scholarly journals MIXED PROBABILITY MODELS FOR ALEATORIC UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF DENSE STEREO MATCHING

2021 ◽  
Vol V-2-2021 ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Z. Zhong ◽  
M. Mehltretter
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Stereo Matching ◽  
Uncertainty Estimation ◽  
Probabilistic Methods ◽  
Probability Models ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Dense Stereo Matching ◽  
Mixed Probability Models ◽  
Aleatoric Uncertainty

Abstract. The ability to identify erroneous depth estimates is of fundamental interest. Information regarding the aleatoric uncertainty of depth estimates can be, for example, used to support the process of depth reconstruction itself. Consequently, various methods for the estimation of aleatoric uncertainty in the context of dense stereo matching have been presented in recent years, with deep learning-based approaches being particularly popular. Among these deep learning-based methods, probabilistic strategies are increasingly attracting interest, because the estimated uncertainty can be quantified in pixels or in metric units due to the consideration of real error distributions. However, existing probabilistic methods usually assume a unimodal distribution to describe the error distribution while simply neglecting cases in real-world scenarios that could violate this assumption. To overcome this limitation, we propose two novel mixed probability models consisting of Laplacian and Uniform distributions for the task of aleatoric uncertainty estimation. In this way, we explicitly address commonly challenging regions in the context of dense stereo matching and outlier measurements, respectively. To allow a fair comparison, we adapt a common neural network architecture to investigate the effects of the different uncertainty models. In an extensive evaluation using two datasets and two common dense stereo matching methods, the proposed methods demonstrate state-of-the-art accuracy.

scholarly journals UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION FOR END-TO-END LEARNED DENSE STEREO MATCHING VIA PROBABILISTIC DEEP LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol V-2-2020 ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
M. Mehltretter
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Stereo Matching ◽  
Probabilistic Neural Network ◽  
Uncertainty Estimation ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Stereo Image ◽  
Confidence Estimation ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Dense Stereo Matching

Abstract. Motivated by the need to identify erroneous disparity assignments, various approaches for uncertainty and confidence estimation of dense stereo matching have been presented in recent years. As in many other fields, especially deep learning based methods have shown convincing results. However, most of these methods only model the uncertainty contained in the data, while ignoring the uncertainty of the employed dense stereo matching procedure. Additionally modelling the latter, however, is particularly beneficial if the domain of the training data varies from that of the data to be processed. For this purpose, in the present work the idea of probabilistic deep learning is applied to the task of dense stereo matching for the first time. Based on the well-known and commonly employed GC-Net architecture, a novel probabilistic neural network is presented, for the task of joint depth and uncertainty estimation from epipolar rectified stereo image pairs. Instead of learning the network parameters directly, the proposed probabilistic neural network learns a probability distribution from which parameters are sampled for every prediction. The variations between multiple such predictions on the same image pair allow to approximate the model uncertainty. The quality of the estimated depth and uncertainty information is assessed in an extensive evaluation on three different datasets.

Uncertainty Estimation for Stereo Matching Based on Evidential Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 108498
Author(s):  
Chen Wang ◽  
Xiang Wang ◽  
Jiawei Zhang ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Xiao Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Stereo Matching ◽  
Uncertainty Estimation

Damage detection in a novel deep-learning framework: a robust method for feature extraction

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 424-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Guo ◽  
Lianping Wu ◽  
Cunjun Wang ◽  
Zili Xu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Mode Shapes ◽  
Damage Scenarios ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
The Neural Network

Extracting damage features precisely while overcoming the adverse interferences of measurement noise and incomplete data is a problem demanding prompt solution in structural health monitoring (SHM). In this article, we present a deep-learning-based method that can extract the damage features from mode shapes without utilizing any hand-engineered feature or prior knowledge. To meet various requirements of the damage scenarios, we use convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm and design a new network architecture: a multi-scale module, which helps in extracting features at various scales that can reduce the interference of contaminated data; stacked residual learning modules, which help in accelerating the network convergence; and a global average pooling layer, which helps in reducing the consumption of computing resources and obtaining a regression performance. An extensive evaluation of the proposed method is conducted by using datasets based on numerical simulations, along with two datasets based on laboratory measurements. The transferring parameter methodology is introduced to reduce retraining requirement without any decreases in precision. Furthermore, we plot the feature vectors of each layer to discuss the damage features learned at these layers and additionally provide the basis for explaining the working principle of the neural network. The results show that our proposed method has accuracy improvements of at least 10% over other network architectures.

Dense stereo matching by region growing based on disparity space sampling

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 2690-2692
Author(s):  
Bao-hai YANG ◽  
Xiao-li LIU ◽  
Dai-feng ZHA
Keyword(s):  
Stereo Matching ◽  
Region Growing ◽  
Dense Stereo Matching ◽  
Disparity Space

scholarly journals Quantifying the uncertainty of deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis for patient safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Max-Heinrich Laves ◽  
Sontje Ihler ◽  
Tobias Ortmaier ◽  
Lüder A. Kahrs
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Epistemic Uncertainty ◽  
Computer Aided Diagnosis ◽  
Uncertainty Estimation ◽  
Test Time ◽  
Prediction Uncertainty ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

AbstractIn this work, we discuss epistemic uncertainty estimation obtained by Bayesian inference in diagnostic classifiers and show that the prediction uncertainty highly correlates with goodness of prediction. We train the ResNet-18 image classifier on a dataset of 84,484 optical coherence tomography scans showing four different retinal conditions. Dropout is added before every building block of ResNet, creating an approximation to a Bayesian classifier. Monte Carlo sampling is applied with dropout at test time for uncertainty estimation. In Monte Carlo experiments, multiple forward passes are performed to get a distribution of the class labels. The variance and the entropy of the distribution is used as metrics for uncertainty. Our results show strong correlation with ρ = 0.99 between prediction uncertainty and prediction error. Mean uncertainty of incorrectly diagnosed cases was significantly higher than mean uncertainty of correctly diagnosed cases. Modeling of the prediction uncertainty in computer-aided diagnosis with deep learning yields more reliable results and is therefore expected to increase patient safety. This will help to transfer such systems into clinical routine and to increase the acceptance of machine learning in diagnosis from the standpoint of physicians and patients.

scholarly journals Matching Large Baseline Oblique Stereo Images Using an End-to-End Convolutional Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Guobiao Yao ◽  
Alper Yilmaz ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Fei Meng ◽  
Haibin Ai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Stereo Matching ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Affine Invariant ◽  
Stereo Images ◽  
Distance Ratio ◽  
Matching Algorithm ◽  
End To End

The available stereo matching algorithms produce large number of false positive matches or only produce a few true-positives across oblique stereo images with large baseline. This undesired result happens due to the complex perspective deformation and radiometric distortion across the images. To address this problem, we propose a novel affine invariant feature matching algorithm with subpixel accuracy based on an end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN). In our method, we adopt and modify a Hessian affine network, which we refer to as IHesAffNet, to obtain affine invariant Hessian regions using deep learning framework. To improve the correlation between corresponding features, we introduce an empirical weighted loss function (EWLF) based on the negative samples using K nearest neighbors, and then generate deep learning-based descriptors with high discrimination that is realized with our multiple hard network structure (MTHardNets). Following this step, the conjugate features are produced by using the Euclidean distance ratio as the matching metric, and the accuracy of matches are optimized through the deep learning transform based least square matching (DLT-LSM). Finally, experiments on Large baseline oblique stereo images acquired by ground close-range and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach, and comprehensive comparisons demonstrate that our matching algorithm outperforms the state-of-art methods in terms of accuracy, distribution and correct ratio. The main contributions of this article are: (i) our proposed MTHardNets can generate high quality descriptors; and (ii) the IHesAffNet can produce substantial affine invariant corresponding features with reliable transform parameters.

scholarly journals Deep learning-based recognition of cell structures in fluorescence microscopy sequences with respect to their morphology on cells infected with Marburg virus

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-504
Author(s):  
Dennis Schmidt ◽  
Andreas Rausch ◽  
Thomas Schanze
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Infected Cell ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Marburg Virus ◽  
Microscopic Image ◽  
Cell Structures ◽  
Fast Recognition ◽  
Subviral Particles

AbstractThe Institute of Virology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg is currently researching possible drugs to combat the Marburg virus. This involves classifying cell structures based on fluoroscopic microscopic image sequences. Conventionally, membranes of cells must be marked for better analysis, which is time consuming. In this work, an approach is presented to identify cell structures in images that are marked for subviral particles. It could be shown that there is a correlation between the distribution of subviral particles in an infected cell and the position of the cell’s structures. The segmentation is performed with a "Mask-R-CNN" algorithm, presented in this work. The model (a region-based convolutional neural network) is applied to enable a robust and fast recognition of cell structures. Furthermore, the network architecture is described. The proposed method is tested on data evaluated by experts. The results show a high potential and demonstrate that the method is suitable.

scholarly journals An Investigation into the Application of Deep Learning in the Detection and Mitigation of DDOS Attack on SDN Controllers

Technologies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
James Dzisi Gadze ◽  
Akua Acheampomaa Bamfo-Asante ◽  
Justice Owusu Agyemang ◽  
Henry Nunoo-Mensah ◽  
Kwasi Adu-Boahen Opare
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Deep Learning Algorithm ◽  
Proposed Model

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new paradigm that revolutionizes the idea of a software-driven network through the separation of control and data planes. It addresses the problems of traditional network architecture. Nevertheless, this brilliant architecture is exposed to several security threats, e.g., the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which is hard to contain in such software-based networks. The concept of a centralized controller in SDN makes it a single point of attack as well as a single point of failure. In this paper, deep learning-based models, long-short term memory (LSTM) and convolutional neural network (CNN), are investigated. It illustrates their possibility and efficiency in being used in detecting and mitigating DDoS attack. The paper focuses on TCP, UDP, and ICMP flood attacks that target the controller. The performance of the models was evaluated based on the accuracy, recall, and true negative rate. We compared the performance of the deep learning models with classical machine learning models. We further provide details on the time taken to detect and mitigate the attack. Our results show that RNN LSTM is a viable deep learning algorithm that can be applied in the detection and mitigation of DDoS in the SDN controller. Our proposed model produced an accuracy of 89.63%, which outperformed linear-based models such as SVM (86.85%) and Naive Bayes (82.61%). Although KNN, which is a linear-based model, outperformed our proposed model (achieving an accuracy of 99.4%), our proposed model provides a good trade-off between precision and recall, which makes it suitable for DDoS classification. In addition, it was realized that the split ratio of the training and testing datasets can give different results in the performance of a deep learning algorithm used in a specific work. The model achieved the best performance when a split of 70/30 was used in comparison to 80/20 and 60/40 split ratios.

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