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We present a convolutional neural network for the classification of correlation responses obtained by correlation filters. The proposed approach can improve the accuracy of classification, as well as achieve invariance to the image classes…
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Deep learning (DL) has been widely adopted those last years but they are computing-intensive method. Therefore, scientists proposed diverse optimization to accelerate their predictions for end-user applications. However, no single inference…
Recently machine learning is being applied to almost every data domain one of which is Question Answering Systems (QAS). A typical Question Answering System is fairly an information retrieval system, which matches documents or text and…