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In the literature, a number of methods have been proposed for semi-supervised learning. Recently, graph-based methods of semi-supervised learning have become popular because of their capability of handling large amounts of unlabeled data. However, the existing graph based semi-supervised learning algorithms do not optimize the process of selecting better labeled data. We have developed a new selective...
This paper introduces a multi-Bayesian framework for detection and classification of features in environments abundant with error-inducing noise. This approach takes advantage of Bayesian correction and classification in three distinct stages. The corrective scheme described here extracts useful but highly stochastic features from a data source, whether vision-based or otherwise, to aid in higher-level...
Annotating human poses in realistic scenes is very time consuming, yet necessary for training human pose estimators. We propose to address this problem in an active learning framework, which alternates between requesting the most useful annotations among a large set of unlabelled images, and re-training the pose estimator. To this end, (1) we propose an uncertainty estimator specific for body joint...
Uncertainty based active learning has been well studied for selecting informative samples to improve the performance of the classifier. One of the simplest strategy is that we always select samples with top largest uncertainties for a query. However, the selected samples may be very similar to each other, which results in little information added to update the classifier. In other words, we should...
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have delivered superior performance in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel deep fully convolutional network model for accurate salient object detection. The key contribution of this work is to learn deep uncertain convolutional features (UCF), which encourage the robustness and accuracy of saliency detection. We achieve this via introducing...
Many prediction tasks contain uncertainty. In some cases, uncertainty is inherent in the task itself. In future prediction, for example, many distinct outcomes are equally valid. In other cases, uncertainty arises from the way data is labeled. For example, in object detection, many objects of interest often go unlabeled, and in human pose estimation, occluded joints are often labeled with ambiguous...
The performance of a biometric system gets affected by various types of errors such as systematic errors, random errors, etc. These kinds of errors usually occur due to the natural variations in the biometric traits of subjects, different testing, and comparison methodologies. Neither of these errors can be easily quantifiable by mathematical formulas. This behavior introduces an uncertainty in the...
Code reviews are an important mechanism for assuring quality of source code changes. Reviewers can either add general comments pertaining to the entire change or pinpoint concerns or shortcomings about a specific part of the change using inline comments. Recent studies show that reviewers often do not understand the change being reviewed and its context.Our ultimate goal is to identify the factors...
The need to mitigate the effects volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity characterises the modern project environment. At the project team level, this need requires coordination by competent team members highly proficient in efficient decision-making. Project team members and teams must demonstrate a capacity in adaptability to recognise patterns in a chaotic project situation, modify problem...
An intelligent system uses machine learning algorithms to provide outputs to every input provided. The introduction of emotions in intelligent systems is required to create systems that are more similar to human beings and thus more reliable. In this paper, the idea of introducing the emotion ‘uncertainty’ in Intelligent Systems is proposed. A Semi-Automated Intelligent System is introduced in this...
Supervised event-based NILM systems usually require a large set of labeled training data to achieve high classification accuracies. To minimize the cost of labeling a sufficient amount of events, active learning can be employed. By using only a small set of labeled samples for initial training followed by selecting only the most informative samples to be labeled, the total number of labeled training...
This paper addresses neural network (NN) control of a lower limb exoskeleton for rehabilitation. Both the interaction between human and exoskeleton and external disturbances are considered. The controller is developed based on a combined scheme of repetitive learning control (RLC) and neural networks (NN), where RLC is used to learn periodic uncertainties (the interaction between human and exoskeleton)...
To make full use of the data information and improve the classification performance, a new evidential neural network classifier is proposed and a novel implementation of multiple classifier systems based on the new evidential neural network classifier is presented in this paper. The ambiguous data contained in the training data is considered as a new class — compound class and the training data is...
Large-scale training for semantic segmentation is challenging due to the expense of obtaining training data for this task relative to other vision tasks. We propose a novel training approach to address this difficulty. Given cheaply-obtained sparse image labelings, we propagate the sparse labels to produce guessed dense labelings. A standard CNN-based segmentation network is trained to mimic these...
Testability growth is a process that aims to improve the testability level of the equipment via identifying and removing the testability design defects (TDDs). The establishment of the existing testability growth model (TGM) needs to consider a variety of factors, it's difficult to describe it accurately. To solve this problem, a TGM based on evidential reasoning (ER) method with nonlinear optimization...
Prior approaches to line segment detection typically involve perceptual grouping in the image domain or global accumulation in the Hough domain. Here we propose a probabilistic algorithm that merges the advantages of both approaches. In a first stage lines are detected using a global probabilistic Hough approach. In the second stage each detected line is analyzed in the image domain to localize the...
In the government agencies, civil servants are required to have competence or ability to finish the work effectively and efficiently. In fact, the decision-making system for determining position and assignment of civil servants' functional works is still performed manually, so it takes a longer time. Moreover, the results are not totally accurate in terms of their competency. Rough set, hereinafter...
In this paper, a novel iterative clustering based active learning (ICAL) method for hyperspectral image classification is proposed. On the one hand, the extreme learning machine is combined with the Markov random field (ELM-MRF) for label assignment, to exploit both spectral and spatial information to boost classification result. On the other hand, an iterative clustering based sample selection strategy...
We propose a new semantic segmentation method and the necessity of certainty for practical use of semantic segmentation in scene understanding. We implement a deep fully convolutional encoder-decoder neural network for semantic segmentation. This network architecture makes the segmentation accuracy improve by retaining boundary details in the extracted image representation. This accuracy means how...
Our work proposes that the understanding of the relationship between communication and power structures is fundamental in teaching, learning and improving communication skills and, conversely, learning and improving communication skills enables people to become more aware of how power is operating in a given environment. Using situated observation in the workplace, our study investigates how pieces...
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