Mixed DNN approach improves EEG-based speech imagery recognition.
problem Automatic identification of imagined speech from EEG.
method Hierarchical deep neural network strategy combining CNN, RNN, and autoencoders.
result 23.45% improvement in accuracy over baseline method.
Deep learning system classifies phonological categories from EEG data.
problem Speech-related BCI for people with speaking disabilities.
method Hierarchical deep learning approach using CNN, LSTM, and autoencoder.
result Average accuracy of 77.9% across five binary classification tasks.
Novel BCI system classifies imagined speech with high accuracy.
problem Classifying imagined speech from brain signals.
method Hierarchical deep learning with CNN and autoencoder.
result Achieved 83.42% average accuracy across six phonological tasks.
Study uses cGAN to translate multispectral to nighttime satellite imagery.
problem Limited understanding of nighttime satellite imagery composition.
method Adopted and modified pix2pix cGAN framework for multispectral-to-nighttime translation.
result Proves feasibility of multispectral-to-nighttime translation.
Deep learning classifies land use from high-resolution aerial imagery.
problem Variations in land features in aerial imagery due to sensor settings and context.
method Used deep convolutional neural networks to classify land use from VHR orthophoto mosaics.
result Deep learning can accurately classify land use from high-resolution visible band multispectral imagery.
Paper improves crop classification from low-res satellite images.
problem Accurately classify land use change without high res imagery.
method Capsule layers and distributed attention with LSTM.
result State-of-the-art accuracy on crop type classification.
Satellite imagery helps assess sustainable development with machine learning.
problem Lack of ground data on sustainable development outcomes.
method Combining satellite imagery with machine learning to model outcomes.
result Machine learning models perform well across multiple sustainable development domains.
Obtaining detailed and reliable data about local economic livelihoods in developing countries is expensive, and data are consequently scarce. Previous work has shown that it is possible to measure local-level economic livelihoods using high-resolution satellite imagery. However, such imagery is relatively expensive to …
New method uses UAV imagery and ML to map crops and weeds.
problem Mapping crops and weeds at high resolution.
method Machine Learning algorithms trained on expert-masked images.
result Maps with >90% identification efficiency at 5m altitude.
Satellite imagery improves house price prediction models.
problem Improving accuracy of housing price estimation models.
method Transfer learning from ImageNet-pretrained Inception-v3 model to satellite images.
result Achieved a 10% improvement in R-squared score.
Researchers organize and analyze a large public safety imagery dataset.
problem Efficiently organizing and analyzing a vast public safety imagery dataset.
method Hierarchical organization approach using Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Cluster for compute and storage.
result Successfully organized and evaluated the dataset with large-scale imagery inference across terabytes of data.
Deep learning maps road safety features from streetview imagery.
problem Accurate mapping of road safety features for safer roads.
method Proposes a deep learning approach with LSTM to capture spatial autocorrelation.
result Model outperforms baseline methods in mapping road safety features.
Unsupervised method removes satellite noise without paired data.
problem Image artifacts from satellite sensor noises affect quality and applications.
method Wavelet subband cycleGAN using adversarial and cycle-consistency losses.
result Effectively removes satellite noise while preserving high frequency features.
Deep learning models perform variably across continents/seasons in land cover mapping.
problem Variability in deep learning model performance across different continents/seasons.
method Clustering techniques on satellite imagery from different continents.
result Model performance varies significantly between different continents/seasons.
Satellite imagery and ML improve livelihood measurements and estimate electrification's impact.
problem Sparse data hinders policy development and evaluation.
method Satellite imagery, machine learning, and ML inference techniques.
result Grid access improves rural asset wealth by 0.17 standard deviations.
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.
Deep learning continues to push state-of-the-art performance for the semantic segmentation of color (i.e., RGB) imagery; however, the lack of annotated data for many remote sensing sensors (i.e. hyperspectral imagery (HSI)) prevents researchers from taking advantage of this recent success. Since generating sensor speci…
Paper introduces kernel methods for detecting anomalous changes in remote sensing imagery.
problem Detecting anomalous changes in remote sensing imagery.
method Nonlinear extension of Gaussian and elliptically contoured distribution algorithms using reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
result Improved detection accuracy and reduced false-alarm rates compared to linear formulations.
Geometry-aware models improve cross-subject EEG decoding accuracy.
problem Strong inter-subject variability in motor imagery decoding.
method Discriminative Congruence Transform (DCT), Deep Linear DCT (DLDCT), Deep DCT-UNet (DDCT-UNet).
result Improves transductive cross-subject accuracy by 2-3%.
This paper benchmarks privacy-preserving machine learning on medical images.
problem Ensuring privacy in medical image analysis while maintaining model accuracy.
method Comparing Local-DP and DP-SGD for differential privacy in medical imagery.
result Theoretical privacy guarantees do not fully align with real-world performance.
Paper compares two possibilistic segmentation methods for SAS imagery.
problem Segmenting synthetic aperture sonar images into different seafloor environments.
method Comparison of Possibilistic Fuzzy Local Information C-Means (PFLICM) and Possibilistic K-Nearest Neighbors (PKNN) algorithms.
result PKNN outperforms PFLICM in segmentation performance on SAS images.
HighRes-net enhances satellite imagery by fusing multiple low-res views.
problem Super-resolving satellite imagery for reliable monitoring of human impact.
method End-to-end deep learning approach for multi-frame super-resolution.
result HighRes-net outperformed in European Space Agency's MFSR competition.
New method detects TC imagery patterns for rapid intensity change.
problem Detecting upcoming rapid intensity changes in TC satellite imagery.
method Nonparametric test of association between images and event labels using neural networks and bootstrap.
result Identifies archetypes of infrared imagery associated with elevated rapid intensification risk.
We address the issue of edge detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery. In particular, we propose nonparametric methods for edge detection, and numerically compare them to an alternative method that has been recently proposed in the literature. Our results show that some of the proposed methods display superior res…
Roads are critically important infrastructure to societal and economic development, with huge investments made by governments every year. However, methods for monitoring those investments tend to be time-consuming, laborious, and expensive, placing them out of reach for many developing regions. In this work, we develop…
Machine learning detects building damage in satellite images.
problem Extracting damage information from satellite imagery is slow and labor-intensive.
method Used four convolutional neural network models to detect damaged buildings.
result Models performed well in detecting damaged buildings in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
The paper uses CNNs on Sentinel-2 imagery to assess landslide risks.
problem Landslide risk assessment and prediction.
method Image augmentation, 3-D CNNs, satellite imagery.
result CNNs achieve significantly better accuracy than baseline.
Framework learns image dynamics between time steps using latent variables.
problem Challenges in capturing evolving image patterns and temporal information.
method Estimates intermediary image stages using a physical latent variable model.
result Demonstrates robustness and effectiveness in geoscientific imagery.
Enhanced EEG classification improves motor imagery detection with less computation.
problem Improving classification accuracy of motor imagery EEG signals.
method Integrates Block-Toeplitz structure into augmented covariance matrices and uses Siegel metric.
result Significantly reduces computational time without compromising classification accuracy.
Multi-StyleGAN simulates live cell microscopy imagery.
problem Costly and complex live cell experiments.
method Generative adversarial network (GAN) synthesizing multi-domain time-lapse images.
result Captures biophysical factors and time dependencies in cell imagery.
Urban2Vec combines street view imagery and POIs for better urban neighborhood embeddings.
problem Lack of comprehensive representation of urban neighborhoods using heterogeneous data.
method Unsupervised multi-modal framework using CNN for visual features and bag-of-words for POI data.
result Urban2Vec achieves better performance than baseline models and comparable to fully-supervised methods.
Study uses remotely sensed data to infer economic outcomes in experiments and quasi-experiments.
problem Imperfect measurement of economic outcomes by remotely sensed variables.
method Combines experimental and observational data to identify causal parameters, using satellite imagery and mobile phone activity.
result Developed a robust method for n^{-1/2} inference that does not restrict remotely sensed variable processing algorithms.
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, sLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. However, these models are confined to crisp segmentation, forcing a visual word (i.e., an image patch) to belong to one and only one topic. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp categorical label (e.…
A tree-based dictionary learning model is developed for joint analysis of imagery and associated text. The dictionary learning may be applied directly to the imagery from patches, or to general feature vectors extracted from patches or superpixels (using any existing method for image feature extraction). Each image is …
A cased-based reasoning method predicts rare events on strategic sites using satellite imagery.
problem Manual prediction of rare events on strategic sites is impractical due to large datasets.
method Case-based reasoning approach incorporating expert knowledge for irregular time series and small datasets.
result The method significantly outperforms random selection on challenging applications.
A novel UNet detector detects sheep in UAV imagery.
problem Detecting small objects (sheep) in UAV imagery.
method Developed a novel dataset, used various object detectors, and evaluated their performance.
result UNet detector with weighted Hausdorff distance is best for sheep detection.
Satellite imagery helps adjust for unobserved confounders in observational studies.
problem Adjusting for confounding factors in observational studies with non-tabular data like satellite imagery.
method Formalizing conditions for causal effect identification, estimation, and sensitivity analysis.
result Demonstrated the use of satellite imagery as a proxy for unobserved confounders in anti-poverty aid programs.
Before the operation of a motor imagery based brain-computer interface (BCI) adopting machine learning techniques, a cumbersome training procedure is unavoidable. The development of a practical BCI posed the challenge of classifying single-trial EEG with a small training set. In this letter, we addressed this problem b…
End-to-end speech recognition using EEG without speech input.
problem Speech recognition without direct speech input.
method Implemented attention model and CTC-based ASR systems for EEG signals; fused EEG with noisy speech features.
result Demonstrated end-to-end speech recognition using EEG signals.
Detecting and mapping informal settlements encompasses several of the United Nations sustainable development goals. This is because informal settlements are home to the most socially and economically vulnerable people on the planet. Thus, understanding where these settlements are is of paramount importance to both gove…
Paper shows continuous speech recognition with EEG features, no speech input.
problem Continuous speech recognition with limited vocabulary and noisy/no speech input.
method Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model, EEG features, new deep learning architecture.
result Continuous speech recognition achieved on limited vocabulary with noisy/no speech input.
This paper presents sampling-based speech parameter generation using moment-matching networks for Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based speech synthesis. Although people never produce exactly the same speech even if we try to express the same linguistic and para-linguistic information, typical statistical speech synthesis pr…
Machine learning improves ice flow tracking in satellite images.
problem Improving accuracy of ice flow tracking in multi-spectral satellite images.
method Adversarial learning method to predict future ice flow.
result Adversarial learning improves ice flow tracking accuracy.
Current studies about motor imagery based rehabilitation training systems for stroke subjects lack an appropriate analytic method, which can achieve a considerable classification accuracy, at the same time detects gradual changes of imagery patterns during rehabilitation process and disinters potential mechanisms about…
RUSLAN is a large Russian speech corpus for text-to-speech.
problem Lack of high-quality annotated Russian speech data for text-to-speech.
method Developed a large annotated Russian speech corpus and trained a neural network for text-to-speech synthesis.
result Synthesized speech quality evaluated with MOS scores: 4.05 for naturalness, 3.78 for intelligibility.
AeGAN improves speech clarity in noisy environments.
problem Improving speech recognition in crowded noisy environments.
method Generative adversarial networks (GAN) with a novel architecture.
result The proposed framework outperforms traditional and learning-based methods.
Detects AI-synthesized speech using cepstral and bispectral analysis.
problem Validating the authenticity of speech from AI-generated content.
method Integrates cepstral and bispectral analysis for distinguishing human from AI-synthesized speech.
result Higher-order statistics show less correlation for human speech compared to AI-synthesis, and cepstral analysis reveals unique power components.
Planar neural networks learn image transformations from sequences.
problem Learning image transformations for mental simulation.
method Using planar neural networks, the study investigates various factors affecting the learning of image transformations.
result The approach can effectively learn and transfer image transformations, including translation, rotation, and scaling.