Exploring deep learning approaches to predict hourly evolution of surge levels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Tiggeloven ◽  
Anaïs Couasnon ◽  
Chiem van Straaten ◽  
Sanne Muis ◽  
Philip Ward
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Tide Gauge ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Coastal Flood ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Temporal Dependencies

<p>In order to better understand current coastal flood risk, it is critical to be able to predict the characteristics of non-tidal residuals (from here on referred to as surges), such as their temporal variation and the influence of coastal complexities on the magnitude of storm surge levels. In this study, we use an ensemble of Deep Learning (DL) models to predict hourly surge levels using four different types of neural networks and evaluate their performance. Among deep learning models, artificial neural networks (ANN) have been popular neural network models for surge level prediction, but other DL model types have not been investigated yet. In this contribution, we use three DL approaches - CNN, LSTM, and a combined CNN-LSTM model- , to capture temporal dependencies, spatial dependencies and spatio-temporal dependencies between atmospheric conditions and surges for 736 tide gauge locations. Using the high temporal and spatial resolution atmospheric reanalysis datasets ERA5 from ECMWF as predictors, we train, validate and test surge based on observed hourly surge levels derived from the GESLA-2 dataset. We benchmark our results obtained with DL to those provided by a simple probabilistic reference model based on climatology. This study shows promising results for predicting the temporal evolution of surges with DL approaches, and gives insight into the capability to gain skill using DL approaches with different Architectures for surge prediction. We therefore foresee a wide range of advantages in using DL models for coastal applications: probabilistic coastal flood hazard assessment, rapid prediction of storm surge estimates, future predictions of surge levels.</p>

scholarly journals Data augmentation for computed tomography angiography via synthetic image generation and neural domain adaptation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Seemann ◽  
Lennart Bargsten ◽  
Alexander Schlaefer
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Medical Imaging ◽  
Computed Tomography Angiography ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Synthetic Image ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDeep learning methods produce promising results when applied to a wide range of medical imaging tasks, including segmentation of artery lumen in computed tomography angiography (CTA) data. However, to perform sufficiently, neural networks have to be trained on large amounts of high quality annotated data. In the realm of medical imaging, annotations are not only quite scarce but also often not entirely reliable. To tackle both challenges, we developed a two-step approach for generating realistic synthetic CTA data for the purpose of data augmentation. In the first step moderately realistic images are generated in a purely numerical fashion. In the second step these images are improved by applying neural domain adaptation. We evaluated the impact of synthetic data on lumen segmentation via convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by comparing resulting performances. Improvements of up to 5% in terms of Dice coefficient and 20% for Hausdorff distance represent a proof of concept that the proposed augmentation procedure can be used to enhance deep learning-based segmentation for artery lumen in CTA images.

Speech Assistance for Persons With Speech Impediments Using Artificial Neural Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramy Mounir ◽  
Redwan Alqasemi ◽  
Rajiv Dubey
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Speech Impairment ◽  
Recognition Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Speech Variability

This work focuses on the research related to enabling individuals with speech impairment to use speech-to-text software to recognize and dictate their speech. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tends to be a challenging problem for researchers because of the wide range of speech variability. Some of the variabilities include different accents, pronunciations, speeds, volumes, etc. It is very difficult to train an end-to-end speech recognition model on data with speech impediment due to the lack of large enough datasets, and the difficulty of generalizing a speech disorder pattern on all users with speech impediments. This work highlights the different techniques used in deep learning to achieve ASR and how it can be modified to recognize and dictate speech from individuals with speech impediments.

scholarly journals DeepVF: a deep learning-based hybrid framework for identifying virulence factors using the stacking strategy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruopeng Xie ◽  
Jiahui Li ◽  
Jiawei Wang ◽  
Wei Dai ◽  
André Leier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Virulence Factors ◽  
Bacterial Genome ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Extreme Gradient Boosting ◽  
Hybrid Framework

Abstract Virulence factors (VFs) enable pathogens to infect their hosts. A wealth of individual, disease-focused studies has identified a wide variety of VFs, and the growing mass of bacterial genome sequence data provides an opportunity for computational methods aimed at predicting VFs. Despite their attractive advantages and performance improvements, the existing methods have some limitations and drawbacks. Firstly, as the characteristics and mechanisms of VFs are continually evolving with the emergence of antibiotic resistance, it is more and more difficult to identify novel VFs using existing tools that were previously developed based on the outdated data sets; secondly, few systematic feature engineering efforts have been made to examine the utility of different types of features for model performances, as the majority of tools only focused on extracting very few types of features. By addressing the aforementioned issues, the accuracy of VF predictors can likely be significantly improved. This, in turn, would be particularly useful in the context of genome wide predictions of VFs. In this work, we present a deep learning (DL)-based hybrid framework (termed DeepVF) that is utilizing the stacking strategy to achieve more accurate identification of VFs. Using an enlarged, up-to-date dataset, DeepVF comprehensively explores a wide range of heterogeneous features with popular machine learning algorithms. Specifically, four classical algorithms, including random forest, support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting and multilayer perceptron, and three DL algorithms, including convolutional neural networks, long short-term memory networks and deep neural networks are employed to train 62 baseline models using these features. In order to integrate their individual strengths, DeepVF effectively combines these baseline models to construct the final meta model using the stacking strategy. Extensive benchmarking experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of DeepVF: it achieves a more accurate and stable performance compared with baseline models on the benchmark dataset and clearly outperforms state-of-the-art VF predictors on the independent test. Using the proposed hybrid ensemble model, a user-friendly online predictor of DeepVF (http://deepvf.erc.monash.edu/) is implemented. Furthermore, its utility, from the user’s viewpoint, is compared with that of existing toolkits. We believe that DeepVF will be exploited as a useful tool for screening and identifying potential VFs from protein-coding gene sequences in bacterial genomes.

scholarly journals Bengali License Plate Detection using Viola-Jones Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4058-4065
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
License Plate Detection ◽  
Individual Classifier

Image classification has been a rapidly developing field over the previous decade, and the utilization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and other deep learning techniques is developing rapidly. However, CNNs are compute-intensive. Another algorithm which was broadly utilized and keeps on being utilized is the Viola-Jones algorithm. Viola-Jones adopts an accumulation strategy. This means Viola-Jones utilizes a wide range of classifiers, each looking at a different part of the image. Every individual classifier is more fragile than the last classifier since it is taking in fewer data. At the point when the outcomes from every classifier are joined, be that as it may, they produce a solid classifier. In this paper, we would like to develop a model that will be able to detect the Bengali license plates of, using the Viola-Jones Algorithm with better precision. It can be utilized for various purposes like roadside help, road safety, parking management, etc

scholarly journals Weather Nowcasting Using Deep Learning Techniques

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makhamisa Senekane ◽  
Mhlambululi Mafu ◽  
Molibeli Benedict Taele
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Precipitation Forecasting ◽  
Learning Techniques

Weather variations play a significant role in peoples’ short-term, medium-term or long-term planning. Therefore, understanding of weather patterns has become very important in decision making. Short-term weather forecasting (nowcasting) involves the prediction of weather over a short period of time; typically few hours. Different techniques have been proposed for short-term weather forecasting. Traditional techniques used for nowcasting are highly parametric, and hence complex. Recently, there has been a shift towards the use of artificial intelligence techniques for weather nowcasting. These include the use of machine learning techniques such as artificial neural networks. In this chapter, we report the use of deep learning techniques for weather nowcasting. Deep learning techniques were tested on meteorological data. Three deep learning techniques, namely multilayer perceptron, Elman recurrent neural networks and Jordan recurrent neural networks, were used in this work. Multilayer perceptron models achieved 91 and 75% accuracies for sunshine forecasting and precipitation forecasting respectively, Elman recurrent neural network models achieved accuracies of 96 and 97% for sunshine and precipitation forecasting respectively, while Jordan recurrent neural network models achieved accuracies of 97 and 97% for sunshine and precipitation nowcasting respectively. The results obtained underline the utility of using deep learning for weather nowcasting.

Deep Learning in the Healthcare Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra A. Shirazi ◽  
Camila P. E. de Souza ◽  
Rasha Kashef ◽  
Felipe F. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Input Layer ◽  
Hidden Layer

Artificial Neural networks (ANN) are composed of nodes that are joint to each other through weighted connections. Deep learning, as an extension of ANN, is a neural network model, but composed of different categories of layers: input layer, hidden layers, and output layers. Input data is fed into the first (input) layer. But the main process of the neural network models is done within the hidden layers, ranging from a single hidden layer to multiple ones. Depending on the type of model, the structure of the hidden layers is different. Depending on the type of input data, different models are applied. For example, for image data, convolutional neural networks are the most appropriate. On the other hand, for text or sequential and time series data, recurrent neural networks or long short-term memory models are the better choices. This chapter summarizes the state-of-the-art deep learning methods applied to the healthcare industry.

Data processing using deep learning of the generative-adversarial neural network (GAN)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.Y. Ilichev ◽  
I.V. Chukhraev
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Python Language ◽  
And Training

The article is devoted to the consideration of one of the areas of application of modern and promising computer technology – machine learning. This direction is based on the creation of models consisting of neural networks and their deep learning. At present, there is a need to generate new, not yet existing, images of objects of different types. Most often, text files or images act as such objects. To achieve a high quality of results, a generation method based on the adversarial work of two neural networks (generator and discriminator) was once worked out. This class of neural network models is distinguished by the complexity of topography, since it is necessary to correctly organize the structure of neural layers in order to achieve maximum accuracy and minimal error. The described program is created using the Python language and special libraries that extend the set of commands for performing additional functions: working with neural networks Keras (main library), integrating with the operating system Os, outputting graphs Matplotlib, working with data arrays Numpy and others. A description is given of the type and features of each neural layer, as well as the use of library connection functions, input of initial data, compilation and training of the obtained model. Next, the implementation of the procedure for outputting the results of evaluating the errors of the generator and discriminator and the accuracy achieved by the model depending on the number of cycles (eras) of its training is considered. Based on the results of the work, conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made for the use and development of the considered methodology for creating and training generative and adversarial neural networks. Studies have demonstrated the procedure for operating with comparatively simple and accessible, but effective means of a universal Python language with the Keras library to create and teach a complex neural network model. In fact, it has been proved that the use of this method allows to achieve high-quality results of machine learning, previously achievable only when using special software systems for working with neural networks.

Sanitizing hidden activations for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Tianshi Mu ◽  
Kequan Lin ◽  
Huabing Zhang ◽  
Jian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Amplification Effect ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adversarial Examples

Deep learning is gaining significant traction in a wide range of areas. Whereas, recent studies have demonstrated that deep learning exhibits the fatal weakness on adversarial examples. Due to the black-box nature and un-transparency problem of deep learning, it is difficult to explain the reason for the existence of adversarial examples and also hard to defend against them. This study focuses on improving the adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks. We first explore how adversarial examples behave inside the network through visualization. We find that adversarial examples produce perturbations in hidden activations, which forms an amplification effect to fool the network. Motivated by this observation, we propose an approach, termed as sanitizing hidden activations, to help the network correctly recognize adversarial examples by eliminating or reducing the perturbations in hidden activations. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we conduct experiments on three widely used datasets: MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, and also compare with state-of-the-art defense techniques. The experimental results show that our sanitizing approach is more generalized to defend against different kinds of attacks and can effectively improve the adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks.

Bearing fault diagnosis using deep learning techniques coupled with handcrafted feature extraction: A comparative study

2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632092914
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alabsi ◽  
Yabin Liao ◽  
Ala-Addin Nabulsi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Performance Limits ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Wide Range

Deep learning has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. It has set new performance limits for a wide range of applications, including computer vision, speech recognition, and machinery health monitoring. With the abundance of instrumentation data and the availability of high computational power, deep learning continues to prove itself as an efficient tool for the extraction of micropatterns from machinery big data repositories. This study presents a comparative study for feature extraction capabilities using stacked autoencoders considering the use of expert domain knowledge. Case Western Reserve University bearing dataset was used for the study, and a classifier was trained and tested to extract and visualize features from 12 different failure classes. Based on the raw data preprocessing, four different deep neural network structures were studied. Results indicated that integrating domain knowledge with deep learning techniques improved feature extraction capabilities and reduced the deep neural networks size and computational requirements without the need for exhaustive deep neural networks architecture tuning and modification.

Network attributes describe a similarity between deep neural networks and large scale brain networks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosuke Takagi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Connection Weight ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Despite the recent success of deep learning models in solving various problems, their ability is still limited compared with human intelligence, which has the flexibility to adapt to a changing environment. To obtain a model which achieves adaptability to a wide range of problems and tasks is a challenging problem. To achieve this, an issue that must be addressed is identification of the similarities and differences between the human brain and deep neural networks. In this article, inspired by the human flexibility which might suggest the existence of a common mechanism allowing solution of different kinds of tasks, we consider a general learning process in neural networks, on which no specific conditions and constraints are imposed. Subsequently, we theoretically show that, according to the learning progress, the network structure converges to the state, which is characterized by a unique distribution model with respect to network quantities such as the connection weight and node strength. Noting that the empirical data indicate that this state emerges in the large scale network in the human brain, we show that the same state can be reproduced in a simple example of deep learning models. Although further research is needed, our findings provide an insight into the common inherent mechanism underlying the human brain and deep learning. Thus, our findings provide suggestions for designing efficient learning algorithms for solving a wide variety of tasks in the future.

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