作物疾病是对粮食安全的主要威胁，其快速识别对于防止产量损失很重要。由于缺乏必要的基础设施，因此很难迅速识别这些疾病。计算机视觉的最新进展和智能手机渗透的渗透为智能手机辅助疾病识别铺平了道路。大多数植物疾病在植物的叶面结构上留下了特定的文物。这项研究于2020年在巴基斯坦拉合尔工程技术大学计算机科学与工程系进行，以检查基于叶片的植物疾病识别。这项研究为叶面疾病鉴定提供了基于神经网络的深度解决方案，并纳入了图像质量评估，以选择执行识别所需质量的图像，并将其命名为农业病理学家（AGRO PATH）。新手摄影师的捕获图像可能包含噪音，缺乏结构和模糊，从而导致诊断失败或不准确。此外，Agropath模型具有99.42％的叶面疾病鉴定精度。拟议的添加对于在农业领域的叶面疾病鉴定的应用特别有用。

Pansharpening使用高空间分辨率Panchromatic图像的特征增强了高光谱分辨率多光谱图像的空间细节。有许多传统的pansharpening方法，但是产生表现出高光谱和空间保真度的图像仍然是一个空旷的问题。最近，深度学习已被用来产生有希望的Pansharped图像。但是，这些方法中的大多数通过使用相同的网络进行特征提取，对多光谱和全球性图像都采用了类似的处理。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个新型的基于双重注意的两流网络。首先使用两个单独的网络进行两个图像的特征提取，这是一种具有注意机制的编码器，可重新校准提取的功能。接下来是融合的特征，形成喂入图像重建网络的紧凑表示形式以产生pansharped图像。使用标准定量评估指标和视觉检查的PL \'{E} IADES数据集的实验结果表明，就Pansharped图像质量而言，所提出的方法比其他方法更好。

数字图像包含大量冗余，因此，应用了压缩以减少图像尺寸而不会损失合理的图像质量。在包含图像序列的视频的情况下，在包含图像序列和更高的压缩比中，在低吞吐量网络中实现了相同的突出。评估这种情况下的图像质量变得特别兴趣。大多数情景中的主观评估变得不可行，因此客观评估是首选。在三种客观质量措施中，全文和减少参考方法需要某种形式的原始图像来计算在广播或IP视频等情景中不可行的质量分数。因此，提出了一种非参考质量度量来评估计算亮度和多尺度梯度统计的数字图像的质量，以及平均减去对比度标准化产品作为具有缩放共轭梯度的前馈神经网络的特征。训练有素的网络提供了良好的回归和R2测量，并进一步测试实时图像质量评估数据库第2版已显示有前途的结果。 Pearson，Kendall和Spearman的相关性是计算预测和实际质量评分之间的相关性，结果与最先进的系统相当。此外，所提出的指标的计算方式比其对应物更快，并且可以用于图像序列的质量评估。

自动检测武器对于改善个人的安全性和福祉是重要的，仍然是由于各种尺寸，武器形状和外观，这是一项艰巨的任务。查看点变化和遮挡也是使这项任务更加困难的原因。此外，目前的物体检测算法处理矩形区域，但是一个细长和长的步枪可以真正地覆盖区域的一部分区域，其余部分可能包含未经紧的细节。为了克服这些问题，我们提出了一种用于定向意识武器检测的CNN架构，其提供具有改进的武器检测性能的面向边界框。所提出的模型不仅通过将角度作为分类问题的角度分成8个类而且提供方向，而是作为回归问题。对于培训我们的武器检测模型，包括总6400件武器图像的新数据集从网上收集，然后用面向定向的边界框手动注释。我们的数据集不仅提供导向的边界框作为地面真相，还提供了水平边界框。我们还以多种现代对象探测器提供我们的数据集，用于在该领域进一步研究。所提出的模型在该数据集上进行评估，并且与搁板对象检测器的比较分析产生了卓越的拟议模型的性能，以标准评估策略测量。数据集和模型实现在此链接上公开可用：https://bit.ly/2tyzicf。

由于它们的蔓延越来越多，对神经网络预测的信心变得越来越重要。然而，基本的神经网络不会透露确定性估计或遭受超过或置信度。许多研究人员一直在努力了解和量化神经网络预测中的不确定性。结果，已经提出了已经确定了不同类型和不确定性的来源，并且已经提出了一种测量和量化神经网络中不确定性的各种方法。这项工作概述了神经网络中的不确定性估计，评论最近领域的进步，突出了当前的挑战，并确定了潜在的研究机会。它旨在向任何兴趣在神经网络中的不确定性估计感兴趣的概述和介绍，而无需预先展现在该领域的先验知识。给出了对最关键的不确定性来源的全面介绍，并分离到可还原的模型不确定性，并提出了未降低的数据不确定性。基于确定性神经网络，贝叶斯神经网络，神经网络集合的这些不确定性和测试时间数据增强方法的建模以及这些领域的不同分支以及讨论了最新的发展。对于实际应用，我们讨论了不同的不确定性措施，校准神经网络的方法，并概述现有基线和实施。来自不同领域的广泛挑战的不同示例概念了关于实际应用中不确定性的需求和挑战。此外，讨论了当前特派团和安全关键现实世界应用程序的实际限制，并讨论了对更广泛使用此类方法的下一个步骤的展望。

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is considered one of the primary concerns due to its effect on vision loss among most people with diabetes globally. The severity of DR is mostly comprehended manually by ophthalmologists from fundus photography-based retina images. This paper deals with an automated understanding of the severity stages of DR. In the literature, researchers have focused on this automation using traditional machine learning-based algorithms and convolutional architectures. However, the past works hardly focused on essential parts of the retinal image to improve the model performance. In this paper, we adopt transformer-based learning models to capture the crucial features of retinal images to understand DR severity better. We work with ensembling image transformers, where we adopt four models, namely ViT (Vision Transformer), BEiT (Bidirectional Encoder representation for image Transformer), CaiT (Class-Attention in Image Transformers), and DeiT (Data efficient image Transformers), to infer the degree of DR severity from fundus photographs. For experiments, we used the publicly available APTOS-2019 blindness detection dataset, where the performances of the transformer-based models were quite encouraging.

This paper presents our solutions for the MediaEval 2022 task on DisasterMM. The task is composed of two subtasks, namely (i) Relevance Classification of Twitter Posts (RCTP), and (ii) Location Extraction from Twitter Texts (LETT). The RCTP subtask aims at differentiating flood-related and non-relevant social posts while LETT is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) task and aims at the extraction of location information from the text. For RCTP, we proposed four different solutions based on BERT, RoBERTa, Distil BERT, and ALBERT obtaining an F1-score of 0.7934, 0.7970, 0.7613, and 0.7924, respectively. For LETT, we used three models namely BERT, RoBERTa, and Distil BERTA obtaining an F1-score of 0.6256, 0.6744, and 0.6723, respectively.

Objective: Despite numerous studies proposed for audio restoration in the literature, most of them focus on an isolated restoration problem such as denoising or dereverberation, ignoring other artifacts. Moreover, assuming a noisy or reverberant environment with limited number of fixed signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) levels is a common practice. However, real-world audio is often corrupted by a blend of artifacts such as reverberation, sensor noise, and background audio mixture with varying types, severities, and duration. In this study, we propose a novel approach for blind restoration of real-world audio signals by Operational Generative Adversarial Networks (Op-GANs) with temporal and spectral objective metrics to enhance the quality of restored audio signal regardless of the type and severity of each artifact corrupting it. Methods: 1D Operational-GANs are used with generative neuron model optimized for blind restoration of any corrupted audio signal. Results: The proposed approach has been evaluated extensively over the benchmark TIMIT-RAR (speech) and GTZAN-RAR (non-speech) datasets corrupted with a random blend of artifacts each with a random severity to mimic real-world audio signals. Average SDR improvements of over 7.2 dB and 4.9 dB are achieved, respectively, which are substantial when compared with the baseline methods. Significance: This is a pioneer study in blind audio restoration with the unique capability of direct (time-domain) restoration of real-world audio whilst achieving an unprecedented level of performance for a wide SDR range and artifact types. Conclusion: 1D Op-GANs can achieve robust and computationally effective real-world audio restoration with significantly improved performance. The source codes and the generated real-world audio datasets are shared publicly with the research community in a dedicated GitHub repository1.

Uncertainty quantification is crucial to inverse problems, as it could provide decision-makers with valuable information about the inversion results. For example, seismic inversion is a notoriously ill-posed inverse problem due to the band-limited and noisy nature of seismic data. It is therefore of paramount importance to quantify the uncertainties associated to the inversion process to ease the subsequent interpretation and decision making processes. Within this framework of reference, sampling from a target posterior provides a fundamental approach to quantifying the uncertainty in seismic inversion. However, selecting appropriate prior information in a probabilistic inversion is crucial, yet non-trivial, as it influences the ability of a sampling-based inference in providing geological realism in the posterior samples. To overcome such limitations, we present a regularized variational inference framework that performs posterior inference by implicitly regularizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence loss with a CNN-based denoiser by means of the Plug-and-Play methods. We call this new algorithm Plug-and-Play Stein Variational Gradient Descent (PnP-SVGD) and demonstrate its ability in producing high-resolution, trustworthy samples representative of the subsurface structures, which we argue could be used for post-inference tasks such as reservoir modelling and history matching. To validate the proposed method, numerical tests are performed on both synthetic and field post-stack seismic data.

In recent years distributional reinforcement learning has produced many state of the art results. Increasingly sample efficient Distributional algorithms for the discrete action domain have been developed over time that vary primarily in the way they parameterize their approximations of value distributions, and how they quantify the differences between those distributions. In this work we transfer three of the most well-known and successful of those algorithms (QR-DQN, IQN and FQF) to the continuous action domain by extending two powerful actor-critic algorithms (TD3 and SAC) with distributional critics. We investigate whether the relative performance of the methods for the discrete action space translates to the continuous case. To that end we compare them empirically on the pybullet implementations of a set of continuous control tasks. Our results indicate qualitative invariance regarding the number and placement of distributional atoms in the deterministic, continuous action setting.