Tag: deep learning

Histogram Layers for Neural “Engineered” Features

Abstract: In the computer vision literature, many effective histogram-based features have been developed. These engineered features include local binary patterns and edge histogram descriptors among others and they have been shown to be informative features for a variety of computer… Read More

Facilitating macrosystem biology with organismal-scale airborne remote sensing: Challenges and opportunities

Abstract: Emergent ecosystem properties, such as population and trait distributions, biodiversity and energy and water fluxes, occur because of the dynamic interactions of individuals in their environment. Remote sensing, where image data is collected over large areas, can provide information… Read More

Multi-Task Learning with Multi-Annotation Triplet Loss for Improved Object Detection

Abstract: Triplet loss traditionally relies only on class labels and does not use all available information in multi-task scenarios where multiple types of annotations are available. This paper introduces a Multi-Annotation Triplet Loss (MATL) framework that extends triplet loss by… Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Aditya Dutt for a Successful Dissertation Defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Aditya Dutt for successfully passing his PhD dissertation exam! Dr. Dutt’s research introduced the Contrastive MultiModal Alignment Network (COMMANet), a novel approach to shared manifold-based domain translation and fusion. His work addressed the challenge of limited and… Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Spencer Chang for a Successful Dissertation Defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Spencer Chang for successfully passing his PhD dissertation exam! Dr. Chang’s research demonstrated the potential of combining learnable histogram features with deep learning convolutional methods. Additionally, he delivered key insights into enhancing statistical texture feature learning and… Read More

Congratulations to Xiaolei Guo for a Successful Dissertation Defense!

Congratulations to our labmate Xiaolei Guo for successfully defending her dissertation! Defending a dissertation is the last milestone to completing a Ph.D. at the University of Florida. Xiaolei presented a deep interactive segmentation framework to address the time-consuming task of… Read More

Divergence Regulated Encoder Network for Joint Dimensionality Reduction and Classification accepted to GRSL, 2022!

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators: Joshua Peeples, Sarah Walker, Connor McCurley, Alina Zare, James Keller and Weihuang Xu! Their paper, “Divergence Regulated Encoder Network for Joint Dimensionality Reduction and Classification”, was recently accepted to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing… Read More

Congratulations to Yiming Cui for a Successful Proposal Defense!

Congratulations to our labmate Yiming Cui for successfully defending his research proposal!  Defending an oral research proposal is the second of four milestones to completing a Ph.D. at the University of Florida.  Yiming is planning to conduct point cloud semantic… Read More