Convolutional neural networks are the most widely used deep learning algorithms for traffic signal classification till date but they fail to capture pose, view, orientation of the images because of the intrinsic inability of max pooling layer.This paper proposes a novel method for Traffic sign detection using deep lear…
CapsAttacks study imperceptible adversarial attacks on Capsule Networks, showing they can fool these networks.
problem Vulnerability of Capsule Networks to imperceptible adversarial attacks.
method Proposed a greedy algorithm for generating targeted imperceptible adversarial examples.
result Capsule Networks can be fooled by imperceptible adversarial attacks, similar to CNNs.
Most of the data manipulation attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) during the training stage introduce a perceptible noise that can be catered by preprocessing during inference or can be identified during the validation phase. Therefore, data poisoning attacks during inference (e.g., adversarial attacks) are becoming…
GANs generate new traffic sign images to improve recognition accuracy.
problem Lack of data limits SqueezeNet's performance in traffic sign recognition.
method Applied pix2pix GANs to translate symbolic sign images to real ones for data augmentation.
result Data augmentation with GANs increased classification accuracy for traffic signs.
Efficiently processes high res images by selecting relevant patches.
problem High memory and compute requirements for processing large images.
method Differentiable Top-K operator to select relevant patches.
result End-to-end trainable model using backpropagation.
The exponential increase in dependencies between the cyber and physical world leads to an enormous amount of data which must be efficiently processed and stored. Therefore, computing paradigms are evolving towards machine learning (ML)-based systems because of their ability to efficiently and accurately process the eno…
The paper uses conformal prediction to monitor CPS with machine learning components.
problem Ensuring trustworthy CPS with machine learning components.
method Conformal prediction framework for real-time assurance monitoring of CPS with machine learning.
result The method provides well-calibrated confidence and limits the number of alarms.
Minimax defense improves neural network security against gradient-based attacks.
problem Gradient-based adversarial attacks on neural networks.
method Minimax optimization in a GAN framework to create a discriminator that plays a minimax game with the generator.
result Minimax defense significantly reduces adversarial attack success rates compared to standard classifiers.
Deep neural networks (DNN)-based machine learning (ML) algorithms have recently emerged as the leading ML paradigm particularly for the task of classification due to their superior capability of learning efficiently from large datasets. The discovery of a number of well-known attacks such as dataset poisoning, adversar…
German FinBERT improves financial text analysis performance.
problem Capturing domain-specific nuances in financial text.
method German FinBERT is a pre-trained German language model trained on a large corpus of financial data.
result German FinBERT outperforms standard models on finance-specific tasks.
New loss function reduces adversarial examples by controlling Fisher information matrix eigenvalues.
problem Defending against adversarial attacks in neural networks.
method Adding a term to the loss function representing the trace of the Fisher information matrix.
result Effective and robust defensive capability, reducing adversarial example fooling ratio.
Deep learning and prior maps improve traffic light recognition for autonomous cars.
problem Recognizing traffic lights for autonomous cars in urban environments.
method Combining deep learning-based detection with prior maps for traffic light identification and state recognition.
result The proposed system correctly identified relevant traffic lights along predefined routes.
New approach uses graphs for sign language recognition.
problem Challenges in recognizing sign language for deaf individuals.
method Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network.
result Improved sign language recognition using human skeletal movements.
Study develops sign recognition system for DHH users.
problem Accessibility of voice-controlled devices for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing users.
method Multimodal data (RGB video and skeletal data) for sign language recognition using deep learning.
result Validation on GMUASL51 dataset of 12 users and 13107 samples across 51 signs.
FineHand learns hand shapes for better ASL recognition.
problem Difficult ASL recognition due to fast, articulate gestures.
method Combines manual and deep learning for hand shape embeddings, uses RNN for sequential gestures.
result Improved video gesture recognition accuracy on GMU-ASL51 benchmark.
Novel CNN array for sign language recognition using wearable IMUs.
problem Efficiently recognizing sign language from wearable IMU signals.
method Two-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network array architecture for Indian sign language recognition.
result Peak classification accuracies of 94.20% for general sentences and 95.00% for interrogative sentences achieved.
Hybrid and end-to-end models compare in syllable recognition.
problem Comparing hybrid and end-to-end models for syllable recognition.
method Traditional hybrid system (kaldi) vs. end-to-end (TensorFlow) models.
result Hybrid models with explicit syllable knowledge outperform end-to-end models.
Model predicts increased social unrest during COVID-19 using social media data.
problem Detecting rising conflict potential in societies during pandemics.
method Neural implicit motive pattern recognition from social media texts.
result Significant increase in conflict indicators during the pandemic.
Framework allows systems to defer difficult decisions to unknown experts.
problem Ensuring safety and robustness in autonomous systems with unknown human experts.
method Meta-learning approach that adapts to new experts at test-time using optimization and model-based attention mechanisms.
result Framework can quickly adapt deferral policies to new experts without re-training.
Paper proposes a method to improve autonomous vehicle performance using synthetically generated images.
problem Limited access to real-world datasets for autonomous vehicle training in countries with scarce data.
method Synthetically generated images to augment and train neural networks on small datasets.
result About 10% improvement in model performance observed.
We perform an analysis of fractal properties of the positive and the negative changes of the German DAX30 index separately using Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA). By calculating the singularity spectra f(α) we show that returns of both signs reveal multiscaling. Curiously, these spectra display a s…
Deep CapsNet improves sign language recognition from wearable IMUs.
problem Continuous recognition of sign language from wearable devices.
method Custom CapsNet architecture using deep capsule networks and game theory.
result Improved accuracy of 94% and 92.50% for 3 and 5 routings respectively, compared to 87.99% for CNN.
Traffic actors' future motion predicted using a hybrid graph model.
problem Predicting long-term behaviors of traffic actors in complex scenes.
method A hybrid graph model with nodes for actors and traffic elements, and edges for interaction types.
result TrafficGraphNet achieves state-of-the-art trajectory prediction accuracy.
Study reveals stylized facts in German bond futures markets.
problem Understanding market dynamics in German bond futures.
method Analyzed tick-by-tick data of four German bond futures contracts.
result Uncovered commonalities and unique characteristics across different futures.
The paper analyzes and forecasts intraday electricity prices using econometric models.
problem Analyzing and forecasting the efficiency of the German Intraday Continuous electricity market.
method Multivariate econometric time series model with lasso and elastic net techniques.
result The model provides new insights into the ID3-Price behavior and market efficiency. Domain adaptation refers to the problem of leveraging labeled data in a source domain to learn an accurate model in a target domain where labels are scarce or unavailable. A recent approach for finding a common representation of the two domains is via domain adversarial training (Ganin & Lempitsky, 2015), which attempt…
We build CSI-Net, a unified Deep Neural Network~(DNN), to learn the representation of WiFi signals. Using CSI-Net, we jointly solved two body characterization problems: biometrics estimation (including body fat, muscle, water, and bone rates) and person recognition. We also demonstrated the application of CSI-Net on tw…
We leverage automatic differentiation (AD) and probabilistic programming to develop an end-to-end optimization algorithm for batch triangulation of a large number of unknown objects. Given noisy detections extracted from noisily geo-located street level imagery without depth information, we jointly estimate the number …
End-to-end training of automated speech recognition (ASR) systems requires massive data and compute resources. We explore transfer learning based on model adaptation as an approach for training ASR models under constrained GPU memory, throughput and training data. We conduct several systematic experiments adapting a Wa…
Semantic embeddings improve safety-critical classifier performance.
problem Improving interpretability and error detection in safety-critical neural networks.
method Created embeddings from symbolic domain knowledge, used for misprediction interpretation and error detection, introduced semantic distance for confidence measurement.
result Semantic distance achieves near state-of-the-art performance in a traffic sign classifier, faster than other methods.
The past several years have seen both an explosion in the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the design of accelerators to make CNN inference practical. In the architecture community, the lion share of effort has targeted CNN inference for image recognition. The closely related problem of video recognition…
Model predicts traffic speed using urban incidents.
problem Accurately predicting traffic speed in urban areas.
method Deep Incident-Aware Graph Convolutional Network (DIGC-Net).
result Model outperforms competing benchmarks in traffic speed prediction.
Accurate and robust recognition and prediction of traffic situation plays an important role in autonomous driving, which is a prerequisite for risk assessment and effective decision making. Although there exist a lot of works dealing with modeling driver behavior of a single object, it remains a challenge to make predi…
This study improves the performance of neural named entity recognition by a margin of up to 11% in F-score on the example of a low-resource language like German, thereby outperforming existing baselines and establishing a new state-of-the-art on each single open-source dataset. Rather than designing deeper and wider hy…
This work enhances deep neural networks with robust features to improve their robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial images.
method Augmenting classification pipelines with robust features like binarization and group extraction.
result Improved robustness and training speed on adversarial inputs, with significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods.
Short-term probabilistic forecasting of German electricity imbalance prices.
problem Uncertainty in renewable energy capacity and electricity prices.
method Combining lasso with bootstrap, gamlss, and probabilistic neural networks for forecasting imbalance prices.
result Sophisticated methods improve empirical coverage of imbalance prices but do not substantially outperform the intraday continuous price index.
01 loss is robust to outliers and adversarial attacks, outperforming convex losses.
problem Improving robustness in binary classification models.
method Developed stochastic coordinate descent algorithms for 01 loss classifiers and neural networks.
result 01 loss classifiers are more robust to adversarial attacks compared to convex losses.
PSTN improves traffic condition forecasting with deep neural networks.
problem Challenges in accurately forecasting traffic conditions due to complex spatiotemporal correlations.
method Proposes PSTN with three modules: graph convolutional network, temporal convolutional network, and gated recurrent unit framework.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks in short-term traffic conditions forecasting.
Vehicle recognition and classification have broad applications, ranging from traffic flow management to military target identification. We demonstrate an unsupervised method for automated identification of moving vehicles from roadside audio sensors. Using a short-time Fourier transform to decompose audio signals, we t…
In this paper, we explore and detail our experiments in a high-dimensionality, multi-class image classification problem often found in the automatic recognition of Sign Languages. Here, our efforts are directed towards comparing the characteristics, advantages and drawbacks of creating and training Support Vector Machi…
This paper compares machine learning methods for recognizing lane change intentions from vehicle trajectories.
problem Accurately detecting and predicting lane change processes in autonomous vehicles.
method Comparison of different machine learning methods on high-dimensional time series data.
result Ensemble methods reduce Type II and Type III classification errors, while LightGBM outperforms XGBoost in training efficiency.
We provide a benchmark dataset for hand gesture recognition using force myography.
problem Lack of publicly available benchmark data for force myography hand gesture recognition.
method Collected data from 20 persons covering 18 unique gestures using a commercially available sensor setup.
result Improved gesture recognition accuracy through transfer learning.
This study provides benchmarks for different implementations of LSTM units between the deep learning frameworks PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lasagne and Keras. The comparison includes cuDNN LSTMs, fused LSTM variants and less optimized, but more flexible LSTM implementations. The benchmarks reflect two typical scenarios for au…
ATFM predicts traffic flow using attention mechanism and neural networks.
problem Predicting traffic flow with diverse factors integration.
method Unified neural network (ATFM) with attention mechanism and ConvLSTM units.
result ATFM outperforms in predicting citywide short-term/long-term traffic flow.
System predicts vehicle interactions and trajectories with uncertainty.
problem Predicting future vehicle trajectories with uncertainty.
method Hierarchical Bayesian Generative Modeling with categorized and real-valued coordination variables.
result Categorized coordination better captures multi-modality and generates more diverse samples.
Proposes Deep Scenes for interaction-aware scene understanding in reinforcement learning for autonomous driving.
problem Leveraging deep reinforcement learning for high-level decision making in autonomous driving requires handling variable-length sequences of different object types and interactions.
method Introduces Deep Scenes architecture, an extension of Deep Sets or Graph Convolutional Networks, to learn complex interaction-aware scene representations.
result Graph-Q and DeepScene-Q algorithms outperform state-of-the-art methods in evaluations with SUMO.
Making applications aware of the mobility experienced by the user can open the door to a wide range of novel services in different use-cases, from smart parking to vehicular traffic monitoring. In the literature, there are many different studies demonstrating the theoretical possibility of performing Transportation Mod…
Study benchmarks machine learning for removing EEG artifacts.
problem Removing artifacts from EEGs to improve clinical interpretation.
method Applied various machine learning algorithms to a large artifact recognition dataset.
result Established a benchmark for future research on artifact removal.