Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved exceptional performances in many tasks, particularly, in supervised classification tasks. However, achievements with supervised classification tasks are based on large datasets with well-separated classes. Typically, real-world applications involve wild datasets that include similar classes; thus, evaluating similarities between classes and understanding relations among classes are important. To address this issue, a similarity metric, ClassSim, based on the misclassification ratios of trained DNNs is proposed herein. We conducted image recognition experiments to demonstrate that the proposed method provides better similarities compared with existing methods and is useful for classification problems. Source code including all experimental results is available at this https URL
However, a solution that employs features extracted using a DNN and meta-recognition has been proposed @cite_1 . This solution is useful to eliminate dissimilar unknown unknowns and is, in particular, effective for fooling images.
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Detecting small objects such as vehicles in satellite images is a difficult problem. Many features (such as histogram of oriented gradient, local binary pattern, scale-invariant featuretransform, etc.) have been used to improve the performance of object detection, but mostly in simple environments such as those on roads. proposed that no satisfactory accuracy has been achieved in complex environments such as the City of San Francisco. Deep convolutional neural networks (DNNs) can learn rich features from the training data automatically and has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many image classification databases. Though the DNN has shown robustness to distortion, it only extracts features of the same scale, and hence is insufficient to tolerate large-scale variance of object. In this letter, we present a hybrid DNN (HDNN), by dividing the maps of the last convolutional layer and the max-pooling layer of DNN into multiple blocks of variable receptive field sizes or max-pooling field sizes, to enable the HDNN to extract variable-scale features. Comparative experimental results indicate that our proposed HDNN significantly outperforms the traditional DNN on vehicle detection.