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We present an end-to-end multi-scale Convolutional Neural
Network (CNN) framework for topic identification (topic ID).
In this work, we examined multi-scale CNN for classification
using raw text input. Topical word embeddings are learnt at
multiple scales using parallel convolutional layers. A technique
to integrate verification and identification objectives is
examined to improve topic ID performance. With this approach,
we achieved significant improvement in identification
task. We evaluated our framework on two contrasting

We introduce a novel type of representation learning to obtain a speaker invariant feature for zero-resource languages. Speaker adaptation is an important technique to build a robust acoustic model. For a zero-resource language, however, conventional model-dependent speaker adaptation methods such as constrained maximum likelihood linear regression are insufficient because the acoustic model of the target language is not accessible. Therefore, we introduce a model-independent feature extraction based on a neural network.

We present a system for the detection of elevated levels of driver alertness in driver-facing video captured from multiple viewpoints. This problem is important in automotive safety as a helpful feedback signal to determine driver engagement and as a means of automatically flagging anomalous driving events. We generated a dataset of videos from 25 participants overseeing an hour each of driving sequences in a simulator consisting of a mixture of normal and near-miss driving events.

As field seismic data sizes are dramatically increasing toward exabytes, automating the labeling of ``structural monads'' --- corresponding to geological patterns and yielding subsurface interpretation --- in a huge amount of available information would drastically reduce interpretation time. Since customary designed features may not account for gradual deformations observable in seismic data, we propose to adapt the wavelet-based scattering network methodology with a tessellation of geophysical images.

Neural networks have shown great potential in many applications like speech recognition, drug discovery, image classification, and object detection. Neural network models are inspired by biological neural networks, but they are optimized to perform machine learning tasks on digital computers.

In recent works, both sparsity-based methods as well as learning-based methods have proven to be successful in solving several challenging linear inverse problems. However, sparsity priors for natural signals and images suffer from poor discriminative capability, while learning-based methods seldom provide concrete theoretical guarantees. In this work, we advocate the idea of replacing hand-crafted priors, such as sparsity, with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to solve linear inverse problems such as compressive sensing.

We propose a convolutional recurrent sparse auto-encoder
model. The model consists of a sparse encoder, which is a
convolutional extension of the learned ISTA (LISTA) method,
and a linear convolutional decoder. Our strategy offers a simple
method for learning a task-driven sparse convolutional
dictionary (CD), and producing an approximate convolutional
sparse code (CSC) over the learned dictionary. We trained
the model to minimize reconstruction loss via gradient decent
with back-propagation and have achieved competitve

The current Document Image Quality Assessment (DIQA) algorithms directly relate the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracies with the quality of the document to build supervised learning frameworks. This direct correlation has two major limitations: (a) OCR may be affected by factors independent of the quality of the capture and (b) it cannot account for blur variations within an image. An alternate possibility is to quantify the quality of capture using human judgement, however, it is subjective and prone to error.