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48 results for detector design

TomOpt optimizes muon detector designs using differentiable programming.

problem Designing efficient particle detectors for muon tomography.
method Differentiable programming for muon interaction modeling, inference, and optimisation.
result Demonstrated end-to-end differentiable and inference-aware optimisation of particle physics instruments.

Gradient estimation techniques applied to programs with randomness in high energy physics.

problem Differentiating programs with discrete randomness in high energy physics.
method Several gradient estimation techniques, including Stochastic AD method, applied to simplified detector design experiments.
result Development of the first fully differentiable branching program.

Improves relevancy of black-box anomaly detectors with user feedback.

problem Users often ignore many detected anomalies, requiring a method to identify and prioritize relevant ones.
method Uses user feedback to adjust anomaly selection process based on identified anomaly types.
result Significant improvements in precision and recall over various anomaly detectors.

In this paper, we demonstrate a physical adversarial patch attack against object detectors, notably the YOLOv3 detector. Unlike previous work on physical object detection attacks, which required the patch to overlap with the objects being misclassified or avoiding detection, we show that a properly designed patch can s…

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that neural network. At the same time, the traditional form of backpropagation is bio…

2018-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This study presents a novel end-to-end architecture that learns hierarchical representations from raw EEG data using fully convolutional deep neural networks for the task of neonatal seizure detection. The deep neural network acts as both feature extractor and classifier, allowing for end-to-end optimization of the sei…

2017-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New method optimizes expensive simulations for complex systems.

problem Optimizing complex systems with limited expensive experiments.
method Black-box Optimization via Marginal Means (BOMM) approach.
result BOMM improves optimization performance in high dimensions.

FedRec learns universal receivers for fading channels without channel statistics.

problem Training neural network-based receivers for diverse fading channels without accurate statistics.
method Federated learning of a MAP detector for downlink fading channels.
result Performance approaches MAP without channel statistics, reduced communication overhead.

Computer aided diagnostic (CAD) system is crucial for modern med-ical imaging. But almost all CAD systems operate on reconstructed images, which were optimized for radiologists. Computer vision can capture features that is subtle to human observers, so it is desirable to design a CAD system op-erating on the raw data. …

2017-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe the design of a voice trigger detection system for smart speakers. In this study, we address two major challenges. The first is that the detectors are deployed in complex acoustic environments with external noise and loud playback by the device itself. Secondly, collecting training examples for a specific k…

2020-01-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Specialists tolerate defects to gain flexibility, which can be removed when needed.

problem The economic benefits and limitations of deliberately tolerating defects in decision-making.
method Analyzes the conditions under which defects can be kept and removed, using economic models and structural analysis.
result A defect is profitably removable if certain conditions are met, and the premium is the support function of the class's ROC set.

Specialists tolerate defects to gain flexibility, which can be removed when needed.

problem The economic benefits and limits of deliberately tolerating defects in decision-making.
method Analyzes the economic position of keeping and removing defects, using a coupling lemma and structural economic models.
result A defect is profitably removable if the detector-relevant distinction survives a restriction and the advantage condition holds.

Defense against DL-based lithographic hotspot detectors backdooring attacks reduces success rate from 84% to ~0%

problem DL-based lithographic hotspot detectors are vulnerable to backdoor attacks that can misclassify hotspots.
method Training data augmentation to eliminate intentional biases introduced during training.
result Significant reduction in attack success rate (from 84% to ~0%) using the proposed defense.

Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the source of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This is particularly the case in aircraft engine health monitoring where detecting early signs of failure (anomalies) and helping the engine …

2014-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses neural networks to estimate parameters without needing detector simulations.

problem Estimating parameters in high-energy physics with detector effects.
method Two-level fitting approach: SRGN (Simulation-level fit based on Reweighting Generator-level events with Neural networks).
result Demonstrated using simulated datasets, SRGN can estimate parameters without detector effects.

This study uses deep learning to improve the accuracy of raw data denoising in ProtoDUNE experiments.

problem Improving the accuracy of raw data denoising in ProtoDUNE experiments.
method Investigates two graph neural network architectures to enhance the receptive field of convolutional neural networks for raw data denoising.
result Graph neural network architectures outperform traditional algorithms in denoising raw ProtoDUNE data.

We introduce a Bayesian defect detector to facilitate the defect detection on the motion blurred images on rough texture surfaces. To enhance the accuracy of Bayesian detection on removing non-defect pixels, we develop a class of reflected non-local prior distributions, which is constructed by using the mode of a distr…

2018-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework transfers complementary operating conditions to train anomaly detectors.

problem Training anomaly detectors on changing operating conditions requires comprehensive data, which is hard to obtain.
method Proposes unsupervised transfer learning to align and combine data from different units.
result Demonstrates improved anomaly detection in changing operating conditions.

Study evaluates predictive uncertainty in malware detection.

problem Detecting dataset shift and adversarial examples in malware detection.
method Re-designed and built 24 Android malware detectors, quantified their uncertainties with nine metrics.
result Predictive uncertainty helps reliable malware detection but not adversarial evasion attacks.

Selecting and combining the outlier scores of different base detectors used within outlier ensembles can be quite challenging in the absence of ground truth. In this paper, an unsupervised outlier detector combination framework called DCSO is proposed, demonstrated and assessed for the dynamic selection of most compete…

2019-11-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we consider signal detection algorithms in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) decode-forward (DF) relay channel with one source, one relay, and one destination. The existing suboptimal near maximum likelihood (NML) detector and the NML with two-level pair-wise error probability (NMLw2PEP) detector a…

2018-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel unsupervised MIG detectors improve signal detection in cluttered environments.

problem Signal detection in nonhomogeneous clutter environments.
method Developed novel discriminative MIG detectors using HPD matrices and geometric measures.
result Improved signal detection performance compared to conventional methods.

Detect anomalies in complex networks using topological subspace detectors.

problem Detect anomalies in complex networks defined by simplicial complexes.
method Formulate a hypothesis testing framework using Neyman-Pearson matched topological subspace detectors.
result Effective detection of anomalies in foreign currency exchange networks and other real-world data.

Spectrum sensing is of critical importance in any cognitive radio system. When the primary user's signal has uncertain parameters, the likelihood ratio test, which is the theoretically optimal detector, generally has no closed-form expression. As a result, spectrum sensing under parameter uncertainty remains an open qu…

2019-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

DistPre predicts traffic speeds efficiently for large networks.

problem Fine-grained, accurate speed prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Customizes LSTM models on a cluster, sharing trained models between detectors.
result Efficient and accurate fine-grained traffic-speed prediction.

A new OOD detector using an overlap index improves accuracy without high computational costs.

problem Effective OOD detection for machine learning models in open-world scenarios.
method Proposes an overlap index-based confidence score function for OOD detection.
result The proposed method achieves competitive accuracy with lower computational costs compared to state-of-the-art detectors.

By design, discriminatively trained neural network classifiers produce reliable predictions only for in-distribution samples. For their real-world deployments, detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is essential. Assuming OOD to be outside the closed boundary of in-distribution, typical neural classifiers do not c…

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses SHapley Additive Explanations to identify anomaly detectors with complementary behaviors.

problem Challenges in unsupervised anomaly detection due to diverse data distributions and lack of labels.
method Characterize anomaly detectors using SHapley Additive Explanations to measure feature importance and similarity.
result Detectors with similar explanations produce correlated anomaly scores, while those with divergent explanations are complementary.

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the most effective solutions for providing primary security services. IDSs are generally working based on attack signatures or by detecting anomalies. In this paper, we have presented AutoIDS, a novel yet efficient solution for IDS, based on a semi-supervised machine learning …

2019-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗