Semantic segmentation is a crucial step for document understanding.In this paper,an NVIDIA Jetson Nano-based platform is applied for implementing semantic segmentation for teaching artificial intelligence concepts and...Semantic segmentation is a crucial step for document understanding.In this paper,an NVIDIA Jetson Nano-based platform is applied for implementing semantic segmentation for teaching artificial intelligence concepts and programming.To extract semantic structures from document images,we present an end-to-end dilated convolution network architecture.Dilated convolutions have well-known advantages for extracting multi-scale context information without losing spatial resolution.Our model utilizes dilated convolutions with residual network to represent the image features and predicting pixel labels.The convolution part works as feature extractor to obtain multidimensional and hierarchical image features.The consecutive deconvolution is used for producing full resolution segmentation prediction.The probability of each pixel decides its predefined semantic class label.To understand segmentation granularity,we compare performances at three different levels.From fine grained class to coarse class levels,the proposed dilated convolution network architecture is evaluated on three document datasets.The experimental results have shown that both semantic data distribution imbalance and network depth are import factors that influence the document’s semantic segmentation performances.The research is aimed at offering an education resource for teaching artificial intelligence concepts and techniques.展开更多
Objective To propose two novel methods based on deep learning for computer-aided tongue diagnosis,including tongue image segmentation and tongue color classification,improving their diagnostic accuracy.Methods LabelMe...Objective To propose two novel methods based on deep learning for computer-aided tongue diagnosis,including tongue image segmentation and tongue color classification,improving their diagnostic accuracy.Methods LabelMe was used to label the tongue mask and Snake model to optimize the labeling results.A new dataset was constructed for tongue image segmentation.Tongue color was marked to build a classified dataset for network training.In this research,the Inception+Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling(ASPP)+UNet(IAUNet)method was proposed for tongue image segmentation,based on the existing UNet,Inception,and atrous convolution.Moreover,the Tongue Color Classification Net(TCCNet)was constructed with reference to ResNet,Inception,and Triple-Loss.Several important measurement indexes were selected to evaluate and compare the effects of the novel and existing methods for tongue segmentation and tongue color classification.IAUNet was compared with existing mainstream methods such as UNet and DeepLabV3+for tongue segmentation.TCCNet for tongue color classification was compared with VGG16 and GoogLeNet.Results IAUNet can accurately segment the tongue from original images.The results showed that the Mean Intersection over Union(MIoU)of IAUNet reached 96.30%,and its Mean Pixel Accuracy(MPA),mean Average Precision(mAP),F1-Score,G-Score,and Area Under Curve(AUC)reached 97.86%,99.18%,96.71%,96.82%,and 99.71%,respectively,suggesting IAUNet produced better segmentation than other methods,with fewer parameters.Triplet-Loss was applied in the proposed TCCNet to separate different embedded colors.The experiment yielded ideal results,with F1-Score and mAP of the TCCNet reached 88.86% and 93.49%,respectively.Conclusion IAUNet based on deep learning for tongue segmentation is better than traditional ones.IAUNet can not only produce ideal tongue segmentation,but have better effects than those of PSPNet,SegNet,UNet,and DeepLabV3+,the traditional networks.As for tongue color classification,the proposed network,TCCNet,had better F1-Score and mAP values as compared with other neural networks such as VGG16 and GoogLeNet.展开更多
基金Project(61806107)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject supported by the Shandong Key Laboratory of Wisdom Mine Information Technology,ChinaProject supported by the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing Technology,China。
文摘Semantic segmentation is a crucial step for document understanding.In this paper,an NVIDIA Jetson Nano-based platform is applied for implementing semantic segmentation for teaching artificial intelligence concepts and programming.To extract semantic structures from document images,we present an end-to-end dilated convolution network architecture.Dilated convolutions have well-known advantages for extracting multi-scale context information without losing spatial resolution.Our model utilizes dilated convolutions with residual network to represent the image features and predicting pixel labels.The convolution part works as feature extractor to obtain multidimensional and hierarchical image features.The consecutive deconvolution is used for producing full resolution segmentation prediction.The probability of each pixel decides its predefined semantic class label.To understand segmentation granularity,we compare performances at three different levels.From fine grained class to coarse class levels,the proposed dilated convolution network architecture is evaluated on three document datasets.The experimental results have shown that both semantic data distribution imbalance and network depth are import factors that influence the document’s semantic segmentation performances.The research is aimed at offering an education resource for teaching artificial intelligence concepts and techniques.
基金Scientific Research Project of the Education Department of Hunan Province(20C1435)Open Fund Project for Computer Science and Technology of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine(2018JK05).
文摘Objective To propose two novel methods based on deep learning for computer-aided tongue diagnosis,including tongue image segmentation and tongue color classification,improving their diagnostic accuracy.Methods LabelMe was used to label the tongue mask and Snake model to optimize the labeling results.A new dataset was constructed for tongue image segmentation.Tongue color was marked to build a classified dataset for network training.In this research,the Inception+Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling(ASPP)+UNet(IAUNet)method was proposed for tongue image segmentation,based on the existing UNet,Inception,and atrous convolution.Moreover,the Tongue Color Classification Net(TCCNet)was constructed with reference to ResNet,Inception,and Triple-Loss.Several important measurement indexes were selected to evaluate and compare the effects of the novel and existing methods for tongue segmentation and tongue color classification.IAUNet was compared with existing mainstream methods such as UNet and DeepLabV3+for tongue segmentation.TCCNet for tongue color classification was compared with VGG16 and GoogLeNet.Results IAUNet can accurately segment the tongue from original images.The results showed that the Mean Intersection over Union(MIoU)of IAUNet reached 96.30%,and its Mean Pixel Accuracy(MPA),mean Average Precision(mAP),F1-Score,G-Score,and Area Under Curve(AUC)reached 97.86%,99.18%,96.71%,96.82%,and 99.71%,respectively,suggesting IAUNet produced better segmentation than other methods,with fewer parameters.Triplet-Loss was applied in the proposed TCCNet to separate different embedded colors.The experiment yielded ideal results,with F1-Score and mAP of the TCCNet reached 88.86% and 93.49%,respectively.Conclusion IAUNet based on deep learning for tongue segmentation is better than traditional ones.IAUNet can not only produce ideal tongue segmentation,but have better effects than those of PSPNet,SegNet,UNet,and DeepLabV3+,the traditional networks.As for tongue color classification,the proposed network,TCCNet,had better F1-Score and mAP values as compared with other neural networks such as VGG16 and GoogLeNet.
