A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network with Hierarchical Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Image Classification

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in image classification tasks, but their increasing model size and computation make them challenging to implement on embedded systems with constrained hardware resources. To address this issue, the MobileNetV1 network was developed, which employs depthwise convolution to reduce network complexity. MobileNetV1 employs a stride of 2 in several convolutional layers to decrease the spatial resolution of feature maps, thereby lowering computational costs. However, this stride setting can lead to a loss of spatial information, particularly affecting the detection and representation of smaller objects or finer details in images. To maintain the trade-off between complexity and model performance, a lightweight convolutional neural network with hierarchical multi-scale feature fusion based on the MobileNetV1 network is proposed. The network consists of two main subnetworks. The first subnetwork uses a depthwise dilated separable convolution (DDSC) layer to learn imaging features with fewer parameters, which results in a lightweight and computationally inexpensive network. Furthermore, depthwise dilated convolution in DDSC layer effectively expands the field of view of filters, allowing them to incorporate a larger context. The second subnetwork is a hierarchical multi-scale feature fusion (HMFF) module that uses parallel multi-resolution branches architecture to process the input feature map in order to extract the multi-scale feature information of the input image. Experimental results on the CIFAR-10, Malaria, and KvasirV1 datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is efficient, reducing the network parameters and computational cost by 65.02% and 39.78%, respectively, while maintaining the network performance compared to the MobileNetV1 baseline.

Advanced Feature Fusion Algorithm Based on Multiple Convolutional Neural Network for Scene Recognition

Scene recognition is a popular open problem in the computer vision field.Among lots of methods proposed in recent years,Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)based approaches achieve the best performance in scene recognition.We propose in this paper an advanced feature fusion algorithm using Multiple Convolutional Neural Network(Multi-CNN)for scene recognition.Unlike existing works that usually use individual convolutional neural network,a fusion of multiple different convolutional neural networks is applied for scene recognition.Firstly,we split training images in two directions and apply to three deep CNN model,and then extract features from the last full-connected(FC)layer and probabilistic layer on each model.Finally,feature vectors are fused with different fusion strategies in groups forwarded into SoftMax classifier.Our proposed algorithm is evaluated on three scene datasets for scene recognition.The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed algorithm compared with other state-of-art approaches.

Jamming Recognition Based on Feature Fusion and Convolutional Neural Network

The complicated electromagnetic environment of the BeiDou satellites introduces vari-ous types of external jamming to communication links,in which recognition of jamming signals with uncertainties is essential.In this work,the jamming recognition framework proposed consists of fea-ture fusion and a convolutional neural network(CNN).Firstly,the recognition inputs are obtained by prepossessing procedure,in which the 1-D power spectrum and 2-D time-frequency image are ac-cessed through the Welch algorithm and short-time Fourier transform(STFT),respectively.Then,the 1D-CNN and residual neural network(ResNet)are introduced to extract the deep features of the two prepossessing inputs,respectively.Finally,the two deep features are concatenated for the following three fully connected layers and output the jamming signal classification results through the softmax layer.Results show the proposed method could reduce the impacts of potential feature loss,therefore improving the generalization ability on dealing with uncertainties.

Source Camera Identification Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion

The widespread availability of digital multimedia data has led to a new challenge in digital forensics.Traditional source camera identification algorithms usually rely on various traces in the capturing process.However,these traces have become increasingly difficult to extract due to wide availability of various image processing algorithms.Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN)-based algorithms have demonstrated good discriminative capabilities for different brands and even different models of camera devices.However,their performances is not ideal in case of distinguishing between individual devices of the same model,because cameras of the same model typically use the same optical lens,image sensor,and image processing algorithms,that result in minimal overall differences.In this paper,we propose a camera forensics algorithm based on multi-scale feature fusion to address these issues.The proposed algorithm extracts different local features from feature maps of different scales and then fuses them to obtain a comprehensive feature representation.This representation is then fed into a subsequent camera fingerprint classification network.Building upon the Swin-T network,we utilize Transformer Blocks and Graph Convolutional Network(GCN)modules to fuse multi-scale features from different stages of the backbone network.Furthermore,we conduct experiments on established datasets to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

FusionNN:A Semantic Feature Fusion Model Based on Multimodal for Web Anomaly Detection

With the rapid development of the mobile communication and the Internet,the previous web anomaly detectionand identificationmodels were built relying on security experts’empirical knowledge and attack features.Althoughthis approach can achieve higher detection performance,it requires huge human labor and resources to maintainthe feature library.In contrast,semantic feature engineering can dynamically discover new semantic featuresand optimize feature selection by automatically analyzing the semantic information contained in the data itself,thus reducing dependence on prior knowledge.However,current semantic features still have the problem ofsemantic expression singularity,as they are extracted from a single semantic mode such as word segmentation,character segmentation,or arbitrary semantic feature extraction.This paper extracts features of web requestsfrom dual semantic granularity,and proposes a semantic feature fusion method to solve the above problems.Themethod first preprocesses web requests,and extracts word-level and character-level semantic features of URLs viaconvolutional neural network(CNN),respectively.By constructing three loss functions to reduce losses betweenfeatures,labels and categories.Experiments on the HTTP CSIC 2010,Malicious URLs and HttpParams datasetsverify the proposedmethod.Results show that compared withmachine learning,deep learningmethods and BERTmodel,the proposed method has better detection performance.And it achieved the best detection rate of 99.16%in the dataset HttpParams.

Feature Fusion Multi_XMNet Convolution Neural Network for Clothing Image Classification

Faced with the massive amount of online shopping clothing images,how to classify them quickly and accurately is a challenging task in image classification.In this paper,we propose a novel method,named Multi_XMNet,to solve the clothing images classification problem.The proposed method mainly consists of two convolution neural network(CNN)branches.One branch extracts multiscale features from the whole expressional image by Multi_X which is designed by improving the Xception network,while the other extracts attention mechanism features from the whole expressional image by MobileNetV3-small network.Both multiscale and attention mechanism features are aggregated before making classification.Additionally,in the training stage,global average pooling(GAP),convolutional layers,and softmax classifiers are used instead of the fully connected layer to classify the final features,which speed up model training and alleviate the problem of overfitting caused by too many parameters.Experimental comparisons are made in the public DeepFashion dataset.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of this method is 95.38%,which is better than InceptionV3,Xception and InceptionV3_Xception by 5.58%,3.32%,and 2.22%,respectively.The proposed Multi_XMNet image classification model can help enterprises and researchers in the field of clothing e-commerce to automaticly,efficiently and accurately classify massive clothing images.

Feature Fusion-Based Deep Learning Network to Recognize Table Tennis Actions

A system for classifying four basic table tennis strokes using wearable devices and deep learning networks is proposed in this study.The wearable device consisted of a six-axis sensor,Raspberry Pi 3,and a power bank.Multiple kernel sizes were used in convolutional neural network(CNN)to evaluate their performance for extracting features.Moreover,a multiscale CNN with two kernel sizes was used to perform feature fusion at different scales in a concatenated manner.The CNN achieved recognition of the four table tennis strokes.Experimental data were obtained from20 research participants who wore sensors on the back of their hands while performing the four table tennis strokes in a laboratory environment.The data were collected to verify the performance of the proposed models for wearable devices.Finally,the sensor and multi-scale CNN designed in this study achieved accuracy and F1 scores of 99.58%and 99.16%,respectively,for the four strokes.The accuracy for five-fold cross validation was 99.87%.This result also shows that the multi-scale convolutional neural network has better robustness after fivefold cross validation.

Deep Convolutional Feature Fusion Model for Multispectral Maritime Imagery Ship Recognition

Combining both visible and infrared object information, multispectral data is a promising source data for automatic maritime ship recognition. In this paper, in order to take advantage of deep convolutional neural network and multispectral data, we model multispectral ship recognition task into a convolutional feature fusion problem, and propose a feature fusion architecture called Hybrid Fusion. We fine-tune the VGG-16 model pre-trained on ImageNet through three channels single spectral image and four channels multispectral images, and use existing regularization techniques to avoid over-fitting problem. Hybrid Fusion as well as the other three feature fusion architectures is investigated. Each fusion architecture consists of visible image and infrared image feature extraction branches, in which the pre-trained and fine-tuned VGG-16 models are taken as feature extractor. In each fusion architecture, image features of two branches are firstly extracted from the same layer or different layers of VGG-16 model. Subsequently, the features extracted from the two branches are flattened and concatenated to produce a multispectral feature vector, which is finally fed into a classifier to achieve ship recognition task. Furthermore, based on these fusion architectures, we also evaluate recognition performance of a feature vector normalization method and three combinations of feature extractors. Experimental results on the visible and infrared ship (VAIS) dataset show that the best Hybrid Fusion achieves 89.6% mean per-class recognition accuracy on daytime paired images and 64.9% on nighttime infrared images, and outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 1.4% and 3.9%, respectively.

DCFNet:An Effective Dual-Branch Cross-Attention Fusion Network for Medical Image Segmentation

Automatic segmentation of medical images provides a reliable scientific basis for disease diagnosis and analysis.Notably,most existing methods that combine the strengths of convolutional neural networks(CNNs)and Transformers have made significant progress.However,there are some limitations in the current integration of CNN and Transformer technology in two key aspects.Firstly,most methods either overlook or fail to fully incorporate the complementary nature between local and global features.Secondly,the significance of integrating the multiscale encoder features from the dual-branch network to enhance the decoding features is often disregarded in methods that combine CNN and Transformer.To address this issue,we present a groundbreaking dual-branch cross-attention fusion network(DCFNet),which efficiently combines the power of Swin Transformer and CNN to generate complementary global and local features.We then designed the Feature Cross-Fusion(FCF)module to efficiently fuse local and global features.In the FCF,the utilization of the Channel-wise Cross-fusion Transformer(CCT)serves the purpose of aggregatingmulti-scale features,and the Feature FusionModule(FFM)is employed to effectively aggregate dual-branch prominent feature regions from the spatial perspective.Furthermore,within the decoding phase of the dual-branch network,our proposed Channel Attention Block(CAB)aims to emphasize the significance of the channel features between the up-sampled features and the features generated by the FCFmodule to enhance the details of the decoding.Experimental results demonstrate that DCFNet exhibits enhanced accuracy in segmentation performance.Compared to other state-of-the-art(SOTA)methods,our segmentation framework exhibits a superior level of competitiveness.DCFNet’s accurate segmentation of medical images can greatly assist medical professionals in making crucial diagnoses of lesion areas in advance.

Behavior Recognition of the Elderly in Indoor Environment Based on Feature Fusion of Wi-Fi Perception and Videos

With the intensifying aging of the population,the phenomenon of the elderly living alone is also increasing.Therefore,using modern internet of things technology to monitor the daily behavior of the elderly in indoors is a meaningful study.Video-based action recognition tasks are easily affected by object occlusion and weak ambient light,resulting in poor recognition performance.Therefore,this paper proposes an indoor human behavior recognition method based on wireless fidelity(Wi-Fi)perception and video feature fusion by utilizing the ability of Wi-Fi signals to carry environmental information during the propagation process.This paper uses the public WiFi-based activity recognition dataset(WIAR)containing Wi-Fi channel state information and essential action videos,and then extracts video feature vectors and Wi-Fi signal feature vectors in the datasets through the two-stream convolutional neural network and standard statistical algorithms,respectively.Then the two sets of feature vectors are fused,and finally,the action classification and recognition are performed by the support vector machine(SVM).The experiments in this paper contrast experiments between the two-stream network model and the methods in this paper under three different environments.And the accuracy of action recognition after adding Wi-Fi signal feature fusion is improved by 10%on average.

A Novel Combinational Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Food-Ingredient Classification

With the development of deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs),the accuracy of automatic food recognition based on visual data have significantly improved.Some research studies have shown that the deeper the model is,the higher the accuracy is.However,very deep neural networks would be affected by the overfitting problem and also consume huge computing resources.In this paper,a new classification scheme is proposed for automatic food-ingredient recognition based on deep learning.We construct an up-to-date combinational convolutional neural network(CBNet)with a subnet merging technique.Firstly,two different neural networks are utilized for learning interested features.Then,a well-designed feature fusion component aggregates the features from subnetworks,further extracting richer and more precise features for image classification.In order to learn more complementary features,the corresponding fusion strategies are also proposed,including auxiliary classifiers and hyperparameters setting.Finally,CBNet based on the well-known VGGNet,ResNet and DenseNet is evaluated on a dataset including 41 major categories of food ingredients and 100 images for each category.Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that CBNet achieves promising accuracy for multi-class classification and improves the performance of convolutional neural networks.

Advances in Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks: A Review

Hyperspectral image(HSI)classification has been one of themost important tasks in the remote sensing community over the last few decades.Due to the presence of highly correlated bands and limited training samples in HSI,discriminative feature extraction was challenging for traditional machine learning methods.Recently,deep learning based methods have been recognized as powerful feature extraction tool and have drawn a significant amount of attention in HSI classification.Among various deep learning models,convolutional neural networks(CNNs)have shown huge success and offered great potential to yield high performance in HSI classification.Motivated by this successful performance,this paper presents a systematic review of different CNN architectures for HSI classification and provides some future guidelines.To accomplish this,our study has taken a few important steps.First,we have focused on different CNN architectures,which are able to extract spectral,spatial,and joint spectral-spatial features.Then,many publications related to CNN based HSI classifications have been reviewed systematically.Further,a detailed comparative performance analysis has been presented between four CNN models namely 1D CNN,2D CNN,3D CNN,and feature fusion based CNN(FFCNN).Four benchmark HSI datasets have been used in our experiment for evaluating the performance.Finally,we concluded the paper with challenges on CNN based HSI classification and future guidelines that may help the researchers to work on HSI classification using CNN.

An infrared target intrusion detection method based on feature fusion and enhancement

Infrared target intrusion detection has significant applications in the fields of military defence and intelligent warning.In view of the characteristics of intrusion targets as well as inspection difficulties,an infrared target intrusion detection algorithm based on feature fusion and enhancement was proposed.This algorithm combines static target mode analysis and dynamic multi-frame correlation detection to extract infrared target features at different levels.Among them,LBP texture analysis can be used to effectively identify the posterior feature patterns which have been contained in the target library,while motion frame difference method can detect the moving regions of the image,improve the integrity of target regions such as camouflage,sheltering and deformation.In order to integrate the advantages of the two methods,the enhanced convolutional neural network was designed and the feature images obtained by the two methods were fused and enhanced.The enhancement module of the network strengthened and screened the targets,and realized the background suppression of infrared images.Based on the experiments,the effect of the proposed method and the comparison method on the background suppression and detection performance was evaluated,and the results showed that the SCRG and BSF values of the method in this paper had a better performance in multiple data sets,and it’s detection performance was far better than the comparison algorithm.The experiment results indicated that,compared with traditional infrared target detection methods,the proposed method could detect the infrared invasion target more accurately,and suppress the background noise more effectively.

A Framework of Deep Optimal Features Selection for Apple Leaf Diseases Recognition

Identifying fruit disease manually is time-consuming, expertrequired,and expensive;thus, a computer-based automated system is widelyrequired. Fruit diseases affect not only the quality but also the quantity.As a result, it is possible to detect the disease early on and cure the fruitsusing computer-based techniques. However, computer-based methods faceseveral challenges, including low contrast, a lack of dataset for training amodel, and inappropriate feature extraction for final classification. In thispaper, we proposed an automated framework for detecting apple fruit leafdiseases usingCNNand a hybrid optimization algorithm. Data augmentationis performed initially to balance the selected apple dataset. After that, twopre-trained deep models are fine-tuning and trained using transfer learning.Then, a fusion technique is proposed named Parallel Correlation Threshold(PCT). The fused feature vector is optimized in the next step using a hybridoptimization algorithm. The selected features are finally classified usingmachine learning algorithms. Four different experiments have been carriedout on the augmented Plant Village dataset and yielded the best accuracy of99.8%. The accuracy of the proposed framework is also compared to that ofseveral neural nets, and it outperforms them all.

CNN Based Multi-Object Segmentation and Feature Fusion for Scene Recognition

Latest advancements in vision technology offer an evident impact on multi-object recognition and scene understanding.Such sceneunderstanding task is a demanding part of several technologies,like augmented reality-based scene integration,robotic navigation,autonomous driving,and tourist guide.Incorporating visual information in contextually unified segments,convolution neural networks-based approaches will significantly mitigate the clutter,which is usual in classical frameworks during scene understanding.In this paper,we propose a convolutional neural network(CNN)based segmentation method for the recognition of multiple objects in an image.Initially,after acquisition and preprocessing,the image is segmented by using CNN.Then,CNN features are extracted from these segmented objects,and discrete cosine transform(DCT)and discrete wavelet transform(DWT)features are computed.After the extraction of CNN features and computation of classical machine learning features,fusion is performed using a fusion technique.Then,to select theminimal set of features,genetic algorithm-based feature selection is used.In order to recognize and understand the multi-objects in the scene,a neuro-fuzzy approach is applied.Once objects in the scene are recognized,the relationship between these objects is examined by employing the object-to-object relation approach.Finally,a decision tree is incorporated to assign the relevant labels to the scenes based on recognized objects in the image.The experimental results over complex scene datasets including SUN Red Green Blue-Depth(RGB-D)and Cityscapes’demonstrated a remarkable performance.

RGB and LBP-texture deep nonlinearly fusion features for fabric retrieval

Fabric retrieval is very challenging since problems like viewpoint variations,illumination changes,blots,and poor image qualities are usually encountered in fabric images.In this work,a novel deep feature nonlinear fusion network(DFNFN)is proposed to nonlinearly fuse features learned from RGB and texture images for improving fabric retrieval.Texture images are obtained by using local binary pattern texture(LBP-Texture)features to describe RGB fabric images.The DFNFN firstly applies two feature learning branches to deal with RGB images and the corresponding LBP-Texture images simultaneously.Each branch contains the same convolutional neural network(CNN)architecture but independently learning parameters.Then,a nonlinear fusion module(NFM)is designed to concatenate the features produced by the two branches and nonlinearly fuse the concatenated features via a convolutional layer followed with a rectified linear unit(ReLU).The NFM is flexible since it can be embedded in different depths of the DFNFN to find the best fusion position.Consequently,DFNFN can optimally fuse features learned from RGB and LBP-Texture images to boost the retrieval accuracy.Extensive experiments on the Fabric 1.0 dataset show that the proposed method is superior to many state-of-the-art methods.

Robust Visual Tracking with Hierarchical Deep Features Weighted Fusion

To solve the problem of low robustness of trackers under significant appearance changes in complex background,a novel moving target tracking method based on hierarchical deep features weighted fusion and correlation filter is proposed.Firstly,multi-layer features are extracted by a deep model pre-trained on massive object recognition datasets.The linearly separable features of Relu3-1,Relu4-1 and Relu5-4 layers from VGG-Net-19 are especially suitable for target tracking.Then,correlation filters over hierarchical convolutional features are learned to generate their correlation response maps.Finally,a novel approach of weight adjustment is presented to fuse response maps.The maximum value of the final response map is just the location of the target.Extensive experiments on the object tracking benchmark datasets demonstrate the high robustness and recognition precision compared with several state-of-the-art trackers under the different conditions.

Multiple Feature Fusion in Convolutional Neural Networks for Action Recognition

Action recognition is important for understanding the human behaviors in the video,and the video representation is the basis for action recognition.This paper provides a new video representation based on convolution neural networks（CNN）.For capturing human motion information in one CNN,we take both the optical flow maps and gray images as input,and combine multiple convolutional features by max pooling across frames.In another CNN,we input single color frame to capture context information.Finally,we take the top full connected layer vectors as video representation and train the classifiers by linear support vector machine.The experimental results show that the representation which integrates the optical flow maps and gray images obtains more discriminative properties than those which depend on only one element.On the most challenging data sets HMDB51 and UCF101,this video representation obtains competitive performance.

DuFNet:Dual Flow Network of Real-Time Semantic Segmentation for Unmanned Driving Application of Internet of Things

The application of unmanned driving in the Internet of Things is one of the concrete manifestations of the application of artificial intelligence technology.Image semantic segmentation can help the unmanned driving system by achieving road accessibility analysis.Semantic segmentation is also a challenging technology for image understanding and scene parsing.We focused on the challenging task of real-time semantic segmentation in this paper.In this paper,we proposed a novel fast architecture for real-time semantic segmentation named DuFNet.Starting from the existing work of Bilateral Segmentation Network(BiSeNet),DuFNet proposes a novel Semantic Information Flow(SIF)structure for context information and a novel Fringe Information Flow(FIF)structure for spatial information.We also proposed two kinds of SIF with cascaded and paralleled structures,respectively.The SIF encodes the input stage by stage in the ResNet18 backbone and provides context information for the feature fusionmodule.Features from previous stages usually contain rich low-level details but high-level semantics for later stages.Themultiple convolutions embed in Parallel SIF aggregate the corresponding features among different stages and generate a powerful global context representation with less computational cost.The FIF consists of a pooling layer and an upsampling operator followed by projection convolution layer.The concise component provides more spatial details for the network.Compared with BiSeNet,our work achieved faster speed and comparable performance with 72.34%mIoU accuracy and 78 FPS on Cityscapes Dataset based on the ResNet18 backbone.

基于链接关系预测的弯曲密集型商品文本检测

针对商品包装文本检测任务中弯曲密集型文本导致的错检、漏检问题,提出了一种由2个子网络组成的基于链接关系预测的文本检测框架(text detection network based on relational prediction,RPTNet)。在文本组件检测网络中,下采样采用卷积神经网络和自注意力并行的双分支结构提取局部和全局特征,并加入空洞特征增强模块(DFM)减少深层特征图在降维过程中信息的丢失;上采样采用特征金字塔与多级注意力融合模块(MAFM)相结合的方式进行多级特征融合以增强文本特征间的潜在联系,通过文本检测器从上采样输出的特征图中检测文本组件;在链接关系预测网络中,采用基于图卷积网络的关系推理框架预测文本组件间的深层相似度,采用双向长短时记忆网络将文本组件聚合为文本实例。为验证RRNet的检测性能,构建了一个由商品包装图片组成的文本检测数据集(text detection dataset composed of commodity packaging,CPTD1500)。实验结果表明:RPTNet不仅在公开文本数据集CTW-1500和Total-Text上取得了优异的性能,而且在CPTD1500数据集上的召回率和F值分别达到了85.4%和87.5%,均优于当前主流算法。