Machine Learning Aided Reliability Analysis for Spatially Varying Slopes in 2D and 3D

The Random Finite Element Method (RFEM) is a robust stochastic method for slope reliability analysis that incorporates the spatial variability of soil properties. However, the extensive computational time associated with the direct Monte Carlo simulation limits its practical application. To overcome this problem, this study investigates the use...

Microtubule Detection and Instance Segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Microtubules are long cylindrical polymers, assembled from tubulin proteins. Microtubule ends can be visualized using fluorescence and confocal microscopy. This allows for the study of microtubule dynamics. However, the manual annotation of microtubules is laborious, which is why automated tracking methods are used. In this project we have...

Identification of Neolithic Circular Enclosures through Aerial Imagery

Traditionally, archaeological investigations, especially archaeological remains detection, mostly depend on human observation. In order to find the objects in large areas, a lot of fieldwork has to be done and it takes a long time for archaeologists to travel around. Nowadays, the development of LIDAR provides accurate 3D geometric information,...

Attention-based deep learning for DNA repair outcome prediction: Learning how the cell repairs DNA breaks using local sequence context

Recent advancements in quantification of repair outcomes of CRISPR-Cas9 mediated double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) have allowed for the use of machine learning for predicting the frequencies of these repair outcomes. Local DNA sequence context influences the frequencies of mutations that arise when DNA gets repaired after it is targeted by...

Short-term Earthquake Prediction with Deep Neural Networks: Finding the optimal time prior to earthquake strikes to use in predictions

Earthquakes can have tremendous effects. They can result in casualties, massive damage, and hurt the economy. Therefore, one would like to predict earthquakes as early as possible and with the highest accuracy possible. This paper contains the proposal for the optimal prediction-time, which is the time between the execution of a prediction and...

Machine Learning-based Classification of Different 3D Point Cloud Data of Railway Environments using Random Forest and DGCNN

Although monitoring and maintenance of railways is important to ensure safety and avoid delays and financial losses, it is still mainly based on human inspection. The complexity of a railway along with the large area it extends makes manual monitoring difficult and time-consuming. The increasing availability of 3D acquisition technologies has...

Low-level radar data based road user detection

In order to achieve redundancy and improve the robustness of an autonomous driving system, radar is a suitable choice for road user detection task in severe working conditions (e.g. darkness, bad weather). However, the real-time multi-class radar based road user detection algorithm is less explored compared with camera and LiDAR solutions. To...