Fan Zhang

Bio: Fan Zhang is an academic researcher from Xidian University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Object detection & Data pre-processing. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 294 citations.

A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Object Detection

Abstract: Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in people's life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of semantic objects of a certain class. With the rapid development of deep learning algorithms for detection tasks, the performance of object detectors has been greatly improved. In order to understand the main development status of object detection pipeline thoroughly and deeply, in this survey, we analyze the methods of existing typical detection models and describe the benchmark datasets at first. Afterwards and primarily, we provide a comprehensive overview of a variety of object detection methods in a systematic manner, covering the one-stage and two-stage detectors. Moreover, we list the traditional and new applications. Some representative branches of object detection are analyzed as well. Finally, we discuss the architecture of exploiting these object detection methods to build an effective and efficient system and point out a set of development trends to better follow the state-of-the-art algorithms and further research.

MultiResolution Attention Extractor for Small Object Detection

Abstract: Small objects are difficult to detect because of their low resolution and small size The existing small object detection methods mainly focus on data preprocessing or narrowing the differences between large and small objects Inspired by human vision "attention" mechanism, we exploit two feature extraction methods to mine the most useful information of small objects Both methods are based on multiresolution feature extraction We initially design and explore the soft attention method, but we find that its convergence speed is slow Then we present the second method, an attention-based feature interaction method, called a MultiResolution Attention Extractor (MRAE), showing significant improvement as a generic feature extractor in small object detection After each building block in the vanilla feature extractor, we append a small network to generate attention weights followed by a weighted-sum operation to get the final attention maps Our attention-based feature extractor is 20 times the AP of the "hard" attention counterpart (plain architecture) on the COCO small object detection benchmark, proving that MRAE can capture useful location and contextual information through adaptive learning

Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions

Abstract: In the last few years, the deep learning (DL) computing paradigm has been deemed the Gold Standard in the machine learning (ML) community. Moreover, it has gradually become the most widely used computational approach in the field of ML, thus achieving outstanding results on several complex cognitive tasks, matching or even beating those provided by human performance. One of the benefits of DL is the ability to learn massive amounts of data. The DL field has grown fast in the last few years and it has been extensively used to successfully address a wide range of traditional applications. More importantly, DL has outperformed well-known ML techniques in many domains, e.g., cybersecurity, natural language processing, bioinformatics, robotics and control, and medical information processing, among many others. Despite it has been contributed several works reviewing the State-of-the-Art on DL, all of them only tackled one aspect of the DL, which leads to an overall lack of knowledge about it. Therefore, in this contribution, we propose using a more holistic approach in order to provide a more suitable starting point from which to develop a full understanding of DL. Specifically, this review attempts to provide a more comprehensive survey of the most important aspects of DL and including those enhancements recently added to the field. In particular, this paper outlines the importance of DL, presents the types of DL techniques and networks. It then presents convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which the most utilized DL network type and describes the development of CNNs architectures together with their main features, e.g., starting with the AlexNet network and closing with the High-Resolution network (HR.Net). Finally, we further present the challenges and suggested solutions to help researchers understand the existing research gaps. It is followed by a list of the major DL applications. Computational tools including FPGA, GPU, and CPU are summarized along with a description of their influence on DL. The paper ends with the evolution matrix, benchmark datasets, and summary and conclusion.

Change-Point Detection in Time-Series Data by Relative Density-Ratio Estimation (情報論的学習理論と機械学習)

Abstract: The objective of change-point detection is to discover abrupt property changes lying behind time-series data. In this paper, we present a novel statistical change-point detection algorithm based on non-parametric divergence estimation between time-series samples from two retrospective segments. Our method uses the relative Pearson divergence as a divergence measure, and it is accurately and efficiently estimated by a method of direct density-ratio estimation. Through experiments on artificial and real-world datasets including human-activity sensing, speech, and Twitter messages, we demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method.

YOLO v3-Tiny: Object Detection and Recognition using one stage improved model

Abstract: Object detection has seen many changes in algorithms to improve performance both on speed and accuracy. By the continuous effort of so many researchers, deep learning algorithms are growing rapidly with an improved object detection performance. Various popular applications like pedestrian detection, medical imaging, robotics, self-driving cars, face detection, etc. reduces the efforts of humans in many areas. Due to the vast field and various state-of-the-art algorithms, it is a tedious task to cover all at once. This paper presents the fundamental overview of object detection methods by including two classes of object detectors. In two stage detector covered algorithms are RCNN, Fast RCNN, and Faster RCNN, whereas in one stage detector YOLO v1, v2, v3, and SSD are covered. Two stage detectors focus more on accuracy, whereas the primary concern of one stage detectors is speed. We will explain an improved YOLO version called YOLO v3-Tiny, and then its comparison with previous methods for detection and recognition of object is described graphically.

Object Detection and Image Segmentation with Deep Learning on Earth Observation Data: A Review-Part I: Evolution and Recent Trends

Abstract: Deep learning (DL) has great influence on large parts of science and increasingly established itself as an adaptive method for new challenges in the field of Earth observation (EO). Nevertheless, the entry barriers for EO researchers are high due to the dense and rapidly developing field mainly driven by advances in computer vision (CV). To lower the barriers for researchers in EO, this review gives an overview of the evolution of DL with a focus on image segmentation and object detection in convolutional neural networks (CNN). The survey starts in 2012, when a CNN set new standards in image recognition, and lasts until late 2019. Thereby, we highlight the connections between the most important CNN architectures and cornerstones coming from CV in order to alleviate the evaluation of modern DL models. Furthermore, we briefly outline the evolution of the most popular DL frameworks and provide a summary of datasets in EO. By discussing well performing DL architectures on these datasets as well as reflecting on advances made in CV and their impact on future research in EO, we narrow the gap between the reviewed, theoretical concepts from CV and practical application in EO.