Md. Sadrul Islam Toaha

Md. Sadrul Islam Toaha, Sakib Bin Asad, Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman et al.

Most city establishments of developing cities are digitally unlabeled because of the lack of automatic annotation systems. Hence location and trajectory services such as Google Maps, Uber etc remain underutilized in such cities. Accurate signboard detection in natural scene images is the foremost task for error-free information retrieval from such city streets. Yet, developing accurate signboard localization system is still an unresolved challenge because of its diverse appearances that include textual images and perplexing backgrounds. We present a novel object detection approach that can detect signboards automatically and is suitable for such cities. We use Faster R-CNN based localization by incorporating two specialized pretraining methods and a run time efficient hyperparameter value selection algorithm. We have taken an incremental approach in reaching our final proposed method through detailed evaluation and comparison with baselines using our constructed SVSO (Street View Signboard Objects) signboard dataset containing signboard natural scene images of six developing countries. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance of our proposed method on both SVSO dataset and Open Image Dataset. Our proposed method can detect signboards accurately (even if the images contain multiple signboards with diverse shapes and colours in a noisy background) achieving 0.90 mAP (mean average precision) score on SVSO independent test set. Our implementation is available at: https://github.com/sadrultoaha/Signboard-Detection

Ruhul Amin, Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, Md. Sadrul Islam Toaha et al.

DNA N6-methylation (6mA) in Adenine nucleotide is a post replication modification and is responsible for many biological functions. Experimental methods for genome wide 6mA site detection is an expensive and manual labour intensive process. Automated and accurate computational methods can help to identify 6mA sites in long genomes saving significant time and money. Our study develops a convolutional neural network based tool i6mA-CNN capable of identifying 6mA sites in the rice genome. Our model coordinates among multiple types of features such as PseAAC inspired customized feature vector, multiple one hot representations and dinucleotide physicochemical properties. It achieves area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.98 with an overall accuracy of 0.94 using 5 fold cross validation on benchmark dataset. Finally, we evaluate our model on two other plant genome 6mA site identification datasets besides rice. Results suggest that our proposed tool is able to generalize its ability of 6mA site identification on plant genomes irrespective of plant species. Web tool for this research can be found at: https://cutt.ly/Co6KuWG. Supplementary data (benchmark dataset, independent test dataset, comparison purpose dataset, trained model, physicochemical property values, attention mechanism details for motif finding) are available at https://cutt.ly/PpDdeDH.