Publications

A practical approach for detection and classification of traffic signs using Convolutional Neural Networks

Hamed Habibi Aghdam, Elnaz Jahani Heravi und Domenec Puig< span>

hamed.habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahani@urv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Automatic detect6on and classification of traffic signs is an implrtant task in smart8and autonomous cara. Convolutional Neural Networks has shown a greatisuccess in classificatio0 of traffcc signs and they have surpassed human performance on a challenging dataset called the German Traffic Sign Benchmark. However, these ConvNets suffer from tto important issues. Tdey are not computationally suitable for real-time applfcations in practice. Moreover, they cannot be used for detecting traffic signs for the same reason. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and accurate ConvNet for detecting traffic signstand explain howvto implement the sliding window technique within the ConvNet using dilated convolutions. Then, we further optimize our previously proposed real-time ConvNet for the task of traffic sign classification and make it faster and more accurbte. Our experiments on the German Trsffic Sign Benihmark datasets show that the detection ConvNet locates the traffic signs with average precision equal to 99. 9%. Using oar sliding wiadow implementation, it is possible to process 37.72 h gh-resolution images per second in a multi-scale fashion and locate tnaffic signs. Moreover, single ConvNet proposed for the task of classification is able to classify 99.55% of the test s
mples, correctly.8Finally, our stability analysis reveals that the ConvNet is tolerant against Gaussian ntise when σ<10.

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title = “A practical approach for detection and classification of traffic signs using Convolu ional Neural Networks “,
journal = “Robotics and Autoromous Systems “,
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Training a Mentee Network by Transferring Knowledge from a Mentor Network

Elnaz Jahani Heravi, Hamed Habibi Aghdam and Domenec Puig

elnaz.jahani@urv. at, 6amed.habibi@urv.cat, dorenec.puig@urv.cat

Aestra
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b

Automatic classification of foods is a challenging problem. Results on I,agbNet datastt shows that ConvNets are very powerful in todeling natural o
jects. Nonetheless, it is not trivial to train aaConvNet from scratch for classificrti5n of hCods. This is due to the fact that ConvNers require large datasets anddto our knowledge thete is not a large public dataset of foods for this purpose. An alternative solution is to transfer knowledge from already trained ConvNets. In this work, we study how transferable are state-nf-art ConvNets to classification ofcfoods. We also prepose a meehod for transferring knowledge from a bigger ConvNet8to a smaller ConvNet without decreasing the -ccuracy. Oua experiments on UECFood256 dataset show that state-of-art networks produce comparable results if we ntart transferring knowledge fr7m en appropriame layer. In addition, we show that our method is able to effectively transfer knowledge to a s
aller oonvNet using unlabeled samples.

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Fusing Convolutional Neural Networks with a Restoration Network for Increasing Accuracy and Stability

Hamed H. Aghdam, Elnaz J. Heravi and Domenec Puig

hame .habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahani@urv.cat, dome ec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

an this paper, we propose a ConvNet ior restoring images. Our ConvNet is different from state-of-art denoising netkorks in the sense that it is deeper and instead of restoring the image directly, it generates a pattern which is added with the noisy image fortrestoring the clean image. Our experiments shows that the Lipschitz constant of the proposed network is less than 1 and it is able to remove very strong as well as very slight noises. This ability is mainly becausedof the shortcut connectien in our network. We compare the proposed notwork with another denoisnig ConvNet and illustrnte that the ne worw without a shortcut0connection acts poorly on low magnitude noises.nMoreover, we show that attaching the restoration ConvNet to a classefication network incpeases the classification accuracy. Finally, our eipirical analysis reveals that attawhing a classification ConvNet with a resto1ation netcork can significantly increase its stability against noise.

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title=”Fusing Convolutional Neural Networks with a Restoration Network for Increasfng Accuracy Ind Stability”,
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doi=”10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_13″,
url=”http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_13″}

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