Optical Coherence Tomography is a technique used to scan the Retina of the eye and check for tears. In this paper, we develop a Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for OCT scan classification. The model is trained to detect Retinal tears from an OCT scan and classify the type of tear. We designed a block-based approach to accompany a pre-trained VGG-19 using Transfer Learning by writing customised layers in blocks for better feature extraction. The approach achieved substantially better results than the baseline we initially started out with.

如今，渴望数据的深神经网络（DNNS）的创建者搜索互联网训练饲料，使用户几乎无法控制或了解何时将其数据用于模型培训。为了使用户能够抵消不需要的数据使用，我们设计，实施和评估一个实用系统，该系统使用户能够检测其数据是否用于培训DNN模型。我们展示了用户如何创建我们称为同位素的特殊数据点，该数据点在培训期间将“伪造功能”引入DNN中。仅查询访问训练的模型，并且对模型培训过程不了解或对数据标签的控制，用户可以应用统计假设测试来检测模型是否通过对用户的培训进行培训来了解与其同位素相关的虚假特征数据。这有效地将DNNS对记忆和虚假相关性的脆弱性变成了数据出处的工具。我们的结果证实了在多种设置中的功效，检测并区分了数百种具有高精度的同位素。我们进一步表明，我们的系统在公共ML-AS-AS-Service平台和较大的模型（例如ImageNet）上工作，可以使用物理对象代替数字标记，并且通常对几种自适应对策保持坚固。

制定了具有机器学习模拟（骆驼）项目的宇宙学和天体物理学，通过数千名宇宙的流体动力模拟和机器学习将宇宙学与天体物理学结合起来。骆驼包含4,233个宇宙学仿真，2,049个n-body和2,184个最先进的流体动力模拟，在参数空间中采样巨大的体积。在本文中，我们介绍了骆驼公共数据发布，描述了骆驼模拟的特性和由它们产生的各种数据产品，包括光环，次麦，银河系和空隙目录，功率谱，Bispectra，Lyman - $ \ Alpha $光谱，概率分布函数，光环径向轮廓和X射线光子列表。我们还释放了超过骆驼 - 山姆的数十亿个星系的目录：与Santa Cruz半分析模型相结合的大量N身体模拟。我们释放包含350多个Terabytes的所有数据，并包含143,922个快照，数百万光环，星系和摘要统计数据。我们提供有关如何访问，下载，读取和处理数据AT \ URL {https://camels.readthedocs.io}的进一步技术详细信息。

已知深度学习系统容易受到对抗例子的影响。特别是，基于查询的黑框攻击不需要深入学习模型的知识，而可以通过提交查询和检查收益来计算网络上的对抗示例。最近的工作在很大程度上提高了这些攻击的效率，证明了它们在当今的ML-AS-A-Service平台上的实用性。我们提出了Blacklight，这是针对基于查询的黑盒对抗攻击的新防御。推动我们设计的基本见解是，为了计算对抗性示例，这些攻击在网络上进行了迭代优化，从而在输入空间中产生了非常相似的图像查询。 Blacklight使用在概率内容指纹上运行的有效相似性引擎来检测高度相似的查询来检测基于查询的黑盒攻击。我们根据各种模型和图像分类任务对八次最先进的攻击进行评估。 Blacklight通常只有几次查询后，都可以识别所有这些。通过拒绝所有检测到的查询，即使攻击者在帐户禁令或查询拒绝之后持续提交查询，Blacklight也可以防止任何攻击完成。 Blacklight在几个强大的对策中也很强大，包括最佳的黑盒攻击，该攻击近似于效率的白色框攻击。最后，我们说明了黑光如何推广到其他域，例如文本分类。

The recent increase in public and academic interest in preserving biodiversity has led to the growth of the field of conservation technology. This field involves designing and constructing tools that utilize technology to aid in the conservation of wildlife. In this article, we will use case studies to demonstrate the importance of designing conservation tools with human-wildlife interaction in mind and provide a framework for creating successful tools. These case studies include a range of complexities, from simple cat collars to machine learning and game theory methodologies. Our goal is to introduce and inform current and future researchers in the field of conservation technology and provide references for educating the next generation of conservation technologists. Conservation technology not only has the potential to benefit biodiversity but also has broader impacts on fields such as sustainability and environmental protection. By using innovative technologies to address conservation challenges, we can find more effective and efficient solutions to protect and preserve our planet's resources.

With the rise in high resolution remote sensing technologies there has been an explosion in the amount of data available for forest monitoring, and an accompanying growth in artificial intelligence applications to automatically derive forest properties of interest from these datasets. Many studies use their own data at small spatio-temporal scales, and demonstrate an application of an existing or adapted data science method for a particular task. This approach often involves intensive and time-consuming data collection and processing, but generates results restricted to specific ecosystems and sensor types. There is a lack of widespread acknowledgement of how the types and structures of data used affects performance and accuracy of analysis algorithms. To accelerate progress in the field more efficiently, benchmarking datasets upon which methods can be tested and compared are sorely needed. Here, we discuss how lack of standardisation impacts confidence in estimation of key forest properties, and how considerations of data collection need to be accounted for in assessing method performance. We present pragmatic requirements and considerations for the creation of rigorous, useful benchmarking datasets for forest monitoring applications, and discuss how tools from modern data science can improve use of existing data. We list a set of example large-scale datasets that could contribute to benchmarking, and present a vision for how community-driven, representative benchmarking initiatives could benefit the field.

The study aims the development of a wearable device to combat the onslaught of covid-19. Likewise, to enhance the regular face shield available in the market. Furthermore, to raise awareness of the health and safety protocols initiated by the government and its affiliates in the enforcement of social distancing with the integration of computer vision algorithms. The wearable device was composed of various hardware and software components such as a transparent polycarbonate face shield, microprocessor, sensors, camera, thin-film transistor on-screen display, jumper wires, power bank, and python programming language. The algorithm incorporated in the study was object detection under computer vision machine learning. The front camera with OpenCV technology determines the distance of a person in front of the user. Utilizing TensorFlow, the target object identifies and detects the image or live feed to get its bounding boxes. The focal length lens requires the determination of the distance from the camera to the target object. To get the focal length, multiply the pixel width by the known distance and divide it by the known width (Rosebrock, 2020). The deployment of unit testing ensures that the parameters are valid in terms of design and specifications.

Despite many recent advancements in language modeling, state-of-the-art language models lack grounding in the real world and struggle with tasks involving complex reasoning. Meanwhile, advances in the symbolic reasoning capabilities of AI have led to systems that outperform humans in games like chess and Go (Silver et al., 2018). Chess commentary provides an interesting domain for bridging these two fields of research, as it requires reasoning over a complex board state and providing analyses in natural language. In this work we demonstrate how to combine symbolic reasoning engines with controllable language models to generate chess commentaries. We conduct experiments to demonstrate that our approach generates commentaries that are preferred by human judges over previous baselines.

By transferring knowledge from large, diverse, task-agnostic datasets, modern machine learning models can solve specific downstream tasks either zero-shot or with small task-specific datasets to a high level of performance. While this capability has been demonstrated in other fields such as computer vision, natural language processing or speech recognition, it remains to be shown in robotics, where the generalization capabilities of the models are particularly critical due to the difficulty of collecting real-world robotic data. We argue that one of the keys to the success of such general robotic models lies with open-ended task-agnostic training, combined with high-capacity architectures that can absorb all of the diverse, robotic data. In this paper, we present a model class, dubbed Robotics Transformer, that exhibits promising scalable model properties. We verify our conclusions in a study of different model classes and their ability to generalize as a function of the data size, model size, and data diversity based on a large-scale data collection on real robots performing real-world tasks. The project's website and videos can be found at robotics-transformer.github.io

Despite the impact of psychiatric disorders on clinical health, early-stage diagnosis remains a challenge. Machine learning studies have shown that classifiers tend to be overly narrow in the diagnosis prediction task. The overlap between conditions leads to high heterogeneity among participants that is not adequately captured by classification models. To address this issue, normative approaches have surged as an alternative method. By using a generative model to learn the distribution of healthy brain data patterns, we can identify the presence of pathologies as deviations or outliers from the distribution learned by the model. In particular, deep generative models showed great results as normative models to identify neurological lesions in the brain. However, unlike most neurological lesions, psychiatric disorders present subtle changes widespread in several brain regions, making these alterations challenging to identify. In this work, we evaluate the performance of transformer-based normative models to detect subtle brain changes expressed in adolescents and young adults. We trained our model on 3D MRI scans of neurotypical individuals (N=1,765). Then, we obtained the likelihood of neurotypical controls and psychiatric patients with early-stage schizophrenia from an independent dataset (N=93) from the Human Connectome Project. Using the predicted likelihood of the scans as a proxy for a normative score, we obtained an AUROC of 0.82 when assessing the difference between controls and individuals with early-stage schizophrenia. Our approach surpassed recent normative methods based on brain age and Gaussian Process, showing the promising use of deep generative models to help in individualised analyses.