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Towards Spatio-temporal Sea Surface Temperature Forecasting via Static and Dynamic Learnable Personalized Graph Convolution Network

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sea surface temperature (SST) is uniquely important to the Earth's atmosphere since its dynamics are a major force in shaping local and global climate and profoundly affect our ecosystems. Accurate forecasting of SST brings significant economic and social implications, for example, better preparation for extreme weather such as severe droughts or tropical cyclones months ahead. However, such a task faces unique challenges due to the intrinsic complexity and uncertainty of ocean systems. Recently, deep learning techniques, such as graphical neural networks (GNN), have been applied to address this task. Even though these methods have some success, they frequently have serious drawbacks when it comes to investigating dynamic spatiotemporal dependencies between signals. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel static and dynamic learnable personalized graph convolution network (SD-LPGC). Specifically, two graph learning layers are first constructed to respectively model the stable long-term and short-term evolutionary patterns hidden in the multivariate SST signals. Then, a learnable personalized convolution layer is designed to fuse this information. Our experiments on real SST datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performances of the proposed approach on the forecasting task.


Drones on the Rise: Exploring the Current and Future Potential of UAVs

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their versatility and affordability. This article provides an overview of the history and development of UAVs, as well as their current and potential applications in various fields. In particular, the article highlights the use of UAVs in aerial photography and videography, surveying and mapping, agriculture and forestry, infrastructure inspection and maintenance, search and rescue operations, disaster management and humanitarian aid, and military applications such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and combat. The article also explores potential advancements in UAV technology and new applications that could emerge in the future, as well as concerns about the impact of UAVs on society, such as privacy, safety, security, job displacement, and environmental impact. Overall, the article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state and future potential of UAV technology, and the benefits and challenges associated with its use in various industries and fields.


Anomalous NO2 emitting ship detection with TROPOMI satellite data and machine learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Starting from 2021, more demanding $\text{NO}_\text{x}$ emission restrictions were introduced for ships operating in the North and Baltic Sea waters. Since all methods currently used for ship compliance monitoring are financially and time demanding, it is important to prioritize the inspection of ships that have high chances of being non-compliant. The current state-of-the-art approach for a large-scale ship $\text{NO}_\text{2}$ estimation is a supervised machine learning-based segmentation of ship plumes on TROPOMI/S5P images. However, challenging data annotation and insufficiently complex ship emission proxy used for the validation limit the applicability of the model for ship compliance monitoring. In this study, we present a method for the automated selection of potentially non-compliant ships using a combination of machine learning models on TROPOMI satellite data. It is based on a proposed regression model predicting the amount of $\text{NO}_\text{2}$ that is expected to be produced by a ship with certain properties operating in the given atmospheric conditions. The model does not require manual labeling and is validated with TROPOMI data directly. The differences between the predicted and actual amount of produced $\text{NO}_\text{2}$ are integrated over observations of the ship in time and are used as a measure of the inspection worthiness of a ship. To assure the robustness of the results, we compare the obtained results with the results of the previously developed segmentation-based method. Ships that are also highly deviating in accordance with the segmentation method require further attention. If no other explanations can be found by checking the TROPOMI data, the respective ships are advised to be the candidates for inspection.


Supervised segmentation of NO2 plumes from individual ships using TROPOMI satellite data

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The shipping industry is one of the strongest anthropogenic emitters of $\text{NO}_\text{x}$ -- substance harmful both to human health and the environment. The rapid growth of the industry causes societal pressure on controlling the emission levels produced by ships. All the methods currently used for ship emission monitoring are costly and require proximity to a ship, which makes global and continuous emission monitoring impossible. A promising approach is the application of remote sensing. Studies showed that some of the $\text{NO}_\text{2}$ plumes from individual ships can visually be distinguished using the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument on board the Copernicus Sentinel 5 Precursor (TROPOMI/S5P). To deploy a remote sensing-based global emission monitoring system, an automated procedure for the estimation of $\text{NO}_\text{2}$ emissions from individual ships is needed. The extremely low signal-to-noise ratio of the available data as well as the absence of ground truth makes the task very challenging. Here, we present a methodology for the automated segmentation of $\text{NO}_\text{2}$ plumes produced by seagoing ships using supervised machine learning on TROPOMI/S5P data. We show that the proposed approach leads to a more than a 20\% increase in the average precision score in comparison to the methods used in previous studies and results in a high correlation of 0.834 with the theoretically derived ship emission proxy. This work is a crucial step toward the development of an automated procedure for global ship emission monitoring using remote sensing data.


We asked ChatGPT and Google's Bard to plan a variety of holidays - here are the results

Daily Mail - Science & tech

As AI advances, could it replace your travel agent? To investigate just how effective a holiday planner AI can be, MailOnline Travel asked two chatbots - ChatGPT, created by California AI firm OpenAI, and Google's Bard - to plan a variety of trips. Scroll down to see the answers the chatbots provided, from hotel recommendations in Iraq to advice on planning budget sun holidays, honeymoons and stag weekends away. For a budget break in the sun, Bard recommended jetting off to Bulgaria, where it says that you can find a week-long all-inclusive holiday'for as little as £200'. MailOnline Travel asked ChatGPT and Google's Bard to plan a variety of holidays.


Transformer visualization via dictionary learning: contextualized embedding as a linear superposition of transformer factors

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Transformer networks have revolutionized NLP representation learning since they were introduced. Though a great effort has been made to explain the representation in transformers, it is widely recognized that our understanding is not sufficient. One important reason is that there lack enough visualization tools for detailed analysis. In this paper, we propose to use dictionary learning to open up these "black boxes" as linear superpositions of transformer factors. Through visualization, we demonstrate the hierarchical semantic structures captured by the transformer factors, e.g., word-level polysemy disambiguation, sentence-level pattern formation, and long-range dependency. While some of these patterns confirm the conventional prior linguistic knowledge, the rest are relatively unexpected, which may provide new insights. We hope this visualization tool can bring further knowledge and a better understanding of how transformer networks work. The code is available at https://github.com/zeyuyun1/TransformerVis


Graph-Based Deep Learning for Sea Surface Temperature Forecasts

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts help with managing the marine ecosystem and the aquaculture impacted by anthropogenic climate change. Numerical dynamical models are resource intensive for SST forecasts; machine learning (ML) models could reduce high computational requirements and have been in the focus of the research community recently. ML models normally require a large amount of data for training. Environmental data are collected on regularly-spaced grids, so early work mainly used grid-based deep learning (DL) for prediction. However, both grid data and the corresponding DL approaches have inherent problems. As geometric DL has emerged, graphs as a more generalized data structure and graph neural networks (GNNs) have been introduced to the spatiotemporal domains. In this work, we preliminarily explored graph re-sampling and GNNs for global SST forecasts, and GNNs show better one month ahead SST prediction than the persistence model in most oceans in terms of root mean square errors.


How the world will look in 2050, according to experts

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Futurists of the 1990s predicted that we'd be living underwater or riding flying cars by this point -- but now experts are warning of a much scarier future. Other predictions include making contact with aliens -- but whether or not that's a bad thing remains unknown. It's not all doom and gloom, though, with technology expected to have made the afterlife possible. AI'overlords' could turn everyone into serfs Right now, people are focused on AI potentially causing job losses - but the reality could be far worse. That's according to George Stakhov, chief strategy officer for the global ad agency DDB EMEA who created an AI tool named'The Uncreative Agency'.


Top 7 upcoming machine vision applications--enabled by recent advances in AI, cameras, and chips

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Which specific insights are you interested in? I agree that IoT Analytics GmbH may process my information in accordance with its privacy statement to contact me and notify me of future research updates. Machine vision (MV) has the highest return on investment (ROI) and quickest amortization time of all Industry 4.0 technologies: For machine vision, this number is also among the lowest of all Industry 4.0 technologies. "In our latest project involving the implementation of an AI-based machine vision system for quality inspection of car assemblies, we achieved amortization in half a year." MV is the combination of different technologies and methods to automate the extraction of image information for providing operational guidance/key data for machines to execute a given task, in industrial and non-industrial settings.


Data Science Jobs, Salaries, and Course fees in Dhaka

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Information and Communication Technology has been deemed a prime sector in Bangladesh. It is clear that the nation is developing technologically given that this sector has the ability to result in effective forums, the production of jobs, and a booming presence. To control the big data wave put forth through our every move in the internet world, and to make sense of the data that at first glance appears to be incoherent, there is an increasing demand for data scientists. According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Work Report 2020, data scientists will continue to be in great demand and have the fastest growth over the next ten years. Data Science Professionals are transformative figures in every organization out there.