Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics


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The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress in designing and implementing practical systems for fully automated taxon identification has been frustratingly slow. Regardless, the dream has never died. Recent developments in computer architectures an




Applications of Computational Intelligence


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This book constitutes revised and extended selected papers of the 4th IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2021, which was held virtually in Colombia at the end of May 2021. The 7 full papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical applications and alternative proposals and its applications.




The Science of Citizen Science


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This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists to citizens and from policy makers to environmental organisations have been involved in its practice. In addition, many scientists also study citizen science as a research approach and as a way for science and society to interact and collaborate. This book provides a representation of the practices as well as scientific and societal outcomes in different disciplines. It reflects the contribution of citizen science to societal development, education, or innovation and provides and overview of the field of actors as well as on tools and guidelines. It serves as an introduction for anyone who wants to get involved in and learn more about the science of citizen science.




Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2018, held in Poitiers, France, in September 2018. The 52 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: video analysis; segmentation and classification; remote sending; biometrics; deep learning; coding and compression; and image restauration and reconstruction.







Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2017, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2017. The 63 full papers presented in this volume were carefully selected from 134 submissions. They deal with human-computer interaction; classification and recognition; navigation, mapping, robotics, and transports; video processing and retrieval; security, forensics, surveillance; and image processing.




Deep Learning Applications in Image Analysis


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This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of deep learning applications in image analysis. The book demonstrates various deep learning algorithms that can offer practical solutions for various image-related problems; also how these algorithms are used by scientists and scholars in industry and academia. This includes autoencoder and deep convolutional generative adversarial network in improving classification performance of Bangla handwritten characters, dealing with deep learning-based approaches using feature selection methods for automatic diagnosis of covid-19 disease from x-ray images, imbalance image data sets of classification, image captioning using deep transfer learning, developing a vehicle over speed detection system, creating an intelligent system for video-based proximity analysis, building a melanoma cancer detection system using deep learning, plant diseases classification using AlexNet, dealing with hyperspectral images using deep learning, chest x-ray image classification of pneumonia disease using efficient net and inceptionv3. The book also addresses the difficulty of implementing deep learning in terms of computation time and the complexity of reasoning and modelling different types of data where information is currently encoded. Each chapter has the application of various new or existing deep learning models such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN). The detailed utilization of deep learning packages that are available in MATLAB, Python and R programming environments have also been discussed, therefore, the readers will get to know about the practical implementation of deep learning as well. The content of this book is presented in a simple and lucid style for professionals, nonprofessionals, scientists, and students interested in the research area of deep learning applications in image analysis.




Competition and Cooperation in Neural Nets


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The human brain, wi th its hundred billion or more neurons, is both one of the most complex systems known to man and one of the most important. The last decade has seen an explosion of experimental research on the brain, but little theory of neural networks beyond the study of electrical properties of membranes and small neural circuits. Nonetheless, a number of workers in Japan, the United States and elsewhere have begun to contribute to a theory which provides techniques of mathematical analysis and computer simulation to explore properties of neural systems containing immense numbers of neurons. Recently, it has been gradually recognized that rather independent studies of the dynamics of pattern recognition, pattern format::ion, motor control, self-organization, etc. , in neural systems do in fact make use of common methods. We find that a "competition and cooperation" type of interaction plays a fundamental role in parallel information processing in the brain. The present volume brings together 23 papers presented at a U. S. -Japan Joint Seminar on "Competition and Cooperation in Neural Nets" which was designed to catalyze better integration of theory and experiment in these areas. It was held in Kyoto, Japan, February 15-19, 1982, under the joint sponsorship of the U. S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Participants included brain theorists, neurophysiologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists. There are seven papers from the U. S.