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Data science beginners start with curated set of data, but it's a well known fact that in a real Data Science Project, major time is spent on collecting, cleaning and organizing data . Also domain expertise is considered as important aspect of creating good ML models. Being an automobile enthusiast, I tool up this challenge to collect images of two of the popular car models from a used car website, where users upload the images of the car they want to sell and then train a Deep Neural Network to identify model of a car from car images. In my search for images I found that approximately 10 percent of the cars pictures did not represent the intended car correctly and those pictures have to be deleted from final data.

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There are 4000 images of two of the popular cars (Swift and Wagonr) in India of make Maruti Suzuki with 2000 pictures belonging to each model. The data is divided into training set with 2400 images , validation set with 800 images and test set with 800 images. The data was randomized before splitting into training, test and validation set.

The starter kernal is provided for keras with CNN. I have also created github project documenting advanced techniques in pytorch and keras for image classification like data augmentation, dropout, batch normalization and transfer learning

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1. With small dataset like this, how much accuracy can we achieve and whether more data is always better. The baseline model trained in Keras achieves 88% accuracy on validation set, can we achieve even better performance and by how much.

2. Is the data collected for the two car models representative of all possible car from all over country or there is sample bias .

3. I would also like someone to extend the concept to build a use case so that if user uploads an incorrect car picture of car , the ML model could automatically flag it. For example user uploading incorrect model or an image which is not a car

BIRD is an open dataset that consists of 100,000 multichannel room impulse responses generated using the image method. This makes it the largest multichannel open dataset currently available. We provide some Python code that shows how to download and use this dataset to perform online data augmentation. The code is compatible with the PyTorch dataset class, which eases integration in existing deep learning projects based on this framework.

Source codes and dataset of the research "Solar flare forecasting based on magnetogram sequences learning with MViT and data augmentation". Our work employed PyTorch, a framework for training Deep Learning models with GPU support and automatic back-propagation, to load the MViTv2 s models with Kinetics-400 weights. To simplify the code implementation, eliminating the need for an explicit loop to train and the automation of some hyperparameters, we use the PyTorch Lightning module. The inputs were batches of 10 samples with 16 sequenced images in 3-channel resized to 224 × 224 pixels and normalized from 0 to 1. Most of the papers in our literature survey split the original dataset chronologically. Some authors also apply k-fold cross-validation to emphasize the evaluation of the model stability. However, we adopt a hybrid split taking the first 50,000 to apply the 5-fold cross-validation between the training and validation sets (known data), with 40,000 samples for training and 10,000 for validation. Thus, we can evaluate performance and stability by analyzing the mean and standard deviation of all trained models in the test set, composed of the last 9,834 samples, preserving the chronological order (simulating unknown data). We develop three distinct models to evaluate the impact of oversampling magnetogram sequences through the dataset. The first model, Solar Flare MViT (SF MViT), has trained only with the original data from our base dataset without using oversampling. In the second model, Solar Flare MViT over Train (SF MViT oT), we only apply oversampling on training data, maintaining the original validation dataset. In the third model, Solar Flare MViT over Train and Validation (SF MViT oTV), we apply oversampling in both training and validation sets. We also trained a model oversampling the entire dataset. We called it the "SF_MViT_oTV Test" to verify how resampling or adopting a test set with unreal data may bias the results positively. GitHub version The .zip hosted here contains all files from the project, including the checkpoint and the output files generated by the codes. We have a clean version hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/lfgrim/SFF_MagSeq_MViTs), without the magnetogram_jpg folder (which can be downloaded directly on https://tianchi-competition.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/531804/dataset_ss2sff.zip) and the output and checkpoint files. Most code files hosted here also contain comments on the Portuguese language, which are being updated to English in the GitHub version. Folders Structure In the Root directory of the project, we have two folders:

magnetogram_jpg: holds the source images provided by Space Environment Artificial Intelligence Early Warning Innovation Workshop through the link https://tianchi-competition.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/531804/dataset_ss2sff.zip. It comprises 73,810 samples of high-quality magnetograms captured by HMI/SDO from 2010 May 4 to 2019 January 26. The HMI instrument provides these data (stored in hmi.sharp_720s dataset), making new samples available every 12 minutes. However, the images from this dataset were collected every 96 minutes. Each image has an associated magnetogram comprising a ready-made snippet of one or most solar ARs. It is essential to notice that the magnetograms cropped by SHARP can contain one or more solar ARs classified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Seq_Magnetogram: contains the references for source images with the corresponding labels in the next 24 h. and 48 h. in the respectively M24 and M48 sub-folders.

M24/M48: both present the following sub-folders structure:

Seqs16; SF_MViT; SF_MViT_oT; SF_MViT_oTV; SF_MViT_oTV_Test. There are also two files in root:

inst_packages.sh: install the packages and dependencies to run the models. download_MViTS.py: download the pre-trained MViTv2_S from PyTorch and store it in the cache. M24 and M48 folders hold reference text files (flare_Mclass...) linking the images in the magnetogram_jpg folders or the sequences (Seq16_flare_Mclass...) in the Seqs16 folders with their respective labels. They also hold "cria_seqs.py" which was responsible for creating the sequences and "test_pandas.py" to verify head info and check the number of samples categorized by the label of the text files. All the text files with the prefix "Seq16" and inside the Seqs16 folder were created by "criaseqs.py" code based on the correspondent "flare_Mclass" prefixed text files. Seqs16 folder holds reference text files, in which each file contains a sequence of images that was pointed to the magnetogram_jpg folders. All SF_MViT... folders hold the model training codes itself (SF_MViT...py) and the corresponding job submission (jobMViT...), temporary input (Seq16_flare...), output (saida_MVIT... and MViT_S...), error (err_MViT...) and checkpoint files (sample-FLARE...ckpt). Executed model training codes generate output, error, and checkpoint files. There is also a folder called "lightning_logs" that stores logs of trained models. Naming pattern for the files:

magnetogram_jpg: follows the format "hmi.sharp_720s.

hmi: is the instrument that captured the image sharp_720s: is the database source of SDO/HMI.

Model training codes: "SF_MViT_

Structural planes decrease the strength and stability of rock masses, severely affecting their mechanical properties and deformation and failure characteristics. Therefore, investigation and analysis of structural planes are crucial tasks in mining rock mechanics. The drilling camera obtains image information of deep structural planes of rock masses through high-definition camera methods, providing important data sources for the analysis of deep structural planes of rock masses. This paper addresses the problems of high workload, low efficiency, high subjectivity, and poor accuracy brought about by manual processing based on current borehole image analysis and conducts an intelligent segmentation study of borehole image structural planes based on the U2-Net network. By collecting data from 20 different borehole images in different lithological regions, a dataset consisting of 1,013 borehole images with structural plane type, lithology, and color was established. Data augmentation methods such as image flipping, color jittering, blurring, and mixup were applied to expand the dataset to 12,421 images, meeting the requirements for deep network training data. Based on the PyTorch deep learning framework, the initial U2-Net network weights were set, the learning rate was set to 0.001, the training batch was 4, and the Adam optimizer adaptively adjusted the learning rate during the training process. A dedicated network model for segmenting structural planes was obtained, and the model achieved a maximum F-measure value of 0.749 when the confidence threshold was set to 0.7, with an accuracy rate of up to 0.85 within the range of recall rate greater than 0.5. Overall, the model has high accuracy for segmenting structural planes and very low mean absolute error, indicating good segmentation accuracy and certain generalization of the network. The research method in this paper can serve as a reference for the study of intelligent identification of structural planes in borehole images.

MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely-licensed classical music recordings, together with over 1 million annotated labels indicating the precise time of each note in every recording, the instrument that plays each note, and the note's position in the metrical structure of the composition. The labels are acquired from musical scores aligned to recordings by dynamic time warping. The labels are verified by trained musicians; we estimate a labeling error rate of 4%. We offer the MusicNet labels to the machine learning and music communities as a resource for training models and a common benchmark for comparing results. This dataset was introduced in the paper "Learning Features of Music from Scratch." [1]

This repository consists of 3 top-level files:

• musicnet.tar.gz - This file contains the MusicNet dataset itself, consisting of PCM-encoded audio wave files (.wav) and corresponding CSV-encoded note label files (.csv). The data is organized according to the train/test split described and used in "Invariances and Data Augmentation for Supervised Music Transcription". [2]
• musicnet_metadata.csv - This file contains track-level information about recordings contained in MusicNet. The data and label files are named with MusicNet ids, which you can use to cross-index the data and labels with this metadata file.
• musicnet_midis.tar.gz - This file contains the reference MIDI files used to construct the MusicNet labels.

A PyTorch interface for accessing the MusicNet dataset is available on GitHub. For an audio/visual introduction and summary of this dataset, see the MusicNet inspector, created by Jong Wook Kim. The audio recordings in MusicNet consist of Creative Commons licensed and Public Domain performances, sourced from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the European Archive Foundation, and Musopen. The provenance of specific recordings and midis are described in the metadata file.

[1] Learning Features of Music from Scratch. John Thickstun, Zaid Harchaoui, and Sham M. Kakade. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2017. ArXiv Report.

@inproceedings{thickstun2017learning,
  title={Learning Features of Music from Scratch},
  author = {John Thickstun and Zaid Harchaoui and Sham M. Kakade},
  year={2017},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}
}

[2] Invariances and Data Augmentation for Supervised Music Transcription. John Thickstun, Zaid Harchaoui, Dean P. Foster, and Sham M. Kakade. In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018. ArXiv Report.

@inproceedings{thickstun2018invariances,
title={Invariances and Data Augmentation for Supervised Music Transcription},
author = {John Thickstun and Zaid Harchaoui and Dean P. Foster and Sham M. Kakade},
year={2018},
booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}
}