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A convolutional neural network for automatic analysis of aerial imagery
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A convolutional neural network for automatic analysis of aerial imagery

F. Maire, L. Mejias and A. Hodgson
2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), pp.1-8
IEEE
International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014 (Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 24/11/2014–27/11/2014)
2014
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Abstract

This paper introduces a new method to automate the detection of marine species in aerial imagery using a Machine Learning approach. Our proposed system has at its core, a convolutional neural network. We compare this trainable classifier to a handcrafted classifier based on color features, entropy and shape analysis. Experiments demonstrate that the convolutional neural network outperforms the handcrafted solution. We also introduce a negative training example-selection method for situations where the original training set consists of a collection of labeled images in which the objects of interest (positive examples) have been marked by a bounding box. We show that picking random rectangles from the background is not necessarily the best way to generate useful negative examples with respect to learning.

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