Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have delivered superior performance in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel deep fully convolutional network model for accurate salient object detection. The key contribution of this work is to learn deep uncertain convolutional features (UCF), which encourage the robustness and accuracy of saliency detection. We achieve this via introducing a reformulated dropout (R-dropout) after specific convolutional layers to construct an uncertain ensemble of internal feature units. In addition, we propose an effective hybrid upsampling method to reduce the checkerboard artifacts of deconvolution operators in our decoder network. The proposed methods can also be applied to other deep convolutional networks. Compared with existing saliency detection methods, the proposed UCF model is able to incorporate uncertainties for more accurate object boundary inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed saliency model performs favorably against state-ofthe-art approaches. The uncertain feature learning mechanism as well as the upsampling method can significantly improve performance on other pixel-wise vision tasks.
Heat stress exerts a substantial effect on dairy production. The temperature and humidity index (THI) is widely used to assess heat stress in dairy operations. Herein, we review the effects of high temperature and humidity on body temperature, feed intake, milk production, follicle development, estrous behavior, and pregnancy in dairy cows. Analyses of the effects of THI on dairy production have shown that body temperature is an important physiological parameter in the evaluation of the health state of dairy cows. Although THI is an important environmental index and can help to infer the degree of heat stress, it does not reflect the physiological changes experienced by dairy cows undergoing heat stress. However, the simultaneous measurement of THI and physiological indexes (e.g., body temperature) would be very useful for improving dairy production. The successful development of automatic detection techniques makes it possible to combine THI with other physiological indexes (i.e., body temperature and activity), which could help us to comprehensively evaluate heat stress in dairy cows and provide important technical support to effectively prevent heat stress.
The tremendous success of deep learning in machine fault diagnosis is dependent on the hypothesis that training and test datasets are subordinated to the same distribution. This subordination is difficult to meet in practical scenarios of industrial applications. On the one hand, the working conditions of rotating machinery can change easily. On the other hand, vibration data and labels are difficult to obtain to train a specific model for each working condition. In this study, we solve these problems by constructing a novel deep transfer learning model called multi-scale deep intra-class adaptation network, which first uses the modified ResNet-50 to extract low-level features and then constructs a multiple scale feature learner to analyze these low-level features at multiple scales and obtain high-level features as input for the classifier. Pseudo labels are then computed to shorten the conditional distribution distance of vibration data collected under different working loads for intra-class adaptation. The proposed method is validated using two datasets to recognize the bearing normal state, the inner race, the ball and outer race faults, and their fault degrees under four different working loads. The high-precision diagnosis results of 24 transfer learning experiments reveal the reliability and generalizability of the constructed model.
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