IMAL: An Improved Meta-learning Approach for Few-shot Classification of Plant Diseases

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingtao Wang ◽  
Shunfang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Meta Learning

scholarly journals Few-shot Classification of Aerial Scene Images via Meta-learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Zhang ◽  
YIng Li ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Yunpeng Bai
Keyword(s):  
Classification Problem ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Scene Classification ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Training Stage ◽  
Testing Stage ◽  
Meta Learning ◽  
Cosine Distance ◽  
Query Sample

CNN-based methods have dominated the field of aerial scene classification for the past few years. While achieving remarkable success, CNN-based methods suffer from excessive parameters and notoriously rely on large amounts of training data. In this work, we introduce few-shot learning to the aerial scene classification problem. Few-shot learning aims to learn a model on base-set that can quickly adapt to unseen categories in novel-set, using only a few labeled samples. To this end, we proposed a meta-learning method for few-shot classification of aerial scene images. First, we train a feature extractor on all base categories to learn a representation of inputs. Then in the meta-training stage, the classifier is optimized in the metric space by cosine distance with a learnable scale parameter. At last, in the meta-testing stage, the query sample in the unseen category is predicted by the adapted classifier given a few support samples. We conduct extensive experiments on two challenging datasets: NWPU-RESISC45 and RSD46-WHU. The experimental results show that our method outperforms three state-of-the-art few-shot algorithms and one typical CNN-based method, D-CNN. Furthermore, several ablation experiments are conducted to investigate the effects of dataset scale and support shots; the experiment results confirm that our model is specifically effective in few-shot settings.

Meta-learning based on parameter transfer for few-shot classification of remote sensing scenes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 531-541
Author(s):  
Chenhui Ma ◽  
Xiaodong Mu ◽  
Peng Zhao ◽  
Xin Yan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Meta Learning

scholarly journals Semi-supervised few-shot learning approach for plant diseases recognition

Plant Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Xuewei Chao
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Target Domain ◽  
Plant Leaf ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Yield And Quality ◽  
Average Improvement ◽  
Agricultural Yield

Abstract Background Learning from a few samples to automatically recognize the plant leaf diseases is an attractive and promising study to protect the agricultural yield and quality. The existing few-shot classification studies in agriculture are mainly based on supervised learning schemes, ignoring unlabeled data's helpful information. Methods In this paper, we proposed a semi-supervised few-shot learning approach to solve the plant leaf diseases recognition. Specifically, the public PlantVillage dataset is used and split into the source domain and target domain. Extensive comparison experiments considering the domain split and few-shot parameters (N-way, k-shot) were carried out to validate the correctness and generalization of proposed semi-supervised few-shot methods. In terms of selecting pseudo-labeled samples in the semi-supervised process, we adopted the confidence interval to determine the number of unlabeled samples for pseudo-labelling adaptively. Results The average improvement by the single semi-supervised method is 2.8%, and that by the iterative semi-supervised method is 4.6%. Conclusions The proposed methods can outperform other related works with fewer labeled training data.

scholarly journals Few-Shot Classification of Aerial Scene Images via Meta-Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Pei Zhang ◽  
Yunpeng Bai ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Bendu Bai ◽  
Ying Li
Keyword(s):  
Classification Problem ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Scene Classification ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Training Stage ◽  
Testing Stage ◽  
Meta Learning ◽  
Cosine Distance ◽  
The Impact

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have dominated the field of aerial scene classification for the past few years. While achieving remarkable success, CNN-based methods suffer from excessive parameters and notoriously rely on large amounts of training data. In this work, we introduce few-shot learning to the aerial scene classification problem. Few-shot learning aims to learn a model on base-set that can quickly adapt to unseen categories in novel-set, using only a few labeled samples. To this end, we proposed a meta-learning method for few-shot classification of aerial scene images. First, we train a feature extractor on all base categories to learn a representation of inputs. Then in the meta-training stage, the classifier is optimized in the metric space by cosine distance with a learnable scale parameter. At last, in the meta-testing stage, the query sample in the unseen category is predicted by the adapted classifier given a few support samples. We conduct extensive experiments on two challenging datasets: NWPU-RESISC45 and RSD46-WHU. The experimental results show that our method yields state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, several ablation experiments are conducted to investigate the effects of dataset scale, the impact of different metrics and the number of support shots; the experiment results confirm that our model is specifically effective in few-shot settings.

Actual issues of systematization of scientific knowledge on the conditions of shot in the forensic ballistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Igor' Latyshov ◽  
Fedor Samuylenko
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Production Method ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Projectile Energy ◽  
Energy Characteristics ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Forensic Ballistics

In this research, there was considered a challenge of constructing a system of scientific knowledge of the shot conditions in judicial ballistics. It was observed that there are underlying factors that are intended to ensureits [scientific knowledge] consistency: identification of the list of shot conditions, which require consideration when solving expert-level research tasks on weapons, cartridges and traces of their action; determination of the communication systems in the course of objects’ interaction, which present the result of exposure to the conditions of the shot; classification of the shot conditions based on the grounds significant for solving scientific and practical problems. The article contains the characteristics of a constructive, functional factor (condition) of weapons and cartridges influence, environmental and fire factors, the structure of the target and its physical properties, situational and spatial factors, and projectile energy characteristics. Highlighted are the forms of connections formed in the course of objects’ interaction, proposed are the author’s classifications of forensically significant shooting conditions with them being divided on the basis of the following criteria: production from the object of interaction, production from a natural phenomenon, production method, results weapon operation and utilization, duration of exposure, type of structural connections between interaction objects, number of conditions that apply when firing and the forming traces.

scholarly journals A Machine Learning Approach to Study Glycosidase Activities from Bifidobacterium

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1034
Author(s):  
Carlos Sabater ◽  
Lorena Ruiz ◽  
Abelardo Margolles
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Human Milk Oligosaccharides ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
High Fiber ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Prebiotic Oligosaccharides

This study aimed to recover metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from human fecal samples to characterize the glycosidase profiles of Bifidobacterium species exposed to different prebiotic oligosaccharides (galacto-oligosaccharides, fructo-oligosaccharides and human milk oligosaccharides, HMOs) as well as high-fiber diets. A total of 1806 MAGs were recovered from 487 infant and adult metagenomes. Unsupervised and supervised classification of glycosidases codified in MAGs using machine-learning algorithms allowed establishing characteristic hydrolytic profiles for B. adolescentis, B. bifidum, B. breve, B. longum and B. pseudocatenulatum, yielding classification rates above 90%. Glycosidase families GH5 44, GH32, and GH110 were characteristic of B. bifidum. The presence or absence of GH1, GH2, GH5 and GH20 was characteristic of B. adolescentis, B. breve and B. pseudocatenulatum, while families GH1 and GH30 were relevant in MAGs from B. longum. These characteristic profiles allowed discriminating bifidobacteria regardless of prebiotic exposure. Correlation analysis of glycosidase activities suggests strong associations between glycosidase families comprising HMOs-degrading enzymes, which are often found in MAGs from the same species. Mathematical models here proposed may contribute to a better understanding of the carbohydrate metabolism of some common bifidobacteria species and could be extrapolated to other microorganisms of interest in future studies.

scholarly journals Meta Learning for Few-Shot One-Class Classification

AI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Gabriel Dahia ◽  
Maurício Pamplona Segundo
Keyword(s):  
Feature Representation ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Support Vector Data Description ◽  
Target Class ◽  
Feature Representations ◽  
Shot Classification ◽  
Training Stage ◽  
Comparable Performance ◽  
Meta Learning ◽  
One Class Classification

We propose a method that can perform one-class classification given only a small number of examples from the target class and none from the others. We formulate the learning of meaningful features for one-class classification as a meta-learning problem in which the meta-training stage repeatedly simulates one-class classification, using the classification loss of the chosen algorithm to learn a feature representation. To learn these representations, we require only multiclass data from similar tasks. We show how the Support Vector Data Description method can be used with our method, and also propose a simpler variant based on Prototypical Networks that obtains comparable performance, indicating that learning feature representations directly from data may be more important than which one-class algorithm we choose. We validate our approach by adapting few-shot classification datasets to the few-shot one-class classification scenario, obtaining similar results to the state-of-the-art of traditional one-class classification, and that improves upon that of one-class classification baselines employed in the few-shot setting.

A novel transfer learning approach for the classification of histological images of colorectal cancer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elene Firmeza Ohata ◽  
João Victor Souza das Chagas ◽  
Gabriel Maia Bezerra ◽  
Mohammad Mehedi Hassan ◽  
Victor Hugo Costa de Albuquerque ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Histological Images
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