The world’s high-resolution images are supplied by a radar system named Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Semantic SAR image segmentation proposes a computer-based solution to make segmentation tasks easier. When conducting scientific research, accessing freely available datasets and images with low noise levels is rare. However, SAR images can be accessed for free. We propose a novel process for labeling Sentinel-1 SAR radar images, which the European Space Agency (ESA) provides free of charge. This process involves denoising the images and using an automatically created dataset with pioneering deep neural networks to augment the results of the semantic segmentation task. In order to exhibit the power of our denoising process, we match the results of our newly created dataset with speckled noise and noise-free versions. Thus, we attained a mean intersection over union (mIoU) of 70.60% and overall pixel accuracy (PA) of 92.23 with the HRNet model. These deep learning segmentation methods were also assessed with the McNemar test. Our experiments on the newly created Sentinel-1 dataset establish that combining our pipeline with deep neural networks results in recognizable improvements in challenging semantic segmentation accuracy and mIoU values.
Cultural assets are all movable and immovable assets that have been the subject of social life in historical periods, have unique scientific and cultural value, and are located above ground, underground or underwater. Today, the fact that most of the analyses conducted to understand the technologies of these assets require sampling and that non-destructive methods that allow analysis without taking samples are costly is a problem for cultural heritage workers. In this study, which was prepared to find solutions to national and international problems, it is aimed to develop a non-destructive, cost-minimizing and easy-to-use analysis method. Since this article aimed to develop methodology, the materials were prepared for preliminary research purposes. Therefore, it was limited to four primary colors. These four primary colors were red and yellow ochre, green earth, Egyptian blue and ultramarine blue. These pigments were used with different binders. The produced paints were photographed in natural and artificial light at different light intensities and brought to a 256 × 256 pixel size, and then trained on support vector machine, convolutional neural network, densely connected convolutional network, residual network 50 and visual geometry group 19 models. It was asked whether the trained VGG19 model could classify the paints used in archaeological and artistic works analyzed with instrumental methods in the literature with their real identities. As a result of the test, the model was able to classify paints in artworks from photographs non-destructively with a 99% success rate, similar to the result of the McNemar test.
30 June 2020 in Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series A2-A3 Physical Sciences and Engineering
Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) has gained a serious achievement on sequential data which have been used generally videos, text and time-series. In this paper, we aim for generating lyrics with newly created “Turkish Lyrics” dataset. By this time, there have been studies for creating Turkish Lyrics with character-level. Unlike previous studies, we propose to Turkish Lyrics generator working with word-level instead on character-level. Also, for employing LSTM, we can’t send the words as string and words must be vectorized. To vectorize, we tried two ways for encoding the words that are used in dataset and compared them. Firstly, we sample for generating one-hot encoding and then, secondly word-embedding way (Word2Vec). Observational results show us that word- level generation with word-embedding way gives more meaningful and realistic lyrics. Actually, there have not been good results enough to be used for a song because of Turkish Grammar. But, this study encourages authors to work on this field and we do believe that this study will initialize research on this area and lead researchers to contribute to this as well.