Abstract: Plant roots are vital organs for water and nutrient uptake. The structure and spatial distribution of plant roots in the soil affects a plant’s physiological functions such as soil-based resource acquisition, yield and its ability to live under abiotic… Read More
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Target Concept Learning From Ambiguously Labeled Data
Abstract: The multiple instance learning problem addresses the case where training data comes with label ambiguity, i.e., the learner has access only to inaccurately labeled data. For example, in target detection from remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery, targets are usually sub-pixel… Read More
Multiple Instance Choquet Integral For MultiResolution Sensor Fusion
Abstract: Imagine you are traveling to Columbia,MO for the first time. On your flight to Columbia, the woman sitting next to you recommended a bakery by a large park with a big yellow umbrella outside. After you land, you need… Read More
Multi-camera High-throughput Plant Root Phenotyping System
Abstract: Plant root phenotyping is a key component in plant breeding and selection for desireable root properties. Preferable root traits can not only help a plant to grow faster but also allow for more dense and deep root system architectures… Read More
Map-guided Hyperspectral Image Superpixel Segmentation Using Semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Abstract: Many superpixel segmentation algorithms which are suitable for the regular color images like images with three channels: red, green and blue (RGB images) have been developed in the literature. However, because of the high dimensionality of hyperspectral imagery, these… Read More
Semi-supervised Interactive Unmixing for Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Abstract: In the past several decades, hyperspectral imaging has drawn a lot of attention in the eld of remote sensing. Yet, due to low spatial resolutions of hyperspectral imagers, often the response from more than one surface material can be… Read More
Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Abstract: For many years, topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, SLDA) have been widely used for segmenting and recognizing objects in imagery simultaneously. However, these models are confined to the analysis of categorical data, forcing a visual word to belong to… Read More
Task Driven Extended Functions of Multiple Instances
Abstract: Dictionary learning techniques have proven to be a powerful method in the pattern recognition literature. Recently supervised dictionary learning has been used to achieve very good results on a number of different data types and applications. However, these supervised… Read More
Hyperspectral unmixing and band weighting for multiple endmember sets
Abstract: Imaging spectrometers measure the response from materials across the electromagnetic spectrum. Often, in remote sensing applications, the imaging spectrometers have low spectral resolution resulting in most measurements being mixed spectra from a scene. In these cases, pixels are assumed… Read More
Accounting for spectral variability in hyperspectral unmixing using beta endmember distribution
Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging is widely used in the field of remote sensing (Goetz, et al., 1985; Green, et al., 1998). In a hyperspectral imaging system, sensors collect radiance/reflectance values over an area (or a scene) across hundreds of spectral bands… Read More