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Rain streaks in the air show diverse characteristics with different shapes, directions, densities, even the complex overlapped phenomenon, causing great challenges for the deraining task. Recently, deep learning based image deraining methods have been extensively investigated due to their excellent performance. However, most of the existing algorithms still have limitations in removing rain streaks while preserving rich textural details under complicated rain conditions. To this end, we propose to decompose rain streaks into multiple rain layers and individually estimate each of them along the network stages to cope with the increasing abstracts. To better characterize rain layers, an improved non-local block is designed to exploit the self-similarity of rain information by learning the holistic spatial feature correlations while reducing the calculation complexity. Moreover, a mixed attention mechanism is applied to guide the fusion of rain layers by focusing on the local and global overlaps among these rain layers. Extensive experiments on both synthetic rainy/rain-haze/raindrop datasets, real-world samples, the haze, and low-light scenarios show substantial improvements both on quantitative indicators and visual effects over the current state-of-the-art technologies. The source code is available at https://github.com/kuihua/IADN. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deep-learning-based methods, such as convolution neural network (CNN), have demonstrated their efficiency in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. These methods can automatically learn spectral-spatial discriminative features within local patches. However, for each pixel in an HSI, it is not only related to its nearby pixels but also has connections to pixels far away from itself. Therefore, to incorporate the long-range contextual information, a deep fully convolutional network (FCN) with an efficient nonlocal module, named ENL-FCN, is proposed for HSI classification. In the proposed framework, a deep FCN considers an entire HSI as input and extracts spectral-spatial information in a local receptive field. The efficient nonlocal module is embedded in the network as a learning unit to capture the long-range contextual information. Different from the traditional nonlocal neural networks, the long-range contextual information is extracted in a specially designed criss-cross path for computation efficiency. Furthermore, using a recurrent operation, each pixel’s response is aggregated from all pixels of HSI. The benefits of our proposed ENL-FCN are threefold: 1) the long-range contextual information is incorporated effectively; 2) the efficient module can be freely embedded in a deep neural network in a plug-and-play fashion; and 3) it has much fewer learning parameters and requires less computational resources. The experiments conducted on three popular HSI data sets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art classification performance with lower computational cost in comparison with several leading deep neural networks for HSI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rear-end collision prediction has gained an increasing attention for safety improvement in smart cities. It is urgent to design efficient warning strategies for rear-end collisions which is one of the main causes of traffic accidents. The existing researches have been conducted to predict the collisions. Learning-based methods are proposed to solve this complicated issue, which the traditional methods are difficult to solve. However, due to some limitations in terms of the feature extraction and prediction performance, back-propagation learning methods are facing challenge. In this paper, we proposed a novel Rear-end Collision Prediction Mechanism with deep learning method (RCPM), in which a convolutional neural network model is established. In RCPM, the dataset is smoothed and expanded based on genetic theory to alleviate the class imbalance problem. The preprocessed dataset is divided into training and testing sets as the input to train our convolutional neural network model. The experimental results show that compared with the Honda, Berkeley and multi-layer perception neural-network-based algorithms, RCPM effectively improves performance to predict rear-end collisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In zero-shot learning, attributes play as a bridge from original images to class labels. Therefore, to achieve accurate zero-shot image classification, we mainly focus on improving attribute prediction accuracy by taking full advantage of prior information about attribute from two aspects. First, we present a new attribute classifier called deep attribute prediction (DeepAP) model by using supervised deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), where the attribute label information participates in the training of DCNNs. Unlike common DCNNs that are usually used to extract image features, the constructed DCNNs are used to directly predict attribute values from the original input images. Thus, the designed DeepAP model can serve as the mapping from low-level image features to high-level semantic attributes in the traditional direct attribute prediction (DAP) model. Second, another prior information about attribute, i.e., class-attribute matrix is used to mine the attribute-class correlation with sparse representation coefficients. Since the attribute-class correlation can reflect different contributions of attributes to classification, we use it to define attribute weights and incorporate the idea of weighted attributes into DeepAP to form the deep weighted attribute prediction (DWAP) model. Experiments on three real datasets show that DWAP outperforms the deep attribute network and DAP on attribute prediction and zero-shot image classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of noninstrusive load monitoring (NILM) is usually formulated as a single-channel blind source separation task, whose successful solution enable fast and convenient load identification and energy disaggregation. When applied at test time, NILM algorithms aim to identify the operating characteristics of individual appliances from an aggregate power measurement of the entire house. Recent advances in deep learning gave rise to many methods that mostly focus on learning a direct mapping from aggregate measurement to individual appliance power. However, these methods are not only computationally expensive, but they often suffer from overfitting and do not generalize very well. In this article, we propose a novel NILM method that leverages advances in statistical learning that have not been properly applied in this domain before. The proposed method consists of three stages: first, a Bayesian nonparametric learning-based approach for appliance state extraction; second, synthetic minority oversampling technique for data augmentation and mitigating the heavy imbalance in switching events; and third, appliance-specific lightweight long short-term memory networks for status classification for each appliance. We adopt a “differential” input (the difference before and after the switching event) to reduce the complexity of network training and make the proposed method robust to multiappliance switching events. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving superior performance when compared to recent methods. An ablation study is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of each module of our method. Finally, we investigate the quality of generated synthetic samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]