TOWARDS DEEP LEARNING ROBUSTNESS FOR COMPUTER VISION IN THE REAL WORLD

Deep learning has been successful in computer vision in recent years. Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art results on many popular visual benchmarks with additional benefits compared with previous models. However, many recent studies illustrate that deep learning models are not robust towards imperceptible or perceptible changes. This robustness gap makes applying deep learning models to real-world applications challenging due to safety and reliability concerns. This thesis mainly focuses on the robustness of deep learning models in the real world. In the real world, the attackers usually don't know the details of the deep learning models. Besides, even though there are no attackers, the deep learning models are still challenged by many complex cases such as input corruptions, stylized images, and out-of-distribution data. In the first part of this thesis, we study the adversarial robustness in the real world: (1) we successfully attack several deep learning models for different tasks, and then defend against those attacks; (2) we develop universal perturbations that successfully attack unseen deep learning models without knowing architectures, parameters, and tasks. In the second part of this thesis, we discuss more general types of robustness in the real world. Besides adversarial perturbations, we address the more commonly occurred complex cases in the real world, such as input corruptions, natural adversarial examples, stylized images, and out-of-distribution data. We found two strategies that can effectively improve the robustness: (1) address the short-cut learning issue of the deep neural network so that models can collect all helpful information from the input image; (2) use complementary information from different modalities

Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations on Air, Sea, Land

Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations On Air, Sea, Land is our fourth textbook in a series covering the world of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CUAS). (Nichols R. K., 2018) (Nichols R. K., et al., 2019) (Nichols R. , et al., 2020)The authors have expanded their purview beyond UAS / CUAS systems. Our title shows our concern for growth and unique cyber security unmanned vehicle technology and operations for unmanned vehicles in all theaters: Air, Sea and Land – especially maritime cybersecurity and China proliferation issues. Topics include: Information Advances, Remote ID, and Extreme Persistence ISR; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles & How They Can Augment Mesonet Weather Tower Data Collection; Tour de Drones for the Discerning Palate; Underwater Autonomous Navigation & other UUV Advances; Autonomous Maritime Asymmetric Systems; UUV Integrated Autonomous Missions & Drone Management; Principles of Naval Architecture Applied to UUV’s; Unmanned Logistics Operating Safely and Efficiently Across Multiple Domains; Chinese Advances in Stealth UAV Penetration Path Planning in Combat Environment; UAS, the Fourth Amendment and Privacy; UV & Disinformation / Misinformation Channels; Chinese UAS Proliferation along New Silk Road Sea / Land Routes; Automaton, AI, Law, Ethics, Crossing the Machine – Human Barrier and Maritime Cybersecurity.Unmanned Vehicle Systems are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure The authors have endeavored to bring a breadth and quality of information to the reader that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere. Unmanned Vehicle (UV) Systems & Operations On Air, Sea, Land discusses state-of-the-art technology / issues facing U.S. UV system researchers / designers / manufacturers / testers. We trust our newest look at Unmanned Vehicles in Air, Sea, and Land will enrich our students and readers understanding of the purview of this wonderful technology we call UV.https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/1035/thumbnail.jp

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Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1979-1984: A chronology

This volume of the Astronautics and Aeronautics series covers 1979 through 1984. The series provides a chronological presentation of all significant events and developments in space exploration and the administration of the space program during the period covered

City of Ellsworth Maine Ordinances

Ordinances cover: Buildings; Harbor; Fire Protection; Sewer; Traffic; Signs; Tax Acquired Property; Code Enforcement; Licensing; Dumping Cemetery; Planning Board; Mobile Home Parks; Animal Control; Noise; Handbills; Firearms; Plumbing; Parade; Subdivision; Regulation City Owned Land; Tax Assessment; Recreation; Floodplain Management; Personnel; Special Amusements; Historic Preservation; Ethics; Electrical Inspection; Solid Waste; Trees; Paid Sexual Contact; Smoking; Rotational Towing; Towing Fee; Cable; Fund Balance; Water; Land Use; Shellfish; PACE; Property Maintenance; Marijuan

Things Gathered, Things Fallen

Things Gathered, Things Fallen is a series of creative nonfiction essays that blend nature writing with memoir. Personal reflections, travel writing, natural observation, science writing, and short humor pieces all come together to comprise this collection

Remote Sensing of Earth Resources: A literature survey with indexes (1970 - 1973 supplement). Section 1: Abstracts

Abstracts of reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system between March 1970 and December 1973 are presented in the following areas: agriculture and forestry, environmental changes and cultural resources, geodesy and cartography, geology and mineral resources, oceanography and marine resources, hydrology and water management, data processing and distribution systems, instrumentation and sensors, and economic analysis

Shadow of The Archers and Crossing Over: Writing Young Adult Fiction and Finding the Contemporary Reader

Vol. 1 Shadow of the Archers : Major Work -- Vol. 2 Crossing Over: Writing Young Adult Fiction and Finding the Contemporary Reader : ExegesisThe notion that crossover fiction has changed the way books are written and the way we read has been addressed in studies increasingly since 1997, the year when the first Harry Potter novel was published. Attention and credit has been paid to the Harry Potter series as the genesis of crossover books while questioning the emergence of a standalone genre separate to young adult fiction. As a young adult writer, I am most interested in this form and whether young adult novels have been eclipsed and impacted by this changing structure and whether the reader has also changed. Young adult fiction has been a wide and fluid category since it was first identified in 1802 by critic Sarah Trimmer who wrote of a young adult age between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one. Young adult fiction has been read and enjoyed widely since the early Nineteenth century but has not enjoyed favourable reviews from critics. However, young adult fiction and crossover novels alike have found a place in this period of digital and social change and found a large and enthusiastic contemporary readership. In this exegesis I attempt to address the debate about what a crossover novel is and how it differentiates from young adult fiction by asking the following questions: Has this genre emerged because of certain texts and influences? What separates this genre from young adult fiction? What purpose do crossover novels have in the current publishing and writing climate? And, how did researching and investigating crossover novels affect my own young adult writing? When I started writing my creative novel, I had one goal in mind: to create an entertaining and engrossing story. As the project grew in length and eight years passed, the work reflected this aging process. I became less sure of my original goals and determinations in the understanding of the crossover novel as the landscape had changed from 2011 to 2018. There had begun a downturn in crossover publishing and a return to purer young adult fiction. I began to examine my own changing and evolving relationship to young adult fiction. My story was not a crossover novel. It had each of the constructs I had identified as being necessary to the genre of crossover fiction but crossover fiction is unable to be determined by the page but by its readership. The story in Shadow of the Archers began as a spy novel for young adults. The story was written to explore the constructs I had valued in books I read growing up. Near the end of this project, I was satisfied I had written a young adult book and not achieved the interconnection of a crossover novel, as this could not be determined before the book was published and in the hands of readers. It is readers that cross read as books cannot embody a set of constructs to appeal to a wide, cross generational audience nor influenced by publishing and marketing. There have been emergent problems in books attempting to be crossover books: writers attempting to write crossover books. I have investigated the complex aspects of the nexus between young adult fiction and crossover novels in this work. Sandra Beckett describes crossover fiction as blurring the borderline between two traditionally separate readerships: children and adults (3). This is a definition that describes young adult fiction and my approach as I explored themes and characters to guide the reader through the narrative, a specific young adult reader. In analysing other young adult writers, I discovered my story is resolutely embedded in rich, powerful narrative and informed by conventions I have identified in young adult fiction and crossover fiction. By looking at crossover novels and the literary debate about these books, I was able to understand my ideas and the influence of both forms on my writing.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 201

Shades of Dispossession: Neoliberalism and the Social Production of Credibility, In Machu Picchu, Peru

This dissertation ethnographically examines the inconsistencies experienced by district residents in the historic and nature Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, over the Peruvian government\u27s drive to implement neoliberal policies. Heritage conservation in the southern Peruvian Andes is increasingly shaped by current neoliberal policies. The people who live in the district of Machu Picchu live in a protected area that gives the state expropriating powers to claim the land as a public good. The central problem is that under neoliberalism, a public asset is used for private gain at the expense of residents. Inhabitants experience changing juridical relationships as a contradiction between the neoliberal claim of a free market, and the hand of the government creating conditions that select some over others. My inquiry focuses on the actions of a mobilization formed out of small-middle scale entrepreneurs\u27 operating in a tourism economy. I explore the intersection between governance and the market economy through the lens of dispossession, and I argue that by reframing public goods in neoliberal terms, the stage was set for dispossessing inhabitants. Heritage conservation and economic structural adjustment involve incompatible forms of credibility that either justify the takings of rights, civil-status and the public resources accommodating larger capital investments, or discredit the legitimacy of governing authorities