Machine Learning is the study of methods for programming computers to learn. Computers are applied to a wide range of tasks, and for most of these it is relatively easy for programmers to design and implement the necessary software. However, there are many tasks for which this is difficult or impossible. These can be divided into four general categories. First, there are problems for which there exist no human experts. For example, in modern automated manufacturing facilities, there is a need to predict machine failures before they occur by analyzing sensor readings. Because the machines are new, there are no human experts who can be interviewed by a programmer to provide the knowledge necessary to build a computer system. A machine learning system can study recorded data and subsequent machine failures and learn prediction rules. Second, there are problems where human experts exist, but where they are unable to explain their expertise. This is the case in many perceptual tasks, such as speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, and natural language understanding. Virtually all humans exhibit expert-level abilities on these tasks, but none of them can describe the detailed steps that they follow as they perform them. Fortunately, humans can provide machines with examples of the inputs and correct outputs for these tasks, so machine learning algorithms can learn to map the inputs to the outputs. Third, there are problems where phenomena are changing rapidly. In finance, for example, people would like to predict the future behavior of the stock market, of consumer purchases, or of exchange rates. These behaviors change frequently, so that even if a programmer could construct a good predictive computer program, it would need to be rewritten frequently. A learning program can relieve the programmer of this burden by constantly modifying and tuning a set of learned prediction rules. Fourth, there are applications that need to be customized for each computer user separately. Consider, for example, a program to filter unwanted electronic mail messages. Different users will need different filters. It is unreasonable to expect each user to program his or her own rules, and it is infeasible to provide every user with a software engineer to keep the rules up-to-date. A machine learning system can learn which mail messages the user rejects and maintain the filtering rules automatically. Machine learning addresses many of the same research questions as the fields of statistics, data mining, and psychology, but with differences of emphasis. Statistics focuses on understanding the phenomena that have generated the data, often with the goal of testing different hypotheses about those phenomena. Data mining seeks to find patterns in the data that are understandable by people. Psychological studies of human learning aspire to understand the mechanisms underlying the various learning behaviors exhibited by people (concept learning, skill acquisition, strategy change, etc.).

Machine learning

Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

http://www.csun.edu/~andrzej/COMP529-S05/papers/Mesh%20Networks%20Survey.pdf

Wireless mesh networks: a survey

“Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks”の学習報告

On The Use Of Labview In Signals And Systems

The positive and unlabeled learning problem is a semi-supervised binary classification problem. In PU learning, only an unknown percentage of positive samples are known, while the remaining samples, both positive and negative, are unknown. We wish to learn a decision boundary that separates the positive and negative data distributions. In this paper, we build on an existing popular probabilistic positive unlabeled learning algorithm and introduce a new modified logistic regression learner with a variable upper bound that we argue provides a better theoretical solution for this problem. We then apply this solution to both simulated data and to a simple image classification problem using the MNIST dataset with significantly improved results.

A Modified Logistic Regression for Positive and Unlabeled Learning

Image sensors with programmable region-of-interest (ROI) readout are a new sensing technology important for energyefficient embedded computer vision. In particular, ROIs can subsample the number of pixels being readout while performing single object tracking in a video. In this paper, we develop adaptive sampling algorithms which perform joint object tracking and predictive video subsampling. We utilize an object detection consisting of either mean shift tracking or a neural network, coupled with a Kalman filter for prediction. We show that our algorithms achieve mean average precision of 0.70 or higher on a dataset of 20 videos in software. Further, we implement hardware acceleration of mean shift tracking with Kalman filter adaptive subsampling on an FPGA. Hardware results show a 23 × improvement in clock cycles and latency as compared to baseline methods and achieves 38FPS real-time performance. This research points to a new domain of hardware-software co-design for adaptive video subsampling in embedded computer vision.

Design and FPGA Implementation of an Adaptive video Subsampling Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Single Object Tracking

Virtual platforms are widely used for system-level modeling, design and simulation In this paper, we propose a virtual platform-based, top-down, system-level design methodology for developing and testing hardware/software right from the concept level and even before the architecture is finalized The methodology is based on using tools such as QEMU, SystemC and TLM20 that starts with a functional, high-level description of the system and gradually refines the intricate architectural details We present our results by testing a novel concept aimed at performing audio blogging The system under consideration involves the design of a low-power wearable audio recorder, an Android application for user interface and a server for audio analysis A virtual system consisting of three instances of QEMU and other tools was created to demonstrate the concept and to test this approach Finally, we describe a suite of tools useful for quickly validating concepts and creating virtual platforms for early hardware/software codesign

Andreas Spanias

Papers

On The Use Of Labview In Signals And Systems

A Modified Logistic Regression for Positive and Unlabeled Learning

Design and FPGA Implementation of an Adaptive video Subsampling Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Single Object Tracking

A top-down design methodology using virtual platforms for concept development

Transform-domain features for ion-channel sensors