Deep learning-based decision support system for weeds detection in wheat fields

<span>In precision farming, identifying weeds is an essential first step in planning an integrated pest management program in cereals. By knowing the species present, we can learn about the types of herbicides to use to control them, especially in non-weeding crops where mechanical methods that are not effective (tillage, hand weeding, and hoeing and mowing). Therefore, using the deep learning based on convolutional neural network (CNN) will help to automatically identify weeds and then an intelligent system comes to achieve a localized spraying of the herbicides avoiding their large-scale use, preserving the environment. In this article we propose a smart system based on object detection models, implemented on a Raspberry, seek to identify the presence of relevant objects (weeds) in an area (wheat crop) in real time and classify those objects for decision support including spot spray with a chosen herbicide in accordance to the weed detected.</span>

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Using Convolution Neural Network for Defective Image Classification of Industrial Components

Mobile Information Systems ◽

10.1155/2021/9092589 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Hao Wu ◽

Zhi Zhou

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Experimental Study ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Intelligent System ◽

Convolution Neural Network ◽

Lens Distortion ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Industrial Cameras

Computer vision provides effective solutions in many imaging relation problems, including automatic image segmentation and classification. Artificially trained models can be employed to tag images and identify objects spontaneously. In large-scale manufacturing, industrial cameras are utilized to take constant images of components for several reasons. Due to the limitations caused by motion, lens distortion, and noise, some defective images are captured, which are to be identified and separated. One common way to address this problem is by looking into these images manually. However, this solution is not only very time-consuming but is also inaccurate. The paper proposes a deep learning-based artificially intelligent system that can quickly train and identify faulty images. For this purpose, a pretrained convolution neural network based on the PyTorch framework is employed to extract discriminating features from the dataset, which is then used for the classification task. In order to eliminate the chances of overfitting, the proposed model also employed Dropout technology to adjust the network. The experimental study reveals that the system can precisely classify the normal and defective images with an accuracy of over 91%.

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Classification of Skin Disease Using Deep Learning Neural Networks with MobileNet V2 and LSTM

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21082852 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (8) ◽

pp. 2852

Author(s):

Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu ◽

Jalluri Gnana SivaSai ◽

Muhammad Fazal Ijaz ◽

Akash Kumar Bhoi ◽

Wonjoon Kim ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Neural Networks ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Convolutional Neural Network ◽

Skin Disease ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Convolutional Networks ◽

Occurrence Matrix

Deep learning models are efficient in learning the features that assist in understanding complex patterns precisely. This study proposed a computerized process of classifying skin disease through deep learning based MobileNet V2 and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). The MobileNet V2 model proved to be efficient with a better accuracy that can work on lightweight computational devices. The proposed model is efficient in maintaining stateful information for precise predictions. A grey-level co-occurrence matrix is used for assessing the progress of diseased growth. The performance has been compared against other state-of-the-art models such as Fine-Tuned Neural Networks (FTNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition developed by Visual Geometry Group (VGG), and convolutional neural network architecture that expanded with few changes. The HAM10000 dataset is used and the proposed method has outperformed other methods with more than 85% accuracy. Its robustness in recognizing the affected region much faster with almost 2× lesser computations than the conventional MobileNet model results in minimal computational efforts. Furthermore, a mobile application is designed for instant and proper action. It helps the patient and dermatologists identify the type of disease from the affected region’s image at the initial stage of the skin disease. These findings suggest that the proposed system can help general practitioners efficiently and effectively diagnose skin conditions, thereby reducing further complications and morbidity.

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SHEDR: An End-to-End Deep Neural Event Detection and Recommendation Framework for Hyperlocal News Using Social Media

INFORMS Journal on Computing ◽

10.1287/ijoc.2021.1112 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yuheng Hu ◽

Yili Hong

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Social Media ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Event Detection ◽

Large Scale ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Neural Network Models ◽

Neural Event ◽

End To End

Residents often rely on newspapers and television to gather hyperlocal news for community awareness and engagement. More recently, social media have emerged as an increasingly important source of hyperlocal news. Thus far, the literature on using social media to create desirable societal benefits, such as civic awareness and engagement, is still in its infancy. One key challenge in this research stream is to timely and accurately distill information from noisy social media data streams to community members. In this work, we develop SHEDR (social media–based hyperlocal event detection and recommendation), an end-to-end neural event detection and recommendation framework with a particular use case for Twitter to facilitate residents’ information seeking of hyperlocal events. The key model innovation in SHEDR lies in the design of the hyperlocal event detector and the event recommender. First, we harness the power of two popular deep neural network models, the convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), in a novel joint CNN-LSTM model to characterize spatiotemporal dependencies for capturing unusualness in a region of interest, which is classified as a hyperlocal event. Next, we develop a neural pairwise ranking algorithm for recommending detected hyperlocal events to residents based on their interests. To alleviate the sparsity issue and improve personalization, our algorithm incorporates several types of contextual information covering topic, social, and geographical proximities. We perform comprehensive evaluations based on two large-scale data sets comprising geotagged tweets covering Seattle and Chicago. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework in comparison with several state-of-the-art approaches. We show that our hyperlocal event detection and recommendation models consistently and significantly outperform other approaches in terms of precision, recall, and F-1 scores. Summary of Contribution: In this paper, we focus on a novel and important, yet largely underexplored application of computing—how to improve civic engagement in local neighborhoods via local news sharing and consumption based on social media feeds. To address this question, we propose two new computational and data-driven methods: (1) a deep learning–based hyperlocal event detection algorithm that scans spatially and temporally to detect hyperlocal events from geotagged Twitter feeds; and (2) A personalized deep learning–based hyperlocal event recommender system that systematically integrates several contextual cues such as topical, geographical, and social proximity to recommend the detected hyperlocal events to potential users. We conduct a series of experiments to examine our proposed models. The outcomes demonstrate that our algorithms are significantly better than the state-of-the-art models and can provide users with more relevant information about the local neighborhoods that they live in, which in turn may boost their community engagement.

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Image Classification Using Transfer Learning and Deep Learning

International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science ◽

10.18535/ijecs/v10i9.4622 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 25394-25398

Author(s):

Chitra Desai

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Image Classification ◽

Transfer Learning ◽

Network Model ◽

Neural Network Model ◽

Large Scale ◽

Deep Neural Network ◽

Visual Recognition ◽

Classification Of Images

Deep learning models have demonstrated improved efficacy in image classification since the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge started since 2010. Classification of images has further augmented in the field of computer vision with the dawn of transfer learning. To train a model on huge dataset demands huge computational resources and add a lot of cost to learning. Transfer learning allows to reduce on cost of learning and also help avoid reinventing the wheel. There are several pretrained models like VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, Inceptionv3, EfficientNet etc which are widely used. This paper demonstrates image classification using pretrained deep neural network model VGG16 which is trained on images from ImageNet dataset. After obtaining the convolutional base model, a new deep neural network model is built on top of it for image classification based on fully connected network. This classifier will use features extracted from the convolutional base model.

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A Fortran-Keras Deep Learning Bridge for Scientific Computing

Scientific Programming ◽

10.1155/2020/8888811 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jordan Ott ◽

Mike Pritchard ◽

Natalie Best ◽

Erik Linstead ◽

Milan Curcic ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Climate Model ◽

Emergent Behavior ◽

Training Dataset ◽

Climate Simulation ◽

Network Architectures ◽

Efficient Computation ◽

Radiation Physics

Implementing artificial neural networks is commonly achieved via high-level programming languages such as Python and easy-to-use deep learning libraries such as Keras. These software libraries come preloaded with a variety of network architectures, provide autodifferentiation, and support GPUs for fast and efficient computation. As a result, a deep learning practitioner will favor training a neural network model in Python, where these tools are readily available. However, many large-scale scientific computation projects are written in Fortran, making it difficult to integrate with modern deep learning methods. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a software library, the Fortran-Keras Bridge (FKB). This two-way bridge connects environments where deep learning resources are plentiful with those where they are scarce. The paper describes several unique features offered by FKB, such as customizable layers, loss functions, and network ensembles. The paper concludes with a case study that applies FKB to address open questions about the robustness of an experimental approach to global climate simulation, in which subgrid physics are outsourced to deep neural network emulators. In this context, FKB enables a hyperparameter search of one hundred plus candidate models of subgrid cloud and radiation physics, initially implemented in Keras, to be transferred and used in Fortran. Such a process allows the model’s emergent behavior to be assessed, i.e., when fit imperfections are coupled to explicit planetary-scale fluid dynamics. The results reveal a previously unrecognized strong relationship between offline validation error and online performance, in which the choice of the optimizer proves unexpectedly critical. This in turn reveals many new neural network architectures that produce considerable improvements in climate model stability including some with reduced error, for an especially challenging training dataset.

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Enhancing PMW Satellite Precipitation Estimation: Detecting Convective Class

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology ◽

10.1175/jtech-d-19-0008.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 (12) ◽

pp. 2349-2363 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Veljko Petković ◽

Marko Orescanin ◽

Pierre Kirstetter ◽

Christian Kummerow ◽

Ralph Ferraro

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Model Development ◽

Precipitation Rate ◽

Neural Network Approach ◽

Satellite Precipitation ◽

Precipitation Estimation ◽

Microwave Imager ◽

Deep Learning Neural Network

AbstractA decades-long effort in observing precipitation from space has led to continuous improvements of satellite-derived passive microwave (PMW) large-scale precipitation products. However, due to a limited ability to relate observed radiometric signatures to precipitation type (convective and stratiform) and associated precipitation rate variability, PMW retrievals are prone to large systematic errors at instantaneous scales. The present study explores the use of deep learning approach in extracting the information content from PMW observation vectors to help identify precipitation types. A deep learning neural network model (DNN) is developed to retrieve the convective type in precipitating systems from PMW observations. A 12-month period of Global Precipitation Measurement mission Microwave Imager (GMI) observations is used as a dataset for model development and verification. The proposed DNN model is shown to accurately predict precipitation types for 85% of total precipitation volume. The model reduces precipitation rate bias associated with convective and stratiform precipitation in the GPM operational algorithm by a factor of 2 while preserving the correlation with reference precipitation rates, and is insensitive to surface type variability. Based on comparisons against currently used convective schemes, it is concluded that the neural network approach has the potential to address regime-specific PMW satellite precipitation biases affecting GPM operations.

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Predicting circRNA-RBP interaction sites using a codon-based encoding and hybrid deep neural networks

10.1101/499012 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kaiming Zhang ◽

Xiaoyong Pan ◽

Yang Yang ◽

Hong-Bin Shen

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Binding Sites ◽

Large Scale ◽

Rna Binding ◽

Sequence Information ◽

Rna Sequences ◽

Encoding Scheme ◽

Interaction Sites

AbstractCircular RNAs (circRNAs), with their crucial roles in gene regulation and disease development, have become a rising star in the RNA world. A lot of previous wet-lab studies focused on the interaction mechanisms between circRNAs and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), as the knowledge of circRNA-RBP association is very important for understanding functions of circRNAs. Recently, the abundant CLIP-Seq experimental data has made the large-scale identification and analysis of circRNA-RBP interactions possible, while no computational tool based on machine learning has been developed yet.We present a new deep learning-based method, CRIP (CircRNAs Interact with Proteins), for the prediction of RBP binding sites on circRNAs, using only the RNA sequences. In order to fully exploit the sequence information, we propose a stacked codon-based encoding scheme and a hybrid deep learning architecture, in which a convolutional neural network (CNN) learns high-level abstract features and a recurrent neural network (RNN) learns long dependency in the sequences. We construct 37 datasets including sequence fragments of binding sites on circRNAs, and each set corresponds to one RBP. The experimental results show that the new encoding scheme is superior to the existing feature representation methods for RNA sequences, and the hybrid network outperforms conventional classifiers by a large margin, where both the CNN and RNN components contribute to the performance improvement. To the best of our knowledge, CRIP is the first machine learning-based tool specialized in the prediction of circRNA-RBP interactions, which is expected to play an important role for large-scale function analysis of circRNAs.

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Automatic Detection of Impervious Surfaces from Remotely Sensed Data Using Deep Learning

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13163166 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (16) ◽

pp. 3166

Author(s):

Jash R. Parekh ◽

Ate Poortinga ◽

Biplov Bhandari ◽

Timothy Mayer ◽

David Saah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Mean Squared Error ◽

Remotely Sensed ◽

Landsat 8 ◽

Impervious Surfaces ◽

Remotely Sensed Data ◽

Statistical Indices ◽

Deep Learning Neural Network

The large scale quantification of impervious surfaces provides valuable information for urban planning and socioeconomic development. Remote sensing and GIS techniques provide spatial and temporal information of land surfaces and are widely used for modeling impervious surfaces. Traditionally, these surfaces are predicted by computing statistical indices derived from different bands available in remotely sensed data, such as the Landsat and Sentinel series. More recently, researchers have explored classification and regression techniques to model impervious surfaces. However, these modeling efforts are limited due to lack of labeled data for training and evaluation. This in turn requires significant effort for manual labeling of data and visual interpretation of results. In this paper, we train deep learning neural networks using TensorFlow to predict impervious surfaces from Landsat 8 images. We used OpenStreetMap (OSM), a crowd-sourced map of the world with manually interpreted impervious surfaces such as roads and buildings, to programmatically generate large amounts of training and evaluation data, thus overcoming the need for manual labeling. We conducted extensive experimentation to compare the performance of different deep learning neural network architectures, optimization methods, and the set of features used to train the networks. The four model configurations labeled U-Net_SGD_Bands, U-Net_Adam_Bands, U-Net_Adam_Bands+SI, and VGG-19_Adam_Bands+SI resulted in a root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.1582, 0.1358, 0.1375, and 0.1582 and an accuracy of 90.87%, 92.28%, 92.46%, and 90.11%, respectively, on the test set. The U-Net_Adam_Bands+SI Model, similar to the others mentioned above, is a deep learning neural network that combines Landsat 8 bands with statistical indices. This model performs the best among all four on statistical accuracy and produces qualitatively sharper and brighter predictions of impervious surfaces as compared to the other models.

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A Deep Learning Algorithm for the Max-Cut Problem Based on Pointer Network Structure with Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning Strategies

Mathematics ◽

10.3390/math8020298 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 298 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shenshen Gu ◽

Yue Yang

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Deep Learning ◽

Reinforcement Learning ◽

Combinatorial Optimization ◽

Supervised Learning ◽

Learning Strategies ◽

Large Scale ◽

Deep Neural Network ◽

Max Cut Problem ◽

Cut Problems

The Max-cut problem is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem, which has many real-world applications. However, the problem has been proven to be non-deterministic polynomial-hard (NP-hard), which means that exact solution algorithms are not suitable for large-scale situations, as it is too time-consuming to obtain a solution. Therefore, designing heuristic algorithms is a promising but challenging direction to effectively solve large-scale Max-cut problems. For this reason, we propose a unique method which combines a pointer network and two deep learning strategies (supervised learning and reinforcement learning) in this paper, in order to address this challenge. A pointer network is a sequence-to-sequence deep neural network, which can extract data features in a purely data-driven way to discover the hidden laws behind data. Combining the characteristics of the Max-cut problem, we designed the input and output mechanisms of the pointer network model, and we used supervised learning and reinforcement learning to train the model to evaluate the model performance. Through experiments, we illustrated that our model can be well applied to solve large-scale Max-cut problems. Our experimental results also revealed that the new method will further encourage broader exploration of deep neural network for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems.

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