70 research outputs found
EMI: Exploration with Mutual Information
Reinforcement learning algorithms struggle when the reward signal is very
sparse. In these cases, naive random exploration methods essentially rely on a
random walk to stumble onto a rewarding state. Recent works utilize intrinsic
motivation to guide the exploration via generative models, predictive forward
models, or discriminative modeling of novelty. We propose EMI, which is an
exploration method that constructs embedding representation of states and
actions that does not rely on generative decoding of the full observation but
extracts predictive signals that can be used to guide exploration based on
forward prediction in the representation space. Our experiments show
competitive results on challenging locomotion tasks with continuous control and
on image-based exploration tasks with discrete actions on Atari. The source
code is available at https://github.com/snu-mllab/EMI .Comment: Accepted and to appear at ICML 201
Point Ordering with Natural Distance Based on Brownian Motion
We consider a curve reconstruction problem from unorganized point clouds
with noise. In general, the result of curve reconstruction depends on how to select and
order the representative points to resemble the shape of the clouds. We exploit a natural
distance based on a property of one-dimensional Brownian motion to order sample points,
which simultaneously reflect smoothness and nearness of points, so that our algorithm is
able to reconstruct not only simple curves but also nonsimple curves. Numerous examples
show that this algorithm is effective. The natural distance proposed in this paper is able
to play an important role in a variety of fields of measuring the distance of points with
considering direction
Sectional discrete curvature estimation based on the parabola
The local geometric properties such as curvatures and normal vectors play important roles
in analyzing the local shape of objects. The result of the geometric operations such as
mesh simplification and mesh smoothing is dependent on how to compute the curvature
of vertices, because there is no its exact definition in meshes. In this paper, we indicate
the fatal error in computing discrete sectional-curvatures by the previous discrete
curvature estimations. Moreover, we present a new discrete sectional-curvature estimation
to overcome the error, which is based on the parabolic interpolation and the geometric
properties of Bezier curve
The complete chloroplast genome of an Antarctic moss Syntrichia filaris (Müll.Hal.) R.H. Zander
Syntrichia filaris is one of the common mosses in the northern maritime Antarctic. In this study, we determined the complete chloroplast genome of S. filaris (GenBank accession number MK852705) to provide a genetic resource for phylogenetic study on Bryophytes. It is of 136,227 bp length, containing 8 ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 37 transfer RNA, and 85 protein-coding genes. The chloroplast genome structure and gene order were similar to other bryophytes. Phylogenetic tree based on combined amino acids sequences of 72 chloroplast genes common in S. filaris, 7 Bryophyta, 1 Anthocerotophyta, and 2 Marchantiophyta, was congruent with the traditional position of Pottiales in Bryophytes
Spectral Characteristics of the Antarctic Vegetation: A Case Study of Barton Peninsula
Spectral information is a proxy for understanding the characteristics of ground targets without a potentially disruptive contact. A spectral library is a collection of this information and serves as reference data in remote sensing analyses. Although widely used, data of this type for most ground objects in polar regions are notably absent. Remote sensing data are widely used in polar research because they can provide helpful information for difficult-to-access or extensive areas. However, a lack of ground truth hinders remote sensing efforts. Accordingly, a spectral library was developed for 16 common vegetation species and decayed moss in the ice-free areas of Antarctica using a field spectrometer. In particular, the relative importance of shortwave infrared wavelengths in identifying Antarctic vegetation using spectral similarity comparisons was demonstrated. Due to the lack of available remote sensing images of the study area, simulated images were generated using the developed spectral library. Then, these images were used to evaluate the potential performance of the classification and spectral unmixing according to spectral resolution. We believe that the developed library will enhance our understanding of Antarctic vegetation and will assist in the analysis of various remote sensing data
An automated, high-throughput plant phenotyping system using machine learning-based plant segmentation and image analysis.
A high-throughput plant phenotyping system automatically observes and grows many plant samples. Many plant sample images are acquired by the system to determine the characteristics of the plants (populations). Stable image acquisition and processing is very important to accurately determine the characteristics. However, hardware for acquiring plant images rapidly and stably, while minimizing plant stress, is lacking. Moreover, most software cannot adequately handle large-scale plant imaging. To address these problems, we developed a new, automated, high-throughput plant phenotyping system using simple and robust hardware, and an automated plant-imaging-analysis pipeline consisting of machine-learning-based plant segmentation. Our hardware acquires images reliably and quickly and minimizes plant stress. Furthermore, the images are processed automatically. In particular, large-scale plant-image datasets can be segmented precisely using a classifier developed using a superpixel-based machine-learning algorithm (Random Forest), and variations in plant parameters (such as area) over time can be assessed using the segmented images. We performed comparative evaluations to identify an appropriate learning algorithm for our proposed system, and tested three robust learning algorithms. We developed not only an automatic analysis pipeline but also a convenient means of plant-growth analysis that provides a learning data interface and visualization of plant growth trends. Thus, our system allows end-users such as plant biologists to analyze plant growth via large-scale plant image data easily
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