Towards Pedestrian Detection Using RetinaNet in ECCV 2018 Wider Pedestrian Detection Challenge

The main essence of this paper is to investigate the performance of RetinaNet based object detectors on pedestrian detection. Pedestrian detection is an important research topic as it provides a baseline for general object detection and has a great number of practical applications like autonomous car, robotics and Security camera. Though extensive research has made huge progress in pedestrian detection, there are still many issues and open for more research and improvement. Recent deep learning based methods have shown state-of-the-art performance in computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Wider pedestrian detection challenge aims at finding improve solutions for pedestrian detection problem. In this paper, We propose a pedestrian detection system based on RetinaNet. Our solution has scored 0.4061 mAP. The code is available at https://github.com/miltonbd/ECCV_2018_pedestrian_detection_challenege.

Automated Skin Lesion Classification Using Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks in ISIC 2018: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection Challenge

In this paper, we studied extensively on different deep learning based methods to detect melanoma and skin lesion cancers. Melanoma, a form of malignant skin cancer is very threatening to health. Proper diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier stage is crucial for the success rate of complete cure. Dermoscopic images with Benign and malignant forms of skin cancer can be analyzed by computer vision system to streamline the process of skin cancer detection. In this study, we experimented with various neural networks which employ recent deep learning based models like PNASNet-5-Large, InceptionResNetV2, SENet154, InceptionV4. Dermoscopic images are properly processed and augmented before feeding them into the network. We tested our methods on International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) 2018 challenge dataset. Our system has achieved best validation score of 0.76 for PNASNet-5-Large model. Further improvement and optimization of the proposed methods with a bigger training dataset and carefully chosen hyper-parameter could improve the performances. The code available for download at https://github.com/miltonbd/ISIC_2018_classification

Evaluation of Momentum Diverse Input Iterative Fast Gradient Sign Method (M-DI2-FGSM) Based Attack Method on MCS 2018 Adversarial Attacks on Black Box Face Recognition System

The convolutional neural network is the crucial tool for the recent success of deep learning based methods on various computer vision tasks like classification, segmentation, and detection. Convolutional neural networks achieved state-of-the-art performance in these tasks and every day pushing the limit of computer vision and AI. However, adversarial attack on computer vision systems is threatening their application in the real life and in safety-critical applications. Necessarily, Finding adversarial examples are important to detect susceptible models to attack and take safeguard measures to overcome the adversarial attacks. In this regard, MCS 2018 Adversarial Attacks on Black Box Face Recognition challenge aims to facilitate the research of finding new adversarial attack techniques and their effectiveness in generating adversarial examples. In this challenge, the attack"s nature is targeted-attack on the black-box neural network where we have no knowledge about black-block"s inner structure. The attacker must modify a set of five images of a single person so that the neural network miss-classify them as target image which is a set of five images of another person. In this competition, we applied Momentum Diverse Input Iterative Fast Gradient Sign Method (M-DI2-FGSM) to make an adversarial attack on black-box face recognition system. We tested our method on MCS 2018 Adversarial Attacks on Black Box Face Recognition challenge and found competitive result. Our solution got validation score 1.404 which better than baseline score 1.407 and stood 14 place among 132 teams in the leader-board. Further improvement can be achieved by finding improved feature extraction from source image, carefully chosen hyper-parameters, finding improved substitute model of the black-box and better optimization method.