• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

Ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is an important application in marine monitoring for the military and civilian domains. Over the past decade, object detection has achieved significant progress with the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and lot of labeled databases. However, due to difficulty in collecting and labeling SAR images, it is still a challenging task to solve SAR ship detection CNNs. To overcome the problem, some methods have employed conventional data augmentation techniques such as flipping, cropping, and affine transformation, but it is insufficient to achieve robust performance to handle a wide variety of types of ships. In this paper, we present a novel and effective approach for deep SAR ship detection, that exploits label-rich Electro-Optical (EO) images. The proposed method consists of two components: a data augmentation network and a ship detection network. First, we train the data augmentation network based on conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN), which aims to generate additional SAR images from EO images. Since it is trained using unpaired EO and SAR images, we impose the cycle-consistency loss to preserve the structural information while translating the characteristics of the images. After training the data augmentation network, we leverage the augmented dataset constituted with real and translated SAR images to train the ship detection network. The experimental results include qualitative evaluation of the translated SAR images and the comparison of detection performance of the networks, trained with non-augmented and augmented dataset, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.99-103
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• 2021

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely utilized due to their outstanding performance in various computer vision fields. However, due to their computational-intensive and high memory requirements, it is difficult to deploy CNNs on hardware platforms that have limited resources, such as mobile devices and IoT devices. To address these limitations, a neural network compression research is underway to reduce the size of neural networks while maintaining their performance. This paper proposes a CNN compression technique that dynamically adjusts the thresholds of pruning, one of the neural network compression techniques. Unlike the conventional pruning that experimentally or heuristically sets the thresholds that determine the weights to be pruned, the proposed technique can dynamically find the optimal thresholds that prevent accuracy degradation and output the light-weight neural network in less time. To validate the performance of the proposed technique, the LeNet was trained using the MNIST dataset and the light-weight LeNet could be automatically obtained 1.3 to 3 times faster without loss of accuracy.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.351-357
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• 2022

Purpose: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising artificial intelligence methods in the field of medical and dental research. CNNs can provide an effective diagnostic methodology allowing for the detection of early-staged diseases. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the performance of a deep CNN algorithm for apical lesion segmentation from panoramic radiographs. Materials and Methods: A total of 1000 panoramic images showing apical lesions were separated into training (n=800, 80%), validation (n=100, 10%), and test (n=100, 10%) datasets. The performance of identifying apical lesions was evaluated by calculating the precision, recall, and F1-score. Results: In the test group of 180 apical lesions, 147 lesions were segmented from panoramic radiographs with an intersection over union (IoU) threshold of 0.3. The F1-score values, as a measure of performance, were 0.828, 0.815, and 0.742, respectively, with IoU thresholds of 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5. Conclusion: This study showed the potential utility of a deep learning-guided approach for the segmentation of apical lesions. The deep CNN algorithm using U-Net demonstrated considerably high performance in detecting apical lesions.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.271-281
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• 2023

Purpose: The objective of this scoping review was to investigate the applicability and performance of various convolutional neural network (CNN) models in tooth numbering on panoramic radiographs, achieved through classification, detection, and segmentation tasks. Materials and Methods: An online search was performed of the PubMed, Science Direct, and Scopus databases. Based on the selection process, 12 studies were included in this review. Results: Eleven studies utilized a CNN model for detection tasks, 5 for classification tasks, and 3 for segmentation tasks in the context of tooth numbering on panoramic radiographs. Most of these studies revealed high performance of various CNN models in automating tooth numbering. However, several studies also highlighted limitations of CNNs, such as the presence of false positives and false negatives in identifying decayed teeth, teeth with crown prosthetics, teeth adjacent to edentulous areas, dental implants, root remnants, wisdom teeth, and root canal-treated teeth. These limitations can be overcome by ensuring both the quality and quantity of datasets, as well as optimizing the CNN architecture. Conclusion: CNNs have demonstrated high performance in automated tooth numbering on panoramic radiographs. Future development of CNN-based models for this purpose should also consider different stages of dentition, such as the primary and mixed dentition stages, as well as the presence of various tooth conditions. Ultimately, an optimized CNN architecture can serve as the foundation for an automated tooth numbering system and for further artificial intelligence research on panoramic radiographs for a variety of purposes.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.53-63
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• 2024

Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that worsens over time and affects millions of people around the world. It leads to a gradual deterioration in memory, thinking ability, and behavioral and social skills until the person loses his ability to adapt to society. Technological progress in medical imaging and the use of artificial intelligence, has provided the possibility of detecting Alzheimer's disease through medical images such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, Deep learning algorithms, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown great success in analyzing medical images for disease diagnosis and classification. Where CNNs can recognize patterns and objects from images, which makes them ideally suited for this study. In this paper, we proposed to compare the performances of Alzheimer's disease detection by using two deep learning methods: You Only Look Once (YOLO), a CNN-enabled object recognition algorithm, and Visual Geometry Group (VGG16) which is a type of deep convolutional neural network primarily used for image classification. We will compare our results using these modern models Instead of using CNN only like the previous research. In addition, the results showed different levels of accuracy for the various versions of YOLO and the VGG16 model. YOLO v5 reached 56.4% accuracy at 50 epochs and 61.5% accuracy at 100 epochs. YOLO v8, which is for classification, reached 84% accuracy overall at 100 epochs. YOLO v9, which is for object detection overall accuracy of 84.6%. The VGG16 model reached 99% accuracy for training after 25 epochs but only 78% accuracy for testing. Hence, the best model overall is YOLO v9, with the highest overall accuracy of 86.1%.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.225-232
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• 2017

Understanding actions in videos is an important task. It helps in finding the anomalies present in videos such as fights. Detection of fights becomes more crucial when it comes to sports. This paper focuses on finding fight scenes in Hockey sport videos using blur & radon transform and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). First, the local motion within the video frames has been extracted using blur information. Next, fast fourier and radon transform have been applied on the local motion. The video frames with fight scene have been identified using transfer learning with the help of pre-trained deep learning model VGG-Net. Finally, a comparison of the methodology has been performed using feed forward neural networks. Accuracies of 56.00% and 75.00% have been achieved using feed forward neural network and VGG16-Net, respectively.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.23-32
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• 2018

Object detection is a challenging field in the visual understanding research area, detecting objects in visual scenes, and the location of such objects. It has recently been applied in various fields such as autonomous driving, image surveillance, and face recognition. In traditional methods of object detection, handcrafted features have been designed for overcoming various visual environments; however, they have a trade-off issue between accuracy and computational efficiency. Deep learning is a revolutionary paradigm in the machine-learning field. In addition, because deep-learning-based methods, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have outperformed conventional methods in terms of object detection, they have been studied in recent years. In this article, we provide a brief descriptive summary of several recent deep-learning methods for object detection and deep learning architectures. We also compare the performance of these methods and present a research guide of the object detection field.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.173-178
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• 2018

Accurate classification of cloud images is a challenging task. Almost all the existing methods rely on hand-crafted feature extraction. Their limitation is low discriminative power. In the recent years, deep learning with convolution neural networks (CNNs), which can auto extract features, has achieved promising results in many computer vision and image understanding fields. However, deep learning approaches usually need large datasets. This paper proposes a deep learning approach for classification of cloud image patches on small datasets. First, we design a suitable deep learning model for small datasets using a CNN, and then we apply data augmentation and dropout regularization techniques to increase the generalization of the model. The experiments for the proposed approach were performed on SWIMCAT small dataset with k-fold cross-validation. The experimental results demonstrated perfect classification accuracy for most classes on every fold, and confirmed both the high accuracy and the robustness of the proposed model.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.148-152
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• 2018

Adversarial attacks on artificial intelligence (AI) systems use adversarial examples to achieve the attack objective. Adversarial examples consist of slightly changed test data, causing AI systems to make false decisions on these examples. When used as a tool for attacking AI systems, this can lead to disastrous results. In this paper, we propose an ensemble of degraded convolutional neural network (CNN) modules, which is more robust to adversarial attacks than conventional CNNs. Each module is trained on degraded images. During testing, images are degraded using various degradation methods, and a final decision is made utilizing a one-hot encoding vector that is obtained by summing up all the output vectors of the modules. Experimental results show that the proposed ensemble network is more resilient to adversarial attacks than conventional networks, while the accuracies for normal images are similar.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.10
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• pp.59-66
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• 1997

Neural networks has widely been be used for several practical applications such as speech, image processing, and pattern recognition. Thus, a approach to the voltage-controlled current source in areas of neural networks, the key features of CNN in locally connected only to its netighbors. Because the architecture of the interconnection elements between cells in very simple and space invariant, CNNs are suitable for VLSI implementation. In this paper, processing element of digital programmable CNN with variable template memory was implemented using CMOS circuit. CNN PE circuit was designe dto control gain for obtaining the optimal solutions in the CNN output. Performance of operation for 4*4 CNN circuit applied for fixed template and variable template analyzed with the result of simulation using HSPICE tool. As a result of simulations, the proposed variable template method verified to improve performance of operation in comparison with the fixed template method.