Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Deep Learning"
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Active Neural Learners for Text with Dual Supervision
(2019-03-04)Dual supervision for text classification and information retrieval, which involves training the machine with class labels augmented with text annotations that are indicative of the class, has been shown to provide significant ... -
Applications of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Baleen Whales
(2024-04-14)Research into automated detection and classification systems (DCS) of marine mammal vocalizations in acoustic recordings is expanding internationally due to the necessity to analyze large collections of data for conservation ... -
Classification and Analysis of a Large MEG Dataset using Convolutional Neural Networks
(2019-08-16)Convolutional neural networks were used to classify and analyse a large magnetoencephalography (MEG) dataset. Networks were trained to classify between active and baseline intervals recorded during cued button pressing. ... -
COMBINING HIGH-THROUGHPUT IMAGING AND AMPLICON SEQUENCING TO MONITOR EUKARYOTIC PLANKTON
(2021-08-06)Microbial communities support ocean food webs and respond to the surrounding environment to varying degrees across different time scales. The eukaryotic plankton throughout the oceans are extraordinarily diverse but difficult ... -
Common N-Gram Method: A Promising Approach to Detecting Mental Health Disorders on Social Media
(2023-04-13)This paper addresses the mental health challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of reliable and accessible diagnostic tools for mental health conditions. The dataset used in this research consists of over 2 ... -
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FAILURE PREDICTION IN 5G NETWORKS
(2022-03-25)5G networks enable emerging latency and bandwidth critical applications like industrial IoT, AR/VR, or autonomous vehicles in addition to supporting traditional voice and data communications. In the 5G infrastructure, ... -
Concept Embedding for Deep Neural Functional Analysis of Genes and Deep Neural Word Sense Disambiguation of Biomedical Text
(2019-07-17)As far as Gene Ontology (GO) is concerned, most of the existing gene functional similarity measures combine information content-based semantic similarity scores of single GO-term pairs to estimate gene functional similarity, ... -
CONTEXT-AWARE SEMANTIC TEXT MINING AND REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR TEXT DISAMBIGUATION AND ONLINE HARASSMENT CLASSIFICATION
(2023-12-15)This dissertation presents a new method for text representation learning and applies it to two Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems, namely, word sense disambiguation and text classification. Word Sense Disambiguation ... -
Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Weed Identification in Wild Blueberry Production
(2020-12-18)Yield-limiting weeds in wild blueberry fields, including hair fescue and sheep sorrel, are traditionally managed with uniform applications of herbicides. Spot applications of herbicides reduce the volume required for ... -
DDOS DETECTION MODELS USING MACHINE AND DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(2021-01-27)Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are considered to be a major security threat to online servers and cloud providers. Intrusion detection systems have utilized machine learning as one of the solutions to the ... -
A DEEP IMAGE CLASSIFICATION APPROACH FOR FISHING ACTIVITY DETECTION FROM AIS DATA
(2019-12-12)Maritime transport and vessel activities on the ocean have a significant impact on marine life, which consequently affects human life. Therefore analyzing and monitoring the fishing activities using the vast amount of ... -
Deep Neural Network (DNN) Design: The Utilization of Approximate Computing and Practical Considerations for Accuracy Evaluation
(2021-08-04)Approximate computing is emerging as a viable way to achieve significant performance enhancement in terms of power, speed, and area for system on chip (SoC) designs. Utilizing approximate computing in the design of deep ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED DEBRIS DETECTION SYSTEM FOR WILD BLUEBERRY HARVESTERS USING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK TO IMPROVE FRUIT QUALITY
(2020-11-16)Improving wild blueberry fruit quality has become increasingly important to producers due to the tightening profit margin facing the industry. The continuous development of field management practices (i.e., application of ... -
Discriminative Shape Feature Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Classification
(2016-12-12)Unlike conventional handcrafted feature extractors, deep learning approach can extract generic image features without relying on explicit domain knowledge. Recently, there is a trend of combining handcrafted features with ... -
ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINE PLAYSTYLE DETECTION AND RAPID PLAYSTYLE CLASSIFICATION USING MULTIVARIATE CONVOLUTIONAL LSTM NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
(2021-09-01)Electronic Gaming Machines (EGM) are common, anonymous, stateless gambling machines operated by a region’s lottery and situated in licensed venues. Previous work have shown that problem gambling detection is possible ... -
An Empirical Analysis of Cross-entropy Based and Metric-based Methods on North Atlantic Right Whale Acoustic Data
(2020-06-11)With increasing concern for marine species extinction, a massive effort has been made to conserve, prevent, and search for a sustainable solution. However, data labeling is a labor-heavy and time-consuming work, resulting ... -
Helping Biologists Find Whales: AI-in-the-Loop Support for Environmental Dataset Creation
(2021-12-13)We develop a computer vision system to help biologists detect endangered whales. Given access to a limited dataset of aerial imagery (1544 images of mainly water), we implemented object detection and semantic segmentation ... -
Human-in-the-loop Classification for Multi-page Administrative Documents
(2022-12-14)Real estate administrative documents present a unique challenge where each condo corporation's documents come from multiple sources and in varying formats. Moreover, each record has varying sizes, making it very time-consuming ... -
Identification of high-frequency periodic acoustic tags with deep learning
(2021-07-30)Marine life researchers use the concept of fish tracking to determine the activity andbehaviour of fish. It allows the researchers to recognize the valuable biological andphysical support systems required by fish species ... -
Learning Embeddings for Text and Images from Structure of the Data
(2019-06-25)In the big data era, most of the data generated every day are high dimensional such as text and image data. Learning compact representations from the input data can help in dealing with the high dimensionality and visualization ...