scholarly journals Surface Metrology and Data Science/Analytics Applied to Modern Asian Lacquer Surfaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
H. David Sheets ◽  
Patrick Ravines ◽  
Marianne Webb
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Confocal Microscopy ◽  
Machine Vision ◽  
Image Recognition ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Surface Metrology ◽  
Instrumental Technique

This paper presents a new quantitative approach to the study of Asian lacquers using surface metrology, and two data science approaches: feature engineering and convolutional deep neural networks, as used in machine vision or image recognition applications. The types of Asian lacquers and additives have a quantifiable impact on the topography of the resulting surface. To understand the unaged and aged characteristics, 15 different formulas of Asian lacquer were prepared using laccol, thitsiol and urushiol with the most common additives: oils, pigments and resins. These were studied with the surface metrology instrumental technique of confocal microscopy.

scholarly journals Brain hierarchy score: Which deep neural networks are hierarchically brain-like?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soma Nonaka ◽  
Kei Majima ◽  
Shuntaro C. Aoki ◽  
Yukiyasu Kamitani
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Recognition ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Hierarchical Processing ◽  
Visual Areas ◽  
The Brain

SummaryAchievement of human-level image recognition by deep neural networks (DNNs) has spurred interest in whether and how DNNs are brain-like. Both DNNs and the visual cortex perform hierarchical processing, and correspondence has been shown between hierarchical visual areas and DNN layers in representing visual features. Here, we propose the brain hierarchy (BH) score as a metric to quantify the degree of hierarchical correspondence based on the decoding of individual DNN unit activations from human brain activity. We find that BH scores for 29 pretrained DNNs with varying architectures are negatively correlated with image recognition performance, indicating that recently developed high-performance DNNs are not necessarily brain-like. Experimental manipulations of DNN models suggest that relatively simple feedforward architecture with broad spatial integration is critical to brain-like hierarchy. Our method provides new ways for designing DNNs and understanding the brain in consideration of their representational homology.

scholarly journals Impact of Low Resolution on Image Recognition with Deep Neural Networks: An Experimental Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Koziarski ◽  
Bogusław Cyganek
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Recognition ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Image Resolution ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Low Resolution ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Due to the advances made in recent years, methods based on deep neural networks have been able to achieve a state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision problems. In some tasks, such as image recognition, neural-based approaches have even been able to surpass human performance. However, the benchmarks on which neural networks achieve these impressive results usually consist of fairly high quality data. On the other hand, in practical applications we are often faced with images of low quality, affected by factors such as low resolution, presence of noise or a small dynamic range. It is unclear how resilient deep neural networks are to the presence of such factors. In this paper we experimentally evaluate the impact of low resolution on the classification accuracy of several notable neural architectures of recent years. Furthermore, we examine the possibility of improving neural networks’ performance in the task of low resolution image recognition by applying super-resolution prior to classification. The results of our experiments indicate that contemporary neural architectures remain significantly affected by low image resolution. By applying super-resolution prior to classification we were able to alleviate this issue to a large extent as long as the resolution of the images did not decrease too severely. However, in the case of very low resolution images the classification accuracy remained considerably affected.

scholarly journals Analysis of the possibilities of using a deep neural networks as an image recognition technology to solve the problem of automating attendance tracking

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Anna Ilina ◽  
Vladimir Korenkov
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Image Recognition ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Manual Counting

The task of counting the number of people is relevant when conducting various types of events, which may include seminars, lectures, conferences, meetings, etc. Instead of monotonous manual counting of participants, it is much more effective to use facial recognition technology, which makes it possible not only to quickly count those present, but also to recognize each of them, which makes it possible to conduct further analysis of this data, identify patterns in them and predict. The research conducted in this paper determines the quality assessment of the use of facial recognition technology in images andvideo streams, based on the use of a deep neural network, to solve the problem of automating attendance tracking.

scholarly journals HELLO: improved neural network architectures and methodologies for small variant calling

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Ramachandran ◽  
Steven S. Lumetta ◽  
Eric W. Klee ◽  
Deming Chen
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Recognition ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Method Development ◽  
Variant Calling ◽  
Network Architectures ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Neural Network Architectures

Abstract Background Modern Next Generation- and Third Generation- Sequencing methods such as Illumina and PacBio Circular Consensus Sequencing platforms provide accurate sequencing data. Parallel developments in Deep Learning have enabled the application of Deep Neural Networks to variant calling, surpassing the accuracy of classical approaches in many settings. DeepVariant, arguably the most popular among such methods, transforms the problem of variant calling into one of image recognition where a Deep Neural Network analyzes sequencing data that is formatted as images, achieving high accuracy. In this paper, we explore an alternative approach to designing Deep Neural Networks for variant calling, where we use meticulously designed Deep Neural Network architectures and customized variant inference functions that account for the underlying nature of sequencing data instead of converting the problem to one of image recognition. Results Results from 27 whole-genome variant calling experiments spanning Illumina, PacBio and hybrid Illumina-PacBio settings suggest that our method allows vastly smaller Deep Neural Networks to outperform the Inception-v3 architecture used in DeepVariant for indel and substitution-type variant calls. For example, our method reduces the number of indel call errors by up to 18%, 55% and 65% for Illumina, PacBio and hybrid Illumina-PacBio variant calling respectively, compared to a similarly trained DeepVariant pipeline. In these cases, our models are between 7 and 14 times smaller. Conclusions We believe that the improved accuracy and problem-specific customization of our models will enable more accurate pipelines and further method development in the field. HELLO is available at https://github.com/anands-repo/hello

scholarly journals Exploring Deep Physiological Models for Nociceptive Pain Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Thiam ◽  
Peter Bellmann ◽  
Hans A. Kestler ◽  
Friedhelm Schwenker
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Nociceptive Pain ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Inference Model ◽  
Inference Models ◽  
Learning Architectures

Standard feature engineering involves manually designing measurable descriptors based on some expert knowledge in the domain of application, followed by the selection of the best performing set of designed features for the subsequent optimisation of an inference model. Several studies have shown that this whole manual process can be efficiently replaced by deep learning approaches which are characterised by the integration of feature engineering, feature selection and inference model optimisation into a single learning process. In the following work, deep learning architectures are designed for the assessment of measurable physiological channels in order to perform an accurate classification of different levels of artificially induced nociceptive pain. In contrast to previous works, which rely on carefully designed sets of hand-crafted features, the current work aims at building competitive pain intensity inference models through autonomous feature learning, based on deep neural networks. The assessment of the designed deep learning architectures is based on the BioVid Heat Pain Database (Part A) and experimental validation demonstrates that the proposed uni-modal architecture for the electrodermal activity (EDA) and the deep fusion approaches significantly outperform previous methods reported in the literature, with respective average performances of 84.57 % and 84.40 % for the binary classification experiment consisting of the discrimination between the baseline and the pain tolerance level ( T 0 vs. T 4 ) in a Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) cross-validation evaluation setting. Moreover, the experimental results clearly show the relevance of the proposed approaches, which also offer more flexibility in the case of transfer learning due to the modular nature of deep neural networks.

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