Chemical ripening and contaminations detection using neural networks-based image features and spectrometric signatures

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Roopalakshmi R

In this pandemic-prone era, health is of utmost concern for everyone and hence eating good quality fruits is very much essential for sound health. Unfortunately, nowadays it is quite very difficult to obtain naturally ripened fruits, due to existence of chemically ripened fruits being ripened using hazardous chemicals such as calcium carbide. However, most of the state-of-the art techniques are primarily focusing on identification of chemically ripened fruits with the help of computer vision-based approaches, which are less effective towards quantification of chemical contaminations present in the sample fruits. To solve these issues, a new framework for chemical ripening and contamination detection is presented, which employs both visual and IR spectrometric signatures in two different stages. The experiments conducted on both the GUI tool as well as hardware-based setups, clearly demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed framework in terms of detection confidence levels followed by the percentage of presence of chemicals in the sample fruit.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyi Yang ◽  
Yonghu Wang ◽  
Robert Laganiere

<div>Pedestrian detection is considered one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, as it involves the combination of classification and localization within a scene. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been demonstrated to achieve superior detection results compared to traditional approaches. Although YOLOv3 (an improved You Only Look Once model) is proposed as one of state-of-the-art methods in CNN-based object detection, it remains very challenging to leverage this method for real-time pedestrian detection. In this paper, we propose a new framework called SA YOLOv3, a scale-aware You Only Look Once framework which improves YOLOv3 in improving pedestrian detection of small scale pedestrian instances in a real-time manner.</div><div>Our network introduces two sub-networks which detect pedestrians of different scales. Outputs from the sub-networks are then combined to generate robust detection results.</div><div>Experimental results show that the proposed SA YOLOv3 framework outperforms the results of YOLOv3 on public datasets and run at an average of 11 fps on a GPU.</div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyi Yang ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Robert Laganiere

<div>Pedestrian detection is considered one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, as it involves the combination of classification and localization within a scene. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been demonstrated to achieve superior detection results compared to traditional approaches. Although YOLOv3 (an improved You Only Look Once model) is proposed as one of state-of-the-art methods in CNN-based object detection, it remains very challenging to leverage this method for real-time pedestrian detection. In this paper, we propose a new framework called SA YOLOv3, a scale-aware You Only Look Once framework which improves YOLOv3 in improving pedestrian detection of small scale pedestrian instances in a real-time manner.</div><div>Our network introduces two sub-networks which detect pedestrians of different scales. Outputs from the sub-networks are then combined to generate robust detection results.</div><div>Experimental results show that the proposed SA YOLOv3 framework outperforms the results of YOLOv3 on public datasets and run at an average of 11 fps on a GPU.</div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyi Yang ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Robert Laganiere

<div>Pedestrian detection is considered one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, as it involves the combination of classification and localization within a scene. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been demonstrated to achieve superior detection results compared to traditional approaches. Although YOLOv3 (an improved You Only Look Once model) is proposed as one of state-of-the-art methods in CNN-based object detection, it remains very challenging to leverage this method for real-time pedestrian detection. In this paper, we propose a new framework called SA YOLOv3, a scale-aware You Only Look Once framework which improves YOLOv3 in improving pedestrian detection of small scale pedestrian instances in a real-time manner.</div><div>Our network introduces two sub-networks which detect pedestrians of different scales. Outputs from the sub-networks are then combined to generate robust detection results.</div><div>Experimental results show that the proposed SA YOLOv3 framework outperforms the results of YOLOv3 on public datasets and run at an average of 11 fps on a GPU.</div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuyao Yang ◽  
Shuangjia Zheng ◽  
Shimin Su ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
Hongming Chen

Fragment based drug design represents a promising drug discovery paradigm complimentary to the traditional HTS based lead generation strategy. How to link fragment structures to increase compound affinity is remaining a challenge task in this paradigm. Hereby a novel deep generative model (AutoLinker) for linking fragments is developed with the potential for applying in the fragment-based lead generation scenario. The state-of-the-art transformer architecture was employed to learn the linker grammar and generate novel linker. Our results show that, given starting fragments and user customized linker constraints, our AutoLinker model can design abundant drug-like molecules fulfilling these constraints and its performance was superior to other reference models. Moreover, several examples were showcased that AutoLinker can be useful tools for carrying out drug design tasks such as fragment linking, lead optimization and scaffold hopping.


Author(s):  
Sebastian Hoppe Nesgaard Jensen ◽  
Mads Emil Brix Doest ◽  
Henrik Aanæs ◽  
Alessio Del Bue

AbstractNon-rigid structure from motion (nrsfm), is a long standing and central problem in computer vision and its solution is necessary for obtaining 3D information from multiple images when the scene is dynamic. A main issue regarding the further development of this important computer vision topic, is the lack of high quality data sets. We here address this issue by presenting a data set created for this purpose, which is made publicly available, and considerably larger than the previous state of the art. To validate the applicability of this data set, and provide an investigation into the state of the art of nrsfm, including potential directions forward, we here present a benchmark and a scrupulous evaluation using this data set. This benchmark evaluates 18 different methods with available code that reasonably spans the state of the art in sparse nrsfm. This new public data set and evaluation protocol will provide benchmark tools for further development in this challenging field.


Author(s):  
Gabriel S. Ferrante ◽  
Felipe M. Rodrigues ◽  
Fernando R. H. Andrade ◽  
Rudinei Goularte ◽  
Rodolfo I. Meneguette

Author(s):  
Ritwik Chavhan ◽  
Kadir Sheikh ◽  
Rishikesh Bondade ◽  
Swaraj Dhanulkar ◽  
Aniket Ninave ◽  
...  

Plant disease is an ongoing challenge for smallholder farmers, which threatens income and food security. The recent revolution in smartphone penetration and computer vision models has created an opportunity for image classification in agriculture. The project focuses on providing the data relating to the pesticide/insecticide and therefore the quantity of pesticide/insecticide to be used for associate degree unhealthy crop. The user, is that the farmer clicks an image of the crop and uploads it to the server via the humanoid application. When uploading the image the farmer gets associate degree distinctive ID displayed on his application screen. The farmer must create note of that ID since that ID must be utilized by the farmer later to retrieve the message when a minute. The uploaded image is then processed by Convolutional Neural Networks. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are considered state-of-the-art in image recognition and offer the ability to provide a prompt and definite diagnosis. Then the result consisting of the malady name and therefore the affected space is retrieved. This result's then uploaded into the message table within the server. Currently the Farmer are going to be ready to retrieve the whole info during a respectable format by coming into the distinctive ID he had received within the Application.


Author(s):  
Aydin Ayanzadeh ◽  
Sahand Vahidnia

In this paper, we leverage state of the art models on&nbsp;Imagenet data-sets. We use the pre-trained model and learned&nbsp;weighs to extract the feature from the Dog breeds identification&nbsp;data-set. Afterwards, we applied fine-tuning and dataaugmentation&nbsp;to increase the performance of our test accuracy&nbsp;in classification of dog breeds datasets. The performance of the&nbsp;proposed approaches are compared with the state of the art&nbsp;models of Image-Net datasets such as ResNet-50, DenseNet-121,&nbsp;DenseNet-169 and GoogleNet. we achieved 89.66% , 85.37%&nbsp;84.01% and 82.08% test accuracy respectively which shows thesuperior performance of proposed method to the previous works&nbsp;on Stanford dog breeds datasets.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weihao Zhuang ◽  
Tristan Hascoet ◽  
Xunquan Chen ◽  
Ryoichi Takashima ◽  
Tetsuya Takiguchi ◽  
...  

Abstract Currently, deep learning plays an indispensable role in many fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in computer vision tasks thanks to their powerful feature extraction capability. However, as the larger models have shown higher accuracy, recent developments have led to state-of-the-art CNN models with increasing resource consumption. This paper investigates a conceptual approach to reduce the memory consumption of CNN inference. Our method consists of processing the input image in a sequence of carefully designed tiles within the lower subnetwork of the CNN, so as to minimize its peak memory consumption, while keeping the end-to-end computation unchanged. This method introduces a trade-off between memory consumption and computations, which is particularly suitable for high-resolution inputs. Our experimental results show that MobileNetV2 memory consumption can be reduced by up to 5.3 times with our proposed method. For ResNet50, one of the most commonly used CNN models in computer vision tasks, memory can be optimized by up to 2.3 times.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2042 (1) ◽  
pp. 012002
Author(s):  
Roberto Castello ◽  
Alina Walch ◽  
Raphaël Attias ◽  
Riccardo Cadei ◽  
Shasha Jiang ◽  
...  

Abstract The integration of solar technology in the built environment is realized mainly through rooftop-installed panels. In this paper, we leverage state-of-the-art Machine Learning and computer vision techniques applied on overhead images to provide a geo-localization of the available rooftop surfaces for solar panel installation. We further exploit a 3D building database to associate them to the corresponding roof geometries by means of a geospatial post-processing approach. The stand-alone Convolutional Neural Network used to segment suitable rooftop areas reaches an intersection over union of 64% and an accuracy of 93%, while a post-processing step using building database improves the rejection of false positives. The model is applied to a case study area in the canton of Geneva and the results are compared with another recent method used in the literature to derive the realistic available area.


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