%.

scholarly journals Image-Based Animal Detection and Breed Identification Using Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-134
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Manual Task ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Animal Images ◽  
Animal Detection

Having accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information about the behaviour of animals in the wild world would improve our ability to study and conserve ecosystems. We investigate the ability to automatically, accurately, and inexpensively collect such data through various sources, which could help catalyse the transformation of many fields of ecology, wildlife biology, zoology, conservation biology, animal behaviour into “big data” sciences and many more. So extracting information from the pictures remains an expensive, time-consuming, and manual task for us. We demonstrate that such information can be automatically extracted by deep learning and convolutional neural network. Leveraging on recent advances in deep learning techniques in computer vision, we propose in this project a framework to build automated animal recognition in the wild, aiming at an automated wildlife monitoring system. In particular, we use a single-labelled dataset done by citizen scientists, and the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network architectures, face biometrics, to train a computational system capable of filtering animal images and identifying species automatically and counting the number of species. Our results suggest that deep learning could enable the inexpensive, unobtrusive, high-volume, and even real-time collection of a wealth of information about vast numbers of animals in the wild and this, in turn, can, therefore, speed up research findings, construct more efficient citizen science-based monitoring systems and subsequent management decisions, having the potential to make significant impacts to the world of ecology and trap camera images analysis .

scholarly journals Deep convolutional neural networks for cardiovascular vulnerable plaque detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 02024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincan Li ◽  
Tong Jia ◽  
Tianqi Meng ◽  
Yizhe Liu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Vulnerable Plaque ◽  
Recall Rate ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Vulnerable Plaques ◽  
Plaque Detection

In this paper, an accurate two-stage deep learning method is proposed to detect vulnerable plaques in ultrasonic images of cardiovascular. Firstly, a Fully Convonutional Neural Network (FCN) named U-Net is used to segment the original Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT) cardiovascular images. We experiment on different threshold values to find the best threshold for removing noise and background in the original images. Secondly, a modified Faster RCNN is adopted to do precise detection. The modified Faster R-CNN utilize six-scale anchors (122,162,322,642,1282,2562) instead of the conventional one scale or three scale approaches. First, we present three problems in cardiovascular vulnerable plaque diagnosis, then we demonstrate how our method solve these problems. The proposed method in this paper apply deep convolutional neural networks to the whole diagnostic procedure. Test results show the Recall rate, Precision rate, IoU (Intersection-over-Union) rate and Total score are 0.94, 0.885, 0.913 and 0.913 respectively, higher than the 1st team of CCCV2017 Cardiovascular OCT Vulnerable Plaque Detection Challenge. AP of the designed Faster RCNN is 83.4%, higher than conventional approaches which use one-scale or three-scale anchors. These results demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method and the power of deep learning approaches in diagnose cardiovascular vulnerable plaques.

scholarly journals Automatic Detection of Arrhythmia Based on Multi-Resolution Representation of ECG Signal

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1579
Author(s):  
Dongqi Wang ◽  
Qinghua Meng ◽  
Dongming Chen ◽  
Hupo Zhang ◽  
Lisheng Xu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Channel Model ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Data Representation ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Arrhythmia Detection ◽  
Automatic Feature Extraction

Automatic detection of arrhythmia is of great significance for early prevention and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Traditional feature engineering methods based on expert knowledge lack multidimensional and multi-view information abstraction and data representation ability, so the traditional research on pattern recognition of arrhythmia detection cannot achieve satisfactory results. Recently, with the increase of deep learning technology, automatic feature extraction of ECG data based on deep neural networks has been widely discussed. In order to utilize the complementary strength between different schemes, in this paper, we propose an arrhythmia detection method based on the multi-resolution representation (MRR) of ECG signals. This method utilizes four different up to date deep neural networks as four channel models for ECG vector representations learning. The deep learning based representations, together with hand-crafted features of ECG, forms the MRR, which is the input of the downstream classification strategy. The experimental results of big ECG dataset multi-label classification confirm that the F1 score of the proposed method is 0.9238, which is 1.31%, 0.62%, 1.18% and 0.6% higher than that of each channel model. From the perspective of architecture, this proposed method is highly scalable and can be employed as an example for arrhythmia recognition.

scholarly journals Enabling deeper learning on big data for materials informatics applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipendra Jha ◽  
Vishu Gupta ◽  
Logan Ward ◽  
Zijiang Yang ◽  
Christopher Wolverton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Materials Informatics ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Significant Attention

AbstractThe application of machine learning (ML) techniques in materials science has attracted significant attention in recent years, due to their impressive ability to efficiently extract data-driven linkages from various input materials representations to their output properties. While the application of traditional ML techniques has become quite ubiquitous, there have been limited applications of more advanced deep learning (DL) techniques, primarily because big materials datasets are relatively rare. Given the demonstrated potential and advantages of DL and the increasing availability of big materials datasets, it is attractive to go for deeper neural networks in a bid to boost model performance, but in reality, it leads to performance degradation due to the vanishing gradient problem. In this paper, we address the question of how to enable deeper learning for cases where big materials data is available. Here, we present a general deep learning framework based on Individual Residual learning (IRNet) composed of very deep neural networks that can work with any vector-based materials representation as input to build accurate property prediction models. We find that the proposed IRNet models can not only successfully alleviate the vanishing gradient problem and enable deeper learning, but also lead to significantly (up to 47%) better model accuracy as compared to plain deep neural networks and traditional ML techniques for a given input materials representation in the presence of big data.

scholarly journals Representing Deep Neural Networks Latent Space Geometries with Graphs

Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Carlos Lassance ◽  
Vincent Gripon ◽  
Antonio Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Core ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Latent Space

Deep Learning (DL) has attracted a lot of attention for its ability to reach state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks. The core principle of DL methods consists of training composite architectures in an end-to-end fashion, where inputs are associated with outputs trained to optimize an objective function. Because of their compositional nature, DL architectures naturally exhibit several intermediate representations of the inputs, which belong to so-called latent spaces. When treated individually, these intermediate representations are most of the time unconstrained during the learning process, as it is unclear which properties should be favored. However, when processing a batch of inputs concurrently, the corresponding set of intermediate representations exhibit relations (what we call a geometry) on which desired properties can be sought. In this work, we show that it is possible to introduce constraints on these latent geometries to address various problems. In more detail, we propose to represent geometries by constructing similarity graphs from the intermediate representations obtained when processing a batch of inputs. By constraining these Latent Geometry Graphs (LGGs), we address the three following problems: (i) reproducing the behavior of a teacher architecture is achieved by mimicking its geometry, (ii) designing efficient embeddings for classification is achieved by targeting specific geometries, and (iii) robustness to deviations on inputs is achieved via enforcing smooth variation of geometry between consecutive latent spaces. Using standard vision benchmarks, we demonstrate the ability of the proposed geometry-based methods in solving the considered problems.

scholarly journals Off-the-shelf deep learning is not enough, and requires parsimony, Bayesianity, and causality

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rama K. Vasudevan ◽  
Maxim Ziatdinov ◽  
Lukas Vlcek ◽  
Sergei V. Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Bayesian Methods ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Physical Constraints

AbstractDeep neural networks (‘deep learning’) have emerged as a technology of choice to tackle problems in speech recognition, computer vision, finance, etc. However, adoption of deep learning in physical domains brings substantial challenges stemming from the correlative nature of deep learning methods compared to the causal, hypothesis driven nature of modern science. We argue that the broad adoption of Bayesian methods incorporating prior knowledge, development of solutions with incorporated physical constraints and parsimonious structural descriptors and generative models, and ultimately adoption of causal models, offers a path forward for fundamental and applied research.

scholarly journals Diversity oriented Deep Reinforcement Learning for targeted molecule generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Pereira ◽  
Maryam Abbasi ◽  
Bernardete Ribeiro ◽  
Joel P. Arrais
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Chemical Space ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Training Strategy ◽  
Inhibitory Power ◽  
Exploratory Strategy

AbstractIn this work, we explore the potential of deep learning to streamline the process of identifying new potential drugs through the computational generation of molecules with interesting biological properties. Two deep neural networks compose our targeted generation framework: the Generator, which is trained to learn the building rules of valid molecules employing SMILES strings notation, and the Predictor which evaluates the newly generated compounds by predicting their affinity for the desired target. Then, the Generator is optimized through Reinforcement Learning to produce molecules with bespoken properties. The innovation of this approach is the exploratory strategy applied during the reinforcement training process that seeks to add novelty to the generated compounds. This training strategy employs two Generators interchangeably to sample new SMILES: the initially trained model that will remain fixed and a copy of the previous one that will be updated during the training to uncover the most promising molecules. The evolution of the reward assigned by the Predictor determines how often each one is employed to select the next token of the molecule. This strategy establishes a compromise between the need to acquire more information about the chemical space and the need to sample new molecules, with the experience gained so far. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, the Generator is trained to design molecules with an optimized coefficient of partition and also high inhibitory power against the Adenosine $$A_{2A}$$ A 2 A and $$\kappa$$ κ opioid receptors. The results reveal that the model can effectively adjust the newly generated molecules towards the wanted direction. More importantly, it was possible to find promising sets of unique and diverse molecules, which was the main purpose of the newly implemented strategy.

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