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Reconstruction and measurement of (100) MeV energy electromagnetic activity from π0 arrow γγ decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC
We present results on the reconstruction of electromagnetic (EM) activity from photons produced in charged current νμ interactions with final state π0s. We employ a fully-automated reconstruction chain capable of identifying EM showers of (100) MeV energy, relying on a combination of traditional reconstruction techniques together with novel machine-learning approaches. These studies demonstrate good energy resolution, and good agreement between data and simulation, relying on the reconstructed invariant π0 mass and other photon distributions for validation. The reconstruction techniques developed are applied to a selection of νμ + Ar → μ + π0 + X candidate events to demonstrate the potential for calorimetric separation of photons from electrons and reconstruction of π0 kinematics
A Projected Gradient Descent Method for CRF Inference allowing End-To-End Training of Arbitrary Pairwise Potentials
Are we using the right potential functions in the Conditional Random Field
models that are popular in the Vision community? Semantic segmentation and
other pixel-level labelling tasks have made significant progress recently due
to the deep learning paradigm. However, most state-of-the-art structured
prediction methods also include a random field model with a hand-crafted
Gaussian potential to model spatial priors, label consistencies and
feature-based image conditioning.
In this paper, we challenge this view by developing a new inference and
learning framework which can learn pairwise CRF potentials restricted only by
their dependence on the image pixel values and the size of the support. Both
standard spatial and high-dimensional bilateral kernels are considered. Our
framework is based on the observation that CRF inference can be achieved via
projected gradient descent and consequently, can easily be integrated in deep
neural networks to allow for end-to-end training. It is empirically
demonstrated that such learned potentials can improve segmentation accuracy and
that certain label class interactions are indeed better modelled by a
non-Gaussian potential. In addition, we compare our inference method to the
commonly used mean-field algorithm. Our framework is evaluated on several
public benchmarks for semantic segmentation with improved performance compared
to previous state-of-the-art CNN+CRF models.Comment: Presented at EMMCVPR 2017 conferenc
A Neural Model for Self Organizing Feature Detectors and Classifiers in a Network Hierarchy
Many models of early cortical processing have shown how local learning rules can produce efficient, sparse-distributed codes in which nodes have responses that are statistically independent and low probability. However, it is not known how to develop a useful hierarchical representation, containing sparse-distributed codes at each level of the hierarchy, that incorporates predictive feedback from the environment. We take a step in that direction by proposing a biologically plausible neural network model that develops receptive fields, and learns to make class predictions, with or without the help of environmental feedback. The model is a new type of predictive adaptive resonance theory network called Receptive Field ARTMAP, or RAM. RAM self organizes internal category nodes that are tuned to activity distributions in topographic input maps. Each receptive field is composed of multiple weight fields that are adapted via local, on-line learning, to form smooth receptive ftelds that reflect; the statistics of the activity distributions in the input maps. When RAM generates incorrect predictions, its vigilance is raised, amplifying subtractive inhibition and sharpening receptive fields until the error is corrected. Evaluation on several classification benchmarks shows that RAM outperforms a related (but neurally implausible) model called Gaussian ARTMAP, as well as several standard neural network and statistical classifters. A topographic version of RAM is proposed, which is capable of self organizing hierarchical representations. Topographic RAM is a model for receptive field development at any level of the cortical hierarchy, and provides explanations for a variety of perceptual learning data.Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0409
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