scholarly journals Identifying Habitat Elements from Bird Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1263
Author(s):  
Zhaojun Wang ◽  
Jiangning Wang ◽  
Congtian Lin ◽  
Yan Han ◽  
Zhaosheng Wang ◽  
...  

With the rapid development of digital technology, bird images have become an important part of ornithology research data. However, due to the rapid growth of bird image data, it has become a major challenge to effectively process such a large amount of data. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown great potential and effectiveness in a variety of tasks regarding the automatic processing of bird images. However, no research has been conducted on the recognition of habitat elements in bird images, which is of great help when extracting habitat information from bird images. Here, we demonstrate the recognition of habitat elements using four DCNN models trained end-to-end directly based on images. To carry out this research, an image database called Habitat Elements of Bird Images (HEOBs-10) and composed of 10 categories of habitat elements was built, making future benchmarks and evaluations possible. Experiments showed that good results can be obtained by all the tested models. ResNet-152-based models yielded the best test accuracy rate (95.52%); the AlexNet-based model yielded the lowest test accuracy rate (89.48%). We conclude that DCNNs could be efficient and useful for automatically identifying habitat elements from bird images, and we believe that the practical application of this technology will be helpful for studying the relationships between birds and habitat elements.

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Wu ◽  
Chuanbo Yan ◽  
Huiqiang Liu ◽  
Qian Liu

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynecologic malignancies. Accurate classification of ovarian cancer types (serous carcinoma, mucous carcinoma, endometrioid carcinoma, transparent cell carcinoma) is an essential part in the different diagnosis. Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) can provide useful advice for pathologists to determine the diagnosis correctly. In our study, we employed a Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) based on AlexNet to automatically classify the different types of ovarian cancers from cytological images. The DCNN consists of five convolutional layers, three max pooling layers, and two full reconnect layers. Then we trained the model by two group input data separately, one was original image data and the other one was augmented image data including image enhancement and image rotation. The testing results are obtained by the method of 10-fold cross-validation, showing that the accuracy of classification models has been improved from 72.76 to 78.20% by using augmented images as training data. The developed scheme was useful for classifying ovarian cancers from cytological images.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Yangyu Huang ◽  
Li Wei ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Hengchao Li

Recently, convolutional neural networks have demonstrated excellent performance on various visual tasks, including the classification of common two-dimensional images. In this paper, deep convolutional neural networks are employed to classify hyperspectral images directly in spectral domain. More specifically, the architecture of the proposed classifier contains five layers with weights which are the input layer, the convolutional layer, the max pooling layer, the full connection layer, and the output layer. These five layers are implemented on each spectral signature to discriminate against others. Experimental results based on several hyperspectral image data sets demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve better classification performance than some traditional methods, such as support vector machines and the conventional deep learning-based methods.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.1) ◽  
pp. 384 ◽  
Author(s):  
M V.D. Prasad ◽  
B JwalaLakshmamma ◽  
A Hari Chandana ◽  
K Komali ◽  
M V.N. Manoja ◽  
...  

Machine learning is penetrating most of the classification and recognition tasks performed by a computer. This paper proposes the classification of flower images using a powerful artificial intelligence tool, convolutional neural networks (CNN). A flower image database with 9500 images is considered for the experimentation. The entire database is sub categorized into 4. The CNN training is initiated in five batches and the testing is carried out on all the for datasets. Different CNN architectures were designed and tested with our flower image data to obtain better accuracy in recognition. Various pooling schemes were implemented to improve the classification rates. We achieved 97.78% recognition rate compared to other classifier models reported on the same dataset.


Author(s):  
Uday Kumar Adusumilli ◽  
Sanjana M S ◽  
Teja S ◽  
Yashawanth K M ◽  
Raghavendra R ◽  
...  

In this paper, we present an application that has been developed to be used as a tool for the purposes of learning sign language for beginners that utilizes hand detection as part of the process. It uses a skin-color modelling technique, such as explicit thresholding in the skin-color space, which is based on modeling skin-color spaces. This predetermined range of skin-colors is used to determine how pixels (hand) will be extracted from non-pixels (background). To classify the images, convolutional neural networks (CNN) were fed the images for the creation of the classifier. The training of the images was done using Keras. A uniform background and proper lighting conditions enabled the system to achieve a test accuracy of 93.67%, of which 90.04% was attributed to ASL alphabet recognition, 93.44% for number recognition and 97.52% recognition of static words, surpassing other studies of the type. An approach which is based on this technique is used for fast computation as well as real-time processing. Deaf-dumb people face a number of social challenges as the communication barrier prevents them from accessing basic and essential services of the life that they are entitled to as members of the hearing community. In spite of the fact that a number of factors have been incorporated into the innovations in the automatic recognition of sign language, an adequate solution has yet to be reached because of a number of challenges. As far as I know, the vast majority of existing works focus on developing vision based recognizers by deriving complex feature descriptors from captured images of the gestures and applying a classical pattern analysis technique. Although utilizing these methods can be effective when dealing with small sign vocabulary captures with a complex and uncontrolled background, they are very limited when dealing with large sign vocabulary. This paper proposes a method for analyzing and representing hand gestures, which acts as the core component of the vocabulary for signing languages, using a deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) architecture. On two publicly accessible datasets (the NUS hand posture dataset and the American fingerspelling A dataset), the method was demonstrated to be more accurate in recognizing hand postures.


Author(s):  
Wanyun Zhang ◽  
Zhijun Chen ◽  
Han Zhang ◽  
Guannan Su ◽  
Rui Chang ◽  
...  

Fuchs’ uveitis syndrome (FUS) is one of the most under- or misdiagnosed uveitis entities. Many undiagnosed FUS patients are unnecessarily overtreated with anti-inflammatory drugs, which may lead to serious complications. To offer assistance for ophthalmologists in the screening and diagnosis of FUS, we developed seven deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) to detect FUS using slit-lamp images. We also proposed a new optimized model with a mixed “attention” module to improve test accuracy. In the same independent set, we compared the performance between these DCNNs and ophthalmologists in detecting FUS. Seven different network models, including Xception, Resnet50, SE-Resnet50, ResNext50, SE-ResNext50, ST-ResNext50, and SET-ResNext50, were used to predict FUS automatically with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) that ranged from 0.951 to 0.977. Our proposed SET-ResNext50 model (accuracy = 0.930; Precision = 0.918; Recall = 0.923; F1 measure = 0.920) with an AUC of 0.977 consistently outperformed the other networks and outperformed general ophthalmologists by a large margin. Heat-map visualizations of the SET-ResNext50 were provided to identify the target areas in the slit-lamp images. In conclusion, we confirmed that a trained classification method based on DCNNs achieved high effectiveness in distinguishing FUS from other forms of anterior uveitis. The performance of the DCNNs was better than that of general ophthalmologists and could be of value in the diagnosis of FUS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Zhe Xu ◽  
Xi Guo ◽  
Anfan Zhu ◽  
Xiaolin He ◽  
Xiaomin Zhao ◽  
...  

Symptoms of nutrient deficiencies in rice plants often appear on the leaves. The leaf color and shape, therefore, can be used to diagnose nutrient deficiencies in rice. Image classification is an efficient and fast approach for this diagnosis task. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been proven to be effective in image classification, but their use to identify nutrient deficiencies in rice has received little attention. In the present study, we explore the accuracy of different DCNNs for diagnosis of nutrient deficiencies in rice. A total of 1818 photographs of plant leaves were obtained via hydroponic experiments to cover full nutrition and 10 classes of nutrient deficiencies. The photographs were divided into training, validation, and test sets in a 3 : 1 : 1 ratio. Fine-tuning was performed to evaluate four state-of-the-art DCNNs: Inception-v3, ResNet with 50 layers, NasNet-Large, and DenseNet with 121 layers. All the DCNNs obtained validation and test accuracies of over 90%, with DenseNet121 performing best (validation accuracy = 98.62 ± 0.57%; test accuracy = 97.44 ± 0.57%). The performance of the DCNNs was validated by comparison to color feature with support vector machine and histogram of oriented gradient with support vector machine. This study demonstrates that DCNNs provide an effective approach to diagnose nutrient deficiencies in rice.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 764
Author(s):  
Zhiwen Huang ◽  
Quan Zhou ◽  
Xingxing Zhu ◽  
Xuming Zhang

In many medical image classification tasks, there is insufficient image data for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to overcome the over-fitting problem. The light-weighted CNNs are easy to train but they usually have relatively poor classification performance. To improve the classification ability of light-weighted CNN models, we have proposed a novel batch similarity-based triplet loss to guide the CNNs to learn the weights. The proposed loss utilizes the similarity among multiple samples in the input batches to evaluate the distribution of training data. Reducing the proposed loss can increase the similarity among images of the same category and reduce the similarity among images of different categories. Besides this, it can be easily assembled into regular CNNs. To appreciate the performance of the proposed loss, some experiments have been done on chest X-ray images and skin rash images to compare it with several losses based on such popular light-weighted CNN models as EfficientNet, MobileNet, ShuffleNet and PeleeNet. The results demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our method in terms of classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity.


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