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7 \begin{document} |
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8 \title{Generating and Exploiting Perturbed Training Data for Deep Architectures} |
| 381 | 9 \author{The IFT6266 Gang} |
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10 \date{April 2010, Technical Report, Dept. IRO, U. Montreal} |
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12 \maketitle |
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15 Recent theoretical and empirical work in statistical machine learning has |
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16 demonstrated the importance of learning algorithms for deep |
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17 architectures, i.e., function classes obtained by composing multiple |
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18 non-linear transformations. In the area of handwriting recognition, |
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19 deep learning algorithms |
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20 had been evaluated on rather small datasets with a few tens of thousands |
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21 of examples. Here we propose a powerful generator of variations |
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22 of examples for character images based on a pipeline of stochastic |
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23 transformations that include not only the usual affine transformations |
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24 but also the addition of slant, local elastic deformations, changes |
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25 in thickness, background images, color, contrast, occlusion, and |
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26 various types of pixel and spatially correlated noise. |
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27 We evaluate a deep learning algorithm (Stacked Denoising Autoencoders) |
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28 on the task of learning to classify digits and letters transformed |
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29 with this pipeline, using the hundreds of millions of generated examples |
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30 and testing on the full NIST test set. |
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31 We find that the SDA outperforms its |
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32 shallow counterpart, an ordinary Multi-Layer Perceptron, |
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33 and that it is better able to take advantage of the additional |
| 438 | 34 generated data, as well as better able to take advantage of |
| 35 training from more classes than those of interest in the end. | |
| 36 In fact, we find that the SDA reaches human performance as | |
| 37 estimated by the Amazon Mechanical Turk on the NIST test characters. | |
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38 \end{abstract} |
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40 \section{Introduction} |
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43 statistical machine learning (see~\emcite{Bengio-2009} for a review). |
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44 Learning algorithms for deep architectures are centered on the learning |
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45 of useful representations of data, which are better suited to the task at hand. |
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46 This is in great part inspired by observations of the mammalian visual cortex, |
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47 which consists of a chain of processing elements, each of which is associated with a |
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48 different representation. In fact, |
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49 it was found recently that the features learnt in deep architectures resemble |
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50 those observed in the first two of these stages (in areas V1 and V2 |
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51 of visual cortex)~\cite{HonglakL2008}. |
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52 Processing images typically involves transforming the raw pixel data into |
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53 new {\bf representations} that can be used for analysis or classification. |
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54 For example, a principal component analysis representation linearly projects |
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55 the input image into a lower-dimensional feature space. |
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57 literature converts the raw pixels into a hand-crafted representation |
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58 (e.g.\ SIFT features~\cite{Lowe04}), but deep learning algorithms |
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60 levels~\cite{HonglakL2008,ranzato-08,Koray-08,VincentPLarochelleH2008-very-small}. |
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76 \section{Perturbation and Transformation of Character Images} |
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77 This section describes the different transformations we used to generate data, in their order. |
| 428 | 78 We can differentiate two important parts in the pipeline. The first one, from slant to pinch, performs transformations |
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82 In order to mimic a slant effect, we simply shift each row of the image proportionnaly to its height: $shift = round(slant \times height)$. |
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88 or highest pixel line is of $round(complexity \times 32)$. |
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94 The basic idea of such transform is, for each pixel, to multiply in the element-wise manner its neighbourhood with a matrix called the structuring element. |
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100 from a subset of the $n$ smallest structuring elements where $n$ is $round(10 \times complexity)$ for dilation and $round(6 \times complexity)$ for erosion. |
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129 Mathematically, for a square input image, think of drawing a circle of radius $r$ around a center point $C$. Any point (pixel) $P$ belonging to that disk (region inside circle) will have its value recalculated by taking the value of another "source" pixel in the original image. The position of that source pixel is found on the line thats goes through $C$ and $P$, but at some other distance $d_2$. Define $d_1$ to be the distance between $P$ and $C$. $d_2$ is given by $d_2 = sin(\frac{\pi{}d_1}{2r})^{-pinch} \times d_1$, where $pinch$ is a parameter to the filter. |
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141 This algorithm has two input parameters, $length$ and $angle$. The value of a pixel in the final image is the mean value of the $length$ first pixels found by moving in the $angle$ direction. An approximation of this idea is used, as we won't fall onto precise pixels by following that direction. This is done using the Bresenham line algorithm. |
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143 The angle, in our case, is chosen from a uniform distribution over $[0,360]$ degrees. The length, though, depends on the complexity; it's sampled from a Gaussian distribution of mean 0 and standard deviation $\sigma = 3 \times complexity$. |
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147 This filter selects random parts of other (hereafter "occlusive") letter images and places them over the original letter (hereafter "occluded") image. To be more precise, having selected a subregion of the occlusive image and a desination position in the occluded image, to determine the final value for a given overlapping pixel, it selects whichever pixel is the lightest. As a reminder, the background value is 0, black, so the value nearest to 1 is selected. |
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149 To select a subpart of the occlusive image, four numbers are generated. For compability with the code, we'll call them "haut", "bas", "gauche" and "droite" (respectively meaning top, bottom, left and right). Each of these numbers is selected according to a Gaussian distribution of mean $8 \times complexity$ and standard deviation $2$. This means the largest the complexity is, the biggest the occlusion will be. The absolute value is taken, as the numbers must be positive, and the maximum value is capped at 15. |
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153 The next step is to select a destination position in the occluded image. Vertical and horizontal displacements $y\_arrivee$ and $x\_arrivee$ are selected according to Gaussian distributions of mean 0 and of standard deviations of, respectively, 3 and 2. Then an horizontal placement mode, $endroit$ (meaning location), is selected to be of three values meaning left, middle or right. |
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164 This filter simply adds, to each pixel of the image independently, a gaussian noise of mean $0$ and standard deviation $\frac{complexity}{10}$. |
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171 This transformation adds a random background behind the letter. The background is chosen by first selecting, at random, an image from a set of images. Then we choose a 32x32 subregion of that image as the background image (by sampling x and y positions uniformly while making sure not to cross image borders). |
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173 To combine the original letter image and the background image, contrast adjustments are made. We first get the maximal values (i.e. maximal intensity) for both the original image and the background image, $maximage$ and $maxbg$. We also have a parameter, $contrast$, given by sampling from a uniform distribution over $[complexity, 1]$. |
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175 Once we have all these numbers, we first adjust the values for the background image. Each pixel value is multiplied by $\frac{max(maximage - contrast, 0)}{maxbg}$. Therefore the higher the contrast, the darkest the background will be. |
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181 This filter adds noise to the image by randomly selecting a certain number of them and, for those selected pixels, assign a random value according to a uniform distribution over the $[0,1]$ ranges. This last distribution does not change according to complexity. Instead, the number of selected pixels does: the proportion of changed pixels corresponds to $complexity / 5$, which means, as a maximum, 20\% of the pixels will be randomized. On the lowest extreme, no pixel is changed. |
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189 $[12,12 + 20 \times complexity]$ and $[2,2 + 6 \times complexity]$. The result is normalized between $0$ and $1$. |
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| 200 The ratures ("scratches") filter places line-like white patches on the image. The lines are in fact heavily transformed images of the digit "1" (one), chosen at random among five thousands such start images of this digit. | |
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| 202 Once the image is selected, the transformation begins by finding the first $top$, $bottom$, $right$ and $left$ non-zero pixels in the image. It is then cropped to the region thus delimited, then this cropped version is expanded to 32x32 again. It is then rotated by a random angle having a Gaussian distribution of mean 90 and standard deviation $100 \times complexity$ (in degrees). The rotation is done with bicubic interpolation. | |
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| 204 The rotated image is then resized to 50x50, with anti-aliasing. In that image, we crop the image again by selecting a region delimited horizontally to $left$ to $left+32$ and vertically by $top$ to $top+32$. | |
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| 206 Once this is done, two passes of a greyscale morphological erosion filter are applied. Put briefly, this erosion filter reduces the width of the line by a certain $smoothing$ amount. For small complexities (< 0.5), $smoothing$ is 6, so the line is very small. For complexities ranging from 0.25 to 0.5, $smoothing$ is 5. It is 4 for complexities 0.5 to 0.75, and 3 for higher complexities. | |
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| 438 | 333 We compare here the best MLP (according to validation set error) that we found against |
| 334 the best SDA (again according to validation set error), along with a precise estimate | |
| 335 of human performance obtained via Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) | |
| 336 service\footnote{http://mturk.com}. AMT users are paid small amounts | |
| 337 of money to perform tasks for which human intelligence is required. | |
| 338 Mechanical Turk has been used extensively in natural language | |
| 339 processing \cite{SnowEtAl2008} and vision | |
| 340 \cite{SorokinAndForsyth2008,whitehill09}. AMT users where presented | |
| 341 with 10 character images and asked to type 10 corresponding ascii | |
| 342 characters. Hence they were forced to make a hard choice among the | |
| 343 62 character classes. Three users classified each image, allowing | |
| 344 to estimate inter-human variability (shown as +/- in parenthesis below). | |
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| 346 \begin{table} | |
| 347 \caption{Overall comparison of error rates on 62 character classes (10 digits + | |
| 348 26 lower + 26 upper), except for last columns -- digits only, between deep architecture with pre-training | |
| 349 (SDA=Stacked Denoising Autoencoder) and ordinary shallow architecture | |
| 350 (MLP=Multi-Layer Perceptron). } | |
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| 354 & NIST test & NISTP test & P07 test & NIST test digits \\ \hline | |
| 355 Humans& & & & \\ \hline | |
| 356 SDA & & & &\\ \hline | |
| 357 MLP & & & & \\ \hline | |
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362 \subsection{Perturbed Training Data More Helpful for SDAE} |
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366 As previously seen, the SDA is better able to benefit from the transformations applied to the data than the MLP. We are now training SDAs and MLPs on single classes from NIST (respectively digits, lower case characters and upper case characters), to compare the test results with those from models trained on the entire NIST database (per-class test error, with an a priori on the desired class). The goal is to find out if training the model with more classes than necessary reduces the test error on a single class, as opposed to training it only with the desired class. We use a single hidden layer MLP with 1000 hidden units, and a SDA with 3 hidden layers (1000 hidden units per layer), pre-trained and fine-tuned on NIST. |
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368 Our results show that the MLP only benefits from a full NIST training on digits, and the test error is only 5\% smaller than a digits-specialized MLP. On the other hand, the SDA always gives better results when it is trained with the entire NIST database, compared to its specialized counterparts (with upper case character, the test errors are identical, but 27\% smaller on digits, and 9.4\% smaller on lower case characters). |
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