Advanced_ML

Action plan for the DSTL Image Segmentation

Data Preprocessing (Philipp and James)

• https://www.kaggle.com/c/dstl-satellite-imagery-feature-detection
• https://www.kaggle.com/alijs1/squeezed-this-in-successful-kernel-run/code
• General overview: https://blog.deepsense.ai/deep-learning-for-satellite-imagery-via-image-segmentation/

• Data Importing (Goal: 1x 20-channels image)

  • Gray-Scale
  • 3-Band
  • 16-Band

• Creatable Torch DataLoader

• Data Transformations

  • Up-scaling
  • Random-cropping
  • Resizing
  • Rotations

• Mask-to-Polygon Transformation (in data_import.py "mask_to_polygons" function)

• Data visualization

  • https://www.kaggle.com/torrinos/exploration-and-plotting?scriptVersionId=558039
  • https://www.kaggle.com/visoft/export-pixel-wise-mask/code
  • https://www.kaggle.com/jeffhebert/stitch-a-16-channel-image-together
  • https://www.kaggle.com/torrinos/exploration-and-plotting?scriptVersionId=558039

• Report

  • Describing raw data (James)
  • Goal & methods/frameworks used (James)
  • Implementation/ steps (Philipp)
  • Results & difficulties (Philipp)

Model Construction and Training (AJ and Ahmed)

• Important links
  • https://github.com/Lextal/pspnet-pytorch
• UNet Implementation
• Model training

Papers

• A Review on Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Semantic Segmentation https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.06857.pdf
• Long, Jonathan, Evan Shelhamer, and Trevor Darrell. "Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation." CVPR. 2015. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.06211.pdf
• He, Kaiming, et al. "Deep residual learning for image recognition." arXiv:1512.03385, 2015.
• Lee, Chen-Yu, et al. "Deeply-Supervised Nets." AISTATS, 2015.
• Understanding Convolution for Semantic Segmentation, Wang et al
• PSP Net https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01105
• https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-deep-vision#semantic-segmentation
• DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution and Fully Connected CRFs https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00915.pdf

Overview of semantic segmentation over the years

• https://meetshah1995.github.io/semantic-segmentation/deep-learning/pytorch/visdom/2017/06/01/semantic-segmentation-over-the-years.html and https://github.com/meetshah1995/pytorch-semseg