• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.257-268
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• 2011

Machine learning and data mining have found many applications in biological domains, where we look to build predictive models based on labeled training data. However, in practice, high quality labeled data is scarce, and to label new data incurs high costs. Transfer and multitask learning offer an attractive alternative, by allowing useful knowledge to be extracted and transferred from data in auxiliary domains helps counter the lack of data problem in the target domain. In this article, we survey recent advances in transfer and multitask learning for bioinformatics applications. In particular, we survey several key bioinformatics application areas, including sequence classification, gene expression data analysis, biological network reconstruction and biomedical applications.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.118-126
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• 2024

In human conversations, listeners often utilize brief backchannels such as "uh-huh" or "yeah." Timely backchannels are crucial to understanding and increasing trust among conversational partners. In human-machine conversation systems, users can engage in natural conversations when a conversational agent generates backchannels like a human listener. We propose a method that simultaneously predicts backchannels and recognizes speech in real time. We use a streaming transformer and adopt multitask learning for concurrent backchannel prediction and speech recognition. The experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of our method compared with previous works while maintaining a similar single-task speech recognition performance. Owing to the extremely imbalanced training data distribution, the single-task backchannel prediction model fails to predict any of the backchannel categories, and the proposed multitask approach substantially enhances the backchannel prediction performance. Notably, in the streaming prediction scenario, the performance of backchannel prediction improves by up to 18.7% compared with existing methods.

• Database Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.137-147
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• 2018

A key to a well-performing human activity recognition (HAR) system through machine learning technique is the availability of a substantial amount of labeled data. Collecting sufficient labeled data is an expensive and time-consuming task. To build a HAR system in a new environment (i.e., the target domain) with very limited labeled data, it is unfavorable to naively exploit the data or trained classifier model from the existing environment (i.e., the source domain) as it is due to the domain difference. While traditional machine learning approaches are unable to address such distribution mismatch, transfer learning approach leverages the utilization of knowledge from existing well-established source domains that help to build an accurate classifier in the target domain. In this work, we propose a transfer learning approach to create an accurate HAR classifier with very limited data through the multitask neural network. The classifier loss function minimization for source and target domain are treated as two different tasks. The knowledge transfer is performed by simultaneously minimizing the loss function of both tasks using a single neural network model. Furthermore, we utilize the unlabeled data in an unsupervised manner to help the model training. The experiment result shows that the proposed work consistently outperforms existing approaches.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.37-46
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• 2020

Recently, studies of facial attribute editing have obtained realistic results using generative adversarial net (GAN) and encoder-decoder structure. Spatial attention GAN (SaGAN), one of the latest researches, is the method that can change only desired attribute in a face image by spatial attention mechanism. However, sometimes unnatural results are obtained due to insufficient information on face areas. In this paper, we propose an improved SaGAN (MSaGAN) using a guide mask for learning and applying multitask learning approach to improve the limitations of the existing methods. Through extensive experiments, we evaluated the results of the facial attribute editing in therms of the mask loss function and the neural network structure. It has been shown that the proposed method can efficiently produce more natural results compared to the previous methods.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.532-536
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• 2018

심층인공신경망을 이용한 대화 모델링 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 대화에서 발화의 감정과 화행을 분류하기 위해 멀티태스크(multitask) 학습을 이용한 End-to-End 시스템을 제안한다. 우리는 감정과 화행을 동시에 분류하는 시스템을 개발하기 위해 멀티태스크 학습을 수행한다. 또한 불균형 범주 분류를 위해 계단식분류(cascaded classification) 구조를 사용하였다. 일상대화 데이터셋을 사용하여 실험을 수행하였고 macro average precision으로 성능을 측정하여 감정 분류 60.43%, 화행 분류 74.29%를 각각 달성하였다. 이는 baseline 모델 대비 각각 29.00%, 1.54% 향상된 성능이다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 구조를 이용하여, 발화의 감정 및 화행 분류가 End-to-End 방식으로 모델링 가능함을 보였다. 그리고, 두 분류 문제를 하나의 구조로 적절히 학습하기 위한 방법과 분류 문제에서의 범주 불균형 문제를 해결하기 위한 분류 방법을 제시하였다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.37-41
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 Joint CTC/Attention 모델에 CTC ratio scheduling을 이용한 end-to-end 한국어 음성인식을 연구하였다. Joint CTC/Attention은 CTC와 attention의 장점을 결합한 모델로서 attention, CTC 단일 모델보다 좋은 성능을 보여주지만, 학습이 진행될수록 CTC가 attention의 학습을 저해하는 요인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, 학습 진행에 따라 CTC의 비율(ratio)를 줄여나가는 CTC ratio scheduling 방법을 제안한다. CTC ratio scheduling를 이용하여 학습한 결과물은 기존 Joint CTC/Attention, 단일 attention 모델 대비 좋은 성능을 보여주는 것을 확인하였다.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1061-1080
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• 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology is a rapidly developing field with several prospective clinical studies demonstrating its benefits in clinical practice. In 2022, the Korean Society of Radiology held a forum to discuss the challenges and drawbacks in AI development and implementation. Various barriers hinder the successful application and widespread adoption of AI in radiology, such as limited annotated data, data privacy and security, data heterogeneity, imbalanced data, model interpretability, overfitting, and integration with clinical workflows. In this review, some of the various possible solutions to these challenges are presented and discussed; these include training with longitudinal and multimodal datasets, dense training with multitask learning and multimodal learning, self-supervised contrastive learning, various image modifications and syntheses using generative models, explainable AI, causal learning, federated learning with large data models, and digital twins.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.308-317
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• 2022

Researches are underway to efficiently reduce the size of video data transmitted and stored in the image analysis process using deep learning-based machine vision technology. MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) has newly established a standardization project called VCM (Video Coding for Machine) and is conducting research on video encoding for machines rather than video encoding for humans. We are researching a multitask that performs various tasks with one image input. The proposed pipeline does not perform all object detection of each task that should precede object detection, but precedes it only once and uses the result as an input for each task. In this paper, we propose a pipeline for efficient multitasking and perform comparative experiments on compression efficiency, execution time, and result accuracy of the input image to check the efficiency. As a result of the experiment, the capacity of the input image decreased by more than 97.5%, while the accuracy of the result decreased slightly, confirming the possibility of efficient multitasking.