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Generative Adversarial Networks for Improving Face Classification
2017
Master's thesis Information- and communication technology IKT590 - University of Agder 2017 Facial recognition can be applied in a wide variety of cases, including entertainment purposes and biometric security. In this thesis we take a look at improving the results of an existing facial recognition approach by utilizing generative adversarial networks to improve the existing dataset. The training data was taken from the LFW dataset[4] and was preprocessed using OpenCV[2] for face detection. The faces in the dataset was cropped and resized so every image is the same size and can easily be passed to a convolutional neural network. To the best of our knowledge no generative adversarial network…
Additional file 1 of Ethnobotany of the Aegadian Islands: safeguarding biocultural refugia in the Mediterranean
2021
Additional file 1. Ethnobiological uses of local taxa. Data table reporting the specific uses of local taxa documented in the present work and comparison to prior publications in the region. (.pdf file format).
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
2009
Bioinformatics is a new, rapidly expanding field that uses computational approaches to answer biological questions (Baxevanis, 2005). These questions are answered by means of analyzing and mining biological data. The field of bioinformatics or computational biology is a multidisciplinary research and development environment, in which a variety of techniques from computer science, applied mathematics, linguistics, physics, and, statistics are used. The terms bioinformatics and computational biology are often used interchangeably (Baldi, 1998; Pevzner, 2000). This new area of research is driven by the wealth of data from high throughput genome projects, such as the human genome sequencing pro…
Improving the k-NCN classification rule through heuristic modifications
1998
Abstract This paper presents an empirical investigation of the recently proposed k-Nearest Centroid Neighbours ( k -NCN) classification rule along with two heuristic modifications of it. These alternatives make use of both proximity and geometrical distribution of the prototypes in the training set in order to estimate the class label of a given sample. The experimental results show that both alternatives give significantly better classification rates than the k -Nearest Neighbours rule, basically due to the properties of the plain k -NCN technique.
A new shape-oriented classification method for UV/VIS-spectra
1996
A new shape-oriented classification method is described. It is shown, how shapes of UV/VIS-spectra can be classified and coded and how a classification technique can be used to improve database search operations for pre-selections or even shape-oriented identifications.
Semi-supervised classification using tree-based self-organizing maps
2011
Published version of an article from the following onference prodeedings: AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Also available from the publisher on SpringerLink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25832-9_3 This paper presents a classifier which uses a tree-based Neural Network (NN), and uses both, unlabeled and labeled instances. First, we learn the structure of the data distribution in an unsupervised manner. After convergence, and once labeled data become available, our strategy tags each of the clusters according to the evidence provided by the instances. Unlike other neighborhood-based schemes, our classifier uses only a small set of representatives whose cardinality can be m…
A Simple Cluster Validation Index with Maximal Coverage
2017
Clustering is an unsupervised technique to detect general, distinct profiles from a given dataset. Similarly to the existence of various different clustering methods and algorithms, there exists many cluster validation methods and indices to suggest the number of clusters. The purpose of this paper is, firstly, to propose a new, simple internal cluster validation index. The index has a maximal coverage: also one cluster, i.e., lack of division of a dataset into disjoint subsets, can be detected. Secondly, the proposed index is compared to the available indices from five different packages implemented in R or Matlab to assess its utilizability. The comparison also suggests many interesting f…
Building a Maturity Model for Developing Ethically Aligned AI Systems
2021
Ethical concerns related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) equipped systems are prompting demands for ethical AI from all directions. As a response, in recent years public bodies, governments, and companies have rushed to provide guidelines and principles for how AI-based systems are designed and used ethically. We have learned, however, that high-level principles and ethical guidelines cannot be easily converted into actionable advice for industrial organizations that develop AI-based information systems. Maturity models are commonly used in software and systems development companies as a roadmap for improving the performance. We argue that they could also be applied in the context of develo…
A Robust Minimal Learning Machine based on the M-Estimator
2017
In this paper we propose a robust Minimal Learning Machine (R-RLM) for regression problems. The proposed method uses a robust M-estimator to generate a linear mapping between input and output distances matrices of MLM. The R-MLM was tested on one synthetic and three real world datasets that were contaminated with an increasing number of outliers. The method achieved a performance comparable to the robust Extreme Learning Machine (R-RLM) and thus can be seen as a valid alternative for regression tasks on datasets with outliers. peerReviewed
Supplementary data for Ün et. al. 2020 "Cytoplasmic incompatibility between New and Old World populations of a tramp ant"
2020
Supplementary annotation and phylogenetic data. See included README file for details.