TRANSFORMATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ORDINAL SURVEY DATA

Currently, Machine Learning is being significantly used in almost all of the research domains. However, its applicability in survey research is still in its infancy. We in this paper, attempt to highlight the applicability of Machine Learning in survey research while working on two different aspects in parallel. First, we introduce a pattern-based transformation method for ordinal survey data. Our purpose behind developing such a transformation method is twofold. Our transformation facilitates easy interpretation of ordinal survey data and provides convenience while applying standard Machine Learning approaches. Second, we demonstrate the application of various classification techniques over real and transformed ordinal survey data and interpret their results in terms of their suitability in survey research. Our experimental results suggest that Machine Learning coupled with the Pattern Recognition paradigm has a tremendous scope in survey research

Discriminant face features extraction, analysis & its application in multipose face recognization: a survey

As one of the excellent learning and classification performance, SVM and ISVM has become a research topic in the field of machine learning and has been applied in many areas, such as face detection and recognition, handwriting automatic identification and automatic text categorization. Face recognition is a challenging computer vision problem. Given a face database, goal of face recognition is to compare the input image class with all the classes and then declare a decision that identifies to whom the input image class belongs to or if it doesn’t belong to the database at all. In this survey, we study face recognition as a pattern classification problem.In this paper, we study the concept of SVM and sophisticated classification techniques for face recognition using the SVM and ISVM along with the advantages and disadvantages. This paper not only provides an up-to-date critical survey of machine learning techniques but also performance analysis of various SVM and ISVM techniques for face recognition are compared

Stellar classification from single-band imaging using machine learning

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their diffraction pattern in a single broad-band image. We propose a supervised machine learning approach to this endeavour, based on principal component analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction, followed by artificial neural networks (ANNs) estimating the spectral type. Our analysis is performed with image simulations mimicking the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the F606W and F814W bands, as well as the Euclid VIS imager. We first demonstrate this classification in a simple context, assuming perfect knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) model and the possibility of accurately generating mock training data for the machine learning. We then analyse its performance in a fully data-driven situation, in which the training would be performed with a limited subset of bright stars from a survey, and an unknown PSF with spatial variations across the detector. We use simulations of main-sequence stars with flat distributions in spectral type and in signal-to-noise ratio, and classify these stars into 13 spectral subclasses, from O5 to M5. Under these conditions, the algorithm achieves a high success rate both for Euclid and HST images, with typical errors of half a spectral class. Although more detailed simulations would be needed to assess the performance of the algorithm on a specific survey, this shows that stellar classification from single-band images is well possible.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted in A&

Discriminant face features extraction, analysis & its application in multipose face recognization: a survey

As one of the excellent learning and classification performance, SVM and ISVM has become a research topic in the field of machine learning and has been applied in many areas, such as face detection and recognition, handwriting automatic identification and automatic text categorization. Face recognition is a challenging computer vision problem. Given a face database, goal of face recognition is to compare the input image class with all the classes and then declare a decision that identifies to whom the input image class belongs to or if it doesn’t belong to the database at all. In this survey, we study face recognition as a pattern classification problem.In this paper, we study the concept of SVM and sophisticated classification techniques for face recognition using the SVM and ISVM along with the advantages and disadvantages. This paper not only provides an up-to-date critical survey of machine learning techniques but also performance analysis of various SVM and ISVM techniques for face recognition are compared

A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Theories, Tools and Challenges for the Community

In recent years, deep learning (DL), a re-branding of neural networks (NNs), has risen to the top in numerous areas, namely computer vision (CV), speech recognition, natural language processing, etc. Whereas remote sensing (RS) possesses a number of unique challenges, primarily related to sensors and applications, inevitably RS draws from many of the same theories as CV; e.g., statistics, fusion, and machine learning, to name a few. This means that the RS community should be aware of, if not at the leading edge of, of advancements like DL. Herein, we provide the most comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art RS DL research. We also review recent new developments in the DL field that can be used in DL for RS. Namely, we focus on theories, tools and challenges for the RS community. Specifically, we focus on unsolved challenges and opportunities as it relates to (i) inadequate data sets, (ii) human-understandable solutions for modelling physical phenomena, (iii) Big Data, (iv) non-traditional heterogeneous data sources, (v) DL architectures and learning algorithms for spectral, spatial and temporal data, (vi) transfer learning, (vii) an improved theoretical understanding of DL systems, (viii) high barriers to entry, and (ix) training and optimizing the DL.Comment: 64 pages, 411 references. To appear in Journal of Applied Remote Sensin