no code implementations • 25 Oct 2022 • Aditya Dutt, Alina Zare, Paul Gader
In this paper, we propose a Contrastive learning based MultiModal Alignment Network (CoMMANet) to align data from different sensors into a shared and discriminative manifold where class information is preserved.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2022 • Joshua Peeples, Alina Zare, Jeffrey Dale, James Keller
Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery is crucial for several applications, including target recognition and environmental segmentation.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2022 • Weihuang Xu, Guohao Yu, Yiming Cui, Romain Gloaguen, Alina Zare, Jason Bonnette, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Ashish Rajurkar, Diane Rowland, Roser Matamala, Julie D. Jastrow, Thomas E. Juenger, Felix B. Fritschi
By introducing this dataset, we aim to facilitate the automatic segmentation of roots and the research of RSA with deep learning and other image analysis algorithms.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2021 • Dylan Stewart, Shawn Johnson, Alina Zare
The low grazing angle of the collection geometry, combined with orientation of the sonar path relative to anisotropic texture, poses a significant challenge for image-alignment and other multi-view scene understanding frameworks.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2021 • Allen Starke, Keerthiraj Nagaraj, Cody Ruben, Nader Aljohani, Sheng Zou, Arturo Bretas, Janise McNair, Alina Zare
Smart Grid (SG) research and development has drawn much attention from academia, industry and government due to the great impact it will have on society, economics and the environment.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2021 • Ronald Fick, Paul Gader, Alina Zare
The problem of discriminating outliers from inliers while maintaining classification accuracy is referred to here as the DOIC problem.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2021 • Joshua Peeples, Daniel Suen, Alina Zare, James Keller
The chosen features and resulting segmentation from the image will be assessed based on a select quantitative clustering validity criterion and the subset of the features that reach a desired threshold will be used for the segmentation process.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2021 • Joshua Peeples, Connor McCurley, Sarah Walker, Dylan Stewart, Alina Zare
We compare our LACE to alternative state-of-the art softmax-based and feature regularization approaches.
no code implementations • 5 May 2021 • Dylan Stewart, Alina Zare, Sergio Marconi, Ben G. Weinstein, Ethan P. White, Sarah J. Graves, Stephanie A. Bohlman, Aditya Singh
Tree crown delineation provides key information from remote sensing images for forestry, ecology, and management.
no code implementations • 8 Mar 2021 • Dylan Stewart, Anna Hampton, Alina Zare, Jeff Dale, James Keller
In this paper, a labeling approach and associated modified version of the Rand index for weakly-labeled data is introduced to address these issues.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2021 • Sarah Walker, Joshua Peeples, Jeff Dale, James Keller, Alina Zare
In this work, we present an in-depth and systematic analysis using tools such as local interpretable model-agnostic explanations (LIME) (arXiv:1602. 04938) and divergence measures to analyze what changes lead to improvement in performance in fine tuned models for synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) data.
1 code implementation • 31 Dec 2020 • Joshua Peeples, Sarah Walker, Connor McCurley, Alina Zare, James Keller, Weihuang Xu
In order to better represent statistical texture information for remote-sensing image classification, in this paper, we investigate performing joint dimensionality reduction and classification using a novel histogram neural network.
no code implementations • 30 Jul 2020 • Guohao Yu, Alina Zare, Weihuang Xu, Roser Matamala, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Felix B. Fritschi, Thomas E. Juenger
The proposed approach outperforms other attention map and multiple instance learning methods for localization of root objects in minirhizotron imagery.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2020 • Matthew Cook, Alina Zare, Paul Gader
Specifically, many systems lack the ability to identify when outliers (e. g., samples that are distinct from and not represented in the training data distribution) are being presented to the system.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2020 • Jose F. Ruiz-Munoz, Jyothier K. Nimmagadda, Tyler G. Dowd, James E. Baciak, Alina Zare
High-resolution cameras have become very helpful for plant phenotyping by providing a mechanism for tasks such as target versus background discrimination, and the measurement and analysis of fine-above-ground plant attributes.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2020 • Ricardo Augusto Borsoi, Tales Imbiriba, José Carlos Moreira Bermudez, Cédric Richard, Jocelyn Chanussot, Lucas. Drumetz, Jean-Yves Tourneret, Alina Zare, Christian Jutten
The spectral signatures of the materials contained in hyperspectral images, also called endmembers (EM), can be significantly affected by variations in atmospheric, illumination or environmental conditions typically occurring within an image.
2 code implementations • 1 Jan 2020 • Joshua Peeples, Weihuang Xu, Alina Zare
We present a histogram layer for artificial neural networks (ANNs).
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2019 • Sheng Zou, Yu-Chien Tseng, Alina Zare, Diane Rowland, Barry Tillman, Seung-Chul Yoon
The maturity assessment process involves the removal of the exocarp of the hull and visually categorizing the mesocarp color into varying color classes from immature (white, yellow, orange) to mature (brown, and black).
1 code implementation • 7 Sep 2019 • Susan Meerdink, James Bocinsky, Alina Zare, Nicholas Kroeger, Connor McCurley, Daniel Shats, Paul Gader
They learn a dictionary of target signatures that optimizes detection against a background using the Adaptive Cosine Estimator (ACE) and Spectral Match Filter (SMF).
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2019 • James Bocinsky, Connor McCurley, Daniel Shats, Alina Zare
Sensors which use electromagnetic induction (EMI) to excite a response in conducting bodies have long been investigated for subsurface explosive hazard detection.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2019 • Joshua Peeples, Matthew Cook, Daniel Suen, Alina Zare, James Keller
In this paper, we compare the segmentation performance of a semi-supervised approach using PFLICM and a supervised method using Possibilistic K-NN.
no code implementations • 22 Mar 2019 • Connor H. McCurley, James Bocinsky, Alina Zare
Wide-band Electromagnetic Induction Sensors (WEMI) have been used for a number of years in subsurface detection of explosive hazards.
1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2019 • Weihuang Xu, Guohao Yu, Alina Zare, Brendan Zurweller, Diane Rowland, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Felix B. Fritschi, Roser Matamala, Thomas E. Juenger
A key component of automated analysis of plant roots from imagery is the automated pixel-level segmentation of roots from their surrounding soil.
no code implementations • 18 Mar 2019 • Wenshuai Chen, Shuiping Gou, Xinlin Wang, Licheng Jiao, Changzhe Jiao, Alina Zare
Hence, we propose a supervised classification method aimed at constructing a classifier based on self-paced learning (SPL).
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2019 • Guohao Yu, Alina Zare, Hudanyun Sheng, Roser Matamala, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Felix B. Fritschi, Thomas E. Juenger
In this paper, multiple instance learning (MIL) algorithms to automatically perform root detection and segmentation in minirhizotron imagery using only image-level labels are proposed.
2 code implementations • 2 May 2018 • Xiaoxiao Du, Alina Zare
It is valuable to fuse outputs from multiple sensors to boost overall performance.
1 code implementation • 11 Mar 2018 • Xiaoxiao Du, Alina Zare
In classifier (or regression) fusion the aim is to combine the outputs of several algorithms to boost overall performance.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2017 • Changzhe Jiao, Chao Chen, Ronald G. McGarvey, Stephanie Bohlman, Licheng Jiao, Alina Zare
The Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for discriminative target characterization from imprecisely labeled hyperspectral data is presented.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2017 • Alina Zare, Nicholas Young, Daniel Suen, Thomas Nabelek, Aquila Galusha, James Keller
Side-look synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) can produce very high quality images of the sea-floor.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2017 • Changzhe Jiao, Bo-Yu Su, Princess Lyons, Alina Zare, K. C. Ho, Marjorie Skubic
A multiple instance dictionary learning approach, Dictionary Learning using Functions of Multiple Instances (DL-FUMI), is used to perform beat-to-beat heart rate estimation and to characterize heartbeat signatures from ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals collected with a hydraulic bed sensor.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2017 • Sheng Zou, Hao Sun, Alina Zare
A semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation approach is developed for hyperspectral unmixing and endmember estimation while accounting for spectral variability and spatial information.
no code implementations • 9 Jan 2017 • Changzhe Jiao, Alina Zare
Both simulated and real hyperspectral target detection experiments are shown to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2017 • Hao Sun, Alina Zare
A map-guided superpixel segmentation method for hyperspectral imagery is developed and introduced.
2 code implementations • 28 Dec 2016 • Chao Chen, Alina Zare, Huy Trinh, Gbeng Omotara, J. Tory Cobb, Timotius Lagaunne
Topic models (e. g., pLSA, LDA, sLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2016 • Sheng Zou, Alina Zare
The application of Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation(PM-LDA) for hyperspectral endmember estimation and spectral unmixing is presented.
1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2016 • Alina Zare, Changzhe Jiao, Taylor Glenn
In this paper, two methods for multiple instance target characterization, MI-SMF and MI-ACE, are presented.
no code implementations • 16 May 2016 • Changzhe Jiao, Princess Lyons, Alina Zare, Licet Rosales, Marjorie Skubic
The goal of this approach is to learn a personalized heartbeat "concept" for an individual.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2016 • Sheng Zou, Alina Zare
From these imprecise labels, eFUMI has been shown to be effective at estimating target signatures in hyperspectral subpixel target detection problems.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2016 • Brendan Alvey, Alina Zare, Matthew Cook, Dominic K. Ho
The adaptive coherence estimator (ACE) estimates the squared cosine of the angle between a known target vector and a sample vector in a whitened coordinate space.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2016 • Matthew Cook, Alina Zare, Dominic Ho
The new algorithm, Task Driven Extended Functions of Multiple Instances, can overcome data that does not have very precise point-wise labels and still learn a highly discriminative dictionary.
2 code implementations • 9 Nov 2015 • Chao Chen, Alina Zare, J. Tory Cobb
Topic models (e. g., pLSA, LDA, SLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery.
2 code implementations • 9 Nov 2015 • Changzhe Jiao, Alina Zare
A multiple instance dictionary learning method using functions of multiple instances (DL-FUMI) is proposed to address target detection and two-class classification problems with inaccurate training labels.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2015 • Taylor Glenn, Alina Zare
Hyperspectral target detection algorithms rely on knowing the desired target signature in advance.