G06F18/2451

Optical authentication of objects based on latent structural characteristics
11030453 · 2021-06-08 · ·

Systems and methods are described for using optical techniques to authenticate a pre-characterized object according to its latent structural characteristics. For example, an image stack can be generated by aligning enrollment images acquired from an enrollment object according to different optical geometries. Enrollment basis functions can be computed from the stack that describe latent structural characteristics of the enrollment object, and enrollment magnitudes can be extracted from those basis functions. Subsequently, another image stack can be generated by aligning authentication images acquired from an authentication object according to different optical geometries. Authentication basis functions can be computed from the stack to describe latent structural characteristics of the authentication object, and authentication magnitudes can be extracted from those basis functions. A mathematical correspondence can be computed between the enrollment and authentication magnitudes, from which a determination can be made as to whether the authentication object is the enrollment object.

HIGH SENSITIVITY FIBER OPTIC BASED DETECTION

A method of measuring one or more conditions within a predetermined area includes receiving at a control system a signal including scattered light and time of flight information associated with a plurality of nodes of a detection system, parsing the time of flight information into zones of the detection system, identifying one or more features within the scattered light signal, and analyzing the one or more features within the scattered light signal to determine a presence of the one or more conditions within the predetermined area.

End-member extraction method based on segmented vertex component analysis (VCA)
10984291 · 2021-04-20 · ·

An end-member extraction method based on segmented VCA, includes: conducting rough segmentation on a hyperspectral image by using an unsupervised classification method to partition image elements having a similar substance into the same block; conducting end-member extraction on an area in each partitioned block by using VCA, inverting the abundance by using a least square method after the end-member extraction, and determining one main end-member for each block according to the abundance value; and extracting the main end-members in all blocks and forming an end-member matrix of a global image. The VCA end-member extraction method is used in relatively simple partitioned environment blocks, and the main end-members in the blocks are then controlled by using the abundance inversion result feedback in the blocks, so as to prevent missing main end-members.

Training gradient boosted decision trees with progressive maximum depth for parsimony and interpretability
10977737 · 2021-04-13 · ·

An apparatus is provided for generating a generalized linear model structure definition by generating a gradient boosted tree model and separating each decision tree into a plurality of indicator variables upon which a dependent variable of the generalized linear model depends. A first number of plurality of decision tree structures each having a maximum tree depth of one (1) is formed, where the first number represents a number of decision tree structures necessary to exhaust all main effects of a plurality of predictor variables on a dependent variable. Successive pluralities of decision tree structures each having a maximum tree depth increased by one (1) as compared to its immediately preceding plurality of decision tree structures are iteratively formed. Each successive plurality of decision tree structures comprises a second number of decision tree structures necessary to exhaust all interactions between the plurality of predictor variables.

CLASSIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES IN FEW-SHOT TASKS BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS TRAINED USING MANIFOLD MIXUP REGULARIZATION AND SELF-SUPERVISION

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for training a classification neural network to classify digital images in few-shot tasks based on self-supervision and manifold mixup. For example, the disclosed systems can train a feature extractor as part of a base neural network utilizing self-supervision and manifold mixup. Indeed, the disclosed systems can apply manifold mixup regularization over a feature manifold learned via self-supervised training such as rotation training or exemplar training. Based on training the feature extractor, the disclosed systems can also train a classifier to classify digital images into novel classes not present within the base classes used to train the feature extractor.

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A POLYHEDRAL CLASSIFIER
20210073587 · 2021-03-11 ·

A method for training a polyhedral classifier is described including obtaining training data in a data space, the training data including first data points associated with a first label and second data points associated with a second label, determining a pair of hyperplanes by determining an orientation of the pair of hyperplanes based on a minimization of a distance between the pair of hyperplanes such that the first data points lie between the hyperplanes in relation to a distance between the pair of hyperplanes such that both the first data points and the second data points lie between the hyperplanes and determining the position of the pair of hyperplanes such that the first data points lie between the pair of hyperplanes and the second data points are at least partially separated from the first data points by the pair of hyperplanes.

Three-dimensional cell and tissue image analysis for cellular and sub-cellular morphological modeling and classification

The ability to automate the processes of specimen collection, image acquisition, data pre-processing, computation of derived biomarkers, modeling, classification and analysis can significantly impact clinical decision-making and fundamental investigation of cell deformation. This disclosure combine 3D cell nuclear shape modeling by robust smooth surface reconstruction and extraction of shape morphometry measure into a highly parallel pipeline workflow protocol for end-to-end morphological analysis of thousands of nuclei and nucleoli in 3D. This approach allows efficient and informative evaluation of cell shapes in the imaging data and represents a reproducible technique that can be validated, modified, and repurposed by the biomedical community. This facilitates result reproducibility, collaborative method validation, and broad knowledge dissemination.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION PIPELINE WITH MEMORY ORGANIZER UNIT

A processor system comprises a memory organizer unit and a matrix computing unit. The memory organizer unit is configured to receive a request for a three-dimensional data of a convolutional neural network layer. The requested three-dimensional data is obtained from a memory. The obtained three-dimensional data is rearranged in an optimized linear order and the rearranged data in the optimized linear order is provided to the matrix computing unit. The matrix computing unit is configured to perform at least a portion of a three-dimensional convolution using at least a portion of the provided rearranged data in the optimized linear order.

EMBEDDINGS + SVM FOR TEACHING TRAVERSABILITY

A system includes a memory module configured to store image data captured by a camera and an electronic controller communicatively coupled to the memory module. The electronic controller is configured to receive image data captured by the camera, implement a neural network trained to predict a drivable portion in the image data of an environment. The neural network predicts the drivable portion in the image data of the environment. The electronic controller is configured to implement a support vector machine. The support vector machine determines whether the predicted drivable portion of the environment output by the neural network is classified as drivable based on a hyperplane of the support vector machine and output an indication of the drivable portion of the environment.

OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER (OTDR)-BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR FIBER OPTIC CABLES USING MACHINE LEARNING
20210089830 · 2021-03-25 ·

In one embodiment, a device receives optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) trace samples, each sample labeled with an associated fiber optic cable condition. The device alters the received OTDR trace samples to generate a set of synthetic OTDR trace samples. Each synthetic sample is labeled with the label of the received sample that was altered to generate the synthetic sample. The device trains a machine learning-based classifier using a training dataset that comprises the synthetic OTDR trace samples. The device uses the trained classifier to identify a condition along a particular fiber optic cable based on OTDR trace data obtained from that cable.