Tag: texture

Abstract: Feature engineering often plays a vital role in the fields of computer vision and machine learning. A few common examples of engineered features include histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) (Dalal and Triggs, 2005), local binary patterns (LBP) (Ojala et al., 1994), and edge histogram descriptors (EHD) (Frigui and Gader, 2008). Features such as pixel […]

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 Letters, 2022. In the paper, the authors investigate performing joint dimensionality reduction and classification using […]

Abstract: We present a histogram layer for artificial neural networks (ANNs). An essential aspect of texture analysis is the extraction of features that describe the distribution of values in local spatial regions. The proposed histogram layer directly computes the spatial distribution of features for texture analysis and parameters for the layer are estimated during backpropagation. […]

Congratulations to our labmate, Sarah Walker! Sarah presented her work, titled “Divergence Regulated Encoder Network for Joint Dimensionality Reduction and Classification” at UF’s 2021 Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium.  The virtual symposium featured outstanding undergraduate researchers across all colleges at UF. You can get more information about Sarah’s talk here and can check out the paper […]

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate performing joint dimensionality reduction and classification using a novel histogram neural network. Motivated by a popular dimensionality reduction approach, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), our proposed method incorporates a classification loss computed on samples in a low-dimensional embedding space. We compare the learned sample embeddings against coordinates found by […]

Congratulations to our labmates: Sarah Walker, Joshua Peeples, Jeff Dale, James Keller and Alina Zare!  Their paper, “Explainable Systematic Analysis for Synthetic Aperture Sonar Imagery” was recently accepted to the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). In their paper, the authors provide an in-depth analysis to the factors that affect performance of texture […]

Abstract: In this work, we present an in-depth and systematic analysis using tools such as local interpretable model-agnostic explanations (LIME) and divergence measures to analyze what changes lead to improvement in performance in fine tuned models for synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) data. We examine the sensitivity to factors in the fine tuning process such as […]