scholarly journals Convolutional Neural Network Models Help Effectively Estimate Legume Coverage in Grass-Legume Mixed Swards

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Fujiwara ◽  
Hiroyuki Nashida ◽  
Midori Fukushima ◽  
Naoya Suzuki ◽  
Hiroko Sato ◽  
...  

Evaluation of the legume proportion in grass-legume mixed swards is necessary for breeding and for cultivation research of forage. For objective and time-efficient estimation of legume proportion, convolutional neural network (CNN) models were trained by fine-tuning the GoogLeNet to estimate the coverage of timothy (TY), white clover (WC), and background (Bg) on the unmanned aerial vehicle-based images. The accuracies of the CNN models trained on different datasets were compared using the mean bias error and the mean average error. The models predicted the coverage with small errors when the plots in the training datasets were similar to the target plots in terms of coverage rate. The models that are trained on datasets of multiple plots had smaller errors than those trained on datasets of a single plot. The CNN models estimated the WC coverage more precisely than they did to the TY and the Bg coverages. The correlation coefficients (r) of the measured coverage for aerial images vs. estimated coverage were 0.92–0.96, whereas those of the scored coverage by a breeder vs. estimated coverage were 0.76–0.93. These results indicate that CNN models are helpful in effectively estimating the legume coverage.

Author(s):  
Sodiq Kazeem Adetunji ◽  
Adenowo Adetokunbo ◽  
Akinyemi Lateef

The network providers are now being challenged with their inability to accurate estimate and characterize traffic in a particular area, due to the increasing number of mobile communication services being rendered by the network providers Hence, this has been greatly undermining their design and planning processes and as such increasingly affected the Quality of Service(QoS).This research work addresses the traffic estimation in mobile communication network using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach using measured data collected in Lagos State,Nigeria.The Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) ANN techniques were used in the traffic modeling. The results of the ANN modeling showed that the Model 1 of MLP performed better than other models with Coefficient of Determination (R2) of 99%, Root Mean Square Error(RMSE) of 5.456 and Mean Bias Error(MBE) of 0.94.It is recommended that the dataset used in developing the ANN models be increased by collecting and using not more than 12months traffic data for ANN modeling .An appropriate design of the models should also be given a serious concern by choosing appropriate number of neurons at the hidden units of the neural networks .This will provide a good traffic estimation which the mobile network provider can be used in network design and planning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Xun Duan ◽  
Yuanshun Wang ◽  
Yun Wu

Aiming at the problem of a large number of parameters and high time complexity caused by the current deep convolutional neural network models, an improved face alignment algorithm of a cascaded convolutional neural network (CCNN) is proposed from the network structure, random perturbation factor (shake), and data scale. The algorithm steps are as follows: 3 groups of lightweight CNNs are designed; the first group takes facial images with face frame as input, trains 3 CNNs in parallel, and weighted outputs the facial images with 5 facial key points (anchor points). Then, the anchor points and 2 different windows with a shake mechanism are used to crop out 10 partial images of human faces. The networks in the second group train 10 CNNs in parallel and every 2 networks’ weighted average and colocated a key point. Based on the second group of networks, the third group designed a smaller shake mechanism and windows, to achieve more fine-tuning. When training the network, the idea of parallel within groups and serial between groups is adopted. Experiments show that, on the LFPW face dataset, the improved CCNN in this paper is superior to any other algorithm of the same type in positioning speed, algorithm parameter amount, and test error.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizqa Raaiqa Bintana ◽  
Chastine Fatichah ◽  
Diana Purwitasari

Community-based question answering (CQA) is formed to help people who search information that they need through a community. One condition that may occurs in CQA is when people cannot obtain the information that they need, thus they will post a new question. This condition can cause CQA archive increased because of duplicated questions. Therefore, it becomes important problems to find semantically similar questions from CQA archive towards a new question. In this study, we use convolutional neural network methods for semantic modeling of sentence to obtain words that they represent the content of documents and new question. The result for the process of finding the same question semantically to a new question (query) from the question-answer documents archive using the convolutional neural network method, obtained the mean average precision value is 0,422. Whereas by using vector space model, as a comparison, obtained mean average precision value is 0,282. Index Terms—community-based question answering, convolutional neural network, question retrieval


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988142199332
Author(s):  
Xintao Ding ◽  
Boquan Li ◽  
Jinbao Wang

Indoor object detection is a very demanding and important task for robot applications. Object knowledge, such as two-dimensional (2D) shape and depth information, may be helpful for detection. In this article, we focus on region-based convolutional neural network (CNN) detector and propose a geometric property-based Faster R-CNN method (GP-Faster) for indoor object detection. GP-Faster incorporates geometric property in Faster R-CNN to improve the detection performance. In detail, we first use mesh grids that are the intersections of direct and inverse proportion functions to generate appropriate anchors for indoor objects. After the anchors are regressed to the regions of interest produced by a region proposal network (RPN-RoIs), we then use 2D geometric constraints to refine the RPN-RoIs, in which the 2D constraint of every classification is a convex hull region enclosing the width and height coordinates of the ground-truth boxes on the training set. Comparison experiments are implemented on two indoor datasets SUN2012 and NYUv2. Since the depth information is available in NYUv2, we involve depth constraints in GP-Faster and propose 3D geometric property-based Faster R-CNN (DGP-Faster) on NYUv2. The experimental results show that both GP-Faster and DGP-Faster increase the performance of the mean average precision.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Suzuki ◽  
Shoichiro Takeda ◽  
Ryuichi Tanida ◽  
Hideaki Kimata ◽  
Hayaru Shouno

2021 ◽  
Vol 1074 (1) ◽  
pp. 012025
Author(s):  
A Poornima ◽  
M Shyamala Devi ◽  
M Sumithra ◽  
Mullaguri Venkata Bharath ◽  
Swathi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Robert J. O’Shea ◽  
Amy Rose Sharkey ◽  
Gary J. R. Cook ◽  
Vicky Goh

Abstract Objectives To perform a systematic review of design and reporting of imaging studies applying convolutional neural network models for radiological cancer diagnosis. Methods A comprehensive search of PUBMED, EMBASE, MEDLINE and SCOPUS was performed for published studies applying convolutional neural network models to radiological cancer diagnosis from January 1, 2016, to August 1, 2020. Two independent reviewers measured compliance with the Checklist for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CLAIM). Compliance was defined as the proportion of applicable CLAIM items satisfied. Results One hundred eighty-six of 655 screened studies were included. Many studies did not meet the criteria for current design and reporting guidelines. Twenty-seven percent of studies documented eligibility criteria for their data (50/186, 95% CI 21–34%), 31% reported demographics for their study population (58/186, 95% CI 25–39%) and 49% of studies assessed model performance on test data partitions (91/186, 95% CI 42–57%). Median CLAIM compliance was 0.40 (IQR 0.33–0.49). Compliance correlated positively with publication year (ρ = 0.15, p = .04) and journal H-index (ρ = 0.27, p < .001). Clinical journals demonstrated higher mean compliance than technical journals (0.44 vs. 0.37, p < .001). Conclusions Our findings highlight opportunities for improved design and reporting of convolutional neural network research for radiological cancer diagnosis. Key Points • Imaging studies applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for cancer diagnosis frequently omit key clinical information including eligibility criteria and population demographics. • Fewer than half of imaging studies assessed model performance on explicitly unobserved test data partitions. • Design and reporting standards have improved in CNN research for radiological cancer diagnosis, though many opportunities remain for further progress.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jian-ye Yuan ◽  
Xin-yuan Nan ◽  
Cheng-rong Li ◽  
Le-le Sun

Considering that the garbage classification is urgent, a 23-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) model is designed in this paper, with the emphasis on the real-time garbage classification, to solve the low accuracy of garbage classification and recycling and difficulty in manual recycling. Firstly, the depthwise separable convolution was used to reduce the Params of the model. Then, the attention mechanism was used to improve the accuracy of the garbage classification model. Finally, the model fine-tuning method was used to further improve the performance of the garbage classification model. Besides, we compared the model with classic image classification models including AlexNet, VGG16, and ResNet18 and lightweight classification models including MobileNetV2 and SuffleNetV2 and found that the model GAF_dense has a higher accuracy rate, fewer Params, and FLOPs. To further check the performance of the model, we tested the CIFAR-10 data set and found the accuracy rates of the model (GAF_dense) are 0.018 and 0.03 higher than ResNet18 and SufflenetV2, respectively. In the ImageNet data set, the accuracy rates of the model (GAF_dense) are 0.225 and 0.146 higher than Resnet18 and SufflenetV2, respectively. Therefore, the garbage classification model proposed in this paper is suitable for garbage classification and other classification tasks to protect the ecological environment, which can be applied to classification tasks such as environmental science, children’s education, and environmental protection.


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