Cloud classification of satellite image based on convolutional neural networks

Identification of crops is an important topic in the agricultural domain. Hyperspectral remote sensing data are very useful for crop feature extraction and classification. Remote sensing data is an unstructured data and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can work on unstructured data efficiently. This paper presents an evaluation of CNN for crop classification using the Indian Pines standard dataset obtained from the AVIRIS sensor and the study area dataset obtained from the EO-1hyperion sensor. Optimized CNN has been tuned by training the model on different parameters. It has been compared with two classification algorithms: Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Convolutional Autoencoder. According to the test results, the proposed optimized CNN model provided better results as compared to the other two methods. CNN has given 97 ± 0.58% overall accuracy for the Indian Pines standard dataset and 78 ± 2.43% for our study area dataset.

The report presents an algorithm for constructing a convolutional hierarchical neural network classifier, which is a modification of the algorithm for constructing hierarchical neural network classifiers suggested before. The original algorithm was designed to exploit intrinsic class hierarchy to build a class tree with a neural network in each node classifying groups of initial classes (in a non-terminal node) or a subset of original classes (in a terminal node). The convolutional modification utilizes convolutional neural networks instead of regular fully connected networks in order to apply the model to image classification tasks. Use of class hierarchy for image classification should reduce the number of adjusted neural network parameters compared to deep convolutional neural networks, and therefore it should reduce training and inference time. In this context the algorithm may be compared with some pruning techniques. The convolutional hierarchical neural network classifier inherits some hyperparameters of a conventional hierarchical neural network classifier, like the activation threshold and the threshold by the share of voting patterns. The goal of this study was to explore different strategies of choosing these hyperparameters. To test these strategies, we used the CIFAR-10 dataset. Also, for demonstration purposes we apply the convolutional hierarchical neural network classifier to the CIFAR-100 dataset.

Due to the benefits of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image classification, they have been extensively used in the computerized classification and focus of crop pests. The intention of the current find out about is to advance a deep convolutional neural network to mechanically identify 14 species of tea pests that possess symmetry properties. (1) As there are not enough tea pests images in the network to train the deep convolutional neural network, we proposes to classify tea pests images by fine-tuning the VGGNET-16 deep convolutional neural network. (2) Through comparison with traditional machine learning algorithms Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), the performance of our method is evaluated (3) The three methods can identify tea tree pests well: the proposed convolutional neural network classification has accuracy up to 97.75%, while MLP and SVM have accuracies of 76.07% and 68.81%, respectively. Our proposed method performs the best of the assessed recognition algorithms. The experimental results also show that the fine-tuning method is a very powerful and efficient tool for small datasets in practical problems.

In Cassini ISS (Imaging Science Subsystem) images, contour detection is often performed on disk-resolved objects to accurately locate their center. Thus, contour detection is a key problem. Traditional edge detection methods, such as Canny and Roberts, often extract the contour with too much interior details and noise. Although the deep convolutional neural network has been applied successfully in many image tasks, such as classification and object detection, it needs more time and computer resources. In this paper, a contour detection algorithm based on H-ELM (Hierarchical Extreme Learning Machine) and DenseCRF (Dense Conditional Random Field) is proposed for Cassini ISS images. The experimental results show that this algorithm’s performance is better than both traditional machine learning methods, such as Support Vector Machine, Extreme Learning Machine and even deep Convolutional Neural Network. The extracted contour is closer to the actual contour. Moreover, it can be trained and tested quickly on the general configuration of PC, and thus can be applied to contour detection for Cassini ISS images.

Millimeter-wave radar is widely used in intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems (IVICS) because of its long detection distance, high integration and less affected by weather conditions. The target recognition and classification technology based on millimeter wave radar is a research hotspot. However, traditional recognition methods require a complex feature extraction process. In this paper, a millimeter-wave radar classification method based on deep learning is proposed, which uses the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNN) method to automatically extract feature data, so as to replace most of the complex processes of traditional radar signal processing chain. It solves the four classification tasks of bus, cars, electromobile and pedestrians. Taking the selected feature data as the RV spectrum, a seven layer convolution neural network is built to classify the target. Compared with traditional machine learning methods, CNN greatly reduces the workload of feature engineering, and its classification effect is better than traditional machine learning methods. Then, from the perspective of redundancy of the convolution kernels, we simplify the CNN architecture. As a result, final classification accuracy of the CNN is 93.16%. After simplifying the structure of the CNN, the computational complexity and storage consumption of the network are reduced by 74.67% and 73.71%, respectively, while ensuring that the classification accuracy does not decline.

Deep convolutional neural networks have become a dominant solution for numerous image classification tasks. However, a main criticism is the poor explainability due to the black-box characteristic, which hurdles the extensive usage of deep convolutional neural networks. To address this issue, this paper proposes a new evolutionary multi-objective based method, which aims to explain the behaviours of deep convolutional neural networks by evolving local explanations on specific images. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first evolutionary multi-objective method to evolve local explanations. The proposed method is model-agnostic, i.e. it is applicable to explain any deep convolutional neural networks. ImageNet is used to examine the effectiveness of the proposed method. Three well-known deep convolutional neural networks -VGGNet, ResNet, and MobileNet, are chosen to demonstrate the modelagnostic characteristic. Based on the experimental results, it can be observed that the local explanations are understandable to end-users, who need to check the sensibility of the evolved explanations to decide whether to trust the predictions made by the deep convolutional neural networks. Furthermore, the local explanations evolved by the proposed method improves the confidence of deep convolutional neural networks making the predictions. Lastly, the pareto front and convergence analyses indicate that the proposed method can form a good set of nondominated solutions.

Image recognition is one of the key technologies for worker’s helmet detection using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). By analyzing the image feature extraction method for workers’ helmet detection based on convolutional neural network (CNN), a double-channel convolutional neural network (DCNN) model is proposed to improve the traditional image processing methods. On the basis of AlexNet model, the image features of the worker can be extracted using two independent CNNs, and the essential image features can be better reflected considering the abstraction degree of the features. Combining a traditional machine learning method and random forest (RF), an intelligent recognition algorithm based on DCNN and RF is proposed for workers’ helmet detection. The experimental results show that deep learning (DL) is closely related to the traditional machine learning methods. Moreover, adding a DL module to the traditional machine learning framework can improve the recognition accuracy.

Recently, deep learning has become a promising technique for constructing gesture recognition classifiers from surface electromyography (sEMG) signals in human–computer interaction. In this paper, we propose a gesture recognition method with sEMG signals based on a deep multi-parallel convolutional neural network (CNN), which solves the problem that traditional machine learning methods may lose too much useful information during feature extraction. CNNs provide an efficient way to constrain the complexity of feedforward neural networks by weight sharing and restriction to local connections. Sophisticated feature extraction is to be avoided and hand gestures are to be classified directly. A multi-parallel and multi-convolution layer convolution structure is proposed to classify hand gestures. Experiment results show that in comparison with five traditional machine learning methods, the proposed method could achieve higher accuracy.

A well-known vegetable crop farmed all throughout the world is the potato. The possibility of a large number of diseases, however, could also impair the harvest. In order to quickly deal with the crop, it is vital for the planter to recognise the type of contamination. It had been determined that the leaves were a simple indicator of many diseases. Many Machine Learning (ML) techniques as well as Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models are superior in the literature for the detection of tomato crop diseases. CNN models rely on deep learning and neural networks, which are superior than traditional machine learning methods like decision trees and kNN. Although well before CNN creates beautiful artwork, the wide range of subjects they cover renders them operationally intensive. This painting suggests a less complex CNN model with eight convolution layer At the publicly accessible dataset PlantVillage, the recommended compact model performs better than the standard machine learning techniques and pre-trained fashions with an accuracy of 98.4%. The PlantVillage dataset includes 39 classes of different crops, including tomato diseases. These crops include apple, potato, maize, grapes, and more. In comparison to VGG16, which has an amazing accuracy of 93% 5% in pretrained patterns, k-NN has the absolute best accuracy of 94% in conventional ML approaches. After image augmentation, picture pre-processing was used to improve the suggested CNN's overall performance by having the ability to modify the brightness of the image using the knowledge of a prospective variable involving a randomized width of the image. The suggested model, which has a 98% accuracy rate, is also incredibly effective with datasets other than PlantVillage.

Traditional machine learning methods like GLCM and ABCD rules have long been employed for image classification tasks. However, they come with inherent limitations, primarily the need for manual feature extraction. This manual feature extraction process is time-consuming and relies on expert domain knowledge, making it challenging for non-experts to use effectively. Deep learning methods, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), have revolutionized image classification by automating the feature extraction. CNNs can learn hierarchical features directly from the raw pixel values, eliminating the need for manual feature engineering. Despite their powerful capabilities, CNNs have limitations, mainly when working with small image datasets. They may overfit the data or struggle to generalize effectively. In light of these considerations, this study adopts a hybrid approach that leverages the strengths of both deep learning and traditional machine learning. CNNs are automatic feature extractors, allowing the model to capture meaningful image patterns. These extracted features are then fed into a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier, known for its efficiency and effectiveness in handling small datasets. The results of this study are encouraging, with an accuracy of 0.94 and an AUC score of 0.94. Notably, these metrics outperform Abbas' previous research by a significant margin, underscoring the effectiveness of the hybrid CNN-SVM approach. This research reinforces that SVM classifiers are well-suited for tasks involving limited image data, yielding improved classification accuracy and highlighting the potential for broader applications in image analysis.

Self-mixing interferometry (SMI) is superior to other laser interferometry methods due to its simplicity and compactness. However, SMI signals are often complex and difficult to process due to interference in the form of variations in the effective reflectivity of the target, noisy signals, complex signal shapes, and other dependencies. Deep neural networks have been a very popular area of research in computer artificial intelligence in recent years, allowing more implicit features to be uncovered than traditional shallow machine learning. It has been shown that convolutional and back-propagation neural networks can be used for SMI signal processing. There are also studies that have used machine learning genetic algorithms for absolute distance measurement. Based on the above, this study used convolutional neural networks to form a deep neural network for absolute distance measurement based on SMI technology. We first trained the deep convolutional neural network at different feedback strengths. The results of the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model showed a coefficient of determination of 0.9987. which is consistent with the required model. The trained network was then used to estimate absolute distances with and without the addition of noise. The comparison proves that the proposed method is noise-proof and has high adaptability for measurements under different conditions.

Medical images classification is a challenging research topic in the field of computer vision, especially when applied to diagnosis of breast cancer (BC). Nowadays, histopathological image is marked as the gold standard for diagnosing BC. However, such diagnosis is heavily dependent on the clinician's experience, which is extremely time consuming and is subjected to human error even for experienced doctors. To address those problems, this paper implements an automated method for distinguishing the benign from the malignant tumor based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). Traditional deep CNN and machine learning methods not only lead to poor performance, but also fail to make full use of the long-term dependence between some key features and image tags. To further meet the high accuracy requirement of diagnosis, according to the characteristics of histopathological images, we propose a novel CNN framework. Firstly, a normal image is augmented to solve the problem about having a limited database. Secondly, we introduce transfer learning to obtain more accurate weight parameters that were pre-trained on the ImageNet. Thirdly, we combine various features extracted by many individual models to obtain comprehensive features. Finally, random forest is introduced to enforce classification. The experimental results show that novel CNN frameworks have better performance compared with individual models, including DenseNet and ResNet. Experimental results are able to prove the effectiveness of our strategy.

With the development of wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) and its extensive applications in clinic, doctors need to spend more time on reviewing the WCE images for lesions diagnosis. Therefore, automatic lesion detection for WCE has gradually become a research hotspot, which aims to reduce the pressure of doctors and improves the diagnosis efficiency. Many researchers adopted the traditional machine learning method to realize polyp detections, however, these methods need to extract the features manually, which were unable to find higher features of WCE images. So, in this study, we proposed a novel method that based on convolution neural network (CNN) to automatically recognize polyp in small bowel WCE image. We utilized the Alexnet architecture, one of the classical CNN, to extract the features of WCE images and classify polyp images from normal ones. We selected 14408 images from different patients, including 408 polyp images and 14000 normal images. Since the amount of initial polyp images is small, then, we did the data augmentation, including rotation, luminance change, blurring, and noise. At last the experimental results demonstrated that the method we proposed had a promising performance in polyp detection, whose accuracy, sensitivity and specificity can reach at 99.88%, 99.40% and 99.93%, respectively. Additionally, we evaluated ROC curve and its AUC value, which further confirmed that our model has a high accuracy and reliability in polyp detection. This proposed method has great potential to be used in the clinical examination to help doctors from the tedious image reviewing work.

Automated image classification is an essential task of the computer vision field. The tagging of images into a set of predefined groups is referred to as image classification. The implementation of computer vision to automate image classification would be beneficial because manual image evaluation and identification can be time-consuming, particularly when there are many images of different classes. Deep learning approaches are proven to overperform existing machine learning techniques in many fields in recent years, and computer vision is one of the most notable examples. The very deep neural network (VDCNN) is a powerful deep learning model for image classification, and this paper examines it briefly using MNIST handwritten digit dataset. This dataset is used to prove the efficacy of very deep neural networks over other deep learning models. The proposed study aims to comprehend the very deep neural network architecture used to accomplish a handwritten digit recognition task. The feasibility of the proposed model is evaluated using mean accuracy, validation accuracy, and standard deviation. The study results of the very deep neural network model are compared to a convolutional neural network and convolutional neural network with batch normalization. According to the results of the comparison study, very deep neural networks achieve high accuracy of 99.1% for a handwritten dataset. The outcome of the proposed work is used to interpret how well a very deep neural network performs when compared to the other two models of deep neural networks. This proposed architecture may be used to automate the classification of handwritten digits dataset.

Since the concept of the generative adversarial networks (GAN) was put forward in 2014, it has attracted great attention from researchers to continuously improve and apply. With the advent of the era of big data, the structure of deep convolutional neural networks has become more complex, and the feature learning and feature expression capabilities have improved compared with traditional machine learning methods. As a newly emerging research direction, vehicle re-identification (ReID) is of great significance. However, because of the images that can be obtained in practical applications often encounter artificially intentional or occlusion due to conditional constraints and characteristics of vehicle re-identification, the existing recognition rate is still not satisfactory. In order to solve this problem, this paper uses the adversarial idea in the generative adversarial networks combined the convolutional neural networks (CNN) to improve the baseline algorithm. In this paper, a lot of experiments are carried out on the standard dataset Vehicle ID. By comparing and analyzing the experimental results with the existing baseline algorithm, the proposed method embodies better recognition performance.