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Mapping the spatial distribution of poverty in developing countries remains an important and costly challenge. These "poverty maps" are key inputs for poverty targeting, public goods provision, political accountability, and impact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-20 Boris Babenko , Jonathan Hersh , David Newhouse , Anusha Ramakrishnan , Tom Swartz

Determining the poverty levels of various regions throughout the world is crucial in identifying interventions for poverty reduction initiatives and directing resources fairly. However, reliable data on global economic livelihoods is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Varun Chitturi , Zaid Nabulsi

The lack of reliable data in developing countries is a major obstacle to sustainable development, food security, and disaster relief. Poverty data, for example, is typically scarce, sparse in coverage, and labor-intensive to obtain. Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Michael Xie , Neal Jean , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Using images containing information on wealth, this research investigates that pictures are capable of reliably predicting the economic prosperity of households. Without surveys on wealth-related information and human-made standard of…

General Economics · Economics 2022-07-01 Jeonggil Song

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have outperformed existing object recognition and detection algorithms. On the other hand satellite imagery captures scenes that are diverse. This paper describes a deep learning approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Anza Shakeel , Mohsen Ali

Obtaining reliable data describing local Food Security Metrics (FSM) at a granularity that is informative to policy-makers requires expensive and logistically difficult surveys, particularly in the developing world. We train a CNN on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Swetava Ganguli , Jared Dunnmon , Darren Hau

Determining the material category of a surface from an image is a demanding task in perception that is drawing increasing attention. Following the recent remarkable results achieved for image classification and object detection utilising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Grigorios Kalliatakis , Georgios Stamatiadis , Shoaib Ehsan , Ales Leonardis , Juergen Gall , Anca Sticlaru , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

In this paper we address the challenge of land cover classification for satellite images via Deep Learning (DL). Land Cover aims to detect the physical characteristics of the territory and estimate the percentage of land occupied by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Eleonora Bernasconi , Francesco Pugliese , Diego Zardetto , Monica Scannapieco

Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a special type of Neural Networks, which has shown exemplary performance on several competitions related to Computer Vision and Image Processing. Some of the exciting application areas of CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Asifullah Khan , Anabia Sohail , Umme Zahoora , Aqsa Saeed Qureshi

In this survey paper, we review recent uses of convolution neural networks (CNNs) to solve inverse problems in imaging. It has recently become feasible to train deep CNNs on large databases of images, and they have shown outstanding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Michael T. McCann , Kyong Hwan Jin , Michael Unser

Deep learning has established many new state of the art solutions in the last decade in areas such as object, scene and speech recognition. In particular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a category of deep learning which obtains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Vincent Andrearczyk , Paul F. Whelan

In the past few years, convolutional neural nets (CNN) have shown incredible promise for learning visual representations. In this paper, we use CNNs for the task of predicting surface normals from a single image. But what is the right…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Xiaolong Wang , David F. Fouhey , Abhinav Gupta

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and especially Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are a de-facto standard for the analysis of large volumes of signals and images. Yet, their development and underlying principles have been largely performed in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ljubisa Stankovic , Danilo Mandic

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be highly effective in solving a broad spectrum of computer vision tasks, such as classification, identification, and segmentation. These methods can be deployed in both centralized and…

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In the task of Object Recognition, there exists a dichotomy between the categorization of objects and estimating object pose, where the former necessitates a view-invariant representation, while the latter requires a representation capable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Tarek El-Gaaly , Amr Bakry , Ahmed Elgammal

Obtaining detailed and reliable data about local economic livelihoods in developing countries is expensive, and data are consequently scarce. Previous work has shown that it is possible to measure local-level economic livelihoods using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-13 Anthony Perez , Christopher Yeh , George Azzari , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

While initially devised for image categorization, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being increasingly used for the pixelwise semantic labeling of images. However, the proper nature of the most common CNN architectures makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Emmanuel Maggiori , Guillaume Charpiat , Yuliya Tarabalka , Pierre Alliez

Deep learning algorithms offer a powerful means to automatically analyze the content of medical images. However, many biological samples of interest are primarily transparent to visible light and contain features that are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Roarke Horstmeyer , Richard Y. Chen , Barbara Kappes , Benjamin Judkewitz

Convolution Neural Networks is one of the most powerful tools in the present era of science. There has been a lot of research done to improve their performance and robustness while their internal working was left unexplored to much extent.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Rohit Gandikota , Deepak Mishra

Thanks to the remarkable advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is becoming increasingly easy to generate/manipulate images. The existing works have mainly focused on deepfake in face images and videos. However, we are…

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