Tae Seob Moon

Accurate classification of human aquatic activities using radar has a variety of potential applications such as rescue operations and border patrols. Nevertheless, the classification of activities on water using radar has not been extensively studied, unlike the case on dry ground, due to its unique challenge. Namely, not only is the radar cross section of a human on water small, but the micro-Doppler signatures are much noisier due to water drops and waves. In this paper, we first investigate w

Recently, recurrent neural networks (RNN) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in several applications that deal with temporal data, e.g., speech recognition, handwriting recognition and machine translation. While the ability of handling long-term dependency in data is the key for the success of RNN, combating over-fitting in training the models is a critical issue for achieving the cutting-edge performance particularly when the depth and size of the network increase. To that end, ther

Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a given query has become a popular problem at the intersection of web search, machine learning, and information retrieval. Recent work on ranking focused on a number of different paradigms, namely, pointwise, pairwise, and list-wise approaches. Each of those paradigms focuses on a different aspect of the dataset while largely ignoring others. The current paper shows how a combination of them can lead to improved ranking perform

Traditional machine-learned ranking algorithms for web search are trained in batch mode, which assume static relevance of documents for a given query. Although such a batch-learning framework has been tremendously successful in commercial search engines, in scenarios where relevance of documents to a query changes over time, such as ranking recent documents for a breaking news query, the batch-learned ranking functions do have limitations. Users' real-time click feedback becomes a better and tim

We consider the problem of causal estimation, i.e., filtering, of a real-valued signal corrupted by zero mean, time-independent, real-valued additive noise, under the mean-squared error (MSE) criterion. We build a universal filter whose per-symbol squared error, for every bounded underlying signal, is essentially as small as that of the best finite-duration impulse response (FIR) filter of a given order. We do not assume a stochastic mechanism generating the underlying signal, and assume only th

Traditional machine-learned ranking systems for Web search are often trained to capture stationary relevance of documents to queries, which have limited ability to track nonstationary user intention in a timely manner. In recency search, for instance, the relevance of documents to a query on breaking news often changes significantly over time, requiring effective adaptation to user intention. In this article, we focus on recency search and study a number of algorithms to improve ranking results

We introduce S-DUDE, a new algorithm for denoising discrete memoryless channel (DMC)-corrupted data. The algorithm, which generalizes the recently introduced DUDE (discrete universal denoiser), aims to compete with a genie that has access, in addition to the noisy data, also to the underlying clean data, and that can choose to switch, up to <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</i> times, between sliding-window denoisers in a way that mini

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of a deep learning model for hippocampal sclerosis classification on the clinical dataset and suggest plausible visual interpretation for the model prediction. METHODS: T2-weighted oblique coronal images of the brain MRI epilepsy protocol performed on patients were used. The training set included 320 participants with 160 no, 100 left and 60 right hippocampal sclerosis, and cross-validation was implemented. The test set consisted of 302 participants with 25

As the physical size of MOSFET has been aggressively scaled-down, the impact of process-induced random variation (RV) should be considered as one of the device design considerations of MOSFET. In this work, an artificial neural network (ANN) model is developed to investigate the effect of line-edge roughness (LER)-induced random variation on the input/output transfer characteristics (e.g., off-state leakage current (Ioff), subthreshold slope (SS), saturation drain current (Id,sat), linear drain

We consider the problem of causal estimation, i.e., filtering, of a real-valued signal corrupted by zero mean, time-independent, real-valued additive noise, under the mean-squared error (MSE) criterion. We build a universal filter whose per-symbol squared error, for every bounded underlying signal, is essentially as small as that of the best finite-duration impulse response (FIR) filter of a given order. We do not assume a stochastic mechanism generating the underlying signal, and assume only th

The problem of discrete universal filtering, in which the components of a discrete signal emitted by an unknown source and corrupted by a known discrete memoryless channel (DMC) are to be causally estimated, is considered. A family of filters are derived, and are shown to be universally asymptotically optimal in the sense of achieving the optimum filtering performance when the clean signal is stationary, ergodic, and satisfies an additional mild positivity condition. Our schemes are comprised of

Satellite-retrieved aerosol optical depth (AOD) can potentially provide an effective way to complement the spatial coverage limitation of a ground particulate air-pollution monitoring network such as the U.S. Environment Protection Agency's regulatory monitoring network. One of the current state-of-the-art AOD retrieval methods is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) operational algorithm, which has a spatial resolution of 17.6 km × 17.6

We explore the potential of using users click-through logs where no editorial judgment is available to improve the ranking function of a vertical search engine. We base our analysis on the Cumulate Relevance Model, a user behavior model recently proposed as a way to extract relevance signal from click-through logs. We propose a novel way of directly learning the ranking function, effectively by-passing the need to have explicit editorial relevance label for each query-document pair. This approac