Deep Generative Design: A Deep Learning Framework for Optimized Spatial Truss Structures with Stock Constraints

Energy use, CO2 emissions, and waste production are all significant causes of environmental issues. The building sector is a major contributor to these problems, specifically the manufacturing of (structural) steel elements. Application of reuse and/or remanufacturing, as done in a circular economy, will reduce these effects. Therefore, these...

Non-destructive Infield Quality Estimation of Strawberries using Deep Architectures

Strawberries have a short shelf-life time and thus need to be harvested at the right time to reduce waste. To this end, information about quality attributes is useful. Recently, many computer vision methods have been proposed. Most literature analyzes postharvest, which means that strawberries can only be analyzed after harvesting. As a result,...

Model-specific Explainable Artificial Intelligence techniques: State-of-the-art, Advantages and Limitations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) applications are being widely used to solve different problems in different sectors. These applications have enabled the human-effort and involvement to be very low. The AI/ML systems<br/>make their own predictions and do not require a great deal of human help. However, over the last few...

Binary Neural Networks for Object Detection

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely utilized and shown state-of-the-art performances on computer vision tasks. However, CNN based approaches usually require a large amount of storage, run-time memory, as well as computation power in both training and inference time, which are usually used on GPU based...

Efficient Neural Network Architecture Search

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an overparameterized network. However, there are two issues associated with most one-shot NAS methods. First, dependencies...

DeepSleep: A sensor-agnostic approach towards modelling a sleep classification system

Sleep is a natural state of our mind and body during which our muscles heal and our memories are consolidated. It is such a habitual phenomenon that we have been viewing it as another ordinary task in our day-to-day life. However, owing to the current fast-paced, technology-driven generation, we are letting ourselves be sleep-deprived, giving...

Deep Reinforcement Learning - Pretraining actor-critic networks using state representation learning

In control, the objective is to find a mapping from states to actions that steer a system to a desired reference. A controller can be designed by an engineer, typically using some model of the system or it can be learned by an algorithm. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one such algorithm. In RL, the controller is an agent that interacts with the...

Een Semantisch Connectionistisch Redeneersysteem (SCORE)

Het onderzoek heeft zich gericht op de ontwikkeling van een Semantisch Connectionistisch Redeneersysteem (SCORE). SCORE kan de basis vormen voor een volwaardig expertsysteem. De, voor een expertsysteem van elementair belang zijnde, fundamentele inferentie principes, kennisacquisitie principes en kennisrepresentatievormen hebben in SCORE de...