CVMay 18
UAVFF3D: A Geometry-Aware Benchmark for Feed-Forward UAV 3D ReconstructionXiang Yang, Yongli Wang, HaiFeng Li et al.
Feed-forward 3D reconstruction has recently demonstrated strong generalization across diverse scenes, yet its performance in UAV imagery remains underexplored due to distinctive acquisition geometries, large viewpoint variations, and ambiguity between horizontal field of view and flight height. We present UAVFF3D, a geometry-aware benchmark for feed-forward UAV 3D reconstruction, comprising over 170K real UAV images and more than 370K high-quality synthetic images. The benchmark also includes a challenging diagnostic test subset designed to analyze model behavior under UAV-specific geometric ambiguities.Building on UAVFF3D, we propose an evaluation protocol that jointly assesses camera-geometry estimation and reconstruction accuracy, addressing limitations of existing evaluations that rely on separate alignments. Experiments on four representative feed-forward reconstruction models show that UAV-domain adaptation substantially improves performance, reducing Ray Error by up to 84.2%, Pose ATE by up to 76.0%, and Chamfer Distance by up to 41.1%. Further analysis reveals that domain adaptation mitigates rotation-estimation degradation in oblique-view scenes and improves robustness under horizontal-field-of-view/height ambiguity. Incorporating camera priors further enhances reconstruction performance under UAV-specific acquisition geometries.
CVMay 11
Halo Separation-guided Underwater Multi-scale Image RestorationJiaxin Yang, Honglin Liu, Yongli Wang et al.
Underwater images captured by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are inevitably affected by artificial light sources, which often produce halos in the foreground of the camera and seriously interfere with the quality of the image. The existing underwater image enhancement methods fail to fully consider this key problem, and the robustness of processing images under artificial light scenes is poor. In practical applications, since underwater image enhancement itself is a very challenging task, the influence of artificial light sources will lead to serious degradation of image performance and affect subsequent vision tasks. In order to effectively deal with this problem, this paper designs a single halo image correction method based on an iterative structure. The network is mainly divided into two sub-networks, one is the halo layer separation sub-network which aims to separate the halo by gradient minimization, and the other is the multi-scale recovery sub-network which aims to recover the image information masked by halo. The UIEB and EUVP synthetic datasets are used for training to ensure that the network can fully learn the characteristics and laws of underwater halo images. Then a large number of halo images taken in an underwater environment with real artificial light are collected for testing. In addition, the brightness distribution characteristics of underwater halo images are analyzed and the radial gradient is introduced to constraint eliminate halo to improve the effect of underwater image restoration.
AIJan 16, 2021
Artificial Intelligence for Emotion-Semantic Trending and People Emotion Detection During COVID-19 Social IsolationHamed Jelodar, Rita Orji, Stan Matwin et al.
Taking advantage of social media platforms, such as Twitter, this paper provides an effective framework for emotion detection among those who are quarantined. Early detection of emotional feelings and their trends help implement timely intervention strategies. Given the limitations of medical diagnosis of early emotional change signs during the quarantine period, artificial intelligence models provide effective mechanisms in uncovering early signs, symptoms and escalating trends. Novelty of the approach presented herein is a multitask methodological framework of text data processing, implemented as a pipeline for meaningful emotion detection and analysis, based on the Plutchik/Ekman approach to emotion detection and trend detection. We present an evaluation of the framework and a pilot system. Results of confirm the effectiveness of the proposed framework for topic trends and emotion detection of COVID-19 tweets. Our findings revealed Stay-At-Home restrictions result in people expressing on twitter both negative and positive emotional semantics. Semantic trends of safety issues related to staying at home rapidly decreased within the 28 days and also negative feelings related to friends dying and quarantined life increased in some days. These findings have potential to impact public health policy decisions through monitoring trends of emotional feelings of those who are quarantined. The framework presented here has potential to assist in such monitoring by using as an online emotion detection tool kit.
IRApr 24, 2020
Deep Sentiment Classification and Topic Discovery on Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 Online Discussions: NLP Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Network ApproachHamed Jelodar, Yongli Wang, Rita Orji et al.
Internet forums and public social media, such as online healthcare forums, provide a convenient channel for users (people/patients) concerned about health issues to discuss and share information with each other. In late December 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus (infection from which results in the disease named COVID-19) was reported, and, due to the rapid spread of the virus in other parts of the world, the World Health Organization declared a state of emergency. In this paper, we used automated extraction of COVID-19 related discussions from social media and a natural language process (NLP) method based on topic modeling to uncover various issues related to COVID-19 from public opinions. Moreover, we also investigate how to use LSTM recurrent neural network for sentiment classification of COVID-19 comments. Our findings shed light on the importance of using public opinions and suitable computational techniques to understand issues surrounding COVID-19 and to guide related decision-making.
IRSep 20, 2019
Natural Language Processing via LDA Topic Model in Recommendation SystemsHamed Jelodar, Yongli Wang, Mahdi Rabbani et al.
Today, Internet is one of the widest available media worldwide. Recommendation systems are increasingly being used in various applications such as movie recommendation, mobile recommendation, article recommendation and etc. Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Content-Based (CB) are Well-known techniques for building recommendation systems. Topic modeling based on LDA, is a powerful technique for semantic mining and perform topic extraction. In the past few years, many articles have been published based on LDA technique for building recommendation systems. In this paper, we present taxonomy of recommendation systems and applications based on LDA. In addition, we utilize LDA and Gibbs sampling algorithms to evaluate ISWC and WWW conference publications in computer science. Our study suggest that the recommendation systems based on LDA could be effective in building smart recommendation system in online communities.
IRDec 20, 2018
Recommendation System based on Semantic Scholar Mining and Topic modeling: A behavioral analysis of researchers from six conferencesHamed Jelodar, Yongli Wang, Mahdi Rabbani et al.
Recommendation systems have an important place to help online users in the internet society. Recommendation Systems in computer science are of very practical use these days in various aspects of the Internet portals, such as social networks, and library websites. There are several approaches to implement recommendation systems, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is one the popular techniques in Topic Modeling. Recently, researchers have proposed many approaches based on Recommendation Systems and LDA. According to importance of the subject, in this paper we discover the trends of the topics and find relationship between LDA topics and Scholar-Context-documents. In fact, We apply probabilistic topic modeling based on Gibbs sampling algorithms for a semantic mining from six conference publications in computer science from DBLP dataset. According to our experimental results, our semantic framework can be effective to help organizations to better organize these conferences and cover future research topics.
IRNov 19, 2017
A systematic framework to discover pattern for web spam classificationHamed Jelodar, Yongli Wang, Chi Yuan et al.
Web spam is a big problem for search engine users in World Wide Web. They use deceptive techniques to achieve high rankings. Although many researchers have presented the different approach for classification and web spam detection still it is an open issue in computer science. Analyzing and evaluating these websites can be an effective step for discovering and categorizing the features of these websites. There are several methods and algorithms for detecting those websites, such as decision tree algorithm. In this paper, we present a systematic framework based on CHAID algorithm and a modified string matching algorithm (KMP) for extract features and analysis of these websites. We evaluated our model and other methods with a dataset of Alexa Top 500 Global Sites and Bing search engine results in 500 queries.
IRNov 12, 2017
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Topic modeling: models, applications, a surveyHamed Jelodar, Yongli Wang, Chi Yuan et al.
Topic modeling is one of the most powerful techniques in text mining for data mining, latent data discovery, and finding relationships among data, text documents. Researchers have published many articles in the field of topic modeling and applied in various fields such as software engineering, political science, medical and linguistic science, etc. There are various methods for topic modeling, which Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is one of the most popular methods in this field. Researchers have proposed various models based on the LDA in topic modeling. According to previous work, this paper can be very useful and valuable for introducing LDA approaches in topic modeling. In this paper, we investigated scholarly articles highly (between 2003 to 2016) related to Topic Modeling based on LDA to discover the research development, current trends and intellectual structure of topic modeling. Also, we summarize challenges and introduce famous tools and datasets in topic modeling based on LDA.