Optimization of Convolutional Neural Network using Microcanonical Annealing Algorithm

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most prominent architectures and algorithm in Deep Learning. It shows a remarkable improvement in the recognition and classification of objects. This method has also been proven to be very effective in a variety of computer vision and machine learning problems. As in other deep learning, however, training the CNN is interesting yet challenging. Recently, some metaheuristic algorithms have been used to optimize CNN using Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, Simulated Annealing and Harmony Search. In this paper, another type of metaheuristic algorithms with different strategy has been proposed, i.e. Microcanonical Annealing to optimize Convolutional Neural Network. The performance of the proposed method is tested using the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets. Although experiment results of MNIST dataset indicate the increase in computation time (1.02x - 1.38x), nevertheless this proposed method can considerably enhance the performance of the original CNN (up to 4.60\%). On the CIFAR10 dataset, currently, state of the art is 96.53\% using fractional pooling, while this proposed method achieves 99.14\%.

Multiple Regularizations Deep Learning for Paddy Growth Stages Classification from LANDSAT-8

This study uses remote sensing technology that can provide information about the condition of the earth's surface area, fast, and spatially. The study area was in Karawang District, lying in the Northern part of West Java-Indonesia. We address a paddy growth stages classification using LANDSAT 8 image data obtained from multi-sensor remote sensing image taken in October 2015 to August 2016. This study pursues a fast and accurate classification of paddy growth stages by employing multiple regularizations learning on some deep learning methods such as DNN (Deep Neural Networks) and 1-D CNN (1-D Convolutional Neural Networks). The used regularizations are Fast Dropout, Dropout, and Batch Normalization. To evaluate the effectiveness, we also compared our method with other machine learning methods such as (Logistic Regression, SVM, Random Forest, and XGBoost). The data used are seven bands of LANDSAT-8 spectral data samples that correspond to paddy growth stages data obtained from i-Sky (eye in the sky) Innovation system. The growth stages are determined based on paddy crop phenology profile from time series of LANDSAT-8 images. The classification results show that MLP using multiple regularization Dropout and Batch Normalization achieves the highest accuracy for this dataset.