Hyperparameter Optimization for Object and Event Detection from Patterns Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Object and event recognition from streaming sensor data is an important problem with applicability to a variety of domains. These include robotics and automation, video semantic understanding, and situational awareness from surveillance. Because of the importance of this object recognition problem to a broad range of applications, researchers have produced a number of solutions. Recently, deep learning neural networks have shown particular success for this problem. These deep learning methods have essentially replaced the conventional approaches to the problem that used manual, expert knowledge to engineer features which were then input to classi ers of various types. Instead the deep learning neural nets accept \raw" (normalized) inputs and learn relevant features as they learn to correctly classify. A problem with this approach is that the architectures of these deep learning neural networks have a large number of hyperparameters that must be set. While a few researchers have developed optimization approaches for these hyperparameters, their comparative e ectiveness has not been systematically studied for the important object recognition problem. The work proposed here addresses this shortcoming by conducting a comparative analysis of hyperparameter optimization techniques for deep learning neural networks applied to object recognition from streaming spatial, temporal data. The results from this work will provide an excellent foundation for signi cant performance improvements using the deep learning networks across a wide range of applications or, if the results are negative, show that deep learning neural networks can perform well with simple grid search or manual hyperparameter selection

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Jul 06, 2020
Source ID
N002441910005

Entities

People

  • Donald E. Brown

Organizations

  • United States Navy
  • University of Virginia

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks
  • Autonomy