Deep Learning
Deep Learning Can Now Predict Traffic Crashes Beforehand
The lead scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute or QCRI and also the author of the paper, Amin Sadeghi, says that the deep learning model can generalize from one city to another by adding multiple clues from unrelated data sources. With the help of AI, he says that the deep learning model can identify and predict the crash maps in uncharted territories. This dataset has included 7,500 kilometers from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Boston. When considered among the four cities Los Angeles was identified as the highest crash density after which follows New York City, Chicago, and Boston.
Top Deep Learning Algorithms
There are a lots of Deep Learning Algorithms that are used, but what are some of the best? I have already discussed the most basic of Neural Networks or the Perceptron here. If you want to know how a neural network would function in its barest form, please check that out. Deep learning algorithms use ANNs (short for Artificial Neural Networks) to duplicate the functioning of our brain. Not trying to be philosophical or historical, but our brain is the most complicated piece of machinery we know.
How AI is reinventing what computers are
Every year, right on cue, Apple, Samsung, Google, and others drop their latest releases. These fixtures in the consumer tech calendar no longer inspire the surprise and wonder of those heady early days. Google's latest offering, the Pixel 6, is the first phone to have a separate chip dedicated to AI that sits alongside its standard processor. And the chip that runs the iPhone has for the last couple of years contained what Apple calls a "neural engine," also dedicated to AI. Both chips are better suited to the types of computations involved in training and running machine-learning models on our devices, such as the AI that powers your camera.
Evaluation of Various Open-Set Medical Imaging Tasks with Deep Neural Networks
The current generation of deep neural networks has achieved close-to-human results on "closed-set" image recognition; that is, the classes being evaluated overlap with the training classes. Many recent methods attempt to address the importance of the unknown, which are termed "open-set" recognition algorithms, try to reject unknown classes as well as maintain high recognition accuracy on known classes. However, it is still unclear how different general domain-trained open-set methods from ImageNet would perform on a different but more specific domain, such as the medical domain. Without principled and formal evaluations to measure the effectiveness of those general open-set methods, artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical diagnostics would experience ineffective adoption and increased risks of bad decision making. In this paper, we conduct rigorous evaluations amongst state-of-the-art open-set methods, exploring different open-set scenarios from "similar-domain" to "different-domain" scenarios and comparing them on various general and medical domain datasets.
SOLVER: Scene-Object Interrelated Visual Emotion Reasoning Network
Yang, Jingyuan, Gao, Xinbo, Li, Leida, Wang, Xiumei, Ding, Jinshan
Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims at finding out how people feel emotionally towards different visual stimuli, which has attracted great attention recently with the prevalence of sharing images on social networks. Since human emotion involves a highly complex and abstract cognitive process, it is difficult to infer visual emotions directly from holistic or regional features in affective images. It has been demonstrated in psychology that visual emotions are evoked by the interactions between objects as well as the interactions between objects and scenes within an image. Inspired by this, we propose a novel Scene-Object interreLated Visual Emotion Reasoning network (SOLVER) to predict emotions from images. To mine the emotional relationships between distinct objects, we first build up an Emotion Graph based on semantic concepts and visual features. Then, we conduct reasoning on the Emotion Graph using Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), yielding emotion-enhanced object features. We also design a Scene-Object Fusion Module to integrate scenes and objects, which exploits scene features to guide the fusion process of object features with the proposed scene-based attention mechanism. Extensive experiments and comparisons are conducted on eight public visual emotion datasets, and the results demonstrate that the proposed SOLVER consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Ablation studies verify the effectiveness of our method and visualizations prove its interpretability, which also bring new insight to explore the mysteries in VEA. Notably, we further discuss SOLVER on three other potential datasets with extended experiments, where we validate the robustness of our method and notice some limitations of it.
An attention-driven hierarchical multi-scale representation for visual recognition
Wharton, Zachary, Behera, Ardhendu, Bera, Asish
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to construct highly expressive representations for decision making. However, the convolution operation is unable to capture long-range dependencies such as arbitrary relations between pixels since it operates on a fixed-size window. Therefore, it may not be suitable for discriminating subtle changes (e.g. fine-grained visual recognition). To this end, our proposed method captures the high-level long-range dependencies by exploring Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), which aggregate information by establishing relationships among multi-scale hierarchical regions. These regions consist of smaller (closer look) to larger (far look), and the dependency between regions is modeled by an innovative attention-driven message propagation, guided by the graph structure to emphasize the neighborhoods of a given region. Our approach is simple yet extremely effective in solving both the fine-grained and generic visual classification problems. It outperforms the state-of-the-arts with a significant margin on three and is very competitive on other two datasets.
Conditional Deep Gaussian Processes: empirical Bayes hyperdata learning
It is desirable to combine the expressive power of deep learning with Gaussian Process (GP) in one expressive Bayesian learning model. Deep kernel learning showed success in adopting a deep network for feature extraction followed by a GP used as function model. Recently,it was suggested that, albeit training with marginal likelihood, the deterministic nature of feature extractor might lead to overfitting while the replacement with a Bayesian network seemed to cure it. Here, we propose the conditional Deep Gaussian Process (DGP) in which the intermediate GPs in hierarchical composition are supported by the hyperdata and the exposed GP remains zero mean. Motivated by the inducing points in sparse GP, the hyperdata also play the role of function supports, but are hyperparameters rather than random variables. We follow our previous moment matching approach to approximate the marginal prior for conditional DGP with a GP carrying an effective kernel. Thus, as in empirical Bayes, the hyperdata are learned by optimizing the approximate marginal likelihood which implicitly depends on the hyperdata via the kernel. We shall show the equivalence with the deep kernel learning in the limit of dense hyperdata in latent space. However, the conditional DGP and the corresponding approximate inference enjoy the benefit of being more Bayesian than deep kernel learning. Preliminary extrapolation results demonstrate expressive power from the depth of hierarchy by exploiting the exact covariance and hyperdata learning, in comparison with GP kernel composition, DGP variational inference and deep kernel learning. We also address the non-Gaussian aspect of our model as well as way of upgrading to a full Bayes inference.
Chinese Traditional Poetry Generating System Based on Deep Learning
Chinese traditional poetry is an important intangible cultural heritage of China and an artistic carrier of thought, culture, spirit and emotion. However, due to the strict rules of ancient poetry, it is very difficult to write poetry by machine. This paper proposes an automatic generation method of Chinese traditional poetry based on deep learning technology, which extracts keywords from each poem and matches them with the previous text to make the poem conform to the theme, and when a user inputs a paragraph of text, the machine obtains the theme and generates poem sentence by sentence. Using the classic word2vec model as the preprocessing model, the Chinese characters which are not understood by the computer are transformed into matrix for processing. Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory is used as the neural network model to generate Chinese characters one by one and make the meaning of Chinese characters as accurate as possible. At the same time, TF-IDF and TextRank are used to extract keywords. Using the attention mechanism based encoding-decoding model, we can solve practical problems by transforming the model, and strengthen the important information of long-distance information, so as to grasp the key points without losing important information. In the aspect of emotion judgment, Long Short-Term Memory network is used. The final result shows that it can get good poetry outputs according to the user input text.
CoVA: Context-aware Visual Attention for Webpage Information Extraction
Kumar, Anurendra, Morabia, Keval, Wang, Jingjin, Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan, Schwing, Alexander
Webpage information extraction (WIE) is an important step to create knowledge bases. For this, classical WIE methods leverage the Document Object Model (DOM) tree of a website. However, use of the DOM tree poses significant challenges as context and appearance are encoded in an abstract manner. To address this challenge we propose to reformulate WIE as a context-aware Webpage Object Detection task. Specifically, we develop a Context-aware Visual Attention-based (CoVA) detection pipeline which combines appearance features with syntactical structure from the DOM tree. To study the approach we collect a new large-scale dataset of e-commerce websites for which we manually annotate every web element with four labels: product price, product title, product image and background. On this dataset we show that the proposed CoVA approach is a new challenging baseline which improves upon prior state-of-the-art methods.
A Layer-wise Adversarial-aware Quantization Optimization for Improving Robustness
Song, Chang, Ranjan, Riya, Li, Hai
Neural networks are getting better accuracy with higher energy and computational cost. After quantization, the cost can be greatly saved, and the quantized models are more hardware friendly with acceptable accuracy loss. On the other hand, recent research has found that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, and the robustness of a neural network model can only be improved with defense methods, such as adversarial training. In this work, we find that adversarially-trained neural networks are more vulnerable to quantization loss than plain models. To minimize both the adversarial and the quantization losses simultaneously and to make the quantized model robust, we propose a layer-wise adversarial-aware quantization method, using the Lipschitz constant to choose the best quantization parameter settings for a neural network. We theoretically derive the losses and prove the consistency of our metric selection. The experiment results show that our method can effectively and efficiently improve the robustness of quantized adversarially-trained neural networks.