IR-LPR: Large Scale of Iranian License Plate Recognition Dataset

Object detection has always been practical. There are so many things in our world that recognizing them can not only increase our automatic knowledge of the surroundings, but can also be lucrative for those interested in starting a new business. One of these attractive objects is the license plate (LP). In addition to the security uses that license plate detection can have, it can also be used to create creative businesses. With the development of object detection methods based on deep learning models, an appropriate and comprehensive dataset becomes doubly important. But due to the frequent commercial use of license plate datasets, there are limited datasets not only in Iran but also in the world. The largest Iranian dataset for detection license plates has 1,466 images. Also, the largest Iranian dataset for recognizing the characters of a license plate has 5,000 images. We have prepared a complete dataset including 20,967 car images along with all the detection annotation of the whole license plate and its characters, which can be useful for various purposes. Also, the total number of license plate images for character recognition application is 27,745 images.

Single Object Tracking: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Evaluation Metrics

Object tracking is one of the foremost assignments in computer vision that has numerous commonsense applications such as traffic monitoring, robotics, autonomous vehicle tracking, and so on. Different researches have been tried later a long time, but since of diverse challenges such as occlusion, illumination variations, fast motion, etc. researches in this area continues. In this paper, different strategies of the following objects are inspected and a comprehensive classification is displayed that classified the following strategies into four fundamental categories of feature-based, segmentation-based, estimation-based, and learning-based methods that each of which has its claim sub-categories. The most center of this paper is on learning-based strategies, which are classified into three categories of generative strategies, discriminative strategies, and reinforcement learning. One of the sub-categories of the discriminative show is deep learning. Since of high-performance, deep learning has as of late been exceptionally much consider. Finally, the different datasets and the evaluation methods that are most commonly used will be introduced.

A brief survey on deep belief networks and introducing a new object oriented toolbox (DeeBNet)

Nowadays, this is very popular to use the deep architectures in machine learning. Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) are deep architectures that use stack of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) to create a powerful generative model using training data. DBNs have many ability like feature extraction and classification that are used in many applications like image processing, speech processing and etc. This paper introduces a new object oriented MATLAB toolbox with most of abilities needed for the implementation of DBNs. In the new version, the toolbox can be used in Octave. According to the results of the experiments conducted on MNIST (image), ISOLET (speech), and 20 Newsgroups (text) datasets, it was shown that the toolbox can learn automatically a good representation of the input from unlabeled data with better discrimination between different classes. Also on all datasets, the obtained classification errors are comparable to those of state of the art classifiers. In addition, the toolbox supports different sampling methods (e.g. Gibbs, CD, PCD and our new FEPCD method), different sparsity methods (quadratic, rate distortion and our new normal method), different RBM types (generative and discriminative), using GPU, etc. The toolbox is a user-friendly open source software and is freely available on the website http://ceit.aut.ac.ir/~keyvanrad/DeeBNet%20Toolbox.html .

Deep Belief Network Training Improvement Using Elite Samples Minimizing Free Energy

Nowadays this is very popular to use deep architectures in machine learning. Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) are deep architectures that use stack of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) to create a powerful generative model using training data. In this paper we present an improvement in a common method that is usually used in training of RBMs. The new method uses free energy as a criterion to obtain elite samples from generative model. We argue that these samples can more accurately compute gradient of log probability of training data. According to the results, an error rate of 0.99% was achieved on MNIST test set. This result shows that the proposed method outperforms the method presented in the first paper introducing DBN (1.25% error rate) and general classification methods such as SVM (1.4% error rate) and KNN (with 1.6% error rate). In another test using ISOLET dataset, letter classification error dropped to 3.59% compared to 5.59% error rate achieved in those papers using this dataset. The implemented method is available online at "http://ceit.aut.ac.ir/~keyvanrad/DeeBNet Toolbox.html".

Deep Belief Networks for Image Denoising

Deep Belief Networks which are hierarchical generative models are effective tools for feature representation and extraction. Furthermore, DBNs can be used in numerous aspects of Machine Learning such as image denoising. In this paper, we propose a novel method for image denoising which relies on the DBNs' ability in feature representation. This work is based upon learning of the noise behavior. Generally, features which are extracted using DBNs are presented as the values of the last layer nodes. We train a DBN a way that the network totally distinguishes between nodes presenting noise and nodes presenting image content in the last later of DBN, i.e. the nodes in the last layer of trained DBN are divided into two distinct groups of nodes. After detecting the nodes which are presenting the noise, we are able to make the noise nodes inactive and reconstruct a noiseless image. In section 4 we explore the results of applying this method on the MNIST dataset of handwritten digits which is corrupted with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). A reduction of 65.9% in average mean square error (MSE) was achieved when the proposed method was used for the reconstruction of the noisy images.