This paper classifies typhoon damage features using aerial photography.
problem Typhoon damages and slow recovery times.
method Aerial photography for classification of eight classes including land covers and disaster areas.
result Visualize and explain typhoon disaster features using convolutional activation maps.
This paper evaluates conformal prediction for aerial image classification in challenging environments.
problem Challenging aerial image classification in data-scarce, unconstrained environments.
method Conformal prediction applied to pretrained models (MobileNet, DenseNet, ResNet) with limited labeled data.
result Conformal prediction can provide valuable uncertainty estimates even with small labeled samples.
Paper proposes a method to improve building extraction from aerial images by adapting CNN models.
problem Limited generalization of CNN-based segmentation models for unseen images.
method Combines domain transfer and adversarial attack concepts to adapt input images to target images.
result Improves overall IoU and outperforms other methods in cross-dataset experiments.
In spite of the many advantages of aerial imagery for crowd monitoring and management at mass events, datasets of aerial images of crowds are still lacking in the field. As a remedy, in this work we introduce a novel crowd dataset, the DLR Aerial Crowd Dataset (DLR-ACD), which is composed of 33 large aerial images acqu…
Monitoring of disasters is crucial for mitigating their effects on the environment and human population, and can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), equipped with camera sensors that produce aerial photos of the areas of interest. A modern technique for recognition of events based on aerial pho…
We consider the problem of estimating human pose and trajectory by an aerial robot with a monocular camera in near real time. We present a preliminary solution whose distinguishing feature is a dynamic classifier selection architecture. In our solution, each video frame is corrected for perspective using projective tra…
Large datasets of sub-meter aerial imagery represented as orthophoto mosaics are widely available today, and these data sets may hold a great deal of untapped information. This imagery has a potential to locate several types of features; for example, forests, parking lots, airports, residential areas, or freeways in th…
Automatic classification of trees using remotely sensed data has been a dream of many scientists and land use managers. Recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been expected to be an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool for remote sensing of forests, and deep learning has attracted attention for its ability concerning…
Improved CNN model accuracy and generalizability through data pre-processing.
problem Enhancing accuracy and generalizability of CNN-based LULC classification.
method Trials of different data preparation methods, including patch selection, size, and augmentations.
result Combining multiple grids and rotations of patches improved model accuracy and generalizability.
Meta-learning improves model performance by optimizing data acquisition.
problem Lack of operationally realistic data limits model performance.
method Gaussian process surrogate fit to metadata-driven training data variations.
result Meta-learning enhances model performance compared to random data acquisition.
DALES offers a large annotated aerial LiDAR dataset for 3D deep learning.
problem Lack of large-scale annotated aerial LiDAR datasets for deep learning.
method Collection and annotation of over half a billion hand-labeled points from an ALS scanner.
result DALES is the most extensive publicly available ALS data set with improved resolution and coverage.
In this paper, we use an aerial base station (aerial-BS) to enhance fairness in a dynamic environment with user mobility. The problem of optimally placing the aerial-BS is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem. Moreover, the network topology is subject to continuous changes due to the user mobility…
Bayesian fusion improves radar target recognition for UAVs.
problem Improving radar target recognition for UAVs using multistatic radar configurations.
method Proposes a fully Bayesian RATR framework using Optimal Bayesian Fusion (OBF) to aggregate classification probability vectors from multiple radars.
result Empirical results show that the OBF method significantly enhances classification accuracy compared to other fusion methods and single radar configurations.
This paper studies the problem of spectrum shortage in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network during critical missions such as wildfire monitoring, search and rescue, and disaster monitoring. Such applications involve a high demand for high-throughput data transmissions such as real-time video-, image-, and voice- st…
Paper proposes efficient UAV placement for aerial base stations.
problem Efficient placement of UAVs as aerial base stations to serve varying traffic demand.
method Modeling UAV deployment as a non-cooperative game and using a learning-based algorithm to update UAV locations.
result Significant performance gains up to 52% and 74% in terms of throughput and dropped users compared to an optimized baseline algorithm.
Study uses aerial or satellite imagery to improve land price prediction in Thailand.
problem Limited accuracy of traditional land price prediction methods.
method Proposes a similarity-based asset valuation model using Siamese-inspired Neural Network and ensembles deep learning and tree-based models.
result Achieves an AUC of approximately 0.81, outperforming traditional methods.
This work proposes the use of Bayesian approximations of uncertainty from deep learning in a robot planner, showing that this produces more cautious actions in safety-critical scenarios. The case study investigated is motivated by a setup where an aerial robot acts as a "scout" for a ground robot. This is useful when t…
Introduces fuzzy layers to enhance deep learning performance.
problem Improving deep learning accuracy for complex tasks.
method Incorporates fuzzy methodologies into deep learning architecture.
result Preliminary results show promising performance in semantic segmentation.
Unstructured data from diverse sources, such as social media and aerial imagery, can provide valuable up-to-date information for intelligent situation assessment. Mining these different information sources could bring major benefits to applications such as situation awareness in disaster zones and mapping the spread of…
We present NAVREN-RL, an approach to NAVigate an unmanned aerial vehicle in an indoor Real ENvironment via end-to-end reinforcement learning RL. A suitable reward function is designed keeping in mind the cost and weight constraints for micro drone with minimum number of sensing modalities. Collection of small number of…
Method enhances anomaly detection using contrastive learning and out-of-distribution data.
problem Improving anomaly detection in datasets with limited out-of-distribution data.
method Proposes a contrastive learning method that incorporates out-of-distribution data to enhance anomaly detection performance.
result The method significantly improves anomaly detection performance, even with limited out-of-distribution data.
Unified approach for learning with weak labels across various tasks.
problem Learning with noisy or incomplete labels in diverse machine learning settings.
method Implicit posterior models for joint label inference.
result Unified training objective for various machine learning tasks.
Study uses SAR data to map defoliation and regrowth in tundra-forest areas.
problem Mapping defoliation and regrowth in tundra-forest areas using SAR data.
method Novel guided nonlocal means speckle filtering of polarimetric covariance matrix.
result Over 99.7% classification accuracy in defoliation and regrowth mapping.
The effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks stems in large part from their ability to exploit the translation invariance that is inherent in many learning problems. Recently, it was shown that CNNs can exploit other invariances, such as rotation invariance, by using group convolutions instead of planar convoluti…
Informal settlements are home to the most socially and economically vulnerable people on the planet. In order to deliver effective economic and social aid, non-government organizations (NGOs), such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), require detailed maps of the locations of informal settlements. However, d…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomously-guided aircraft, are widely used for tasks involving surveillance and reconnaissance. A version of the pursuit-evasion problems centered around UAVs and its variants has been extensively studied in recent years due to numerous breakthroughs in AI. We present an approach to …
Geometric families of low-rank covariances improve flexibility and tractability in high dimensions.
problem Interpolating and identifying covariance matrices in high dimensions with limited data.
method Differential geometric construction of low-rank covariance families, interpolation on manifolds, and distance minimization for identification.
result Differential geometric covariance families offer significant flexibility and computational tractability.
UAV uses RL to navigate, map, and detect targets in unknown environments.
problem Optimizing UAV trajectory for accurate mapping and target detection in unknown environments.
method Formulated as an MDP, UAV uses RL to infer navigation policy.
result UAV autonomously explores high target detection areas while reconstructing the environment.
Automatic post-disaster damage detection using aerial imagery is crucial for quick assessment of damage caused by disaster and development of a recovery plan. The main problem preventing us from creating an applicable model in practice is that damaged (positive) examples we are trying to detect are much harder to obtai…
This work reveals a new scaling law for optimal design of multirotor aerial vehicles.
problem Designing optimal configurations for fully-actuated multirotor aerial vehicles.
method Formulated on the product manifold of Projective Lines \RP^2^N, minimizing a coordinate-invariant Log-Volume isotropy metric.
result The topology of the global optima is governed by the symmetry of the chassis, leading to a N-5 Scaling Law.
A deep learning approach classifies medical images hierarchically.
problem Limitations of traditional supervised classifiers in medical image classification.
method Hierarchical Medical Image Classification (HMIC) using deep learning models.
result HMIC achieved better performance in classifying medical images hierarchically.
The densification of small-cell base stations in a 5G architecture is a promising approach to enhance the coverage area and facilitate the ever increasing capacity demand of end users. However, the bottleneck is an intelligent management of a backhaul/fronthaul network for these small-cell base stations. This involves …
TSSC images enhance chaotic signal classification using ConvNets.
problem Classifying chaotic signals accurately and robustly.
method Triad State Space Construction (TSSC) for image encoding, Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) for classification.
result TSSC-ConvNet achieves high accuracy and robustness in chaotic signal classification.
Improved image classification accuracy on CIFAR-10 dataset.
problem Classifying images from the CIFAR-10 dataset with high accuracy.
method Combining features from manual and deep learning approaches, including VGG16, Inception ResNet v2, HOG, and pixel intensities.
result Achieved 94.6% testing accuracy by combining top 1000 principal components.
This study improves UAV identification using RF signals with one-shot generative methods.
problem Limited RF environments and signal variability make traditional RF identification ineffective.
method Introduces one-shot generative methods to augment RF signals for UAV identification.
result One-shot generative methods outperform traditional methods in low-data regimes.
Deep learning automates bacterial image classification.
problem Manual bacterial classification is time-consuming and error-prone.
method ResNet-50 pre-trained CNN architecture with transfer learning.
result Average classification accuracy of 99.2%.
A-MIL improves histopathology image classification and localization.
problem Improving diagnosis of breast cancer through better interpretation of histopathology images.
method Frame image classification as multiple instance learning, use attention-based learning for localization.
result A-MIL achieves better localization without compromising classification accuracy.
Improved self-supervised learning for document images.
problem Performance of self-supervised pre-training on document images is poor.
method Proposed context-aware alternatives and a novel multi-modal method.
result Novel method outperforms other self-supervised methods on document image classification.
Lithography simulation is one of the key steps in physical verification, enabled by the substantial optical and resist models. A resist model bridges the aerial image simulation to printed patterns. While the effectiveness of learning-based solutions for resist modeling has been demonstrated, they are considerably data…
Tricks improve retail product image classification accuracy.
problem Retail Product Image Classification
method Various tricks including a new LCA layer, Instagram-pretrained Convnet, and Maximum Entropy loss.
result Increased accuracy of fine-tuned convnets by a large margin.
Enhances image classification by integrating semantic hierarchy into CNN models.
problem Limited use of external guidance in image classification.
method Integrates label-hierarchy knowledge into CNN-based classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings.
result Boosts image classification performance through semantic hierarchy integration.
A DenseNet model classifies metastatic cancer in medical images.
problem Classifying metastatic cancer in medical images efficiently and accurately.
method Proposes a DenseNet-based model for metastatic cancer classification on medical images.
result The proposed model outperformed other classical methods like Resnet34, Vgg19.
This paper improves land cover classification using global spatial features in CNN.
problem Limited classification accuracy and universality of traditional remote sensing image classification methods.
method Integrates global spatial features into a dual-branch CNN for hyperspectral/SAR imagery classification.
result The proposed method outperforms traditional single-channel CNN methods.
JPEG2000 (j2k) is a highly popular format for image and video compression.With the rapidly growing applications of cloud based image classification, most existing j2k-compatible schemes would stream compressed color images from the source before reconstruction at the processing center as inputs to deep CNNs. We propose…
C2G-Net improves image classification of similar objects like cells.
problem Classifying images with many similar objects efficiently and interpretably.
method Combines image compression and a CNN with reduced parameters.
result C2G-Net achieves similar accuracy to conventional CNNs but with reduced training time and improved interpretability.
Study examines how digital image alterations affect AI classification models.
problem Impact of digital alterations on image classification models.
method Evaluation of state-of-the-art machine learning models under various digital image alterations.
result Discoveries in training techniques to enhance model robustness.
New method uses contours of segmented images for X-ray classification.
problem Classifying X-ray images of segmented radiography.
method Develops a new approach for image analysis of multivariate planar curves, addressing alignment issues.
result Demonstrates the robustness and appeal of the proposed method through detection of cardiomegaly and numerical experiments.
Study improves pollen detection in optical and holographic images using deep learning.
problem Improving pollen detection accuracy in holographic microscopy images.
method Used YOLOv8s for detection and MobileNetV3L for classification, addressing performance gaps through dataset expansion and automated labeling.
result Significant improvement in detection and classification performance on holographic images.