Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are the main vector species for dengue disease and zika, two arboviruses that affect a substantial fraction of the global population. These mosquitoes breed in very slow-moving or standing pools of water, so detecting and managing these potential breeding habitats is a crucial step in preventing the spread of these diseases. Using high-resolution images collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and their multispectral mapping data, this paper investigated bathymetry retrieval model in shallow water areas to help improve the habitat detection accuracy. While previous studies have found some success with shallow water bathymetry inversion on satellite imagery, accurate centimeter-level water depth regression from high-resolution, drone multispectral imagery still remains a challenge. Unlike previous retrieval methods generally relying on retrieval factor extraction and linear regression, this thesis introduced CNN methods, considering the nonlinear relationship between image pixel reflectance values and water depth. In order to look into CNN’s potential to retrieve shallow water depths from multispectral images captured by a drone, this thesis conducts a variety of case studies to respectively specify a proper CNN architecture, compare its performance in different datasets, band combinations, depth ranges and with other general bathymetry retrieval algorithms. In summary, the CNN-based model achieves the best regression accuracy of overall root mean square error lower than 0.5, in comparison with another machine learning algorithm, random forest, and 2 other semi-empirical methods, linear and ratio model, suggesting this thesis’s practical significance. / Aedes aegypti och Aedes albopictus är de viktigaste vektorarterna för dengue och zika, två arbovirus som drabbar en stor del av den globala befolkningen. Dessa myggor förökar sig i mycket långsamt rörliga eller stillastående vattensamlingar, så att upptäcka och hantera dessa potentiella förökningsmiljöer är ett avgörande steg för att förhindra spridningen av dessa sjukdomar. Med hjälp av högupplösta bilder som samlats in av obemannade flygfarkoster (UAV) och deras multispektrala kartläggningsdata undersöktes i den här artikeln en modell för att hämta batymetri i grunda vattenområden för att förbättra noggrannheten i upptäckten av livsmiljöer. Även om tidigare studier har haft viss framgång med inversion av bathymetri på grunt vatten med hjälp av satellitbilder, är det fortfarande en utmaning att göra en exakt regression av vattendjupet på centimeternivå från högupplösta, multispektrala bilder från drönare. Till skillnad från tidigare metoder som i allmänhet bygger på extrahering av återvinningsfaktorer och linjär regression, infördes i denna avhandling CNN-metoder som tar hänsyn till det icke-linjära förhållandet mellan bildpixlarnas reflektionsvärden och vattendjupet. För att undersöka CNN:s potential att hämta grunda vattendjup från multispektrala bilder som tagits av en drönare genomförs i denna avhandling en rad fallstudier för att specificera en lämplig CNN-arkitektur, jämföra dess prestanda i olika datamängder, bandkombinationer, djupintervall och med andra allmänna algoritmer för att hämta batymetri. Sammanfattningsvis uppnår den CNN-baserade modellen den bästa regressionsnoggrannheten med ett totalt medelkvadratfel som är lägre än 0,5, i jämförelse med en annan maskininlärningsalgoritm, random forest, och två andra halvempiriska metoder, linjär och kvotmodell, vilket tyder på den praktiska betydelsen av denna avhandling.

Maintaining quality outcomes is an essential task for any manufacturing organization. Visual inspections have long been an avenue to detect defects in manufactured products, and recent advances within the field of deep learning has led to a surge of research in how technologies like convolutional neural networks can be used to perform these quality inspections automatically. An alternative to these often large and deep network structures is the modular neural network, which can instead divide a classification task into several sub-tasks to decrease the overall complexity of a problem. To investigate how these two approaches to image classification compare in a quality inspection task, a case study was performed at AR Packaging, a manufacturer of food containers. The many different colors, prints and geometries present in the AR Packaging product family served as a natural occurrence of complexity for the quality classification task. A modular network was designed, being formed by one routing module to classify variant type which is subsequently used to delegate the quality classification to an expert module trained for that specific variant. An image dataset was manually generated from within the production environment portraying a range of product variants in both defective and non-defective form. An image processing algorithm was developed to minimize image background and align the products in the pictures. To evaluate the adaptability of the two approaches, the networks were initially trained on same data from five variants, and then retrained with added data from a sixth variant. The modular networks were found to be overall less accurate and slower in their classification than the conventional single networks were. However, the modular networks were more than six times smaller and required less time to train initially, though the retraining times were roughly equivalent in both approaches. The retraining of the single network did also cause some fluctuation in the predictive accuracy, something which was not noted in the modular network. / <p>Det finns övrigt digitalt material (t.ex. film-, bild- eller ljudfiler) eller modeller/artefakter tillhörande examensarbetet som ska skickas till arkivet.</p>

<p>This thesis explores the usage of machine learning (ML) algorithms and software-defined radio (SDR) hardware for the detection of signal jamming and message injection cyberattacks against unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless communications. In the first work presented in this thesis, a real-time ML solution for classifying four types of jamming attacks is proposed for implementation with a UAV using an onboard Raspberry Pi computer and HackRF One SDR. Also presented in this thesis is a multioutput multiclass convolutional neural network (CNN) model implemented for the purpose of identifying the direction in which a jamming sample is received from, in addition to detecting and classifying the jamming type. Such jamming types studied herein are barrage, single-tone, successive-pulse, and protocol-aware jamming. The findings of this chapter forms the basis of a reinforcement learning (RL) approach for UAV flightpath modification as the next stage of this research. The final work included in this thesis presents a ML solution for the binary classification of three different message injection attacks against ADS-B communication systems, namely path modification, velocity drift and ghost aircraft injection attacks. The collective results of these individual works demonstrate the viability of artificial-intelligence (AI) based solutions for cybersecurity applications with respect to UAV communications.</p>

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Gravel roads connect sparse populations and provide highways for agriculture and the transport of forest goods. Gravel roads are an economical choice where traffic volume is low. In Sweden, 21% of all public roads are state-owned gravel roads, covering over 20,200 km. In addition, there are some 74,000 km of gravel roads and 210,000 km of forest roads that are owned by the private sector. The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) rates the condition of gravel roads according to the severity of irregularities (e.g. corrugations and potholes), dust, loose gravel, and gravel cross-sections. This assessment is carried out during the summertime when roads are free of snow. One of the essential parameters for gravel road assessment is loose gravel. Loose gravel can cause a tire to slip, leading to a loss of driver control.  Assessment of gravel roads is carried out subjectively by taking images of road sections and adding some textual notes. A cost-effective, intelligent, and objective method for road assessment is lacking. Expensive methods, such as laser profiler trucks, are available and can offer road profiling with high accuracy. These methods are not applied to gravel roads, however, because of the need to maintain cost-efficiency.  In this thesis, we explored the idea that, in addition to machine vision, we could also use machine hearing to classify the condition of gravel roads in relation to loose gravel. Several suitable classical supervised learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN) were tested. When people drive on gravel roads, they can make sense of the road condition by listening to the gravel hitting the bottom of the car. The more we hear gravel hitting the bottom of the car, the more we can sense that there is a lot of loose gravel and, therefore, the road might be in a bad condition. Based on this idea, we hypothesized that machines could also undertake such a classification when trained with labeled sound data. Machines can identify gravel and non-gravel sounds. In this thesis, we used traditional machine learning algorithms, such as support vector machines (SVM), decision trees, and ensemble classification methods. We also explored CNN for classifying spectrograms of audio sounds and images in gravel roads. Both supervised learning and CNN were used, and results were compared for this study. In classical algorithms, when compared with other classifiers, ensemble bagged tree (EBT)-based classifiers performed best for classifying gravel and non-gravel sounds. EBT performance is also useful in reducing the misclassification of non-gravel sounds. The use of CNN also showed a 97.91% accuracy rate. Using CNN makes the classification process more intuitive because the network architecture takes responsibility for selecting the relevant training features. Furthermore, the classification results can be visualized on road maps, which can help road monitoring agencies assess road conditions and schedule maintenance activities for a particular road. / <p>Due to unforeseen circumstances the seminar was postponed from May 7 to 28, as duly stated in the new posting page.</p>

Multimodal biometric systems have been widely applied in many real-world applications due to its ability to deal with a number of significant limitations of unimodal biometric systems, including sensitivity to noise, population coverage, intra-class variability, non-universality, and vulnerability to spoofing. This PhD thesis is focused on the combination of both the face and the left and right irises, in a unified hybrid multimodal biometric identification system using different fusion approaches at the score and rank level. Firstly, the facial features are extracted using a novel multimodal local feature extraction approach, termed as the Curvelet-Fractal approach, which based on merging the advantages of the Curvelet transform with Fractal dimension. Secondly, a novel framework based on merging the advantages of the local handcrafted feature descriptors with the deep learning approaches is proposed, Multimodal Deep Face Recognition (MDFR) framework, to address the face recognition problem in unconstrained conditions. Thirdly, an efficient deep learning system is employed, termed as IrisConvNet, whose architecture is based on a combination of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Softmax classifier to extract discriminative features from an iris image. Finally, The performance of the unimodal and multimodal systems has been evaluated by conducting a number of extensive experiments on large-scale unimodal databases: FERET, CAS-PEAL-R1, LFW, CASIA-Iris-V1, CASIA-Iris-V3 Interval, MMU1 and IITD and MMU1, and SDUMLA-HMT multimodal dataset. The results obtained have demonstrated the superiority of the proposed systems compared to the previous works by achieving new state-of-the-art recognition rates on all the employed datasets with less time required to recognize the person’s identity.Multimodal biometric systems have been widely applied in many real-world applications due to its ability to deal with a number of significant limitations of unimodal biometric systems, including sensitivity to noise, population coverage, intra-class variability, non-universality, and vulnerability to spoofing. This PhD thesis is focused on the combination of both the face and the left and right irises, in a unified hybrid multimodal biometric identification system using different fusion approaches at the score and rank level. Firstly, the facial features are extracted using a novel multimodal local feature extraction approach, termed as the Curvelet-Fractal approach, which based on merging the advantages of the Curvelet transform with Fractal dimension. Secondly, a novel framework based on merging the advantages of the local handcrafted feature descriptors with the deep learning approaches is proposed, Multimodal Deep Face Recognition (MDFR) framework, to address the face recognition problem in unconstrained conditions. Thirdly, an efficient deep learning system is employed, termed as IrisConvNet, whose architecture is based on a combination of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Softmax classifier to extract discriminative features from an iris image. Finally, The performance of the unimodal and multimodal systems has been evaluated by conducting a number of extensive experiments on large-scale unimodal databases: FERET, CAS-PEAL-R1, LFW, CASIA-Iris-V1, CASIA-Iris-V3 Interval, MMU1 and IITD and MMU1, and SDUMLA-HMT multimodal dataset. The results obtained have demonstrated the superiority of the proposed systems compared to the previous works by achieving new state-of-the-art recognition rates on all the employed datasets with less time required to recognize the person’s identity. / Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq

This project aims to contribute to the discussion regarding reproducibility of machinelearning research. This is done through utilizing the methods specified in the report ImprovingReproducibility in Machine Learning Research [30] to select an appropriateobject detection machine learning research paper for reproduction. Furthermore, this reportwill explain fundamental concepts of object detection. The chosen machine learningresearch paper, You Only Look Once (YOLO) [40] is then explained, implemented andtrained with various hyperparameters and pre-processing steps.While the reproduction did not achieve the results presented by the original machinelearning paper, some key insights were established. Firstly, the results of the projectdemonstrates the importance of pretraining. Secondly, the checklist provided by the NeurIPS[30] should be adjusted such that it is applicable in more situations.

The interest in autonomous vehicles has recently increased and as a consequence many companies and researchers have begun working on their own solutions to many of the issues that ensue when a car has to handle complicated decisions on its own. This project looks into the possibility of relegating as many decisions as possible to only one sensor and engine control unit (ECU) — in this work, by letting a Raspberry Pi with a camera attached control a vehicle following a road. To solve this problem, image processing, or more specifically, machine learning’s convolutional neural networks (CNN) are utilized to steer a car by monitoring the path with a single camera. The proposed CNN is designed and implemented using a machine learning library for Python known as Keras. The design of the network is based on the famous Lenet, but has been downscaled to increase computation speed and to reduce memory size while still maintaining a sufficient accuracy. The network was run on the ECU, which in turn was fastened to a RC car together with the camera. For control purposes wires were soldered to the remote controller and connected to the Raspberry Pi. As concerns steering, a simple bang-bang controller was implemented. Glass box testing was used to assess the effectiveness of the code, and to guarantee a continuous evaluation of the results. To satisfy the network’s requirements in terms of both accuracy and computation speed larger experiments were performed. The final experiments showed that the network achieved sufficient accuracy and performance to steer the prototype car in real time tasks, such as following model roads and stopping at the end of the path, as planned. This shows that despite being small with moderate accuracy, this CNN can handle the task of lane-keeping using only the data of one single camera. Since the CNN could do this while running on a small computer such as the Raspberry Pi, it has been observed that using a CNN for a lane-keeping algorithm in an embedded system looks promising. / På senare tid så har intresset angående självkörande bilar ökat. Detta har lett till att många företag och forskare har börjat jobbat på sina egna lösningar till den myriad av problem som upstår när en bil behöver ta komplicerade beslut på egen hand. Detta projekt undersöker möjligheten att lämna så många av dessa beslut som möjligt till en enda sensor och processor. I detta fall så blir det en Raspberry Pi (RPI) och en kamera som sätts på en radiostyrd bil och skall följa en väg. För att implementera detta så används bildbehandling, eller mer specifikt, convolutional neural networks (CNN) från maskininlärning för att styra bilen med en enda kamera. Det utvecklade nätverket är designat och implementerat med ett bibliotek för maskininlärning i Python som kallas för Keras. Nätverkets design är baserat på det berömda Lenet men den har skalats ner för att öka prestandan och minska storleken som nätverket tar men fortfarande uppnå en anständing träffsäkerhet. Nätverket körs på RPIn, vilken i sin tur är fastsatt på en radiostyrd bil tillsammans med kameran. Kablar har kopplats och blivit lödda mellan RPIn och handkontrollen till radiostyrda bilen så att RPIn kan styra bilen. Själva styrningen lämnats åt en simpel "Bang Bang controller". Utvärdering av nätvärket och prototypen utfördes löpande under projektets gång, enhetstester gjordes enligt glasboxmetoden för att testa och verifiera olika delar av koden. Större experiment gjordes för att säkerställa att nätverket presterar som förväntat i olika situationer. Det slutgiltiga experimentet fastställde att nätverket uppfyller en acceptabel träffsäkerhet och kan styra prototypen utan problem när denne följer olika vägar samt att den kan stanna i de fall den behöver. Detta visar att trots den begränsade storleken på nätverket så kunde det styra en bil baserat på datan från endast en sensor. Detta var dessutom möjligt när man körde nätverket på en liten och svag dator som en RPI, detta visar att CNN var kraftfulla nog i det här fallet.

Deep learning develops rapidly in recent years. It has been applied to many fields, which are the main areas of artificial intelligence. The combination of deep learning and embedded systems is a good direction in the technical field. This project is going to design a deep learning neural network algorithm that can be implemented on hardware, for example, FPGA. This project based on current researches about deep learning neural network and hardware features. The system uses PyTorch and CUDA as assistant methods. This project focuses on image classification based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). Many good CNN models can be studied, like ResNet, ResNeXt, and MobileNet. By applying these models to the design, an algorithm is decided with the model of MobileNet. Models are selected in some ways, like floating point operations (FLOPs), number of parameters and classification accuracy. Finally, the algorithm based on MobileNet is selected with a top-1 error of 5.5%on software with a 6-class data set.Furthermore, the hardware simulation comes on the MobileNet based algorithm. The parameters are transformed from floating point numbers to 8-bit integers. The output numbers of each individual layer are cut to fixed-bit integers to fit the hardware restriction. A number handling method is designed to simulate the number change on hardware. Based on this simulation method, the top-1 error increases to 12.3%, which is acceptable. / Deep learning har utvecklats snabbt under den senaste tiden. Det har funnit applikationer inom många områden, som är huvudfälten inom Artificial Intelligence. Kombinationen av Deep Learning och innbyggda system är en god inriktning i det tekniska fältet. Syftet med detta projekt är att designa en Deep Learning-baserad Neural Network algoritm som kan implementeras på hårdvara, till exempel en FPGA. Projektet är baserat på modern forskning inom Deep Learning Neural Networks samt hårdvaruegenskaper.Systemet är baserat på PyTorch och CUDA. Projektets fokus är bild klassificering baserat på Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Det finns många bra CNN modeller att studera, t.ex. ResNet, ResNeXt och MobileNet. Genom att applicera dessa modeller till designen valdes en algoritm med MobileNetmodellen. Valet av modell är baserat på faktorer så som antal flyttalsoperationer, antal modellparametrar och klassifikationsprecision. Den mjukvarubaserade versionen av den MobileNet-baserade algoritmen har top-1 error på 5.5En hårdvarusimulering av MobileNet nätverket designades, i vilket parametrarna är konverterade från flyttal till 8-bit heltal. Talen från varje lager klipps till fixed-bit heltal för att anpassa nätverket till befintliga hårdvarubegränsningar. En metod designas för att simulera talförändringen på hårdvaran. Baserat på denna simuleringsmetod reduceras top-1 error till 12.3

Simulating the global climate in fine granularity is essential in climate science research. Current algorithms for computing climate models are based on mathematical models that are computationally expensive. Climate simulation runs can take days or months to execute on High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. As such, the amount of computational resources determines the level of resolution for the simulations. If simulation time could be reduced without compromising model fidelity, higher resolution simulations would be possible leading to potentially new insights in climate science research. In this project, broadband radiative transfer modeling is examined, as this is an important part in climate simulators that takes around 30% to 50% time of a typical general circulation model. This thesis project presents a convolutional neural network (CNN) to model this most time consuming component. As a result, swift radiation prediction through the trained deep neural network achieves a 7x speedup compared to the calculation time of the original function. The average prediction error (MSE) is around 0.004 with 98.71% of accuracy. / Högupplösta globala klimatsimuleringar är oumbärliga för klimatforskningen.De algoritmer som i dag används för att beräkna klimatmodeller baserar sig på matematiska modeller som är beräkningsmässigt tunga. Klimatsimuleringar kan ta dagar eller månader att utföra på superdator (HPC). På så vis begränsas detaljnivån av vilka datorresurser som finns tillgängliga. Om simuleringstiden kunde minskas utan att kompromissa på modellens riktighet skulle detaljrikedomen kunna ökas och nya insikter göras möjliga. Detta projekt undersöker Bredband Solstrålning modellering eftersom det är en betydande del av dagens klimatsimulationer och upptar mellan 30-50% av beräkningstiden i en typisk generell cirkulationsmodell (GCM). Denna uppsats presenterar ett neuralt faltningsnätverk som ersätter denna beräkningsintensiva del. Resultatet är en sju gångers uppsnabbning jämfört med den ursprungliga metoden. Genomsnittliga uppskattningsfelet är 0.004 med 98.71 procents noggrannhet.