Anomaly detection in video surveillance is a highly developed subject that is attracting increased attention from the research community. There is great demand for intelligent systems with the capacity to automatically detect anomalous events in streaming videos. Due to this, a wide variety of approaches have been proposed to build an effective model that would ensure public security. There has been a variety of surveys of anomaly detection, such as of network anomaly detection, financial fraud detection, human behavioral analysis, and many more. Deep learning has been successfully applied to many aspects of computer vision. In particular, the strong growth of generative models means that these are the main techniques used in the proposed methods. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the deep learning-based techniques used in the field of video anomaly detection. Specifically, deep learning-based approaches have been categorized into different methods by their objectives and learning metrics. Additionally, preprocessing and feature engineering techniques are discussed thoroughly for the vision-based domain. This paper also describes the benchmark databases used in training and detecting abnormal human behavior. Finally, the common challenges in video surveillance are discussed, to offer some possible solutions and directions for future research.

Pneumonia is a very common and fatal disease, which needs to be identified at the initial stages in order to prevent a patient having this disease from more damage and help him/her in saving his/her life. Various techniques are used for the diagnosis of pneumonia including chest X-ray, CT scan, blood culture, sputum culture, fluid sample, bronchoscopy, and pulse oximetry. Medical image analysis plays a vital role in the diagnosis of various diseases like MERS, COVID-19, pneumonia, etc. and is considered to be one of the auspicious research areas. To analyze chest X-ray images accurately, there is a need for an expert radiologist who possesses expertise and experience in the desired domain. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 2/3 people in the world still do not have access to the radiologist, in order to diagnose their disease. This study proposes a DL framework to diagnose pneumonia disease in an efficient and effective manner. Various Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) transfer learning techniques such as AlexNet, SqueezeNet, VGG16, VGG19, and Inception-V3 are utilized for extracting useful features from the chest X-ray images. In this study, several machine learning (ML) classifiers are utilized. The proposed system has been trained and tested on chest X-ray and CT images dataset. In order to examine the stability and effectiveness of the proposed system, different performance measures have been utilized. The proposed system is intended to be beneficial and supportive for medical doctors to accurately and efficiently diagnose pneumonia disease.

Human action recognition is an important field in computer vision that has attracted remarkable attention from researchers. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of recent human action recognition approaches based on deep learning using RGB video data. Our work divides recent deep learning-based methods into five different categories to provide a comprehensive overview for researchers who are interested in this field of computer vision. Moreover, a pure-transformer architecture (convolution-free) has outperformed its convolutional counterparts in many fields of computer vision recently. Our work also provides recent convolution-free-based methods which replaced convolution networks with the transformer networks that achieved state-of-the-art results on many human action recognition datasets. Firstly, we discuss proposed methods based on a 2D convolutional neural network. Then, methods based on a recurrent neural network which is used to capture motion information are discussed. 3D convolutional neural network-based methods are used in many recent approaches to capture both spatial and temporal information in videos. However, with long action videos, multistream approaches with different streams to encode different features are reviewed. We also compare the performance of recently proposed methods on four popular benchmark datasets. We review 26 benchmark datasets for human action recognition. Some potential research directions are discussed to conclude this survey.

After the occurrence of a hurricane, assessing damage is extremely important for the emergency managers so that relief aid could be provided to afflicted people. One method of assessing the damage is to determine the damaged and the undamaged buildings post-hurricane. Normally, damage assessment is performed by conducting ground surveys, which are time-consuming and involve immense effort. In this paper, transfer learning techniques have been used for determining damaged and undamaged buildings in post-hurricane satellite images. Four different transfer learning techniques, which include VGG16, MobileNetV2, InceptionV3 and DenseNet121, have been applied to 23,000 Hurricane Harvey satellite images, which occurred in the Texas region. A comparative analysis of these models has been performed on the basis of the number of epochs and the optimizers used. The performance of the VGG16 pre-trained model was better than the other models and achieved an accuracy of 0.75, precision of 0.74, recall of 0.95 and F1-score of 0.83 when the Adam optimizer was used. When the comparison of the best performing models was performed in terms of various optimizers, VGG16 produced the best accuracy of 0.78 for the RMSprop optimizer.

Ear recognition is starting to grow as an alternative to other biometric recognition types in recent years. The EarVN1.0 dataset is constructed by collecting ear images of 164 Asian peoples during 2018. It is among the largest ear datasets publicly to the research community which composed by 28,412 colour images of 98 males and 66 females. Thus, this dataset is different from previous works by providing images of both ears per person under unconstrained conditions. The original facial images have been acquired by unconstrained environment including cameras systems and light condition. Ear images are then cropped from facial images over the large variations of pose, scale and illumination. Several machine learning tasks can be applied such as ear recognition, image classification or clustering, gender recognition, right-ear or left-ear detection and enhanced super resolution.

Malaria comes under one of the dangerous diseases in many countries. It is the primary reason for most of the causalities across the world. It is presently rated as a significant cause of the high mortality rate worldwide compared with other diseases that can be reduced significantly by its earlier detection. Therefore, to facilitate the early detection/diagnosis of malaria to reduce the mortality rate, an automated computational method is required with a high accuracy rate. This study is a solid starting point for researchers who want to look into automated blood smear analysis to detect malaria. In this paper, a comprehensive review of different computer-assisted techniques has been outlined as follows: (i) acquisition of image dataset, (ii) preprocessing, (iii) segmentation of RBC, and (iv) feature extraction and selection, and (v) classification for the detection of malaria parasites using blood smear images. This study will be helpful for: (i) researchers can inspect and improve the existing computational methods for early diagnosis of malaria with a high accuracy rate that may further reduce the interobserver and intra-observer variations; (ii) microbiologists to take the second opinion from the automated computational methods for effective diagnosis of malaria; and (iii) finally, several issues remain addressed, and future work has also been discussed in this work.