SPIE - Education Deep Learning Architectures for Defense and Security SC1215

This course provides a broad introduction to the basic concept of the classical neural networks (NN) and its current evolution to deep learning (DL) technology. The primary goal of this course is to introduce the well-known deep learning architectures and their applications in defense and security for object detection, identification, verification, action recognition, scene understanding and biometrics using a single modality or multimodality sensor information. This course will describe the history of neural networks and its progress to current deep learning technology. It covers several DL architectures such the classical multi-layer feed forward neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNN), restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM), auto-encoders and recurrent neural networks such as long term short memory (LSTM). Use of deep learning architectures for feature extraction and classification will be described and demonstrated. Examples of popular CNN-based architectures such as AlexNet, VGGNet, GooGleNet (inception modules), ResNet, DeepFace, Highway Networks, FractalNet and their applications to defense and security will be discussed. Advanced architectures such as Siamese deep networks, coupled neural networks, auto-encoders, fusion of multiple CNNs and their applications to object verification and classification will also be covered.