Summary of Scale-translation Equivariant Network For Oceanic Internal Solitary Wave Localization, by Zhang Wan et al.
Scale-Translation Equivariant Network for Oceanic Internal Solitary Wave Localization
by Zhang Wan, Shuo Wang, Xudong Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Applications (stat.AP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an altimeter-based machine learning solution to automatically locate internal solitary waves (ISWs) in the ocean. The authors aim to overcome two challenges: low-resolution altimeter data and labor-intensive labeling. By injecting prior knowledge, they design a scale-translation equivariant convolutional neural network (ST-ECNN) that captures intrinsic patterns in altimetry data efficiently. Additionally, they introduce prior knowledge from massive unsupervised data using the SimCLR framework for pre-training. The proposed solution achieves better performance than baselines on their handcrafted altimetry dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding a way to automatically spot big ocean waves called internal solitary waves (ISWs) using machine learning and special sensors that measure the height of the ocean. Currently, these sensors can’t always see the surface of the ocean because clouds get in the way. The researchers want to find a better way to use this data to locate ISWs. They’re trying to overcome two big problems: the sensor data isn’t very detailed, and it’s hard work to label this data for training. To solve these issues, they create a special kind of artificial intelligence called ST-ECNN that can learn from the limited data. They also use another technique called SimCLR to help their AI learn even more. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Neural network * Translation * Unsupervised
