A Machine Learning Strategy Based on Kittler's Taxonomy to Detect Anomalies and Recognize Contexts Applied to Monitor Water Bodies in Environments

Autor(es)

Dias, Mauricio Araujo ; Marinho, Giovanna Carreira ; Negri, Rogerio Galante ; Casaca, Wallace ; Munoz, Ignacio Bravo ; Eler, Danilo Medeiros

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: REMOTE SENSING; v. 14, n. 9, p. 38-pg., 2022-05-01.

Resumo

Environmental monitoring, such as analyses of water bodies to detect anomalies, is recognized worldwide as a task necessary to reduce the impacts arising from pollution. However, the large number of data available to be analyzed in different contexts, such as in an image time series acquired by satellites, still pose challenges for the detection of anomalies, even when using computers. This study describes a machine learning strategy based on Kittler's taxonomy to detect anomalies related to water pollution in an image time series. We propose this strategy to monitor environments, detecting unexpected conditions that may occur (i.e., detecting outliers), and identifying those outliers in accordance with Kittler's taxonomy (i.e., detecting anomalies). According to our strategy, contextual and non-contextual image classifications were semi-automatically compared to find any divergence that indicates the presence of one type of anomaly defined by the taxonomy. In our strategy, models built to classify a single image were used to classify an image time series due to domain adaptation. The results 99.07%, 99.99%, 99.07%, and 99.53% were achieved by our strategy, respectively, for accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure. These results suggest that our strategy allows computers to recognize contexts and enhances their capabilities to solve contextualized problems. Therefore, our strategy can be used to guide computational systems to make different decisions to solve a problem in response to each context. The proposed strategy is relevant for improving machine learning, as its use allows computers to have a more organized learning process. Our strategy is presented with respect to its applicability to help monitor environmental disasters. A minor limitation was found in the results caused by the use of domain adaptation. This type of limitation is fairly common when using domain adaptation, and therefore has no significance. Even so, future work should investigate other techniques for transfer learning. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 20/06477-7 - Análise de séries temporais de imagens de sensoriamento remoto para a detecção de anomalias
• Beneficiário: Giovanna Carreira Marinho
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Iniciação Científica
• Processo FAPESP: 21/01305-6 - Avanços teóricos em detecção de anomalias e construção de sistemas de monitoramento ambiental
• Beneficiário: Rogério Galante Negri
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 16/24185-8 - Detecção, análise e localização de anomalias: um estudo de caso sobre imagens digitais estáticas de sensoriamento remoto aplicado à Cartografia
• Beneficiário: Maurício Araújo Dias
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Pesquisa
• Processo FAPESP: 21/03328-3 - Desenvolvimento de novas metodologias e soluções tecnológicas inteligentes em segmentação de imagens digitais e enfrentamento da COVID-19
• Beneficiário: Wallace Correa de Oliveira Casaca
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular