Machine Learning Damon Waring 22 April 2003 Agenda      Problem, Solution, Benefits Machine Learning Overview/Basics Face detection, recognition, and demo How this applies to us Summary of 15 Problem Software frequently requires users or developers to simple, repetitive tasks of 15 Solution    Machine Learning “The study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience” –Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning Machine learning uses include:     Security (Pattern recognition, face recognition) Business (Stocks, user behaviors) Medical (Research) Ease of Use (Focus of this presentation) Algorithms that execute based on experience Algorithms that execute based on experience of 15 Benefits      Makes human-computer interaction easier Relatively simple to integrate Will distinguish your product from others Increase customer satisfaction Will improve simple intelligent systems (ex: Microsoft Word’s grammar checker) Enhances the user experience Enhances the user experience of 15 High Level Operation: Recognition Algorithms  Training Mode    Training Set Iteratively analyze inputs and refine algorithm Store learned data  Operation Mode    New input Process input using learned data Produce a decision “Learn from nature It has had billion years to develop its techniques” – My Dad Recognition algorithms are taught and react like humans Recognition algorithms are taught and react like humans of 15 Case Study: Artificial Neural Network     Takes N inputs Calculates the weight each input has on final decision Neuron outputs a if the decision is true, if it is false Groups of neurons make up an artificial neural network Group of weighted input values determine a binary output Group of weighted input values determine a binary output of 15 Face Detection Image pyramid used to locate faces of different sizes Image lighting compensation Neural Network detects rotation of face candidate Final face candidate de-rotated ready for detection of 15 Face Detection (Con’t) Submit image to Neural Network a b c Break image into segments Each segment is a unique input to the network Each segment looks for certain patterns (eyes, mouth, etc) Output is likelihood of a face of 15 Face Recognition and demo   Demo: Hidden Markov Model Face Recognition  Observes location of facial features with respect to each other  Person is found through unique “fingerprint” created by distances between features Demo is from OpenCV – Intel’s open source computer vision library Implementations vary widely and have different success rates Implementations vary widely and have different success rates 10 of 15 Adobe Photoshop Album     Software that organizes digital pictures Tags are dragged to each photo to categorize it Tagging 100’s of photos is tedious Face recognition could automatically tag photos or replace tags altogether Machine learning can be used to make everyday apps easier Machine learning can be used to make everyday apps easier 11 of 15 Current Uses of ML     DivX – Face detection POV-Ray – Neural Net learns memory accesses Ancestry.com – Uses Optical Character Recognition to digitize newspapers Deep Blue Junior – Less powerful than Deep Blue, but smarter because of Neural Networks 12 of 15 Other Areas     Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Mining Fuzzy Logic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) 13 of 15 Summary      Machine learning is possible today Large amounts of research are available Quality open source code available in some areas Will require time and creativity to implement Why it? Makes human-computer interface simpler 14 of 15 References Books   Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html ) Web sites        Hidden Markov Models http://jedlik.phy.bme.hu/~gerjanos/HMM/node2.html Links recommended by PCAI http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLOther.html CMU’s research areas (scroll down): http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/kanade_takeo.html MIT’s Media Lab: http://www.media.mit.edu/ Computer vision links: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html Open source computer vision library (OpenCV): http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/ Journals     PCAI (a great industry magazine, web site is bad)- http://www.pcai.com ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) “Computer Vision and Image Understanding,” “Artificial Intelligence,” “Neural Networks” IEEE Proceedings (http://www.ieee.org) “Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,” “Image Processing” IEEE Papers/Proceedings referenced in this presentation     Hidden Markov Models (used in OpenCV Demo) “Maximum likelihood training of the embedded HMM for face detection and recognition.” Nefian, A.V.; Hayes, M.H III; Image Processing, 2000 Proceedings 2000 International Conference on, Volume: 1, Pages 33-36 “Neural network-based face detection.” Rowley, H.A.; Baluja, S.; Kanade, T; Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 20 Issue 1, Jan 1998 Pages 23-38 (Paper posted at: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_271.html ) “Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection” http://www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_271.html 15 of 15