A New Mask R-CNN Based Method for Improved Landslide Detection

This paper presents a novel method of landslide detection by exploiting the Mask R-CNN capability of identifying an object layout by using a pixel-based segmentation, along with transfer learning used to train the proposed model. A data set of 160 elements is created containing landslide and non-landslide images. The proposed method consists of three steps: (i) augmenting training image samples to increase the volume of the training data, (ii) fine tuning with limited image samples, and (iii) performance evaluation of the algorithm in terms of precision, recall and F1 measure, on the considered landslide images, by adopting ResNet-50 and 101 as backbone models. The experimental results are quite encouraging as the proposed method achieves Precision equals to 1.00, Recall 0.93 and F1 measure 0.97, when ResNet-101 is used as backbone model, and with a low number of landslide photographs used as training samples. The proposed algorithm can be potentially useful for land use planners and policy makers of hilly areas where intermittent slope deformations necessitate landslide detection as prerequisite before planning.

A new hybrid jpeg image compression scheme using symbol reduction technique

Lossy JPEG compression is a widely used compression technique. Normally the JPEG standard technique uses three process mapping reduces interpixel redundancy, quantization, which is lossy process and entropy encoding, which is considered lossless process. In this paper, a new technique has been proposed by combining the JPEG algorithm and Symbol Reduction Huffman technique for achieving more compression ratio. The symbols reduction technique reduces the number of symbols by combining together to form a new symbol. As a result of this technique the number of Huffman code to be generated also reduced. It is simple fast and easy to implement. The result shows that the performance of standard JPEG method can be improved by proposed method. This hybrid approach achieves about 20% more compression ratio than the Standard JPEG.